Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Buying Greenland, His Trip to Panama, and How to End the Russia-Ukraine War | Ep. 995
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Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at noon east. Hey, everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show. Today, our exclusive interview with the 72nd Secretary of State, Marco Rubio. This is his first long-form sit-down. He said it was his first interview since taking on the new role just over one week ago. Of all the Trump 2.0 nominees, he's the only one so far who gained, I mean, entirely bipartisan support, passing unanimously by the Senate with a 99-0 vote. and as the only nominee to receive a vote on day one of the second Trump administration. On the eve of his first foreign trip as Secretary of State, interestingly, to Panama, we get into everything.
We go to Greenland, we talk China, we talk Iran, Israel, and we do get into the deep state. Enjoy. Grand Canyon University, a private Christian university in beautiful Phoenix, Arizona, believes that we are endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. GCU believes in equal opportunity and that the American dream starts with purpose. By honoring your career calling, you can impact your family, friends, and your community. Thank you so much for having me. GCU meets you where you are and provides a path to help you fulfill your dreams. The pursuit to serve others is yours. Let it flourish. Find your purpose at Grand Canyon University. Private. Christian. Affordable. Mr. Secretary, thank you so much for doing this.
Thank you. It still feels weird to hear that, but thank you.
It does, right? So you're a week in now?
Eight days, but I'm not counting. I'm saying it's been eight days, eight, nine days.
There's so much I want to go over, like the change between the Senate and here, how you're, you know, what's it like to be at the heart of the deep state? But let me start with the plane crash.
Yeah. It's so awful. It is. It is. It's horrible. I mean, just from a human standpoint of it, to think these are people that were, I mean, they were landing. I mean, we've all been on these planes. You're getting ready to land. You're excited. You're getting ready to go. Maybe your phone's already connecting because you're ready to get on the ground. And then something like this comes out of the blue. And it's a horrible tragedy. And we don't forget that there were service members involved in this as well who lost their lives in this terrible accident. Obviously, it's not a State Department function, but... The key to these is first to honor those who have passed and understand the pain of these families.
The second is to figure out why this happened so that it never happens again. This is a very busy airport, and there's a lot of traffic going in and out through the city. But it's just heartbreaking, and I'm sure as we hear the individual stories of the people involved, it will be even sadder.
Does it underscore at all why President Trump needs his nominees confirmed quickly?
Yeah, especially on the response part of it, right? I mean, so ultimately there was a failure here at some point. Like helicopters and airplanes are not supposed to crash into each other in the capital of the United States at one of the busiest airports in the country. This isn't supposed to happen. So it happened for a reason. And someone needs to lead a process that figures out why. And then you need to lead a process to make sure it doesn't happen again. And look, it happened here. It could have happened in some other city too. And so you need to have someone at the head of these departments that are in charge of this. And it may be multiple departments because it's going to involve DOD. It's going to involve the Department of Transportation.
But it may involve other elements of the U.S. government. And you need to have somebody running the agencies or there will not be. You're just not going to get the same responsibility.
Yeah, God forbid we had something happen on an international basis. You're installed, but Tulsi's, you know, that could take a while and there's been a little foot dragging. All right, so you've been in the job now for eight days. What's the biggest difference between being a U.S. Senator and being the Secretary of State?
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