From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

The 12th day Israel, Iran war may be over, but not the war over the results of the U.S. strike

on the Iranian nuclear program.

How much has the nuclear program been damaged? And what comes next,

as Iran and the U.S. prepare for some negotiations over how to strike a peace agreement? Also,

NATO agrees to Donald Trump's demand that the ally spent 5% of their gross domestic product on defense.

How did that happen?

Okay, welcome to Potomac Watch.

I'm Paul as you go of the Wall Street Journal Opinion page, and I'm here with Kate Batchelder, Odell, and Elliot Kaufman.

Welcome to you both. So it's been a big two weeks for

American foreign policy and the Trump presidency. First, let's talk about the debate over the

battle damage assessment at Iran's nuclear sites. Three of them were struck, of course, on Saturday

by U.S. bombs and cruise missiles, but the

leak of a defense intelligence agency assessment said the program has only been set back by a few

months, but that report was with low confidence, quote unquote, as the intelligence service said,

and was preliminary. But the media have been playing it up in a

very big way to suggest that the strikes were not a military success. And the Trump administration

pushing back very hard. Let's listen to Defense Secretary Pete Hagef today at the Pentagon.

And when you leak a portion of an intelligence assessment, but just a little portion, just

the little portion that makes it seem like maybe the strike wasn't effective, then you start

a news cycle, whether it's The Washington Post or Fox News or CNN or MSNBC, you start a news

that starts to call into question.

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