The town hall with JD Vance was postponed indefinitely, with the vice president reportedly unwilling to discuss the war with Iran(Image: Getty Images)
Vice President JD Vance indefinitely postponed his town hall with CBS News that was scheduled to air on March 14 amid the ongoing war the U.S. is waging with Iran.
The network announced the postponement on Thursday, writing in an editor’s note on the article describing the town hall, “Editor’s note: The March 14 ‘Things That Matter’ town hall with Vice President JD Vance has been postponed. We will share an update once the event is rescheduled.”
Vance chalked up the postponement to the war. He likely would have faced questions about it in the town hall, which was slated to be part of a series that the network puts on. CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil was set to interview the vice president.
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Vance previously dismissed the prospect of a prolonged conflict with Iran, even as the Middle Eastern nation trades blows with both the U.S. and Israel after both allied countries launched airstrikes against Tehran early Saturday morning.
Those strikes killed the regime’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and also targeted Iran’s nuclear and military sites. Iran has since sent barrages of missiles toward Israel and some of the U.S.’s military and diplomatic assets in the region, amounting to over $1.9 billion in damages as radar systems and fighter jets were damaged or destroyed.
U.S. military installations in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates all suffered losses, as have diplomatic installations, including embassies and consulates, in several of the aforementioned regions and in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Vance was slated to interview with CBS News’ Tony Dokoupil for a town hall that would have aired on March 14(Image: POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Adm. Brad Cooper, the commander of U.S. Central Command, told reporters on Thursday that American bombers had struck nearly 200 targets “deep inside of Iran” over the past 72 hours, adding that U.S. forces had also struck and set on fire a large Iranian drone carrier ship that was returning from training exercises in the Indian Ocean.
Explosions were heard across the Middle East on Thursday, with an Israeli military official declaring that the “next stage of the campaign” against Iran was underway — a chilling warning of an escalating conflict that has already drained money from both Israel and the U.S.
“After completing the stage of the surprise opening blow, in which we created air superiority and suppressed the ballistic missile array, we are now moving to the next phase of the campaign, in which we will intensify the strike on the foundations of the regime and its military capabilities,” Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, chief of staff of the Israeli military, said, per The Times of Israel.
Israeli officials have framed the operation as being more openly focused on toppling the Iranian regime, but U.S. leaders have largely justified the conflict as a way to eliminate Iran’s nuclear and military threats.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said during the briefing on Thursday that the amount of firepower over Iran was “about to surge dramatically” as he said the U.S. has enough munitions to keep the operation going as long as necessary.
Republicans on Capitol Hill have so far staved off attempts ot rein in Trump’s ability to continue military action against Iran without obtaining congressional approval, with Republicans voting down a pair of war powers resolutions this week in back-to-back votes.