but they should have started at the pentagon. republicans want to spend another 150 billion dollars a year on the pentagon. you have people in the pentagon, nobody even knows what they do anymore. it is the biggest bureaucracy in the world. i would like to see republican be fair-minded about this. let's get rid of the waste at every single government agency so that people are not being ripped off. host: what do you think of that? guest: i agree wholeheartedly, i have known steve for a long time, and i think he is right. we had this crazy will in the pentagon, use it or lose it, where agencies throw money out the door at the end of the year. the pentagon spent millions of dollars at the end of last year on things like ribeye steak, lobster tail, furniture in the pentagon, because they didn't want to create the perception that they were not spending all the money they got. there's a lot of areas where we could have started. the pentagon is one because you have such a massive amount of spending. when i worked for coburn, we did a lo

but they should have started at the pentagon. republicans want to spend another 150 billion dollars a year on the pentagon. you have people in the pentagon, nobody even knows what they do anymore. it is the biggest bureaucracy in the world. i would like to see republican be fair-minded about this. let's get rid of the waste at every single government agency so that people are not being ripped off. host: what do you think of that? guest: i agree with steve wholeheartedly. i have known steve for a long time, and i think he is right. we had this crazy will in the pentagon, use it or lose it, where agencies throw money out the door at the end of the year. the pentagon spent millions of dollars at the end of last year on things like ribeye steak, lobster tail, furniture in the pentagon, because they didn't want to create the perception that they were not spending all the money they got. steve is absolutely right. there's a lot of areas where we could have started. the pentagon is one because you have such a massive amount of spending.

there are even special social media accounts that track pizza orders around the pentagon. of course, this system is not foolproof by any criteria, but it seems to work reliably. even such mundane events as a late-night meeting or event somewhere nearby can cause an increase in pizza orders. but when you combine this with other things, such as unusual aircraft movements, geopolitical events that may be imminent, and even the activity of ride-hailing services, the coincidence of several indicators may indicate something more than just chance. low attendance at gay bars before the strikes supported the theory that the pentagon was active during the invasions. not content with analyzing pizza, the authors of the report noted that the gay bar near the pentagon was unusually sparsely attended for a thursday night, saying that this likely indicated a busy night at the pentagon.

and so they will be hoping to hear from the pentagon.epartment, what. the administration has in mind if things get really, really. bad and american civilians are put into harm's way. america's allies will also be waiting. >> to hear what the next. >> steps are likely to be. but as richard said, it's unlikely that we will hear military detail about the next operations. >> richard haass and bobby ghosh, thank you for joining us on this very consequential weekend. still ahead, as we await a pentagon briefing this morning, in about an hour and a half, what we're learning about how the u.s. strikes. unfolded and the iranian sites that were targeted. you're watching the have you targeted. yalways hadhing the weekend. trouble with your weight? me too. discover the power of wegovy. with wegovy, i lost 35 pounds. and some lost over 46 pounds. and i'm keeping the weight off. i'm reducing my risk. wegovy is the only weight-management medicine proven to reduce risk of major cardiovascular events such as death, heart attack, or stroke in adults with

central command, from the joint staff here in the pentagon or from pentagon officials who we normallysome information about positioning of warships, other details. so this was an extremely quiet operation. operational security was paramount for obvious reasons. but now we can report on some of the details, and it's really quite notable, griff, the amount of deceptive, deception that was used, the red herrings that were thrown out so that iran did not know when these bombs were going to be dropped. gy give and lastly, jen, let's talk about the threat to u.s. forces. we have some 40,000 plus in the middle east. bases like al assad in iraq or maybe if kuwait -- in kuwait may be at risk. i understand we have two full carrier strike groups in the med. >> reporter: that's right. the uss nimitz has joined the uss carl vinson in the region. they bring a significant amount of firepower with them. but as you mentioned, griff, there are bases all across the middle east. if you talk about the gcc countries through i, along the persian gulf, we have based there -- bases there. we have air bases, t

the pentagon is one. when i worked, we did a lot of oversight over the pentagon as well. the department is doing things that had nothing to do with the core mission of defending the american people. >> host: here is the doge website, estimated savings of $175 billion. they divide that out per taxpayers as savings of a little over a thousand dollars per taxpayers. what do you think of that number and how do we know that is actually being saved in the government. helped to cut a trin dollars. a big portion of that word durable cuts, they went through all three branches of government. of that number that doge has put out, we try to retrace their steps, found that about 42% of the contract savings seemed to be verifiable, 27% of the grants. a generous take on doge's cut would be maybe 20 or $30 billion because most of it has not gone through the congress or been approved by the legislature. i want to see them succeed, go way beyond what they have described. i think there is more than enough change to find within the federal government. host: let's talk about cuts to the feder

you said we need to see a crackdown on what he perceived as wasteful pentagon spending. he said nato countries must be closed tomorrow to protect themselves and the military and is the pivot from focusing on things like preselect your to confronting communist china. this is a break. what has the establishment and getting it wrong about foreign policy and how should they be fixing it? sen. schmitt: i think there's a hubris that exists and being able to really adjust. and so my view and you can call it a bunch of things. , i think the american realism is better -- a better term and i think the ascending view of the republican party. we see in with president trump. and really the premise is that you operate from a sense of scarcity. america cannot be everywhere all at once all the time. and what are our core national interest. and the rising and existing threat of communist china. it doesn't mean we don't have other relationships. it just means that in an atrophied industrial base you have to be really focused and so this is about kind of getting back to the bases in many w

meanwhile, the head of the pentagon and the head of the joint chiefs of staff, according to cnn, arrived at the white house situation center, but donald trump is not with them. what other news in this regard comes from washington, we will find out from our special correspondent in the united states elizaveta khramtsovaya, she's live. elizaveta, hello. has trump's team announced any retaliatory actions? alexey, hello, there have been no official comments yet. there has been no word on what washington's response to iran's actions that we have been observing over the last hour, but the pentagon has already confirmed that strikes on american targets in the middle east are being carried out with medium- and shorter-range missiles, but as for the meeting that is currently taking place in the white house situation room, it was indeed initially reported that the head of the pentagon, hexett , and the head of the joint chiefs of staff, kane, arrived at this meeting, that is, in fact, the head of the general staff, if translated into our reality, but later the rator agency reported that donald tru

and she told us more about what the pentagon had to say, a swell. this is the 1st time that we heard from the defense secretary pete headsets and saw those strikes last night. and from his perspective, it is very much a mission accomplished. brent. so he opened those remarks by praising donald trump a lot saying that many american presidents dream of being able to end a ron's nuclear program. but president trump is the only one who has taken decisive action to do so. he reiterated many of the points that donald trump mentioned in his remarks last night along with the warning iran to finally come to the table and saying that any retaliation from iran would be met with a much more grave response than what we saw last night. but of course, standing alongside him at that briefing was down kane of the joint chiefs of staff . now general came and gave us some very interesting operational detail. he said, as you said earlier in your intro, that this was a mission that took months to prepare. that was shrouded in secrecy that only a few people in washington

and the pentagon. excuse me. courtney. courtney, we're hearing from israeli officials, they're saying five were injured, one in moderate condition, four lightly injured by shrapnel. recovery teams are also searching seven reported sites elsewhere throughout the country. what are you hearing from the pentagon at this time about either the lead up to the strikes or what they assess the damage to be both inside israel and inside iran, those nuclear facilities we were just talking about. >> yeah. so, i mean, in both cases, these were huge barrages of strikes. what appears to be a little bit different here, the israeli strikes, they were ongoing, sort of i think we should think of them as almost being in waves over a sustained period of time, going after specific nuclear targets. now that's both the infrastructure, the nuclear program and individuals. you know, we've heard about some iranian revolutionary guard. rev guard leaders who were killed, who were assassinated in these, but also nuclear scientists.

the pentagon has outlined the operation code named midnight, hama footage released by the radian use agency, or na shows, smoke rising from an area. it says it's close to photo. that's one of 3 sides targeted by american air force, stealth bombers and a, something to read. the pentagon has confirmed its drops so called bunker, busting bombs for the 1st time, and precedence. trump says iran, so you could program has been uplift, right? obliterated. but an age to iran, supremely, the ayatollah ali hogmanay says it stalks of enriched uranium, remain intact. the us defense secretary pete hex ss months of planning went into the attack, but it was not to aim to bringing about regime change in iran. the president trump said no nukes he's 6 piece and iran should take that path. he sent out a truth last night saying this any retaliation by iran against the united states of america will be met with force far greater than what was witness tonight . signed the president of the united states, donald j trump. iran would be smart too. he'd those words. he said it before. any means that the chairman

the pentagon has confirmed it's dropped so called bunk of busting bombs for the 1st time. and presidents donuts, trump says iran, nuclear program has been obliterated, but an age to iran. supreme leader, i told ali harmon a says it stalks of enriched uranium, remain intact. to us defense secretary, pete hicks, us says months of planning went into the attack, but it was not aim to bringing about regime change in iran. the president trump said no nukes he 6 piece. iran should take that path. he sent out a truth last night saying this any retaliation by iran against the united states of america will be met with force far greater than what was witness tonight . signed the president of the united states, donald j trump. ron would be smart to feed those words. he said it before. any means that the chairman of the us joined, a chief of staff has given more details of the complex military operation code named midnight honda. u. s. b 12th to spirit almost drops so called the bunker, busting bombs for the 1st time on 2 nuclear sides at the photo and not tons. and 8 us something to r

why does the pentagon need such personnel?meta is not only social networks, but also military and i-projects, jointly implemented with the company anduril, the purpose of which is to create augmented and virtual reality systems for the army usa. open ai, a leading developer in the field of artificial intelligence, is now officially collaborating with the pentagon, having signed a $200 million contract with the military department. but the most telling. this company is the cornerstone of the us digital army, it has long been working with the cia, arming american intelligence agencies with algorithms for mass surveillance. since 2015. more in iran, after the recent strikes, there is a growing conviction that american it specialists working for a military company are actively involved in israeli operations. the first day of the thirteenth numbers, when the israeli air force hit the already pre-reconnoitered targets. all were entered into the system, the system issued a calculation of the forces of the means, the israeli joint for

coffee maker costs 7,500, because it costs the pentagon. in this regard, we can turn to this crazy pentagon budget, here is a trillion dollars, well, i repeat, what is there, uh, well, what or something, the city has been taken over now, well , it's some kind of madness, any, any military budget consists of two parts, this is the maintenance of development, here we have 50x50, 50 for maintenance, 50 for development, the americans have 80 for maintenance - this is the base, the salary there is not an immeasurable amount and 20 for - development, so if i count, i will not now due to lack of time. well, and they developed the epstein islands, but here, what is there, the bitch, costs money, but our systems, any of our weapons systems compared to the american ones, are similar and it costs 3 to 5 times cheaper, no, i just had a dispute here, i was flying to an aircraft factory there, and i just had a fight with a respected person, i ask, why does the development cost so much, he starts explaining, well, it fits in the trunk of a conventional zh

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the pentagon is still assessing the damage and the path ahead. after conducting the largest b two strike in history. israel and iran continue trading missiles with no end in sight for the growing war in the middle east. iran is lashing out at the united states after airstrikes over the weekend targeted three of its key nuclear sites. iran is vowing to respond, saying the trump administration is choosing to destroy democracy and accusing the u.s. of crossing a red line. president donald trump now seems to be leaving the door open for regime change in iran. with this post on social media sunday night. but that does not match the message from the president's top officials. cbs's willie james inman has the latest from washington. >> the trump administration spent the day defending the president's strikes on iran. >> we're not at war with iran. we're at war with iran's nuclear program. >> the administration still leaving the door open for diplomacy, but saying the strikes were necessary. >> this wasn't a regime change move. this was designed to degrad

no near cause, being thrown around with the pentagon. i spent half my adult life, the military life in pentagon. and that was the 1st time i've seen dr. one sided, i would say philosophy in the pentagon, usually depending on what we call a political, what we support the administration all the time. but that particular time, the administration, we're bringing to what we call all new accounts, i mean the blood of the pentagon. and so you're not going to hear too much a sense of what they're going on at the time. so you wasn't going to hear that they were all in drink or rumsfeld, which was the deputy to rumsfeld doug fired through. i worked under it's another 3 guys, independent guy at the time. it was, he is really surprised when i hear that. uh yeah. so the never been confirmed uh, independent, got it nowhere near the government again. and oh, by the way, doing now rec, or when you mention about that and all the lives lost there that's like was the part man for leaving that to yahoo. even though he with the finance minister at the time,

reviewed by the pentagon since 2022. john kozlowski is the top u.s. official tasked with investigating uaps. you've been solving problems for years. >> in your career. >> are these some of the toughest problems. >> you've had to tackle as a scientist? >> they are. >> because lawsky leads the pentagon's all-domain anomaly resolution office, created by congress three years ago to detect, identify, and attribute mysterious objects of interest in the air, in outer space, and even underwater. now, the office answers to president trump. the commander in chief has been a ufo skeptic. >> it's never been my thing. i have to be honest. i have never been a believer. >> but trump has also hinted that the government may know more than it's letting on. >> i won't talk to you about what i know about it, but it's very interesting. but roswell is a very interesting place with a lot of people that would like to know what's going on. >> the president is now vowing unprecedented transparency in his second term, giving ufo enthusiasts across the political spectrum hope fo

so you asked me to report is that the pentagon was, i'm going to even decide what the u. s. marines would do here because it's a star contrast to what they are patch pool and that goes for the national guard, but also to the us marines that are trained for war that are trained to a crisis situation. they are not trained for crowd control, as it is the case with l. a. p. d. so that's the big question of how to prepare them to actually face citizens on american soil. and as we have the situation at, the courts actually with a, the california governor gavin newsom, a suing the trump administration, saying that it was legal for them to deploy at the national guard. they already hear a part of them already in los angeles. so why best is happening in the quote, we already see the reactions and also the consequences of the decision taken by the wife was play out here in los angeles. right? we leave it there due to he's been coming over. is gruber reporting at from los angeles. thank you. time for some other headlines from around the world today. of israel's foreign ministry says

by the way, we asked for a response from the pentagon.rand total of one news conference since taking over at dod. does that matter? >> it matters. and let me -- great question, why is this so important? howard: the average person out there saying -- >> people don't like the news media. here's the bottom line, the u.s. military swears an to defend the constitution, the first amendment. that includes nothing to abridge freedom of the press. so this is a life and death issue for the u.s. forces, and that makes it a life and death issue for the media which often accompanies them. this is about the constitutional requirement the maintain a free press in this country. that is what america's all about. so let me just offer this thought: the next time u.s. troops all geared upper for combat board some transport plane in the middle of the night to go somewhere, the pentagon press corps is going to do its job as it does every day. they will be there, they will cover it as the world press corps was. nobody's going away. howard: you know, even the pe

thursday, the pentagon pizza report reported that the closest and second closest dominos to the pentagonraffic. >> jordan: oh, my god, we're going to war! or everyone at the pentagon just got divorced at the same time. look, i don't know how things are going to end, but it seems like they're trending in a bad direction. i will say this, though: if you told me after election day that within four months of trump's presidency, i'd be staring at a domino's pizza tracker to figure out if we're going to enter the final war of mankind... i'd have said, that's about right. for more on the pending war with iran, we go live outside the pentagon with our own michael kosta. [cheers and applause] michael, what's the latest? >> jordan, this is a nuanced and complicated situation, and the only solution is for america to enter a decades-long total war with iran. make no mistake, the u.s. military needs to dig in, buckle down, pick up some mikey k's meat lovers pizzas with extra tangy sauce, and prepare for the worst. >> jordan: i'm sorry, what was that last part you said? >> about preparing for the wors

i mean the blood of the pentagon, and so you would, i go to here too much just sent in with the pentagon at the time. so you wasn't going to hear that they were all in google rumsfeld way through with the deputy to rumsfeld doug fired through. i worked under it's another 3 guys independent up at the time he was he is riley high when i hear that ah, yes. so the never been confirmed independent. got it nowhere near the government again. and oh, by the way, don't now rec ward, when you mention about that and all the lives lost there, the advice was the part man for leaving that to yahoo. even though he was the finance minister at the time, he was deeply involved in pushing up the war with the rack, which is part of what is happening right now. as you know, those we that purchased my book, we'll see what's going on now, is that the final conclusion of what they've had planned for decade, starting with the rack because of the fact they had what we thought they were doing change policy on the clinton administration at the time then syria didn't finish it up with i ran so you know saddam was go

you have oversee of the you oversee the military powers in the pentagon.quence is there any effort to hold anyone in contempt or impeachment? what else would you advocate doing if they've already crossed these lines, as you say? >> well, i think. >> we have to make it very clear, as i try to do at the hearing, that they are crossing these lines, that the american public has to recognize that their own ultimate safety is being jeopardized here. >> so let's say let's say it's clear, senator, then what are you doing about it? >> well, again, impeachment would have to begin with the house and then would have to have 67 votes in the senate, given the political alignment. now, that's not an option. i think the option is to go and raise this issue up so that people pay attention also to defuze the social media, which is trying to describe this as a riot and that the city is burning down and that these troops are saving. but is. there anything else that. >> you can do? i mean, we get it because we got a whole team of journalists in our newsroom that's reporting on

we're we're awaiting the start of this pentagon briefing. what should we hear from this press briefing, given how they are supposed to run? >> yeah, sure. >> we heard last night from president trump. >> that we. >> obliterated fordow and. >> some of the other sites. >> what i'm. >> interested in hearing. >> from the. >> secretary and from. >> the chairman. >> is more information. >> on the battle damage assessment. i think last. >> night was way too. >> early for the president to make the. >> assessment that he did. >> it's daylight. >> over there. we probably. >> got some satellite images, so i'm really interested. >> to hear what they. >> think happened there also. and so i. think you'll really be waiting to hear from the secretary and hear more. >> information along those lines. >> you know, gordon. >> one. >> of. >> the things that everyone has lots of questions, right? why now, all of that, what are you hearing about what we what we might hear in this briefing? >> right. well, i. >> think that's. >> one of the central. >> questions. >>

silicon valley in the service of the pentagon, the heads of american it giants have put on the shoulderstraps of lieutenant colonels of the army reserve, what ... defense news publications, a special unit has been formed 201 includes key figures from the tech world: andrew bosworth, cto of extremist meta, kevin weil, cpo of open ai, bob magrew, former head of research at the same company , and shyaam sankar, cto of palantir. their job is not just to advise, but to serve as reserve officers, bringing the speed and innovation of the commercial sector to the military. programs, when something really serious is needed from some company and such a long-term strategic seriousness is needed by some serious department, this department of company managers or technical, well, as in this case, not managers, but technical directors, of companies takes on staff with shoulder straps, although their combat mission is to carry out their business task, well, why does the pentagon need such personnel, meta is not only social networks, but ... and military and i-projects, jointly implemented with the comp

there is a changed pentagon under the second term president trump. our organizations that fight terrorism, they changed or are they what we knew a year ago or five years ago? >> hard to tell, again, when you have so few people in an organization like homeland security who actually from the maga world. you got kristi noem, pete hegseth and a couple of others at the pentagon. underneath them are a lot of officials who have worked here for a long time, tom, and are well-versed in history we are discussing here. so whether these top officials change things up operationally as opposed to culturally is something we are about to find out. they've not been operationalized with the exception of mass deportations until now. >> i interviewed an author and former marine corps earlier, great conversation. and he called out in his opinion the over politicalization some of the opening comments from secretary hegseth. is that a concern in washington, that something that should be really apolitical like the pentagon appears to be a little less so? >> it was certainly

the pentagon says the final assessment on the effectiveness will take time and the pentagon confirming, be twos traveling creating quite the strong social media, they were decoys. one of many red herrings designed for distraction. the president was in new jersey for much of yesterday returning around 6:00 p.m. without fuss or commentary to reporters. the presidency in here last night in the situation room as strikes are being carried out stating in his address that followed that the next decision is up to iran whether they want peace or they want tragedy. >> president donald trump: remember there are many targets left. to nights was the most difficult of them all by far and perhaps the most lethal but if peace does not come quickly we will go after those other targets with precision, speed and skill. most of them can be taken out in a matter of minutes. >> reporter: earlier this week the near post reported exclusively that one concern the president had was if the iran's supreme leader were taken out at any point it could create another libya meaning a vacuum of power leading to chaos.

the pentagon has deployed its military bases in neighboring countries in the persian gulf. the yemeni houthis had previously promised to join in the retaliatory strikes; they claimed that they would immediately attack american ships in the persian gulf in the red sea. tatyana, here is the latest information. we are moving to the united states, where congressman thomas massey called strikes on iranian nuclear facilities unconstitutional. our special is in direct contact with our studio from washington, our special correspondent elizaveta, i greet you, tell us what... actions against iran, here the political community was literally divided into two parts, some insisted that america should not unleash another war without specific goals, while others supported any decision that donald trump makes, the day before the us president spent the day at his golf club in new jersey, meeting with his supporters there, and today he returned to the american capital and held a meeting here with... there on national security and after a while we saw the following message on social media abou

i mean, the book did leave a trail was clearly written by you have any redacted by the pentagon. the, as i said, to, to a lot, the american people, to the existence of the most ad and so on in your body politics. i don't know whether you saw a tucker, carlson actually said on his show recently that reuben mode wanted him to run the gates. trump. it would have given the wall street journal and fox news, etc, to back attempt to call some presidency. but he had to be a ted cruz and it seemed the ted cruz, the long time said that it didn't care. it must have been spying on the president, the united states, or senators all congressmen. the that surprise you that the actually there are my that is if they was my bag and the congress not at all. they have no shape and bread cruise. as we said, during that interview, i look forward to joining the senate. so i could be the biggest supporter of visual, not just people in texas, not the united states, but it literally said so i could support the best support of israel method. well, but i'm glad i don't know if you ever in a bureau, but my de

strikes on iran as the pentagon refutes reports the bombings weren't effective.s with us. not a day that goes by i wish i could walk down to hadley's office and ask him about this. lots to get to. i want to ask your initial thoughts about the intelligence that we have so far about the strike from saturday night. >> well, it's still early to say. we're getting intelligence reports. there are a lot of sources out there. the israelis have their sources, we have overhead photography, we're listening to the iranians what the iranians are saying, what might have been destroyed. so we have a lot of sources and they are now some non-governmental sources, "wall street journal" had david albright today, real nuclear expert making his assessment of the damage that was done. there is no doubt the operation was effective operationally as the chairman of the joint chiefs just said. and i think it is pretty clear that a substantial amount of damage was done to iranian program, which was, of course, the intention of the strike in the first place. >> dana: the iranian people and

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 dou

. >> maurice: the pentagon shared this test video showing how 30,000-pound bunker buster bombs like this one were used to strike iran's nuclear facilities. inside iran, a government spokeswoman tells us the regime is not giving up its ambitions. ♪ ♪ >> announcer: from cbs news headquarters in new york, this is the "cbs evening news." ♪ ♪ >> maurice: good evening. i'm maurice dubois. john is off tonight. cbs news has learned that the trump administration is considering several options to entice iran back to negotiations over its nuclear program. we are told this includes helping iran access billions of dollars to build a nonweaponized nuclear energy program. top pentagon officials held a news conference today to emphasize how effective they believe last weekend's u.s. strikes were, and they used test video of that bunker buster bomb to show the potential destruction to iran's nuclear facilities. we have new reporting from imtiaz tyab inside iran, and we begin with charlie d'agata at the pentagon tonight. charlie? >> reporter: hey, maurice. you know, the question tonight is what remains of

the intelligence arm of the pentagon. and the director of it is actually the principal intelligence adviser to defense secretary pete hegseth. now, we did hear as well from the president, but also hegseth say yesterday, reiterating over and over again this new intelligence analysis that they said had moderate to severe damage to these different nuclear sites, really trying to focus on the latter part of that severe damage. and then we heard, you know, the president come out and continue to say, as well as hegseth, that those sites were obliterated. all to say, sarah, i think it's really important to note that one, i don't think anyone is, you know, trying to refute the the courageous and valiant efforts of those soldiers or, and, you know, people in the military who flew those planes and carried out these strikes. the question is how much damage was really done to those different sites as the united states continues to assess really what the next steps are and how to move forward here. >> all right. alayna treene, thank y

natasha bertrand at the pentagon. thank you. in washington, i should say thank you very much, kate. >> and on just that, we are standing by for another day of protests in los angeles against ice enforcement raids that have been playing out there as president trump is escalating his feud with california's leaders even more by sending in more military. 700 marines now called up the activated thousands more national guards, national guardsmen have been activated as well. this morning, the president is also taking to social media for the first time today to talk about it, defending his decision, saying that l.a. would be burning to the ground if he did not send in the national guard. joining us right now, cnn senior political commentator ana navarro and christine quinn, the executive committee chair of the new york state democratic committee. there are real policy issues that are being that are at the center of this, and there is a whole lot of politics that is playing out. look no further than the president very clearly wanting cre

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meanwhile, the us air force and navy at the pentagon revealed details of the operation to strike iranian nuclear facilities. the mission was strictly classified and there were almost no negotiations between the pilots. at the same time, some of the b2 bombers were used to distract attention. in addition, fourth -fifth generation fighters took part in the operation. our special correspondent elizaveta khramtsova works in the usa. she is in touch again. what else is known? pentagon strikes on iran, and is another attack allowed, for example, in the event of a retaliatory strike from tehran? alexey, hello, they are indeed calculating completely different options, but the pentagon, like the white house, is extremely pleased with the results of that operation that the united states carried out the day before, we learned some details this morning from pete hexett, the head of the pentagon, and also from... dan kane, the chairman of the joint committee, the chief of staff, they revealed details of the preparation of this operation, pete hexett today thanked everyone who participated in the atta

peace in ukraine serves the national interests of the united states, this is the statement of the pentagon chief pete haksat. he also noted that the peace agreement will show quote america strong and will demonstrate in... given the situation in los angeles, what the tasks are currently set by the donald trump administration, we see from the informagent feeds that the us is preparing to transfer tactical units. under the control of the democrats. alexander, artem, good afternoon, indeed, it is already the second day on the capital hill, hearings are underway, at which pete hexot answers questions from senators. the head of the pentagon explains how the donald trump administration sees the redistribution of budget money, including this concerns strengthening, strengthening the state border, its protection, and in general he again repeats the idea that now the united states needs to focus more on its security inside its cities, in connection with this he explained why america is cutting funding, for example, including ukraine, as far as internal security is concerned, now the pentagon forces

this is a pentagon now that has put and by pentagon i mean the political leadership of the pentagon has put acquiescence and amplifying of everything that president trump says at the foremost of its agenda, agenda. defense secretary pete hegseth has made it very clear that he's not going to follow the rule of his predecessors. he's not going to, you know, be a cautionary voice like mark esper was, or somebody who sort of stood between president trump and the military, as jim mattis did. so he's been very clear that whatever trump wants, trump is going to get it's a the army has been planning for their 250th birthday celebration, which is what today is supposed to be. it just happens to also fall on president trump's 79th birthday. they've been planning for two years. they said, for this birthday celebration, celebration, which was going to be festivals, and there were going to be like performing bands on the mall and at different bases around the country. but suddenly, about a month into after trump's inauguration, army officials tell me, and they won't say where it came from. the idea

i actually get dash of what i talk about the pentagon. i really hope that becomes a major focus of your organization. i think in the big, beautiful bill they're getting, what, over 300 billion or maybe even 700 extra. and then they recently sent an extra game out to israel at of course we know that the using that many of us -- for pretty nefarious purposes. >> host: all right. go ahead, john. >> guest: i think we have led the way. we can talk to lose it or use for years. there's a lot of, the pentagon is a target-rich environment for budget savings. i take the callers point. somethings were done with allies i think our critic for national security but is not all waste and fraud but again our mission is to give people information to let them , what about entitlement reform? on taco salsa triticum medicare and medicaid are they part of the budget. >> guest: that is the question. there's a bipartisan collusion to avoid that topic. if you want to get it 2 trillion or more of saving show to deal with this question of safety net programs. if yo

we expect to hear more from the pentagon, potentially in about 24 hours time. but the signal we're getting from the us president is that this has been a military success. political have al jazeera at the pentagon, united nations secretary general antonio gutierrez, has responded to it. rhonda tax on top of saying he's deeply alarmed by the latest escalation. kristen salumi has more from the us in response to ron's attack on katara, the un spokesperson echoed remarks made by secretary general, antonio gutierrez over the weekend when he spoke to the web security council in an emergency meeting that was called in response to the united states bombing of ron's nuclear facilities at that time terrace described the risk that the world was facing as a possibility of quote, descending into a rat hole of retaliation after retaliation. the secretary jose, deeply alarmed by the latest escalation, you know, from the beginning of this conflict. he has been condemning every further military escalation. and this includes, of course, today's attack by the stomach republic of i

i mean, they flooded the pentagon and so you're not going to here too much of sense. and with that going on at the time. so you wasn't going to hear that they were all in draco rumsfeld. yep. which was the deputy to rumsfeld doug fired through. i worked under it's another 3 guys independent uh at the time it was, he is really surprised when i hear that. uh yeah, it should have never been confirmed independent. got it nowhere near the government again and oh, by the way, don't now read for when you mention about that and all the lives lost there. uh the advice was the park man for bb net to yahoo. even though he with the finance minister at the time, he was deeply involved in push it up to war without rack, which is part of what is happening right now. as you know, those we that purchase my book. we'll see what's going on now is just the final conclusion of what they've had planned for decade, starting with the rack because of the fact they had what we thought they were doing, change policy on the clinton administration at the time, then syria didn't finish it up with

wondering through the pentagon, something backed up by a kind of wilkerson friend of the show, a former chief of staff of the state department. and yet we heard in the past, uh, 10 days we get off trump publicly criticizing, and his really lead to and telling them to take the planes down really as rail lobby ever forgive him. you know, i think there's a lot of behind the scenes working right now to undermine trump. i'm sure there was forces the original sports and i was glad to hear you say that uh, that are probably undermining him right now. i gotta tell you, uh, you know, drop is unpredictable and i always thought he had it in him to go probably against be nephew, yahoo and israel. but i was surprised. he did it at that moment. i mean, even is, you know, i know that after now you do it f bomb or it out there to and discuss without only uh, uh, i read but israel as well. and so i can tell you, yeah, they're very disappointed, but they can't go get god because he so you just don't know how he's going to take things. and i wouldn't be surprised if he told baby nets and yahoo, hey, liste

but we're not seeing, like, big pentagon briefings in the same way as we maybe would have in the past, or the secretary of defense doing the sunday-morning shows on all of the networks, not just fox news. and i think it's not just the secretary of defense. i mean, towards the end of the biden administration and, i guess, the very beginning of this administration, we saw the former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, mark milley, kind of without saying trump's name, very explicitly say that the us military doesn't serve, quote unquote, "wannabe dictators". so i think you saw that politicisation kind of from both sides, which i think kind of came to the forefront during the black lives matter protests in 2020, and we're seeing kind of an extension of that. but certainly this administration is very clear and very explicit in that they want to be seen as the most pro-military administration in us history, both in terms of funding, in terms of kind of the mindset of the military. they really want - their words - they want to kind of take any sort of handcuffs off the military in terms o