Jen Psaki

And I'm going to talk to, as I was talking with Ali Velshi about, I'm going to talk with former Secretary of State John Kerry about all of that in just a moment.

Because every new report we get paints the picture of an administration that was completely unprepared for the consequences of this war.

I mean, today the news outlet Notice reported that when the war began, the Trump administration failed to alert U.S.

flagged vessels in the region, putting them in immediate danger.

Two of those vessels included students from the U.S.

Merchant Marine Academy, who ended up trapped aboard those ships for weeks as the war played out.

That's according to two people familiar with the situation.

The start of this war was a particularly dangerous time for U.S.

forces in the region, of course.

And you may remember that in the earliest hours of the conflict, Trump struck a U.S.

military facility.

Iran struck a U.S.

military facility in Kuwait, killing six service members and wounding another 20.

Now, at the time, Pete Hegseth gave this wild explanation for how Iran was able to carry out that deadly attack.

And here's what he said.

He says those service members were in a fortified facility, but a little squirter just happened to sneak through and kill those American soldiers.

I mean, that was the explanation of the Secretary of Defense.

Well, today, survivors of that attack are disputing that characterization, telling CBS News that the unit was unprepared to defend itself against Iranian attacks.

And one of the injured soldiers said of Hegseth's comments, quote, painting a picture that one squeaked through is a falsehood.

I want people to know the unit was unprepared to provide any defense for itself.