Marco Rubio

We need powerful armed forces because we are emerging as a great power.

My argument is the people you are releasing them to do not believe the war is over.

They have been named in allegations before U.N. tribunals.

Would you agree that the first two steps were coordinated with al-Qaeda?

So if they are not that special, why did they want them back, all five of these in particular?

It has been about 2 weeks.

The President said that prisoner swaps happen at the end of wars.

Making decisions about timelines that have nothing to do with what is happening on the ground have been very detrimental to the region.

The second part of the announcement, though, where artificially we are deciding that you are going to step down over the next 2 years to zero is something that is unacceptable.

The Taliban is not holding back. They are still shooting at Americans.

Let me move on to another issue. Of course, this has been mentioned a moment ago about what is going on with ISIL in Iraq and they are gaining in strengthen and so forth.

But systemically nothing has changed in the government.

I was very concerned that there were people at the White House pushing for a zero number, and I know they were pushing.

But I guess the bigger point that I was trying to----

By the way, these five operatives that were released were not just any five operatives.

Thank you both for being here.

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I think that has had repercussions since.

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The nature of al-Qaeda has dramatically changed over the last number of years.

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