Professor: Hegseth’s reports were preliminary

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00:00But what is interesting, and Hegseth did mention this in his speech,

00:04he did say that was a preliminary report, and they are wrong.

00:10And that's something that he said is often you can't rely on a preliminary report.

00:14I don't know how true that is.

00:15But even the parts he quoted from the report shows that the report says

00:20this is what the info we have for now, and so much could be unknown,

00:25and so much could be learned as we go, and this is an ongoing assessment.

00:29So, yes, definitely, if you don't have any info on what's happening on the ground,

00:34you would say only what you've seen on TV.

00:36But then this is where the serious work starts, with your operatives in Iran,

00:40with your intelligence sharing and all that information.

00:45But is it unpatriotic to discredit such a huge win by the U.S.?

00:52This is, I think, where the debate should be, or this is where he tried to take the debate.