Rubio’s Munich Pitch Calms Allies but Signals MAGA Divide (Full Transcript)

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: America may have got applause here rather than gasps at the Munich Security Conference. Our home may be in the Western Hemisphere, but we will always be a child of Europe.

[00:00:10] Speaker 2: But that's not because anything has substantially changed. Look, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio clearly was trying to package his message here in a bid to make an audience still traumatized by the Greenland debacle where President Trump threatened to use military force against Danish territory to try and rekindle what remains of the transatlantic relationship. He appealed to their shared sense of history, but ultimately, while saying how their history was intertwined and how America would always be a child of Europe, he harked back to the need for shared Christian spiritual values, appealing to far-right populist opposition leaders ultimately here in Europe. Very much the same message, saying America's willing to go it alone if Europe doesn't essentially change itself and join them on the Trump path. A real sense of relief though that the tone wasn't as overtly hostile as it was last year, but make no mistake, I think most people here saw through the speech to the underlying change here, essentially saying that the culture wars of MAGA are something that may need to get fought out here in Europe.