Revealing the One Detail About Drug Boat Strikes That Dems Wish Wasn't True | John Kennedy
The Rubin Report
Emma Dog Productions
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🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" talks to Senator John Kennedy about the real world results of Trump's attacks on Venezuelan drug boats that Democrats would like to ignore; Congress racing to pass key legislation like the National Defense Authorization Act; how one GOP holdout could stall progress; why Republicans need to focus on lowering the cost of living through deregulation and economic reform ahead of the midterms; how a Democratic House could trigger impeachment chaos and gridlock; what makes Louisiana so unique; and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | I mean, we just left, for example, a classified briefing with Senator, or now Secretary |
| 0:06.8 | Rubio and Secretary Ed Seth and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs about what's going on |
| 0:13.2 | with the narco-terrorists off the coast of Venezuela. |
| 0:18.7 | Trump's doing something. |
| 0:20.9 | I mean, it's working. |
| 0:24.0 | It's been highly effective. |
| 0:27.2 | It's legal, as was explained to us. |
| 0:30.6 | The intelligence is exquisitely good. |
| 0:33.9 | It's always been good. |
| 0:35.3 | But we're acting on it. |
| 0:37.2 | And for years, we've talked about a war on |
| 0:39.3 | drugs. This is literally a war on drugs. These people that we are killing, we're killing them |
| 0:48.3 | before they can kill our kids. And it is working. Many of the countries in South and Central America are becoming more cooperative. |
| 0:57.2 | Mexico is becoming more cooperative. |
| 0:59.6 | They're not where we want them. |
| 1:01.2 | But, I mean, it's working. |
| 1:10.0 | All right, Senator John Kennedy, you know, we had you on a couple weeks ago. |
| 1:14.8 | I'm pretty sure my audience likes you more than they like me. |
| 1:17.8 | So I don't know how I feel about this. |
| 1:19.5 | I appreciate the sound, but I don't believe that. |
| 1:22.6 | But thank you for saying it. |
| 1:24.0 | I am glad to finally meet you in person and chat a little bit before you get out of town. |
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