Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Senator Chris Van Holland, a Maryland Democrat, engaged in the heated exchange Tuesday as the nation's top diplomat defended the Trump administration's foreign policy. While testifying to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Van Holland criticized Rubio on his handling of issues ranging from the freezing of humanitarian assistance in Sudan during a genocide, deportations to El Salvador El Salvador without due process, and revoking student visas. Rubio did it back down. Take a look at this exchange.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Senator Chris Van Holland, a Maryland Democrat, engaged in the heated exchange Tuesday as the nation's top diplomat defended the Trump administration's foreign policy. While testifying to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Van Holland criticized Rubio on his handling of issues ranging from the freezing of humanitarian assistance in Sudan during a genocide, deportations to El Salvador El Salvador without due process, and revoking student visas. Rubio did it back down. Take a look at this exchange.

We didn't always agree, but I believe we shared some common values, a belief in defending democracy and human rights abroad and honoring the Constitution at home. That's why I voted to confirm you. I believed you would stand up for those principles. You haven't. You've done the opposite, and I have to tell you directly and personally that I regret voting for you for Secretary of State. I yield back.

We didn't always agree, but I believe we shared some common values, a belief in defending democracy and human rights abroad and honoring the Constitution at home. That's why I voted to confirm you. I believed you would stand up for those principles. You haven't. You've done the opposite, and I have to tell you directly and personally that I regret voting for you for Secretary of State. I yield back.

I respond, well, first of all, your regret for voting for me confirms I'm doing a good job. First of all, I'm actually very proud of the work we've done with USAID. For example, I don't regret cutting ten million dollars for male circumcisions in Mozambique. I don't know how that makes a stronger and more prosperous as a nation. I don't regret psycho social support services.

I respond, well, first of all, your regret for voting for me confirms I'm doing a good job. First of all, I'm actually very proud of the work we've done with USAID. For example, I don't regret cutting ten million dollars for male circumcisions in Mozambique. I don't know how that makes a stronger and more prosperous as a nation. I don't regret psycho social support services.

I raised the dame. I respond, Senator, I'd ask you to suspend. You had seven straight minutes. I chose to use my time that way, Mister Chairman, that's my right to please suspend that way.

I raised the dame. I respond, Senator, I'd ask you to suspend. You had seven straight minutes. I chose to use my time that way, Mister Chairman, that's my right to please suspend that way.

Secretary review, Well, I can go on. I mean, there's other things here. We spent two hundred and twenty seven thousand dollars for Big Cat's YouTube channel from USAID. We spent fourteen million dollars for social cohesion in Mali, whatever the hell that means. So I can go on and on. I got the list here, and there's more that I didn't even bring the whole list. In the case of El Salvador, absolutely absolutely we deported gang members, gang members, including the one that you had a margarita with. That guy is a human trafficker, and that guy is a gangbanger, and that and and the evidence is going to be clear in the days that Rubio has the floor Chairman.

Secretary review, Well, I can go on. I mean, there's other things here. We spent two hundred and twenty seven thousand dollars for Big Cat's YouTube channel from USAID. We spent fourteen million dollars for social cohesion in Mali, whatever the hell that means. So I can go on and on. I got the list here, and there's more that I didn't even bring the whole list. In the case of El Salvador, absolutely absolutely we deported gang members, gang members, including the one that you had a margarita with. That guy is a human trafficker, and that guy is a gangbanger, and that and and the evidence is going to be clear in the days that Rubio has the floor Chairman.

He can't make unsubstantiated like that. Secretary Rubio has the floor ru should take that testimony, the federal senator states, because he hasn't done it under oath.

He can't make unsubstantiated like that. Secretary Rubio has the floor ru should take that testimony, the federal senator states, because he hasn't done it under oath.

Good Lord, let me say this. Perhaps will reflect on some of the decisions that the Trump administration has made and will continue to make regarding El Salvador, regarding Sudan and other nations regarding foreigner foreign relations, and we may find that we are appalled by some of those decisions. With respect however, to Chris van Holland, Senator Chris van Holland, their administration has the right to make it. You lost their party one, and we will see through the prism of history what decisions were right and what decisions was wrong based on an administration. I am not getting into specifics about what Senator Chris van Holland was lamenting, nor am I going to favor Marco Rubio's response, even though I loved how he started off by saying, the fact that you object shows that I'm doing a good job because he's letting them know I don't agree with you, ass and I got that part. But we have to understand that Marco Rubio officially one of the most powerful people in America. Okay, overseeing not just our country, not just in terms of Secretary of State, but national security. This man is a incredibly influential individual. Are we gonna sit here and question the qualifications of Marco Rubio, who has been a senator for years, who is a former presidential candidate who got re elected in the state of Florida. We know who Marco Rubio is. He's not unqualified. He's not incoherent, he's not inarticulate. He's not devoid of intelligence. He certainly isn't absent or devoid or oblivious to an understanding of policies that affect the United States of America. Last time I checked Senator Chris van Holland, he's not there to agree with you or to be agreeable to you. Their administration one the Democrats laws because you were focused on things not like this. You were focused on other stuff in an effort to win an election, and as a result, it cost you. Then we have an elected official. Go over to El Salvador to be with Abrego Garcia. Forgive me if I don't have his full name in front of me. Where were you when Biden was in office, were you willing to go there? All I'm saying is, this is Senator Marco Rubio, who is now the Secretary of Defense and is in charge of our national security or national intelligence. He's a very influential individual, very experienced, knows what goes on, knows the inner workings of Capitol Hill. He just may Now I agree with you and you saying that you wouldn't have voted for him.

Good Lord, let me say this. Perhaps will reflect on some of the decisions that the Trump administration has made and will continue to make regarding El Salvador, regarding Sudan and other nations regarding foreigner foreign relations, and we may find that we are appalled by some of those decisions. With respect however, to Chris van Holland, Senator Chris van Holland, their administration has the right to make it. You lost their party one, and we will see through the prism of history what decisions were right and what decisions was wrong based on an administration. I am not getting into specifics about what Senator Chris van Holland was lamenting, nor am I going to favor Marco Rubio's response, even though I loved how he started off by saying, the fact that you object shows that I'm doing a good job because he's letting them know I don't agree with you, ass and I got that part. But we have to understand that Marco Rubio officially one of the most powerful people in America. Okay, overseeing not just our country, not just in terms of Secretary of State, but national security. This man is a incredibly influential individual. Are we gonna sit here and question the qualifications of Marco Rubio, who has been a senator for years, who is a former presidential candidate who got re elected in the state of Florida. We know who Marco Rubio is. He's not unqualified. He's not incoherent, he's not inarticulate. He's not devoid of intelligence. He certainly isn't absent or devoid or oblivious to an understanding of policies that affect the United States of America. Last time I checked Senator Chris van Holland, he's not there to agree with you or to be agreeable to you. Their administration one the Democrats laws because you were focused on things not like this. You were focused on other stuff in an effort to win an election, and as a result, it cost you. Then we have an elected official. Go over to El Salvador to be with Abrego Garcia. Forgive me if I don't have his full name in front of me. Where were you when Biden was in office, were you willing to go there? All I'm saying is, this is Senator Marco Rubio, who is now the Secretary of Defense and is in charge of our national security or national intelligence. He's a very influential individual, very experienced, knows what goes on, knows the inner workings of Capitol Hill. He just may Now I agree with you and you saying that you wouldn't have voted for him.

So what.

So what.

I don't like the fact that the Ukraine Russia war has not been resolved. I don't like the fact that we see pro Palestinians in the streets of America and beyond in an uproar off of the things that we're being told is happening over in Gaza and beyond, and that hasn't been resolved by the Trump administration, who swear mister Trump himself, who saw up and down President Trump himself, who swore, up and down we're gonna resolve this in a one day, even though we all knew that wasn't true. And perhaps whether it's usaid, whether it's foreign affairs, no matter what, perhaps we would look at them and find down the line they were more wrong than right. But I love how we act like when we lose an election, you got the right to try to dictate what the winning party and then winning administration elects to do. That's why they're in office and you are not. So I just think we need to think about those things along those lines and understand what's going on here. I think it's important. I know this much. We want to question the intent of Mark Rubio. He works for President Trump. As a subordinate. You might have suggestions, and you might have things that you want to do, and there we say, you might do things differently, but damn it. When you're subordinate, you're subortinate. For a reason, he's the boss. President Trump is the boss. Marco Rubio has to flow with what he wants. When Marco Rubio gets into the presidency, if that ever happens, he might do things differently. But as long as he has to answer to that man, he's gonna have to capitulate, at least to some degree to what the man wants. I watch y'all going off about Trump going at the president of Ukraine when they were in the office, in the Oval office. That's what Ruby, you're supposed to do. Stand up and go off to the president, right in front of the cameras, y'all are reaching. When you're the subordinate, you can make suggestions, but ultimately you have to capitulate to the person in charge period. Y'all know that, which makes what was going on yesterday or the other day with Van Holland grandstanding

I don't like the fact that the Ukraine Russia war has not been resolved. I don't like the fact that we see pro Palestinians in the streets of America and beyond in an uproar off of the things that we're being told is happening over in Gaza and beyond, and that hasn't been resolved by the Trump administration, who swear mister Trump himself, who saw up and down President Trump himself, who swore, up and down we're gonna resolve this in a one day, even though we all knew that wasn't true. And perhaps whether it's usaid, whether it's foreign affairs, no matter what, perhaps we would look at them and find down the line they were more wrong than right. But I love how we act like when we lose an election, you got the right to try to dictate what the winning party and then winning administration elects to do. That's why they're in office and you are not. So I just think we need to think about those things along those lines and understand what's going on here. I think it's important. I know this much. We want to question the intent of Mark Rubio. He works for President Trump. As a subordinate. You might have suggestions, and you might have things that you want to do, and there we say, you might do things differently, but damn it. When you're subordinate, you're subortinate. For a reason, he's the boss. President Trump is the boss. Marco Rubio has to flow with what he wants. When Marco Rubio gets into the presidency, if that ever happens, he might do things differently. But as long as he has to answer to that man, he's gonna have to capitulate, at least to some degree to what the man wants. I watch y'all going off about Trump going at the president of Ukraine when they were in the office, in the Oval office. That's what Ruby, you're supposed to do. Stand up and go off to the president, right in front of the cameras, y'all are reaching. When you're the subordinate, you can make suggestions, but ultimately you have to capitulate to the person in charge period. Y'all know that, which makes what was going on yesterday or the other day with Van Holland grandstanding