It's Friday, March 27th, 2026. A couple of Marco Rubio mic drops of Friday five-pack and ask or tell me anything next on the AM update.

Well, thanks for bearing with me yet again on another week on the AM update. Sorry about yesterday morning's podcast issues, but having issues with the publishing of this year pod for about seven months.

Yes, seven months.

I've been having these issues.

I've been having to stay up late at night just to make sure that this gets out to everyone for seven months now.

And finally, randomly this week, my podcast host, finally confirmed after not letting me know, but I just noticed

it, it was working the way it was supposed to be working again. So I trusted it, my mistake,

I trusted my podcast host, to continue to make it work the way it was supposed to. And of course,

the one time that I trusted it to do so, it messed up. But I'm being told that now it should

be functioning the way it had

functioned for two years into this. Enough about me and enough about my woes. Let's get to our

Friday five-pack. A couple of Marco Rubio Mike drops. Here he is talking about our so-called

NATO allies and their lack of action when it comes to the conflict in Iran.

It's in their interest. It's in their national interest. Do you think President Trump

criticizing NATO this morning, that sentiment? I think he just made an observation. And the

observation is that the United States is constantly being asked to help in a war. And we have

more than any other country in the world on a war that's happening in another continent in Ukraine. But when the U.S. had a need, he didn't get positive responses. So right now he's just making the observation that, you know, I think there was a couple of the leaders in Europe who said that this was not Europe's war. Well, Ukraine is not

America's war. And yet we've contributed more to that fight than any other country in the world.

Yeah, exactly. Exactly. When Russia allegedly came out a couple of weeks ago and said, no,

we're not going to stop sharing intelligence with Iran until the United States stops sharing

intelligence with Ukraine, right or wrong, I'm not making a moral judgment about that.

It's like, well, fair is fair.

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