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Sen. Warner questions administration’s delay of Iran strike briefing

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🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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On Capitol Hill, planned briefings from intelligence officials on the rapidly changing situation in the Middle East were postponed. The Senate briefing is now set for Thursday and the House briefing on Friday. Geoff Bennett discussed the White House's reason for pushing back the briefings with Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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Well, on Capitol Hill today, planned briefings from intelligence officials on the rapidly changing

0:05.4

situation in the Middle East were postponed. The Senate briefing is now set for Thursday and the House

0:10.4

briefing now set for Friday. A short while ago, I spoke with Senator Mark Warner of Virginia,

0:15.8

the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee and began by asking him about the White

0:20.2

House's reasoning

0:21.0

for pushing back the briefings. Well, they said it's because Secretary Rubio and Secretary

0:26.8

Hegstaff could appear. They're at NATO now. But we need this briefing sooner than later. I've got a lot of

0:36.4

questions. Matter of fact, we have seen, you know,

0:39.9

the administration go from when this conflict started saying United States would, of course,

0:47.9

defend Israel, but Israel was on its own. We then had from American intelligence community early last week, Monday of last week,

0:59.2

reiterating what Director Gabbard had said that Iran had not made a decision to move towards

1:05.2

a weapon. We then saw, obviously, the administration change its position and say they were prepared to

1:15.6

go after Iran's nuclear capabilities, but not regime change. And then the president was

1:22.6

tweeted and foreign policy by tweet is always a bad way to operate, said he was for regime

1:28.8

change, and now that's been taken back, I understand.

1:32.9

So I've got a lot of questions, questions that long before this even took place, like,

1:39.0

can the bunker buster bombs alone take out the Iranian nuclear facilities.

1:44.5

And those questions still remain.

1:46.3

Well, on that point, the U.S. military strikes on three of Iran's nuclear facilities

1:50.7

last weekend reportedly did not destroy the core components of the country's nuclear program

1:55.8

and likely only set it back by months.

1:58.2

This is according to an early assessment by the Pentagon's intelligence arm.

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