A segment on NewsNation’s Cuomo turned into a heated debate Wednesday when host Chris Cuomo and former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly clashed over Iran’s nuclear capabilities.
They talked about comments made by War Secretary Pete Hegseth and International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi.
“We know exactly what they have, and they know that,” Hegseth said during a Wednesday press conference, “and they will either give it to us, which the president has laid out, they’ll give it to us voluntarily.”
Cuomo said these calculations are deceptive when there has been a lack of monitoring in Iran.
O’Reilly brought up a quote from Grossi during an interview with CBS News’s Margaret Brennan in March.
In the transcript, Grossi said, “The inventory of enriched uranium at 60%, which is very close to the degree you need to make a bomb.”
Cuomo said the quote is taken out of context and that Grossi cannot know that percentage, and he called out O’Reilly for taking it out of context on his show.
“He said that they have 60% enriched uranium,” Cuomo said. “Why? Because Iran said they were going to do it after what they said was Israel hitting one of their enrichment facilities. [The IAEA was] never able to go in and verify it.”
O’Reilly fired back and said, “You can believe what you want to believe,” and then told Cuomo to “keep quiet.”
“No, it’s my show, pal,” Cuomo said. “If you don’t like it, you can go.”
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O’Reilly pointed his finger at the camera and said Cuomo did not want him to read the quote because it would make Cuomo look foolish.
“Read it,” Cuomo said. “And don’t point, be a man. Don’t be a bigmouth.”