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The Briefing with Jen Psaki

Trump's Iran lies begin to crumble into an embarrassing mess

The Briefing with Jen Psaki

NBC News

News, Politics

4.5664 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Jen Psaki reports on the evolving explanations and contradictory statements from the Trump administration about the U.S. bombing of Iran, and new reports that Iran's nuclear program is not, in fact, "obliterated," as public polling already shows that Trump's decision to bomb Iran is mostly unpopular with Americans.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So Donald Trump and all of his MAGA minions, many of his MAGA minions, I guess I should say, have been lying to the country for days.

0:08.6

They have lied to all of us over and over and over again.

0:15.4

Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.

0:22.6

Those pilots hit their targets. Those targets were obliterated.

0:24.6

We have obliterated the Iranian nuclear program.

0:26.6

We are confident, yes, that Iran's nuclear sites were completely and totally obliterated.

0:32.6

Iran's nuclear program has been completely and totally obliterated.

0:36.6

I feel like maybe they had a note card that said obliterated on it and they gave it to all those people and made them say it.

0:41.9

Who knows?

0:42.5

But that was the message from the Trump administration since Saturday night.

0:46.7

Clearly, that's what they kept saying over and over and over again.

0:49.7

Even by the way, as top members of the military, including high-ranking people within this administration,

0:56.2

were saying it was too early to make an assessment. Because it is too early to make, it was too

1:00.0

early to make an assessment. And now here are the headlines from this afternoon. Here's one from

1:04.4

CNN. Early U.S. Intel assessments suggest strikes on Iran did not destroy nuclear sites.

1:10.4

From the New York Times, strikes set back

1:12.5

Iran's nuclear program by only a few months, U.S. report says. That's according to an initial

1:18.0

classified intelligence assessment, which reportedly found that the U.S. strikes on Iran's

1:22.2

nuclear facilities, quote, did not collapse their underground buildings and set back Iran's nuclear program by only a few

1:29.6

months. In fact, from all this reporting, a lot of it came out this afternoon, it turns out

1:34.5

that much of Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium was moved before the strikes, which destroyed

1:39.7

little of the nuclear material. In Iran reporting, NBC News put an even finer point on it, saying, quote,

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