Trump Instantly Rebuked After Lawsuit Threat
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As each day goes by, there's no doubt that the Trump administration has no clue where the enriched uranium stockpile is for Iran. It can't possibly be at Fordow, the place where they just dropped a dozen bunker buster bombs on to destroy the nuclear capacity of Iran. How do you destroy the nuclear capacity of Iran and believe that they're still storing the uranium there?

And Donald Trump wants to distract from all the fact that the intelligence community, his own intelligence community, can't make a proper assessment of whether there has been a setback or not. So instead, he's going after the New York Times and CNN because they reported about an intelligence report from his own administration answering to Tulsi Gabbard.

who said that at best, at best, at least preliminarily, the nuclear program for Iran was set back just a few months. Pete Hegseth takes to the podium at a presser where he goes after the New York Times and CNN, but even he doesn't properly provide any details. Nor does General Kane about the assessment of the damage at the sites. Isn't that what this is all about? Sure, it's interesting to hear the tick-tock of exactly what happened in the 37-hour mission of the two B-2 bombers. I get it.

But we want to know about what happened and where is the uranium and why, finally, didn't they hit the fourth site at Pickaxe Mountain? Yeah, Pickaxe Mountain. That's likely where the nuclear or the uranium enriched is right now because there were trucks that were sighted by satellites leaving the Fordow location before the bombing.

But Donald Trump doesn't care about that. He just hires a guy in Coral Gables, Florida, named Alejandro Brito, who brings another nasty letter against CNN and New York Times. This is the lawyer they've used before to go after ABC and Stephanopoulos, to go after Michael Cohen. You know, he's just another tool in the tool bag of Donald Trump. And now he's sent nasty letters to New York Times. And David McCaw, the general counsel for the New York Times, who I've had interaction with in the past...

a positive interaction with. And as a first-rate First Amendment lawyer, he fired back on behalf of the New York Times and said, we stand by our story. We got a copy of the assessment and we reported on it. And we'll continue to report the truth. So will we here on the Midas Dutch Network and on Legal AF. I'm Michael Popak. Let's get to it. We're now just about a week after the bombing. You know, Saturday night will be a week.

And we still don't know the assessment because the intelligence community doesn't know the assessment. The intelligence community that Donald Trump undermines on an hourly and daily basis in America. He doesn't trust his own intelligence director, Tulsi Gabbard, who has 14 different intelligence agencies reporting to her, including the one that generated this report. Doesn't barely trust the CIA, but not really with John Ratcliffe. So there's no, and this is not a pun, there's no intelligence agency

in the planning operation or in the execution or in the postscript for Donald Trump's military plans. None.

None. And so what is he busy doing? Busy up there saying that that the media who has a job to do, whether Donald Trump likes it or not, as as as allowed by our founding fathers and framers, has a job to do to bring tyrants to bear, to bring them to their knees, to properly report, to give the American people and voter true information and investigative reporting.

They have a job to do. Trump has a job to do. Let's stop attacking the media over their job. And they sent that nasty letter. I love these comments from the letter. You're unpatriotic. You're false. You're defamatory. They're none of those things. Here's what David McCaw, top flight First Amendment lawyer, general counsel within the office of the general counsel for the New York Times. Here's what he wrote back. First Brito, Alejandro Brito, who I don't know, but

I practice in the same neighborhood. He described the attack on Iran as historic and a resounding military success that unequivocally eliminated Iran's nuclear capabilities and brought peace to the region. Who believes that? Unequivocally eliminated? Even General Kane doesn't say that. Nobody says that. In fact, at the press conference, and I'll show you a clip from it in a minute,

The best that even Hegseth can do, and he's political hack of the first order for Donald Trump and a bootlicker of the first order. The best he can come up with is, I'll leave that to the intelligence community to assess. Right. So why is this lawyer in a small office in Coral Gables, Florida, making reference to a resounding success of the military operation? Who wrote this for him? He said the New York Times article about the preliminary intelligence assessment, which was a top secret report that the Times got their hands on.

undermine the credibility and integrity of the president in the eyes of the public and the professional community. I don't even know what that means. He's been defamed? I don't think you can defame the president by accurately reporting the leak of a top secret classified document. Here's what McCaw wrote, the Times lawyer. The U.S. intelligence services issued a preliminary assessment concluding that the attacks delayed Iran's nuclear program only by a few months. This is what we reported.

While the Trump administration protests that the assessments were only preliminary, which, by the way, was the second word of our article. I love McCaul. And that letter assessments and that later assessments may come to different conclusions. No one in the administration disputes that the first assessments said exactly what the article said they did. The destruction caused by the raid was not as significant as the president's remarks suggested.

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He also sued Michael Cohen. That defamation case was dismissed in 2023. So you see where this is coming from. And I love McCaw basically saying, we will stand by our reporting and we will not back down as reported by the New York Times. He said, no retraction is needed. No apologies will be forthcoming. We told the truth to the best of our ability. We will continue to do so. CNN said the same thing. Hegseth at his report said,

On his on his press conference basically goes after. Is this an appropriate place for appropriate time and place and position for the Department of Defense secretary to go after the news media for reporting something that landed? What would they expect him to do?

It lands in their lap. It says preliminary report. They report it as a preliminary report. They say what it says. That's not news. That's not newsworthy. How is that not newsworthy? Now, you might have a different argument. You can make the argument if you're the Trump administration that that's preliminary. We haven't gotten to the bottom of it. But there's a bigger problem here.

That even the New York Post run by Rupert Murdoch is reporting on, which is there is a fourth facility at Pickaxe Mountain. That's what we call it, which is a hardened facility that Iran has had that's been building since 2020, 2021. That is double the depth of the Fordow location that we just dropped 12 bunker buster bombs on.

It's 660 feet, potentially below ground. That's about a 40 to 50 story building turned upside down. We would never be able to hit that. And that begs the question, why didn't we hit pickaxe? And then you've got this miscommunication. They can't get their story straight about the missing uranium. We have the uranium that's enriched between 60 percent and 90 percent, which is the entire stockpile for Iran. That's that's what this whole shoot and match is about.

It's about 418 kilograms. You can put it in about 16 containers that look like, you know, about the size of a hot water heater, a full size hot water heater.

There were trucks with photos outside of Fordow before the bombing. Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, said, I would have thought Israel would have bombed everything. Yeah, but they didn't pre-bomb. They bombed. And before they bombed, their truck was at Fordow. It's easy to load 16 hot water heaters containing effectively uranium into a truck and take it somewhere else. And I don't even understand the argument by the Trump administration.

The uranium that is the rubber meets the road moment for the Iranian nuclear program is still at Fordo? The thing you just destroyed with 12 bombs dropped from 50,000 feet in the air by B-2 bombers that you just bragged about at your press conference? Let's play a clip from the press conference.

Sir, like I said, we don't do BDA. I'll refer that to the intelligence community and- You're talking with them. I mean, what changed in the past three days that make you so- Sir, I think I- I mean, I think I explained what changed. There was a great deal of irresponsible reporting based on leaks, preliminary information in low confidence. Again, when someone leaks something, they do it with an agenda.

And when you leak a portion of an intelligence assessment, but just a little portion, just a little portion that makes it seem like maybe the strike wasn't effective, then you start a news cycle, whether it's The Washington Post or Fox News or CNN or MSNBC. You start a news cycle that starts to call into question the ethics. That's why.

So you bring the chairman here who's not involved in politics. He didn't do politics. That's my lane to understand and translate and talk about those types of things. So I can use the word obliterated. He could use defeat, destroy, assess, all of those things. But ultimately, we're here to clarify what these weapons are capable of, which anyone with...

you know, two eyes, some ears and a brain can recognize that kind of firepower with that specificity at that location and others is going to have a devastating effect. So we all recognize there will be days and weeks ahead. That's why yesterday I said, if you want to know what's going on at Fordow. It's about highly enriched uranium. Do you have...

certainty that all the highly enriched uranium was inside the Fordow Mountain or some of it because there were satellite photos that showed more than a dozen trucks there two days in advance. Are you certain none of that highly enriched uranium was moved? Of course, we're watching every single aspect. But Jennifer, you've been about the worst, the one who misrepresents the most intentionally. What the president says...

I'm familiar. I was the first to report about the ventilation shafts on Saturday night. And in fact, I was the first to describe the B-2 bombers, the refueling, the entire mission with great accuracy. So I take issue with that. I appreciate you acknowledging that this was the first, the most successful mission based on operational security that this department has done since you've been here. And I appreciate that. So I don't even understand this story.

The plutonium, the uranium is still at Fordow that's now been destroyed? Or is it in trucks and at Pickaxe Mountain, which you didn't hit? Yeah, I agree from the reporting so far that the centrifuges which spin the uranium at a very high rate that are necessary to enrich, I agree that there is a whole level of them, a whole tranche of them that have been destroyed.

that were at Fordham, but they're not the only ones. If you could get the 418 kilograms out with a bunch of high, you know, advanced centrifuges, you're back in business. And that's likely what's happening. Even Donald Trump now is trying to negotiate his way out of this mess by offering to...

for or invest $30 billion into redeveloping the civilian nuclear program for Iran as a big carrot to get them to settle. So we're going to continue to follow this all. We speak truth.

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