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Within days, multiple independent analyses - including Bellingcat, CNN, and CBS News - found that the weapon used was a Tomahawk cruise missile. Only the United States in this conflict possessed Tomahawk missiles. Israel was not operating in the area. A preliminary U.S. assessment leaked to CBS News concluded the U.S. was "likely responsible", possibly due to outdated intelligence misidentifying the area as an IRGC military site.

Most Americans are patriotic, hardworking, neighbor-helping, America-loving, money-giving people who don't pop off on social media or plot for power. The hidden truth: Most people agree on most things, most of the time. And the data validates this, time and time again.

I think that it was a terrible, terrible mistake. The investigation may prove me wrong, I hope so. The kids are still dead. But I think was a horrible, horrible mistake. I wish it hadn't happened. I'm sorry it happened. I can assure you it wasn't intentional. That's the sort of thing Russia does. We don't do that.

You just suggested that Iran somehow got its hands on a Tomahawk and bombed its own elementary school on the first day of the war. But you're the only person in your government saying this. Even your Defense Secretary wouldn't say that, when he was asked, standing over your shoulder, on your plane, on Saturday. Why are you the only person saying this?

If it keeps going, it's not going to be good, Harrisburg resident Randy Fulp said. According to the Pennsylvania resident, his gas prices have shot up more than .40 cents in the last five days. In the state, the average gas price sits at $3.66, a jump from $3.13 at the same time last month.

The American people love to win. If you go back and you look at Desert Storm, and obviously you can speak to this much better than I, I mean it was very successful. The amount of time they had troops on the ground for was days, not even weeks, and you look at Bush's ratings coming out of that and he had an 89% approval rating.

"It'll guarantee the midterms," he told Republicans gathered in the ballroom of his golf course just outside Miami on Monday. "If you don't get it, big trouble." Trump insisted that building on strict national voter identification laws, banning mail ballots, and restricting transgender rights would secure Republican electoral success.

House Joint Memorial 17 is a formal legislative request for the Supreme Court to overturn its 2015 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges. The measure argues that the decision establishing the constitutional right of same-sex couple to legally marry is "at odds with the Constitution of the United States and the principles upon which the United States is established."

When images from the event circulated globally, Hegseth's aides complained internally about how the defense secretary looked in the photographs, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, Two people familiar with the decision spoke anonymously to the newspaper out of fear of retaliation, and said some staffers found the pictures unflattering.

David warns that the chaos at the department, combined with President Trump's demand that the SAVE Act be passed before he will sign any budget for the DHS, could endanger Americans as the United States wages war against Iran, the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism.

Officials have said those policies, which include allowing students to compete in the sport that aligns with their gender-not their sex at birth-and to use the corresponding bathrooms and locker rooms, violate Title IX because they deny cisgender female athletes equal opportunities. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 bars sex-based discrimination and harassment, and advocates for trans students say the administration is weaponizing the 53-year-old law to advance its agenda.

About half of registered voters - 53% - oppose U.S. military action against Iran, according to a new Quinnipiac Poll conducted over the weekend. Only 4 in 10 support it, and about 1 in 10 are uncertain. A new Ipsos poll also found more disapprove than approve of the strikes.

Your own attorney general in 2020 said that there was not measurable voter fraud to change the outcome of the election. You don't think it was rigged? I think it was rigged! Trump said. Sir, where's the evidence of that? Landers asked. If you think it wasn't rigged, you're a rotten reporter!

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday told reporters it's up to Trump "whether it's the beginning, the middle or the end" of the war. Trump, during the course of one speech at a House Republican gathering on Monday, went from calling the war a "short-term excursion" that could end soon to proclaiming "we haven't won enough."

I think it will take them years to restart their nuclear program. I think that they can't control their airspace; they don't have the will to do it. From what I've seen, I'm in shock and awe. You know, it's just, it's shocking how much damage we did to their facilities.

In a February 19 memo sent to civilians across the DoD, secretary of defense Pete Hegseth wrote that he expects "every supervisor to encourage their civilian employees to volunteer. Leadership must continue to promote this detail program and educate their civilian employees on its importance."

The country is almost certain to enter the next shock more indebted than we have ever been before, which may significantly hamper our ability to marshal an appropriate response. The U.S. has never experienced an economic shock as indebted as we are today. This situation leaves the U.S. immensely vulnerable.

The Trump administration can't say why the United States went to war with Iran, and it can't say what the goal of the war is. Now it can't even decide whether the war is still going on. During an interview with CBS News yesterday afternoon, President Trump all but declared victory. "I think the war is very complete, pretty much," he said.

On the [government's] reading, the president would have had no need ever to seek the Senate's advice and consent for his [US attorney] appointments. Whenever there was a fair prospect of the Senate's rejecting his preferred nominee, the president could have appointed that individual unilaterally to serve ad infinitum. It is unthinkable that such an obvious means for the executive to expand its power would have been overlooked by Congress.

Well, that's not the first time the President has said that he chose to launch Operation Epic Fury because he felt as though Iran was going to strike the United States and our assets in the region first. Again, I addressed this in the last briefing. This was a feeling the President had based on facts—facts provided to him by his top negotiators who had been engaged with the Iranian regime in a good-faith effort.

The president, up to this moment, and his administration have complied in every way with every provision of law. They have informed us before, after, and during the operation. We've been in almost constant contact about it. They're keeping Congress apprised, which is the legal obligation.