Secretary of State Marco Rubio was confronted with a video from his past as President Donald Trump tries to negotiate an end to the Russia-Ukraine war.

NBC’s Kristen Welker played a clip on Sunday’s “Meet the Press” of Rubio criticizing Russian President Vladimir Putin shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. Rubio suggested in the clip that the U.S. should not “cut a deal” with Putin, saying that he was a “liar.”

“This guy lies, habitually lies. He’s never kept a deal they’ve ever signed. And he lies all the time. And I don’t know why, but he plays us like a violin in the West. Because the West wants to believe that you can cut a deal with everybody. You can’t cut a deal with guys like this. He’s a professional experienced liar,” Rubio said in the 2022 video clip.

Welker then

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