Late-Night Hosts Tease Marco Rubio for Performance at CNN's Town Hall
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"That is a guy who cannot read the room," Stephen Colbert quipped.
Late-night hosts had fun with Senator Marco Rubio's appearance on CNN's Town Hall on gun violence on Wednesday night, during which time Rubio was grilled by Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students, parents and community members on his approach to gun control.
Rubio, who was the sole Republican on a panel that included Senator Bill Nelson and U.S. Representative Ted Deutch, was pushed by students and parents to state definitively how he would act following the shooting at Stoneman Douglas last week, which left 17 dead. Rubio, who received $9,900 from the National Rifle Association in the 2016 election cycle, according to FEC filings, said he supported the banning of bump stocks but refused to promise to take any more money from the NRA, as one student asked him to do.
The father of one the Stoneman Douglas victims called Rubio's response after the Stoneman Douglas shooting, at one point, "pathetically weak." In a speech on the Senate floor last week, Rubio said gun-control laws "would not have prevented, not just yesterday's tragedy, but any of those in recent history."
On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert called Rubio "the real star of the evening," pointing out a clip in which Rubio, attempting to explain why fixing loopholes in the laws of who can purchase assault rifles were difficult, said, "once you start looking at how easy it is to get get around it, you would literally have to ban every semi-automatic that's sold in America." When his remarks were met with thunderous applause, Rubio said, "Fair enough."
"That is a guy who cannot read the room," Colbert quipped. Then he imitated Rubio: "'Look, we have to get rid of guns and that's a slippery slope to fewer dead people. Oh you'd like that? Fair enough, I guess it takes all kinds."
TONIGHT: Senator Marco Rubio faced a tough crowd at @CNN's town hall, but one of his gun control suggestions brought them to their feet. #LSSC pic.twitter.com/CchPRDr0vF
— The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) February 23, 2018
Over on Comedy Central's Daily Show, Trevor Noah argued that Rubio was "totally out of sync with the entire room," also pointing out the clip about assault-rifle loopholes. "That was such an epic fail. Rubio said the solution like it was the problem."
Then Noah related the moment to the "Me Too" movement: "It reminded me of the reaction that a lot of men had to the 'Me Too' movement, you know, when people were like, 'If we carry on like this, we're going to live in a world where men can't even hit on their female staff. Oh, that is what we want? Okay. Okay, fair enough, I misunderstood.'"
Tonight at 11/10c, Marco Rubio gets no love in a room full of Parkland survivors and constituents. pic.twitter.com/p8X4vKi9al
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) February 23, 2018
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