the scope is very limited. >> so this case is not a lock by any means. >> and you know, combs didn't testify in this case and his defense. but as we understand, he did he did speak in court to the to the judge, as i understand. what did he say? >> he did. >> so yesterday. >> the judge asked if he understood his right. >> to testify. >> or not. >> to testify. by the. >> way. >> i had that scoop the day before. >> we had reporting. >> from a. >> source that he had decided not to testify, but the judge then asked. >> how. >> are you feeling to mr. combs? and this is what he said. i want to read you a direct quote, he. said, quote, i'm doing great, your honor. i've been wanting to tell you. thank you. you're doing an excellent job. it actually made the judge laugh. he chuckled a bit and he said, thank you. i appreciate that. >> all right, well, hey, if you're not going to testify, i guess you you get that out, when you get the opportunity, say something. elizabeth wagmeister really appreciate the reporting. thanks for being here. thank you. all right. another new hour of cnn news central starts right now

the breaking news this morning we're standing by to hear from president trump at the nato summit. >> once again. he's about to meet with ukrainian president zelenskyy. well, that is an important meeting on the table. president trump is also mounting a forceful pushback against an early intelligence assessment from his own pentagon that the u.s. strikes on iran's nuclear sites left core components of that program intact. israel's atomic energy committee is now weighing in, and anger on capitol hill after the white house abruptly postponed classified congressional briefings on those u.s. strikes. but lawmakers are learning now. i'm kate bolduan with omar jimenez, sara and john are out today. this is cnn news central. all right. there is more breaking news this morning. we are yes, standing by for

president trump any moment now. he is expected to hold a news conference at the nato summit being held in the netherlands. the president's trip so far largely dominated by the israel conflict and questions swirling about what how effective the u.s. strikes on iran's nuclear facilities were breaking moments ago. the white house distributed a statement from the israeli atomic energy commission saying that the u.s. strike on the fordo facility that underground nuclear facility, quote, destroyed the site's critical infrastructure. and now an iranian spokesperson has just put out a statement saying that the nuclear installations were, quote, badly damaged in the strikes. earlier, president trump had said the strikes said iran's nuclear program back decades. listen i don't know, but they're not going to have a bomb and they're not going to enrich. >> and we believe all of the stuff is down there. we don't think they had nearly the time,

because to get that out is a very difficult thing. it's not like it's not like moving a package or taking this carpet up and moving it. it's very difficult. it's very dangerous to do. we believe it's all down there. >> let's get back over to cnn's erin burnett, anchor of cnn's of outfront, who's in the region. and, erin, i was just listing out a couple of new and significant statements coming in about all sorts, all swirling about how impactful and what how how effective the strikes on the nuclear facilities really were. >> yep, yep. and obviously the, the you know, the initial assessment that we had from the dia, from the president's pentagon, right, was that the u.s. strikes alone, right? so just their specific impact was several months of of hit. it was initial. there's going to be many others from u.s. intelligence agencies as well. the israelis had said that their strikes prior to that had set the program back by a few years. and now you see the israeli atomic energy commission,

something that the president is keen to push out, saying that the combined efforts have set the program back by many years. and the iranian foreign minister, you talk about that statement. but just moments ago on al jazeera speaking out, the foreign minister, who i want to emphasize has become the face of of iran. we know the president has had important phone calls, but we haven't heard from the supreme leader. he just said that the nuclear facility at fordow has been badly damaged. you know, all of these things sort of in the fog of knowing what happened certainly fit within the broader context, which is there is damage. it's a question of how much. but on both sides, iran saying that it still has the right to do what it wants to do, and israel saying they're not going to take their foot off the pedal. as prime minister netanyahu said to the israeli people last night in an address, all of those things are true at the same time. let's go to kristen holmes. she's at the nato summit in the netherlands. zach cohen is in washington monitoring the pentagon and the developments coming out of there. but kristen, let's go to you first. in the fog of these assessments. now, fast and

furious, getting new information out, the israeli atomic energy assessment, one that the president is keen to get out there. >> yeah, aaron, i mean, the white house sent out that statement. they want reporters to see that statement. and there is a couple of things going on here, one of them being, you know, president trump believes that at least part of the end game in the middle east is getting iran to the table in terms of a nuclear deal. and there are questions as to whether or not a different level of destruction would mean that iran would come to the table with different expectations for those negotiations. but president trump, he is doubling down on this idea that it was completely obliterated. these nuclear sites. or at some points, he's saying a quote virtually obliterated. take a listen. >> i think basically decades, because i don't think they'll ever do it again. i just don't think they're going to do it. i think they're going to take their oil. they're going to have some missiles, missiles, and they'll have some defense. i

think they've had it. i mean, they just went through hell. i think they've had it. it was i believe it was total obliteration. i believe they didn't have a chance to get anything out because we acted fast. if it would have taken two weeks, maybe. but it's very hard to remove that kind of material. very hard and very dangerous for them to remove it. plus they knew we were coming. and if they know we're coming, they're not going to be down there so what are you talking about? >> there is that he's saying that he doesn't believe that iran was able to move the uranium from that underground area, meaning that the u.s. would have struck that as well. there have, of course, been questions as to where this enriched uranium is. one thing. again, to point out here is president trump is acknowledging that this intel exists. he continues to half say it's a fake report, but also says that the intelligence was there. they just don't believe that it's conclusive. he believes that what he saw was inconclusive and that they're waiting for the larger picture. and just one other note here. he compared the strikes from last weekend on the

united states dropping the nuclear bomb on japan, world war ii, saying they both were used to end wars. so you can see his rhetoric is clearly doubling down on the strength of what we did over the weekend. >> yeah. >> right. right. likening it to hiroshima of course, you know, the context here. when you come out and talk about total obliteration in the hours after an attack that invites people to look into what it really was. but of course, if you take all the rhetoric and all the politics out, what really was accomplished there is, is is of utmost importance to peace in this region and the world. and zach, you have new reporting on what the leaked intelligence report from the dia, from president trump's pentagon, from the intelligence unit there says. >> yeah, aaron, what you just mentioned, though, is critical, and it's that this intelligence assessment produced after the strikes on iranian nuclear facilities and after donald trump came out and announced a total obliteration, this

assessment does cast more doubt or at least injects some uncertainty into what the actual damage inflicted on those sites was. and on iran's nuclear program was. and that's sort of where we are in this current moment, this intelligence assessment is the first known intelligence assessment produced by a u.s. intelligence agency. that was the defense intelligence agency, which is overseen by the pentagon. and it's based on a battle damage assessment produced by u.s. central command. so dia has been analyzing that battle, that battle damage assessment, and produces initial preliminary assessment on its own, stating that it's on or it's unclear what the actual impact of those strikes were, but it's possible that they only set iran's nuclear program back by a matter of months. that obviously runs counter and is at odds with the timeline that president donald trump, and even to a certain extent, what we've heard from israel on really the impact of both of strikes by both those countries. and the other issue,

too, here is the assessment does lay out some uncertainty around what is the status of those core key nuclear components of iran's nuclear program that are located at those facilities? fordow, natanz and isfahan. again, donald trump has said very authoritatively that he believes that those that that equipment and that those components have been destroyed, the cia assessment casting doubt on both that and that stockpile of enriched uranium, that's another key part of this that really does not have a clear answer and is one in this assessment that intelligence officials acknowledge was likely not destroyed in the u.s. strikes. so, again, this all kind of goes back to what we heard from chairman of the joint chiefs of staff dan kane earlier this week when he said it's far too early to know what is still there and what is not. >> yeah yeah, absolutely. >> and all of this, of course, takes time. the most important thing to get it right. but is that just to emphasize from your reporting, natasha bertrand is incredible reporting on breaking

this first, that this is the assessment that comes from the pentagon, and it comes not from political leadership. it comes from military leadership. it comes from central command. that is their job to look at the information they have to give an initial assessment and to adjust and change as more information comes in. but that, that that is exactly what central command is focused on is, is what are the facts here? zach cohen kristen holmes, thank you so very much, kate. back to you, aaron, thank you so much. >> joining us right now to talk more about this is republican congresswoman anna paulina luna. she sits on the house foreign affairs committee. she's also a u.s. air force veteran. congresswoman, thank you so much for coming in. i, had democratic congressman jason crow on a little bit earlier on in the show. he says that he has seen that preliminary intel assessment from the defense intelligence agency. have you seen it as well? >> no, i. have not. witnessed actually. >> looked. >> at it yet. >> and what i. >> would. >> like to say is. >> just so. >> that we're clear and just kind of hearing on the previous reporting, you know, president trump and what happened with the

precision strike on iran so badly damaged their facilities that they came to the table to negotiate, and he brokered a ceasefire. so i think people need to remember we don't want war, but because and as a result of that, i don't care what anyone says. peace is always success. >> i want to play for you what congressman crow said with, and i'll say it again with the caveat, of course, he says he cannot talk about classified information as we wouldn't ask you to for sure. he also did say this after seeing this intel assessment. let me play this i have and i'm not going to speak to the specific intelligence. >> all i'm going to say is that donald trump has a long history of distorting and, you know, putting his own take on u.s. intelligence assessments regardless of what it actually says. and, you know, we are going to see in the days and weeks to come the truth and the reality of these reports and these assessments. but donald trump's, you know, continued distortions about what happened and what didn't happen, you know, that that's that's what he

does. >> congressman, do you share those concerns expressed by by jason crow? >> not at all. and if i can just go into my background, you had mentioned i was an air force veteran. i actually worked at the military installation, whiteman air force base, and i worked directly with the stealth bombers as an airfield manager. so if we can just discuss the payloads that were delivered, you know, just one 30,000 pound bomb detonating, you can probably understand the magnitude and the impact of the destruction that would bring what i'm very uncomfortable with is when you have the pentagon, specifically from an intelligence agency, as you had stated, knowing that they should not be leaking classified information and then giving that report without even showing all members of congress first, it does seem that it's partisan. and what i will also tell you is that you not only have the israelis, but also you have the iranians that are saying, look, we want to negotiate peace. now, president trump is heading that up. obviously, we impacted their

facilities because as you saw, they did. unfortunately retaliate on the united states. but they called us and gave us a heads up first. so i do believe that iran does want to come to the negotiating table. i will tell you that i've known president trump personally for years, and i will tell you that his negotiating powers, there's stuff that's seen publicly in the media. and then there's the calls that happen from peer to peer, world leader to world leader. so as marco rubio had stated, there's a lot that these people are saying in front of cameras. but when you know, it goes behind closed doors, it's a different conversation. and the conversations and what we're seeing on actions is it's producing peace. and so i will tell you, is i encourage both of those countries to hold to the cease fire. and i in no way, shape or form will support any funding to any country that goes against president trump's negotiated peace deal. >> on the u.s. role here going forward. congresswoman, if again waiting for much more intel to be gathered, much more information to come out, if this strike does not, i guess i'll describe it as go as far as perhaps the president has stated

in terms of total obliteration, if it is more in line with the this initial intel assessment, that core components of the nuclear program are intact. do you think this means there should be more u.s. military involvement in iran in the in the near future? >> i don't like to talk in hypotheticals because of my position and because of the negotiations taking place right now. what i will tell you is right now what we are hearing and what we are seeing based on the actions of both the iranian and the israeli government, is that this strike did impact their nuclear program. and in my opinion, it did shut it down. granted, i haven't seen the official classified report, but what i will tell you is not any other president, nor democrat or republican could get iran and israel to come to the table and broker a peace deal and in any way, shape or form. there are so many people, innocent civilians in both israel and iran, that are subject to potentially

getting hurt if we cannot come in and negotiate peace. so in my opinion, regardless of the outcome, peace is 100% a win. and i think that it's important for people to realize that our decisions here have real world implications. i don't think any other president would have been able to do that. and as a result of that, i do applaud president trump's efforts. so have many members of nato, and frankly, so have many democrats. >> and what those and what the negotiations look like, if they pick back up going forward, hopefully the cease fire holds is going to be, of course, a very important part of this conversation as as you are getting to a negotiated peace. congressman, thank you very much for your time today. i appreciate it. omar. >> well, we're following breaking news this morning. any moment now, president trump and ukrainian president zelenskyy set to meet at nato will bring you that when it happens. stay with us. >> lumino is the. >> first fluoride. >> free toothpaste. >> i've ever found that. actually works. >> my dentist was blown.

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iran's nuclear installations were, his words, badly damaged by u.s. and israeli attacks. now, obviously, they're talking about the totality of the attacks over the past two weeks that officials saying iran is still working on a technical assessment of the facilities, which indicates they're hard to get to. and this takes time. the remarks coming as israel's atomic energy commission released a statement saying that the u.s. strike on fordow destroyed the site's critical infrastructure and rendered the enrichment facility inoperable. no word yet on, though, of course, other centrifuges that the u.s. and israel have talked about being in other locations, whether they were damaged, whether they're able to be put in place. we don't know any of that. this is specific to fordow, the u.s., the white house handing out this assessment because they believe backs the political view they've been putting out there on total obliteration of the facilities. that, of course, is something they are keen to do because. cnn was first to report that a preliminary military, centcom driven classified report from the pentagon's intelligence arm

concluded something that would be different if it bears out. that report found that the u.s. strikes did not destroy core components of iran's nuclear program overall, and likely only set the program back by a few months. nic robertson is in tel aviv as we cover this story from the middle east. here together. nic, what are you hearing from the israelis this morning? you know, they had the hey there strikes set the program back by 2 to 3 years from their military. now we have something more specific to a couple facilities from their atomic energy commission yeah, i think there's pretty joined up sort of political agencies speak here in israel that the program, iran's nuclear program, has been set back by several years. >> you get a little bit of nuance, depending on who you speak to. the army spokesman here being very clear, set back a couple of years. finance minister bezalel smotrich saying, yeah, again, set back several years. but he said we're still doing a full assessment.

another lawmaker in the knesset here saying, look, we haven't had visibility on for door yet. again, sort of referencing the idea that they haven't really seen it and been able to do a full assessment. and i think, you know, let's take in what the israel's atomic energy commission has said here, you know, and i think it bears a little bit of scrutiny, understanding what had happened at isfahan nuclear facility early on in israel's strikes, that they had taken out the power, electricity generating component and the connections to the power grid in iran, which which rendered that site inoperable and probably done some damage under the ground as well. but when you get to fordo and what the energy commission here is saying destroyed the site's critical infrastructure and rendered the enrichment facility inoperable. i mean, look, that language doesn't say it's destroyed the equipment below ground. and again, if you

take that comparison for isfahan, is that critical infrastructure, the electricity generating equipment that keeps that equipment below ground working? is that what they're describing here? but again, the very clear line is that it's been put back years, not months, years. and you speak to people around here on the streets and they say they really hope that's the case. >> yeah, absolutely. and of course, you know, as you point out, the israelis said that their strikes had set the program back 2 to 3 years. that was actually something that people who said president trump should not do. an additional u.s. strike had been pointing to. they said israel's been so successful, they've already set it back by several years. why does the united states need to step in? additionally, of course, president trump has done that. that did even more damage. and the question is how much? nic robertson, thank you so much from tel aviv. and joining us now to continue the conversation on this crucial issue is the retired u.s. army brigadier general mark kimmitt. and

general, i appreciate your time. obviously, we're in the middle of a political firestorm. information is coming in on what happened. there's a political narrative that that, that, that, that the president has put forth about obliteration, that he wants to back up. but if we try to take all of that out of it, which may be hard, obviously, from a political context, but from a what really happened is what matters, right? what really happened? we don't know yet. and all this information is coming in. could i just ask you because, you know this, the pentagon assessment, which was just the first of many and obviously based on preliminary information, general was came out of the pentagon intelligence unit. it came out of centcom. who would be working on that and what sort of information might they have had access to in such a preliminary report? >> yeah. well, first of all, i agree with you. let's let's get away from the politicking. the point scoring. this is a matter of national security. and i think every time politicians start pointing fingers, it diminishes from the bravery of our airmen that went in and out,

put their lives on the line to do this mission. now, having said that, we're in an area of intelligence that we don't often talk about. you talk about. >> humint. >> you talk about communications intelligence, digital intelligence on the ground intelligence. but this isn't the arcane field of masint measurement. and signal measurement and signature intelligence, where it's much like being a oil wildcatter. you know, there's something under the ground. you want to find out if it's oil. how do you determine 300ft below whether you've got rock or whether you have oil? they use somewhat the same techniques. they they measure the radiation. they measure the pictures. they measure the the rubble of the ground. so it's it's it's an arcane science. it's almost an art, which in many ways, to my mind explains why there's such

varied intelligence estimates of what happened here. this is tough stuff. and i think the best thing we can do is wait for better answers, because the answers to that are going to drive, whether there's going to be an american attack or not. >> right, right. and that that, of course, is so crucial. i want to ask you about something. kate had a conversation earlier with congressman jason crow, who obviously is a veteran, and he was referring. he's from colorado to, you know, u.s. bunker missile storage in a mountain in colorado. 50 year old basically structure that was built deep in a mountain to withstand a nuclear bomb. and it was built for that. he was just making the simple point that while complex, that technology to do that, to build something that resilient has existed for 50 years, he was using that just to raise the question of to just say, because you dropped one bunker buster bomb in the first military scenario you've ever dropped it in, say, fordow is obliterated would be way too simplistic of a conclusion. i'm

just curious as to what you know, what your take is like. is it is it safe to think that iran not safe to think? because we don't know. but is it fair to assume that they would have had the technology to build this this facility in fordow in a way that would have been perhaps as strong and resilient as the u.s. facility in colorado? >> well, first of all, i appreciate representative crow. he's fellow paratrooper, fellow ranger. so i normally give him the benefit of the doubt. look, the fact remains is technology improves. mountains don't change much. so i think there might be the case that we have as much of a vulnerability in that mountain. quite frankly, as fordow was as we developed these bunker busters. so i think we need to look at that question in reverse. >> yeah. that's interesting. right. to look at it as what? as what the bunker busters could have accomplished. but you said something general very important, which is the reason intelligence matters is right now we're in a pause. yeah,

yeah, yeah. >> no, my point was, it may be that we need to relook that mountain of ours to see if it's as vulnerable as fordow may have been. >> okay, i understand that is different than what i understood you to say, but. but important. and thank you for making that and making that very clear. general, we appreciate your time. and thank you so very much. general mark kimmitt. omar, back to you. >> all right, erin, we're continuing to monitor the latest out of the nato summit. but in the meantime, democratic lawmakers blasting the white house after classified briefings on the details of the iran strikes were postponed. we're going to bring you the reaction from capitol hill. plus, as i mentioned, standing by for president trump to speak at nato. when that happens, we will bring it to you live. stay with us. >> this holiday, celebrate the freedom to cook anything, anytime, anywhere. only on a black stone. america's best

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rescheduled for the end of this week. congressman jason crow was just on the show and told me that he has actually seen this preliminary intelligence assessment from the pentagon. what are you hearing there this morning yeah, kate, i mean, obviously lawmakers may be able to access certain information in the skiffs. >> that's certainly a possibility. but one of the keys here is the fact that lawmakers like to be able to have a dialog about exactly what they know on the intelligence front so far. i mean, there are a myriad of questions, not just about the impact of these strikes, but also what intelligence led up to the decision that donald trump made to carry out these strikes? i think the frustration that you're hearing mostly from democrats is that this has been a request of theirs now for several days. and chuck schumer

pointed out the minority leader in the senate that if there is a desire to have rubio and hegseth involved in these briefings, they're happy to have further briefings down the line. but they did want to go ahead with this tuesday briefing so that they could get preliminary information that they've been asking for for three days. kate. >> lauren, you also have new reporting about the president ramping up pressure on republicans over that massive domestic policy bill that has it's been working its way through congress, but it's definitely hitting quite a few obstacles yeah, that's exactly right, kate. >> i mean, this is a key priority for president donald trump. they have nine days until july 4th to get it passed. and right now republican leadership is banking on what they hope will be a strong sense of pressure on republican members to not delay trump's agenda, even though you are hearing so

many concerns right now for both conservatives and moderates, concerns that we should note are really difficult to square because they run right up against one another's request. you have republicans who believe this bill is too expensive. you have other, more moderate republicans who are arguing that they are concerned about some of the cuts in this bill, especially to health care programs like medicaid. so that tension exists right now in such a huge way. and yet, republican leadership does think in the senate that they could potentially vote on this bill by the end of the week, given the fact that they do not want to be on trump's bad side by missing that july 4th deadline. kate. >> all right. we will see much more to come. lauren. thank you so much, omar. >> thank you. >> all right. with me now is mark gillespie, founder of blue star strategies and press advisor to then speaker of the house john boehner and cnn political commentator and democratic strategist maria cardona. good to see you both. all right. let's start with with iran, because early u.s. intel supports the iranian

nuclear capabilities weren't completely destroyed. now we're hearing from the israel atomic energy commission. they assess the site's critical infrastructure was destroyed. iran's foreign minister also speaks her. the spokesperson also speaks of the site being badly damaged. so, but but what we've heard from president trump a little earlier is he suggested he would be open to further strikes if needed. i guess i'm assuming that means if these sites weren't further obliterated. so, maura, i'm going to ask you, does it concern you that there may still be a potential for the united states to get further involved? or do you think this is where it stops? my concern is. >> the lack. >> of transparency. i think that for. so many in the media. >> space. >> they demanded transparency. >> you know, and. >> trump did too. i mean, he. >> was candidate trump. >> he was constantly calling for more transparency. and yet we deserve. >> to know. >> we the. >> people deserve to know. why the president, united states

violated the constitution, international. >> law and the un charter. in doing. >> this. >> listen. >> no one is crying. >> for the nuclear regime. >> the iranian regime. >> no one's. >> crying for them. >> as opposed to. >> their losing any amount of their nuclear. you know, stronghold there. but what. >> we do have concerns with is the. >> repercussions that's. >> going to impact generations. so i am concerned. about the lack of an answer and a reasoning justification for this attack. >> and maria, let me bring you in on that, because, you know, to this point, we've seen some criticism, including from democratic members of congress, that that haven't gotten a full. yeah, some criticism, but haven't gotten a full briefing on on what actually happened here. does that concern you? what needs to change on that front? >> oh, absolutely. omar. >> the fact that. >> the administration. first of. >> all, did. >> not even. brief the. >> democratic members of. >> the gang. >> of eight. before they went in, that they only. >> chose to brief the republican members of congress. is egregious enough. >> but now. >> to refuse to brief them, to.

postpone the briefing after the fact is. completely unacceptable. omar, this kind of aggressive act of war should be something. and, you know, the constitution spells it out very clearly, needs to come from members of congress supporting that kind of aggressive act of war. and so now it absolutely screams for a briefing as soon as possible. what is the administration afraid of, omar? are they afraid that, in fact, the intelligence and the information is going to show that not a whole lot was done, that in fact, it only pushed back iran's nuclear program. months. is it going to show that perhaps trump was way too quick to pull the trigger on this, and that there really wasn't the necessity for this here in terms of an imminent acquiring of a nuclear weapon on behalf of iran. if we listen to israel before these bombings, they said

that their attacks pushed back nuclear. iran's ability to acquire nuclear weapon by years. so there are so many questions here, omar. and then to your point about what you mentioned is, is trump going to decide to go in again, you know, very shortly because he's going to understand that this actually wasn't the obliteration that he says it is. >> so i didn't. >> think, absolutely, congress needs to be briefed. and now. >> well, i didn't think i would get you both to agree with each other on transparency so quickly. we're doing so well. i want to ask you, maura, because republican congressman from kentucky, thomas massie, he recently sponsored a resolution to to rein in the executive power to go to war. it doesn't seem like it's going anywhere at this point. but do you think congress should have had more of a say here? >> i think the congress should have been briefed. and so i will agree with maria. i do think that congress, both sides of the

aisle, should have been briefed. but again, i think that the president, when he spoke that night, let's also remember he was out playing golf saturday at bedminster at his course. and then hours later ordered this attack, this strike on iran's nuclear facilities. and then his address to the nation really didn't explain very much. we didn't we didn't get an understanding of what was happening. so i do think that the biggest issue here is the justification for it, because we will feel this for generations to come. the fallout from this, unfortunately, will go to our proxies first. our men and women in military, their first. but we will certainly feel this impact. and so we need to know why. and i do worry that it was just an ego driven trip. and listen, i think that across the board, republicans and democrats alike should be okay to say that republicans especially need to be okay to say, listen, if this is just about your ego and you wanting to win some sort of nobel peace prize, or to do something that netanyahu told you presidents before you had failed to do, so this is your

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watching this one for us. joins us now. gabe, what's expected today when it comes to the man nominated to now run the faa? >> yeah. so kate, we. >> expect that. >> this senate committee is going to vote on whether to. >> advance republic. >> airways ceo brian. bedford's nomination to the senate floor. and that, of course, would put him one step closer to becoming the new head of the faa. we know that some. >> prominent democrats. >> have already said they're going. >> to. >> vote against bedford. >> who is. >> trump's pick. to run the faa. and it's really over concerns that he might lower the amount of training hours that copilots. >> on commercial. >> jets are. required to have. >> but that opposition. >> likely is. >> not going to matter much. >> because. >> of. >> course. republicans control. >> the senate. but as we have seen in recent weeks, the. >> focus of. >> bedford's nomination. >> process has. >> really been centered on aviation safety. he has. >> fielded a lot of questions about modernizing the air traffic. >> control system. about beefing. >> up staffing given some of. >> the issues.

>> that we have. >> seen in newark in recent. >> weeks and months, as well as. >> of course. >> that tragic crash that happened here in washington back. >> in january. >> and as all of this is happening, kate, just yesterday, we also. heard this remarkable testimony from the head of the national transportation safety. board., who said that after. >> investigating that. >> a door plug blowout that you may remember from last year, that happened on that alaska airlines flight, when the door plug just blew out mid-flight? well, the head of the ntsb. said that blame does not just lie with boeing, who built the plane and of. >> course, should have. >> been in control of the structural issues around the aircraft. but some blame also falls on the faa. which should have been on top of its oversight of airline safety. so that is a key issue as this process plays out. kate, we know that aviation safety, in many ways a bipartisan issue. the trump administration has promised billions of dollars in investment to improve the air traffic control system, but it will be interesting to see how much opposition bedford gets,

given that in the past, faa administrators, the last one was unanimously approved by the senate. >> all right. definitely something to keep a very close eye on because it has been quite a rough year already when it comes to the flying skies, as we well know. and you have been covering so well, gabe, thank you very much. gabe is going to keep an eye on that for all of us today. show you live pictures once again from the netherlands. that podium standing by for president trump and a press conference with a room full of reporters. as you can see at the nato summit with very with one many issues at hand, including the war in ukraine. but also the level of defense spending among nato members and also overshadowing much, if not all of this so far is the israel-iran conflict. u.s. strikes on iran and what we're now learning about all of it. we've got much more on that ahead. also, this millions of people along the east coast are facing another day of seriously hot and dangerous weather. have

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the east coast. and while it's not quite as bad as yesterday's record temperatures, take a look at these heat alerts today. still well above normal, and cnn meteorologist derek van dam joins us now. who's going to bring in some of those heat alerts and more? derek, what are we looking at? >> yeah. what do they always say about philadelphia? it's always sunny in philadelphia unfortunately this sun yeah that's right. this sun is creating a very steamy day. if you were on the ground yesterday in the city of brotherly love, you know that it was just downright balmy, almost dangerous. we actually saw the warmest temperature in over a decade, topping 100 degrees in philadelphia. it's already 90. so therein lies the problem. the heat, the overnight temperatures are not bringing any relief to the heat. so it has just been so warm. it's already 88. in new york city they dropped to about 82 overnight. keep in mind that is the average daily high for the day. they had three consecutive days of temperatures above 80 degrees overnight. that is tied for a record as well.

and we have to go back over 100 years, over a century when we actually saw the last time, the temperature yesterday reached above 96 degrees. so that really puts it all into historical context. we still have hundreds of millions of people still impacted by this heat. the heat alerts blanketing much of the megalopolis across the eastern seaboard, d.c. you're going to feel like 106 today. that is when you factor in the temperature and the humidity. we call that the heat index. but there is some relief in sight. we have to wait another 24 hours. look at that dramatic cooldown for boston, new york, as well as philadelphia. cooler weather is coming, unfortunately. can't say the same for the south. omar kate i'll take it when. >> it comes. we'll see. hopefully relief soon. derek van dam really appreciate it and thank you all for joining us. this is cnn, cnn news central situation room. up next.

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enrichment facilities. and it was very, very successful. it was called obliteration. no other military on earth could have done it. and now this incredible exercise of american strength has paved the way for peace with a historic ceasefire agreement. late monday, and we call it the 12 day war. i spoke to a few people. i guess that just sounded like the right the right name. it was a 12 day war and we think it's over. i don't think they're going to be going back at each other. i don't think so. not only have we dealt decisively with the critical threat of iran's nuclear program, which was what i wanted, i said, iran cannot have a