Lemon LIVE at 5 | Trump's Mission: NOT Accomplished - June 24th, 2025
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90-second bit, then we're out.
All right. Can you hear Jolly talking already? And it's not Jolly. Simmer down. He's raring to go with the breaking news. Good evening, everybody. Welcome to Lemon Live at 5. Thank you so much for joining us. Welcome to the Don Lemon Show, Lemon Live at 5. By the way, you know the whole drill. Make sure you hit the thumbs up and the like. It does affect the algorithm and more people become aware of our conversation. I'm so glad that you are here. Busy day. uh, in New York city, a busy day for the world. Okay. Because we come on with some breaking news once again, for the fourth time this week, we have breaking news. Well, fourth time. Yeah. One, two, three, four. Yes. Cause every day in the morning, the evening,
This morning and now this evening. After Donald Trump's once-in-a-generation ceasefire agreement between Israel and Iran was blown to smithereens this morning, the president was hit with another massive setback. It happened just moments ago. The U.S. military strikes Trump ordered on Iran's nuclear facilities did not end. I repeat, did not, did not, did not destroy the, quote, core components of the country's nuclear program and likely set it back only by a matter of months. Diplomacy would probably have been much better. That's according to three sources familiar with the classified report put together by the Defense Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Central Command. What did he say? Completely obliterated?
That's what he said. According to the sources, the enriched uranium was not destroyed. And the Iranian centrifuges are largely intact. The findings are directly at odds with President Donald Trump's and the Defense Department's. Pete Hegsatz insisted that Iran's nuclear program had been, quote, completely obliterated. He said, I don't think they're going to be. You saw the soundbite this morning. If we have it, we'll bring it to you. But he said, I don't think they're going to be making uranium ever again. They won't have to be able to do it. So we also need to cover this historic mayoral election in New York City, where the very future of the Democratic Party is at stake. This is not a local story. This is not a New York story.
This is a nationwide story. Will 33-year-old Democratic Socialist Zoran Mamdani topple a political dynasty and defeat former Governor Andrew Cuomo, or will the establishment forces in the Big Apple prevail? The rich folks, the establishment. And how will the historic heat wave suffocating the Northeast affect this closely watched race? So here to discuss with me, I have a phenomenal group of guests. Jolly is our chief Washington correspondent. And Jack Cacciarella is the host of the Jack Cacciarella Show here on YouTube. He's going to join us to talk to us about the mayor's race in New York in just a moment. But first, I want to get to Jolly.
What happened to Trump's 'ceasefire plan' and why did it collapse so quickly?
Jolly with the breaking news. And the breaking news is we'll put the New York Times up. The New York Times is reading that the U.S. strike barely set back Iran's nuclear capability, set back to Iran's nuclear program by only a few months. U.S. report says basically for you and me, it is what? I told you so. You reported. I told you so.
Yeah.
We were here live on the Don Lemon Show one hour after these strikes took place.
How did U.S. strikes on Iran's nuclear sites reportedly fail to destroy core capabilities?
And we were saying then, and it's on YouTube, you can go watch it, that this didn't do anything. Why? We have a president who goes on Teemu Twitter and tells the world, hey, our planes are now in Iranian airspace. We own Iranian airspace well before the strikes ever happened. Also, there was already reports the day of that Iran had a heads up about where we were going to strike. And it turns out that they moved their stockpile out, that they moved their personnel out. And now with this intelligence report, the only new information that I'm really seeing that we didn't already know was that they really didn't even hit the core components that would have stopped future uranium enrichment. So we basically just had, I don't know, a giant waste of money and we flew across the ocean for no reason.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:13–2:49
2
What happened to Trump's 'ceasefire plan' and why did it collapse so quickly?
2:49–3:16
3
How did U.S. strikes on Iran's nuclear sites reportedly fail to destroy core capabilities?
3:16–4:36
4
Why do intelligence sources contradict the White House's account of the Iran strikes?
4:36–6:26
5
Why is the New York mayoral primary between Zoran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo drawing national attention?
6:26–9:11
6
How did hosts and correspondents assess the political fallout from the failed strikes?
9:11–25:41
7
How are Senate protests over Medicaid cuts unfolding and what personal stories are shaping the debate?
25:41–29:57
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How has Zoran Mamdani's social media and ground game driven his surge in the polls?
29:57–53:03