00:00Thank you for your time.
00:01Did you have a good time here for LH7, Italian TV,
00:03and primetime media?
00:05So we both were at the G7 last week,
00:09and the focus was Ukraine.
00:11So today in Europe, there was a European Council.
00:15They met the foreign minister, and they
00:17discussed about Ukraine and the European Union proposals.
00:21So it seems like Europe is very divided right now,
00:26like Italy, Spain, Ukraine.
00:29I mean, Hungary and Slovakia are more aligned
00:32to Trump proposal.
00:35It's not proposal, but like plan.
00:38And the other ones, more lefties,
00:40are like want to keep giving aid, military aid to Ukraine.
00:44So what is the, what do you, as a State Department,
00:49how do you guys interact with the European right now?
00:53Are we going to go for the Trump plans, or the European ones?
00:57I think we're going to go with the Marco Rubio approach, which
01:01is to talk to everybody, which is to put out the new ideas,
01:04which is to argue for them on the merits of those ideas.
01:08That's what happened at the G7.
01:10What happened at the G7 was a collection
01:12of people who have very different points of view,
01:14some big disagreements, but a direct, specific decision
01:18mentioned by the Canadian foreign minister, Jolie,
01:21that we're going to focus on what we do have in common,
01:24what we can get done together, and really
01:26the importance of the gathering itself
01:29and what we can do together.
01:31There is a lot of people, I think,
01:33that would prefer us to be distracted
01:36by the disagreements.
01:37But what I've seen Secretary Rubio accomplish
01:40is remarkable, and in different environments.
01:43Environments where there's negotiations
01:46between countries attempting to stop a war, a ministers meeting
01:52where they're all aligned in some fashion or another
01:55and want to work together but have disagreements.
01:58I can say this, fortunately, having been there,
02:02is that it's been his voice, and I'm proud as an American
02:06that it happens to be the American Secretary of State.
02:09It's his voice that has brought conversations together,
02:12that has brought groups of people together.
02:15And we know this is why you need a State Department
02:17and why you need diplomats, because everybody
02:20is going to have different ideas.
02:21Everybody is going to think there's a better way,
02:24and we all have investments in the nature of the outcome.
02:27America is the strongest country in the world for a reason.
02:30All the combination of things we do,
02:32but mostly because we are a nation of merit and arguments
02:37and speech and the ability for people to be heard
02:40and for all of us to have an open mind.
02:42That is what Marco Rubio brings to this debate,
02:45especially in Europe where there are disagreements.
02:48We will, and he expects to, win people over
02:51based on the merits of the arguments
02:53that we continue to make every day.
02:54And I'm going to leave it there, everyone.
02:56I'll see you Wednesday.
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