Mary Louise Kelly

One other thing before we move on from what we are starting to understand about the goals of these strikes.

President Trump made clear in his remarks from Mar-a-Lago earlier today that stopping Iran getting a nuclear weapon.

is a goal.

He has said that repeatedly.

That's been a consistent position of American presidents across both parties across many years now.

I just want to note, Daniel, Iran says it is not trying to develop a nuclear weapon.

President Trump had told us that the nuclear program was obliterated last summer.

We haven't seen evidence yet, have we?

They have not presented evidence that Iran was, in fact, successfully rebuilding a program.

And which we saw on full display today in terms of Iran's response.

We're going to take a break when we get back, staying with the Iran story and the latest developments both here in Washington and from the region.

That's ahead on Sources and Methods from NPR.

As we all try to understand the contours of this, I want to play a little bit more of President Trump.

This is him speaking from Mar-a-Lago.

That's interesting, actually, that this was done while he was at Mar-a-Lago.

He didn't stay at the White House for this this weekend.

He came out.

He was wearing a bright white baseball cap with USA across it.

And he said this.

So, you know, I've walked the streets of Tehran.