Marco Rubio vs Van Hollen Erupts Over Iran, Gaza, Cuba & U.S. Foreign Policy | 4K Video | N18G

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]Next.

[00:00:00]>> Thank you.

[00:00:02]>> Mr. Chairman and and welcome, Mr. Secretary. This is your first public hearing since President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu launched an illegal war against Iran.

[00:00:16]Netanyahu said he's been waiting 40 years to do this.

[00:00:21]Turns [snorts] out he finally found a president who was both stupid and reckless enough to join him.

[00:00:27]The war has killed 14 American service members, wounded hundreds more, and killed thousands of civilians. It's driving up the price of gas, food, and much more.

[00:00:38]Trump obviously doesn't care. 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.

[00:00:49]And all for what? President told us 91 days ago that we had, quote, "won the war in Iran."

[00:00:56]Last year he told the country, "Iran's key enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated."

[00:01:05]Was that false?

[00:01:06]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.

[00:01:20]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. Tweeted about that the other day.

[00:01:31]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.

[00:01:39]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. 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 Nuland abused your powers when you locked up and still seek to deport students for protesting the destruction of Gaza.

[00:02:09]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.

[00:02:22]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.

[00:02:37]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.

[00:02:56]A race-based refugee system. The same time, the president's preventing Cuban political refugees from entering the United States even as you've imposed an oil blockade on that repressive regime.

[00:03:08]The stated goal is to change the government there, but the only real change is humanitarian crisis inflicted on millions of people, not members of the regime. And in that regard, Mr. Secretary, I have a I have a question.