Marco Rubio: “The president engaged personally not once but twice with Al…”

“Here's the fact, and I'm not saying that this tells you that we should claim victory and start a parade, but here's the fact. The fact is that when this situation erupted in the northeast of Syria, we went. The president engaged personally not once but twice with Al Shara, and he said, stop the fighting so that we can move the ISIS prisoners that are there, thousands of ISIS prisoners who, by the way, could have broken out and created havoc and chaos. Stop the fighting so that we can move these ISIS prisoners and so that you can. We have more time to work on this reintegration, the integration of the Kurds into the national Syrian forces.” (42:28–42:43)

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