Vice President JD Vance has sworn in Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, the first of Trump’s Cabinet nominees to take the job.
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00:00Please raise your right hand and repeat after me.
00:02I, Marco Rubio, do solemnly swear
00:07that I will support and defend
00:10the Constitution of the United States
00:14against all enemies, foreign and domestic,
00:18that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same,
00:23that I take this obligation freely
00:27without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion,
00:33and that I will well and faithfully discharge
00:37the duties of the office on which I am about to enter.
00:41So help me God.
00:43Congratulations, Mr. Secretary.
00:48Obviously, it's an honor to be with the Vice President,
00:50who I think is going to be phenomenal.
00:52He's someone I knew and admired and actually relied on
00:55for policy ideas before he was even elected to the Senate,
00:58and now will do an extraordinary job for the President.
01:01I can't think of a better voice for the world
01:04and for the President's policies.
01:06As far as the task ahead,
01:09President Trump was elected to keep promises,
01:12and he's going to keep those promises.
01:14And his primary promise when it comes to foreign policy
01:16is that the priority of the United States Department of State
01:19will be the United States.
01:21It will be furthering the national interest of this country.
01:24And he's given us a very clear mandate.
01:26President Trump's made it very clear.
01:28Everything we do, and this is true in government,
01:30but especially at the Department of State,
01:32everything we do must be justified
01:34by the answer to one of three questions.
01:36Does it make us stronger? Does it make us safer?
01:38And does it make us more prosperous?
01:40If it doesn't do one of those three things, we will not do it.
01:43And so that is the goal, and that is the task,
01:46and that is the promise that he was elected to keep,
01:48and that is the promise he will keep, and we will help him keep.
01:51It's a transformational moment.