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Marco Rubio: “Hundreds of political prisoners have been freed in…”

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I think now you enter into this. We're increasingly entering into this phase of recovery and part of that is a national reconciliation. So there have been very positive steps taken. Hundreds of political prisoners have been freed in Venezuela. The infamous prison El Acorda has been closed. You are. Those are all very positive. You've seen an amnesty law pass. (19:51–19:54)

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“They possess thousands of short range ballistic missiles that can reach U.S. bases located in the region, in Saudi Arabia, in Qatar, in…”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 12:01-12:15
“Cuba has lost 15% of its population since 2021.”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 17:18-17:23
“The infamous prison El Acorda has been closed [in Venezuela].”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 19:53-19:57
“The Cuban military controlled holding company named Gaisa controls 40% of their GDP.”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 33:26-33:33
“Cuba imports sugar, despite being one of the world's leading exporters of sugar.”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 33:41-33:46
“The Department of Homeland Security, the Coast Guard, others are involved [in the incident off the coast of Cuba].”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 00:11-00:16
“The boat was registered in Florida.”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 00:35-00:38
“The majority of the facts being publicly reported are those by the information provided by the Cubans.”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 00:45-00:52
“The Coast Guard has responded to the area, to the vicinity.”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 01:47-01:51
“There was an incident at sea.”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 03:41-03:43
“It's always been legal to sell to the private sector in Cuba.”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 04:51-04:55
“The private sector in Cuba is quite small.”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 05:13-05:16
“This is the worst economic climate that Cuba has faced.”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 05:41-05:44
“Cuba has largely survived on the basis of subsidies.”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 05:54-05:57
“The Soviet Union gave them free things.”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 05:56-05:59
“The Maduro regime was providing them fuel, or they were providing them actually crude oil.”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 06:08-06:15
“Cuba's electricity grid was already in collapse before Maduro was captured.”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 06:31-06:36
“They have an economic model that does not exist, that does not work.”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 06:38-06:42
“The reason why those industries have not flourished in Cuba is because the regime has not allowed them to flourish.”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 07:05-07:11
“We provided humanitarian assistance in Cuba in the aftermath of the hurricane.”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 07:36-07:41
“It is illegal, it is a violation of federal law to go and run people back and forth [from Cuba].”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 08:34-08:39
“Iran poses a very grave threat to the United States and has for a very long time.”
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“Iran possesses a very large number of ballistic missiles, particularly short range ballistic missiles that threaten the United States and…”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 09:43-09:54
“Iran refuses to talk about the ballistic missiles to us or to anyone.”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 10:29-10:38
“They are trying to achieve intercontinental ballistic missiles.”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 10:58-11:02
“They already possess weapons that could reach much of Europe already now as we speak.”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 11:13-11:19
“Iran's threat has grown over time in terms of missile reach and enrichment insistence.”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 11:57-12:01
“If what they really wanted was energy from, they could do small modular reactors, which is something that's quite affordable and achievable…”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 13:31-13:39
“Iran has not abandoned their desire to enrich [nuclear materials].”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 14:02-14:05
“Iran insists on enrichment in locations inside of mountains.”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 14:10-14:19
“Iranian insistence on not discussing ballistic missiles is a big problem.”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 19:00-19:06
“An amnesty law has passed in Venezuela.”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 20:40-20:51
“Chavez prohibited consular voting at one point and so did Maduro because they were losing those votes big time.”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 21:05-21:12
“Life in Venezuela today is not good enough. But it is substantially better than it was nine weeks ago.”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 21:19-21:24
“For Venezuela to achieve its potential... it will need to legitimize its government through an election.”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 21:47-21:59
“The administration has continued to increase pressure on Moscow. As an example, the president levied additional sanctions late last year on…”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 22:17-22:26
“The administration continues to sell weaponry to Ukraine.”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 22:25-22:31
“We don't sell weapons to Russia and we don't sanction Ukraine.”
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“The war in Ukraine does not have a military solution. That war will be settled through a negotiation.”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 23:11-23:19
“The reason why Ukraine's been able to sustain this war is because the United States has provided and sold weapons to Ukraine and has also…”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 24:19-24:29
“We've imposed sanctions on Russia. We've not imposed sanctions on Ukraine.”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 24:30-24:35
“The President has invested a tremendous amount of political capital [in resolving the Ukraine conflict].”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 25:02-25:06
“We've reached a point at least of sort of strategic stability in the [U.S.-China] relationship.”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 25:48-25:53
“We don't think it's sustainable to live in a world where we depend on some country for 90% of anything, whether it's supply chains or…”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 26:12-26:21
“Every agreement the President has made has all gone through a full national security review to minimize and mitigate against [technology…”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 27:18-27:25
“We've gotten them [China] to schedule more fentanyl precursors, which is important now.”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 27:54-27:59
“China's stockpiles [of nuclear weapons] have increased dramatically.”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 28:41-28:45
“China has publicly said they're not willing to [enter a trilateral nuclear non-proliferation treaty].”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 29:11-29:13
“None of the money that [Gaisa] has generated flows to the coffers of the government.”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 33:32-33:37
“The US has experienced mass migration from Cuba in the past, certainly in the early 90s with the rafter crisis.”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 34:00-34:07
“As recently as 2021 and 2022, we were having people show up in the Florida Keys and stranded in the Bahamas.”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 34:06-34:13
“The law allows us to do business like fuel and even telecommunications with the Cuban private sector.”
FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat | Uploaded February 26, 2026 | 34:17-34:25