Fox co-host: “I'm kind of disappointed in the vice president”
Lawrence Jones: “Being moderate when it comes to Israel, that is not the Republican position"
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From the July 16, 2026, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends
BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): Everyone's got an AOC and a squad in their country. Democracies — there's always a renegade group. But no one wants the Iran war to go on perpetually. Iran exists, and their main focus is eliminating Israel. Do you want them just to absorb every rocket? They have to be proactive. And when you cut a deal that doesn't address their ballistic missiles, of course they're beginning to be concerned about the MOU.
LAWRENCE JONES (CO-HOST): I'm kind of disappointed in the vice president. You know me, I am not what you would call a hawk. I'm pretty — but I understand what the defense of the country means and our greatest ally means. Part of the comments that concern me wasn't even so much of that one, it's that he said that he found himself to be a moderate on the issue with Israel. That's not what the president stands for — president made it very clear with that, it's our closest ally, and that we will work with them.
Now there are some times where the president says that he needs to call Bibi off a little bit, that he wants to go a little further than the president is comfortable with, because he's balancing what's happening in the Arab world and what's happening, you know, with Israel as well. But to say that there are people that are on air that are trying to pressure the administration some way in the advancement of Israel and not our own country's interest, that is categorically false. I don't know what that report that's going around, but that's not what the president stands for. So that was disappointing. He's always welcome on our program to talk about it, but being moderate when it comes to Israel, that is not the Republican position.
KILMEADE: And Iran is an enemy — Iran calls us their main enemy. They have our president in a coffin and Lindsey Graham with a target.
AINSLEY EARHARDT (CO-HOST): Yes.
KILMEADE: So come on. This is not Israel's agenda. It's America's agenda.
EARHARDT: Correct. And they yell death to America. They want to wipe Israel off the face — that's who they are. That's who they are. Don't forget it.