Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) slammed NBC News host Kristen Welker during an interview on Sunday after she deceptively framed a question.
The exchange happened on “Meet The Press” while the two were talking about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and what a Trump-Vance administration would do.
Welker pressed Vance to call Russian President Vladimir Putin an “enemy” instead of an “adversary”.
“Well, we’re not in a war with him, and I don’t want to be in a war with Vladimir Putin’s Russia,” he said. “I think that we should try to pursue avenues of peace.”
“We can recognize, obviously, that we have adversarial interests with Russia,” he continued. “We can condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and I have, and of course the president has. But we also need to engage in some smart diplomacy if we’re ever going to get out of the mess that Kamala Harris has left us in and…
