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Today at the White House, the president went, or I should say the Defense Secretary and the press secretary went after the leakers in a big, big way. The problem that we have right now is we have a media

that is trying to bring this president down. They're dedicated to doing so, but the facts of this

mission are that it was a complete success. Whether you were against it or you were rooting for it to happen, I mean,

you should be happy and rooting for it to succeed.

Anything less than that means you're not a good, you're just not a patriot.

Because I know people were concerned before the operation took place

that would lead us to World War III, and clearly it did not.

And I know people were rooting for this to happen because they felt like if it didn't, it would lead to World War III.

And World War III is not happening because of the actions of the president.

And so we should be grateful that it was a success.

We should be applauding the fact that it was a success.

And that's the thing.

So something that Pete Hegssev said today, which is really important, is that the initial reports are always wrong. And that's what happens.

You know, the first reports are almost always wrong and incomplete, and he really lectured the media, along with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Dan Kane.

And that's cue up cut number eight here.

Because I think this is very important.

Initial reports are often wrong.

CNN grabbed those as Natasha Bertrand ran with them to spread this idea because they were hoping that it was a

failure. They wanted it to be a failure. They wanted the president to look bad. And I guess they

were hoping Iran could keep their nuclear facilities going, I guess. But mostly it was because

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