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AP Newswatch: Top Stories from the Associated Press — 12:30pm EDT. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
0:00I'm Ed Donahue with an AP News Minute. Skeptical Democrats confronted defense secretary Pete Hexeth for the first time since the Trump administration went to war with Iran. There were tense moments between Hexeth and members of the House Armed Services Committee. The biggest challenge, the biggest adversary we face at this point are the reckless, feckless, and defeatest words of congressional Democrats and some Republicans. Adam Smith is the ranking Democrat on the committee. The operation midnight had a weakest moment, nothing of substance, and let us see the exact point. Hexeth dismissed criticism of the war as political. We had to start this war, you just said, 60 days ago, because the nuclear weapon was an imminent threat. Now you're saying that it was completely obliterated? It had not given up their nuclear ambitions. Democrats accused Hexeth of mismanaging the war and lying to Americans about the reasons to start it. I'm Ed Donahue.
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