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🗓️ 25 June 2025
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0:00.0 | Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett. And I'm Amna Nawaz. On the news hour tonight, during a NATO summit, President Trump reveals new information that he says indicates the U.S. strike obliterated a key Iranian nuclear site. |
0:17.2 | An upset in New York City's Democratic mayoral primary with a young Democratic |
0:21.8 | Socialist defeating the state's former governor. And Judy Woodruff visits a Texas border region |
0:27.5 | where voters have dramatically shifted their partisan patterns. Now the debate is not, hey, we |
0:33.9 | have this problem, how do we solve the problem? Is, well, wait a minute, are you with him or with us? |
0:52.1 | Welcome to the news hour. |
0:53.4 | President Trump, again, forcefully defended his conclusion that the bombing he |
0:58.0 | ordered of Iranian nuclear facilities, quote, obliterated them. And to further support the |
1:03.0 | president's position, CIA director John Ratcliffe released a statement late this afternoon |
1:08.0 | affirming the administration's claims about the effectiveness of |
1:11.7 | the strikes, saying the agency's assessment, quote, includes new intelligence from a historically |
1:16.9 | reliable and accurate source slash method that several key Iranian nuclear facilities were destroyed |
1:22.9 | and would have to be rebuilt over the course of years. Nick Schifrin again reports from the Hague tonight to start our coverage. |
1:31.0 | Tonight, as the intelligence community examines the aftermath of dozens of Tomahawk missile hits, |
1:36.5 | bunker-buster bomb craters, and Israel's 12-day campaign in Iran, |
1:41.2 | President Trump insisted the intelligence proves his case. |
1:45.3 | We've collected additional intelligence. We've also spoken to people who have seen the site, |
1:50.5 | and the site is obliterated. He revealed Israeli agents reached Iran's Fordo Enrichment Site, |
1:57.0 | buried deep inside a mountain to conclude the U.S. strikes, quote, |
2:00.7 | destroyed the site's critical infrastructure and rendered the enrichment facility |
2:04.9 | inoperable. |
2:06.1 | U.S. officials describe new intelligence not just from the damage to facilities capable of |
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