Top Trump administration officials will brief senators today on the U.S. airstrikes on Iran's nuclear enrichment sites, but Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard will not be among them. CIA Director John Ratcliffe, who will be among those giving the briefing, said yesterday that Iran's sites were "severely damaged."

President Donald Trump hailed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth‘s Thursday morning news conference, in which the Pentagon head blasted the media for suggesting that recent U.S. strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities failed based on a leaked intelligence report.

Defense Secretary Hegseth accused the Pentagon press corps of deliberately undermining Operation Midnight Hammer's success against Iran's nuclear program due to anti-Trump bias.