At President Trump's press briefing at the NATO Summit, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth slammed reports calling into doubt the efficacy of the Iran strikes.
00:00Hone into your Zelensky meeting for a tactical reason with President Putin.
00:04Let him answer this. Hello, Mr. Secretary. Yeah, there's a reason the president calls out fake news for what it is.
00:12These pilots, these refuelers, these fighters, these air defenders, the skill and the courage it took to go into enemy territory flying 36 hours on behalf of the American people in the world to take out a nuclear program is beyond what anyone in this audience can fathom.
00:28And then the instinct, the instinct of CNN, the instinct of The New York Times is to try to find a way to spin it for their own political reasons to try to hurt President Trump or our country.
00:42They don't care what the troops think. They don't care what the world thinks. They want to spin it to try to make him look bad based on a leak.
00:49Of course, we've all seen plenty of leakers. And what do leakers do? They have agendas. And what do they do? Do they share the whole information or just the part that they want to introduce?
00:59And when they introduce that preliminary, a preliminary report that's deemed to be low, a low assessment, you know, a low assessment means low confidence in the data in that report.
01:11And why is there low confidence? Because all of the evidence of what was just bombed by 12, 30,000 pound bombs is buried under a mountain, devastated and obliterated.
01:22So if you want to make an assessment of what happened at Fordow, you better get a big shovel and go really deep because Iran's nuclear program is obliterated.
01:32And somebody somewhere is trying to leak something to say, oh, with low confidence, we think maybe it's moderate.
01:40Those that dropped the bombs precisely in the right place know exactly what happened when that exploded.
01:46And you know who else knows? Iran. That's why they came to the table right away, because their nuclear capabilities have been set back beyond what they thought were possible
01:56because of the courage of a commander in chief who led our troops, despite what the fake news wants to say.
02:01But you're not disputing. The report said what it said, even though it was initial.
02:06The report said what it said, and it was fine. It was severe, they think, but they had no idea.
02:12They shouldn't have issued a report until they did. But we've gotten the information.
02:16I think Pete said it better than you can say it. And, you know, you should be proud.
02:21You, especially you, should be proud of those pilots, and you shouldn't be trying to demean them.
02:26Those pilots flew at great risk. Big chance that they'd never come back home and see their husbands or their wives.
02:34Let me just tell you, you and NBC, fake news, which is one of the worst, and CNN, New York Times, they're all bad.
02:42They're sick. There's something wrong with them. But you know what?
02:44You should be praising those people instead of trying to find something. By getting me, by trying to go and get me, you're hurting those people.
02:51They were devastated. You know, I got a call from Missouri, great state, that I won three times by a lot.
02:58And I got a call that the pilots and the people on the plane were devastated because they were trying to minimize the attack.
03:05And they all said it was hit. But, oh, but we don't think it was really maybe hit that badly.
03:11And they were devastated. They put their lives on the line. And then they have, and I'm not referring to you, but real scum, real scum come out and write reports that are as negative as they could possibly be.
03:24It should be the opposite. You should make them heroes and heroines.
03:29You should make them really people that they were so devastated when they heard this news.
03:35And you know what they said? One of them, I spoke to one of them, said, sir, we hit the site.
03:40It was perfect. It was dead on. Because they don't understand fake news because they have a normal life, except they have to fly very big, very fast planes.
03:51But it's a shame you should be making them heroes. All right. In the back.
