It's Wednesday, June 25th, and here's what's happening right now on CNN This Morning.
Completely and totally obliterated,
that is how the White House has been describing the damage to Iranian nuclear facilities.
But a new assessment shed some doubt on that.
Plus, right now, President Trump attending a one-day NATO summit and he's questioning Article 5.
Is the U.S. committed to defending NATO allies?
And the Middle East on edge as a tenuous ceasefire enters a second day.
Can it continue to hold?
It's 6 a.m. here on the East Coast.
Good morning, everybody.
I'm Audie Cornish.
I want to thank you for waking up with me.
We're going to start today with President Trump lashing out at an early U.S. intelligence assessment.
which found that US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites may not have destroyed them completely.
Now,
seven people briefed on the intelligence tell CNN the strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities at Fordow,
Natanz, and Isfahan severely damaged the above-ground structures.
But the early Defense Intelligence Agency assessment finds Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium material was not destroyed.
Another source tells CNN the centrifuges are still largely intact.
Now, the early assessment finds the strikes likely set back Iran's nuclear program by a few months,