Hi there, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in New York. Day 19 of the war with Iran, and here's where things stand.

Oil prices are soaring after an Israeli strike on the world's largest natural gas field,

raising fears that Iran will retaliate with more attacks on oil and gas facilities.

Here at home, gas prices are up five cents since yesterday.

As for the Trump administration, the country's top national security officials today found

themselves caught between Iraq and a hard place. On one side, reality and the facts. On the other

side, Donald Trump and his shape-shifting and sometimes

contradictory explanations for why we went to war with Iran, when we went to war with Iran, what

our goals are in the war with Iran, and when we expect to achieve those aims. In her opening

remarks, the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, strayed from her prepared remarks in this hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee on worldwide threats.

First, we'll show you what she ended up saying.

Prior to Operation Epic Fury, the ICSSS as Iran was trying to recover from the severe damage to its nuclear infrastructure

sustained during the 12-day war and continued to refuse to comply with its nuclear obligations with

the IAea, refusing them access to key facilities. So what matters here is that she says there that

Iran was, quote, trying to recover from the damage

inflicted on its nuclear program by U.S. and Israeli airstrikes in 2025. However, in her

prepared remarks, she wrote this, quote, as a result of Operation Midnight Hammer, Iran's

nuclear enrichment program was obliterated. There has been no effort since then to try to rebuild their enrichment capability, end quote.

Now, she ended up not saying that, and maybe it's because it would have contradicted what Donald Trump has been saying.

Here's Donald Trump's current position, as uttered last week.

They would have had a nuclear weapon within two weeks to four weeks, and they would have

used it long before this press conference.

...