Appearing on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” Vance was defending U.S. strikes on Iran as he told anchor Kristen Welker that he could “certainly empathize with Americans who are exhausted after 25 years of foreign entanglements in the Middle East.”

Trump’s inner circle–notably Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio–has been in damage control ever since the president announced that the U.S. had bombed three Iranian nuclear sites Saturday night.