Rubio Senate hearing gets heated: 'This is not a game show' — Transcript

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1. 0:00Can you assure us that you will not
2. 0:03enter into a or a nuclear cooperation
3. 0:06agreement with Saudi Arabia that does
4. 0:08not have that same gold standard of uh
5. 0:11security to make sure they're not
6. 0:12building a nuclear weapon? Well, first I
7. 0:14will tell you that uh there is no been
8. 0:16no conversation about entering into one
9. 0:17for example during the recent trip and
10. 0:19can I I've got a limited time. I can't.
11. 0:20So here's the thing. I can I can either
12. 0:22give me a yes, give me no. I'm going to
13. 0:24give you my answer if you want my
14. 0:25answer. This is not a game show.
15. 0:27Reclaiming my time. Well, reclaim your
16. 0:29time, but it's not a game show. I get to
17. 0:30answer. These are complex questions. Let
18. 0:32me ask you, Mr. Secretary, I'm
19. 0:33reclaiming my time. The filibustering
20. 0:35takes place in the Senate, not here. I'm
21. 0:37not filibustering. I'm trying to answer
22. 0:38your question. You're trying Let's go on
23. 0:41to the next question. With regard to
24. 0:44Iran, can you assure
25. 0:46us that you will continue sanctions on
26. 0:51Iran until they verifiably agree to
27. 0:54abandon all enrichment? That's a yes or
28. 0:57no question. No, it's not. Well, can you
29. 1:00give me a yes or no? Should I go on to
30. 1:01go on to the next? We believe that Iran
31. 1:03should not be allowed to enrich uranium.
32. 1:04Correct.
33. 1:06You believe that it I believe we believe
34. 1:08that an acceptable deal with Iran is one
35. 1:10in which they cannot enrich because if
36. 1:12they can enrich, they can weaponize. I
37. 1:13know why we don't want I asked you will
38. 1:15we agree will we continue the sanctions
39. 1:18until they verifiably agree to get rid
40. 1:20of Oh, you have no worry about us. The
41. 1:22worry was the previous administration.
42. 1:23This administration has been refusal to
43. 1:25give me an answer is loud and clear. No.
44. 1:28Well, I reclaiming my time. Mr. Ch Mr.
45. 1:32Chair, you told us about all these
46. 1:34wonderful business deals that were
47. 1:36announced in the Middle East. It's
48. 1:38reminiscent of the first year of the
49. 1:39first term of Donald Trump where he
50. 1:41announced a $10 billion investment by
51. 1:44Foxcom in Wisconsin. It is still an
52. 1:47empty field. I am sure that the only
53. 1:49deals announced in the Middle East that
54. 1:51will actually happen were the bribery
55. 1:53deals, the $400 million plane and the $2
56. 1:56billion Abu Dhabi will put into the uh
57. 1:59uh cryptocurrency sponsored by Mr.
58. 2:02Trump.
59. 2:03Um Tik Tok, Mr. Secretary, you led the
60. 2:06effort to say that it shouldn't be
61. 2:08controlled by the Chinese Communist
62. 2:09Party. We passed a law with your help.
63. 2:12That law requires that we ban Tik Tok
64. 2:15now because all of the expiration dates
65. 2:18have uh have gone have have expired. Um
66. 2:23but instead we
67. 2:25saw Chinese interests associated with
68. 2:28Tik Tok transfer $300 million into uh
69. 2:32the Trump coin, which is a pure gift.
70. 2:35It's $300 million for nothing but
71. 2:37monopoly money. And so uh there's a word
72. 2:40in Mandarin for this. It's it's called
73. 2:42bribery. And uh it raises the question
74. 2:45that I'll ask you to respond to for the
75. 2:46record. And that is, is there any
76. 2:48statute this administration will not
77. 2:50violate for a $300 million Chinese
78. 2:53bribe? The
79. 2:55um we next focus on the uh on USA ID. Uh
80. 2:59Musk gutted it. He said no one died as a
81. 3:03result. Uh are do you agree that no one
82. 3:05has died yet as a result of the
83. 3:07chainsawing of USID?
84. 3:11Yes or no? I'm sorry. The question is,
85. 3:12has anyone what has anyone in the world
86. 3:15died because of what Elon Musk did to
87. 3:18listen? Yes or no? Reclaiming my time.
88. 3:21If you won't answer, that's a loud
89. 3:22answer. No one has died because of us.
90. 3:24The people who have died as a result of
91. 3:27cutting off the oxygen of a woman uh in
92. 3:30Burma and denying HIV AIDS treatment to
93. 3:34those in Africa. They are dead now at
94. 3:36the hands of Elon Musk's and his
95. 3:38co-conspirators. recognizes
96. 3:40Representative Wilson from South
97. 3:41Carolina.