We hear it was obliteration. It was a virtual obliteration. When you take a look at the ground above, don't forget, the flame is all underground. But everything above, if you look at the before and the after picture, everything above is burned black, the trees, everything. There's one building, but that's a building that sunk substantially into the granite so that, you know, the fire goes right over it.

It was, I believe it was total obliteration.

That's President Trump speaking earlier this morning at the NATO summit in the Netherlands,

doubling down on his claims that Iran's nuclear facilities were destroyed by Saturday strikes.

That doesn't match the assessment from the U.S. intelligence agency

that looked into it, but we're going to dig into that report as well is what others are saying

about the attacks. Plus, we're going to go through the major upset of New York City's Democratic

Merrill primary. Just an absolute shocking outcome for a lot of people, not only in New York, but across

the country.

Also had former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made a stunning comment yesterday about

potential cuts to Medicaid after Tom Tillis said, this was going to cause Republicans to lose their seats in a big

way. Mitch McCain said they'll get over it. It comes as President Trump is calling on the Senate

to stay in Washington to hammer out its changes to massive tax and spinning bill. Good morning. And welcome

to morning, Joe. It's Wednesday, June 25th. With us, we have our co-host of our fourth hour,

contributing writer at the Atlantic, Jonathan Lemire. Also, co-founder and CEO of Axios, Jim Van de Haid,

and columnist and Associated for the Washington Post, David Ignatius. we're going to get to Iran and the Netherlands in one minute.

But Jim Vandehi, I want to start on Capitol Hill first.

And my gosh, the 32nd commercials that Democrats are going to be able to line up.

Now you have Joni Ernst talking about Medicaid cuts saying, well, you're going to die anyway.

We're all going to die anyway.

And now you have Mitch McConnell going, sure, it's going to hurt their health care,

but they'll get over it.

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