John Hudson
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 2 Dec
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But where does it matter more?
I think for him, Latin America is more important.
And so he's winning when it comes to Venezuela.
But he's...
On Russia and in Europe issues in general, I can tell you he has he immediately upon coming into office started engaging with his counterpart, Sergey Lavrov.
And from all of the readouts that I've gotten from those conversations, it has been pragmatic.
He has not been sort of a fire breathing hawk.
And so this evolution of Marco Rubio happened very early on, and he's been quite amenable to Trump's priorities and trying to be a helpful facilitator and not push Trump where he's uncomfortable being pushed on.
Yeah, a super confusing incident.
And what I attribute to is just having all of these cooks in the kitchen.
And when he was brought in was at a sort of peak moment when the Trump administration and Steve Witkoff in particular were being criticized for putting together a deal that was very –
pro-Russian in the way that many people viewed it.
And people were saying, you know, it might actually just be a copy and paste of a Russian wish list.
And piling on all of this, there was a security conference happening in Canada.
And some lawmakers on record during panels said that
In fact, Rubio himself told them that this was a straight up Russian wish list.
Rubio has since denied that.
He got on the phone with those senators after they said it and said, no, you misinterpreted what I said.
All we can say is this was very ugly and messy.
It was a very sort of ugly look for the administration.
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