We turn now to the aftermath of the Israeli and U.S. strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities and what the potential consequences of those attacks might be.

John Feiner was the Deputy National Security Advisor during the Biden administration.

He's now a distinguished visiting fellow at Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs.

Thanks for being here.

Good to be here, Jeff.

Thanks.

So how do you interpret the way the administration is presenting the intelligence about the U.S.

strikes?

Today, the CIA director put out a statement saying that the agency has credible evidence

that Iran's nuclear program was severely damaged.

This is a day after the initial defense intelligence assessment,

that it was set back by a matter of months.

Look, Jeff, it's worth pausing just for a second on the extraordinary operation that our armed

forces conducted in taking this strike. We are fortunate in the United States to have the most

capable military in the world. We ask Democratic administrations,

Republican administrations, the impossible of them, and they deliver time and again. And I have no reason to question that these planes did just as the administration reported, flew more than

30 hours from the United States, dropped their ordinance in a very small, very precise area,

and hit the target. The question now is what actually is the impact of the strikes?

And here, I think the administration has not done themselves any favors.

President Trump has had a degree of discomfort with the intelligence community going back to his first term,

in part because I believe he likes to characterize the facts that frame a situation.

And so even before he took the strikes, he took issue with his Director of National Intelligence

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