Rubio Lauds Trump Over Peace Deals: He 'Just Picks Up The Phone & Tells Them To Stop Fighting!'

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During a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio praised President Trump over his peace deal with Thailand and Cambodia and Azerbaijan and Armenia.

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00:00Go ahead.

00:00Well, Mr. President, first of all, everyone's made this comment already and needs to be echoed again.

00:04You were elected as the president of Working Americans, and that's why this Labor Day is so meaningful.

00:09For me personally, this is the most meaningful Labor Day of my life as someone with four jobs.

00:13And so...

00:14It's true. It's true.

00:23But on the point of, you made it very clear from the outset,

00:26that even in foreign policy, everything we did has to be pro-American.

00:30It has to make America stronger or safer or more prosperous.

00:33And there's just a few things I want to touch to because it involves your team under your leadership making it happen.

00:38The first is, for the first time in the modern era, we are truly on offense

00:41against organized cartels that are pumping poison, killer poison, into our cities.

00:47And that's a team effort.

00:48It's Christie's team. It's Pete's team. It's Pam's team.

00:52And obviously, it's under your leadership.

00:54And by the way, we're getting incredible economic, international cooperation.

00:58Countries just in the last week, Ecuador, Paraguay, Guyana, Trinidad, today Argentina,

01:03all joining us or trying to be helpful in advancing this.

01:07And this just, you know, one thing is there.

01:08We're going to stop drugs from coming in, and we're having record seizures.

01:11But another thing is to build an international coalition against the scourge on the international stage.

01:17The second is mass migration, illegal mass migration,

01:20which is dangerous for the country but harmful for American workers.

01:23What's happening on the border is essential.

01:25But it's not just what's happening on the border.

01:27And again, Christie and her team have been essential in this.

01:29We have countries all over the world that are actually helping us,

01:32whether it's through safe third country agreements,

01:34whether through it's stopping the migration flow from coming here in the first place.

01:38Incredible international cooperation.

01:40You're not – you've redefined our border.

01:42It's no longer just our physical border.

01:44We are doing things ahead of time to prevent this from happening

01:47and getting cooperations from countries that we've never seen before.

01:50And last, I would say – and Steve touched upon this, who, by the way, is doing a phenomenal job.

01:54Steve is both a great negotiator and he's also a nice guy, which are two tough things to pull off.

02:00But it's incredible.

02:01But we both work for the peacemaker-in-chief.

02:04Think about it.

02:04How fortunate we are as Americans to have a president who's made peace a priority.

02:09And just since the last time we've met, there was a war going on in Cambodia and Thailand,

02:13between Cambodia and Thailand.

02:14And the president just picks up the phone and tells him to stop fighting.

02:17And within 72 hours, the fighting had stopped.

02:20You know, there's no other leader in the world that could have done it.

02:22And the fact that you were willing to spend time to do that and to make it happen is, of course, essential.

02:26And then the war that didn't happen because of Azerbaijan and Armenia coming here to sign that peace deal,

02:32which is historic in so many countries.

02:33You know how many countries said, oh, it's never going to happen.

02:35It is impossible.

02:36And it occurred, Mr. President, because of your leadership.

02:39And then on a point of personal privilege, I wasn't even going to raise it.

02:42I haven't even talked to you about this.

02:43It's a little controversial, but I think I need to bring it up at this time of year.

02:47This thing about people getting married on Saturdays during college football season is a scourge, Mr. President.

02:52It's dividing families.

02:54I don't know if we can have an executive order on this.

02:56It's insane.

02:57But it's really difficult.

02:59There's, you know, seven other months of the year that people can get married,

03:01so I just wanted to say that.

03:03It's very, very difficult.

Rubio Lauds Trump Over Peace Deals: He 'Just Picks Up The Phone & Tells Them To Stop Fighting!'

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