Trump Republicans JUST LOST BIG SENATE ELECTION that CHANGES EVERYTHING!!

Ajouté : 2026-06-07

[00:00:00]The last one here is there is a international women of courage program you and the first lady of champion are you going to commit to maintaining that?

[00:00:08]>> one I'm sorry?

[00:00:08]>> The women of courage program.

[00:00:11]You and the first lady have championed that.

[00:00:13]>> Yeah, well we had an award ceremony last year. I don't know if one is scheduled for this year yet.

[00:00:17]>> Thank you with the remainder of my time I'd like to remind the American people that as a secretary of state your main duty as America's chief diplomat is to maintain our relations with foreign nations.

[00:00:30]This is why I was shocked to see that you were at a party with President Trump in Miami instead of accompanying Vice President Pence to Pakistan for negotiations.

[00:00:38]>> What party was I at? I was at a party?

[00:00:39]>> Publicly reported and there's photos there.

[00:00:41]>> What party? No, no, no, no, but you're going to say that I'm going to answer it. I'm going to answer that question because that's an absurd statement.

[00:00:46]>> I was not at a party. Let me finish my paragraph he he can answer.

[00:00:49]>> Cuz you people are going to slander me I'm going to answer it.

[00:00:51]>> with cough and Jared Kushner both of whom were never confirmed by this body to be America's diplomats accompanied the vice president in the negotiations.

[00:01:00]Even Iran's foreign minister was not there.

[00:01:02]>> What's good guys John here. So let's get started. Secretary of State Marco Rubio walked into a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing expecting the usual deference and instead got publicly eviscerated forced to defend an administration foreign policy framed as having cost American lives alienated allies enriched the president's family and left the U.S. more isolated than at any point in modern memory. The video casts his performance not as merely embarrassing but as the kind of catastrophic public failure that has become the signature of impending dismissal in Trump's orbit. The final act of a political career hollowed out by years of servile loyalty. The hearing's tone was set from the first exchange when a senator asked Rubio whether the administration would commit to maintaining the international women of courage program he and the first lady had once championed. His response as the video frames it wasn't an answer but a verbal shrug.

[00:01:55]>> You were not with there excuse me and you were not. I just feel that's embarrassing for us and it's embarrassing for you.

[00:02:01]So, Mr. Secretary, Congress represents the American people. We have the power to confirm who represents America abroad. We confirmed you to be our Secretary of State. We confirmed you to be in the negotiations that are happening, and it's just unthinkable to me that you are not that you are missing high-stakes negotiations or that you're not involved. It's sad >> Senator Rosen, your time your time's up.

[00:02:24]>> So, let me Senator >> Uh Secretary Rubio is not here.

[00:02:26]>> inaccurate and 100% wrong. Here's why.

[00:02:28]Number one, the Vice President of the United States was there, and he wasn't confirmed by us, and he was elected by the American people. Okay? He is the second in line of the President of the United States. He was present present.

[00:02:38]Mr. Witcoff is the President's envoy for negotiation for peace deals. Mr. Kushner is a private citizen that serves as an advisor on these functions. They were the team that we sent to Pakistan. I was not at a party. Where I was is next to the President. Because in the midst of those negotiations, I was in communications with them, and in fact, I think there is media reporting from that evening on how multiple occasions I went into a back room, I came back out and spoke to the President, and was constantly updating him. On that evening, I spoke to >> A vague recollection of a past ceremony, mumbled uncertainty about the current year, no commitment or defense of the program's value. That emptiness set the tone for everything that followed. Not a Secretary of State prepared to defend American diplomacy, but a man going through the motions, hoping no one would notice how thoroughly he'd surrendered principles he once claimed to hold. The real fireworks came when a Senator confronted Rubio with the fact that he'd been absent from critical high-stakes negotiations with Pakistan, photographed at a social gathering with Trump in Miami while the Vice President represented American interests.

[00:03:41]>> Mr. Kushner and our negotiating team and Mr. Witcoff on at least six occasions, including twice on a secure line from from the phone they had access to over there.

[00:03:48]>> So, you don't know what you're talking about.

[00:03:49]>> Senator Rosen, he has the floor.

[00:03:51]>> I know your staff wrote up this cute statement for your Tik Tok video, but it's not true and it's not real. That's not what happened. Okay, I'm the National Security Advisor and Secretary of State. I was co-located with the President in the midst of a high stakes negotiation so that I could immediately inform him about events occurring halfway around the world. I was where I needed to be at that moment because we had a very capable team on the ground in Pakistan led by the Vice President, led by the Vice President of the United States. Thank you.

[00:04:18]>> Chairman and and welcome.

[00:04:20]Mr. Secretary, this is your first public hearing since President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu launched an illegal war against Iran.

[00:04:31]Netanyahu said he's been waiting 40 years to do this.

[00:04:37]Turns out he finally found a president who was both stupid and reckless enough to join him.

[00:04:43]The war has killed 14 American service members, wounded hundreds more.

[00:04:47]>> The Senator noted that Witt and Jared Kushner, never Senate confirmed as diplomats, accompanied the Vice President while the confirmed Secretary of State was nowhere to be found and that even Iran's Foreign Minister managed to be present while America's own chief diplomat was absent. The Senator called it embarrassing for the country and for Rubio personally and the verdict hung in the air. Rubio's response was immediate and defensive. He snapped that the Senator was 100% inaccurate then undermined the claim with his own explanation. He defended the Vice President's presence as an elected official second in line, described Witt as the President's peace envoy and characterized Kushner as a private citizen advisor.

[00:05:26]>> And killed thousands of civilians. It's driving up the price of gas, food and much more. Trump obviously doesn't care.

[00:05:34]He called high gas prices peanuts and said, "I don't think about Americans financial situation." That's from the President of the United States.

[00:05:44]And all for what? President told us 91 days ago that we had quote won the war in Iran.

[00:05:50]Last year he told the country Iran's key enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated. Was that false?

[00:06:00]Let's face it, Mr. Secretary. The Trump foreign policy has become a dumpster fire. This is the same president who's more interested in flattering Vladimir Putin than in protecting Ukrainian sovereignty.

[00:06:13]The president who lifted restrictions on the transfer of sophisticated US chips to China, but came back from his trip there with nothing but ballroom envy. He tweeted about that the other day.

[00:06:25]This is the president who brought on Elon Musk to take a chainsaw to AID, which has enabled the current Ebola outbreak in the DRC.

[00:06:33]We've also witnessed corrupt crypto deals with the UAE royal family that have enriched the Trump family at the expense of our national security.

[00:06:40]>> For his own absence, he insisted he hadn't been at a party, but positioned next to the president in constant communication with the team on the ground, going to a back room repeatedly to make calls and brief the president, claiming six separate conversations with the negotiating team that evening. He insisted he was exactly where he needed to be, but every word of that defense deepened the hole, because what Rubio described wasn't the role of a secretary of state exercising constitutional responsibilities, but that of a glorified staffer relaying messages while unconfirmed people whose authority derived solely from personal connection to Trump conducted the actual diplomacy.

[00:07:17]>> We've seen an administration engage in extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean, hijack Venezuelan oil, threaten to invade Greenland, and weaken the NATO alliance. Here at home, a Reagan-appointed judge said that you and former Secretary Noam abused your powers when you locked up and still seek to deport students for protesting the destruction of Gaza.

[00:07:40]The Reagan-appointed judge said you did that quote primarily on account of their first amendment protected political speech. Speaking of Gaza, the so-called board of peace seems to have run around Meanwhile while Senator Rubio once proclaimed that the US must quote work to ensure that refugees who flee war, torture, and persecution are provided safe environments to live and thrive in.

[00:08:07]Now as Secretary of State in this administration you have capped refugees at a record low of 17,500 and white South Africans, Afrikaners have comprised roughly 99% of those slots, Mr. Secretary.

[00:08:26]A race-based refugee system. The same time, the president's preventing Cuban political refugees from entering the United States even as you've opposed an year oil blockade on that repressive >> The Vice President, the son-in-law, the personal envoy were all at the negotiating table where real decisions were made while the nation's chief diplomat was in Miami running in and out of a back room making phone calls. Rubio thought he was defending himself, but he was confessing to his own irrelevance.

[00:08:53]Then the questioning turned to the war in Iran, transforming the hearing from embarrassment into indictment. A senator laid out the toll with clinical precision. 14 American service members killed, hundreds wounded, thousands of civilians dead gas and food prices driven upward. And for what? The president had declared 91 days earlier that the U.S. had won the war and that Iran's enrichment facilities were completely obliterated. So why were service members still dying? Why no exit strategy, no definition of victory, no plan for after? The senator characterized the Trump foreign policy as a dumpster fire with the evidence piled around them like wreckage. The indictment continued, systematic and devastating. This is the same president, the senator reminded the room, who lavishes more attention on flattering Vladimir Putin than on protecting Ukrainian sovereignty. The same president who lifted restrictions on the transfer of sophisticated American chips to China and then returned from his trip there with nothing to show for it except as the senator memorably put it, ballroom envy. The same president who empowered Elon Musk to take a chainsaw to foreign aid, a decision that has enabled the current Ebola outbreak devastating the Democratic Republic of Congo. The senator cataloged the corruption that has become the defining feature of this administration's foreign policy, crypto deals with the UAE royal family that have enriched the Trump family at the direct expense of American national security, extrajudicial killings conducted in the Caribbean, the hijacking of Venezuelan oil, threats to invade Greenland, the systematic weakening of the NATO alliance that has kept the peace Europe for generations.

[00:10:36]Each item on the list was a separate indictment and together they painted a portrait of an administration that has abandoned every principle of responsible statecraft in favor of transactional corruption and impulsive aggression. The senator then delivered the blow that connected foreign policy failure to domestic constitutional crisis. A Reagan appointed judge, the kind of conservative jurist whose credibility cannot be dismissed as partisan activism, had ruled that Rubio and the former secretary of Homeland Security had abused their powers. They had locked up and continued to seek the deportation of students whose only crime was protesting the destruction of Gaza. The judge found that this had been done primarily on account of their First Amendment protected political speech. A Republican appointed federal judge had formally determined that the secretary of state had violated the constitutional rights of American residents to silence political dissent. The senator then pivoted to the so-called Board of Peace, the administration's much-hyped initiative that had apparently run aground on the rocks of reality. And then the senator turned Rubio's own past words against him with devastating precision. Years ago, Marco Rubio had proclaimed that the United States must work to ensure that refugees who flee war, torture, and persecution are provided safe environments to live and thrive. Those were his words, spoken when he still believed in something, when he still had a political identity independent of Donald Trump. And now, as Secretary of State, he has presided over a refugee system that has been capped at a record low. And the composition of those few admitted refugees tells a story of moral rot that defies any attempt at justification. White South Africans, Afrikaners, have comprised roughly 99% of those slots. A race-based refugee system, the senator called it, and the description was accurate.

[00:12:28]Meanwhile, Cuban political refugees who flee a repressive regime that the administration claims to oppose are being prevented from entering the United States, even as the administration imposes a near oil blockade on that same regime with the stated goal of changing the government. The only real change has been a humanitarian crisis inflicted on millions of ordinary people who have no connection to the regime and no way to escape the suffering being imposed from outside. The questioning piled on layer after layer of failure. A senator raised the administration's cuts to global health programs, surging tuberculosis and malaria, the ongoing HIV crisis in Africa, a spreading Ebola outbreak, connecting them directly to withdrawal from surveillance and early detection systems, and arguing the cuts left the country less prepared for the next outbreak. Rubio simply denied the premise, claiming the Ebola response had been quick and the cuts weren't the cause. When the senator pushed back that the cuts to early warning systems were factual, not opinion, and that State Department personnel were saying the U.S. was less prepared, Rubio denied again, claiming he didn't know who was saying such things. The senator's closing point cut deepest. The secretary couldn't even agree on the basic facts, and without agreement on facts, there's no foundation for policy or possibility of accountability. This is the pattern that has emerged across every disastrous hearing that has preceded a high-profile firing in this administration. Think back to the final days of every cabinet official who has been shown the door.

[00:14:03]What did they all have in common in the period immediately before their dismissal? They had a catastrophic hearing or multiple catastrophic hearings where they were unable to answer the questions, unable to defend the administration's policies, unable to protect the president from the consequences of his own decisions. Pam Bondi stormed out of her hearing after being grilled from every angle about matters she could not explain and would not clarify. Her inability to handle the questions, her visible frustration, her failure to provide any substantive defense of the administration's conduct, all of it made Trump look bad. And that is the unforgivable sin in this White House. It is not incompetence that gets you fired because incompetence is the baseline expectation. It is not corruption that gets you fired because corruption is the operating model. What gets you fired is failing at the one job that actually matters, making Donald Trump look good at all times, under all circumstances, no matter how impossible the task may be. The truth is that nobody could have made Trump look good when it came to questions about the Epstein files or the conduct of the war in Iran or the refugee policies or the global health cuts. These are impossible assignments. The facts are damning. The consequences are visible. The suffering is real, but Trump does not accept the concept of an impossible assignment. He demands that his subordinates achieve the unachievable, and when they inevitably fail, he blames them with the full force of his fury. Do you think he will have a moment of introspection? Do you imagine him sitting alone in the residence reflecting that perhaps Pam Bondi was placed in an untenable position by his own decisions? That perhaps Marco Rubio is taking fire right now because the policies he is forced to defend were crafted without his input and executed without his leadership?

[00:15:49]Trump will never say that. He will never think that. Not in public, not in private, probably not even in the recesses of his own mind. His psychological architecture does not permit the admission of personal fault.

[00:16:01]Every failure must be projected outward.

[00:16:03]Every disaster must be someone else's responsibility. And the people he has placed in positions of authority, the people who have debased themselves in his service, the people who have abandoned their principles and swallowed their pride and defended the indefensible, they are the ones who will be sacrificed when the blame must be assigned. The video casts Rubio's hearing as following a predictable pattern. Christine Noem, Tulsi Gabbard, and Pam Bondi each had their disastrous hearings and were gone. You face senators with real questions about indefensible policies, you embarrass yourself and the president, and the axe falls. Now Rubio had his turn.

[00:16:40]Devastating questions, hollow responses, his irrelevance and sidelining laid out for the permanent record. The framing is that the senators weren't engaged in partisan theater, but documenting the collapse of American foreign policy for the historical record. So future generations understand how American statecraft was dismantled by people who valued personal enrichment and loyalty above the national interest. And now the inevitable question hangs over Marco Rubio's head. How long does he have? The pattern suggests that the clock is already ticking. The hearing was a disaster. The clips are circulating. The mockery is spreading. Every cable news panel, every political podcast, every social media feed is filled with the images of Rubio being confronted with his own irrelevance, being forced to admit that he was not at the negotiating table while unconfirmed relatives of the president conducted American diplomacy, being reminded that a Republican appointed judge found he had violated the Constitution, being challenged on the humanitarian consequences of policies he cannot justify. Trump is watching this coverage. He is seeing his Secretary of State being humiliated on the public stage, and Trump does not tolerate public humiliation of his subordinates. Not because he cares about them, but because their humiliation reflects on him. Every time a cabinet official is exposed as incompetent or irrelevant or corrupt, it raises the question of why the president selected such a person in the first place. It raises the question of whether the president is a competent judge of character and talent. It raises the question of whether the administration is capable of governing. And those questions are intolerable to a man whose entire political identity rests on the myth of his own infallibility. So, the axe will fall, as it has fallen before, as it will fall again. Marco Rubio will join the growing list of former officials who believed that their loyalty would protect them, who believed that their years of service to the Trump agenda would earn them some measure of job security, who believed that different from all the others who had been chewed up and spat out. They are never different. The loyalty only flows one direction. The sacrifices they made, the principles they abandoned, the reputations they destroyed, none of it buys them anything when the moment of accountability arrives, because the accountability they face is not from the voters or the courts or the Congress.

[00:19:05]The accountability they face is from Donald Trump, who will blame them for the failures that his own decisions created, who will publicly humiliate them on his way out the door, who will never acknowledge that the common denominator in all of these disasters is the man sitting in the Oval Office giving the orders. The Senate hearing that just concluded is more than just a bad day for Marco Rubio. It is a microcosm of the entire Trump presidency, a concentrated dose of everything that has gone wrong with American governance since this administration took power. The sidelining of confirmed constitutionally responsible officials in favor of unaccountable family members and cronies. The pursuit of military adventures that cost American lives without achieving any discernible strategic objective. The enrichment of the first family through deals that compromise national security. The violation of constitutional rights to silence political opposition. The systematic destruction of humanitarian programs and global health infrastructure. The race-based manipulation of refugee admissions. The refusal to acknowledge basic facts when those facts are politically inconvenient. All of it was on display in that hearing room. All of it was documented for the historical record.

[00:20:16]And all of it was defended poorly and unconvincingly by a Secretary of State who has become exactly what he once would have condemned, a hollow man serving a corrupt administration, counting the days until his inevitable dismissal, hoping only that the axe will be swift when it finally arrives. The broader political implications of this hearing extend far beyond the fate of one cabinet official. Every disaster is public appearance by a Trump appointee reinforces the narrative that this administration is incapable of competent governance. Every senator who asks sharp questions and receives evasive non-answers is contributing to a body of evidence that will be used in the upcoming elections. Every clip of a cabinet secretary being humiliated on camera is an advertisement for the proposition that the people running the executive branch are not up to the job.

[00:21:06]The accumulation of these moments is shaping the political environment in ways that Trump's own media operation cannot control. They can spin individual stories, deflect individual criticisms, distract with individual outrages, but they cannot spin the pattern. The pattern is too consistent, too visible, too deeply embedded in the lived experience of Americans who are paying higher prices and worrying about wars and watching their country's global standing deteriorate. The pattern tells a story that no amount of truth social posting can rewrite. And Marco Rubio's disastrous hearing is the latest chapter in that story, another data point in the mountain of evidence that this administration has failed, is failing, and will continue to fail until it is finally held to account.