WATCH: Marco Rubio Nukes Dem Rep. Ted Lieu After He Pushes Hoax About Trump’s Cognitive Abilities and Says Trump’s Been Missing for 8 Days

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday went off on Rep. Ted Lieu for accusing President Donald Trump of falling asleep in cabinet meetings, having a decline in cognitive abilities, and being missing for eight days as the Democrats try to distract the country from the doped-up puppet they installed in the White House.

“You have been at multiple meetings with President Trump. In a moment, I’m going to show you a video of one of these meetings. It is from last December. It’s a cabinet meeting. I’m going to ask you to focus on President Trump, and you will see that he is sleeping while you are talking.”

“Oh my God,” Rubio said, laughing before the clip played. He went on to describe Lieu’s line of questioning as “false” and “outrageous,” telling him, “Show me all the videos you want!”

“That’s false,” Rubio said of the accusation that Trump was asleep. “I’ve never seen him fall asleep. On the contrary, the guy doesn’t sleep,” he added joking that it’s a “big problem because he calls me at two in the morning, he calls me at five in the morning.”

Lieu accused Rubio of lying under oath, then proceeded to play another video from a cabinet meeting, where Trump appeared to have his eyes closed briefly, and again accused Trump of sleeping and Rubio of lying.

Lieu continued to play a clip of Trump allegedly sleeping at a Memorial Day ceremony and another where he makes contradictory statements about Iran’s military.

“So, Secretary Rubio, instead of holding North Korean-style cabinet meetings where everyone goes around the room kissing Donald Trump’s ass, I’m going to ask you to come clean with American people and the White House as well. There’s something wrong with Donald Trump’s health or cognitive abilities,” he declared. “There’s a reason he keeps going to the hospital and they keep giving him cognitive tests. We have not seen the President in eight days. The American people deserve the truth.”

It should be noted that Trump gave an hour-long interview to the New York Post yesterday and another to Fox just days prior. While the President has not done any public events recently amid the Iran war negotiations, Lieu’s assertion that Trump has not been seen in eight days is a flat-out lie.

As Rubio attempted to respond to the “absurd and ridiculous” accusations, telling the Congressman he can’t believe he’s being asked about the President sleeping in a Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, Lieu interrupted, saying, “Just keep lying, Secretary Rubio, just keep lying.”

“The truth of the matter is, we had a cognitively impaired president in office a few years ago,” Rubio fired back, noting again that the President doesn’t sleep.

“I’ve been on foreign trips with the President, that he doesn’t sleep in the whole flight, and everyone else is sleeping on the plane, and he’s, you know, wandering the hallways looking for someone to wake up and talk to. So, I don’t know what you’re referring to, but he has an incredible amount of energy,” he said.

“I’m just telling you, you may not like his policies, you may not like his policies, you may not like the decisions he’s made, but I assure you, this is not a president that sleeps or is cognitively impaired in any way, shape, or form, and, in fact, is incredibly active, much more so in many cases than much younger people that are around him.”

WATCH:

Transcript below:

Lieu: Secretary Rubio, have you been at more than one meeting where President Trump has fallen asleep.

Rubio: That’s false. That’s false. I’ve never seen him fall asleep. On the contrary, the guy doesn’t sleep, which is a big problem, because he calls me at two in the morning, he calls me at five in the morning, and you know, I like to sleep a little bit, maybe not 12 hours, at least six. So, he works— the other day, he was at the Oval Office until 12:30am. I don’t know what you’re talking about.

Lieu: I’m going to show you in a moment a video that shows you just lied to Congress.

Rubio: Oh, okay.

Lieu: So, this is a video of a cabinet meeting, literally from last month, where Donald Trump is sleeping while you are talking. Please show this video… You are literally talking about issues of war and peace, and Donald Trump is sleeping right next to you.

Rubio: No he’s not.

Lieu: If Donald Trump cannot stay awake at these important meetings, where the cameras are rolling, imagine what he’s like when the cameras are not there. So, I’m going to ask you, have you been at classified meetings where Donald Trump has fallen asleep?

Rubio: I’ve never been in any meeting where— and the things you’re showing me now, he was not falling asleep, and I think it’s outrageous that I’m before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the United States House of Representatives, asking questions about sleep!

Lieu: So, you’re lying again, you’re lying consistently to Congress. You’re lying to Congress, Secretary Rubio. So, I’m going to show you another video in a moment.

Rubio: Show me all the videos you want!

Lieu: The president’s inability to stay awake on the job has caused other countries to perceive him differently. They mock him, they see he is weak and he is feeble. This is a video of a French news channel talking about Donald Trump falling asleep at a Memorial Day ceremony. Please show this video… Donald Trump’s inability to stay awake on the job shows that there’s something very wrong with his health of cognitive abilities, and in fact, on a number of occasions Donald Trump will contradict himself in literally the same meeting or interview. In this video I’m about to show, it shows that Donald Trump says the Iranian military is both destroyed and not destroyed at the same time, something that Dina Titus alluded to. Please show this video…

So, Secretary Rubio, instead of holding North Korean-style cabinet meetings where everyone goes around the room kissing Donald Trump’s ass, I’m going to ask you to come clean with American people and the White House as well. There’s something wrong with Donald Trump’s health or cognitive abilities. There’s a reason he keeps going to the hospital and they keep giving him cognitive tests. We have not seen the President in eight days. The American people deserve the truth. I yield back.

Rubio: I don’t even know how to respond to that, other than to tell you that it’s absurd and ridiculous, and I can’t believe we’re in a Foreign Affairs Committee meeting in front of the House, at an important time in American foreign policy…

Lieu: Just keep lying, Secretary Rubio, just keep lying.

Rubio: … answering questions from, supposedly, someone who thinks he’s a medical expert, when he’s not. The truth of the matter is, we had a cognitively impaired president in office a few years ago. That’s a cognitively impaired president, but I don’t like to talk about that, because it weakens America. This president we have, this is a guy that literally doesn’t sleep; he works day and night, long hours, every single day. I don’t know if you haven’t seen him in eight days. I saw him yesterday, I didn’t see him today, but yesterday, because I was in Congress, the day before. I talk to him at all hours of the day and night. He works inhumane hours.

I’ve been on foreign trips with the President, that he doesn’t sleep in the whole flight, and everyone else is sleeping on the plane, and he’s, you know, wandering the hallways looking for someone to wake up and talk to. So, I don’t know what you’re referring to, but he has an incredible amount of energy. I’m just telling you, you may not like his policies, you may not like his policies, you may not like the decisions he’s made, but I assure you, this is not a president that sleeps or is cognitively impaired in any way, shape, or form, and, in fact, is incredibly active, much more so in many cases than much younger people that are around him. Those are facts. I see it every day. You’re not going to agree, because you have another narrative that you want to push, but those are the facts.

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