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?”

Hegseth, a Fox News anchor before President Donald Trump appointed him defense secretary, repeatedly criticized the media and questioned its patriotism for its reporting on an initial assessment of the weekend’s bombing that questioned how much damage was done to Iran’s nuclear program.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth lashed out at a Fox News reporter on Thursday as he took questions during a Pentagon briefing about last weekend’s U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities.