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Marco Rubio: “Having a failed state 90 miles from our shores is a threat…”

Featuring: Marco Rubio, Republican | Secretary of State, United States | National

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Rubio issues MAJOR warning to Iran...

Published | Video Starts at 04:52

You know, we want something good for the Cuban people and hopefully there will be a good outcome there for them. There needs to be. It's 90 miles from our shores and Having a failed state 90 miles from our shores is a threat to the national security of the United States. So we're producing right now more oil by double than Russia and Saudi Arabia combined. There's never been anything like that. We have. We don't need oil. We don't need the straits. (04:52–04:59)

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Asserts that a failed state in Cuba poses a national security threat to the U.S.

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