Secretary of State Marco Rubio “Outstanding” at Munich (From FOX News)

Secretary of State Marco Rubio garnered a standing ovation from the audience at the Munich Security Conference, after calling for a reinvigorated Western alliance.  On Monday, Rubio’s success and its foreign policy implications featured across the news cycle, here, with FOX News Senior Foreign Policy Correspondent and Anchor Gillian Turner, on America Reports.  Highlights below and full clip here.

Gillian Turner: Rebecca, it seems that Rubio is really becoming, I’d call him, “the guru,” the Trump Doctrine guru.  He is receiving positive recognition for his comments over the weekend not because he said things that other people have never said before in the Administration, because they have, but because he has a way of articulating the President’s agenda, in my opinion, better than pretty much everybody else in the Administration.

Rebecca Grant: What an outstanding Secretary of State.  Secretary Rubio is the perfect blend of hard power and soft power.  In Munich, we learn he’s a Mozart fan; and he’s right to call on the Christian values and that transcendent, Western heritage that is the culture that binds us together.  On the other hand, some super clear red lines, on mass migration, on the need to kick China out of the supply chain, and of course, for Europe to build up defense.  Not said, but clearly on the agenda: making sure the EU stops their terrible treatment of American tech companies, and American commercial space companies.

Gillian Turner: Not everybody who attended Munich enjoyed the same response.  Other people there had some stumbling blocks…

Munich Security Forum (Sound on Tape):  Would and should the U.S. actually commit U.S. troops to defend Taiwan if China were to move?

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (Sound on Tape): You know I think that’s, uh, this is such a… a, you know, I think that this is a, this is, of course, a very long-standing policy of the United States…

Gillian Turner: [She is not] the first politician to get asked a question about foreign policy on the world stage and fumble the ball.  But I don’t know how you go to Munich unprepared for those lines of questioning.

Rebecca Grant: AOC really struck out. I mean, you’re right, you’re in Munich, it’s going to be foreign policy.  So, all she had to say was: we’re going to deter China, we’re going to keep China in a box, we’re going to project American sea power and airpower.  It would have been an easy answer.  It suggests to me that she’s not sure about American leadership, and that’s what makes it so great to see Secretary of State Marco Rubio leading.  We’re at a time when Europe really needs that leadership.