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Marco Rubio: “Just because a company has an address in the United States…”

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

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

Published | Video Starts at 09:28

Why is this important? Because we are still basically hardwired to think like the stock market up or the stock market's down. That's good. And I think this concept that Just because a company has an address in the United States doesn't mean that what's in their interest is America's interest. investment. Their investors are international, and at the end of the day, their number one obligation, in their view is appropriately so, perhaps is to their shareholders. (09:28–09:36)

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Asserts that U.S.-based companies' interests may not align with national interests.

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