June 22 — Vice Pres. JD Vance, Sen. Lindsey Graham and Sen. Mark Kelly

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🗓️ 22 June 2025

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Vice President JD Vance, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) react to President Trump’s decision to strike three nuclear facilities in Iran. NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel reports from Tel Aviv. Lanhee Chen, Ashley Etienne, Jonathan Martin and Andrea Mitchell join the roundtable.

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0:00.0	This Sunday, war with Iran. President Trump joins Israel's fight, ordering strikes on three
0:08.9	Iranian nuclear sites. Tonight I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular
0:15.3	military success. Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.
0:24.7	Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace. Will Iran retaliate? And will the U.S. get
0:31.6	dragged into a longer war in the Middle East? There will be either peace or there will be tragedy for Iran far greater than we have
0:40.4	witnessed over the last eight days.
0:42.5	My guest this morning, Vice President J.D. Vance, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of
0:48.1	South Carolina and Democratic Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona.
0:52.6	Joining me for insight and analysis are NBC News, Chief Washington correspondent Andrea Mitchell,
0:59.0	Jonathan Martin of Politico, Ashley Etienne, former communications director to Vice President
1:04.9	Harris, and Lonnie Chen, a fellow at the Hoover Institution.
1:09.3	Welcome to Sunday and a special edition of Meet the Press.
1:14.9	From NBC News in Washington, the longest running show in television history. This is a special
1:20.9	edition of Meet the Press with Kristen Welker. Good Sunday morning. In one of the most consequential decisions of his presidency, President Trump ordered
1:31.7	U.S. strikes on three nuclear sites inside Iran.
1:35.9	American B-2 stealth bombers carrying powerful 30,000-pound bunker buster bombs, targeted Iran's
1:42.6	major uranium enrichment sites buried deep underground.
1:46.9	Our objective was the destruction of Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the
1:54.2	nuclear threat posed by the world's number one state sponsor of terror.
1:59.3	Tonight I can report to the world that the strikes were a
2:03.0	spectacular military success. Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and
2:10.8	totally obliterated. Iran, the bully of the Middle East must now make peace. If they do not, future attacks will be far greater and a lot easier.
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