Will leave this program to go live to a conversation with florida senator marco rubio. Good morning. Im bob costa, National Political reporter here at the Washington Post. Welcome to Washington Post live in another special any for the Texas Tribune festival. Today my guess is senator marco rubio, republican of florida. Hes been summit ive been covering for over a decade since he first ran for the use senate back in 2010. Senator rubio, thanks thanks for being your. Good morning. Thanks for having me. We are 49 days away from the election. You serve as chairman of the Senate Select committee on intelligence. From that seat what is the biggest threat to our president ial election in terms of foreign interference . I think first we have to break up foreign interference into two categories. One is meddling and the actual architecture and mechanics of election. And then the other is sort of af the message, sort of the psychological operations and a war for design to divide against each othe
I was walking out of the office, listening to an interview of former general mccaffrey and the bill cohen, former secretary of defense. Before i begin, i want to speak a little bit to what they talked about and the revelations of President Trumps disregard of our military and veterans. Quite frankly, if what is written in the atlantic is true, it is disgusting and it affirms what we believe to be what most of us believe to be true. President trump is not fit to be the commanderinchief. The president reportedly said and i emphasize reportedly said that those who signed up to serve, instead of doing something more lucrative, are suckers. Let me be real clear. When my son was an assistant u. S. Attorney and volunteered to go to kosovo while the war was going on, as a civilian, he was not a sucker. When my son volunteered to join the United States military as the attorney general and went to iraq for a year and won the bronze star and other commendations, he was not a sucker. The serviceme
Im bob costa, National Political reporter at the Washington Post. Welcome to Washington Post live and another special interview for the Texas Tribune festival. Today its senator marco rubio, hes been someone ive been covering for over a decade as he first ran for the u. S. Senate in 2010. Thank you for beinghere. Thank you for having me. Were 49 days away from the election. You serve as chairman of the Senate Select committee on intelligence. From that see what is the biggest to our president ial election in terms of foreign interference . We have to bring up foreign interference into two categories, one is meddlingin the architecture and the mechanics of the election and the other is sort of the messaging. The psychological operations and the design to get us divided against each other and let me talk about the second one or a moment. Thats actually yearround and what their adversaries basically is a look at all these fractures in our society and they seek to drive. They seek official
Our chairman, the chairman of the full Senate Judiciary committee, senator graham, for his support of this hearing. After i and then senator klobuchar giving our opening remarks, well hear from two panels of witnesses with questions from members of the subcommittee. We have Something Interesting to deal with in the senate and every time they call votes, when they call votes during a subcommittee hearing, were at their mercy. Senator klobuchar and i have both cast our votes on the first of a series of three or four. At some point, were going to have to pause or tag team as we allow other members to sit in for us, just dont be alarmed if that happens. The focus of todays hearing is googles Online Advertising business. Whether its a monopolyist and whether it might have engaged in any conduct that harms competition and harms consumers. But before we go into that, i want to say just a few things about antitrust policy more broadly. Ive been a member of the subcommittee ever since 2011 when
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