Griffin, the chief national security correspondent at the Pentagon, asked Hegseth whether he had “certainty that all the highly enriched uranium was in the Fordow mountain, or some of it, because satellite photos showed there was more than a dozen trucks there two days in advance. Are you certain none of that highly enriched uranium was moved?”

During an appearance on MSNBC early Friday morning, a Democratic lawmaker suggested that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made it clear on Thursday that he doesn't want any press scrutiny of the attack on Iran which is why the press needs to dig into it even more.