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Marco Rubio: “There are boat strikes we don't take because they don't meet…”

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

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We are presenting. Every single one of these is justified. We know who's on those boats. We've been tracking them from the very beginning. We know everything about them, okay? There are boat strikes we don't take because they don't meet the criteria, the legal criteria. We have everything we need. And it's one of the reasons why, you've seen this massive deployment in the region is to Be able to gather intelligence and paint a picture that we can justify to lawyers based on the law. (1:46:57–1:47:02)

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Asserts that some boat strikes are not conducted due to not meeting legal criteria.

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