00:00Mr. Vice President, Axios is reporting that you decided against a trip, a visit to Israel after this trip because of the Israeli military's expansion of their operation in Gaza.
00:10Is that accurate or is there a reason for not moving on to Israel?
00:13Well, I think there's a lot of overstatement there. I haven't seen the story to be clear, so I don't want to speak to the details.
00:18But the simple reason is we thought about going to Israel.
00:21We also thought about going to a couple of other countries that the president would like me to visit here in the next few months.
00:27Logistically, it was just a little bit too hard on basic things like who the hell is going to take care of our kids if we take another couple of days overseas.
00:36But on some more serious things like how do we provide security?
00:40How do we make sure that we get all the assets that we need in order to do the right official delegation?
00:45So I'm sure we'll visit Israel sometime in the future, but not today.
