Marco Rubio on "Your World with Neil Cavuto" (Part 1)

Florida's independent governor Charlie Crist taking a map offshore drilling today the governor saying and I'm quoting now we

need to stop offshore oil drilling in Florida I'd like to frankly have a special session to ban it in the sunshine state well

now from his Republican opponent in the Florida Senate race Marco Rubio by the way we invited the governor and the Democrat in the race Kendrick

meek to appear on the show we got no response from Mr Rubio welcome to the program would you join this

drilling on Florida's territorial waters is already illegal by Florida law so having a special session to pass a ban is nothing but a political stunt SRT Vandervell I think might extend the ban them it would be a band it

sounds like I've not seen the details but it sounds like it will be a much broader based ban on drilling anywhere near the

Florida coastline anywhere out into the Gulf would you support that well well Florida law can't do that the only thing Florida has jurisdiction over existences on waters and %HESITATION and

I'm asking in principle how do you stand on the idea of banning oil oil drilling offshore whether the state of Florida can do it or not how do you feel well

first of all I think you have to approach it is different we have to look at and say okay America needs to develop alternatives to petroleum everyone

what about the instrument of out the time that it takes to develop that we and the rest of the world are going to be using petroleum we need it we without

that's what feels our economy that's just the reality so that we have a choice to me we want to import more of it or do do on domestically produced more of it and

by the way importing carries its own dangers that carries national security danger he carries economic danger it also carries the danger of tankers because tankers run aground and tankers leaking factor historically

much more dangerous than drilling the bottom line is that America has to produce more energy of its own and drilling may have to be a part of that so long as it can be done safely governor

Chris has gained ground since the tall boil slow Tavel started a pull up on the on the shores there Florida

he has going raise out from the front of the cameras every single day on this issue he is I hazard to say that he is winning politically

on this issue especially by calling for this offshore better now not what kind how do you attack that how do you come back on that well

first of all I don't I don't think this all supposed to be the opportunity for political gain by anybody I'm not quite sure I agree that he has that

there is been game but that being said I think that we who the people need to win here or the people of our state of our country and

you talk to local elected officials in northwest Florida they will tell you that the bureaucracy they are dealing with in order to do their job and

dealing with this is monstrous and what they're looking for is a voice that will stand up to the federal government and say enough is enough get

out of our way let us do our job just provide us the resources we're not getting out in Florida lowered are getting it in Louisiana and Mississippi for

he's talking about a spending more money as opposed to the Europeans who want austerity I is I'm going to run a quick sound bite from the president essentially he's

calling your bluff and other Republicans just look this research next year when I start planning %HESITATION

some very difficult choices to the country well you know I hope some of these folks who are hollering

about deficits and debt %HESITATION step up because I'm calling their bluff well I hesitate to say that you saw have been hollering about