Secretary Hegseth: I stand before you today with one unmistakable message about Operation Epic Fury. America is winning. Decisively, devastatingly, and without mercy.

Secretary Hegseth: Starting last night, and to be completed in just a few days; in under a week, the two most powerful air forces in the world will have complete control of Iranian skies. Uncontested air space.

Secretary Hegseth: Flying over Tehran. Flying over Iran. Flying over their capital. Flying over the IRGC. Iranian leaders looking up and seeing only U.S. and Israeli air power. Every minute of every day, until we decide it';s over. And Iran will be able to do nothing about it. B-2s, B-52s, B-1s, Predator Drones, Fighters, controlling the skies, picking targets. Death and destruction from the sky all day long. We're playing for keeps. Our war fighters have maximum authorities granted personally by the president and yours truly. Our rules of engagement are bold, precise, and designed to unleash American power, not shackle it. This was never meant to be a fair fight, and it is not a fair fight. We are punching them while they're down, which is exactly how it should be.

Secretary Hegseth: The Iranian air force is no more, built for 1996, destroyed in 2026. The Iranian navy rests at the bottom of the Persian Gulf. Combat ineffective, decimated, destroyed, defeated; pick your adjective. In fact, last night we sunk their prize ship, the Soleimani. Looks like POTUS got him twice.

Chairman Caine: As of this morning, U.S. Central Command is making steady progress. Iran's theater ballistic missile shots fired are down eighty-six percent from the first day of fighting, with a twenty-three percent decrease just in the last twenty-four hours. And their one-way attack drone shots are down seventy-three percent from the opening days. This progress has allowed CENTCOM to establish localized air superiority across the southern flank of the Iranian cost, and penetrate their defenses with overwhelming precision and firepower. We will now begin to expand inland, striking progressively deeper into Iranian territory, and creating additional freedom of maneuver for U.S. forces.

Chairman Caine: For the first time since 1945, a United States Navy fast attack submarine has sunk an enemy combatant ship, using a single Mark 48 torpedo to achieve immediate effect, sending the warship to the bottom of the sea.

Secretary Hegseth: Iran cannot outlast us. We are going to ensure, through violence of action, and our offensive capabilities, and our defensive capabilities, as I said, that we set the tone and the tempo of this fight. That's why stories and speculation about different things that try to make it look like we're limited with what we can do; the only limits we have on this is President Trump's desire to achieve specific effects on behalf of the American people.