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RUBIO: "Well, it's not about the money and the arms deal, OK. Let me -- let me say the first part of it, from a geopolitical perspective, Saudi Arabia's an important part of our strategy to deal with Iran. The reason why you want to sell them arms is because then they need spare parts for those arms and that gives you leverage to influence their future behavior on everything from Yemen to things like this. So I think, honestly, that's what -- the one pull that's going on in the administration is they are a key part of our Middle Eastern strategy and if we walk away from them, it falls apart. The flipside of it is, the reality that is they took a guy, lured him in -- and I'm not saying I know this to be a fact. We need to learn the facts, OK. But if they lured this man into that consulate and they killed him and they chopped up his body and now they're lying about it, that is going to have a dramatically negative impact on the U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia on Capitol Hill. Members of Congress are going to be up in arms about that, including myself, and something's going to happen. You cannot do those things. At the end of the day, for me, if you don't stand for human rights, that is the pillar to our foreign policy. It's a key to our national interests. And when you allow even countries that are aligned with you to violate these things, it undermines your credibility to go anywhere else in the world and say, that's why we stand up against Vladimir Putin, that's why we stand up against Maduro in Venezuela. So that's why foreign policy's so difficult. And that's why I hope this man is alive and this didn't happen. But if it did, I don't know what the White House is going to do, but I am fairly confident that I know what Congress is going to do. It's going to react very strongly towards this and there's going to be changes to our relationship if that's the case."