Vance takes the podium

Vance takes the podium
 
Vice President JD Vance takes questions during a White House press briefing today. Photo: Kent Nishimura/AFP via Getty Images

Vice President JD Vance told reporters today that the Trump administration’s main goal in Iran is preventing nuclear proliferation in the Middle East and beyond, Alex Fitzpatrick and Avery Lotz report.

Vance, taking questions in a jam-packed and sometimes raucous Brady Press Briefing Room: “Iran would really be the first domino, and that would set off a nuclear arms race all over the world. That’s very, very bad for the safety of our country.” 

Vance added: “We are not going to have a deal that allows the Iranians to have a nuclear weapon, so as the president just told me, we’re locked and loaded.”

“We don’t want to go down that pathway, but the president is willing and able to go down that pathway if we have to.

President Trump convened a meeting on Iran with his top national security team last night that included a briefing on military options, Axios’ Barak Ravid reports.

 Go deeper.Photo: Kent Nishimura/AFP via Getty Images 

Vance, using a “cheat sheet” to call on reporters while subbing for White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, also took questions on the DOJ’s controversial new “anti-weaponization fund,” President Trump’s surprise endorsement of Texas AG Ken Paxton over Sen. John Cornyn and more.

On the taxpayer-funded $1.776 billionIRS fund, and the possibility that some of that money could go to Jan. 6 defendants: “You’ve got to actually look at this stuff and figure out what were they accused of. … Maybe they had their entire lives ruined in a totally disproportionate way. That’s fundamentally illegitimate and political.

On Trump’s endorsement: “I’ve known John Cornyn for a long time, but unfortunately, when it really counted, Ken Paxton was there for the country, was there for the president, and that’s why he ultimately earned the president’s endorsement.”Watch Vance’s briefing.
 
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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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