German AfD Leader Alice Weidel:

The Americans don’t see anyone at the EU level they can seriously negotiate with.

EU officials are perceived as weak and not truly representative of the individual nations.

Pete Hegseth:

We are rebuilding a military that the American people can be proud of.

A post by pro-Israel social media commentator Eyal Yakoby claimed a 12-year-old Lebanese girl exposed a Hezbollah weapons cache in her school and asked Israel to strike it.

What actually happened?

The girl is 13, and she sent a private Instagram message to Israeli spokesperson Avichay Adraee.

The message, written with emojis, was a prank, reportedly to skip school or avoid exams.

The school called it a “bad joke” and launched an investigation; the incident caused real panic locally.

A Community Note on X corrected Yakoby’s post, linking to multiple reports confirming the story was false.

Pete Hegseth on Iran:

The biggest challenge, the biggest adversary we face at this point are the reckless, feckless, and defeatist words of Congressional Democrats and some Republicans.

Two months in—I remind you, two months into a conflict. Lest I remind you, my generation understands how long we were in Iraq, how long we were in Afghanistan, how long we were in Vietnam.

Two months into an existential fight for the safety of the American people: Iran cannot have a nuclear bomb. We are proud of this undertaking.

WATCH: One Russian Mi-28 and one Mi-17 helicopter were destroyed in Russia’s Voronezh region, about 150 km from the front line, by Ukrainian drones.

NEW: A senior Pentagon official says the U.S. has spent about $25 billion on the war with Iran so far.

Rep. Smith: A year ago, you said that Ukraine had no cards to play. Clearly, that was wrong. What did you miss?

Hegseth: We didn’t miss. Joe Biden, with no accountability, gave hundreds of billions of dollars of our weapons to Ukraine.

Iran’s Ghalibaf:

The enemy has now entered a new phase and aims to activate maritime blockade, media warfare, economic pressure, and internal division to weaken or even collapse the country from within.

Pete Hegseth on Iran:

Calling this war a quagmire is a disgrace; we are only two months in.

Pete Hegseth on Iran:

Iran has been at war with us for 47 years. Do you want to talk about a forever war?

Moulton: Do you think we are winning the Iran war?

Hegseth: Absolutely.

Moulton: Do you call Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz winning?

Hegseth: The blockade we hold...

Moulton: So they blockaded us and we blockaded their blockade?

Pete Hegseth:

We are ensuring that Iran is not buying Chinese missiles.

Trump says the U.S. will maintain its naval blockade on Iran until a nuclear deal is reached, rejecting Tehran’s proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz first.

“The blockade is somewhat more effective than the bombing… They are choking… They can't have a nuclear weapon,” Trump said.

Source: Axios

Trump to Axios:

The blockade is somewhat more effective than the bombing.

They are choking like a stuffed pig. And it is going to be worse for them.

Trump to Axios:

They don't want me to keep the blockade. I don't want to [lift the blockade], because I don't want them to have a nuclear weapon.

BIG: CENTCOM has drafted a plan for a "short and powerful" wave of strikes on Iran to break the negotiating stalemate.

Source: Axios

Moulton: Did you consider the risk of Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz?

Hegseth: Of course.

Moulton: Then why did you send the only minesweepers we had in the Gulf to Singapore weeks before the war started?

Hegseth: Iran’s nuclear facilities have been obliterated.

Smith: You said we had to start this war because the nuclear weapon was an imminent threat. Now you’re saying it was completely obliterated?

Moulton: Do you know how much your war costs the average American taxpayer?

Hegseth: What is the cost of Iran having a nuclear weapon?

Moulton: You said, "we will give them no quarter, no mercy." That is a war crime under the Geneva Conventions. You understand that's murder. Do you stand by that statement?

Hegseth: The Department of War fights to win…

Moulton: You called for Democratic members of Congress to be tried for sedition for reminding our troops to follow the law. But when you tell them to commit a war crime, you stand by yourself.

Rep. Carbajal to Hegseth:

We have something in common. I’m also a fan of Pulp Fiction.

And no, the movie is not an accurate portrayal of the Bible. You know what I’m talking about.