Marco Rubio
The Public Record
U.S. Secretary of State in the Trump administration; formerly U.S. Senator from Florida.
We arrested a narcotrafficker who's now going to stand trial in the United States for the crimes he's committed against our people for 15 years.
That's not an easy mission. And you're asking me, why didn't we do that in five other places at the same time?
We are going to judge everything by what they do, and we're going to see what they do.
In the 21st Century, under the Trump administration… we are not going to have a country like Venezuela in our own hemisphere.
We are not going to have a country like Venezuela in our own hemisphere in the sphere of control and the crossroads for Hezbollah, for Iran and for every other malign influence in the country.
We think it's in our national interest, and frankly, in the interest of people of Venezuela.
We are going to judge whoever we're interacting with moving forward by whether or not those conditions are met.
We will seize it. That remains in place, and that's a tremendous amount of leverage that will continue to be in place until we see changes.
We are addressing the factors that are a threat to the national interest of the United States.
We have been very clear from the beginning, because I still think that a lot of people analyze everything that happens in foreign policy through the lens of what happened from 2001 through 2015 or '16.
This is one of the most, you know, daring, you know, complicated, sophisticated missions this country has carried out in a very long time.
I do think this is one of the most, you know, daring, you know, complicated, sophisticated missions this country has carried out in a very long time.
What the president has said, obviously, is, you know, and I think what he's pointing to is that this obsession people have about boots and this or that, he – he does not feel like he is going to publicly, you know, rule out options that…
It is not easy to land helicopters in the middle of the largest military base in the country.





