Secretary Hegseth: A dishonest, and anti-Trump press will stop at nothing; we know this, at this point, to downplay progress, amplify every cost, and call into question every step. Sadly, TDS is in their DNA. They want President Trump to fail. But you, the American people, know better…the media here; not all of it, but much of it, wants you to think, just nineteen days into this conflict, that we're somehow spinning toward an endless abyss. Or forever war. Or quagmire. Nothing could be further from the truth.Hear it from me, one of hundreds of thousand who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, who watched previous, foolish politicians, like Bush, Obama, and Biden, squander American credibility. This is not those wars. President Trump knows better. Epic Fury is different. It's laser-focused. It's decisive.

Secretary Hegseth: And to borrow a page from Admiral Ernest King in World War II, we've decided to share the ocean with Iran. We've given them the bottom half. We've damaged or sunk over a hundred and twenty of their navy ships, with battle damage assessments pending for many more. See, often times we have to wait a few days on battle damage assessments to get the real number. Their surface fleet is no longer a factor, their submarines, they once had eleven, are gone, their military ports are crippled.

Chairman Caine: U.S. CENTCOM remains on plan to achieve our military objectives, and remain unrelenting in our pursuit of Iranian missile capabilities, UAV capabilities, and their navy, and as the secretary said, their industrial base. Each day we continue to attack deeper into Iranian territory. As reported by U.S. Central Command yesterday, the U.S. Military dropped five thousand pound perpetrator weapons into underground storage facilities, storing coastal defense cruise missiles and other support equipment. These weapons are bespokely designed to get through concrete and or rocks, and function after penetrating those barriers.

Secretary Hegseth: As far as the internet, we're watching the regime try to tighten it's grip as much as possible. We're obviously taking countermeasures, many of which we can't talk about here, to ensure that messaging is delivered. Not just to the Iranian people at large, but to the right audiences, certain audiences that need to hear certain things about what their fate might look like or what their choices are. So even though that regime is trying really hard to ensure the world can't see, right; they want to put out fake, AI -generated images, which, by the way, sometimes our press happens to fall for, like the Abraham Lincoln on fire and turning around, these AI-generated images are meant to make it look like something's happening, when the exact opposite is. So they make up fake reports and fake images, to lie to their own people, to try to make it; but even then, their own people can barely receive a lot of those messages and communique because of the blackout that they've imposed upon them, but we work around that for sure.

Director Gabbard [Worldwide Threats Hearing]: The spread of Islamist ideology, in some cases, led by individuals and organizations associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, pose a fundamental threat to freedom and foundational principals that underpin western civilization. These Islamist groups and individuals use this ideology for recruiting and financial support for terrorist groups and individuals around the world, and to advance their political objectives of establishing a religious caliphate which govern based on sharia There are increasing examples of this in various European countries. President Trump's designation of certain chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, is a mechanism to secure Americans against this threat. In response to setbacks of their capabilities of conducting large-scale complex attacks, the IC assesses that Islamist terrorist groups have shifted towards focusing on executing information operations to spread propaganda, and inspire or enable individuals located in, or with access to, the west.