Hello and welcome. It is Eric Eriksen nationwide from Atlanta, Georgia. The phone number

8779773-745. Sure hope things are lovely where you are today, pouring down rain here in my

house, but that's all right. We've got a lot to get into, including Russia, more on oil.

The ban on Russian imports, you should know, the oil futures market

have fallen 5% from yesterday, thinking now that the ban on Russian oil imports won't impact

us too much. Questions now about Ukraine and getting more munitions. President Zelensky

gave a speech overnight where he said the Ukrainians

have captured so many Russian armaments. They're now using the Russian armaments against the Russians

to discuss all of this with me, someone who actually knows a great deal about what's happening

all the ground over there, been very vocal about it. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, welcome. How are

you? Good. How are you doing? Great. All right. I want to get into this with you real quick on the intelligence stuff. Some people have blasted you for this. You haven't released anything, not public, but yet there do seem to be some people in the media in particular who have been critical of you. And I'm just, it seems like you were out there more than most upfront warning what was going to happen.

And it's almost like they're coming after you for raising the red flags nobody paid attention to.

Yeah, I mean, I don't really pay attention to the media.

So I have no idea who it is you're talking about nor frankly frankly do I care, because they don't know what they're talking about.

I can, and I think what's interesting about this crisis is that it is being, you know, globally broadcast in real time through a combination of people on the ground taking video, through commercial overhead imagery, through testimony from the different bureaus and journalists who are on the ground in the war zone. And I think what's important as a policymaker is to explain to the American people, you know, why this should matter to us? Because frankly, a few weeks ago, there were a lot of people that were asking, why do we care whether he invade Ukraine or not? What is it going to mean to us? You know, why does it matter when we have so many problems here our own country? And I think for someone who knows the answer to that, you know, we have an obligation to explain to people why it matters and to sort of describe what's happening in real time to them. So, and I intend to continue to do that. Well, let's go in that direction because there are people who say,

we can't control our southern border. We shouldn't be in Ukraine worried about their border.

Or Putin is somehow the good guy here. Can you just explain generally to people why this really does matter?

Well, first, I agree that we need to secure our southern border, and that means enforcing our

laws. So I don't believe America should deploy a single one of our ICE or border agents to

Ukraine or Europe or anywhere else. And so I think that we can do that, and we should do that.

And the Biden administration not doing that is inexcusable.

Separate from that, because it's a completely different part of our government, is what happens

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