Marco Rubio Questions Need for Nuclear Energy, Flags Enrichment and Mountain Sites

Marco Rubio said an unspecified party did not need nuclear energy and has enough natural gas, and suggested that the party's insistence on domestic enrichment and siting facilities inside mountains was notable. "Don't need nuclear energy, by the way," the speaker said. "They have plenty of natural gas."

The speaker added that if the party wanted nuclear energy it "could have it the way other countries have it," but that the party instead "refuse[s] to get it that way" and insists "not just on enrichment, but on enrichment and locations located inside of mountains." The speaker concluded, "you would have to lack common sense to not know what that means or what that could mean." The transcript does not identify the person or the entity referenced by "they."

No formal action, response, or identifying context appears in the provided transcript. The remarks are recorded as a brief, standalone statement without supporting evidence or follow-up questions in the available segments.