Chris Wallace Calls Out Pence for Saying ‘ISIS is Defeated’ Hours After Attack: ‘You Were Briefed’ Before Statement

Fox News anchor Chris Wallace called out Vice President Mike Pence for telling a crowd that “ISIS is defeated” just hours after an ISIS attack claimed the lives of four Americans in Syria.

On this week’s edition of Fox News Sunday, Wallace interviewed Pence from a backup studio, because, he explained, there was a fire at the network’s main Washington, DC studio. After quizzing Pence on Donald Trump‘s latest attempt to work his way out of the Trump shutdown, and several other topics, Wallace turned to the tragic events in Syria this week.

“This week, you defended [Trump]’s decision to pull US troops out of Syria, and here’s the quote,” Wallace said, and read Pence’s quote back to him, said “‘We are bringing our troops home, the caliphate has crumbled, and ISI has been defeated.'”

“But you were briefed before that statement, about the fact that there had been this horrific suicide bombing that killed four Americans,” Wallace pointed out, and asked “Is that what the defeat of ISIS looks like?”

Pence delivered a lengthy answer in which he claimed that the United States and its allies have “literally crushed the ISIS state,” but did not address Wallace’s point about Pence having been briefed prior to claiming that ISIS had been “defeated.”

Watch the clip above, via Fox.

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