Welcome back in, everybody. Third hour of Clay and Buck goes right now, and we are joined by

Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Mr. Secretary, appreciate you making the time for us, a lot going on

in the world. Yeah. Thanks for having me. Let's jump right into it. There's so much we want to ask you

about the start of this Trump administration. The domestic stuff, the executive orders, has got a tremendous amount of focus, but the president has an ambitious foreign policy agenda that you are the point person for.

Let's just start with, if you could, set the table on Russia, Ukraine, and the reporting that Trump is eager to have negotiations to end that conflict,

to at least bring about a ceasefire?

Well, the great thing about working for President Trump is there's not a lot of ambiguity.

I mean, he's pretty straightforward, and he's been campaigning and saying the war would have never happened if he was president.

I believe that to be true.

He said that yesterday, too, to Vladimir Putin, by the way.

And he wants it to end.

Now, he wants to end the war.

He's not looking for just like a pause.

You know, he's looking for it to end.

And then it's going to be hard.

And it's going to have to move in stages.

You know, maybe it starts with a ceasefire. That's not been agreed to it.

I haven't even negotiated, but I'm just saying that.

And then, you know, opening things like aid corridors and ensuring that both sides, you know, aren't targeting energy infrastructure.

So we'll see how that plays out.

And by the way, I think the U.S. is not going to happen without Trump. He's the only one in the world that can bring it something like this together. But it has to be a global effort. It's not just us. It's not just Europe or NATO.

I mean, countries around the world are going to have to participate. Now, I will say Europe is going to have to provide,

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