From The New York Times, I'm Rachel Abrams, and this is The Daily.

A short time ago, the U.S. military carried out massive precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime, Forde, Natanz, and Esfahan.

On Saturday night, in an address to the nation, President Trump confirmed that the U.S. military had carried out what he had been threatening to do. Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success. Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities

have been completely and totally obliterated.

The United States had launched an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities in a move that U.S.

presidents had avoided doing for decades.

Our objective was the destruction of Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear

threat posed by the world's number one state sponsor of terror.

Today, my colleague David Sanger on whether the strike actually ended Iran's nuclear program

or if America just entered a new period

of protracted conflict in the Middle East. God bless the Middle East. God bless Israel and

God bless America. Thank you very much. It's Monday, June 23rd.

David, thank you so much for being with us.

It has really been a whirlwind few days of news.

It's felt like we've been in this will-he-or-won-he-period to see if whether President Trump is going to drop this enormous bomb

on Iranian nuclear facilities,

which has been seen as something that would massively escalate the U.S. involvement in this

new Middle East conflict that started between Iran and Israel. And I have so many questions about

what happens next and what this means. But first, I would just like it if you could walk us through what we know about the attack and how it unfolded.

Well, Rachel, it has been a whirlwind and not just for the weekend, but since the Israeli attack on Iran began.

You know, I've covered five American presidents who have dealt with the Iranian

problem. And every one of them, including Donald Trump in his first term, were trying to

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