Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended the deportation of three children who are U.S. citizens, claiming the mothers could have made their kids stay behind. “Those children are U.S. citizens,” Rubio said on Sunday’s episode of “Meet The Press.

Sen. Marco Rubio denied that the US deported three citizens aged two, four and seven instead saying that the children's mothers opted to take them with them.

You guys just make it sound like I say, ‘Just kick down the door and grab the two-year-old’ and threw them on an airplane. That’s misleading,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on NBC on Sunday morning.

President Donald Trump urged Russia on Sunday to stop its attacks in Ukraine while his top diplomat said the United States might walk away from peace efforts if it does not see progress. Speaking to reporters in New Jersey,

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio raised the pressure on Ukraine and Russia to negotiate a peace agreement on Sunday. "This week is going to be a really important week in which we have to make a determination about whether this is an endeavour that we want to continue to be involved in,