'It's Sick, It's Disgusting': Rubio Lays Into Hamas 'Savages' And Demands Release Of All Hostages

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio decries Hamas's capture and treatment of hostages and demands the release of all of them.

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00:00Senator Rubio, would the U.S. be open to an agreement with Hamas to get American hostages

00:07released, separate from the Israeli hostages, like including Adon Alexander?

00:12Well I think our priority always as a U.S. government is that we care about all the hostages.

00:16We want all the hostages released.

00:18We believe they should all be released.

00:19Okay?

00:20And by the way, we talk about hostages, we're also talking about bodies.

00:23And these trades are being made and they're ridiculous trades.

00:26Talk about 400 people for three.

00:28These are nuts.

00:29And on top of that, you see the condition these people are being released in.

00:32This is a...

00:33Think about what we're talking about here.

00:35I mean, we're sitting around as the world sort of accepting that it's normal and okay

00:38for you to go into a place, kidnap babies, kidnap teenagers, kidnap people that have

00:43nothing to do with any wars, that are not soldiers, that are not anything, and taking

00:47them and putting them in tunnels for almost a year and a half.

00:50And we're acting like if this is a normal exchange, this is a normal thing that happens.

00:53This is an outrage.

00:54So they should all be released.

00:56So I'm not going to comment on what we're going to accept or not accept, other than

00:59all of us.

01:00The whole world should continue to say that what Hamas has done is outrageous.

01:04It's ridiculous.

01:06It's sick.

01:07It's disgusting.

01:08It should never have happened.

01:09And we shouldn't accept it as normal, as a normal negotiation.

01:12We're just dealing with some savages.

01:14That's it.

01:15These are bad people.

01:16Terrible people.

01:17And we need to treat them as such.

01:18But that said, we want all the hostages out.

'It's Sick, It's Disgusting': Rubio Lays Into Hamas 'Savages' And Demands Release Of All Hostages

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