Vance: It’s Important Trump Can Talk To Advisers Without Them Leaking To The Press
Vice President J.D. Vance spoke at a campaign-style event in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, criticizing Democratic leadership for defending illegal immigrants and recounting a moment from the State of the Union where Democrats did not applaud a line about prioritizing American citizens.
REPORTER: Hi, Mr. Vice President, Bill Barrow with the Associated Press. What did you advise the president initially as he considered his actions in Iran, and what are you urging him to do now, especially with Americans seeing higher prices at the pump and some of the fallout from that across the economy? Do you express any concerns like those you’ve expressed in the past on the possibility of these extended wars? VICE PRESIDENT J.D. VANCE: Well, Bill, I appreciate the question. I know you guys have to ask it, but imagine the situation. We’re in the situation room where you can’t even take your iPod in there or your AirPods, I guess what they’re called. You can’t take your iPhone in there. You can’t take anything in there because it is the most classified space anywhere in the world. And I sit there with Pete Hegseth and General Kaine and Marco Rubio and the entire White House team, and the president and I and the entire senior team are talking about the options and about what we need to do and about how we must best protect the American people. I hate to disappoint you, but I’m not going to show up here and in front of God and everybody else tell you exactly what I said in that classified room partially because I don’t want to go to prison and partially because I think it’s important for the president of the United States to be able to talk to his advisers without those advisers running their mouths in the American media.
