If it's Thursday, top national security officials head to the Hill to give senators their first briefing on the U.S. strikes on Iran's nuclear program,

as the Pentagon reveals new details on the operation with its most forceful defense of the mission's success.

Plus, President Trump is set to speak any moment now at the White House

as the administration ramps up its pressure campaign to get the president's legislative

agenda across the finish line, despite major hurdles in the Senate and holdouts in the House.

And the Supreme Court sides with South Carolina in the state's effort to block Planned Parenthood from receiving any Medicaid funding ahead of a major ruling tomorrow on birthright citizenship and the power of the judicial branch.

Welcome to meet the press now. I'm Yamish al-Sendor in Washington.

We're top officials from the Pentagon, the State Department, and the CIA just briefed senators behind closed doors on the U.S.s recent strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities.

The classified briefing is the latest move in the president's full court press, promoting the strike's effectiveness and pushing back against concerns about the future of Iran's nuclear

ambitions.

To me, it still appears that we have only set back the Iranian nuclear program by a handful of months.

The allegations that we have obliterated their program just don't seem to stand up to reason.

I walk away from that briefing still under the belief that we have not obliterated the program.

The president was deliberately misleading the public when he said the program was obliterated.

Operation Midnight Hammer was brilliant, it was bold, it was necessary and it was affected.

They blew these places up in a major league way.

Major league setback years, not months.

The Class of Pride briefing comes after defense secretary Pete Hegeseth and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Cain, spoke publicly this morning

giving new details with the planning and execution of the strikes.

And the leaders also showcase video demonstrations of the destructive power of the bunker-busting bombs that were used in the mission.

Here's what we know following the attacks and the strikes on Fordo. First, that the weapons

were built, tested, and loaded properly.

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