Ep. 2369 - Rubio SHINES in Europe, AOC Collapses!
The Ben Shapiro Show
The Daily Wire
4.4 • 152.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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| 2:22.4 | So you cite four details. to covis. Point your toes west. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, goes to Munich and delivers a speech for the ages. AOC goes to Munich and makes a complete ass of herself and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. They're back trying to guide their party. We'll see how it went. First, we're not supposed to pick favorites. Too bad. Everyone who has seen the Penn Dragon cycle Rise of the Merlin says episode six is the one. |
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| 2:45.0 | On Saturday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio went to the Munich Security Conference over in Germany. |
| 2:50.1 | It was attended by a wide variety of Politico's, both from the Trump administration and, as we'll see, from the Democratic side of the aisle, and he was the adult in the room. |
| 2:58.9 | Marco Rubio is the best spoken member of the Trump administration. It doesn't happen to be particularly close when it comes to foreign policy. And he gave a truly bang-up speech about the relationship |
| 3:07.9 | between America and Europe. So you'll recall that last year, J.D. Vance, Vice President, |
| 3:12.3 | he also went to Europe. And at Davos, he proceeded to give a speech blistering the Europeans. |
| 3:18.0 | Some for good reasons, some for not such great reasons, but it appeared to draw the hackles of a bunch |
| 3:22.9 | of Europeans because it was basically saying, guys, you seem to be kind of on your own. America is drawing back. And that is |
| 3:28.5 | not what Rubio said. What Rubio said is we have strong bonds, centuries-long bonds with the |
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