Florida senator defended the ‘America First’ agenda and his own hawkish record in Senate committee hearing

Marco Rubio has offered a full-throated defense of Donald Trump’s vision for America’s role around the world – and his own hawkish record on foreign policy – as the Florida senator faced questions by the Senate foreign relations committee as Trump’s nominee for secretary of state.

Rubio’s opening remarks were disrupted several times by protestors from leftwing activist groups who called him a “war hawk” and decried his record of support for sanctions abroad before being dragged out of the hearing room.