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Marco Rubio: “The difference is that the person who was in charge, even…”

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

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Marco Rubio, Sen. Chris Van Hollen and more | "Face the Nation" Full Broadcast - Jan. 4, 2026

Published | Video Starts at 10:41

These are delicate and complicated things that require mature statesmanship, and that's what we intend to do. But. But our goals remain the same. The difference is that the person who was in charge, even though not legitimately in the past, was someone you could not work with. He is not a person that had ever kept any of the deals he made broke. Every deal he ever made made a fool out of the Biden administration on the deal they made with him. And we offered him on multiple occasions an opportunity to remove himself from the scene in a positive way. He chose not to do so. But his number two is now running the country. (10:41–10:59)

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Asserts that Nicolás Maduro did not keep deals and undermined the Biden administration's agreements.

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