CNN Host Calls Out Marco Rubio For Lying To Her Audience

CNN host Dana Bash invited Republican Florida senator Marco Rubio onto her program over the weekend to talk about Hurricane Ian and the relief that is desperately needed for the state, but Bash asked Rubio specifically why other senators should support his relief package when he has voted against relief packages for their states after disasters. Rubio, as usual, was dishonest, and Bash called him out to his face for not telling the truth about the bills he voted down. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Republican Senator Marco Rubio from Florida decided to actually brave it and go on CNN it in this past weekend where in a conversation with CNN host Dana Bash, he decided to try to lie about why he had blocked relief for victims of Hurricane Sandy many years ago. Now, of course, the reason this was relevant is cuz Rubio was trying to get some aid for the state of Florida, even though he and Rick Scott and other Republicans in the state have already voted down relief packages for victims of Hurricane Ian here in Florida. But Rubio insists he totally wants that to happen, and when he tried to lie to Dana BA's face, she ended up calling him out. So take a look at Marco Rubio getting schooled by Dana Bash about what actually happened with Hurricane Sandy. Here it is,

Senator, you wrote a letter Friday to the Senate Appropriations Committee asking for disaster relief dollars for desperately needed resources to rebuild Florida communities after Hurricane Sandy hit Northeastern states in 2012, you voted no on a 50 billion relief package. I know you supported a smaller version, but why should other senators vote for relief for your state when you didn't vote for a package to help theirs?

Oh, I've always voted for hurricane and disaster relief. I've even voted for it without pay for us. What I didn't vote for in Sandy is because they had included things like a roof for a museum in Washington DC for fisheries in Alaska. It had been loaded up with a bunch of things that had nothing to do with disaster relief, and I wouldn't support disaster relief efforts. I would never put out there that we should go use a disaster relief package for Florida as a way to pay for all kinds of other things people want around the country. So I think that's the key in moments like this. And Sandy, and fortunately they loaded it up, they really did with a bunch of things that had nothing to do with Sandy, but I voted for every disaster relief package, especially that's clean and I'll continue to do so when it comes to Florida, I'll do that again and we'll make sure that that package is clean and doesn't have stuff for other people in there.

I read the Congressional Research service report last night. It sounds like that roof actually was damaged by the hurricane, and what happened in Alaska was the result of another disaster. But in any event,

Now let's be clear here. Dana Bash did not go as hard as she should have against Marco Rubio, right? She's like, Well, actually, you know, the fishery thing that was a natural disaster that they needed money for, and it was convenient just to put it in that roof that you're complaining about that actually was damaged by Hurricane Sandy. You're from Florida. You should understand that it's not just where the eyewall hits that gets damaged, uh, pretty much anywhere the storm goes, there's gonna be damage. So, kind of shocked you didn't know that, Marco, you've been through plenty of hurricane. Actually, no, you haven't been through them, but your state has, you've watched from afar like that's how she should have responded. Like you shouldn't have just calmly and professionally been like, Well, okay, but you're a bit of a liar, but we're gonna forgive it.