Marco Rubio Praises Trump for Confronting Iran

Uh, you know I don't like public speaking, but I appreciate the chance.

I wanna echo a lot of what Steven just said, and the honor, you know, in the job that I have, and the jobs that I have, the National Security Advisor to the President, and also Secretary of State.

I see firsthand every single day that this is a man who wakes up every morning with one thing as a priority: you, our country, and its future.

The most important thing the president can do for a country is to keep it safe, and there are people around the world that want to destroy it.

They wanna destroy our country, they wanna destroy our way of life. Our babies.

He was elected to do the hard things. The hard things.

It would've been very easy to do what multiple presidents before him have done, which is just ignore the Iran thing, leave it for the next guy, put it aside, and don't worry about it.

That would've been the easiest thing to do.

Honestly, to just basically say, "Leave it alone, who cares?

That's gonna be someone's problem in the future."

But this president didn't do that. He confronted it, because what Iran wants to do is not just destroy our country.

It's destroy our way of life, and threaten our children.

We cannot live in a world in which the most radical, terroristic regime on the planet possesses a weapon of mass destruction. Yes.

And we've had president after president ignore it- Right ... and allow it to linger, but this president wasn't allowed, wasn't elected to ignore it, and he wasn't elected to allow threats to linger, and he did it for you.

Not for him, not for anybody else. He did it for you- ... and for our country, and for that, we, our children, and children not yet born, owe a sense, and a deep sense of gratitude, and I know he'll continue to do it, and that's why I'm so honored to be the Secretary of State.

And that's why I know he's so honored that all of you are here today.

Thank you.