Marco Rubio

President Trump has repeatedly offered to attack the cartels.

Mexico has always rebuffed, saying it can do the job alone.

Ada Peralta, NPR News, Mexico City.

It doesn't cost us.

For example, this oil deal that's happening doesn't cost us any money.

On the contrary.

Doesn't cost us any money.

Look, I can't.

I don't have the numbers.

Guys, what I think the White House said yesterday is what I will tell you now and I've always said.

The president always retained the option.

Every president, not this president, every president always retains the option.

I'm not talking about Greenland.

I'm just talking about globally.

If the president identifies a threat to the national security of the United States, every president retains the option to address it through military means.

As a diplomat, which is what I am now and what we work on, we always prefer to settle it in different ways.

That included in Venezuela.

We tried repeatedly to reach an outcome here that did not involve having to go in and grab an indicted drug trafficker.

Those were unsuccessful, unfortunately.

And the reason why we understand and believe that we have the strongest leverage possible is our quarantine.