VP Pool Report #8 - Vance quotes from gaggle

Your pooler has heard there was an issue with the audio in the Otter link for VP Vance's gaggle today. Apologies. If it gets fixed will resend. In meantime, here are direct quotes from the three questions Vance took:

On reports that Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei was wounded in air strikes.

"It's obviously a very chaotic environment over there. And you have the Israelis striking, you have, obviously the United States striking a number of targets. So we know that he's hurt. We don't know exactly how bad, but we know that he's hurt."

On the school strike:

"We've got to complete the investigation. Right? Before you do anything, you have to actually understand what happened. I don't think we fully understand what happened there. The President has made it clear he wants it fully investigated.So that's what we're doing."

On a philosophical difference Vance may have with POTUS on Iran:

"When you're thinking about a major decision like this, the way the President makes these decisions is he talks to a lot of people. Obviously we're thinking about various ins and outs, various options, what this looks like, how to accomplish our goals, what our goals should be. And I think it's important for the President of the United States to be able to have that conversation with his team, without his team, then running their mouths to the American media. So part of what makes our national security team so cohesive is that we all trust each other, and we all have a very free exchange of ideas. I'd like to keep that going."

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Daniel Bush

Washington correspondent

BBC News

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