In his first remarks since Iran attack, Trump pushes his 'big, beautiful bill."
President Donald Trump on Sunday pushed Republicans to get behind his taxation bill that will fund his agenda as the self-imposed Fourth of July deadline approaches.
“Great unity in the Republican Party, perhaps unity like we have never seen before. Now let’s get the Great, Big, Beautiful Bill done,” Trump wrote on social media.
Trump addressed the nation on Saturday night after the U.S. carried out airstrikes on Iran's nuclear facility, which he called "a spectacular military success."
Multiple B-2 stealth bombers were headed to Guam Saturday, two sources familiar with their movements told ABC News Saturday.
At this point, the aircraft have no orders beyond that.
-ABC News' Luis Martinez and Katherine Faulders
By the time Trump and MAGA podcaster Steve Bannon sat down for lunch on Thursday, the president had already approved a plan on how the U.S. might attack an Iranian nuclear facility, sources with knowledge of the meeting told ABC News.
Bannon, who had already spoken with Trump by phone ahead of their lunch, thought all of it was a bad idea, according to several people close to him.
Sources say he arrived at the White House for his previously scheduled lunch with Trump armed with specific talking points: Israeli intelligence can’t be trusted, he planned to say, and the bunker-buster bomb might not work as planned.
The precise risk to the U.S. troops in the Middle East, particularly the 2,500 in Iraq, also wasn’t clear if Iran retaliated, he would add.
A White House official insists that by the time Trump sat down with Bannon for lunch the president had already made a decision to hold off on a strike against Iran.
-ABC News' Anne Flaherty, Jonathan Karl, Shannon K. Kingston and Luis Martinez
Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island told ABC News that President Donald Trump's rebuke of his own intelligence chief is "shocking" and suggested Trump is disavowing his intelligence community for political reasons.
"It's shocking to me that the president would dismiss his intelligence chief, who he picked," Reed, a Democrat who is a ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told ABC News.
"This might not be a question of intelligence. This might be a question of political positioning, regardless of the intelligence," Reed said.
Weeks ago, National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard testified that the intelligence community continues to assess "Iran is not building a nuclear weapon, and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003."
On Friday, Trump said both Gabbard and his intelligence community are flat out "wrong."
Trump is "in a position now where he's contemplating an attack against Iran, and he has to have the conclusion that they do in fact have a nuclear – or the capacity to develop a nuclear weapon very quickly and the intent to do so – so that I think is prompting him to reject the intelligence community's conclusions," Reed said.
Reed added that if Gabbard made a false statement in her testimony, "there would be an obligation to correct the record immediately, not just in the wake of this activity by the Israelis to suddenly conclude that she was totally wrong."
-ABC News' Selina Wang
Vice President JD Vance delivered remarks on Friday after landing in Los Angeles and touring federal law enforcement operations.
Vance accused California Gov. Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass of encouraging violent protesters and accused Newsom of “endangering law enforcement.”
“Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass, by treating this city as a sanctuary city, have basically said that it is open season on federal law enforcement,” the vice president said.
“What happened here was a tragedy. You had people who were doing the simple job of enforcing the law, and they had rioters egged on by the governor and the mayor, making it harder to do their job. That is disgraceful, and it is why the president has responded so forcefully,” said Vance.
“If you let violent rioters burn great American cities to the ground, then of course, we are going to send federal law enforcement in,” Vance said when asked if he was pleased with Thursday’s federal appeals court ruling.
When asked by a reporter to comment on Democratic lawmakers getting handcuffed recently, Vance incorrectly referred to Sen. Alex Padilla as "José Padilla."
"I was hoping José Padilla would be here to ask a question. But, unfortunately, I guess he decided not to show up because there wasn’t the theater, and that’s all it is,” Vance said. “It’s pure political theater. These guys show up. They want to be captured on camera doing something."
Padilla was forcibly removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's news conference earlier this month in LA, taken to the ground and handcuffed by law enforcement officers.
