Yesterday, The Free Press had a major scoop: The State Department is launching the biggest shake-up in decades in an effort spearheaded by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Today, Rubio joins us on Honestly to discuss his goals for restructuring the Department and also how the U.S. is responding to manifold crises at home and abroad, from controversial deportations to the American attempt to end the war in Ukraine to the possibility of a new Iranian nuclear deal.

In his confirmation hearing, Secretary Rubio talked about how the postwar global order is obsolete. The question is: what replaces it?

We asked that and more of the man who has been charged with overseeing one of the most transformational shifts in our relationship to the world in American history.

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