Good evening once again. I am Stephanie Ruhl and welcome to the midweek nightcap.

Today there was big news on Capitol Hill. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth publicly faced

questions from Congress for the very first time since the war in Iran began nine weeks ago.

One major headline, we finally got the Pentagon's first public estimate

of how much this war has cost so far. Ready? $25 billion. But of course, most of the hearing

was made up of Hegsetz, passionately defending his boss and attacking, guess who? Democrats.

Watch this.

Their nuclear facilities have been obliterated. Underground, they're buried and we're watching

them 24-7. So we know where any nuclear material might be.

We're claiming my time for just a quick second here. We had to start this war, you just said,

60 days ago, because the nuclear weapon was an imminent threat.

Now you're saying that it was completely obliterated?

They had not given up their nuclear ambitions.

On March 13th in a press conference, you said we will give them no quarter, no mercy.

In order for no quarter quarter no survivors is a war

crime under the geneva conventions you understand that's murder do you stand by that statement

the department of war fights to win you know how much it will cost americans in terms of their

increased cost in gas and food over the next year because of the Iran war?

I would simply ask you what the cost is of an Iranian nuclear bomb.

I'm going to give you that.

I would simply ask you what the...

You're playing gotcha questions about domestic things.

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