J.D. Vance Slams NBC’s Coverage of the Gaza Peace Deal: You Mentioned That the Crowd Booed Netanyahu but Not That They ‘Cheered’ for Trump

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WELKER: “And joining me now is the vice president of the United States, jd Vance. Mr. Vice president, welcome back to “Meet the Press.”

Vance: “Good morning, kristen. Thanks for having me.”

WELKER: “Well, it is good to have you on this monumental Sunday, Mr. Vice president. Let’s start right there with the peace agreement in the Middle East. President Trump said this week, quote, we have ended the war in Gaza. Mr. Vice president, do you see this moment as an end to the war in Gaza?”

Vance: “Well, I do, kristen. We’re going to have to do a lot of work to make sure that it stays ended but I also have to give your network a little bit of grief, kristen, because last night I was watching NBC, they were covering this and they mentioned during a rally last night in Israel when Steve Witkoff our special envoy mentioned Bibi Netanyahu the crowd booed but the broadcast didn’t mention when Steve Witkoff mentioned President Trump the crowd actually cheered. And why is that? Why did the crowd cheer? Because this moment came from very, very deliberate and consequential diplomacy from the president and the entire administration. The reason why we are at this moment, kristen, is because the president of the United States, he gave unusual authorities to people who had never been in diplomacy before. He actually broke the mold. Instead of doing diplomacy the same old way that it had failed for the past 30 or 40 years, he gave Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner a remarkable amount of authority to go and get a peace deal done and he worked part on everybody from the Israelis to the gulf Arab states to make this happen. This was very hard. This is a long time coming. It required a lot of work, but, yes, I believe that we are on the cusp of peace in Gaza for the first time not just in a couple of years, but really in a very long time because the president of the United States has done something that no other world leader has been able to do, unite the Israelis with the gulf Arab states for a common objective, and that is to bring the hostages home, to stop the war, and to build the kind of long-term settlement that we really do believe can lead to a lasting peace.”