Building a port in Gaza is building a port for Hamas

but joining us tonight is Florida Senator Marco Rubio uh Senator Rubio welcome back as always sir uh I don't know whether you've gotten wi to this apparently he's going to make this announcement tonight at the State of the Union um to me it doesn't make a lot of sense but you're the foreign policy expert you want the US military to build a port in Gaza it's theater it's all designed just like the airdrops last week it's not designed to solve anything it's designed to basically that element of his base that is screaming at them about genocide and demanding ceasefire and all this other pramas stuff and these are voters these are voters in their base the voters they've invited into their Coalition that are now threatening not to vote for them in November and so they keep coming up with creative ways uh to try to appease them the second though if they actually follow through with this is they're going to need I mean this is what the military has said in the past they'll need 2,000 troops on the ground they'll say no boots on the ground you're going to need them who's going to secure you need someone on the ground to protect you while you're actually putting up uh all the things that you need to put up through the Army Corps and others to build a temporary Port uh that's the second the third is once you get Aid in who's going to distribute it because that's really the factor in place right now the only people on the ground with any organization to distribute things are Hamas so in essence can they guarantee that we're going to go through all this trouble put American lives on the line just so Aid can be distributed to Hamas who in turn will then control it like they've controlled everything there's no Hamas Fighters starving to death and Hamas has no history none whatsoever they have zero history of other helping Ians or people so this is all for show and it's dangerous the fastest way to get assistance to the people suffering in Gaza is to allow Israel to defeat Hamas because they are the ones that have brought the suffering upon them I mean is anybody suspecting is any this came as new like new new news to me all right you're much closer to it than I Am Lord knows but putting you all of a sudden committing US troops into the Israeli Hamas situation Israel hasn't asked for that as far as I I know and I don't think American voters American parents I don't think American Patriots want to do that so this like some Whole New Horizon and as you say if you build a port then you have to protect the port because there'll be US military assets or related civilian assets so this just strikes me as sheer Insanity it's not it's Insanity it's Reckless it's them grasping at what can we come up with what can we announce at the State of the Union that'll help us politically with these dis chanted voters that that no one's ever woken up for you saw the congresswoman from New York um what's her name the one she was heckled the other day by people demanding that she say that it's genocide even though she has said that in the past you saw Adam Schiff at his victory speech the other night being heckled um I mean they are just being hounded by these radical elements that are part of their voter base that are pro Hamas anti-israel and um and they're trying to appease them Senator what's going to happen what do you you have any expect ations uh with respect to solving the Border problem uh the southern border problem actually I should say in the US the northern and southern Barden problem here do you think Biden will have anything to say about that tonight sir I don't know he has the power our law is pretty clear the law says that everybody who's in this country illegally should be detained through removal um we've had exceptions in the past for you know cases on an individual basis Biden through executive order turned the exceptions into the rule because he campaigned this is basically the Biden campaign went in 2020 he said if you elect me I will do the opposite of what Donald Trump has done on the border everything he's done I will do the opposite and that's what he did in January and the result is 7.2 million people have come into this country illegally in 3 years or 3 years and two months and it's growing every day so now in order to actually solve it he would have to admit that Trump was right but he doesn't want to do that plus he has elements of his own base that'll go Bonkers if he actually does it so I don't know what he's going to announce tonight but at least they're now admitting that they have executive order power to reverse his executive orders and go back to what the policies were in December of 2020 when we didn't have the numbers that we're facing now and you know the state of the union is happening tonight yesterday the state of New York deployed National Guard troops to protect the city against this migrant crime wave so that's happening after they said that they would never do such a thing or that no one should ever do such a thing can I just switch gears a little bit center before I lose you I know it's a busy evening um is it possible to have peace overtures or a peace attempt to solve Ukraine Russia rather than just throw more money into it I don't want to leave Ukraine in the lurge sir that is not my view but what I would like to know is why can't there be some kind of diplomatic offramp or peace negotiation offramp is such a thing possible well I think that's what we're ultimately going to arrive at the question is when that moment comes who's going to have the Leverage is it Putin who thinks that he's going to be able to he has the upper hand and can insist on uh greater demands or is it Ukraine because Putin realizes he's not going to be able to achieve not just he's not going to be able to achieve his his original objective which is taking over the country but that now Putin realizes he can't achieve even some of his more recent objectives so who's going to have the leverage and that really should be the purpose of our assistance to Ukraine is to provide them the maximum amount of Leverage so they can get the best conditions possible when that time comes to have that negotiation which is I think where this ultimately arrives because neither Ukraine nor Russia at this point is anywhere close to achieving their ultimate goals as they Define it and state it out there so really the purpose of our Aid should be to give Ukraine the maximum amount of Leverage uh going into those negotiations that they won't have it if Putin feels like he has the upper hand in America is cutting and running but we got to take care of our border first I mean that's my my objective here we've got to show Americans that we care as much about the safety of this country as we do about the safety of another country and they're both important but America always has to come before the others Senator Rubio thank you sir we appreciate it very very much appreciate it again all right