Marco Rubio

And now that's no longer the case, at least when it comes to some NATO members.

That's a problem and has to be examined.

But ultimately, that's a decision for the president to make.

Well, we should know something today.

I mean, we're expecting a response from them.

We'll see what the response entails.

The hope is it's something that it can put us into a serious process of negotiation.

Obviously, we've seen the reporting overnight that Iran has established or trying to establish some

agency that's going to control traffic in the straits that would be very problem that would actually be unacceptable i mean we're the normalizing of their controlling of international waterways both illegal and and it's just something that's unacceptable and the world doesn't start asking itself what is it willing to do if iran tries to normalize a control of an international waterway

I've been a strong supporter of NATO throughout my career in the Senate and even now.

One of the advantages of being in NATO is that it allows us to have forces deployed in Europe and bases that allow us a logistical ability to project power in case of contingencies.

But we had a contingency.

And some countries in Europe, some countries in Europe, like Spain as an example, denied us the use of those bases for a very important contingency that in some ways the denial of those bases actually impeded the mission, not severely, but had a cost and in fact even created some unnecessary dangers.

So if one of the main reasons why the US is in NATO is the ability to have forces deployed

in Europe that we could project to other contingencies.

And now that's no longer the case, at least when it comes to some NATO members, that's a problem and it has to be examined.

But ultimately that's a decision for the president to make.

Normalize.

a country claiming to control an international waterway.

Because if you normalize that, you've set a precedent that's gonna get repeated in a dozen other places.