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

On the 19th day of Donald Trump's war in Iran, his director of national intelligence,

Tulsi Gabbard, went in front of Congress to talk about what the intelligence community

has actually learned about the threats around the world and where things

stand in Iran. Here's a bit. The ICSS is the regime in Iran appears to be intact but largely

degraded due to attacks on its leadership and military capabilities. Was it the assessment of the

intelligence community that there was a, quote, imminent nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime? Yes or no?

Senator, the only person who can determine what is and is not an imminent threat is the president.

False.

This is the worldwide threat searing where you present to Congress national intelligence, timely

objective and independent of political considerations. You've stated today

that the intelligence community's assessment is that Iran's nuclear enrichment program was

obliterated and that, quote, there had been no efforts since then to try to rebuild their

enrichment capability. Gabbard repeatedly dodged questions from senators about the intelligence she gave Trump leading up to the

Iran war and whether he was warned about potential fallout from the conflict. And in an interview

tonight, Joe Kent, the National Counterterrorism Center Director, who of course resigned yesterday

because of the war in Iran, said that the U.S. has no intelligence that Iran was

developing a nuclear weapon. Meanwhile, in the Middle East, an Israeli attack has killed Iran's

intelligence minister. That comes less than 24 hours after Israel killed its head of,

it's Iran's head of security council, and a key militia commander. And another threat to global

energy, Iran is now threatening to attack energy infrastructure across the entire Gulf, that is in

retaliation after Israel struck its largest gas field. As the Guardian put it earlier, it was the first

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