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JUST IN: President Trump and Vice President JD Vance will make an announcement from the Oval Office today, Tuesday, Oct. 20, at 1:30 p.m. ET, according to the White House schedule.

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Marco Rubio on Ukraine War:

One of the reasons why this war needs to end is because Ukraine's electric grid is being devastated.

One of the reasons this war needs to end is because every month 20 or 25,000 Russians are slaughtered as they try to advance in Ukraine.

All of these are bad things.

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Marco Rubio:

Trump is responding to the insinuation that somehow he is doing things to deliberately harm Ukraine, which is not fair and not true.

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Marco Rubio:

I saw somebody associated with the Ukrainian government say that people in Ukraine are dying because the U.S. is denying them information.

That's scandalous. That's outrageous. That's simply not true. That's not accurate.

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Marco Rubio on Ukraine:

We're not deliberately denying interceptors to Ukraine.

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Marco Rubio on Ukraine:

The Department of War, everything that we've been doing with Ukraine remains the same.

Nothing has changed.

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NOW: Rep. Maxine Waters (D), 88, just became the SHOO-IN to become the next Chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee if Democrats win the House - one of the most influential committees in Congress

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U.S. Ambassador to Türkiye Tom Barrack:

I think Trump has been clear that he supports Saudi Arabia, and the backing that they need logistically, he will supply.

But America getting involved in a ground, kinetic battle somewhere else seems fruitless.

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U.S. Ambassador to Türkiye Tom Barrack on Yemen:

I think Saudi Arabia is in a very difficult position. Look, the history of Yemen, and, you know, I'm not about to teach the region who understands it.

These kinetic reactions have never worked. It doesn't work. It's probably not likely that it's going to work.

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U.S. Ambassador to Türkiye Tom Barrack:

America has to do a better job of defining, "Here's what we're willing to do, here's what we're not willing to do, but you are the creators of your own destiny."

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U.S. Ambassador to Türkiye Tom Barrack:

If you want terrorists, or state-sponsored terrorism, or any of these sanctioned entities to proceed to something, what do they proceed to?

Either you say, "I'm going to eliminate all of them. Anybody who ever went on this list, I'm just going to eliminate."

That's not a very good solution. And you're not going to convince any adversarial to come to your side if you don't have a path to prosperity for them.

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NOW: NEW OHIO GOVERNOR poll

Vivek Ramaswamy: 51.4% (+2.8)
Amy Acton: 48.6%

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Q: Iran's future should be left to Iranians?

Amb. Tom Barrack: 100%.

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U.S. Ambassador to Türkiye Tom Barrack on Iran:

If you look at Iran, the Iranian people we all love and adore, and understand that the Shia Twelver philosophy, from the ground up since 1979, is a theocracy.

It's not an evil regime; that has nothing to do with it. That's a religious content and practice that we all respect.

The IRGC has become an adversary, and the IRGC and its adversarial role with Israel has been a problem.

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U.S. Ambassador to Türkiye Tom Barrack:

Nation-states don't really work, and I get in trouble every time I say this.

Sykes-Picot took this region and imposed boundaries over tribes and religions that never were bound by that geography.

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JUST IN: Iran says two oil tankers are on fire after being struck by mines while crossing the Strait of Hormuz.

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U.S. Ambassador to Türkiye Tom Barrack:

Very little antisemitism, even in the region. The Jews existed side by side forever.

Zionism in '48 became another issue.