Rubio on Saudi Arm Sales: ‘Human Rights Is Worth Blowing That Up’

‘There isn’t enough money in the world to purchase back our credibility on human rights and the way nations should conduct themselves’

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RUBIO: "Well, I can tell you that human rights is worth blowing that up. And luring someone into a consulate where they’re murdered, dismembered and disposed of is a big deal. By the way, this happens to be a green card holder of the United States who has been a journalist, but he could have been a maintenance worker at 'The Washington Post,' it wouldn’t have mattered. It’s a human being whose life was taken by a direct act of a foreign government by luring him into a diplomatic facility in a third country. I mean, any one of those factors is bad, put them all together and it’s catastrophic. As far as arms sales are concerned, it’s not the money, you know, there are other countries we could sell that to. It’s not just the money.”

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