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Secretary of State Marco Rubio

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Guest: Marco Rubio, Secretary of State and lead architect of the current U.S. diplomatic restructuring.

β€œWe acknowledged, you know, there are some issues that that are going to be we have to work through... But I thought it was a very constructive and positive meeting and gave us a lot to work on.”

β€” Marco Rubio

The State Department has completed a 15% staff reduction, cutting hundreds of foreign service and civil servant roles to reach reorganization goals.

β€œAs the U.S. retreats, China and other adversaries are expanding their diplomatic reach.”

β€” Senate Foreign Relations Committee (per Michelle Kellerman)

Mexico is actively scouting new buyers for its copper exports to China as it prepares for a looming 50% U.S. tariff on the metal.

β€œCopper is required in a lot of parts of the world. So we have some options.”

β€” Claudia Sheinbaum, President of Mexico

A federal judge has frozen the executive order banning birthright citizenship, setting up a high-stakes constitutional showdown over national identity.

β€œThe idea that the president can rewrite who is a citizen and decide who gets to count as an American is extremely dangerous and deeply deeply contrary to our national values.”

β€” Cody Wofsy, ACLU

Renewable energy exploration in Denver accidentally yielded a 67-million-year-old dinosaur fossil found 750 feet below a parking lot.

β€œThis find is rare with only two similar finds in borehole samples from around the world.”

β€” Jannine Herbst, NPR

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