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Marco Rubio: “The EU has a GDP basically comparable to that of the United…”

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BREAKING NEWS Marco Rubio Speaks To Reporters At G7 Summit As U.S.-Canada Trade War Escalates

Published | Video Starts at 17:37

We're not discussing that here today because that's not what the purpose of this meeting was about. As far as the question that you're asking me about hostility, yeah. You look at the eu. The EU has a GDP basically comparable to that of the United States. The composition of their economy is similar to ours. These are not developing countries. These are developed countries and yet they have a significant trade surplus with the United States. (17:37–17:43)

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