Vice President JD Vance commented on the fatal ICE-related shooting in Minnesota, claiming the woman killed was part of a broader left-wing network. Vance alleged the network seeks to attack, dox, and intimidate ICE officers, arguing such actions are intended to obstruct immigration enforcement and make it impossible for agents to carry out their duties safely and effectively.
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00:00Good afternoon, everybody. Let me be clear. President Trump and his entire administration
00:06stand fully behind the heroic men and women of ICE and will always uphold law and order
00:13in the United States of America. The deadly incident that took place in Minnesota yesterday
00:19occurred as a result of a larger, sinister, left-wing movement that has spread across
00:24our country, where our brave men and women of federal law enforcement are under organized
00:30attack. Right now, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are facing a 1,200 percent increase
00:37in assaults, a 3,200 percent increase in vehicle ramings, and an 8,000 percent increase in death
00:46threats. ICE agents are faithfully enforcing federal law to protect the safety of the American
00:53people by removing criminal illegal aliens from our country, which is exactly what nearly
00:5980 million Americans elected President Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance to do. Radicals
01:06in the Democrat Party are furious over this. They don't want our border-secured or criminal
01:11illegal aliens being removed. As a result, Democrats are impeding immigration enforcement operations
01:18daily, creating extremely heightened and dangerous circumstances that make it nearly impossible
01:25for the men and women of law enforcement to simply do their jobs. Democrats are calling
01:30to defund federal law enforcement agencies who are protecting public safety. And Democrats
01:35are calling to abolish ICE and defund the police. That will never be allowed to happen under this
01:42president and vice president. The Trump administration will redouble our efforts to get the
01:48worst of the worst, criminal illegal alien killers, rapists and pedophiles off of American streets.
01:55The Department of Homeland Security will continue to operate on the ground in Minnesota, not
02:00only to remove criminal illegal aliens, but also to continue conducting door-to-door investigations
02:06of the rampant fraud that has taken place in the state under the failed and corrupt leadership
02:13of Democrat Governor Tim Walz. Taxpayers have been ripped off to the tune of billions of
02:18dollars in this one state alone. And that is going to end, and people are going to be
02:24held accountable. The Trump administration has activated thousands of federal agents, doubled
02:29the number of U.S. attorneys in the DOJ office in Minneapolis, and surged resources to hold fraudsters
02:35accountable and demand justice for law-abiding American taxpayers and citizens across
02:41our country. And that's what brings the Vice President out here with me today to discuss
02:45all the Trump administration is doing and to make an additional important announcement
02:50on this front. So please, Mr. Vice President will be joining us now.
02:53Mr. Great. Well, good afternoon, everybody, and I want to echo some of what Carolyn said
03:04about what we're doing to combat the rampant fraud that exists in our immigration system
03:09thanks to failed politicians and thanks to people who allowed the American taxpayer to
03:13be taken advantage of for far too long. I think it's important to understand why this matters to
03:19the American people. I am a father of three young kids, a lot of kids, a lot of people in my
03:25generation. What is that going on there? Is that normal? CNN installed this broken camera just to
03:32throw me off my game, but it's not going to work. So here's the simple fact here.
03:38If you're a young parent struggling to afford child care in the United States of America,
03:44there are programs that we have to make it easier for your kids to get in daycare,
03:48for your kids to get in preschool. Those programs should go to American citizens,
03:52not be defrauded by Somali immigrants and others. Make it hard for you to get the access to the
03:57resources you need. But number two, making it easier for people who shouldn't even be in this country
04:03to fleece the United States and our taxpayers to begin with. We have actually activated a major
04:09interagency task force to make it possible to get to the heart of this fraud. We have Department of
04:15Agriculture resources that are focused on snap fraud so that people who need food benefits can get them,
04:21but illegal aliens and other fraudsters don't. We have over 1500 subpoenas that the Department of
04:27Justice has issued to get to the heart of the fraud ring. We've done almost 100 indictments,
04:32mostly Somali immigrants, but also a few others. And of course, we're looking in with broad
04:37investigatory authority to a number of the instances of wrongdoing that we've seen in Minneapolis.
04:43But we also want to expand this. We know that the fraud isn't just happening in Minneapolis. It's
04:48also happening in states like Ohio. It's happening in states like California. And so what we're doing
04:54in order to help coordinate this remarkable interagency effort from the Trump administration,
04:59but also to make sure that we prosecute the bad guys and do it as swiftly and efficiently as
05:05possible, is we are creating a new assistant attorney general position who will have nationwide
05:11jurisdiction over the issue of fraud. Now, of course, that person's efforts will start and focus
05:17primarily in Minnesota, but it is going to be a nationwide effort because, unfortunately,
05:22the American people have been defrauded in a very nationwide way. I want to thank a couple of
05:27people for the cooperation, in particular Pam Bondi, our attorney general, first of all, for getting a
05:31lot of resources to Minneapolis to start to investigate and prosecute this fraud, really,
05:36at an industrial scale. We've never seen fraud like this in the history of our country. Pam has
05:41been doing a great job to get the resources there to uncover it. But importantly, creating a job like
05:46this often takes months, sometimes even longer. When we realized that we needed this associate attorney
05:52general position, Pam got this person up and running in about a week. We're going to make the nomination,
05:57hopefully in the next few days. We'll obviously let you guys know who that is when we do it.
06:01I've talked to Senate Majority Leader John Thune, who has promised me swift confirmation for this
06:05official. But this is the person who is going to make sure that we stop defrauding the American people.
06:12Here's one final thing I'll say about this. I've heard a lot of people say that we need a special
06:16council to investigate fraud in the United States of America. I actually agree. And that's what this
06:21position does. It has all the benefits, all the resources, all the authority of a special counsel,
06:27but with two crucial differences. Number one, it will be run out of the White House under the
06:32supervision of me and the President of the United States. And number two, it's actually constitutionally
06:37legitimate. As you guys may know, the special counsel statute has some major constitutional questions.
06:42When we get the bad guys, we want to make sure we get them permanently and they don't have some legal
06:47technicality they can get out of, which is why we set it up as an associate attorney general.
06:52I'll take some questions, but I want to just one final observation here. When I was actually
06:56walking out here, somebody sent me a photo of a CNN headline about what happened in Minneapolis.
07:04And this is the headline. I'm just going to read it.
07:06Outrage after ICE officer kills U.S. citizen in Minneapolis. Well, that's one way to put it.
07:13And that is the way that many people in the corporate media have put this attack over the last 24
07:18hours. And I say attack very, very intentionally because this was an attack on federal law enforcement.
07:24This was an attack on law and order. This was an attack on the American people. The way that the
07:29media by and large has reported this story has been an absolute disgrace and it puts our law enforcement
07:36officers at risk every single day. What that headline leaves out is the fact that that very
07:42ICE officer nearly had his life ended, dragged by a car six months ago, 33 stitches in his legs.
07:49So you think maybe he's a little bit sensitive about somebody ramming him with an automobile.
07:54What that headline leaves out is that that woman was there to interfere with a legitimate law
07:59enforcement operation in the United States of America. What that headline leaves out is that that
08:03woman has as part of a broader left wing network to attack, to dox, to assault and to make it
08:10impossible for our ICE officers to do their job. If the media wants to tell the truth, they ought to
08:15tell the truth that a group of left wing radicals have been working tirelessly, sometimes using domestic
08:21terror techniques to try to make it impossible for the president of the United States to do what the
08:27American people elected him to do, which is enforce our immigration laws. The president stands with ICE.
08:33I stand with ICE. We stand with all of our law enforcement officers. And part of that is
08:38recognizing that you people in the media, not everybody in this room, but many people in this
08:42room have been lying about this attack. She was trying to ram this guy with his, with her car.
08:50He shot back. He defended himself. He's already been seriously wounded in law enforcement operations
08:56before and everybody who's been repeating the lie that this is some innocent woman who was out for
09:01a drive in Minneapolis. When a law enforcement officer shot at her, you should be ashamed of
09:05yourselves. Every single one of you questions. Thank you, Mr. Vice President. I wanted to read a
09:10quote from Tim Walz earlier today. He said, when things looked bleak, it was Minnesota's first that held
09:14the line for the nation on July 3rd, 1863. And I think we may be in that moment now. Can you comment on
09:21his rhetoric and Mayor Jacob Frye and whether they want to see unrest in Minneapolis?
09:25Well, that's very tough rhetoric from a guy who just quit because his fraudulent activities
09:29have been uncovered. Look, Tim Walz is a joke. His entire administration has been a joke. The idea
09:35that he's some sort of freedom fighter, he's not. He's a guy who has enabled fraud and maybe,
09:39in fact, has participated in fraud. That's what this new assistant attorney general position is going to
09:43find out. I don't care what Tim Walz says. I care about getting to the bottom of this fraud for the
09:47American people. And I care about enforcing the nation's immigration laws. That's what we're
09:51going to stay focused on.
09:52The Press on a related question here. I mean, Democrats have accused ICE of murder. They've said
09:57they're targeting Americans. They've told ICE to get the F out of Minnesota. This is going to stoke
10:03the fire against ICE agents. And you're talking about ICE agents right now, being concerned about them.
10:07What, if anything, is the administration going to do to make sure these folks are protected during
10:12these protests? But also, should DHS sort of revisit their procedures here? I mean, nobody wants to
10:18see an American killed. Are there changes that need to be made to make sure something like this
10:23doesn't happen again? Look, first of all, of course, nobody wants an American citizen to be killed.
10:27This is absolutely a tragedy. But it's a tragedy of the making of the far left. They have radicalized
10:34a very small segment of the population, taught them that ICE agents are engaging in wide-scale
10:40violation of people's rights. What our ICE officers are doing is deporting the millions of criminal
10:46aliens that were let in during the Biden administration. So number one, we have to say,
10:51as a matter of leadership, and I would appreciate if the Democrats would join me on this,
10:54let's be honest about the fact that we have way too many illegal aliens in this country. Our ICE
10:59officers should be supported in doing their job. You're trying to actually marshal the far-left
11:05lunatic fringe to engage in doxing, to try to make it impossible for them to enforce the law,
11:11and in some cases actually to engage in acts of domestic terrorism against our law enforcement
11:15officers. When you talk about different plans, different protocols, different policies, I forget
11:20exactly how you asked the question. Here's the simple fact. What we're going to do is make it easier for
11:25the American People's Administration to enforce the American People's Law. And that means that Democrats
11:31have to stop rallying the mob against legitimate law enforcement operations. And that means that we
11:38are going to get tougher, and that's what this AAG position is about. We're going to get tougher at the
11:42people who are defrauding the United States by inciting violence against our law enforcement officers.
11:50That's one of the things that we're going to do. We've already started that work at the Department of
11:53Justice, but we're going to keep on doing it. And this new AAG position is going to kick that into high gear.
11:58Vice President Vance, you just suggested that this woman who was killed, Renee Goode,
12:04is part of a broader left-wing network. Who do you think is behind this broader left-wing network?
12:10Well, it's one of the things we're going to have to figure out. But here's the way that I put it.
12:13When somebody throws a brick at an ICE agent, or somebody tries to run over an ICE agent,
12:18who paid for the brick? And who told protesters to show up and engage in violent activity against
12:24our law enforcement officers? You see just with this most recent terrible incident in Minneapolis,
12:30you see friends of this woman's or other people who are eyewitnesses saying basically that she was
12:35there to engage in obstruction of a legitimate law enforcement operation. How did she get there?
12:40How did she learn about this? There's an entire network, and frankly some of the media are
12:45participating in it, that is trying to incite violence against our law enforcement officers. It's
12:50ridiculous, it's preposterous, and part of our investigatory work is getting to the bottom of
12:55it. Who's funding it? Who's supporting it? Who's cheerleading it? And of course, if there's a legal
12:59activity related to that, we're going to get to the bottom of that and prosecute it where we can.
13:03The Press, Mr. Vice President, thank you for taking questions today. Is there a risk,
13:09with you describing her as a deranged leftist, talking about very specific facts of these events,
13:15when an investigation is just beginning? Are you preempting a thorough investigation by drawing such
13:21conclusions? And have you received any information beyond the videos we've seen publicly about this
13:27individual per specific acts that has informed your point of view?
13:31Mr. Well, first of all, the Department of Justice is going to investigate this. The Department of Homeland
13:36Security is already investigating this. But the simple fact is, what you see is what you get in this case.
13:41You have a woman who is trying to obstruct a legitimate law enforcement operation. Nobody
13:46debates that. You have a woman who aimed her car at a law enforcement officer and pressed on the
13:51accelerator. Nobody debates that. I can believe that her death is a tragedy, while also recognizing that
13:57it's a tragedy of her own making and a tragedy of the far left who has marshaled an entire movement,
14:03a lunatic fringe against our law enforcement officers. I think what is clearly happening here,
14:09and it's going to keep on happening unless the Democrats wake up and say, you know what,
14:13you don't have to agree with our immigration policies. You don't have to agree with what the
14:16President or the Vice President believe about immigration enforcement. But why don't you take
14:20this to the ballot box? Why don't you vote? Why don't you organize? Instead, what some of them are
14:25doing, what some of them are doing is encouraging people to get violent with our law enforcement officials.
14:31It's disgraceful, and it's got to stop.
14:33The Press, just to follow up on that question, and again, thank you for taking questions, Mr. Vice President.
14:38There's clearly a lot of emotion in Minnesota, across the country over this incident. You're
14:43calling Renee Good a deranged leftist. There's been heated rhetoric that we've also heard from
14:47officials. What responsibility do you and the President have to diffuse some of the tension
14:52that we are seeing play out in Minnesota, bring down the temperature as this investigation is unfolding?
14:57What we have a responsibility to do is to protect the people who are enforcing the law and protect the
15:02country writ large. Whether you're a Democrat or a Republican, you deserve to have the people's laws
15:07enforced in the United States of America. Now, again, I'm not happy that this woman
15:12lost her life. I'm not happy that this woman was there at a protest violating the law by interfering
15:18with a law enforcement action. I think that we can all recognize that the best way to turn down the
15:23temperature is to tell people to take their concerns about immigration policy to the ballot box.
15:28Stop assaulting and stop inciting violence against our law enforcement officers. That's the best way to
15:33take down the temperature. And we're not, look, we're not going to give in to terrorism on this.
15:39And that's exactly what's happening. People trying to antagonize, to commit acts of violence. They
15:44throw bricks at them. Sometimes they shoot at them. Sometimes they dox them. Sometimes they go to their
15:49place of residence and harass their families. This is classic terrorism. And we cannot say that when,
15:55when, when a far left fringe is inciting violence against our brave law enforcement officials,
16:01that we're no longer going to enforce the law. That's rewarding the very people who are engaged
16:05in this garbage. The actual reward that they just got is a new assistant attorney general who is
16:10going to prosecute and investigate this stuff even more, even more aggressively than before.
16:15The Press, President, thanks for taking my question.
16:20So the head of Minnesota's investigations agency says that the U.S. Attorney's Office has essentially cut off
16:26the state investigations agencies access to the investigation. What is the precedent for that?
16:31And why shouldn't the Minnesota officials on the ground have access and evidence to work on
16:36this investigation? First of all, I wish the state officials in Minnesota would investigate why you
16:41have so many people who are using their vehicles and other means to actually interfere with a legitimate
16:46law enforcement operation. The precedent here is very simple. You have a federal law enforcement official
16:51engaging in federal law enforcement action. That's a federal issue. That guy is protected by absolute
16:55immunity. He was doing his job. The idea that Tim Walz and a bunch of radicals in Minneapolis are going to
17:01go after and make this guy's life miserable because he was doing the job that he was asked to do is
17:07preposterous. The unprecedented thing is the idea that a local official can actually prosecute a federal
17:14official with absolute immunity. I've never seen anything like that. It would get tossed out by a judge.
17:19So what I'd like Minnesota to focus on is the real issue that they're encouraging people.
17:23Minneapolis officials are encouraging people to commit violence against ICE officials.
17:28It's ridiculous. It's got to stop. Go ahead.
17:30The Press, Mr. President, thank you. You said earlier that there's a left-wing
17:35network to attack, to dox, to assault, and make it impossible for ICE officers to do their job.
17:41You told my colleague just now that there's an investigation going on into that network.
17:48Yep.
17:48So if everything that you say is true, how does being part of that network justify being shot?
17:58Well, being part of the network doesn't justify being shot,
18:01but ramming an ICE officer with your car, that's what justifies being shot.
18:05It's not a good thing, by the way, but when you force somebody to engage in self-defense,
18:09it's almost a preposterous question. I'm not saying that funding
18:13some of this stuff justifies capital punishment. Nobody would suggest that.
18:18The reason this woman is dead is because she tried to ram somebody with her car,
18:22and that guy acted in self-defense. That is why she lost her life, and that is the tragedy.
18:27Now, there may be other violations of the law and other penalties that are associated with those
18:34violations of the law. For example, if you are funding violence against our law enforcement
18:40officers, I'm not a prosecutor. My guess is that's not the sort of thing that earns capital punishment,
18:45but it should sure as hell earn you a few years in prison if you're funding the effort to try to
18:49insult our law enforcement officers. What is it? I'm sorry, guys. What's going on here?
18:55You guys are meant to report the truth. How have you let yourself become agents of propaganda of a
19:02radical fringe that's making it harder for us to enforce our laws? You just asked me a question
19:07that presumed that the reason why this woman died is because she was engaged in a legitimate protest.
19:13She tried to run somebody over with her car, and the guy defended himself when that happened.
19:17Next question. The Press, the investigation is still ongoing.
19:19I said next question. The Press, Mr. Vice President,
19:21I mean, you presumably watched the video yourself. There's not the slightest doubt in your mind,
19:26having viewed it, that this, the victim, you still believe that she deliberately tried to ram him
19:34despite, despite seeing this video. Look, I don't know what is in a person's heart or in a person's
19:39head. And obviously, we're not going to get the chance to ask this woman what was going on. What
19:43I am certain of is that she violated the law. What I'm certain of is that that officer had every reason
19:47to think that he was under very serious threat for injury or, in fact, his life. What I'm certain of is
19:54that she accelerated in a way where she ran into the guy. I don't know what was in her heart and what was in
20:01her head, but I know that she violated the law and I know that officer was acting in self-defense.
20:05That's it. It raises an interesting point, though. Look, if people want to say that we should have a
20:10legitimate debate about, you know, what was she really doing, right? Was she panicking when she
20:15drove into this officer or was she actually trying to ram him? That's a reasonable conversation.
20:20What's not reasonable is for so many of you to plaster all over the media that this was an innocent
20:26woman and that the ICE agent committed murder, which is what many of you have said explicitly and some of you
20:31have said implicitly. That's what I have an objection to. The idea that this was not justified
20:37is absurd, and I think everybody knows it in their heart. Yeah.
20:40The Press, Mr. Vice President, in the green jacket.
20:42The Press, in the green jacket, it seems like political violence is ratcheting up and riots could
20:47be around the corner. What steps does the administration have planned to try to unite America?
20:52Average people on both political sides are so tired of fighting with each other, and I think all the journalists
20:57in this room could agree with me that we don't want to be part of the problem.
21:00Mr. I appreciate that.
21:02The Press, do you have any words to unite America?
21:03Mr. You know, I know you don't want to be a part of the problem, and I think that's true
21:06of a lot of you. I'm not sure it's true for everybody, because the reporting over this has
21:10been one of the biggest scandals I've ever seen in media. I've never seen a case so misrepresented and
21:16misreported when you have a guy who was defending himself and is now being treated as some sort of
21:21federal assassin by so many of the people in this room. First of all, let me say about crime. You
21:26mentioned violence. One of the things we're proudest about is that you saw violent crime over the last
21:31year drop by 20 percent. Why is that drop by 20 percent? Is it because we're attacking our law
21:37enforcement officers, or is it because we in the administration are empowering our law enforcement
21:41officers to enforce the law? I think that's one of the ways you take down the temperature is you make
21:45people feel more secure and safe in their person and property. That's why we care so much about
21:50protecting our law enforcement because it accrues to the benefit of the entire national community.
21:56I think that we can absolutely talk about the ways in which we can lower the temperature
22:03by discussing differences in a reasonable and rational way. Again, I'm happy to talk with any
22:09congressional Democrat or any of you about our immigration policy, about why I think it's necessary,
22:14about why I think it's in the best interest of the country, about why the President of the United
22:17States was elected to actually enforce the border for the first time in at least four years.
22:22So here's the problem. That's not the debate so many people are having. They are actively covering
22:28for people who are committing acts of violence against federal law enforcement. It is preposterous.
22:34The way to take down the temperature is to stop it. Have your debates about policy. Attack me.
22:38Attack the President of the United States. Don't attack our law enforcement officers.
22:42They are trying to do the job the American people demanded that they do. They are not policy actors.
22:49They are enforcing the law. They should be treated with a modicum of dignity and respect. And the fact
22:55that they're not is why incidents like yesterday happened. The one final point I'll make about this
22:59is, look, there's a part of me that feels very, very sad for this woman, not just because she lost her
23:06life, but because I think she is a victim of left-wing ideology. What young mother shows up and decides
23:13they're going to throw their car in front of ICE officers who are enforcing legitimate law?
23:18You've got to be a little brainwashed to get to that point to where you're willing, not just to protest,
23:23that's fine, not peacefully protest, but throw your vehicle in front of legitimate law enforcement
23:29officers and drive your car into them. To get to that point, you have to be,
23:34I think, radicalized in a very, very sad way. I certainly wish that she hadn't got there.
23:39I know there's an ICE officer right now who very much wishes he was not put in the position
23:43where he had to fire a gun to defend his own life.
23:45The Press, Mr. President, what's your message following up on that? What's your message to the
23:52leaders in Minnesota, the governor of Minnesota, the mayor of Minneapolis, to calm down the situation
23:59on the ground, on the streets? What's your message also to those protesters who saw that video in a
24:06completely different way than you saw that video? Well, first of all, I think if you watch every angle
24:11of that video, there is one angle where if you squint, you can maybe tell yourself that it's not clear
24:18what happened. But when you look at all angles of that video, it is very clear that her vehicle
24:23went right for the guy, she actually collided with him, and then that's, of course, when he fired his shots.
24:28That's obvious, okay? So what I'd say to the protesters is, by all means, protest peacefully,
24:34but make this about ideas. Make this about disagreement with our policy. Don't use your
24:39protest as a justification or an encouragement for people to go and incite violence and participate
24:46in violence against our law enforcement officials. To the people on the ground in Minneapolis,
24:50meaning the local officials in Minneapolis from Tim Wallace on down, I'd say, look,
24:55why can't you just disagree with a given piece of immigration policy without turning law enforcement
25:02into the enemy? And what, I mean, think about, for example, a criminal law where a police officer goes
25:09and arrests somebody because they violated a criminal law. If you're mad about that, go and protest the
25:14politician who passed that law. Don't attack the police officer who's just doing their job.
25:19We had a wide open border under Joe Biden. I happen to think it's a good thing that
25:23President of the United States has closed it down. If you think that's a bad idea,
25:26criticize this administration for a policy decision. Don't attack our people for enforcing the law,
25:32because I guarantee you go to ICE, there are black people and white people. There are Democrats and
25:37Republicans. They are patriotic Americans who are trying to enforce the law. Attack me, lay off of our ICE agents.
25:44Vice President. Yeah, in the blue, all the way, yeah. Thank you, Mr. Vice President. You called on
25:49Tim Wallace to resign. Can you lay out the case as to why he should step down? Well, look, I think
25:54Tim Wallace should resign because it's very clear either that he knew about the fraud in Minneapolis,
25:59he knew about the welfare fraud, or at the very least, he looked the other way. I mean, this is not,
26:05this is not like Lex Luthor, right? This is not movie villain fraud. This is the lowest
26:11IQ possible fraud. This is, we're going to take kids, or sorry, we're going to take the absence of
26:17kids and set up a daycare center where there are no children. And we're going to call our early
26:22childhood education center, the quality leering center. By the way, if you can't spell learning,
26:29maybe you shouldn't be in early childhood education, but people got rich off of this. We know that there
26:36were schools who either had no enrollment or at least they overstated their enrollment. Tim Waltz,
26:41either it was unbelievable incompetence or he was in on the fraud. That's one of the things we're
26:46going to get to the bottom of. Sir. Thank you, Mr. Vice President. Can you explain the difference
26:51between this associate attorney general and a special counsel? And do you envision this being a
26:56permanent position or having more of a limited scope? Well, it's going to be permanent until we get to
27:01the bottom of what's going on. So I think it's going to last for at least the remainder of the
27:05administration. What's different about it from a special counsel is if you remember
27:09the Jack Smith case where the special counsel was found unconstitutional, one of the big issues there
27:14is that that person was not an appointed person, completely aside from all the other issues that
27:20the person was a lunatic and that the case had no merit. There was a fundamental constitutional issue,
27:25which is that he had not been appointed by the president and he had not been confirmed by the
27:29United States Senate. An assistant or excuse me, an assistant attorney general, what that's going
27:34to allow us to do is appoint this person, have them confirmed by the Senate. That's one difference.
27:39The more substantive difference is that this person is going to be part of a very broad interagency
27:44White House that's being led from the president of the United States on down.
27:48And that's going to give them the resources, the access to material and information to make this
27:53person more effective. I think a lot of people have asked, how are you really going to get to the heart
27:57of the fraud? We've been asking ourselves that question for the past couple of months,
28:01and we think this is the critical piece at the Department of Justice to really ramp this fraud
28:06investigation into high gear. In the red tie, yeah. Vice President Vance, I wanted to ask,
28:12what's your message to far leftist agitators who feel emboldened to obstruct to ICE activity in
28:18Minnesota and around the country? Well, I think they shouldn't feel emboldened
28:21because now they have an assistant attorney general who is going to prosecute and investigate
28:25their fraud and their violence more aggressively than it has ever been investigated in the United
28:29States of America. We are doing so much to try to find the financing networks and the domestic
28:35terrorism networks that legitimate this violence, that fund this violence, and then of course engage
28:40in the violence. These people should not feel emboldened because they have for the first time,
28:44maybe in American history, an administration that is not going to tolerate political violence of any
28:50kind from anywhere. Yeah. We have been clear today that the entire weight of the federal
28:55government is behind these ICE agents and this ICE agent in particular. There is still a federal
29:00investigation happening on the ground. Does that mean that they are not looking into this ICE
29:04agent at all? They are just focused on the woman who is in the car? What is the investigation if the
29:10federal government has already determined that its weight is behind this ICE investigation?
29:13So what do you mean, when you say investigation, do you mean investigation of the shooting
29:17yesterday or of the fraud that's happening in Minneapolis? Okay, look, DHS, as I understand
29:22it, has an investigation already ongoing. I know that other organs of our government are looking at
29:26this. So yes, there is certainly an investigation that's happening right now. But as part of the
29:31broader fraud investigation, a lot of what we're doing with the Department of Justice has already
29:35started. We've got over 1,500 subpoenas. We've got people this morning, actually,
29:40we're going door to door to actually knock on some of these fraudulent care centers, these fraudulent social
29:45services organizations to get to the bottom of what's going on there. So the investigation
29:49in some ways has already been ramping up into the anti-fraud element for at least a few weeks.
29:55What we're trying to do is supercharge it and make sure there's a designated person
29:58within the Department of Justice who completely controls that particular focus.
30:02Just to follow up on that, Mr. Vice President, on the agent, is he still
30:08on duty? Or has he been placed on leave, on administrative leave? And what really was the
30:13target of the operation on Wednesday, of the ICE operation on Wednesday?
30:17Mr. Well, first of all, it was a legitimate law enforcement operation. We were going door
30:20to door to try to find criminal illegal aliens and deport them from the United States of America.
30:24Because if you come to our country illegally in violation of our immigration laws,
30:28then we have the mandate. And in fact, we have the legal duty to enforce those immigration laws.
30:33Whether he's been placed on administrative leave, I don't know the answer to that question. I'd refer
30:37to the Department of Homeland Security and they can follow up. I will say, look, I would appreciate
30:41everybody saying a prayer for that agent. Look, in the past six months, he has been hit twice
30:46by a motor vehicle. One time, the first time, it led to over 30 stitches and very serious injuries to
30:52his legs. This is a guy who's actually done a very, very important job for the United States of America.
30:58He's been assaulted. He's been attacked. He's been injured because of it. He deserves a debt of
31:03gratitude. And I think the media prejudging and talking about this guy as if he's a murderer
31:07is one of the most disgraceful things I've ever seen from the American media.
31:10The Press, Vice President, what is your specific role in the future of Venezuela?
31:15And I'm wondering, could you confirm reports that the Director of National Intelligence,
31:20Tulsi Gabbard, was kept out of the planning for the operations because of her past concerns
31:24about military involvement in Venezuela?
31:26So I've heard a couple of things. One, that I was kept out of the planning for the
31:30Venezuela operation. That's false. And another, that Tulsi was kept out of the planning for
31:34Venezuela operations. That's completely false. Look, we're all part of the same team. And one of the
31:38things that is really amazing about that operation is that we kept it very tight to the senior cabinet
31:44level officials and related officials in our government, and we kept this operation secret for
31:49a very long time. I'm very proud of that. I think it suggests that the team works very well together.
31:54Looking ahead, what is my role? Look, my role is going to be whatever the President asks me to do.
31:58The Press, Vice President, what is your role?
32:00Well, every single, or I should say every other day, I'm chairing the meeting that we do on this
32:04among White House principals to talk about next steps to try to ensure that Venezuela is stable.
32:09And as the President has directed us to do, to ensure that the new Venezuelan government
32:13actually listens to the United States and does what the United States needs it to do
32:18under our country's best interests. So I'm going to be as involved as the President wants me to be.
32:22So far, that's been very involved. And I'll keep on doing that so long as the President asks me to do it.
32:26The Press, Vice President, even beyond the War Powers Resolution.
32:31The Press, Vice President, we'll go purple and then we'll go paint or whatever that is in front.
32:34Oil, purple. And then beige.
32:35The Press, Vice President, are there any indications that the lady who was shot,
32:42I know there are different reports from there. Her wife said they were new to the area.
32:46Are there any indications she may have been a paid agitator? And maybe that there are others
32:50that were brought to the area, considering everything that's going on in Minneapolis?
32:55I wouldn't say that she was paid. I don't have the evidence to say that one way or the other.
32:58What I do know is that she was violating the law. And if you just look at the eyewitness accounts,
33:02they were saying she was there to prevent the enforcement of the law. She was trying to obstruct
33:07a legitimate law enforcement operation. That much is obviously clear. The rest of it, of course,
33:11is part of the reason why we investigate this stuff. Yeah.
33:14Mr. Vice President, even beyond the War Powers Resolution today,
33:18Congress has bucked President Trump on issues like tariffs. Are you concerned that President Trump
33:24is losing his grip on Republicans in Congress? And what are you going to do about it?
33:29No, I'm not concerned at all. First of all, you know, we talked to some of the senators who
33:32were going to vote the wrong way, in my view, on this resolution today.
33:35Much of their argument was based more on a legal technicality than any disagreement in policy.
33:39If you look at the people who actually voted, every single one of them have supported the
33:43administration's plan. Second of all, as the President, I believe himself has already said,
33:47every President, Democrat or Republican, believes the War Powers Act is fundamentally
33:52a fake and unconstitutional law. It's not going to change anything about how we conduct
33:56foreign policy over the next couple of weeks, the next couple of months.
34:00And that will continue to be how we approach things. Go ahead.
34:02Mr. President, so we are seeing regarding Iran, we are seeing the protests in Iran these days.
34:07The citizens are begging for help from the U.S. and Israel,
34:10naming streets in the city after President Trump. It seems there is an opportunity here
34:15that may not come again. Will the United States stand by the citizens of Iran? And if Israel
34:20decides to strike again the nuclear sites in Iran, is the U.S. expected to take part?
34:25Mr. Well, look, we certainly stand by anybody who's engaged in peaceful protests,
34:29anybody who's trying to exert their rights for free association and to have their voices heard.
34:33Obviously, the Iranian regime has a lot of problems. And as the President of the United
34:36States has said, the smartest thing for them to have done, it was true two months ago,
34:40it's true today, is for them to actually have a real negotiation with the United States
34:46about what we need to see when it comes to their nuclear program.
34:49I'll let the President speak to what we're going to do in the future,
34:51but we certainly stand with anybody across the world, including the Iranian people,
34:55who are advocating for their rights. I'll take just a couple of more questions.
34:57Thank you very much, Mr. Vice President. Concerning Venezuela,
35:04how would you assure the Caribbean region that they will remain a zone of peace?
35:09Because some member states in the region are concerned.
35:12Mr. Well, look, the President had a very productive phone call with the
35:16President of Colombia yesterday, and we continue to talk at all levels of
35:19government with a number of our friends in the Caribbean region.
35:21I actually think this is really good for peace in the Caribbean, because when you take away
35:26a major source of illegal cartel revenue, which is the cocaine trade, the fentanyl trade,
35:31other sources of illicit revenue, you actually remove the power of one of the main destabilizing
35:37forces in Latin America and in the Caribbean. I really do think, look, we say it all the time,
35:42this is the President of Peace. One of the ways that you establish peace in your own hemisphere is to
35:47make it clear that the United States is going to be respected, that the United States is willing to
35:51take power away from criminal cartel organizations and give it to legitimate governments.
35:56That's how we see the future of the Western Hemisphere, and we think it's going to be much more
36:00peaceful than it was certainly under Joe Biden. I'll take one more question. Go ahead.
36:04The Press on Greenland, do you have a message for European leaders?
36:09Many in Europe reject the idea that the island could be forsaken.
36:13Mr. Well, first of all, Secretary Rubio, I believe, is meeting with the leaders of
36:18Denmark and Greenland next week, I want to say it is, but maybe it's the week after that.
36:22We'll continue to deliver some of these messages in private, some of them in public,
36:26but I guess my advice to European leaders and anybody else would be to take the President
36:30of the United States seriously. What has he said about Greenland? Set to the side the crazy
36:36overreactions that I've seen from the press and from certain people in Europe. What has the President
36:40said? Number one, Greenland is really important, not just to America's missile defense,
36:45but to the world's missile defense. Number two, we know that there are hostile adversaries that
36:50have shown a lot of interest in that particular territory, that particular slice of the world.
36:54So what we're asking our European friends to do is to take the security of that landmass more
36:59seriously, because if they're not, the United States is going to have to do something about it.
37:03What that is, I'll leave that to the President as we continue to engage in diplomacy with our European
37:08friends and everybody on this particular topic. And again, thank you all for listening,
37:12thanks for taking questions. And I just ask you, look, this is politics and often Republicans and
37:18get in arguments with the press about things, and I understand that.
37:22I think it's really irresponsible for you guys to go out there and imply or tell the American people
37:28that a guy who defended himself from being rammed by an automobile is guilty of murder. Be a little
37:35bit more careful. We're going to talk about toning down the temperature, which I know the President
37:38wants to do, and I certainly want to do. One of the ways we tone down the temperature is to have
37:42a media that tells the truth. I encourage you all to do that. God bless you.
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