“I Won’t ENDORSE Netanyahu!” JD Vance Dodges Questions On Bibi’s Leadership | WATCH

I'm not attacking Bibi Netanyahu. I'm not endorsing Bibi Netanyahu. I think the president's endorsement is ultimately what matters. And the president is going to make the decision about how he doles out that endorsement according to his preferences. But I'm going to be focused on the midterm elections here in the United States of America. Mr. Vice President, you've said that you don't endorse foreign candidates, but you have backed Orbán and expressed support for the right in Germany. I'm wondering, going back to your comments in an interview this weekend, do you have concerns about Prime Minister Netanyahu's leadership? Well, look, I have endorsed one foreign candidate for election in my entire life. First of all, it didn't go particularly well, as much as I'm very much an admirer of the Prime Minister Orbán. But fundamentally, that was in April, I think, of 2026. We're in the middle of an American election cycle where I'm very focused on getting candidates elected in the United States of America. As I said in that interview, I'm not attacking Bibi Netanyahu. I'm not endorsing Bibi Netanyahu. I think the president's endorsement is ultimately what matters, and the president is going to make the decision about how he doles out that endorsement according to his preferences. but I'm going to be focused on the midterm elections here in the United States of America. I'm not endorsing any more foreign candidates now or in the future. Next question. Mr. Vice President, Tanya O'Rourke from WCVM here in Cincinnati. Welcome home. Hey, Tanya. Good to see you. Good to see you, too. Knowing the type of fraud that's taken place within the SNAP program you guys have identified, is there a look at SNAP itself as a program to see why this was able to be a thing why these people were able to defraud this program well one of the challenges Tanya is because of the way that SNAP is administered it can sometimes we're doing a lot of work to try to change this it can sometimes be very hard to identify the fraud until after it's already happened i mean part of what helped us identify Charlie Dread is the guys posting Instagram videos and we're able to connect the money that he's making with the money that he's then using to go and buy seats on private jets and all these other things. One of the things we have tried to do, and I'll give great credit to the state of Ohio for being a leader on this. A few other states should deserve credit as well. But if we go, for example, to the state of California, where we wire, meaning the federal government wires billions of dollars directly to the state of California, they don't even know who's on their SNAP rolls. They don't know whether those people are legal residents of the United States of America, sometimes they don't even know if they're real people at all. So there's no verification in certain states. And that's because this program is fundamentally a state-administered program. And so what we've tried to do is, to your point, try to get a little inventive and try to get ahead of the curve and anticipating and seeing the fraud before it goes out the door. But it would be a lot easier with state cooperation. Again, we have that in the state of Ohio. We don't have it in other states. And that has been a barrier to fighting fraud in some of these programs. sometimes the states just don't want to cooperate. I'll take one more question then we'll have to hit the road. Thanks Mr. Vice President. My name is Naomi Lim. I'm with the Washington Examiner. Two quick ones. We're in your home state. What do you think you bring as a surrogate to help, you know, a Houstoner to help a alma mater just because this is your home state? And then secondly what would you say to criticism that you are cracking down on fraud but there have been other members or former members of the administration that have been sort of criticized for pay-to-play, you know, like the likes of Kimberly Guilfoyle, the likes of Alina Habba? How do you sort of reconcile those two sort of split screens? Well, what I'd say is that we want to fight fraud wherever we see it. What we're not going to do is go and attack somebody based on an anonymously sourced story. And some of those cases, you have to let the facts play out and see what the facts actually are. Look, if I see anybody trying to do pay-for-play within our government, within our administration. I can tell you, I'm not going to have to call the president and encourage him to do something. He's going to call me and demand an answer to why we aren't doing more. But you've got to let the facts drive these things. There is no person who hates the idea of people enriching themselves fraudulently over access to the government than Donald J. Trump. I think he's been a great advocate, obviously, for our anti-fraud efforts. He's been the person who's driven most of our anti-fraud efforts. Fundamentally, the president is not going to stand for this, but we're not going to try people in the court of public opinion. We're going to let real facts develop. And that's one thing I'd say to the American people. I see a lot of stories about our administration, and sometimes my initial reaction to them is, I really don't like that. And then when you read the details, you realize that a lot of what's being accused is, one, anonymously sourced, or two, it's just completely fraudulent. There's no real evidentiary basis for it at all which is why again we don't try people in the court of public opinion we actually try people according to the real facts that are out there but i can tell you this attorney general and the entire administration we reject pay for play we reject anybody getting enriched off of their connections to the government and if we see it happening whether it's our partisan friends or our partisan enemies we are going to do something about it and then the second question about you You know, what do I bring as a surrogate? I mean, look, this is my home state, obviously. I have a lot of friends here, a lot of people who I love and who love me. But I do think I understand this state probably instinctively better than I understand most states because of my connection to it. And I just do not think the state of Ohio wants to give Sherrod Brown a 50th year when he didn't do anything with his first 49 years in public service. I don't think that they want to give the governorship over to a person who lies about every single one of her positions, who pretends that she's a reasonable moderate when her entire life in public service, she's been a far-left Democrat. So I think I can make that argument in a pretty compelling way. Obviously, I'm going to go try and do exactly that in about half an hour. But my message to the people of Ohio is very simple. This is a good state. common sense people, whether they're Democrats or Republicans or independents, the far left has run and taken over the Democratic Party. Don't give these people power. They're going to cause more of the very problems that we've been fighting against. That's going to be my message. And I think ultimately it's going to carry the day in the state of Ohio. But of course, the voters will have to make that determination. Good to see you guys. Thank you all for being here. We'll talk soon. Subscribe to One India and never miss an update. 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