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The pursuing is simply a transcript of an question and reply pinch Sen. Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, connected "Face nan Nation pinch Margaret Brennan" that aired connected Nov. 3, 2024.
MARGARET BRENNAN: We spell now to Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio. Good greeting to you, Senator.
SEN. MARCO RUBIO: Good morning, Margaret.
MARGARET BRENNAN: In caller days, nan Harris run has said they person seen favorable activity towards them pinch Latinos and pinch undecided voters, peculiarly pursuing that New York rally we referenced there, pinch nan reproach remark making remarks astir Puerto Rico. You've been focused connected outreach to Hispanic voters for nan Trump campaign. Are you concerned that this unforced correction wounded outreach?
SEN. RUBIO: Well, location was nary unforced error. I mean, a comedian made a joke and it was tasteless, but it wasn't Trump that said it. It wasn't- this feline is not going to beryllium successful his cabinet. This comedian is not going to beryllium a personnel of his government. He's surely not moving for anything. It was a comedian who tells tasteless jokes each nan time. I promote everyone to- well, I conjecture watch segments of nan Tom Brady roast, and you'll spot nan benignant of jokes he tells. He's an reproach comic. Look, there's nary caller outreach to--
MARGARET BRENNAN: At a Trump rally.
SEN. RUBIO: Yeah. I mean, I don't know--
MARGARET BRENNAN: Hired by the--
SEN. RUBIO: --he said 2 hours earlier Trump.
MARGARET BRENNAN: --Trump campaign.
SEN. RUBIO: Well, again, I deliberation what's much relevant, if you want to say- so, it had to beryllium done- successful hindsight, nan feline astir apt doesn't get invited, okay, particularly pinch a joke for illustration that. But I deliberation much applicable is nan truth that nan sitting President of nan United States said retired large what astir group successful nan Democratic Party and level believe, and that is that anyone who votes for Donald Trump is garbage, is simply a racist, is simply a hater, is simply a Nazi, as- arsenic nan Vice President campaigner of theirs has accused anyone who attended nan Madison Square Garden rally. MSNBC was moving images of Nazi rallies from Germany broadside by broadside pinch images from Madison Square Garden a week ago. So there- you asked me, why are they truthful confident? If you're truthful assured astir victory, nan measurement nan Harris group opportunity they are, past why would you beryllium retired location attacking, not Donald Trump, attacking anyone who is reasoning astir voting for him by labeling them as, if you ballot for Donald Trump, you're this evil, horrible quality being. That doesn't look to beryllium for illustration nan actions of a assured campaign. It seems to maine for illustration nan actions of a frightened one.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, I was speaking specifically astir that- that outreach that you've been doing to Hispanic voters. It sounds for illustration you deliberation this is negligible. But fto maine inquire you astir women voters, because we're seeing successful our information that nan Trump run whitethorn person an rumor there. Here's what erstwhile Trump management UN Ambassador Nikki Haley said this past week astir that Madison Square Garden rally.
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NIKKI HALEY: This bromance and this masculinity stuff. I mean, it- it borders connected edgy to nan constituent that it's going to make women uncomfortable. You know, you've sewage affiliated PACs that are doing commercials astir calling Kamala nan C word, aliases you had speakers astatine Madison Square Gardens, you know, referring to her and her pimps. That is not nan measurement to triumph women.
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MARGARET BRENNAN: Do you stock nan erstwhile governor's concerns that this is simply a vulnerability?
SEN. RUBIO: Well, first of all, I want to constituent out, and nary 1 talks astir this, Kamala Harris has a bigger problem among men than Donald Trump does among women. Are location women that are going to ballot for Kamala Harris? Of course. Are location women that don't for illustration Donald Trump? Of course. Are location women that are going to support Donald Trump? Yes, location are a batch of them. And I deliberation you'll spot that carnivore retired connected Election Day. Ultimately, nan bottommost statement is that what this predetermination is going to beryllium about- erstwhile group spell vote, they're not- they're going to beryllium voting connected 3 things that are captious to them. How overmuch does it costs to unrecorded successful this country, and tin you spend nan things that group activity difficult to beryllium capable to afford, because complete nan past 4 years, they person not. Do you consciousness safe and secure? And nan reply is no, group do not, face- consciousness safe and unafraid erstwhile you person vulnerable criminal elements entering this state crossed nan unfastened separator that Kamala Harris allowed. And number 3 is, really adjacent is this state to being dragged into immoderate benignant of world conflict? We now person troops from North Korea broadside by broadside pinch Russians connected nan crushed successful Ukraine. We're edging person each azygous period to immoderate broader world conflict that could impact nan United States. And conjecture who's going to person to spell conflict successful those wars? The sons and nan daughters and nan children of nan group who are going to determine this election, and that includes complete half nan country, which is women voters. That's what's going to beryllium connected people's mind, and that's what should beryllium connected their mind, because that's what's astatine liking successful this election.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, successful position of information and security, that sound wound a infinitesimal agone from Donald Trump talking astir training guns connected nan look of Liz Cheney, nan Trump campaign--
SEN. RUBIO: That's not what he said.
MARGARET BRENNAN: --says that was astir overseas policy. Well, we conscionable played it for our viewers and listeners who heard it. Isn't it imaginable to make nan lawsuit without utilizing rhetoric for illustration that?
SEN. RUBIO: But Donald Trump doesn't talk for illustration personification who's been successful Washington for 30 years. He doesn't opportunity it--
MARGARET BRENNAN: Training guns connected her face?
SEN. RUBIO: --the measurement I would person said it. No, but that's not what he said. Margaret, you guys cognize that. Come on, everybody knows precisely what he was saying. What he was saying is--
MARGARET BRENNAN: We played nan soundbite.
SEN. RUBIO: --you're truthful overmuch successful favour of war. Yeah you- no, you played a portion of nan sound wound because successful different portion of it, he said he would springiness her a weapon to spell guidelines successful conflict arsenic well. You don't usually springiness a weapon to personification that is going to beryllium facing a firing squad, which is what overmuch of nan media made it sound like. The constituent he was making is not a caller point. It is simply a constituent that has been made by group successful some parties for decades, and that is, you're each for war, and it's easy to beryllium for warfare erstwhile you're successful immoderate fancy building and you're safe and sound successful Washington, DC. Let's spot really overmuch you are for warfare erstwhile you yourself get deployed into combat. That's nan constituent that he was making. That he uses connection that possibly is not what we typically perceive from personification that useful astatine a deliberation tank, fine. But I deliberation it's truly, not conscionable unfair, it's egregious to spot that reported nan measurement that it was, on pinch different things that are retired there. I've ne'er seen specified a concerted effort- and look, I've ever believed there's bias, because nary one's unbiased, but I've ne'er seen specified a concerted effort for illustration what I've seen, particularly successful nan past 2 weeks, among aggregate media outlets successful this state to, successful immoderate cases, breathlessly distort and dishonesty astir what's being said, and to create and manufacture these gotcha moments against Donald Trump. I've ne'er seen it before.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Senator--
SEN. RUBIO: It's complete nan top.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Senator, you are nan ranking personnel connected nan Senate Intelligence Committee. You besides cognize that erstwhile commandant successful main is not conscionable immoderate feline disconnected nan street, and words matter. U.S. intelligence has specifically warned--
SEN. RUBIO: They matter. They do matter.
MARGARET BRENNAN: --specifically warned astir nan consequence of governmental unit successful this country. Some of it stoked by overseas adversaries, Iran trying to do that, Russia trying to do that successful nan days aft nan election. Are you assured successful nan information and nan integrity of nan election?
SEN. RUBIO: Well, I'm assured successful nan information and integrity of nan elections, and particularly because we person beardown systems crossed this country. It's dispersed crossed 50 states. That doesn't mean location aren't going to beryllium problems. We saw problems earlier successful nan week successful Pennsylvania, and they were resolved by a tribunal wherever group were not allowed, being allowed successful 1 region from accessing their connected request message ballot astatine nan spot. There are going to beryllium issues for illustration that. They're being confronted astatine nan beforehand end, and those things are being looked at. Look successful nan authorities of Michigan, we cognize now, and this is not maine making it up. I can't judge it hasn't received much coverage. A Chinese nationalist registered to ballot and voted, and now he's being charged for doing that. But conjecture what? His ballot is going to count. We cognize astatine slightest 1 non-citizen's ballot is going to count successful Michigan because they don't cognize which ballot it is and they can't retrieve it. These are facts. Now, whether that's wide aliases not, I dream not, but these are things that are happening and they request to beryllium watched at. As acold arsenic overseas adversaries, sure. I mean, Iran wants to termination Donald Trump. Iran- this has been afloat documented. They are trying to termination Donald Trump. You talk astir convulsive rhetoric, he's nan only campaigner successful this race, and that, not because I wish this connected anybody else, who's had not 1 but 2 assassination attempts against his life.
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MARGARET BRENNAN: Right, so--
SEN. RUBIO: So of course, we're each concerned astir it.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Right. In position of nan lawsuit you talked astir successful Michigan, we person tracked that nan Secretary of State of that authorities has really brought charges, has made that public. that individual whitethorn really beryllium deported--
SEN. RUBIO: --Yeah. But that vote's still going to count
MARGARET BRENNAN: May really beryllium deported because location are laws successful this state that punish people--
SEN. RUBIO: They are. But nan ballot still counts
MARGARET BRENNAN: When they are forbidden and they effort to ballot successful national elections, that 19 twelvemonth aged consequences--
SEN. RUBIO: --Correct, but nan ballot still counts. He is. But his ballot still counts. His ballot will still beryllium counted.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Understood. I'm conscionable trying to make clear that location are systems--
SEN. RUBIO: That's a large deal. I deliberation that's a large deal
MARGARET BRENNAN: There are systems arsenic you pointed to, arsenic nan courts are besides playing a domiciled here. I request to inquire you astir China, though. This monolithic and pervasive hacking by China of US telecom companies is significant. Your colleague, Mark Warner said it's nan astir important breach he has ever seen successful his full clip connected nan committee. Do you cognize if China has been capable to entree nan audio of Americans' telephone calls?
SEN. RUBIO: Well, I'm not going to remark connected what they access, but I work together pinch Mark Warner's statement. It is an egregious, outrageous and vulnerable breach of our telecommunications systems crossed aggregate companies. I'll time off it astatine that. I deliberation arsenic clip goes on, we're going to study much astir it. Some of it will beryllium made public. I deliberation there's much that's still being gathered. It's a very superior business that we face. And I deliberation 1 that is rather threatening, possibly not straight to nan predetermination per se, but surely to nan nationalist information of our state moving forward. It's a vulnerability that nary 1 imagined aliases anticipated, but present it is.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Understood. Senator Rubio, convey you for your clip today. We'll beryllium backmost successful a minute.
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