Happening now, breaking news, quote,

historically successful attack.

The US Defense Secretary Pete Hexeth on the US strikes in Iran

as we're getting more assessments of the damage

to the Iranian nuclear facilities there.

Welcome to our viewers here in the United States

and around the world.

I'm Wolf Blitzer. Pamela Brown is off today and you're in the Situation Room.

This is CNN Breaking News.

Right now we're following major breaking news on two big stories. At any moment,

the U.S. Supreme Court will release new opinions, and they potentially could decide some of the

biggest cases of the year. The U.S. justices could shape a range of issues such as immigration,

health care, and religion. Also, new assessments and new reporting of the damage from the U.S. air strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities.

That topic certainly front and center this morning from the U.S. Defense Secretary during a news conference, and later this afternoon,

U.S. lawmakers will go behind closed doors for the intelligence briefing they have

demanded. But let's begin this hour over at the Pentagon, the Defense Secretary Pete HECSeth backing up

President Trump, who says that Iran's nuclear sites were obliterated, that despite an early

assessment from the U.S. intelligence community over the Defense Department

that suggested Iran's nuclear program may have been just set back a few months.

Heggseth is forcefully emphasizing the attacks were a success.

The reality is you want to call it destroyed, you want to call it defeated, you want to call it obliterated, choose your word.

This was an historically successful attack and we should celebrate it as Americans and it gives us a chance to have peace, chance to have a deal,

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