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President Donald Trump's strategy to impose tariffs is resulting in rapid results, as Mexico has agreed to send thousands of its troops to help secure its border with America in exchange for a temporary pause in tariffs on its products.
"I just spoke with President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico," Trump posted on Truth Social.
"It was a very friendly conversation wherein she agreed to immediately supply 10,000 Mexican Soldiers on the Border separating Mexico and the United States.
"These soldiers will be specifically designated to stop the flow of fentanyl, and illegal migrants into our Country.
"We further agreed to immediately pause the anticipated tariffs for a one month period during which we will have negotiations headed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent, and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, and high-level Representatives of Mexico.
"I look forward to participating in those negotiations, with President Sheinbaum, as we attempt to achieve a 'deal' between our two Countries."
It's not just Mexico that has been targeted for tariffs by Trump. America's northern neighbor of Canada is also in U.S. crosshairs.
Trump said Monday morning: "Canada doesn't even allow U.S. Banks to open or do business there. What's that all about?"
"Many such things, but it's also a DRUG WAR, and hundreds of thousands of people have died in the U.S. from drugs pouring through the Borders of Mexico and Canada.
"Just spoke to Justin Trudeau. Will be speaking to him again at 3:00 P.M."
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The state of California has been caught pushing occult religions on children, with counseling to consider "Tarot and Tidings," your own "high priestess," and situations "where your magic grows," according to a report at Harbingers Daily.
It is the Department of Healthcare Services in California that pays for and promotes to children a website called Soluna.
It boasts of being free and completely anonymous.
It calls itself, "your space to destress, bounce back, and reset. Completely free and confidential for California teens and young adults."
And it offers one-on-one counseling: "Connect with a trained Soluna Coach whenever you need someone in your corner. Whether you're looking to talk right now or want to schedule ahead, our coaches are here for you. No insurance needed, no session limits, and absolutely free – just open, judgment-free support on your terms."
But the report explains how the app "advises teens to drop Christianity and embrace the occult."
The so-called "mental health" app actually promotes "the occult, the New Age, homosexuality, transgenderism, fornication, and more," the report said. "The attack on biblical principles and precepts is clear."
One "lesson" cited in the report is called "Tarot and Tidings: a holiday spread to protect your peace."
It promotes children creating "your own reality" and tells them to get ready to cast a "spell."
Then the series promotes a "high priestess" that students must "channel."
"Another lesson in the mental-health app is titled 'Coming out to immigrant parents: parent POV,'" the report said.
Also there are ubiquitous promotions for "physical intimacy," encouraging fornication.
In that chapter it promotes doing "whatever you're comfortable with," as long as there's "consent" and "protection."
"It even encourages children to consider whether they want to be monogamous or polyamorous, having numerous sexual partners at the same time, as if this were normal," the report explained.
Promoting ideology that directly conflicts with the Bible, it suggests slogans such as "everything is temporary," "I am good enough," and "I am worthy of a happy and fulfilling life."
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Beautiful little babies born without arms, or without legs, or suffering other extreme deformities. I still remember, as a young boy, paging through the latest issue of Life magazine and seeing all these shocking and heart-breaking photos. An estimated 10,000 children had been born with such severe deformities in a short period of time, most of them in Europe, though a small number in the U.S.
Introduced as a sedative to help pregnant women with morning sickness, anxiety or sleeplessness, thalidomide has long been regarded as the cause of one of the greatest medical scandals in world history.
That was 1962. Two years later, in 1964, the surgeon general of the United States revealed with maximum publicity that smoking tobacco – at the time widespread, heavily advertised and glorified throughout the culture – causes cancer. Oops.
Fast forward to today, in a time of much greater scientific and medical knowledge, experience and supposedly far stricter drug-testing requirements … and everything is worse.
How can that possibly be?
A brief overview of Americans' alarmingly declining health demonstrates conclusively that "Make America Healthy Again," the new Trump administration agenda inspired and led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., couldn't be more vital – indeed, crucial. Consider:
* The U.S. is in the grip of a full-blown obesity epidemic, with well over 200 million Americans – including millions of children – being overweight or obese. According to the CDC, over 40% of adults in the United States are clinically obese – a serious medical condition – in stark contrast with the 1950s, when approximately 10% of U.S. adults were obese.
* The number of American children and adults with autism spectrum disorders has exploded, rising by 175% over just the last decade. One out of every 36 children in the U.S. has been diagnosed with autism, up from 1 in 44 as recently as 2021. In contrast, during the 1950s, autism was virtually nonexistent, afflicting between 0.01% and 0.05% of Americans born during that decade.
* Early-onset cancer cases rose almost 80% over the last three decades and show no signs of slowing down. One major 2022 study reveals the incidence of early-onset cancers – including breast, colon, esophagus, kidney, liver and pancreas – has been dramatically increasing since around 1990.
* A staggering 38 million Americans are suffering from diabetes, a number expected to increase to almost 55 million in the next five years. During the late 1950s, the prevalence of diabetes in the U.S. was estimated to be 9 cases per 1,000 people, for a total of 1 million cases.
What's going on? Why is the health of Americans degrading so radically? With the rapid growth of knowledge and technology, including medical technology, one might expect the exact opposite to be the case – that everyone's health would be ever improving.
Yet Americans are becoming less and less healthy, including, tragically, the nation's children. Statistics vary, but as many as half of America's children are dealing with some sort of chronic health issue, up from less than 1% five decades ago.
Obviously, with Americans' health in crisis, the goal to "Make America Healthy Again" is welcome and necessary. But there's one major obstacle to achieving this goal that needs to be addressed up front.
They all lied
As deadly and traumatizing as the COVID-19 pandemic was, it did bring about a mass awakening in at least one important area: Americans discovered they absolutely could not trust the government agencies tasked with safeguarding their health. From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to the Food and Drug Administration, to the National Institutes of Health and other branches of the federal Department of Health and Human Services, they all lied to Americans, either explicitly or by willful suppression of the truth.
Most visible, of course – and setting the standard for all other government bureaucrats – was Dr. Anthony Fauci, longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, under the NIH. Fauci acted the part of the kindly, grandfatherly presidential adviser on all things COVID. Unfortunately, he turned out to be a classic sociopath, smiling while lying about virtually everything – from mask-wearing (he initially admitted the truth, that masks are ineffective, only later doing a full 180 and insisting on universal masking, even outdoors!) to imposing the "six-foot rule" (later admitting this arbitrary rule was based on exactly zero science), to perversely denying that natural immunity provided ideal protection against COVID-19 just as it does for other viruses – a pivotal and unconscionable lie that flung open the doors to ruthless vaccine mandates.
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PALM BEACH, Florida – President Donald Trump went on a Truth Social posting spree Sunday evening, with one of his messages blasting Democrats in the U.S. Senate who are delaying confirmation of his nominees.
"Democrats are purposefully delaying virtually all of my Nominees," Trump began.
"No matter how good and well qualified someone is, they are taking maximum time for approval – and laughing about it. They're having a good time at the Country's expense and safety. If George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were nominated for a position, the Democrats would take it out to the last moment before having to approve. It is disgraceful!
"They can't get over the landslide loss suffered in the Presidential Election. But the Democrats don't understand, with what they're doing, that their losses will only get greater. Republicans must GET TOUGH – AND MUST GET TOUGH VERY FAST. We need our Nominees NOW, for the Safety and Good of our Country!"
Trump also defended his slapping of tariffs on Canada and Mexico.
"Anybody that's against Tariffs, including the Fake News Wall Street Journal, and Hedge Funds, is only against them because these people or entities are controlled by China, or other foreign or domestic companies," Trump indicated.
"Anybody that loves and believes in the United States of America is in favor of Tariffs. They should have never ended, in favor of the Income Tax System, in 1913. The response to Tariffs has been FANTASTIC!
The president mentioned some good news concerning the water situation in fire-ravaged California.
"The water is flowing in California," Trump noted. "These once empty 'halfpipes' are now brimming with beautiful, clean water, and heading to farmers throughout the State, and to Los Angeles.
"Too bad they refused to do this during my First Term – There would have been no fires! I want to thank our Great Military, and the Army Corps of Engineers, for their LOVE of our Country, and SPEED in getting this Emergency DONE!"
Trump also talked about land grabs taking place in South Africa, and threatened legal action against that nation.
"South Africa is confiscating land, and treating certain classes of people VERY BADLY. It is a bad situation that the Radical Left Media doesn't want to so much as mention. A massive Human Rights VIOLATION, at a minimum, is happening for all to see.
"The United States won't stand for it, we will act. Also, I will be cutting off all future funding to South Africa until a full investigation of this situation has been completed!"
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JERUSALEM – Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to Washington, D.C., on Sunday morning as he heads for crucial talks later this week with U.S. President Donald Trump, with the two having a wide range of issues to discuss.
While Netanyahu becomes the first foreign leader to be hosted at the Trump 2.0 White House, there will likely be many dedicate negotiations, including the continuation (or not) of the current ceasefires with both Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, the hostages-for-security prisoners "deal" with regard to the war with the Strip's terrorist rulers, the situation with Iran's nuclear ambitions, and the possibility of normalization with Saudi Arabia.
At the steps of the Wings of Zion plane – Israel's version of Air Force One – Netanyahu told reporters he thought the fact President Trump's first meeting with a foreign leader was with him was "telling."
"I think it's a testimony to the strength of the Israeli-American alliance. It's also a testimony to the strength of our personal friendship," Netanyahu added.
The prime minister referenced the impact Trump – and his negotiating team – had in securing the Abraham Accords and the peace deals emanating from them, as Israel normalized relations with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan. Netanyahu explained Israel's prosecution of its Swords of Iron war, initiated when Hamas invaded the country, bursting across its border and massacring more than 1,200 people, had "changed the face of the Middle East."
With Hamas having admitted one of the catalysts for starting the war was the perception Israel-Saudi normalization were imminent, it seems its action worked; the Israel-Saudi normalization track has been all but shelved since Oct. 7, and it appears Riyadh will only offer it as part of a deal to put the Palestinians on a path to statehood.
"I believe we can strengthen security, broaden the circle of peace, and achieve a remarkable era of peace through strength," Netanyahu said.
It is thought Netanyahu was specifically referencing the prospect of Israel-Saudi peace, with Israel's Kan public broadcaster reporting Trump – who would likely have delivered normalization between the two if he had continued in office following the 2020 election – viewing peace between Jerusalem and Riyadh as part of the president's vision for a "golden age of peace in the Middle East."
Netanyahu's visit comes at a fork in the road moment, as the negotiations for the second part of a complex three-part ceasefire deal are supposed to commence shortly, although the prime minister is likely keeping his options open until the conclusion of his discussions with Trump.
The prime minister has a tricky domestic political situation to manage, not least from his right-wing coalition partner Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich. On Trump's election, Smotrich – who called the president a "lover of Israel" – said it was an opportunity to push for Israel's annexation of Judea and Samaria.
"A great deal is at stake – complete victory in Gaza, the destruction of Hamas and the return of all our hostages, strengthening our security on all borders – in Syria, Lebanon, and of course against the head of the octopus, the Iranian regime and the nuclear threat. This danger must be removed," Smotrich insisted on Sunday in a video message aimed at Netanyahu.
It is thought Netanyahu will hold a meeting with Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff the day before he is due to hold talks with the president, regarding the initiation of the second stage of the hostage deal with Hamas. However, reports in Israel have emerged the prime minister is seriously considering a return to the war after the first phase of the deal has been completed.
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President Donald Trump recently signed a series of executive orders for the military, addressing transgenderism, diversity, COVID-19 and more.
One of them offers to reinstate service members forced out of the military as a result of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's now-rescinded August 2021 vaccine mandate.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem will be tasked with ensuring both active and reserve components of the military who request reinstatement will be restored to their prior rank and provided back pay and benefits.
Fox News recently reported that, according to a White House fact sheet, "After the vaccine mandate was repealed in 2023, only 43 of the more than the 8,000 troops dismissed elected to return to service under the Biden Administration and Secretary Austin."
According to Trump's EO, "Federal Government redress of any wrongful dismissals is overdue." For many, it's a big step in the right direction, but is it enough to persuade former members of the military to return to service? This writer has personally spoken to hundreds of service members over the past three years who desire accountability for the military's unlawful enforcement of the shot mandate.
Specifically, 10 USC §1107a codifies that servicemembers must have the right to informed consent, which was not provided to them during the Biden administration. Each should have had the option to accept or refuse the shot, but rather, most were either coerced or booted from service.
Additionally, 21 USC § 360bbb requires that products with Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) can be used only when there is no other approved drug available. Yet prior to the FDA pulling the trigger on a vaccine authorized for "emergency use only," effective drugs including ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine were available.
Yet for many service members, the experimental injection was the their only option to remain in the military. Those who objected were uniformly denied. Many others attempting to avoid the shot were coerced. In fact, in a survey conducted by this writer in 2022 and published by the Epoch Times, "More than 72 percent of individuals serving in the U.S. military who responded to a survey said they felt 'coerced' into receiving a COVID-19 vaccine and/or booster after the Pentagon's 2021 vaccine mandate."
So, while many are thankful for Trump's order, some former and current members of the U.S. military are also seeking accountability for the wrongs they've endured.
WorldNetDaily spoke to John Frankman, a former Army Captain and Special Forces Green Beret whose career was cut short because of the mandate. He is "incredibly grateful" that Trump signed the executive order to reinstate service members.
Yet, while he is thankful the order is "a little more inclusive" than he expected, he said, "it needs to be much broader." He suggested the inclusion of "help for people to get their careers back on track, [considering] all the career losses, as well as the lost appointments, promotions and school opportunities."
"It needs to include accountability," Frankman added. "What hasn't been acknowledged is that the order was illegal, that it violated religious rights, and that there are flag officers who broke the law and need to be held accountable for it."
After all, with respect to accountability, President Trump once told Frankman, "Yeah … there would be accountability, is right. We'll fire their asses."
Accountability is extremely important to service members like Robert A. Green, Jr., an active duty Navy Commander and author of "Defending the Constitution Behind Enemy Lines," who expressed his thoughts about the executive order on X. Interestingly, CDR Green is also author of the Declaration of Military Accountability, which was signed by 231 service members and veterans in an effort right the wrongs of the COVID-19 shot mandate.
While Green is thankful to President Trump for the executive order, he also admitted, "There is much work left to do."
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JERUSALEM – Three more Israeli hostages were released Saturday as the first phase of the ceasefire continues to hold with a slow drip of captured Israelis being exchanged in a one-sided shakedown with Palestinian security prisoners. One of those released was Israeli civilian Yarden Bibas, about whose wife, Shiri and two young sons, Ariel, and Kfir, four years old and nine months, respectively, at the time of their kidnapping, there is increasing concern for their well-being.
Where other captives – whether under Hamas duress or a palpable sense of relief their release – have managed to crack a smile, Yarden Bibas looked a broken man. And if the gruesome details of his illegal incarceration are anything to go by, entirely unsurprising he seems as though the weight of the world is resting on his shoulders. His father and sister welcomed him back to Israel, where he did manage to smile at the reunion. He was also reunited with his mother, although the family have said, "A quarter of our heart is back – respect his privacy." He survived captivity with "immense bravery and has now returned to an unbearable reality."
Officially, Israel is unaware of the rest of the Bibas family's condition, although the IDF has expressed "grave concern" over their fate, with effectively nothing being heard from or about them, since Hamas claimed in 2024 they died in captivity. The terrorist group likes to ratchet up the national psychological torture by suggesting they died in an airstrike or the IDF operating in the area, and Israel's demand last week for further information from Hamas either about their whereabouts or condition was stonewalled.
Yarden Bibas was forced to participate in a macabre Hamas propaganda video in November 2023, in which the psychopaths who took him, filmed his response to being told his wife and children were dead. As of February 2025 it is still not clear what has happened to his family, but the fact his captors would treat him this way is an indication of the kind of barbarity Israel is dealing with.
Indeed, there was some concern among hospital staff for Bibas' health upon his repatriation, although this was somewhat mollified when he was seen to smile. However, and without diminishing the experiences of those former hostages already released, there is an admittance his return to any semblance of psychological balance will likely be a longer road, considering the brutality of his treatment.
The stories emerging from the other hostages paint a picture of extreme deprivation of food, sunlight, and basic human needs. Hostages were frequently moved between safe houses and tunnels, with many kept in solitary confinement, and subjected to forced labor.
For the other former hostages, with the exception of Bibas, their nightmare in one sense is at an end. There are those who will rejoice knowing their partner and/or children either survived the Hamas onslaught on Oct. 7 or they were previously released in the November 2023 deal.
For others there will be pain and tears, now knowing their loved ones did not manage to escape the inferno which engulfed southern Israel on that black Sabbath. However, for Yarden Bibas, there is only uncertainty and emptiness for the family he so desperately hopes will be returned to him.
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JERUSALEM – Middle East/Israel Morning Brief
Released Palestinian prisoners given bracelets with powerful Bible quote
Palestinian prisoners released in the third and fourth rounds of the hostage deal's first phase received bracelets from the Israel Prison Service with an Arabic inscription from the Book of Psalms, reading: "The eternal nation does not forget; I will pursue my enemies and overtake them."
Signs with the same message were displayed in IPS detention facilities as part of a psychological campaign alongside the prisoner releases. The translation on the bracelets was written in formal Arabic, which many prisoners struggled to understand, according to Ynet.
"No matter what they write, will it change anything?" a Palestinian Prisoners Affairs official said. "It's a gesture of provocation and threat, but beyond that, it has no meaning. All the prisoners removed IPS-issued clothing, including the bracelet meant to insult them."
The International Red Cross criticized the IPS, arguing the method of shackling and the use of the bracelets harmed the prisoners. During the release process, one prisoner felt unwell and was treated by IPS medical staff.
Israel released 183 prisoners on Saturday – 143 were transferred from Ketziot Prison in the Negev to Gaza, eight were deported to Egypt and 32 were released to Judea and Samaria from Ofer Prison, after which celebrations were held in Ramallah.
Trump to ISIS: 'WE WILL FIND YOU, AND WE WILL KILL YOU'
In fewer than 14 days, the Trump 2.0 administration has shown more resolve and willingness to take on America's enemies across the world than former U.S. President Joe Biden, former Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, and former Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, managed in four unimpressive years.
On Saturday, President Trump directed a military attack on a high-ranking ISIS leader and his cohorts in Somalia – sending a resounding message to terrorists the world over in just his second week in office, the New York Post reported.
Trump announced the bold airstrikes on his Truth Social network: "These killers, who we found hiding in caves, threatened the United States and our Allies. The strikes destroyed the caves they live in, and killed many terrorists without, in any way, harming civilians.
"The message to ISIS and all others who would attack Americans is that 'WE WILL FIND YOU, AND WE WILL KILL YOU!'" Trump warned.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said "multiple operatives were killed" in the airstrikes, further degrading "ISIS's ability to plot and conduct terrorist attacks threatening U.S. citizens, our partners, and innocent civilians." He added the U.S. forces worked with Somali authorities to carry out the offensive.
Netanyahu leaves for historic talks with Trump on hostage deal, Iran, Gaza
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu departed for Washington on Sunday, where he is set to meet with senior US officials and U.S. President Donald Trump in a high-level diplomatic visit, the Jerusalem Post reported.
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JERUSALEM – On Saturday, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz tapped Maj. Gen. (res.) Eyal Zamir to be the Israel Defense Forces' next chief of staff.
He is set to take up his post on March 6, becoming the IDF's 24th chief of staff, following the incumbent Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi's resignation in the wake of the intelligence failures on Oct. 7, 2023.
Zamir, 59, who was considered one of the front-runners for the post, is the current director general of the Defense Ministry, will be the first IDF chief to come out of the Armored Corps since David (Dado) Elazar in the 1970s, according to the Jewish News Syndicate. Zamir, however, becomes the first IDF chief of staff to commence his military career in the Armored Corps.
It must be hoped Zamir's tenure is more successful than both his immediate predecessor Halevi, and Elazar, who despite being a talented general, was found accountable by the Agranat Commission in 1974 for the IDF's lack of preparedness ahead of the Yom Kippur War. These two examples highlight how costly allowing the military to get into such a state – whether they were directly responsible for it or not – is for a chief of staff.
Previously, Zamir served as deputy chief of staff from 2018 to 2021, and before that, he led the Southern Command from 2015 to 2018. Prior to that, he was Netanyahu's military secretary.
Netanyahu and Katz's choice is not a rubber stamp, Zamir's appointment – like the chief of police or the governorship of the Bank of Israel – must be vetted by the Senior Appointments Advisory Committee. Following progress through that body, a nominee is confirmed via a cabinet vote.
Halevi, who had long been expected to resign when the fighting in Gaza and Lebanon had wound down somewhat – although it could pick up again if the fragile ceasefires are broken – had only served around half of the usual four-year chief of staff term. However, he congratulated his successor.
"I have known Eyal for many years, and I am sure that he will lead the IDF forward in the face of the expected challenges and wish him great success," Halevi said in a statement Saturday.
"In the coming weeks, we will complete a professional and high-quality handover," he added.
With Halevi's deputy Maj. Gen. Amir Baram standing down at the end of February, it is not immediately clear who Zamir's number two will be. Zamir will be responsible for appointing numerous commanders, both as a result of appointments being on hold during the Swords of Iron war, and because several senior generals are expected to follow Halevi's lead and resign following the failures of Oct. 7.
As with every major decision to affect Israel, there have been proponents for Zamir's elevation to chief of staff, while others have opposed it, in favor of others such as Maj. Gen. David Zini, who currently has the unenviable task of attempting to recruit ultra-Orthodox soldiers into the IDF.
In Zamir's favor is his hard-line stance on the Iranian nuclear threat, as well as his spearheading of efforts to greatly ramp up domestic weapons production assuaging fears there was an over reliance on foreign imports.
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PALM BEACH, Florida – Vice President JD Vance is doubling down on President Donald's Trump's suggestion that woke hiring policies of the Obama and Biden administrations may have been factors in the deadly collision between an American Airlines flight and a military helicopter that killed 67 people at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport last week.
Appearing on "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo, Vance explained: "Here's the specific way in which I think the DEI policies of the last administration, the Obama administration contributed to where we are.
"We have a massive shortage of air-traffic controllers and, in fact, there have been a number of lawsuits from people who would like to become air-traffic controllers against the Obama and Biden administration who basically said we were told not even to the apply because of the color of our skin, because they were white people who wanted to be air-traffic controllers, and under the DEI regime of the Biden administration, they weren't welcome.
"What does that mean? Number one, it means we don't have the best and the brightest sometimes in these positions. But even more importantly than that, even when we do get really good people, they're going to be way overstressed because they're working long hours, because air-traffic controllers are short staffed.
"And we have known going back years … I was on the Commerce Committee in the Senate. We knew for years that we had a shortage at air-traffic control.
"Well, part of the reason why we had a shortage at air-traffic control is because we were telling our air-traffic controllers not to hire people because of the color of their skin. That is a scandal, and it is a scandal, thankfully, that has stopped under the leadership of President Trump.
"It's why I'm actually optimistic about aviation safety, but it's also why we've had too many near misses and, unfortunately, a fatal crash just a couple days ago."
Bartiromo asked the vice president: "Do you have any if evidence that any of those hires that were there at the control Wednesday night were DEI hires?"
Vance replied: "The president's been very clear about, this is in the saying that the person who was at the controls is a DEI hire, but let's just say, first of all, we should investigate everything. But let's just say the person at the controls didn't have enough staffing around him or her because we were turning people away because of DEI reasons.
There is a very correct connection between the policies of the last administration and short-staffed air-traffic controllers. That has to stop. And, by the way, it's so funny the me, the media has … picked up on this. The president made very clear that he wasn't blaming anybody, but he was being very explicit about the fact that DEI policies have led our air-traffic controllers to be short staffed.
"That is a scandal. Thankfully, the it's a scandal that the president has stopped."
Vance was also asked if he plans to run for president in 2028.
"We'll see what happens come 2028," he responded.
"The best thing for my future is actually the best thing for the American people which is that we do a really good job over the next three and a half years. So, we'll cross the political bridge when we come to it.