Marco Rubio on CBS News' "Face The Nation"

good morning again and welcome to face the nation we're going straight to Miami and Marco Rubio the Republican nominee for Senate in Florida a

in the %HESITATION primary for the Republican Senate nomination before it was over he had left the party if you wind up in the polls he's

now running as an independent let me just ask you for what do you think of yourself and stay out tea party cannot well

first good morning and thank you for having me on your program I think anybody can make that claim about themselves because to do that you have to you know have a fundamental misunderstanding of what the tea party movement and

were traditional political lands you know how you would view the Republican Party or the Democratic Party the tea party movement is an expression of what I think is a mainstream widespread

sentiment in America that Washington is broken that both parties are to blame and that people wanna look folks are going to go to Washington DC number

one and do what they say they're going to do primarily stand up to the agenda that's coming from there and offer some clear alternatives that embrace the things that make America exceptional so for example I

believe in the free enterprise system they understand that makes a the most prosperous people in human history and they don't want to want what they don't want to walk away

the tea party movement is an expression of that sentiment alright what what is it because you have said over and over your coming here to challenge Republicans and

Democrats what in your view have the Republicans don't well remember the Republicans had a majority in Washington for the better part of ten to twelve years and they didn't fulfill some of the promises they had made in ninety four when

things among others that people are looking for from Washington if you say you're going to do that and you get elected then do it there's

got to be some level of accountability and unfortunately politics today are full of people that think they can say or do anything because

once they get elected they think they already so much money they can make you forget well you come from a state and are running in a state where a lot of folks are on social security do you believe that it's

time to a privatized so so security as it to outrun it useful no I do not believe it should be privatized and I do not believe it's outlived its usefulness on the contrary I think social security is an extremely important program and

its existence her life would be very hard and very difficult I do think social security faces some long term challenges that

need to be confronted because I want to say three things happen number one I don't want to see any benefit reductions or change for

bankrupt our country well what do you do to keep her from bankrupting the country because you're saying using seem

like you want to keep it just like it is but but tell you want to fix it what is involved do know Bob I mean I I I

think we want to keep it how it is for current beneficiaries because these are folks that have paid into the system given certain assurances of what the system is going to look younger

workers like myself people thirty nine years of age like I am we're going to have to accept that there's going to be some changes to social security and

perhaps are going to have to change the way the benefit isn't that perhaps are going to have to continue to to allow the retirement

we want to save it it's important we want to preserve it a lot about the tea party poke around the country talk about Arizona's

new immigration law and they'd like to see data model in in every state this is the law that's

a lousy police officers if they stop someone for another attack to check their citizenship of

I think when you first heard about this law passing you said it would create a police state what's your take on on