After strike on Iran, Trump focuses on his megabill

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.

President Trump plans to travel to the NATO Summit next week with a couple of key goals in mind, a senior administration official told reporters Friday.

At the top of Trump's priorities: securing 5% defense spending from NATO members, urging alliance members to revitalize their industrial capacities for critical minerals and weapons, and bilateral meetings to reaffirm commitment to allies.

On NATO defense spending, the senior administration official said that Trump wants to "secure a historic 5% defense spending pledge from NATO allies, which will strengthen the alliance's combined military capabilities and ensure greater stability in Europe and the world," the official said.

The senior administration official said that Trump will also "urge allies to revitalize their industrial capacities in order to create Western supply chains capable of producing the critical minerals infrastructure, weapons and other products necessary for the security of America and her allies."

Lastly, the official said that Trump, "intends to hold bilateral meetings with several world leaders, which will focus on issues of shared concern and reaffirm the United States' strong ties with our allies and partners."

-ABC News' Michelle Stoddart

President Donald Trump, taking reporter questions after arriving in New Jersey on Friday afternoon, was asked for the calculus behind his two-week timeline to make a decision on whether to strike Iran.

"Time to see whether or not people come to their senses," Trump responded.

Trump also said it would be "very hard" to ask Israel to stop its attacks on Iran as different parties pursue diplomacy. Iran's foreign minister said on Friday that Israel must stop its "crimes and aggression" and added that Iran will not negotiate with any party as long as Israeli attacks continue,

"I think it is very hard to make that request right now," Trump told reporters. "If someone is winning, it's harder to do than if someone is losing. But we are ready and willing and able, and have been speaking to Iran and we will see what happens."