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The Defense Intelligence Agency is disputing President Donald Trump's assessment that Iran's nuclear program was "obliterated," CNN reported Tuesday. Now that the White House is trying to spin the news, press secretary Karoline Leavitt is drawing ridicule from online critics.

In a statement to CNN, Leavitt claimed, “This alleged assessment is flat-out wrong and was classified as ‘top secret’ but was still leaked to CNN by an anonymous, low-level loser in the intelligence community. The leaking of this alleged assessment is a clear attempt to demean President Trump, and discredit the brave fighter pilots who conducted a perfectly executed mission to obliterate Iran’s nuclear program. Everyone knows what happens when you drop fourteen 30,000 pound bombs perfectly on their targets: total obliteration."

A new report obtained by CNN from the Pentagon's intelligence division concluded that President Donald Trump's strike on Iran only set back the country's nuclear program by months.

Sources briefed on the report from the Defense Intelligence Agency, or DIA, told CNN that it drastically undercut Trump's claim that the facilities had been "obliterated".

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) warned that President Donald Trump's effort to negotiate a ceasefire between Iran and Israel could be "a step backward."

During a Tuesday interview on Fox News, Graham said he was not optimistic about the ceasefire.

One foreign policy expert is warning President Donald Trump that he should "find an off-ramp" in his conflict with Iran.

National security analyst Joe Cirincione, who serves as the vice chair of the board of directors of the Center for International Policy, told MSNBC on Monday afternoon that Iran appears to be taking steps forward to publicly ramp up its effort to build nuclear weapons.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) told Punchbowl News on Monday that she won't be supporting congressional authorization for President Donald Trump's war against Iran.

Following U.S. airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, debate ignited in Congress's halls over the president’s authority to engage in military action without lawmakers' explicit approval. A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced War Powers Resolutions aiming to limit Trump’s ability to further strike Iran without their authorization.

President Donald Trump announced on Monday evening that a ceasefire between Israel and Iran would begin shortly.

"CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE!" Trump posted on his Truth Social platform. "It has been fully agreed by and between Israel and Iran that there will be a Complete and Total CEASEFIRE (in approximately 6 hours from now, when Israel and Iran have wound down and completed their in progress, final missions!), for 12 hours, at which point the War will be considered, ENDED! Officially, Iran will start the CEASEFIRE and, upon the 12th Hour, Israel will start the CEASEFIRE and, upon the 24th Hour, an Official END to THE 12 DAY WAR will be saluted by the World."

One MSNBC host said that she couldn't help but notice President Donald Trump seemed less confident when he spoke to the nation Saturday night about bombing Iran.

In a conversation with Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig, host Katy Tur asked what her sources were saying about where the president's "head" was after Iran fired missiles at a U.S. air base in Qatar.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that President Donald Trump can continue to deport migrants to countries not of their origin without limited notice.

Reporting the decision, Politico's Kyle Cheney said on X that the decision was 6-3 with liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissenting.

President Donald Trump poked the deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council and former president, Dimitry Medvedev, in a Truth Social post Monday — and it left many fearful that Trump is growing trigger-happy.

Medvedev began the exchange, suggesting that other countries would transfer nuclear weapons to Iran in support of their fight with the U.S.

Three different news reports are saying that Iran has fired missiles at a U.S. military base in Qatar.

Wall Street Journal national security reporter Lara Seligman noted just before noon EST Monday, "Iran is moving missile launchers into place for a potential attack on U.S. forces in the Middle East in response to the surprise American strike on three nuclear sites over the weekend, according to U.S. officials. DOD tracking a 'credible' threat to U.S. forces in the region."

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) lost control of her temper during a live interview about President Donald Trump's strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.

Appearing on War Room on Monday, MAGA influencer Steve Bannon noted that Fox News host Mark Levin had called Greene a "nitwit" for opposing the attack on Iran.