At the NATO Summit, President Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth refuted reports that the strikes on Iran didn't destroy their nuclear facilities.
00:00We're going to be building bombs for a long time.
00:02Mr. President, what's your reaction to the intelligence reports saying that the Iranian nuclear sites were only partially devastated, not entirely?
00:11Yeah, well, they said it was actually the report.
00:14It could have been very, they don't know.
00:17I mean, they did a report.
00:19I could have Pete talk to it because his department did the report.
00:23They really don't know.
00:24I think Israel is going to be telling us very soon because Bibi is going to have people involved in that whole situation.
00:32We hear it was obliteration.
00:34It was a virtual obliteration.
00:35When you take a look at the ground above, don't forget, the flame is all underground.
00:40But everything above, if you look at the before and the after picture, everything above is burned black.
00:45The trees, everything.
00:47There's one building, but that's a building that sunk substantially into the granite so that, you know, the fire goes right over it.
00:54It was, I believe it was total obliteration.
00:58I believe they didn't have a chance to get anything out because we acted fast.
01:01If it would have taken two weeks, maybe.
01:04But it's very hard to remove that kind of material.
01:06Very hard and very dangerous for them to remove it.
01:09Plus, they knew we were coming.
01:11And if they know we're coming, they're not going to be down there.
01:15There aren't too many people that are going to be down there.
01:17Pete, do you have something to say about that?
01:18Well, Mr. President, when you talk to the people who built the bombs, understand what those bombs can do, and deliver those bombs, they landed precisely where they were supposed to.
01:28So it's a flawless mission.
01:29Flawless.
01:30Right down where we knew they needed to enter.
01:32And given the 30,000 pounds of explosives and capability of those munitions, it was devastation underneath Fordell.
01:40And the amount of munitions, six per location, any assessment that tells you it was something otherwise, is speculating with other motives.
01:49And we know that because when you actually look at the report, by the way, it was a top secret report.
01:53It was preliminary.
01:55It was low confidence.
01:57All right.
01:57So this is a you make assessments based on what you know.
02:00They don't said it could be very devastating, very moderate to severe.
02:04And we believe far more likely severe and obliterated.
02:08So this is a political motive here.
02:11Of course, we're doing a leak investigation with the FBI right now because this information is for internal purposes.
02:17Battle damage assessments and CNN and others are trying to spin it to make the president look bad when this was an overwhelming success.
02:24We had we had a tremendous success.
02:26And this is the New York Times.
02:27I call it the failing New York Times.
02:29It's going to hell.
02:30And CNN, which, as you know, very few people are watching.
02:33And you would think they'd do the opposite.
02:36You would think they'd want to say this was an unbelievable success.
02:40And the thing that hurts me is it's really demeaning to the pilots and the people that put that whole thing together, the generals.
02:46That was a perfect operation.
02:49And when you look at the holes and this was done from 52,000 feet, there was no moon, there was no light.
02:55And those three holes are right together.
02:58And also, and nobody talks about this, we shot 30 tomahawks from submarines, in particular one submarine.
03:05But that was 400 miles away.
03:08And every one of those tomahawks hit within a foot of where they were supposed to hit, took out a lot of buildings that Israel wasn't able to get.
03:17We took them out with tomahawks.
03:18We don't even talk about that.
03:20This was a devastating attack.
03:23And it knocked them for a loop.
03:26And, you know, if it didn't, they wouldn't have settled.
03:29If they had won, if we didn't take it out, they wouldn't have settled.
03:32Somebody mentioned that to me last night.
03:34If that thing wasn't devastated, they would have never settled.
03:37Marco, do you have something to say?
03:38No, first of all, on the stuff about the intelligence, this is what a leaker is telling you the intelligence says.
03:43That's the game these people play.
03:45They read it, and then they go out and characterize it the way they want it characterized, and they're leakers.
03:49This is the game they play.
03:50So that's number one.
03:51Number two, here's a fact.
03:53The conversion facility, which you can't do with a nuclear weapon without a conversion facility.
03:57You can't, we can't even find where it is, where it used to be on the map.
04:00You can't even find where it used to be, because the whole thing is just blackened out.
04:03It's gone.
04:04It's wiped out.
04:04It's wiped out.
04:05Then we drop 12 of the strongest bombs on the planet, right down the hole, in two places.
04:10Everything underneath that mountain is in bad shape.
04:13And I refer you to the statement of the IAEA, Mr. Grossi.
04:16You know what he said?
04:17He said there was Iran, the way it looked the day before the attack, and what their nuclear program looks like now.
04:23Two very different things.
04:24They are way behind where they were just seven days ago.
04:27Now, anything in the world can be rebuilt, but now we know where it is.
04:31And if they try to rebuild it, we'll have options there as well.
04:33But all this leaker stuff, these leakers are professional stabbers.
04:37That's what they are.
04:38They go out and they read this stuff, and then they tell you what it says, against the law, but they characterize it for you in a way that's absolutely false.
04:46There's no way Iran comes to the table if somehow nothing had happened.
04:49This was complete and total obliteration.
04:52They're in bad shape.
04:53They are way behind today compared to where they were just seven days ago because of what the president did.
04:57Marco, can I just alert you to one other aspect?
05:00So, the great thing is you took out the nuclear capability of Iran.
05:04This was crucial.
05:05You did it in a way which is extremely impressive.
05:08But the signal sends to the rest of the world that this president, when it comes to it, yes, he is a man of peace,
05:13but if necessary, he is willing to use strength, the enormous strength of the American military.
05:20So, I think that signal to the rest of the world, this is far beyond Iran, is extremely important.
05:25So, let me also point us to that aspect of what happened.
05:28They went down, Iran went down to the site afterwards.
05:33They said it's so devastated, and they settled when they saw what we did to it.
05:37And, frankly, if we didn't do that, they would have had a lot of ammunition to keep going.
05:42They wouldn't have settled.
05:44Somebody brought that up, and two Iranians went down to see it, and they called back, and they said,
05:48this place is gone.
05:50So, it's just fake news by CNN, which has got no ratings.
05:54It's a failed network.
05:55Anybody here from CNN, by the way?
05:57Because you're a really disgraceful network.
06:00MSNBC, I think, is actually worse.
06:02But they're all pretty bad.
06:03But yours is good, Katie, I'll tell you.
06:04You know what Marco reminded me of?
06:07He did such a nice job there.
06:09It was nine years ago I had to debate this guy.
06:12He was not easy.
06:14I think he even got better.
06:16But when you were into your little thing, I said, this is when I had to debate this guy.
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