Marco Rubio fact-checks the ABC News Presidential Debate moderators

>> THANK YOU. >> BEST. FORMER TOP CLINTON ADVISOR, MARK PENN GOING FOR AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE DEBATE TO FIND OUT IF ABC COORDINATED WITH HARRIS CAMPAIGN BEFOREHAND. THIS IS A GUY WHO RAN THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN'S. JOHN SOLOMON, I THINK A REVIEW OF THE INTERNAL TEXTS AND E-MAILS SHOULD BE DONE BY AN INDEPENDENT PARTY TO FIND OUT TO WHAT EXTENT THEY PLAN ON BACKTRACKING JUST ONE CANDIDATE READING THE OUTCOME OF THE DEBATE. IT DEMANDS NOTHING LESS THAN THAT. THIS COMING AFTER THE DEBATE MODERATORS WERE CRITICIZED FOR FACT CHECKING TRUMP ADDING HARRIS OFF THE HOOK AND TOLD US THEY PLAN ON DOING THAT BECAUSE HE REVIEWED THE TRUMP TAKES TO FIND OUT WHERE HE WAS NOT TELLING THE TRUTH. THIS ACCORDING TO THE MODERATORS ON THE LOS ANGELES TIMES SO WERE YOU SHOCKED DEMOCRATIC POLLSTER ONCE AN INVESTIGATION OF ABC? >> I THINK IT'S A LOT OF OBVIOUS TO PEOPLE WATCHING. AND WHAT DEBATE YOU HAVE ONE PERSON -- THEY WERE WRONG ON A COUPLE FACT CHECKS AS WELL AND KAMALA HARRIS HAD A COUPLE OF THINGS, THE CHARLOTTESVILLE HOAX, THAT'S BEEN DEBUNKED BY MAINSTREAM MEDIA OUTLETS AND THAT'S WHY THEY DON'T SAY IT ANYMORE. THEY ALLOWED HER TO LIE ABOUT JANUARY 6 AND POLICE OFFICERS WERE KILLED BY RIOTERS AND PROTESTERS AND THAT WAS NOT TRUE NOT TO DIMINISH WHAT HAPPENED BUT THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN SO ON A NUMBER OF INSTANCES -- THEY ALLOWED TO GET BEYOND THE FACT CHECKING, THE FIRST QUESTION WAS WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO TO IMPROVE THE ECONOMY? THE WAY IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN RAISED, EVEN VICE PRESIDENT FOR THREE AND HALF YEARS AND SENATOR BEFORE THAT, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO THAT BUT YOU DIDN'T STAND FOR BEFORE? SHE PROCEEDED TO GIVE AND TALK ABOUT HER BIOGRAPHY THAT SHE CAME FROM A BIOGRAPHY MIDDLE-CLASS FAMILY HOW MANY HOUSES THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WILL BUILD AND THE THINGS OF THIS NATURE AND DIDN'T PRESS HER ON IT BUT ALSO I THINK IT HELPS TRUMP, PEOPLE SEE THIS AND IT REAFFIRMS IN THEIR MIND HOW MUCH LIKE ABC NEWS AND OTHERS HATE PRESIDENT TRUMP AND WANT HIM TO LOSE AT EVERY CHANCE THEY GET TO PUT THEIR THUMBS ON THE SCALE THEY DO IT. >> TALKING TO YOU NOW, YOU ARE TRYING TO WORK OUT IMMIGRATION REFORM BEFORE YOU RAN FOR PRESIDENT AND THINK ABOUT WHEN PRESIDENT TRUMP TALKED ABOUT IT, THEY SAID HE WAS GREAT AND RACIST TO TALK ABOUT THAT AND SANCTUARY CITIES WERE GREAT AND SHOWS YOU HAVE A BIG HEART. THINK ABOUT HOW MUCH WE CHANGE IN THE COUNTRY, NOBODY TALKS ABOUT SANCTUARY CITIES OR HOW THE BORDERS ARE UNDER CONTROL AND NOW CITIES LIKE ALL TOWNS LIKE AURORA AND SPRINGFIELD IN SMALL TOWNS IN PENNSYLVANIA THAT ARE NOW CITIES TAKEN OVER AND DISRUPTED BY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS DUMPED IN THEIR WITHOUT ANY NOTICE TO THE MAYORS ARE GOVERNORS. THIS COULD BE AN ELECTION ISSUE THAT IS BIGGER THAN ANYONE COULD IMAGINE, YOU FEEL WE ARE SEEING THAT? >> THINK IT'S RIGHT, HE DOES IT IS THAT FACE THE FACT THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS BROUGHT PEOPLE INTO THE COUNTRY AND DUMPED THEM ON YOU AND THAT'S WHAT THEY'VE DONE IN A NUMBER OF PLACES, NO LONGER CHICAGO OR NEW YORK, YOU SEE IT ALL OVER THE COUNTRY IN PLACES LIKE AURORA, COLORADO IN SOME PLACES WHERE YOU SEE IT OR CITIES THAT PROUDLY BRAG ABOUT HOW THEY WERE SANCTUARY CITIES AND NOT SO MUCH ANYMORE. THE COMMERCIAL ON IMMIGRATION, THE VERY THING SHE SAID IN A SYMBOL OF XENOPHOBIA, IT SHOWS YOU HOW MUCH THE ISSUE HAS CHANGED AND THAT THE END OF THE DAY, THE MOST POWERFUL MOMENT IN THE DEBATE WAS LAST STATEMENT THE PRESIDENT TRUMP MADE WHICH IS YOU BEEN VICE PRESIDENT THREE AND A HALF YEARS, YOU OWN EVERYTHING THIS ADMINISTRATION DID, SENATOR BEFORE THAT AT ALL OF THESE THINGS YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, WHY HAVEN'T YOU DONE THESE THINGS? YOU BEEN IN A POSITION, YOU'RE NOT AN OUTSIDER RUNNING FOR OFFICE, YOU ARE AS INSIDE AS IT CAN BE. WHY HAVEN'T YOU DONE THESE THINGS ALREADY? THINK A LOT OF VOTERS THINK THE ON THAT. THERE'S A BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN IMPRESSING THE MEDIA CLASS AND PUNDITRY AND IMPRESSING VOTERS. TWO VERY DIFFERENT UNIVERSES AND I THINK WHAT WILL DECIDE THE ELECTION IS NOT DEPENDENCE, IS THE VOTERS. >> LOOKED AROUND TO SEE THESE BORDER PANELS, UNDECIDEDS AND INDEPENDENTS AND HARRIS WAS BETTER, CONVINCING AND THEY ARE STUCK STILL UP IN THE AIR. THIS WILL AFFECT THEIR LIVES, NOT WHO LOOKS AND SOUNDS BETTER'S SO FASCINATING SOMEBODY UNDECIDEDS STILL WITH 50 DAYS LEFT AND FINALLY, ESTIMATES ABOUT THE ELECTION BUT AMERICA, NOT JUST A THREAT TO TAIWAN, THEY ARE A THREAT TO US BUT IT THE WAY IN WHICH THEY ARE DOING IT IS NOTEWORTHY. WE HAVE A CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY LINKS AROUND THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, A KEY 822 GOVERNORS OF NEW YORK WITH CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY LINKS WITH THIS HUGE HOUSE NOW UNDER MASSIVE INVESTIGATION. POLICE STATIONS IN AMERICA POLICING CHINESE CITIZENS AND OTHERS HERE ON VISAS. WHAT'S GOING ON? ARE WE ALLOWING SLOW-MOTION INVASION? >> NOT A SINGLE QUESTION ON CHINA IN THE DEBATE. THE SINGLE BIGGEST CHALLENGE OF AMERICA IN THE 21st CENTURY, THE CHINESE HAVE FIGURED OUT THE WAY TO INFLUENCE AMERICA IS NOT AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL WHERE THERE IS SCRUTINY AND THEY ARE AIMING AT LOCAL GOVERNMENTS AND STATE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, THE BUSINESS CLASS AND UNIVERSITIES BUT THEY ARE FOCUSING HEAVILY ON LOCAL AND STATE GOVERNMENT. MAYORS, COMMISSIONERS, PEOPLE AT THE COUNTY LEVEL AND EMPLOYEES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT BECAUSE THERE'S NOT ENOUGH SCRUTINY. CHINA IS TRYING TO INFILTRATE EVERY ASPECT OF OUR LIFE AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, THEY WANT TO MESSAGE ANYONE HAS LINKS TO CHINA, YOUR RELATIVES MIGHT STILL LIVE THERE, THEY WANT YOU TO KNOW THEIR ARMS ARE LONG AND IF YOU ARE HE TALKING BAD ABOUT CHINA, THEY CAN REACH OUT AND TOUCH YOU AND YOU SEEM THESE POLICE OFFICERS OVER HERE ARE GOING TO PEOPLE'S HOMES SAYING YOU DON'T COME BACK TO CHINA FOR AT LEAST YOU DON'T STOP TALKING BAD ABOUT US, YOUR RELATIVES, PARENTS, YOUR COUSINS, BROTHERS OR SISTERS IN CHINA WILL HAVE A HARD TIME AND THEY USE THAT TO COERCE PEOPLE TO COME BACK TO CHINA. THEY'VE USED THAT TO PEOPLE SPEAKING ON WEAKER ISSUES AND THE CHINA ISSUE MORE BROADLY AND THEY FIGURED OUT A WAY TO DO THAT IS AT THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT LEVEL IT IS CONCERNING BECAUSE I DON'T THINK THERE'S ENOUGH AWARENESS ABOUT HOW MUCH THEY ARE DOING THAT AT THE STATE AND LOCAL LEVEL. WE NEED TO RAMP UP. >> THE MAJORITY AND REPUBLICANS GET THE WHITE HOUSE, CAN YOU DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT? >> ONE OF THE THINGS THE FBI SHOULD BE FOCUSED ON LIKE A LASER. EVERY FIELD OFFICE, EVERY FBI FIELD OFFICE IN AMERICA HAS BECOME MUCH MORE AGGRESSIVE ABOUT INTERACTING WITH LOCAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, NOT JUST ELECTED BUT BUREAUCRATS AND SO FORTH ABOUT CHINESE PRACTICES AND THINGS TO LOOK OUT FOR AND HOW THEY INFLUENCE LOCAL GOVERNMENT DECISIONS ON EVERYTHING FROM CONTRACTING AND BUILD A TRAIN SYSTEM OR ROAD, ALL THE WAY FROM THAT TO THIS NOTION OF LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY ENCOURAGED TO DO THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT BIDDING. THE FIELD OFFICES NEED TO BE ALL OVER THAT MORE AGGRESSIVELY. >> YOUNGSTOWN WALL STREET, THEY GOT TO WAKE UP AND UNDERSTAND IT'S A NATIONAL SECURITY PROBLEM ESPECIALLY AS IT RELATES TO MILITARY WEAPONRY AND MATERIAL WHO DEPEND ON CHINA TO GIVE US AND IN OUR ECONOMY. IT WAS INTERESTING AND I KNOW PRESIDENT TRUMP

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