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but first of all joining us is Florida Senator Marco rubo Rubio senator Rubio it's great pleasure thank you for coming back on the show uh just one little thing there's still I don't want to dwell on this because there are other fish to fry but the White House today in the news conference in The Press Room they they're still hacking away uh at this guy her they're still hacking away at her who all the leading Democrats praise when they first put him in as a special counsel now you know as you know and I know we've always talked about this um uh vice presidents and Senators do not have the authority to remove classified documents and he did and that's in the her report even though they're all beaten up on it and I just thought I'd I'd get your sort of weekend after take yeah well you've already pointed to in your intro about the double standard of where Trump was charged and and this you know and Biden wasn't but there's other double standards here for example apparently her is the only special prosecutor you're allowed to viciously attack and call names if you do it to Jack Smith you're undermining the the system you're a threat to his family but you can do it to to her and then the other thing and I saw like a clip from the White House Press Conference she that saying that he's not a doctor they fundamentally misunderstand that here's very simple what he found was all the elements of a crime have been met okay but we have decided not to charge him because we believe he's suffering from age related dementia and we don't think a jury will convict him because of that he'll be sympathetic especially four years from now because of these challenges that's why they chose not to charge him so one of two things are true either either he has age related Dem and therefore shouldn't be charged or he doesn't according to what the White House says and therefore should be charged in essence if he had a perfect memory you don't need a doctor they they're they're relying on their interviews and their argument is we put this before a jury the jury's not going to convict this guy so if he in fact is not suffering from dementia then her should have charged him either way he either has dementia or he should have been charged with a crime those were the only two outcomes and her decided not to charge him because of the dementia and memory issues and uh you don't need to die that's not a medical uh assessment that is an assessment of what would happen in front of a jury actually right uh you know I thought it's a good legal point the fact is it is illegal under the presidential records act for vice presidents and or Senators to take classified documents off campus you know they could that stuff's got to go in the archives and you want to write a book and talk to your Ghost Rider you can do it in a skiff in the National Archives I mean I don't understand that the other things Sen Rubio I just want to ask you do you think with respect to the classified documents which we know were in Biden's possession as early as early as 2017 when he told his Ghost Rider is that stuff about the Chinese Energy company was that stuff about the Ukraine influence pedaling you see where I'm going on this will you all in the Senate and anybody in the house have a chance to take a look at what those classified documents really were it wasn't part of Jamie Comer's uh investigations what you think Sen Rubio yeah so we had a chance in the leadership of the intelligence Community committees to review all of the disclosure cases that we've seen out there and and I did not personally see anything linked to that that's about as far as I can go in describing it suffice it to say that in the in the indictment I'm I'm sorry in the non-indictment report it outlines the kinds of documents notes about Afghanistan look the guy was keeping stuff because he wanted to write a book and he wanted to make sure that it was recorded for posterity that's why he did it and they made the decision not to charge him uh unlike Trump where they even though there's no allegation that shared it with any foreign power or that anything's been disclosed and in fact it was in a facility that was guarded by Secret Service agents and had full-time security not some garage thrown in a box I don't know if you saw those photos of the Biden garage but in that case they they' not they're not alleging what's the what's the crime what's the harm that's been done to the injury to the nation I'll tell you what has injured the nation is the fact they charged the president and they've ripped the nation apart and they've created this a new normal where you're going to have a lot of pressure on future Republicans to go after Democrats using special prosecutors in the legal system to conduct law fair like we're seeing now so they open a Pandora's Box there Senator ruu um Donald Trump over the weekend in South Carolina kind of rang another warning Bell about NATO countries that don't pay up their fair share we have a full screen of this um you know uh France didn't pay up its 2% Germany didn't pay up its 2% Italy Canada and other words these G7 countries so-called wealthy countries did not pay I mean I think we've heard Trump say this before he may have made some progress in his first term but to me what he said over the weekend South Carolina basically he's just ringing the warning Bell again what do you think well first of all Trump is already president and while Trump was President we didn't destroy NATO we had troops deployed there I I remember being in Poland and meeting with American troops that were there so we didn't see any attack on NATO what Donald Trump has done is basically what every virtually every president in American history in the history of NATO has done and that is complain that our allies don't do more Trump simply expresses it differently than the other ones did he expresses it in a story that he told you know uh you know he used the story as a way to sort of describe his position on it which is if well if you're not going to pay more he was describing like a negotiating tactic of some sort but it was not prospective he did not say if they don't pay up I'm going to tell right he was describing the story of something that he claims has happened in the past I wouldn't have talked that way because I don't talk that way but Donald Trump doesn't talk like a US senator he doesn't talk like people that have served here or are members of some foreign think on the other hand here's what we do know and that is that Joe Biden is using all kinds of profanity and and temper tantrums and leaking it to the press to go after Netanyahu what we do know is that even as the Israelis and and Israel is fighting for its very existence you have an Administration that's going out there and openly saying that they've gone over the top that he hates Netanyahu that uh you know we don't like the way you're conducting your operation he's actively in a time of War undermining an ally undermining a country and he's doing it to appease the radical IAL anti-semitic element of his base that exists so Senator that's a key Point let's stay with that uh that started well I don't know if it started the night before the catastrophic news conference apparently Biden swore at Netanyahu privately front of a bunch of Democrats uh the reports today are that Biden continues to swear at Netanyahu I thought Netanyahu and Israel were our allies Netanyahu wants to clean up now in south of Gaza and um finish the job off and Biden is blocking him and they're talking about some crazy two-state solution I I don't get any of this sener Rubio I mean I thought Israel was our biggest Ally the only democracy in the Middle East what in the world are the bidens doing they went to him and said that he's going to lose a bunch of pro Palestinian voters in places like Michigan you they they sent uh emissaries from the White House to go meet with anti-semites to go meet with people that are supporters of Hamas and Hezbollah because these people are threatening I I guarantee you they've gone to the White House and said political people have said we're in trouble here we have an element of our base that's really angry at us and is not going to vote for us and so we need to put stuff out there to show that we're not 100% on Israel's side and so you start seeing the leaks that he hung up on Netanyahu that he swore at him you see this memo last week that comes out from the state department about how we're not going to give Aid to countries that Target civilians which Israel's not targeting civilians unfortunately in war civilians are caught in the way in this case cuz Hamas Hamas could end this conflict tomorrow they should they should surrender but they'd rather have every civilian die in Gaza than surrender uh they you know so he has a press conference that says how they've gone over the top all of this is designed to appease that radical anti-israel anti-semitic pro- Hamas pro- Hezbollah pro-iran element in his own party because he's afraid of losing their support and their votes and uh and some of those Elements by the way find themselves in the bureaucracy of this country I don't know if you saw a picture about a couple months ago a bunch of White House staffers or executive branch staffers standing out in front of the White House in protest demanding cease fire obviously with their faces covered a bunch of cowards in the state department signing a letter condemning the administration's position on Israel of course none of them would put their name on it some of these people are might be ambassadors or future ambassadors we don't know who they are because they're in hiding because they're cowards but that's embedded in our government right now and that's who he's trying to appease it's incredible uh for by the way uh there may be some Iranian cutouts in the government uh one guy the guy Mali we still don't know why he lost his security clearance and then may be others as well so spot on on that um s Rubio last one I just want to mention uh no actually I got two more quick Ukraine money 60 billion dollars Senator Rand Paul was on this show I think Friday or Thursday he wants a minimum uh Inspector General he wants some accountability he'd like an off-ramp negotiations uh what you think about the $60 billion and that whole package well first of all 20 billion of the 60 billion is to buy back the weapons for ourselves that we gave them right so we gave them weapons now we don't have them we need to go out and buy them to replace them for ourselves so that's 20 of the 60 I think it could be fixed but ultimately I would say that I want Ukraine to have the strongest possible hand in a future negotiation with Putin but that's what's going to happen in this conflict and the and the stronger Ukraine is the better terms are going to be at the end of the conflict when that day comes and so I do I don't think our we have a national interest I don't think it's Unlimited in forever but I also don't think it's zero as I've described my problem is we are here we met through Super Bowl week and all of it is fine with me what I wonder is what people back home are saying to me and that is you guys will stay out there for days at a time Cancel trips whatever it is you're going to do to help other countries with their Invasion but you never do that for us we have an invasion going on right now right and you won't give that priority and so I think Americans are tired of always being told they're second second to another country second to an interest group second to something the global economy whatever it might be they're tired of it and I think that's being exposed here how out of touch politics has become including you know people in both parties with uh what the priorities are of every day working Americans last 40 seconds s Rubio uh president she says it's time to integrate Taiwan into the rest of China I know you've thought and spoken a lot about this here we go this isn't the kind of integration that I look forward to well he's talking about a takeover and that's been their plan that's part of his legacy he he views that as part of his legacy I continue to believe that we won't finish this decade uh without probably seeing some sort of T real conflict over that potentially unless we can do things to deter it and and buy ourselves some time you know maybe the next Chinese leader will have the same Ambitions but right now we've got to make it as hard is possible for them to achieve that and so that that calculus changes but but she's never made any mystery about it I mean he intends to move on this one way or the other before the end of this decade