Rubio Struggles to Explain Past Position on Cap and Trade

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: 
TODD: "You brought up the cap and trade issue. I’ll play the full quote of what you said."
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RUBIO: "Florida should position itself for what I believe is inevitable and that is a federal cap and trade program. Florida should do everything it can to be an early come plier so it can access early compliance funds and help influence what that cap and trade looks like at the federal level. So I’m in favor of giving the department of environmental protection a mandate that they go out and design a cap and trade or a carbon tax program and bring it back to the legislature for ratification some time in the next two years."
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TODD: "All right. We gave you full context there."
RUBIO: "No, you didn’t. There’s more after that clip."
TODD: "We’ll explain." 
RUBIO: "No —"
TODD: "It does come across as you’re saying it’s inevitable so Florida has to prepare."
RUBIO: "But what you just played is not the full clip. Right after that I said I’m not in favor of implementing it. I’m in favor of them bringing it back to the legislature. I do not support big government mandates. The context of that that was in 2006 and ‘07 when the leading candidates for president were John McCain, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton. All three supported cap and trade. And I was the speaker of the house and I said there is a chance that the federal government will pass cap and trade. I’m not in favor of it. But if they do, we have to be prepared to comply with that requirement even if we don’t like it. And I don’t want it to cost the state of Florida money to have to comply. Everyone knew it. The Democrats knew that position. When charily Christ proposed cap and trade, I was the first person to speak out of it in a full op-ed in the Miami herald. Right after that there’s even more."