Jun 27, 2025
Jesse Watters LOSES IT On CNN
Fox News host Jesse Watters accused CNN of spreading enemy propaganda in its coverage of the U.S. bombing of Iran.
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One thing America can make. It's a bomb.
Ask the Japanese. Ask the Germans.
I've never heard of an
American bomb not working.
Have you? Everybody says direct hit.
Years to come back from it.
And then there's CNN alone in the corner
in last place, spewing enemy propaganda.
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I don't think they can
come back from this.
Entertainment host Fox News Jesse Watters,
furious over CNN's recent reporting that
stated the strikes on Iran only set back
its nuclear program by a couple of months.
Clearly, Trump is God. What he says goes.
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And the United States is the most
technologically advanced country
that gets everything right.
Never manages a mistake.
We're going to throw to you in a second.
But first, let's get more details.
What Jesse Watters had to say about
the strike, because the level of Dululu
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I'll say is insane for this one.
Jesse, it almost seems like CNN
and the New York Times
are using this leaked report,
whatever it is to cheer triumphantly
that perhaps the the bunker buster
bomber strike wasn't quite as effective
as the administration is claiming.
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What do you make of that?
And will the president get credit
if he did, in fact,
dismantle Iran's nuclear program?
Of course, if there's one thing
America can make, it's a bomb.
If this didn't work and it was a dud,
Netanyahu would have been on the phone
with Trump saying, let's do another run.
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If it didn't work, the Iranians
wouldn't have had a cease fire.
This was such a precise strike.
They put these bombs
down in the mountains.
Ventilation shaft. Okay.
This didn't have to explode
and bore into the mountain.
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They put these things untouched,
and it slid down the ventilation shaft
and exploded in the main hall.
And then collapsed the roof
of the cavern and caused a fire.
You could even see the discoloration
at the top of the mountain.
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This wasn't like carpet bombing
the North Vietnamese jungles.
This was as precise a strike
as you can get.
Jack, I guess I don't understand why this
was so important to the administration
and the man who leads it, President Trump.
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I mean, if they set him back a couple
of months, wouldn't that be a success?
Then get a ceasefire?
I just don't understand
why Jesse Waters has to carry the water
for the president in this way.
A strike is a strike,
and things didn't go well.
Do we have to debate the level
to which they didn't go well?
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Well, so there's a hilarious lie in there
that we're going to show you
in a little bit from Jesse Waters.
He actually contradicts himself.
I love it.
But first to Sharon's point, one
of the things I want to discuss here is,
look, I think that that was cherry
picked intelligence, and I'm glad
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that they're not listening to it.
So I agree with the result of what Donald
Trump and Jesse Watters want,
which is let's not bomb Iran anymore.
The bombing worked well enough.
Let's get out of there.
Okay, but why do you have to attack
CNN and New York Times and threaten
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to sue them or get the reporters fired?
That's not necessary at all.
You just say
it's cherry picked intelligence.
It's wrong, and you move on.
But nope. Nope.
They always have to take it over the top.
They always have to try
to get everybody fired and canceled.
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And.
And no one's allowed
to criticize the president.
No one's allowed to dispute the president.
Do we live in a democracy or don't we?
Do you believe
in freedom of speech or not?
New York Times and CNN say it. So what?
Say something back. Right.
Instead of demanding that no one be
allowed to say it, that's their
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hilariously hypocritical on free speech.
But let me let you finish
the rest of the story.
And then I want to come back
to the lie, too.
Yeah.
Hypocritical. Somewhat.
Well, dictatorship is what comes to mind.
Evidence of that.
So let's get into it.
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CNN, The New York Times,
according to the times, the report
by the Defense Intelligence Agency
focused largely on the state of the auto
plant countries deeply buried,
rather enrichment facility,
which produced the near bomb grade fuel.
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Multiple officials familiar with
the intelligence report
that spoke to both the times
and CNN said early findings showed this.
The strikes had set back
Iran's nuclear program by months.
Officials said the strike
sealed off entrances to the facility
but had not led to a collapse,
leaving open the possibility
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that Iran could eventually dig it out.
New York Times
CNN's report also stated this.
The analysis of the damage to the sites
and the impact of the strikes on Iran's
nuclear ambitions is ongoing could change
as more intelligence becomes available,
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but the early findings are at odds
with President Donald Trump's repeated
claims that the strikes are completely
and totally obliterated
Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities.
But Jesse Waters,
arguing that this reporting is just enemy
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propaganda trying to discredit Trump.
The woman is the same reporter
who said the laptop was Russian,
and now she says, our bombs don't work.
You'd think she was would have been fired
for getting hoodwinked
by the deep state a couple years ago,
but she actually got promoted.
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She got promoted for being wrong.
She got a raise for being wrong.
Now she's on CNN
getting hoodwinked all over again.
Because that's the point.
She's not there to be, right?
She's just there to hurt Donald Trump.
All right, so as we reported yesterday,
Donald Trump went on a Trump social
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bender, if you will, stating fake news.
CNN is so disgusting and incompetent.
And of course, what does Trump do when hit
with critical reporting about him?
Well, Jen talked about it.
He threatens to sue us.
This, according to the New York Times,
in a letter to the Times,
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personal lawyer for the president
said the newspaper's article
had a damaged Mr. Trump's reputation
and demanded that the news organization
retract and apologize for the piece,
which the letter described as false,
defamatory and unpatriotic.
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So I don't, you know,
maybe you can sue for that.
Cnn also confirmed
they received a similar threat.
The letter from Trump's lawyer,
Alejandro Brito,
described the attack on Iran as a, quote,
historic and resounding military success
that unequivocally eliminated
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Iran's nuclear capabilities
and brought peace to the region.
Echoing the president's
own characterization of the operation,
Mr. Brito asserted that the times article
about the preliminary
intelligence assessment,
quote, undermined the credibility
and integrity of President Trump
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and the eyes of the public
and the professional community.
But again, the Times noted
the preliminary nature of the report.
So they're covered there.
The times, in response on Thursday
rejected Trump's demands,
noting that Trump administration officials
had subsequently confirmed the existence
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of the report issued by the Defense
Intelligence Agency and its findings.
No retraction is needed.
No apology will be forthcoming.
We told the truth
to the best of our ability.
We will continue to do so.
The times lawyer pushing back
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and look, let's hope that they continue to
push back, Genk and was, but I don't know.
It seems that the more
this frivolous nonsense,
this babbling from the administration,
legal fictitious renderings go out.
More and more
news organizations could cave.
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Not necessarily the newspapers,
but we've seen it with multiple networks
caving and giving ridiculous settlements.
What do you think happens here?
Yeah, unfortunately, as predicted,
now other politicians are doing it
like Gavin Newsom.
Want to get back to that too.
But I want to let you in first.
What do you think was.
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I think the Trump regime only knows one
gear, and that's the maximalist response
to any and all opposition.
However, as wrongheaded as I think,
this, this like litigious aspect
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of their response is, I think
they're responding to something real,
which is that these deep state people,
these warmongering neo con people,
they're leaking these reports
because they want to go back in.
It's just the truth.
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Like, when are they ever leaking
reports like, oh, the military didn't
really do a good enough job.
That's not a thing.
That's that's not something
you're going to get
three days after something happened.
They're doing it because it's like,
no, we need to escalate even further.
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And I think the Trump administration,
to their credit,
rightfully understand that an escalation
would inevitably lead to all out war.
Iran's response by hitting our bases.
Telling us ahead of time
to do as little impact as possible,
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even though we're told constantly
that the Iranians are part of a death cult
who want to just kill everybody.
And so it was able to give Trump and them
a win to be like, all right, we did it.
We're wiping our hands. We're done.
They're leaking this in the New York Times
and say, no, we need to go do more,
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which is then going to mean what?
The Iranians didn't have to react in kind.
And then when they do actually strike us
for real, hit our our military personnel,
not the freaking, Israelis,
our military personnel in the region,
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then we have to escalate even further.
And that escalation leads to this
and then inevitably means
boots on the ground and freaking Iran.
That's why they're doing this
in the New York Times and CNN.
And yes, Trump's response is ridiculous
because he doesn't know any other gears.
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He doesn't know how to modulate,
but I think their instinct here
is the right one.
The reason why they criticize
criticizing a military action.
Think about that.
When do the times of CNN
criticize military actions abroad?
Never.
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They're only doing it
because they want to do more.
And so, like as nasty and stupid as the
response is from the, the Trump people,
- I think they have a point here.
- Yeah.
So I totally agree with Juan's, but they
could have just said it like it was.
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And like we said yesterday on the show
with look there, there's evidence you
could create evidence on both sides.
And in fact, our intelligence
should create evidence on both sides.
Hey, here's a report saying that we think
we might have done enough damage.
Here's a report saying we think
we might not have done enough damage.
We're not sure.
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And that's why we have
these two different reports.
But you don't see both reports.
One of them gets picked up by someone
who wants to create more war,
leaked to the New York Times and CNN
and New York Times and CNN.
Don't give you any context into,
oh, this is a warmonger giving me
this leak to create more war.
They just say it like, oh, that's it.
It's definitive.
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Right?
And to be fair to the New York Times,
they didn't say that it was definitive,
but it leaves that impression.
And they're great at leaving
that impression
about how we need to go to more war.
Just look at what they did
during the Iraq War.
Having said that, there's no reason to say
that The New York Times is unpatriotic.
Reporters don't have to be patriotic.
They just have to be accurate, right?
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There's no need to say that that our own
intelligence, even if it's cherry picked,
is enemy propaganda or reports about it.
So, yeah, the fact that they
can't modulate discredits them.
And it's problematic,
especially in a situation like this where
they're generally speaking largely right
about not escalating the war and not using
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cherry picked intelligence to escalate it.
Last thing, two things I want to get to
is the stuff I promised you guys.
So now Gavin Newsom is
suing Fox News for some edit.
They did.
And Jesse Watters said something
about a call between him and Trump.
Honestly, the rest of the story
is totally uninteresting.
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He's doing it for media attention,
but he's also doing it a little bit
like Trump to intimidate the press.
You better not write anything
or say anything negative about me.
So this is another giant problem
with how Trump goes about this.
Because when you start having politicians
threatening to sue anyone
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who criticizes them, as we told you
when Trump first started doing it, now all
politicians will say, oh, that's it.
You can't criticize me at all.
I'm suing everyone.
And that's a giant problem.
And finally we get to the funny part.
So Donald Trump was very clear.
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He said,
the intelligence was very inconclusive.
The intelligence says, we don't know,
which is what I told you a minute ago.
Now, Jesse Waters partly agrees,
but then partly tells us
he knows exactly what happened.
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Let's watch.
Do you think they're getting it from
some sort of nefarious Iranian sources?
And it's wishful thinking.
Hater in the Pentagon leaked an early
report that had no confidence and just
relied on some camera up in the sky.
That's it.
It's not like there's some Israeli spy
down there in the rubble with a phone.
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Yep. We killed this thing.
Can you guys send some food?
You're never going to know what happened.
Because the thing is a pile of rubble.
This was such a precise strike.
They put these bombs down the mountains.
Ventilation shaft.
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They put these things untouched,
and it slid down the ventilation shaft
and exploded in the main hall,
and then collapsed the roof
of the cavern and caused a fire.
You can even see the discoloration
at the top of the mountain.
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They compared the target
to something the size of a refrigerator.
This was as precise a strike
as you can get.
Is that amazing?
That was in the same segment.
He said there's no way of knowing
what happened with the bomb.
Let me tell you exactly
what happened with the bomb.
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It slid down the tunnel shaft.
Then it got there, passed Muhammad,
and then saw a sandwich that was left by.
Turns out it was a falafel sandwich.
But there's no way of knowing
what happened.
But then. Come on, Jesse.
Come on.
I mean, if you're going to lie,
at least give it a little bit of space
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between the two lies.
So this terrible story
with an amusing ending.
If he's that good, though,
he's got to get off the air at Fox
News immediately and join the CIA.
They need him
in the intelligence community.
If he.
If he knows it went down,
that that ventilation chute
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and all of that stuff, it's incredible.
Okay.
He's either a genius
or a fascinating storyteller.
Okay.
Either way, he's the best. He's the best.
And by the way, they dropped it
from 13,000ft, but it didn't explode.
It slid down the tunnel shaft
and then exploded later.
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Likely story. Yeah.
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