FNC’s Kilmeade: Vance’s Israel Comments Sound Like the Squad
On Friday’s broadcast of Fox News Radio’s “Brian Kilmeade Show,” host Brian Kilmeade criticized Vice President JD Vance’s comments on Israel by saying, “That’s stuff that you would expect extremists, extreme Squad members to say” and maybe “he wants to kiss up to the podcast class, who seemingly jumped off support for Israel.”
Kilmeade played a clip of Vance saying, “[I know,] beyond a shadow of a doubt, that there have been people within the Israeli government who are trying to, like, actually, shift us away from that policy, because they want to continue the military campaign. … [T]here are some people within their system we know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, who are manipulating and trying to change American public opinion to keep the war going on indefinitely. Again, not towards any objective. But just indefinitely.”
Kilmeade responded, “That is not true. Now, are there people within the Knesset that are AOC or Squad-like characters on the fringe? Sure, I guess, I don’t know.
But what JD Vance and every Democrat — the 103 Democrats that voted not to fund — give funds to Israel should understand is, if their enemies were not rocketing them, making Israel an enemy…Israel would not be looking to stay on the war footing. Nobody wants war in Israel, nobody. They’re looking to survive, and they’re not going to be victims. If you’re going to send rockets into the northern part of their country, like Hezbollah, and Hamas into the southern part of their country, from Gaza, and if you’re going to do long-range missiles from — and other things in drones from Iran, you’re going to get attacked back, you’re going to get preemptive strikes. They’re not interested in fighting. Why would he, as Vice President of the United States, say there are people who just want perpetual war? Who? Who are these people? Are you saying the prime minister wants perpetual war? That’s stuff that you would expect extremists, extreme Squad members to say. And I wonder if he even pre-thinks his stuff. I think it’s really detrimental for the Vice President to be saying stuff that’s so erroneous, maybe because he wants to kiss up to the podcast class, who seemingly jumped off support for Israel.”
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2026/07/18/fncs-kilmeade-vances-israel-comments-sound-like-the-squad/
Kudlow: Vance Needs ‘Reset’ of His Statements
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” host Larry Kudlow said Vice President JD Vance “needs to step back for a moment” and have “a great reset of his policy priorities, his statements, and his own actions.”
After reading from some pieces that were critical of Vance, Kudlow said, “Just as baffling was Mr. Vance’s podcast with the Daily Wire, where he attacked free market, free enterprise, school choice icon Milton Friedman. And then, in the same interview, attacked the equally capitalist, free enterprise, iconic British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and then later in that interview, he attacked the concept of meritocracy. Huh? President Trump has done all he can to get rid of woke DEI, affirmative action on steroids that was produced by Obama and then Biden, in order to restore the great American principle of merit-based achievement. And Mr. Vance is attacking that?”
He continued, “Or, listen, we’ve got all these howling, far-left socialists, Mamdani, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), virtually the whole Democratic Party screaming for big government socialism or Communism in order to nationalize the economy and continue their antisemitic, hate-based policies railing against Israel and Jewish people in general. And Mr. Vance is somehow cross-ruffing to that? Well, I’m sure he means well in his job, and I don’t want this to sound personal, because I’ve always gotten along with him, but, frankly, I do not understand what he’s doing, and I truly believe he needs to step back for a moment, a great reset of his policy priorities, his statements, and his own actions.”
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2026/07/18/kudlow-vance-needs-reset-of-his-statements/
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