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OVER THE LAST FEW NIGHTS
WE'VE BEEN PLAYING EXCERPTS
FROM OUR EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
WITH FLORIDA SENATOR MARCO
RUBIO.
IN HIS MOST EXTENSIVE CONNED
COMMENTS TO DATE, HE DEFENDS
HIS DECISION NOT TO CONVICT
IMPEACHMENT TRIAL.
MITCH McCONNELL IN HIS
STATEMENTS AT FORMER PRESIDENT
TRUMPS ACTIONS PROCEEDING THE
RIOT WERE DISGRACEFUL
DERELICTION OF DUTY AND THERE'S
NO QUESTION THE PRESIDENT TRUMP
IS PRACTICALLY AND MORALLY
ACTIONS OF THAT DAY.
DO YOU AGREE?
THIS IS A HOT POLITICAL
THE BOARD.
YOU ARE NOW RESPONSIBLE FOR
WHATEVER INDIVIDUAL IN THE
CROWD GOES OFF AND DOES AS A
RESULT.
I THINK THAT'S TRUE FOR BOTH
SIDES, BECAUSE YOU CAN STAND UP
AND GIVE A SPEECH ON AN ISSUE
TAKES A SHOT AT SOMEONE
MOTIVATED FROM THE SPEECH
BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE THAT THE
OTHER SIDE IS EVIL ON THE OTHER
SIDE NEEDS TO BE DESTROYED SO
THEY'VE GOT TO BE VERY CAREFUL
ABOUT SAYING THOSE SORT OF
THE PEOPLE THAT WERE INVOLVED
IN THIS AND OVERLOOKING THE
REALITY BEHIND WHY SOME OF THEM
WERE THERE AND WHY SOME OF THEM
DID WHAT THEY DID.
I DON'T THINK THE PRESIDENTS
BLAME IS ZERO PERCENT BUT I
WOULDN'T PUT A PERCENTAGE ON IT
AND I WOULDN'T GO AS FAR AS
MITCH McCONNELL.
YOU WERE INCREDIBLY
PRESCIENT IN YOUR COMMENTS AND
2016.
YOU GO BACK AND LOOK AND I'VE
GONE BACK AND READ ALMOST
EVERYTHING YOU SAID AT THE TIME
AND IT'S QUITE AMAZING HOW YOU
YOU PREDICTED EVERYTHING WE SAW,
IN MARCH 2016, YOU SAID HERE'S
WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO
UNDERSTAND THIS NOTION THAT A
PRESIDENT CAN SAY ANYTHING THEY
WANT, COULD SAY ANYTHING THEY
IT'S JUST NOT TRUE AND IT'S
RECKLESS AND IT'S DANGEROUS AND
SPECIFICALLY DISCUSSING
VIOLENCE WHICH YOU NOTED WERE
TRUMP EVENTS, NOT AT YOUR
EVENTS AND NOT AT OTHER
PEOPLE'S EVENTS AND NOT EVEN A
BERNIE SANDERS EVENTS AND YOU
A LEADING PRESIDENTIAL
CANDIDATE GOES AROUND FEEDING
INTO A NARRATIVE OF ANGER AND
BITTERNESS AND FRUSTRATION AND
I THINK THE QUESTION IS WHAT
THIS MEANS FOR THE FUTURE OF
AMERICA, NOT JUST THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY AND I WANT TO
ADD ONE MORE THING THAT YOU
OFTEN, YOU SAID BUT MARK MY
WORDS, THERE WILL BE PROMINENT
PEOPLE IN AMERICAN POLITICS WHO
WILL SPEND YEARS EXPLAINING TO
AND I GUESS LISTENING TO SOME
OF THE THINGS YOU SAID IN
RECENT YEARS, I'M WONDERING IF
YOU FELL INTO IT YOURSELF.
I WOULD SAY THIS TO YOU.
IF YOU LOOK OVER THE LAST FOUR
YEARS THE PRESIDENT SPOKE ON
ALMOST A DAILY BASIS AND THERE
WEREN'T DAILY RIOTS.
THERE'S ONE INSTANCE WE NOW
HAVE IT WAS JUST A DAY IN TIME
THAT WE'VE HAD A LOT OF FACTORS
IN ONE PLACE AT ONE TIME AND I
CONTINUE TO BELIEVE THE
PRESIDENT'S WORDS HAVE IMPACT
AND I'VE ALREADY SAID YOU THAT
IT BEARS SOME LEVEL OF
RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHAT
HAPPENED THAT DAY BUT BY THE
SAME TOKEN I'M NOT GOING TO
IGNORE THAT THERE ARE ELEMENTS
INVOLVED IN OUR SOCIETY THAT GO
BEYOND DONALD TRUMP THIS IDEA
FAULT DOES NOT EXCUSE HIM BUT
IS ALSO FAIR BECAUSE THE TRUTH
OF THE MATTER IS WE HAVE
FUNDAMENTAL THINGS GOING ON
WITHIN OUR SOCIETY THAT MADE
DONALD TRUMP POSSIBLE AND MADE
THE THINGS I WAS TALKING ABOUT
POSSIBLE. DONALD TRUMP DID NOT
CREATE THESE FACTORS, HE IS A
PRODUCT OF A LOT OF THE THINGS
COUNTRY AND THE STEEP DIVISIONS
THAT FRANKLY BOTH SIDES HAVE.
I'VE GOT PROTESTERS THAT HAVE
CONFRONTED US IN OUR HOME TO
PROVE IT AND I JUST DON'T WANT
ABOUT IT BUT THERE'S NASTINESS
ACROSS THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM
AND THERE'S MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
ON THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE THAT
HAVE TOLD PEOPLE TO GET IN A
MEMBER OF CONGRESS HIS FACE TO
CONFRONT THEM IN PUBLIC.
CHUCK SCHUMER SAID THE SUPREME
COURT DIDN'T RULE THE WAY HE
PAY THE CONSEQUENCES FOR IT.
I THINK IT'S TRUE ACROSS THE
BOARD AND I'M NOT SAYING YOU,
BUT I'M SAYING IF YOU LOOK AT
CABLE NEWS, CABLE NEWS IS
ENTIRELY FAVORED DRIVEN.
THEY ARE NOT REPORTING NEWS,
THEY'RE TRYING TO GET PEOPLE
ANGRY AT EACH OTHER, THAT THEY
HATE EACH OTHER BECAUSE IT
WE NEED TO EXAMINE THIS AS A
SOCIETY AND COUNTRY AND IT'S
UNFAIR TO PIN ALL OF THAT ON
ONE PERSON.
BUT HE IS THE PRESIDENT AND
THE PRESIDENT BEARS A CERTAIN
LEVEL OF HIGHER ACCOUNTABILITY
LESSON I WILL QUOTE FROM 2016,
BECAUSE IT RANG WHEN YOU SAID
SOMETHING.
MOST COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD
THAT OUR FAILURES ARE FAILURES
BECAUSE THEY DEPOSIT THEIR
HOPES IN A PERSON, A STRONG
PUT ME IN POWER AND I WILL MAKE
THE COUNTRY BETTER.
THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HE, DONALD
TRUMP IS DOING, THE RHETORIC
REMINDS ME OF THIRD WORLD
STRONGMAN, THAT'S WHAT YOU SAID
WORLD STRONGMAN IN THE DAYS
FROM THE ELECTION LEADING UP
THROUGH JANUARY 6?
KNOW BECAUSE IN A THIRD
WORLD STRONGMAN DOESN'T HAVE TO
AT THE END OF THE DAY, DONALD
TRUMP WALKED OUT OF THE WHITE
HOUSE AND WENT INTO PRIVATE
LIFE.
IN THE THIRD WORLD BANANA
REPUBLIC THAT TRANSITION DOES
NOT HAPPEN.
THERE WAS AN ELECTION IN THIS
COUNTRY, HE DIDN'T LIKE THE
OUTCOME, HE COMPLAINED ABOUT
THE OUTCOME AND RAISED SOME
BE TRUE AND HE RAISED OTHERS
THAT I THINK PEOPLE WILL LOOK
AT AND SAY THAT'S NOT FRAUD BUT
WE DO HAVE PROBLEMS WITH LAWS
IN CERTAIN PLACES THAT
UNDERMINE POT PUBLIC CONFIDENCE
AND CREATE THE OPPORTUNITY FOR
THESE SORT OF THINGS TO BE SAID
OTHER STATES ARE TRYING TO
TIGHTEN THAT UP BUT THAT
DOESN'T MEAN THE OUTCOME IS A
LEGITIMATE.
IT MEANS CONFIDENCE IN THE
ELECTION, THAT'S WHY THESE LAWS
ARE IN PLACE SO PEOPLE CAN'T
RAISE THIS ON THE FUTURE SO I
THINK IT'S UNFAIR TO SAY. I'VE
OUT THERE LOOSELY, THIRD WORLD
STRONGMAN ULTIMATELY DON'T
LEAVE POWER BECAUSE THERE ISN'T
SOME TRANSITION.
THOSE WERE YOUR WORDS.
THE RHETORIC REMINDS ME OF A
AT THE TIME WE WERE RUNNING
IN A PRIMARY AND I WAS POINTING
OUT THE FACT THAT THAT WAS NOT
MY RHETORIC AND IT HAS
CONSEQUENCES.
DONALD TRUMP AND I DO NOT HAVE
THE SAME STYLE AND SAME WAY OF