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During a press conference at the NATO conference being held at The Hague, Donald Trump fled questions from NBC's Kelly O'Donnell by berating her and then turning over the microphone to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to continue the attack.

After sighing following his decision to pick O'Donnell to pose a question, she began by asking whose intel –– U.S. or Israel's –– he is using to declare the reported nuclear sites in Iran were completely "obliterated" by his surprise attack on Saturday.

After giving a rambling answer and talking over O'Donnell, Trump accused NBC and the New York Times of demeaning the job the military did, as O'Donnell protested NBC had done no such thing.

As she pressed him for answers, he pointed to Hegseth and stated, "Let him answer this."

"Yeah, there's a reason the president calls out fake news for what it is," Hegseth immediately snapped. "These pilots, these refuelers, these fighters, these air defenders, the skill and the courage it took to go into enemy territory, flying 36 hours on behalf of the American people in the world to take out a nuclear program is beyond what anyone in this audience can fathom."

"And then the instinct, the instinct of CNN, the instinct of the New York Times, is to try to find a way to spin it for their own political reasons, to try to hurt President Trump or our country," he snarled before he accused, "They don't care what the troops think. They don't care what the world thinks. They want to spin it to try to make him look bad based on a leak."

"Of course, we've all seen plenty of leakers, and what a leakers do? They have agendas and what do they do? Do they share the whole information or just the part that they want to introduce?" he continued. "And when they introduce that preliminary, preliminary report that's deemed to be low, a low assessment, you know, a low assessment means low confidence in the data in that report. And why is there low confidence. Because all of the evidence of what was just bombed by 12 30,000 pound bombs is buried under a mountain devastated and obliterated."

He later added, "You know who else knows? Iran. That's why they came to the table right away, because their nuclear capabilities have been set back, back beyond what they thought were possible because of the courage of a commander in chief who led our troops, despite what the fake news wants to say."

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