David Sanger

The interesting question right now is, is Rubio really deeply involved in the Iran confrontation?

Has he even taken a major position on it?

Because we saw his fingerprints all over Venezuela.

There are many who believe that Marco Rubio, whose family, of course, initially came from Cuba, is deeply interested in trying to bring about regime change in Cuba.

He made no secret of that when he was a senator.

But we haven't seen him be extremely vocal or particularly involved in the Iran negotiations, though we assume that he is in the room with J.D.

Vance and a few others when the major decisions are being made.

Well, certainly if you listen to him prior to his election, he was deeply averse to foreign intervention and particularly to the American commitment to Ukraine.

Before he was even running for vice president, he showed up at the Munich Security Conference and made the public case for the U.S.

to basically pull back from support of Ukraine and certainly from ever allowing Ukraine into NATO, which was considered at the time to be heresy and today is sort of national policy.

So one has to assume that he was deeply concerned about Venezuela, right?

But as we indicated earlier, that wasn't a full military attack on Venezuela.

That was a snatch and grab operation to seize the leader.

And so I think he was at peace with that.

Same thing with the previous attack on the three major enrichment centers in Iran.

There were no American troops involved.

It was a question of whether you could send B-2 bombers and Tomahawk missiles there and

go in, bomb, and leave.

And there was sort of a surgical precision and a brief time period to that that I think made that acceptable to J.D.

Vance.