Rubio Fires Back at Narco-Terror Supporters | Vance Goes to Minneapolis | 9/4/25

The A.M. Update

Aaron McIntire

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🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Aaron McIntire addresses the backlash from some media and leftists over the U.S. military's strike on a Venezuelan narco-terrorist drug boat, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio defending the action as a response to a national security threat. Vice President J.D. Vance visits Minneapolis to support Annunciation School shooting victims, urging prayers for a critically injured girl. House Speaker Mike Johnson backs Trump's idea for a midterm Republican National Convention to boost voter support. The Epstein saga continues with Trump calling it a "Democrat hoax" after 33,000 documents are released, while Florida ends vaccine mandates for school kids. Senator Eric Schmidt tackles "What is an American?" at the National Conservatism Conference, emphasizing heritage over ideology. A poll reveals 66.4% support a kinetic war against cartels, though concerns about unintended consequences arise.

AM Update, narco-terrorist strike, Marco Rubio, J.D. Vance, Annunciation shooting, Epstein documents, Trump hoax claim, vaccine mandates, Eric Schmidt, American identity, midterm convention, cartels

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0:00.0	It's Thursday, September 4th, 2025.
0:02.2	Apparently obliterating narco-terrorists is offensive.
0:05.6	To Epstein or not to Epstein, that is the question.
0:08.5	And what is an American?
0:10.6	One senator attempts to answer that very hard question.
0:13.8	Next on the AM update.
0:18.7	Well, chalk it up to could have seen that coming.
0:21.2	Apparently to some on the left and in the media, sorry for the redundancy.
0:24.9	It was very offensive that the other day the United States military absolutely obliterated
0:29.9	a boat carrying drugs that was produced by narco terrorists from Venezuela.
0:34.8	Secretary of State Marco Rubio addressed in no uncertain terms why the United States has the
0:40.4	authority to take such action. The president of the United States has determined that narco-terrorist
0:46.0	organization pose a threat to the national security of the United States. I don't need to explain to you
0:50.3	why. They are traffickers of people. They are traffickers of deadly drugs. They are traffickers of all kinds of solicit means, and they use the money that they generate
0:58.0	to destabilize governments in the region, which in and of itself, then, poses a threat to the United States.
1:03.0	So he has designated for what they are. They are narco-terrorist organizations.
1:06.0	These are not stockbrokers. These are not real estate agents who on the side deal a few drugs.
1:12.2	These are organized corporate structured organizations who specialize in the trafficking of deadly drugs into the United States of America.
1:20.2	They pose an immediate threat to the United States, period.
1:23.6	If you're on a boat full of cocaine or fentany or whatever headed to the United States, you're an immediate threat to the United States. And the President, under his authority, as commander-in-chief, has a right under exigent circumstances to eliminate imminent threats to the United States. And that's what he did yesterday in international waters. And that's what he intends to do. We're not going to sit back anymore and watch these people sail up and down the Caribbean like a cruise ship. It's not going to happen. It's not going to happen anymore.
1:48.0	So I'm not sure why other than just everything that President Trump does is evil, but there were
1:54.7	seriously people in the media and on the left saying, well, you didn't, they didn't deserve to be
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