Florida Sen. Marco Rubio says he would potentially act in the Senate to block a President Donald Trump from barring non-citizen Muslims from entering the U.S.
“He thinks he has executive authority to do that. If he did, would Sen. Rubio do something to undo that or thwart it?” CBS News’ John Dickerson asked the Florida senator on Sunday.
“Sure. I think it’s bad policy for the country to say you’re going to have a religious exclusion,” Rubio responded. “And I think you’ve heard from multiple leaders in our party say that.”
“We talk about ISIS and the need to defeat ISIS, and one of our great partners in defeating ISIS are Kurds in Kurdistan, where I visited a few weeks ago. They’re Muslims,” Rubio said.
He added, “I believe, or I would hope, that we would have the opportunity to encourage [Trump], if he is elected president, in a different direction about how to deal with the problem he’s trying to deal with is radical Islamic terror.”
Rubio recently decided to seek re-election to the Senate.
