He gets CALLED OUT for his Lies

If the war is over, I have a simple question.Who won?

First of all, Epic Fury is over, which is what you would consider the war.That operation...

So you agree it's a war then?

No, those are hostilities.They called it a war.I'm just responding to the senator's question.

You can change the name of the operation.It doesn't change the fact that the street is still closed and my service members and all of our service members are still in harm's way.The war is not over, but I'm agreeing with you.Okay, fine.We're taking you at your word.The war is over.

Who won?

But first of all, you're not taking me at my word, it's a fact.We're no longer conducting sustained strikes inside of Iran to degrade their military because epic fury is over.The second point is on the question of who won, I can tell you this, we define victory, we define victory as destroying their defense industrial base, significantly reducing the number of missile launchers that they possess, significantly reducing their stockpile of drones.And we achieved all of those in addition to destroying what they had left of an air force and wiping out their entire conventional Navy.Those are all gone.so I consider that victory and we did too and that was the purpose of epic fury.

Okay well good based on the metrics that you just said okay there's actually our intelligence community has said that Iran is reconstituting its military industrial base faster than we had predicted and analysts assess it still holds roughly 70 percent of its missile stockpile and 70 percent of its mobile launchers.The Strait of Hormuz was open before the war.It is now closed.We have lost 14 brave American service members.Over 400 are injured.And the Iranian regime remains largely intact, but now with a more hardline leader who has more incentive to try and get a nuclear weapon.

So I guess I have to ask you again, Mr. Secretary, does this actually look like winning or losing to you?