‘INCREDIBLE HONOR’: JD Vance reacts to becoming Trump’s VP pick

‘INCREDIBLE HONOR’: JD Vance reacts to becoming Trump’s VP pick

further Ado joining us now Marine Senator author of the massive big hit both in a book form and movie hillbilly El is the Republican Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance sir how are you good man how are you good to see you good to see I’m sure you’ve had a very slow day today is yeah that’s right nothing happened pretty boring nothing happened pretty pretty boring day let’s talk about the process sure uh a lot of questions for you obviously uh what was it like cuz the last couple of days well it’s down to two you and Senator Rubio what was that like for you you know I just tried to enjoy the ride what an honor to be considered if it had been Senator Rubio obviously Mark is a good guy he’s a good friend so I try to just have a good attitude about it you my family’s very excited obviously asking a lot of questions I I will say Sean I hope I’m not betraying too many confidences here but when the president called me today to actually formally offer me to become you know the Vice Presidential nominee which just sounds crazy um my son my seven-year-old son was sort of making noise in the background you know I’m getting so embarrassed it’s like oh my God Donald Trump’s ask me to be vice president so the phone rings he calls you and you’re like okay this is the call or maybe not the call or maybe it’s a bad call right it’s the call who knows whether it’s good or bad but then he actually has me put my seven-year-old son on the phone you think about this everything that’s happened the guy just got shot at a couple of days ago and he takes the time to talk to my seven-year-old it’s a moment I’ll never forget all right uh and what did he actually say you know he he just said look uh I think we got to go save this country uh I think you’re the guy who can help help me in the in in the best way you can help me govern you can help me win you can help me in some of these Midwestern states like Pennsylvania Michigan and so forth and he said rightfully that we have been very very close for a long time but especially since I endorsed you in 2022 and I would not have won that race without Donald Trump’s endorsement and the president’s trust then and his partnership since then has been something I value a great deal let me let me ask you you know this happens all the time you get announced and in incoming begins let’s go over some of it pleas and not questions you haven’t heard before new would be asked all of them are fairly predictable but I think Americans want the answers let me go back to for example after you know he announced this the media I’m starting to read every article right yeah and criticizing you that you know here’s a guy this was came out of Ohio his support for a National Abortion ban and his Twisted belief that women should stay in violent marriages for the benefit of their children exemplifies his dangerous extrem extremism he’s not just wrong for Ohio he’s wrong for the country I actually saw those articles this weekend and I said why would I wait I I wanted to know the answer I called you yeah how do you address that well look Sean first of all Democrats have completely twisted my words here and as you know both me and my mom actually were victims of domestic violence was when they say that you know Vance has supported women staying in violent marriages I think think it’s shameful for them to take a guy with my history and my background and say that that’s what I believe it’s not what I believe it’s not what I said and I think Sean it’s evidence of the democrat’s complete inability to talk about the future what are Republicans running on delivering the peace and prosperity that Donald Trump already delivered in his four years what are Democrats running on lies and complete distortions of people’s records that is something I think the American people going to reject they’re too smart for it you know I said on January 2nd when the year started I said let me tell you what this year is going to be like and I try to give a perspective to my audience it’s not my first rodeo JD and I said the Democrats are going to try to make this election about quote democracy and Peril how often have we heard that uh meanwhile they might want to disenfranchise every primary voter that they had uh and they wanted to get Donald Trump off the ticket in some states another example it’d be about January 6th it would be about abortion uh and and I we hate Donald Trump exactly right can they run on the issue is the country better off than it was four years ago of course they can’t Sean they can’t run on that at all and they can’t run on the the issue of is the world more peaceful than it was four years ago remember when Donald Trump left office you had real growing peace movements all over the world the Abraham Accords that showed a real promise of uniting the Israelis with some of the Sunni Arab states there was no war in Europe uh Asia looked like it was under pretty good control and 3 years later it seems like we have a conflict in every corner of the world and Americans are poorer Sean you know a little about my background I grew up in a poor family I I remember when my grandmother uh who raised me she used to negotiate with the Meals on Wheels people to give her additional food so that she could feed me how does a family like that deal with Joe Biden’s grocery price inflation how does a family like that deal with gasoline and energy price inflation it’s gotten more expensive just to live a good life in this country Donald Trump and I want to make better and we have policies to make it better Democrats have lies and distortions and again I don’t think the American people are going to reward that you know I had an opportunity to talk to Donald Trump and I knew this question would come up actually for almost every person that was under consideration and that was past comments that you had made about him and when I I’ll tell you after what his response was but you you weren’t didn’t have the nicest things to say about him back in 2016 uh which seems like a long time ago now you know back you literally said you texted a friend that Trump is a cynical a-hole like Nixon who uh wouldn’t be that bad and might even prove useful and that he’s America’s Hitler and you compared him to a cultural heroin in the Atlantic Monthly and I’ll tell you Trump’s response but you said that then what do you say to people that say well wait a minute what did he mean well Sean I don’t hide from that I was certainly skeptical of Donald Trump in 2016 but president Trump was a great president and he changed my mind I think he changed the minds of a lot of Americans because again he delivered that peace and prosperity if you go back to what I thought in 2016 another thing that was going on Sean is I bought into the media’s lies and distortions I bought into this idea that somehow he was going to be so different a terrible threat to democracy it was a joke Joe Biden is the one who’s trying to throw his political opposition in jail Joe Biden is the one who’s trying to undermine American Law and Order president Trump did a really good job and I actually think it’s a good thing when you see somebody you were wrong about him you ought to admit the mistake and admit that you were wrong um when I brought it up to him he said I can’t wait for this okay when I brought it up to him he said yeah he goes but he doesn’t think that way now does he so he actually had a very good sense of humor about it also says a lot about him and he understands were you as political back then not really Sean I mean you know my my book came out in 2016 Hill bology it’s really the sort of the story of growing up in poverty achieving the American dream starting out in business and I I really didn’t care that much about politics I certainly had views I was a republican but I was not as nearly as involved obviously as I am today and again there something that really changed for me and I think for a lot of Americans is we saw the results of the Trump presidency compared to the obsessive deranged media reaction in 2019 and 2020 like what’s going on what’s so bad about this guy that he’s delivered Rising wages for American workers and peace in the world why is the media so obsessed with him I think a lot of Americans actually have had a similar Awakening over the last few years because you compare the results with the reaction and clearly the people with the reaction to the problem that’s not president Trump’s problem no a lot of people forget too back in the first debate I believe it was and kamla Harris was on the stage with Joe Biden at the time and she said I was that girl if you remember that moment it was a very hard-hitting moment what she was referring to is the fact that Joe Biden had partnered with a former Clansman and tried to stop the integration of public schools Joe Biden’s words he didn’t want those schools to become racial jungles and Sean kamla Harris basically said Joe Bon wouldn’t want a little black girl like me to live in her neighborhood he also pwed around with clansmen she said this months before she joined his ticket Sean I said some bad things about Donald Trump 10 years ago but I think it’s actually important to be able again to admit that you’re wrong I think I can make a good case to the American people people who may have been skeptical of the president back in 2016 who can be skeptical now that we’ve seen the results all right let’s talk about a little bit um and I think these are important times and consequential times and we see what’s happening with the border for example I think it’s now become the number one national security threat oh absolutely and we have nearly 11 million unvetted Joe Biden illegal immigrants in this country what should we do with them well Sean we have to deport people we have to deport people who broke our laws who came in here and I think we start with the violent criminals and president Trump has been very very effective at communicating on this so to the point where now a majority of Americans believe that we need to deport a large number of people who have come here illegally that’s that’s a major political victory for him and I think it’s going to lead to a policy victory for the American people but John we have to talk about the fentol problem because this is something that I know extremely personally and we have close to 100,000 Americans dying of drug overdoses every single year most of us it brought is brought in by Mexican drug cartels manufactured in China then brought in by these cartels uh to get a little personal you know my mom struggled with addiction for a big chunk of my early life that’s why my grandmother who I call mamal raised me but the coolest thing maybe the greatest blessing uh of my life is that my mom is about to celebrate 10 years sober and she is able to celebrate 10 years sober frankly because the poison that’s coming across the border now wasn’t coming across in such large numbers 15 years ago we are depriving Americans of a second chance with their loved ones you cannot keep on doing this you’re orphaning an entire generation of kids go to p Michigan Wisconsin Sean you have thousands of grandparents raising grandchildren that they weren’t expecting to raise because of the poison Joe Biden let it come across the border do president Trump is the guy to stop this and if we don’t stop it we’re going to lose a generation of young kids you know when I saw you in Atlanta I said I felt a little embarrassed because I was one of the few Americans cuz most people knew hillbilly El it was a massive bestseller that became a movie and I didn’t I I I literally read at least a book a day researching I radio and television and so I decided I watch the movie and when I saw you I I did ask you is this really what your life was Appalachia and this is the history of your life Appalachia you become a Marine and by the way your mom was a drug addict and an alcoholic your father not exactly the greatest father in the world and you grew up poor and you had a an amazing grandmother that came out of your life too but then you joined the Marines you served in Iraq you came out of school you went to Ohio State you went to Yale you prospered at Yale uh then you went on to be successful in business which by the way Democrats are criticizing you for they wish you failed I guess uh when they when they wrote that considering where you came from it’s the American dream and then you know you got into politics and you did so successfully uh a pretty amazing story give us some texture in context to that life that I mean that’s a tough life you had yeah Sean it was tough in a lot of ways but blessed in a lot of ways and I think you got to sort of accept the good with the bad I wouldn’t see the world the same way that I see it without that experience and I really do see it as a blessing i the grandmother who raised me was such an amazing person I mean she was a woman of deep Christian faith she cursed like a sailor I mean she had a mouth that would really make a Marine Corps drill instructor blush but she was so loving and so disciplined and I I really think that all the opportunities that I’ve had come directly from her she also believed in this country and recognized that most people in Washington do not care about people like her and when I talk about generations of grandparents raising generations of grandchildren that’s exactly who I think about because I remember my manal she couldn’t afford her Medicaid payments she couldn’t afford the the the prescription drugs that she needed she sometimes couldn’t even afford food for both me and her those are the people who suffer when we have the policies that we’ve had over the last and years and those are the people who stand to benefit the most from president Trump round two let me go back to the scene and you referred to it earlier Meals on Wheels and she would negotiate an extra something because you had nothing else nothing well we we sometimes we struggled but sometimes strong we didn’t have anything and she would negotiate to get a little bit of extra so that she could share with me and also have enough for herself look sometimes tough were sometimes times were hard right and and uh you know but I I look back on that and I think to myself when I go and talk to people when I serve people as a United States senator from the state of Ohio I go and visit a food bank I actually understand a little bit what people are going through and so yeah it was tough when I was dealing with it but now I really do think it’s a blessing because it’s given me a perspective a lot of politicians don’t have let’s talk about what you believe the role of a vice president should be sure well look Sean I think it’s very simple number one you need to support the president in enacting the agenda whether it’s going and meeting with foreign leaders whether it’s working with the Senate and the house to get legislation passed the president can’t be everywhere even Donald Trump can’t be everywhere so you’ve got to be a person he can trust he can rely on to actually Advance the agenda that’s the most important job of course if something God forbid happens you got to be ready to step into that that office that’s one of the most important roles of the vice president but I think Donald Trump very healthy going to serve for very good years but we’ve got to have Republicans who are helping him with the agenda you remember this as well as anybody Sean as successful as he was politically even after he was elected certain Republicans didn’t want to actually enact the America First agenda you’ve got to have leaders in Washington who are supporting him not fighting against him let’s talk about an occasion where you might disagree with them sure how do you view your role in terms of handling that moment it’s very simple Sean I think that you owe it to the president to be honest with him if you don’t think that he’s doing the right thing if you disagree with him but you do it in private you offer your counsil in private because a lot of the vultures in the Press they will blow up every public so you’ve met my colleagues while you’re here I call them stay run media uh no they absolutely are state-run media um in fact they’re so statun that even after president Trump was shot and he showed a remarkable amount of unity and Defiance and calmness they blamed him for the rhetoric even though he was the victim of a of a near assassination it’s it’s crazy but I I I think it’s really important that you don’t have Republicans who blow up disagreements so that they can win points with the media who are never going to treat Republicans fairly the job is to help the enact the agenda and why does that matter because that’s what’s going to make people’s lives better let’s let’s talk about I’m sure in the course of this process it had to go through your head God forbid what if we saw this on Saturday president Trump a millimeter if he didn’t turn his head we we would be having very different convers and um and I certainly believe in in God and faith and it’s an important part of my life and but it was that close and you always hear about one heartbeat away from the presidency and I’m sure Americans are watching you tonight are you ready at a moment’s notice to step into that role and what do you believe most qualifies you for that well SE the answer is yes and I have to say you have to have some humility about this it’s the biggest job in the world but I served my country successfully United States Marine Corps I had a successful business career and I have the vision and the agenda aligned with President Trump to make the American worker better off to bring peace to the world and to actually Advance an agenda that’s good for American citizens I think the experience that maybe most Americans would care about it’s not that I spent two years in the Senate and I think I’ve had a very successful two years in the Senate it’s that I came from nothing became United States Marine and succeeded in business that’s the experience that I think I think gives you a freshh perspective you combine that with the ability to get things done and that’s what you need to do but Sean I got to say Donald Trump is as healthy as anybody I’ve ever met I tell him all the time he’s got ridiculous jeans I plan to be a very good vice president for Donald Trump for four years let’s talk about when the shooting occurred uh this weekend what was going through your head and now we have some perspective I thought the people around him on the stage Secret Service I’ve gotten a known Secret Service guys over the years are doing this job and I have found them to be amazing people they’re willing to sacrifice their lives for you or for the president or for any elected official they may be assigned to they were phenomenal and then we found out how is it possible just a mere 130 yards away you know they talk about a perimeter was outside the perimeter no the perimeter would be shooting range for any assassin and a guy was able to get on a roof unnoticed apparently except by people in the crowd trying to warn law enforcement to me a massive failure what is your reaction to it well look Sean it’s scary I was actually playing mini golf with my kids when people started to text me and I realized the president been shot of course I didn’t know what his condition was my first reaction was just to pray for him you I was terrified if if if president Trump had been killed of course terrible terrible terrible but the reverberations in the country it would have been a world historic tragedy thank God he was okay I you know I don’t know enough about the security protocols but I was a United States Marine and 150 yards is not nearly enough of aay anybody that has any skill at all with any skill at shooting it’s it’s amazing Sean frankly that he wasn’t hurt much much worse so I think there needs to be a fulls scale investigation we need to understand what happened cuz clearly mistakes were made I mean look the Secret Service ran up there they put their bodies over them they reacted quickly that’s not what worries me what worries me is why was there a shooter 150 yards from the president of United States it doesn’t make an ounce of sense but we need to understand why cuz look Sean you know this a lot of Americans are extremely worried about President Trump rightfully so and they’re very skeptical of the official narrative on anything the way to solve that is to get to the bottom of this understand what happened and fix it so it doesn’t happen again all right let me go back let’s go through some issues and where you stand on positions and where the administration would stand assuming that in 115 Days by the way early voting starts in about 64 days in Pennsylvania state you know very well exactly right uh let let let’s start with immigration what do we do with the nearly 11 million unvetted illegal immigrants and I might add many coming from countries with terti like Syria and Iran and Afghanistan and and people from Venezuela and Egypt and tens of thousands from China and Russia what what should what should happen is there an orderly way to say if you didn’t come in Legally we will escort you home yes there is Sean first of all we’ve got to stop the flow to begin with Joe Biden has thrown open the southern border president Trump had it under control we’ve got to stop the flow to begin with now what do you do with the 11 million people I actually think it’s probably more than 11 million people who are here right now number one you start with the most violent people the people have criminal records and you’ve got to be willing to deport them number two how do we find them well I think a lot of them we actually know where they are Sean that’s what the crazy thing about the Biden Administration is they let people in they give them Asylum and we actually know that these people are sort of out there in our country uh some will be hard to find sure but a lot of them you actually can find just because just if you actually try to look which is what the bid Administration hasn’t done the second thing Sean is we’ve got to make it hard for illegal aliens to work in our country it undercuts the wages of American workers it invites more people to come in illegally and if you make it hard for people to work a lot of them are going to go back anyway and you do those two things I think you can go a long way to solving the problem but you got to stop the flow that’s the most important thing let me go to the issue of the economy let’s talk about maybe some Americans that you do know people in Appalachia poor people there was a study that came out 25% of Americans had to foro meals uh in the last year and nearly two-thirds of Americans say that they’re literally gasping for air and having a hard time making end meet every month what is the best way to get America to economic Prosperity quickly how do you do it number one you’ve got to unleash American Energy president Trump is so strong in this we had energy Independence Joe Biden has destroyed it we could have energy dominance we could be the main source of energy in the world allies absolutely and that would actually weaken Russia and Iran and some of these other regimes but we’re sitting on the Saudi Arabia of natural gas in Ohio and Pennsylvania Joe Biden would rather buy the stuff from Iran then buy it from Pennsylvania workers it doesn’t make an ounce of sense Sean the other thing is you’ve got to reinvigorate the manufacturing economy biggest contrast the media doesn’t talk about between Joe Biden and president Trump is President Trump was right about every single disaster that Joe Biden was wrong about NAFTA destroyed the manufacturing economy in Pennsylvania Michigan a real estate developer from New York Donald Trump was actually right about that issue letting China into the World Trade Organization Joe Biden supported it a real estate developer from Queens named Donald Trump opposed it and now of course Donald Trump is saying let’s open up America’s energy markets and Joe Biden is trying to destroy it it’s actually shocking Joe Biden’s entire career has been about decimating the manufacturing economy of this country president Trump’s entire career has been about how do we rebuild it and how do we correct the mistakes of our broken leadership class let’s talk about foreign policy and and I won’t call it the Vance Doctrine because it’ll be the trump doct it the Trump doctr okay but let’s go over some of the hot spots in the world I for the life of me don’t understand Joe Biden’s policy towards Iran I don’t understand why he allows China to have spy balloons and hostile maneuverings against our air force and international Airways and our Navy and international waterways uh why why Russia got a waiver for the nordstream 2 pipeline for example but we’ve got a lot of hot spots in the world we’ve been very outspoken on the issue of Ukraine hundreds of billions of dollars in Joe Biden and then I would argue that Joe Biden surrendered in the war on terrorism with Hamas by not supporting Israel further and their offensive moves after the worst terror attack in their history let’s get your overall view let’s look at these hot spots Ukraine Iran uh the war in the Middle East yeah so first of all Sean I served in the United States Marine Corps for four years one of the things I’m proudest of the the most important part I think of the Trump Doctrine and foreign policy is you don’t commit America’s troops unless you really have to but when you do you punch and you punch hard I think that’s the way that you respect America’s brave men and women who are serving now let me say something about when you say that does that like for example how president Trump beat the caliphate it was overwhelming for us and it was done pretty fast how president Trump beat the caliphate beat Isis which people said literally couldn’t be done and he did it in a matter of months but also Iran Sean a lot of people recognized that we need to do something with Iran but not these weak little bombing runs if you’re going to punch the Iranians you punch them hard and that’s what he did when he took out solomani by the way that action people said that it would lead to broader War it actually brought peace it actually checked the Iranians and slowed them down a little bit but let me just say something about this this Iran issue because maybe the most important diplomatic breakthrough of the Trump Administration was the Abraham Accords if if you want to check Iran the way to do it is to one withdraw their oil money which of course Joe Biden’s been bad about but you’ve also got to anable the Israelis and the Sunni Arab states to work together and actually provide a counterbalance to Iran Joe Biden has done nothing you have the infrastructure there sitting there to weaken Iran to strengthen our Ally Israel Joe Biden’s done nothing with it Donald Trump would reinvigorate it I think one of the the more I guess achievements of Donald Trump that doesn’t get t about a lot he created an alliance with the US Israel the the Saudis the Emirates Jordan uh the Egyptians that very few people knew about and I think we can get back to that absolutely I didn’t think I’d see that in my lifetime neither did I okay so let’s let’s stay in the Middle East how do we deal with the situation there now I think Israel should have the right to win their war on terror and they’re our greatest Ally in the Middle East and I don’t think Israel had a better friend than Donald Trump no they didn’t have a better friend than Donald Trump and here’s the problem Sean is Joe Biden’s made it harder and harder for Israel to win that war you want two things to happen number one you want Israel will get this war over and as quickly as possible because the longer it goes on the harder their situation becomes but second after the war you want to reinvigorate that peace process between Israel Saudi Arabia the jordanians and so forth what Biden has done as the worst of all possible worlds he’s prolonged the war Israel’s war to actually take out Hamas but in the process he’s made it harder for us to really move towards a sustainable peace let’s talk about Ukraine you’ve been a Critic of President Biden’s policies what should the policy well very simple Sean we have to point this out Russia would not have invaded Ukraine if Donald Trump had been president everybody agrees with it even a lot of my Democratic colleagues privately agree with that but here here’s the issue Sean is we’ve now spent $200 billion what’s the goal what are we trying to accomplish is there a risk of escalation into nuclear war because there is when you have a buffoon running foreign policy and we’ve got a lot of them right now in Washington DC I think what president Trump has promised to do is go in there negotiate with the Russians and ukrainians bring this thing to a rapid close so that America can focus on the real issue which is China that’s the biggest threat for our country and we’re completely distracted from it you know I spent a lot of time on this program pointing out Joe Biden being weak and prail and a cognitive mess and I’ve shown a lot of videotape since before the 2020 election uh I hope you watch the show I if you do you’ve seen a lot of the tapes and so all of a sudden the world noticed a few weeks ago they were claiming real videos unedited of Joe Biden where cheat bakes oh my gosh he’s a cognitive mess we got to get rid of him what is your reaction to all of that because I find it disingenuous and frankly I believe they’re outright lying and there’s been a cover up of Joe’s cognitive state do you believe it’ll be the candidate what do you think of the cover up does kamla Harris replace him what are your thoughts on all of it well literally Sean 6 months ago what you were saying on your program the media was calling a conspiracy and now the media is just calling it obvious fact so you’re way ahead of your press I wish I was four years ahead of I wish they would say Hannity’s right and put it up on about low a third that would be by the way hell will freeze over but go ahead but look first first of all the Democrats want to try to run from this and they’re saying that you know Joe Biden has to step down or Joe Biden can’t run for president that’s not public spiritedness that’s political cynicism because they should have been saying it 3 years ago Harris has allowed America to be saddled with a President Who clearly doesn’t have the mental capacity to do the job it is not public spiritedness to call for him to step down when he’s about to lose an election they should have been doing it years ago and it’s not just KLA Harris it’s Nancy Pelosi the entire Democratic apparatus lied about this guy and look being dishonest that’s a problem in and of itself but it was in the service of ensuring that America effectively had an empty vessel as president for 3 years I my message to the American people Sean is we can either reward or punish that behavior and the only way to punish the Democrats for lying about Joe Biden’s health and saddling us with an incapacitated president is to vote them out of office at every level come November I do you really believe regardless of who would to take Joe Biden’s place I believe the Democratic party is basically a uni they’re a united front sure I don’t think it’s immigration policy would change I don’t think Economic Policy would change I don’t think foreign policy would change I don’t think energy policy would change would anything change no nothing would change every single one of their policies is exactly the same the one thing that might change is you might at least have a foreign or a a president who can engage with a foreign leader without falling asleep or forgetting where he is but if the policies underlying that diplomacy and that conversation are bad which they would be you don’t actually solve any problems let me go back to the question when we started because after reading a lot of the attacks have already begun on you you did anticipate them correct sure sure okay let me go back to the issue of abortion and there was this article that that said oh JD van said it’s inconvenient I want you to address that and I want you to explain in great as much detail as you want what your position is on the issue of abortion especially in light of the Supreme Court ruling which I would argue codified first trimester abort abortion which is mostly done with a pill availability would be Nationwide but what’s your position in detail yeah very simply Sean first of all the Democrats have completely twisted my words what I did say is that we sometimes in this Society see babies as inconveniences and I absolutely want us to change that I do want us to be a more pro life that’s the word they focused on but but we do see babies as inconveniences and that’s a mistake Sean and I want to change that because I do care about uh protecting people now here’s the thing Row versus Wade is no more and what Donald Trump has said very very smartly is California is going to want to have a different policy from Ohio Ohio’s going want to have a different policy from Alabama and it is reasonable to let voters in states make those decisions doesn’t mean we have to agree with it but you have to have some respect for the political process this is really important Sean that respect for the political process Donald Trump is running against a Joe Biden president who wants taxpayer funded abortions up until the moment of birth president Trump is trying to identify some reasonable compromises so we can tone this thing down find some reasonable pro-life policy like for example make it easier to have babies Bringing Down the price of homes so that you can raise a family in a house if you choose to have babies these things are I think where the Republican party is going and focused on the Democrats want the most radical abortion policy funded by taxpayers so the idea that they can run on this and attack us when President Trump is the one trying to identify some reasonable compromise and they’re the ones who want pro-life Christians to pay for abortions at 39 weeks it’s insane I don’t think any American buys it you know interesting Bill Clinton famously said rare and legal and I think where Republicans seem to be today is rare legal and early meaning maybe dos 15 weeks and uh I see this as the number one issue that they want to demagogue for sure uh which we can see in the statements that Democrats have made about you this is a big difference actually between Democrats of now and 30 years ago my manal the woman who raised me was a she was pro-choice she used to say safe legal and rare and I remember um you know that that was her understand understanding of what the Democratic party view was the Republicans were pro-life the Democrats were safe legal and rare now the Democrats are saying taxpayer funded up until the moment of bth unlimited that’s ridiculous and for them to try to say that we’re radicals on this Sean I don’t think the American people buy it so you completely agree or in full complete agreement with President Trump and is the answer for example that he gave during the debate my view is that Donald Trump is the leader of the Republican party and his views on abortion are going to be the views that dominate this party and drive this party forward and his views are very simple Sean it’s look you got to follow your heart you have to believe in reasonable exceptions because that’s where the American people are and you’ve got to let individual states make this decision Alabama’s going to make a different decision from California that is a reasonable thing and that’s how I think we we build some bridges and have some respect for one another let me ask last question I’ll combine two issues in one uh it always comes up the issue of lgbtq rights now the issue of of of trans status and what’s age appropriate in schools for kids and the Second Amendment well look I mean I think that we shouldn’t be teaching kids sexually explicit anything whether it’s lgbtq or anything else I want my kids to go and learn Reading Writing and arithmetic and one of the important things that we can do as a country Sean is cut out the federal funding for radical curricula a lot of the craziest stuff that you see in our schools the crazy craziest books and so forth it comes from federal funding and I think 90% of Democrats and Republicans they just want their kids to get an education they don’t want them to be indoctrinated they don’t want fourth graders to read sexually explicit stuff that’s not a left right issue that’s a common sense parents rights issue so if you look over your shoulder there’s a big stage down there and you have a big speech coming up um has the world changed a little bit since Wednesday uh since Saturday and you’re speaking Wednesday it’s changed a little bit Sean of course it has I mean Donald Trump has given me an incredible honor and we get to go and make the case to the American people that President Trump’s next four years can be as great the first four years maybe even better and that’s an incredible thing to do but Sean I’m still grounded man my my faith I I got to spend a few hours in my wife and kids today we’ve got a seven-year-old a four-year-old and a 2-year-old uh things are crazy and things are way different but I’m still a husband and a dad first and uh that’s going to make me a very happy guy over the next four months well we’re going to look forward to seeing you we’ll be out with you on the campaign Trail uh first of all congratulations congratulations to the great people of Ohio have a lot of friends there we wish you the best of luck in all of this uh JD Vance uh for my colleagues in the mob and state run media uh they’re not going to be your friend ever um anyway God bless you Sean thank you you appreciate you being with hey Sean Hannity here hey click here to subscribe to Fox News YouTube page and catch our hottest interviews and most compelling analysis you will not get it anywhere else

Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, opens up about being selected as former President Trump’s running mate on ‘Hannity.’

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