“I expect that I will leave sometime the next couple of days” to join US negotiators Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff in Switzerland for talks with Iran, Vice President JD Vance says in an interview with Fox News.
For some forces in Iran, no agreement is a good agreement with the United States.
On June 16, Vice President JD Vance released his new book, "Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith.” It’s a memoir detailing his straying from the Christianity of his youth, his journey to atheism, and his return to faith through conversion to Catholicism in 2019.In a recent exclusive interview with Glenn Beck, Vance opened up about his faith journey. “Can you talk a little bit about the moment you chose to commit [to faith]?” Glenn begins.In the summer of 2018, Vance visited a Catholic cathedral. At this time, he was “curious about Christianity” but “wasn’t yet ready to commit.”“It was completely empty, and I felt this kind of sense of despair. ... There was nobody praying. It felt almost lifeless. And then there was just this beautiful sort of ray of light that came through the stained glass windows,” he recounts.Vance recalls how at that time, the Catholic church was under fire for a massive scandal in Pennsylvania, where a grand jury report exposed credible allegations of child sexual abuse by over 300 priests across six dioceses, harming more than 1,000 victims over decades, along with systematic cover-ups by church officials.“I felt this sense that, you know, yes, the church is going through a tough spot, but things are going to be OK, and I belong here,” he says.“And that was sort of the moment that I decided, you know what, for all of my belly aching and back and forth ... this is my home, and I'm going to try to make this home as successful as possible and contribute as much as I can, and that's what I did.”“That seems like a commitment to the church. Is that the same as the moment to follow Christ? Did that come first and then the commitment to the church or are they the same thing to you?” Glenn asks.Unlike the moment in the cathedral that led Vance to commit to the Catholic church, the decision to follow Jesus was more “gradual.”“I was raised in sort of an un-churched but very devout household. My grandmother would take us to church every now and then, but not regularly ... and so I became as a teenager, sort of an early 20s kid ... an arrogant atheist,” he explains.“I went about trying to achieve every marker of worldly success. You know, I wanted to go to the best schools, and I wanted to have the best job. I wanted to make the most money. I wanted something prestigious to hang my hat on, and I kind of got to this point where I had won all of these elite competitions,” he continues, highlighting his time at Yale Law School.But despite the worldly success, an emptiness haunted him.“I was kind of looking around and saying, you know what, those people that I dismissed as simpletons, they're much happier and much healthier and much more interesting people than the elite crew that I seem to be joining,” Vance tells Glenn.He began to wonder if the "character" and “wisdom” they exhibited came from “this Jesus Christ figure that [he’d] kind of discarded.”“And so [following Christ] was not like a conversion on the road to Damascus. That was me slowly seeing reflections of Christian truth in the way that various Christians lived their lives and the way that they raised their families, and over time, I just started to think, you know what, there's something real here,” he shares.Christ, he decided, was not only something he wanted for himself but for his family too.“I wanted to give my family what I didn't have as a kid, which is a real formation, like an actual church community,” he says, “and I kind of, you know, experimented with different churches and went to a number of different places and eventually, you know, found a home in a church that we love, and that's kind of where we are today.”To hear more, watch the full interview above.Want more from Glenn Beck?To enjoy more of Glenn’s masterful storytelling, thought-provoking analysis, and uncanny ability to make sense of the chaos, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.
Vice President JD Vance reflects on his faith journey in new book 'Communion,' sharing how Christianity gave him purpose after years of chasing success.
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Fox News's seemingly lone liberal host, Jessica Tarlov, stunned a political analyst after she humiliated Vice President JD Vance during a recent appearance on "The Five."David Pakman, host of the "David Pakman Show" on YouTube, described Vance's recent appearance on Fox News during a new episode as an "unfortunate stop" on his book tour because Tarlov "had the facts" to counter Vance's narratives about the Iran deal the Trump administration agreed to. Tarlov pointed out that the administration had done a U-turn on key policy proposals, like giving Iran sanctions relief up front in exchange for future talks about its nuclear program. The memorandum of understanding also does not address Iran's enriched uranium, unlike former President Obama's Iran deal that Trump tore up, Pakman noted. "Jessica Tarlov humiliated JD Vance," Pakman said. "She does a very good job here of pointing to JD Vance all the ways in which this Iran deal is pathetic, and Vance really doesn't seem able to counteract any of the substance," he added. Vance has been defending the Trump administration's deal with Iran all week, including going on "The View," which some political analysts deemed disastrous for the Vice President. Pakman noted that Vance seemed unwilling to address many of the issues Tarlov raised substantively. "This is going to be a major problem for Republicans, especially if the deal ends up looking like the letter," he said.
Vice President J.D. Vance's comments about Israel have sparked an ugly, public brawl of words among two of the Florida GOP's most controversial figures.This comes after Vance lashed out at Israel for publicly opposing President Donald Trump's memorandum of understanding with Iran to end the war that has been raging over the last three months.“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,” Vance said, according to The Hill.This infuriated Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL), a far-right Jewish lawmaker who has repeatedly called for Israel to attack its neighbors and even commit war crimes.“I thought JD’s comments yesterday were absolutely inappropriate and frankly disgusting,” said Fine, during an interview on Real America's Voice.Fine's attack on Vance was soon countered by a furious retort on social media from Lake County Commissioner Anthony Sabatini, a former member of the Florida legislature known for alienating his colleagues."Sweaty Randy Fine is a morbidly obese & very disgusting piece of [expletive] who should be deported ASAP," said Sabatini on X.This comes shortly after Sabatini played with a congressional run under the new, more aggressively gerrymandered maps passed by the legislature and Gov. Ron DeSantis, but decided against it as state law would have required him to resign from his county office first.