India, June 26 -- President Donald Trump's defense chief, Pete Hegseth, clashed with one of the senior-most reporters at the Pentagon and his former colleague, Fox News' Jennifer Griffin, during a press conference on Thursday. Tensions rose as Hegseth was addressing 'intelligence leak' claims days after the US' strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities.

The Pentagon boss said he was unaware of any intelligence suggesting Iran had moved any of its highly enriched uranium to shield it from US strikes. "I'm not aware of any intelligence that I've reviewed that says things were not where they were supposed to be, moved or otherwise," he said.

Griffin asked Hegseth about the movement of enriched uranium from the Fordo site. The former Fox host di...