During Friday’s press conference, Secretary of State Marco Rubio answered questions about President Trump's push for Canada to become the 51st State.
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00:00If I can follow up, Mr. Secretary, I know that we're not speaking about Canada becoming
00:07the 51st state at this meeting, but I'm asking you now, do you consider what the President
00:13has said about Canada becoming the 51st state, is he serious?
00:17You know, I'll tell you how that came about, okay?
00:19He's in a meeting with Trudeau, and Trudeau basically says that if the U.S. imposes tariffs
00:24on Canada, Canada couldn't survive as a nation-state, at which point the President said, well then,
00:28you should become a state, and that's where this began.
00:31That said, the President has made an argument for why.
00:34He says he loves Canada.
00:35He says he made an argument for why Canada would be better off joining the United States
00:39from an economic perspective and the like.
00:42He's made that argument repeatedly, and I think it stands for itself.