Tonight, President Trump says the U.S. will meet with Iran next week as he slams early intel saying Iran's nuclear program was only set back by months.

What the CIA director, Israel, and Iran, are now saying about damage from the strikes.

Then a senior DOJ official grilled by Congress about a stunning whistleblower report.

Plus, media matters, hits back and sues the FTC over their investigation tied to Twitter as the 11th hour gets underway on this Wednesday night.

Good evening. Once again, I am Stephanie Ruhl, and welcome to the midweek nightcap. If you haven't checked your schedule, it is day 157 of the second Trump administration. And tonight, the president is doubling, tripling, basically quadrupling down on his claim that Iran's nuclear sites were obliterated after an early assessment from the United States Defense

Intelligence Agency, said the program was likely only set back about three to six months.

Our own Kelly O'Donnell is traveling with the president in the Netherlands, and she brings us

all the details.

Meeting with the leaders of the NATO alliance today and confronting global media.

Here's another beauty.

President Trump came armed with his own battle damage assessments of U.S. airstrikes on Iran's nuclear sites.

It was very, very successful. It was called obliteration.

The president pushing back after news reports that the Defense Intelligence Agency, in an

initial assessment, said the Iranian nuclear program was set back three to six months,

according to three sources.

That preliminary analysis based on Intel gathered 24 hours after the strikes, one of the

sources told us.

Press today, the president acknowledged the report's findings, but described it as premature.

They presented a report that wasn't finished.

They didn't see it.

All they can do is take a guess.

Do you have a message for the intelligence community, though, in terms of unvarnished information getting to you?

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