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Marco Rubio: “We've been able to move those prisoners into Iraq and out of…”

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

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Sec. Of State Marco Rubio Holds Press Conference With Slovak PM Robert Fico

Published | Video Starts at 43:05

Obviously, he has to keep doing that. But that's what we've been able to achieve. We've been able to at least get him to agree to do that. And that's been important because We've been able to move those prisoners into Iraq and out of harm's way so that we don't have a massive jailbreak and four or five thousand ISIS killers running crazy all over the place and threatening us in the future. And it's given us time to work on this integration agreement which they have agreed to between the Kurds and the Syrian authorities in Damascus. Now, you have to implement that agreement. (43:05–43:17)

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Asserts that ISIS prisoners were moved into Iraq to prevent a jailbreak.

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