pjmedia.com Secretary of State Marco Rubio is a busy man, but he was kind enough to spend his Sunday morning taking one for the team, sitting down with the various harpy hosts of the mainstream media, who did everything from asking why Donald Trump met Vladimir Putin on a “red carpet” to forcing him to explain how negotiations work when trying to end a war.The common theme seemed to be “you need to be meaner to Russia,” and Rubio, who has a lot more patience than I do, had to explain to these folks that real-life diplomatic talks aren’t exactly like something you see in the movies or on TV.
First up, let’s talk about his appearance on “This Week” on ABC with Martha Raddatz, who seemed a bit beside herself that the secretary wouldn’t share every little detail about what Trump and Putin discussed during their meeting in Alaska on Friday. “Can you name any concessions Vladimir Putin made during this meeting,” she asked. “Have any concessions been asked? Where is the pressure?”
“I wouldn’t name them on your program,” Rubio replied, before teaching Raddatz how negotiation work. “You can’t have a peace agreement unless both sides make concessions. That’s a fact. That’s true in virtually any negotiation. It’s just called surrender and neither side is gonna surrender…so of course concessions were asked. But what utility would there be of me going on a program and tell you, ‘We wagged our finger at Putin and told him, you must do this and you must do that?’ It’s only gonna make it harder and less likely that they’re going to agree to these things.”
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