Steve Inskeep

Members of Netanyahu's cabinet have called this deal, quote, bad for Israel.

And Vance said this in response yesterday.

Donald J. Trump is the only head of state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel at this moment in time.

And he happens to be the head of state of the world's superpower.

If I was in the cabinet of the Israeli government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that I have anywhere left in the entire world.

Really rare for an American official to publicly dress down Israel like that, which says things we could maybe discuss about politics in America, but also about the pressure on Vance.

Yeah, and he's obviously in a very difficult position here.

And yesterday he appeared defensive when he was pressed about the details of the agreement with Iran.

Vance said, quote, we don't trust words.

We trust action and we trust conduct.

And so we're going to reward conduct and we're not going to reward any words, whether they're written on a sheet of paper or not.

There's a lot of discussion, the MOU, the gentleman's agreements, the final deal.

Words don't matter, ladies and gentlemen.

We're about verifications.

And Steve, you know, some might question here that if the Trump administration doesn't trust words, why sign an agreement in the first place?

When President Trump was asked at the G7 summit in France what he would do should Iran not adhere to the agreement, here's what he said.

No, we're going to bomb the hell out of them if they violate the agreement.

How did Iran respond to that, Rob?

So Iran's Speaker of Parliament shot back at Trump this morning in a post on X saying that if there is a breach of the agreement, Iran will, quote, have no hesitation in delivering a crushing response to the enemy.

And it should be noted here that the very first article of the agreement promises that both sides will cease all military operations.