Trump Fights Iran Strike Skepticism

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Politics, Daily News, News

4.6 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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President Trump wraps up a NATO summit pushing back on an early intel assessment about the U.S. strikes on Iran nuclear sites. The Democratic Party looks for lessons from Zohran Mamdani’s success in New York City’s mayoral primary. And Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new vaccine advisers meet for the first time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:28.6	It's Thursday, June 26th. Assess this. We start here.
0:35.6	President Trump blasts the reporting of an intelligence assessment about the U.S. strikes in Iran.
0:42.3	What they've done is they tried to make this unbelievable victory into something less.
0:47.3	A wide-ranging NATO news conference had Trump pushing back hard.
0:51.3	A 33-year-old Democratic Socialist is suddenly catching a lot of national attention.
0:56.0	In our New York, the power belongs to the people. Atop the heap in a Big Apple primary,
1:03.0	Zeran Mandani's now all the talk in politics. And some vaccine skeptics are now advising the CDC.
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1:11.6	Their first meeting this week has some top pediatricians extremely concerned.
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1:34.0	The big story all week has been the U.S. strike on three Iranian nuclear sites.
1:38.8	On yesterday's show, we walked you through the preliminary assessment from the Pentagon's intelligence arm that seemed to raise doubts about what the President and his aides have been saying about the effectiveness of the strikes. Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally
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