Valuetainment - June 26, 2025


＂Delivered A Hand Slap To America's Face＂ - Iran’s Khamenei FIRES BACK At Trump After Nuclear Strike


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The White House says Iran's nuclear facilities were destroyed in a strike carried out by the United States and Israel, but CNN and the New York Times question the veracity of that claim. Rob and Sarah take a closer look at what actually happened in the strike and debate whether it was as effective as the White House claims.

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00:00:00.000 Iran, Israel, did the nuclear facilities really get hit?
00:00:04.240 Did they not get hit?
00:00:05.620 You hear stories about the fact that those places didn't get hit.
00:00:12.740 There's CNN anchor saying certain things.
00:00:15.880 There's Joy Reid saying certain things here.
00:00:17.760 Joy Reid, I'll start off with that one first.
00:00:20.020 Rob, can you tell me what page Joy Reid is?
00:00:22.080 Joy Reid is, you have to read here this one, folks.
00:00:27.500 Page 16.
00:00:28.400 Page 16, okay.
00:00:30.440 Joy Reid, let's start the clip from here, by the way.
00:00:32.700 Joy Reid suggests Iran having a nuclear weapon might make Middle East calmer.
00:00:39.720 Can you imagine that?
00:00:40.860 Iran having a nuclear weapon might make the Middle East calmer. 1.00
00:00:44.560 By the way, there are people that agree with her.
00:00:46.520 Go ahead, Rob, play the clip.
00:00:48.240 What do you think we'll see first, World War III or nuclear war?
00:00:50.560 I don't think we'll ever see nuclear war in our lifetime, but I do think we'll see a World War III. 1.00
00:00:53.900 And the reason you won't see nuclear war in our lifetime is that everyone who would deem
00:00:58.400 to threaten global annihilation has nukes.
00:01:01.860 Mutually assured destruction.
00:01:03.360 Mutually assured destruction.
00:01:03.940 And I think what would, in a weird way, make the Middle East, you know how they say the most 0.76
00:01:10.740 polite society in the country is Texas?
00:01:13.980 Because everybody's packing?
00:01:14.980 Everybody got good.
00:01:16.120 That's right.
00:01:17.340 You know, maybe the Middle East would be calmer if there weren't just, I mean, what I spoke 1.00
00:01:22.560 yesterday to a Navy veteran who is, who used to fly those bombers that they used to drop
00:01:29.340 the bunker, but the 3,000 pound bombs.
00:01:31.400 And he was telling me, he said, don't be, don't get it twisted.
00:01:36.020 This war is not about a real threat that Iran posed to anyone.
00:01:41.660 They don't have nukes and they didn't have nukes and they weren't making nukes.
00:01:44.420 This is about a geopolitical push, the same way it was when we went after Mossadegh to 0.58
00:01:50.860 make it, we would rather an Iran with a dictator who's a puppet than a free Iran who could defy 0.55
00:01:56.480 us and take the oil we feel entitled to.
00:01:58.800 In this case, Israel wants to be the hegemon of the region. 0.95
00:02:02.780 They want to be the United States, the big boy in the block and have no competitors.
00:02:07.380 And their biggest two potential competitors are Saudi Arabia and Iran.
00:02:10.880 And so the idea here is to make them the unquestioned superpower.
00:02:16.240 She thinks it'll be safer if Iran has a nuclear weapon. 0.96
00:02:18.540 Now, this whole story that you're hearing about was prompted after reporters came out
00:02:24.400 from CNN, I believe New York Times that said U.S.
00:02:27.380 strikes did not destroy Iran's nuclear program.
00:02:30.000 White House rages after top secret doc is leaked as Israel and Iran claim victory.
00:02:37.320 Rob, if you have this clip, go for it.
00:02:38.880 Play this clip here.
00:02:39.580 And that CNN story does not change the facts.
00:02:45.000 There was a total and complete obliteration of Iran's nuclear facilities.
00:02:49.060 And because of the president's strike, because of the precision of our United States military
00:02:53.920 in this perfectly executed mission, Iran no longer has the capability to produce a nuclear
00:02:58.760 weapon as imminently as they did prior to the strike.
00:03:00.980 The American people in the world should be grateful for that.
00:03:03.360 And it's disgusting that CNN and the New York Times are disparaging not just the president,
00:03:07.240 but our brave men and women who have helped conduct this highly successful operation.
00:03:10.580 And what kind of consequence to the Laker face?
00:03:12.220 Walks up.
00:03:12.900 Okay.
00:03:13.560 Pete Hexit, then response this morning.
00:03:16.580 He does a press conference to address it and break down the fact that these facilities were hit.
00:03:23.000 And here's what he had to say.
00:03:24.100 Go for it, Rob.
00:03:25.280 Fake News, CNN, MSNBC, or the New York Times.
00:03:31.260 There's been fawning coverage of a preliminary assessment.
00:03:35.600 I haven't had a chance to read it.
00:03:36.780 Every outlet has breathlessly reported on a preliminary assessment from DIA.
00:03:43.040 I'm looking at it right now.
00:03:45.640 Again, it was preliminary a day and a half after the actual strike.
00:03:49.940 When it admits itself in writing that it requires weeks to accumulate the necessary data to make
00:03:54.760 such an assessment, it's preliminary.
00:03:56.400 It points out that it's not been coordinated with the intelligence community at all.
00:04:01.580 There's low confidence in this particular report.
00:04:04.740 It says in the report there are gaps in the information.
00:04:07.320 It says in the report multiple linchpin assumptions are what this assessment—a linchpin assumption,
00:04:13.960 you know what that is?
00:04:15.040 That means your entire premise is predicated on a linchpin.
00:04:17.780 If you're wrong, everything else is wrong.
00:04:20.140 And yet, still, this report acknowledges it's likely severe damage.
00:04:25.000 Again, this is preliminary, but leaked because someone had an agenda to try to muddy the waters
00:04:30.040 and make it look like this historic strike wasn't successful.
00:04:33.500 I'm going to get to the chairman in a moment because he's going to lay out the particulars
00:04:36.740 for you based on his professional military experience.
00:04:39.960 But here's what other folks are saying.
00:04:41.860 The DIA that put that report out says this is a preliminary low-confidence report and will
00:04:47.420 continue to be refined as additional intelligence becomes available.
00:04:52.140 How about the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission?
00:04:56.100 The devastating U.S. strikes on Fordow destroyed the site's critical infrastructure and rendered
00:05:01.580 the enrichment facility inoperable.
00:05:04.540 Have any of these quotes made their way into the New York Times or the Washington Post?
00:05:07.700 Nope.
00:05:08.580 MSNBC?
00:05:10.080 CNN?
00:05:11.460 Any of these quotes?
00:05:12.160 How about this one?
00:05:12.660 This is a new one.
00:05:13.260 From the U.N., the United Nations.
00:05:15.820 No friend of the United States or certainly Israel often.
00:05:19.100 Here's the head of the U.N. Atomic Energy Agency this morning, Rafael Grossi.
00:05:24.860 U.S. and Israeli strikes caused enormous damage to Iran's nuclear sites.
00:05:31.660 Don't take my word for it.
00:05:32.640 How about the IDF's chief of staff?
00:05:35.000 I can say here that the assessment is that we significantly damaged the nuclear program,
00:05:39.840 setting it back by years.
00:05:41.180 I repeat, years.
00:05:43.720 The Iranian foreign minister, the spokesman.
00:05:46.760 Our nuclear installations have been badly damaged, that's for sure.
00:05:50.360 I'm sure that's an understatement.
00:05:52.600 John Radcliffe, the director of the CIA, putting out a statement just last night.
00:05:57.540 CIA can confirm that a body of credible intelligence indicates Iran's nuclear program has been severely
00:06:04.200 damaged by recent targeted strikes.
00:06:06.160 This includes new intelligence from a historically reliable, very different than preliminary assessment.
00:06:13.320 You can pause it right there.
00:06:13.880 Okay.
00:06:14.460 Tom, he's given his argument to say that we did destroy the facilities.
00:06:19.920 It's going to take him years to recover.
00:06:22.200 Iran, I'm going to show an article from this morning.
00:06:24.780 This is what President Trump had to say.
00:06:26.040 The fake news CNN, together with the fallen, failing New York Times, have teamed up in an
00:06:30.080 attempt to demean one of the most successful military strikes in history.
00:06:33.380 The nuclear sites in Iran are completely destroyed.
00:06:35.640 Both the Times and the CNN are getting slammed by the public.
00:06:38.340 What do you think really happened?
00:06:39.620 Do we really know whether massive damage was done or not?
00:06:43.080 I think he – well, first of all, Hegsys wasn't giving his opinion.
00:06:48.920 He was reading the opinion of multiple global leaders whose business is to be in the know
00:06:54.920 and to make these statements and these observations, number one.
00:06:58.280 And number two, you've got certainty coming from, okay, the IDF.
00:07:02.340 Okay, you could say the IDF is biased.
00:07:04.800 Sure, that it would be their business to spin it one way.
00:07:08.900 But when Iran's foreign minister and others are talking about this, it seems to indicate
00:07:14.940 that there is damage done.
00:07:16.380 But everybody also agrees that it's going to take weeks of damage assessment to see – we
00:07:21.420 have satellite photos, we're going to watch trucks, we're going to see what's going
00:07:24.400 on there to see what is happening on the ground and the true ground response.
00:07:29.900 All it takes is the satellite images and you'll watch.
00:07:32.480 Do supplies come and go?
00:07:34.040 Do the workers come in and go out the way they were?
00:07:36.780 How many of them?
00:07:37.660 There's going to be all sorts of assessments.
00:07:39.680 So it is correct that it is early to make the assessment.
00:07:42.860 And it's also correct that Hegsys didn't go up there and just do some fawning denial.
00:07:47.420 He called out the media for grabbing one little part of it, running with it because they want
00:07:51.840 to make the president look bad.
00:07:53.080 And then he starts quoting people around the world.
00:07:55.580 That made me feel pretty reasonable about this.
00:07:58.500 So if we got half the job done or we got a quarter of the job done, you know what still
00:08:05.900 is true?
00:08:06.800 What's that?
00:08:07.560 We flew planes into their airspace.
00:08:10.240 They couldn't do shit about it.
00:08:12.100 And we flew home unharmed.
00:08:13.600 But was that the outcome, though?
00:08:14.220 Was the mission accomplished?
00:08:15.300 That's the question.
00:08:16.220 That's what a lot of people are asking about because this is what Khamenei had to say this
00:08:18.980 morning.
00:08:19.000 I don't think we know, but there's a lot of people on the world stage that are saying
00:08:23.820 that there's more chance that it did than didn't.
00:08:26.340 I got you, Tom.
00:08:26.960 This is what Khamenei is saying this morning.
00:08:28.920 Iranian Supreme Leader crawls out of bunker to ludicrously claim victory over Israel.
00:08:33.600 Tehran's delivered a hand slap to America's face.
00:08:35.860 Go a little bit lower if you could, Rob.
00:08:38.600 Iran's humiliated Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei came out of hiding Thursday to ludicrously
00:08:45.220 claim victory over Israel, having delivered a hand slap to America's face during the first 0.97
00:08:49.820 address since the total obliteration of his nuclear weapon facilities.
00:08:53.940 Khamenei said he was victorious in the 12-day war, despite losing years of progress on his
00:08:58.780 nuclear programs, including more of a dozen of his leading scientists being killed and
00:09:02.800 obliteration of three nuclear enrichment sites.
00:09:05.220 The Islamic Republic was victorious and in retaliation, delivered a hand slap to America's 1.00
00:09:09.500 face.
00:09:10.400 Khamenei said Thursday, go a little bit lower, Rob.
00:09:12.220 And, yeah, the head of the Islamic regime has been hiding since Israel launched Operation
00:09:18.640 Rising Line on June 13, fearing an assassination attempt by the Jewish state.
00:09:22.560 Israel had launched hundreds of missiles around Tehran, along with covert operation that destroyed
00:09:27.320 a ground-to-air and ground-to-ground defense system.
00:09:31.580 And Khamenei addresses comes five days after Trump ordered the 7B2 bombers to drop bunker
00:09:37.380 busters bombs on the underground for Doha nuclear sites as nuclear-capable submarines launched
00:09:42.900 cruise missiles at two other sites, Natanz and Esfahan.
00:09:47.240 U.S. hit nuclear sites but could not achieve much.
00:09:50.060 Khamenei said in televised speech before calling out Trump, U.S. President Trump needed to do
00:09:55.720 showmanship.
00:09:56.740 Okay, so now he's poking.
00:09:57.800 Go a little bit lower.
00:09:59.060 Needed to do a little bit of showmanship.
00:10:01.120 Go a little bit lower.
00:10:02.060 With all that commotion and all those claims, the Zionist regime was practically knocked
00:10:07.760 out and crushed under the blows of the Islamic Republic. 0.94
00:10:10.880 The isolated Iran leader statements are the first since ceasefire was agreed upon by his
00:10:16.740 nation and Israel.
00:10:17.800 Adam, your thoughts on this.
00:10:19.600 So there's a lot to unpack here.
00:10:21.240 So let me just go one by one, and I'll go very quickly.
00:10:23.220 At the cornerstone of everything that's going on, whether it's Joy Reid, whether it's what's
00:10:28.780 happening in New York, whether it's even the Ayatollah, everything is doing an exact
00:10:33.240 opposite of what Trump stands for.
00:10:35.580 So if you're trying to understand the mindset of the Democrat these days, or the socialists,
00:10:39.740 the progressives, all you have to do is understand Newton's theory, which is for every action,
00:10:46.020 there's an equal and opposite reaction.
00:10:48.560 Oh, so Trump is pro-Israel?
00:10:49.960 Now all of a sudden we're pro-Iran. 0.52
00:10:51.560 We're pro-Palestinian.
00:10:52.760 Trump is America first.
00:10:54.600 Well, we're America last.
00:10:55.980 Trump has closed the borders.
00:10:57.520 Let's open the borders.
00:10:58.740 Let's have a globalist mindset.
00:11:01.680 Let's globalize the Antifada.
00:11:03.820 Trump is using ICE.
00:11:05.840 We hate ICE.
00:11:06.960 That's all it is.
00:11:08.060 Show me a position Trump stands for.
00:11:10.140 That's exactly what the Democrats or the globalists are using as their platform to go against
00:11:15.900 the Trump.
00:11:16.720 Trump could cure cancer, and they would be cheering, why did he eliminate cancer?
00:11:21.460 He caused 17,000 jobs.
00:11:22.840 Yeah, exactly.
00:11:24.540 What's that?
00:11:25.000 Yeah.
00:11:25.280 If he cured cancer, they would say Trump caused the loss of 17,000 jobs.
00:11:29.420 They would find a way to take the 20% position on it.
00:11:33.480 That's all it is.
00:11:34.240 So if you understand that, that whatever Trump stands for, they're going to take the opposite
00:11:37.360 position, that at least gives you a little insight to their mindset.
00:11:41.020 Number two, this is where this moron, Joy Reid, who still somehow gets an opportunity to talk 0.99
00:11:47.300 what she doesn't understand.
00:11:48.920 I say this all the time.
00:11:50.420 The Middle East is not the Midwest. 0.63
00:11:51.920 She thinks in her peanut-sized brain with her blonde wig that she understands jihadist 1.00
00:11:58.160 mentality.
00:11:59.020 You don't.
00:12:00.220 The Middle East is not the Midwest. 0.63
00:12:01.960 You're assuming, you're basically living your life based on the premise that they have the
00:12:05.760 exact same values and principles that we have in the West.
00:12:09.520 They don't.
00:12:10.860 They have jihadist tendencies and jihadist ideology.
00:12:15.180 This is a clash of civilization and a clash of culture.
00:12:19.200 Understand that.
00:12:19.900 So when Trump is pro-Israel, of course, Joy Reid takes the pro-Iran position.
00:12:26.840 And naturally, she starts deducing, well, yeah, maybe it'd be great if they had nuclear
00:12:31.040 weapons.
00:12:31.560 Really?
00:12:32.360 Because that worked out really well in North Korea versus South Korea, right? 0.92
00:12:36.420 Take a look at those images at night.
00:12:38.220 So she's basically operating on the premise that they have the same mindset as us.
00:12:42.900 No.
00:12:43.440 Israel loves life.
00:12:44.680 United States loves life.
00:12:47.920 Jihadists worship death. 1.00
00:12:49.900 In Judaism, if we're going to give cheers, like in Italian, what do you say?
00:12:55.660 If you're going to have a cheers, you're going to say, hey, what do you say?
00:12:59.220 Salud.
00:13:00.360 In Judaism, you say this.
00:13:02.040 You say l'chaim, to life. 0.99
00:13:04.300 Jihadists worship death. 1.00
00:13:06.520 That's what you don't understand.
00:13:08.020 The cornerstone of their mindset is martyrdom, jihad, paradise, 72 virgins, pay for slay, 0.51
00:13:14.820 human shields.
00:13:15.520 It's a completely different ideology.
00:13:17.940 So now you're operating on the premise that you want to give them nukes.
00:13:21.740 It makes zero sense.
00:13:23.240 And Israel, who is basically our proxy in the region, will never stand for that. 0.84
00:13:28.780 Vinny.
00:13:29.180 Well, first, I want to say the bigger problem with the whole situation is that there are still people inside the Trump administration, which I know is going to be there, that are still trying to undermine the administration.
00:13:41.680 Okay, the deep state is still real.
00:13:44.740 You have people inside that the FBI right now is investigating.
00:13:47.640 They're going to try to find out who's leaking this information, which is inaccurate, and it's jumping the gun, no pun intended, because when they're saying there's weeks, they still have to find out for weeks what's happening.
00:13:59.580 Yes, we have reports that there was satellite imagery of a bunch of trucks, Tommy, coming up, possibly taking out uranium, which one thing I'm going to criticize is like the heads up, Pat, the warning, the Trump, the tweeting, the everything.
00:14:11.940 If you give an enemy such a heads up like that, they're going to take shit out of the ground.
00:14:16.180 They're going to move out of there.
00:14:17.060 And I did a little bit of research, Pat.
00:14:19.140 The bomb that we use, the 30,000-pound bomb, how deep do you guys think it goes into the ground?
00:14:24.780 How deep?
00:14:25.440 How many feet?
00:14:27.180 90 meters.
00:14:28.220 So whatever 90 meters is.
00:14:29.520 If two meters is six feet, 270 feet.
00:14:32.360 Okay, great.
00:14:33.660 Average 200, Pat, and if it's 60-plus feet for reinforced concrete, the Fordo fuel enrichment plant was 250 to 300 feet deep.
00:14:42.780 Okay, even if we're not hitting the actual site itself, everything else is destroyed.
00:14:48.780 How you – the odds of you even getting –
00:14:50.440 Yeah, but Iran is known for having strong concrete.
00:14:52.640 100%.
00:14:52.920 So opposition is saying the fact that because Iran has the best concrete, it's not going to make it all the way down to the facilities where they're having the uranium.
00:15:01.300 And then you're hearing the stories about how they moved 400 kilos of uranium to a complete different facility, so nothing got hit.
00:15:10.080 That's what some people are saying.
00:15:11.440 And that's why we have to give them a little bit of time, especially when it comes to the assessment of weeks to find out.
00:15:17.900 And I get it.
00:15:18.360 I know what people are going to say.
00:15:19.400 Well, you can't trust the government with all the reports and everything like that.
00:15:22.300 But I'm just saying from that point of view, they disrupted it.
00:15:25.620 If it was, as BB and all of them said, they were weeks away from making a nuclear weapon, this has at least slowed them down.
00:15:32.500 I mean, the last thing you're going to have to do is, what, send ground troops, hopefully not American, to go and find out now the site.
00:15:38.920 Because now you can't just satellite to see what's happening down there.
00:15:41.660 You have to send boots on the ground to see what's happening down there.
00:15:44.820 At least out of this whole thing, there was the most minimal civilian casualties.
00:15:49.400 I mean, if you want to count anybody that's down there, any nuclear people that are working on a nuke to freaking attack America.
00:15:55.640 But I think it's going to take a couple of weeks to find out if it's actually real and if they still have, if they moved anything from the site.
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