Major breaking news into CNN, three sources tell CNN that according to an early U.S.

intelligence assessment, the U.S. military strikes on three of Iran's nuclear facilities last weekend

did not destroy the core components of the country's nuclear program and likely only set it back a few months.

That's right. So this is an assessment that actually is out from the defense intelligence

agency. That is the Pentagon's intelligence arm. And it was based on a battle damage assessment

conducted by US Sentcom after the strikes, according to one of the sources. To that question that has

been asked about how much damage has been done, This is a real question. It's also a political

question that has been to something that Donald Trump has been sort of dealing with here recently.

What are you learning, Natasha? Yeah, look, Brianna, this is the first assessment that we are getting

that the U.S. intelligence community has found about the battle

damage that resulted from those U.S. military strikes on these three Iranian nuclear facilities

over the weekend. And as you said, it was produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency,

which is the Pentagon's intelligence arm. And it is worth noting that it is a very early

assessment. The strikes were only a matter of days ago,

and the intelligence community is still gathering intelligence.

They are still working to come up with a full,

comprehensive picture of what exactly happened here.

But based on a battle damage assessment that was carried out by U.S. Central Command,

essentially looking at the images and looking at what was actually damaged,

the Defense Intelligence Agency has assessed that the core components command, essentially looking at the images and looking at what was actually damaged, the

Defense Intelligence Agency has assessed that the core components of Iran's nuclear program

are largely intact and that Iran's nuclear program has essentially only been set back by months.

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