Ep. 254 — Sen. Marco Rubio

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

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4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2018

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Senator Marco Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, joins David for the Axe Files on CNN to discuss the ongoing battle at the border, the Trump administration’s zero tolerance policy, the Mueller investigation, and Republicans’ relationship with the President.

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0:00.0	And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN, the Axviles, with your
0:12.5	host, David Axelrod.
0:14.3	As the human rights crisis was boiling over this week, I sat down in Washington with Senator
0:21.3	Marco Rubio from my CNN TV show.
0:24.7	We talked about immigration, North Korea, Russia, China, and what it's like to be a Republican
0:30.5	in the era of Trump.
0:32.2	Here's the full conversation.
0:33.4	Senator Rubio, it's good to be with you.
0:38.9	And I want to apologize to you right at the top and to our listeners because I'm fighting
0:43.6	a little bit of a throat thing, but I want you to do most of the talking.
0:47.9	I've worked hard to have a voice as deep as that.
0:50.0	Yeah, I know.
0:51.0	It's not going to last.
0:53.0	Well, you know, I read your memoir and the beginning of it is very, very compelling in
1:02.2	the retelling of your family's immigrant story.
1:05.8	Your parents came over from Cuba.
1:08.2	Ultimately, almost your entire family came over.
1:11.2	They came over in the 50s.
1:12.6	Why did they come?
1:13.6	Well, I think if you asked them, and I didn't have a chance to, my dad didn't talk a lot
1:18.1	about his childhood.
1:20.0	My sense of it years later learning more about it was it was very painful.
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