PDB Afternoon Bulletin | June 25th, 2025: Was The U.S. Strike On Fordow Effective? & NATO Spending Breakthrough

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🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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In this episode of The PDB Afternoon Bulletin: Conflicting reports emerge following U.S. strikes on Iran’s underground nuclear facility at Fordow. A leaked intelligence assessment suggests the damage may have been limited—but not everyone agrees. Then, a major development out of the NATO summit in the Netherlands: member nations agree to significantly increase their defense spending. To listen to the show ad-free, become a premium member of The President’s Daily Brief by visiting PDBPremium.com. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The President's Daily Brief. YouTube: youtube.com/@presidentsdailybrief Birch Gold: Text PDB to 989898 and get your free info kit on gold Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.0	your eyes and ears on the world stage. All right. Let's get briefed. First up, there are conflicting reports over the success of America's strikes on Iran's
0:58.3	underground nuclear facilities.
1:00.4	A leaked intelligence assessment is casting doubt on just how much damage was done.
1:05.2	We'll break down what's in the report, why it's being questioned, and what the leak itself
1:09.7	might tell us.
1:12.9	Later in the show, a big win for the White House and the alliance overall at the annual NATO summit in the Netherlands, as member
1:18.2	states agree to a major boost in military spending. But first, today's afternoon spotlight.
1:24.7	I want to return to the topic of the U.S. bombing of those Iranian nuclear
1:28.0	facilities. Perhaps you've heard of it. As we touched on this morning, we now have conflicting
1:33.3	accounts of just how much damage those strikes caused, especially at the site in Fordo, which, as you
1:39.6	may know, was built deep into the side of a mountain to withstand exactly this kind of assault.
1:45.8	Yesterday, a number of media outlets began reporting on a leaked assessment from the Defense
1:50.8	Intelligence Agency, known as the DIA, because of course they have an acronym,
1:55.0	suggesting that the strikes may not have fully destroyed the heart of Iran's nuclear program
1:59.3	and, in fact, may have only set
2:02.0	back the Iranian regime's program by a couple of months. Jennifer Griffin from Fox News
2:07.2	broke down the contents of the leaked assessment in fairly clear terms. According to her reporting,
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