https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSAsZhRJRMY
May 20, 2025
Senator Chris Van Hollen questions Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a Senate Foreign Relations hearing.
Transcript
CHAIR RISCH: THANK YOU.
SEN. VAN,
AND I SERVED TOGETHER IN
CONGRESS FOR 15 YEARS.
I'VE BEEN FOLLOWING VALUE, A
BELIEF IN DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN
RIGHTS ABROAD AND HONORING THE
CONSTITUTION.
THAT IS WHY I CAN CONFIRM YOU.
I BELIEVE YOU WOULD STAND UP FOR
THOSE PRINCIPLES.
YOU HA NOT.
YOU HAVE DONE THE OPPOSITE.
YOU USE TO SPEAK WITH CONVICTION
ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF ORNATE
TO ADVANCED AMERICAN VALUES --
THE IMPORTANCE OF FOREIGN AID TO
ADVANCE AMERICAN VALUES.
THEN YOU STOOD BY WHY ELON MUSK
TOOK A CHAINSAW TO OTHER
ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS.
THAT HAS LEFT A STAGGERING TOLL.
BROKEN TRUST WITH COUNTRIES,
OPENING UP FOR CHINA AND OTHER
ADVERSARIES AND COUNTLESS
PREVENTABLE DEATHS OF CHILDREN
AN OTHERS.
TAKE SUDAN.
THE FREEZING OF U.S.
HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE FORCED
THE CLOSURE OF NEARLY 80% OF THE
EMERGENCY FOOD KITCHENS THERE.
2 MILLION FAMINE AFFECTED PEOPLE
WERE LEFT WITHOUT ACCESS TO
FOOD.
PEOPLE DIED CAUSE OF THOSE
ACTIONS.
MOTHERS, FATHERS AND CHILDREN.
TONS OF EMERGENCY FOOD THAT
COULD HAVE SAVED THEIR LIVES WAS
LEFT ROTTINGN WAREHOUSES
BECAUSE YOU AND ELON MUSK
REFUSED TO LET USAID DO ITS JOB.
SUDAN IS A COUNTRY WHERE BIDEN
ADMINISTRATION'S OWN
DETERMINATION IDENTIFIED IS -- A
GENOCIDE IS UNFOLDING.
HERE IS WHERE IT GOES FROM CRUEL
TO DESPICABLE.
WHILE CUTTING OFF FOOD AID TO
SUDANESE FAMILIES LIVING THROUGH
AN ACTUAL GENOCIDE, YOU ARE FAST
TRACKING WHITE SOUTH AFRICANS
FOR REFUGEE STATUS UNDER A
MANUFACTURED CLAIM THAT THEY ARE
THE VICTIMS OF GENOCIDE.
YOU TRIED TO BLOCK THE ADMISSION
OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAD ALREADY
BEEN APPROVED TO COME HERE AS
REFUGEES WHILE MAKING BOGUS
CLAIMSO JUSTIFY GRANTING SUCH
STATUS TO EFFORT --
AFTER CANADA -- AFRICANAS.
WHILE YOU HAVE TURNED AWAY FROM
A GENOCIDE IN SUDAN AND INVENTED
D
UP WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP TO THROW
THE UKRAINIAN PEOPLE UNDERHE
BUS A HAVE BEEN PLAYED LIKE A
FIDDLE LIKE VLADIMIR PUTIN.
NALD TRUMP NOT ONLY SAID HE
WOULD END THE WAR ON DAY ONE.
HE ALSO SAID HE WOULD END THE
WAR IN GAZA ON DAY ONE.
YET LAST WEEK YOU WERE RUNNING
AROUND TO GO VOMOUS SNAKES
GIVING WAY VERY SENSITIVE AI AND
CHIPS TECHNOLOGY BUTOING
NOTHING TO END THE WAR IN GAZA
AND GET THE REMAINING HOSTAGES
TURNED.
FOR 78 DAYS THE NETANYAHU
GOVERNMENT DID NOT ALLOW A SCRAP
OF FOOD TO REACH OVER 2 MILLION
CIVILIANS.
MALNUTRITION AND MORE THANM
14,000 CHILDREN ARE IN IMMINENT
DANGER OF DYING OF STARVATION.
AS SENATOR MCCAIN SAID LAST WEEK
, FAMILIES IN GAZA ARE STARVING
WHILE THE FOOD THEY NEED IS
SITTING AT THE BORDER.
THAT IS A GROSS VIOLATION OF
U.S. AND INTERNATIONAL LAW.
WHAT DID YOU DO?
NOTHING.
NOT ONCE DID YOU PUBLICLY CALL
UPON THE NETANYAHU GOVERNMENT TO
END THE BLOCKADE.
FORTUNATELY OTHER COUNTRIES
SPOKE OUT AND NOW WE SEE A TINY
TRICKLE GOING IN.
WHERE HAVE YOU FOCUS YOUR ENERGY
INSTEAD?
YOUR FIRST TRIP AS SECRETARY OF
STATE WAS TO EL SALVADOR.
NOT TO PROMOTE DEMOCRACY.
BUT TO COZY UP TO THE PRESIDENT
WHO CALLS HIMSELF THE WORLD'S
THE RESULT WAS A CASH FOR
POLLUTION DEAL TO DEPRIVE PEOPLE
LIVING IN AMERICA OF THEIR
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS TO DUE
PROCESS.
THE SUPREME COURT IN A 9-0
DECISION INSTRUCTED YOU TO
FACILITATE THE RETURN TO THE
UNITED STATES OF GARCIA WHO THE
ADMISTRATION ADMITTED WAS
WRONGFULLY DEPORTED TO EL
SALVADOR.
YOUR RESPONSE?
YOU HAVE OPENLY FLOGGED JUDICIAL
ORDERS.
WHEN ASKED WHETHER YOU HAVE BEEN
IN TOUCH WITH EL SALVADOR TO
RETURN GARCIA, YOU BOASTED, "I
WOULD NEVER TELL YOU THAT AND
YOU KNOW WHO ELSE I WOULD NEVER
TELL?
THE JUDGE."
CLEARLY YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT THE
FOUR AMENDMENT RIGHT TO DUE
PROCESS AND YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT
THE FIRST AMENDMENT EITHER SINCE
YOU HAVE BEEN VERY BUSY
SNATCHING STUDENTS OFF OF
COLLEGE CAMPUSES FOR EXERCISING
THEIR GHT TO FREE SPEECH.
YOU DREDGED UP A RELIC FROM THE
MCCARTHY ERA TO CLAIM THAT
STUDENT PROTESTERS POSED A
THREAT TO THE FEIGN POLICY IN
THE UNITED STATES.
GIVE ME A BREAK, MR. SECRETARY.
YOU KNOW AS WELL AS I DO THIS IS
NOT ABOUT NATIONAL SECURITY.
IT IS ABOUT PUNISHING FREE
SPEECH.
YOU KNOW THAT AN AMERICAN OF THE
GOVERNNT DOES NOT GET TO USE
ITS POWER TO PUNISH SPEECH IT
DOES NOT LIKE.
YET IN MARCH YOU BOASTED ABOUT
REVOKING STUDENT VISAS SAYING,
WE DO IT EVERY DAY, EVERY TIME I
FIND ONE OF THESE LUNATICS, I
TAKE AWAY THEIR VISA.
LET'S LOOK UP ONE OF THOSE
LUNATICS, MR. SECRETARY.
MS. OSTRICH.
HER TIME WAS CO-AUTHORING AN
OP-ED IN HER COLLEGE PAPER ON
THE RESPONSE TO THE WAR IN GAZA.
YOUR OWN DEPARTMENT FOUND ZERO
LINKS TO TERRORISM, NO
BUT YOU STILL TOOK HER VISA AND
SHIPPED OFF TO DETENTION IN
LOUISIANA.
AND THE LIST GOES ON AND ON.
THE FEDERAL JUDGE IN THE CASE OF
THE COLUMBIA STUDENT WAS
AMBUSHED BY FEDERAL AGENTS AT A
CITIZEN APPOINTMENT SAID, "LEGAL
RESIDENTS NOT CHARGED WITH
CRIMES OR MISCONDUCT ARE BEING
ARRESTED AND THREATENED WITH
DEPORTATION FOR STATING THEIR
VIEWS ON THE POLITICAL ISSUES OF
THE DAY.
OUR NATION IS SEEING TIMES LIKE
THIS BEFORE ESPECIALLY DURING
THE RED SCARE.
LIKE THE MCCARTHY ERA WITCHHUNTS
OF THE 1950'S YOUR CAN PAIRING
OF FEAR AND REPRESSION IS EATING
AWAY AT VALUES AND DEMOCRACY.
BACK THEN IT TOOK ONE VOICE TO
CUT THROUGH THE HYSTERIA WITH A
SIMPLE QUESTION THAT MARKS THE
BEGINNING OF THE END OF THAT
SHAMEFUL ERA.
HE ASKED SENATOR MCCARTHY DID
YOU HAVE NO SENSE OF DECENCY."
I WOULD ASK YOU THE SAME,
SECRETARY RUBIO.
YOU HAVE SHOWN THROU YOUR
WORDS AND YOUR ACTIONS WHAT THE
ANSWER IS.
HAVE TO
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