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Washington — President Trump connected Friday said his manager of nationalist intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, was "wrong" erstwhile she testified successful March that Iran wasn't gathering a atomic weapon, marking the 2nd clip successful a week the president has dismissed the appraisal of the quality manager helium selected.
The White House this week said Iran has everything it needs to physique a atomic limb and needs lone the greenish airy from Iran's ultimate leader, with the quality to acceptable a atomic limb wrong weeks. Mr. Trump said Iran was "very adjacent to having" a atomic weapon.
In March, Gabbard testified connected Capitol Hill that the U.S. "continues to measure that Iran is not gathering a atomic limb and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the atomic weapons programme helium suspended successful 2003." Gabbard aboriginal insisted she and the president are connected the aforesaid page.
Mr. Trump dismissed his quality community's nationalist appraisal of Iran connected Friday, and Gabbard specifically, arsenic the White House says the president volition determine whether to articulation Israel successful its strikes connected Iran within 2 weeks.
When the president arrived successful Bedminster, New Jersey, connected Friday, a newsman asked him: "What quality bash you person that Iran is gathering a atomic weapon? Your quality assemblage had said they person nary grounds that they are astatine this point."
"Well then, my quality assemblage is wrong," Mr. Trump responded. "Who successful the quality assemblage said that?"
"Your manager of nationalist intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard," the newsman answered.
"She's wrong," Mr. Trump said, moving connected to the adjacent question.
The president antecedently dismissed Gabbard's grounds earlier this week, connected his mode backmost from a G7 acme successful Canada. A newsman noted that Gabbard testified successful March that the quality assemblage said Iran wasn't gathering a atomic weapon.
"I don't attraction what she said," the president told reporters aboard Air Force One. "I deliberation they were precise adjacent to having one."
Vice President JD Vance wrote connected X connected Tuesday that "Tulsi's grounds was successful March, and a batch has changed since then."
The president has been briefed connected the risks and the benefits of bombing Fordo, Iran's astir unafraid atomic site, aggregate sources told CBS News this week. His mindset is that disabling it is indispensable due to the fact that of the hazard of weapons being produced successful a comparatively abbreviated play of time.
White House property caput Karoline Leavitt told reporters Thursday that the president volition marque a determination connected whether to articulation Israel's strikes wrong 2 weeks and let the diplomatic path to play out.
"Based connected the information that determination is simply a important accidental of negotiations that whitethorn oregon whitethorn not instrumentality spot with Iran successful the adjacent future, I volition marque my determination whether oregon not to spell wrong the adjacent 2 weeks," the president said successful a connection work by Leavitt astatine the White House property briefing. The Iranian overseas curate met with a radical of European diplomats successful Geneva connected Friday.
Asked Friday if a onslaught could beryllium imaginable earlier the two-week deadline is up, the president said: "I'm giving them a play of time. We'll spot what that play of clip is. I'm giving them a play of time. But 2 weeks would beryllium the maximum."
Kathryn Watson is simply a authorities newsman for CBS News Digital, based successful Washington, D.C.
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