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Marco Rubio: “It's not in our national interest to create these pockets of…”

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Sen. Marco Rubio at Rebuilding American Capitalism An American Compass Forum.

Published | Video Starts at 06:17

… interest are in conflict because the market says it is more efficient to make medicine in China, basically make anything in China. But it's not in our national interest and It's not in our national interest to create these pockets of despair as well in America. So what do you do? And that's the piece of policymaking that I think was lost and that is putting the national interest at play in making these decisions. (06:17–06:25)

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Asserts that creating economic despair in America is against national interest.

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