Follow live as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gives a press conference to defend B-2 bomber pilots’ “dignity” after an intelligence leak suggested the pilots’ attack on Iranian nuclear sites only set the country’s nuclear program back by months.

“Secretary of Defense (War!) Pete Hegseth, together with Military Representatives, will be holding a Major News Conference tomorrow morning at 8 A.M. EST at The Pentagon, in order to fight for the Dignity of our Great American Pilots,” President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social on Wednesday afternoon in announcing the briefing.

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