WATCH: Rubio Slams ICC, Accuses Global Elite Of Weaponising Law; Admits US Struggles

At the State Department, we have seen the same thing firsthand in the realm of what is called international law. We've heard the concept international law invoked against nearly every major foreign policy decision or action of this administration. So, for example, when President Trump ordered our military to sink cartel boats in the Caribbean, we were told that they were violating international law. The founding chief prosecutor of the fake and illegitimate international criminal court even accused us. Of crimes against humanity. When American forces captured Nicholas Maduro, a fugitive of American justice, and brought him to the United States to face that justice, we heard the same, none of this has anything to do, none of this has anything to do with any real higher standard of justice. It is a function of the people who control the official organs of global governance. It is the function of the sprawling network of NGOs and agencies staffed by international activists and bureaucrats, along with their patrons here in the United States and around the world. For this global elite, international law is not a neutral body of rules. International law is an instrument, an instrument to advance their interests under the pretense of universal principles. For example, they're staunch defenders of democracy until particular elections challenge They lecture us on the importance of sovereignty, even as they demand that nations surrender control of their borders and outsource their immigration laws to unelected international courts. They oppose, they say, all forms of imperialism, of conquest, domination, but they seek to exercise authority over every country and every government on earth. That's why earlier this year, President Trump made the unprecedented decision to sanction the fake International Criminal Court. I think the market works when it does two things. It provides wealth and prosperity, but it also provides opportunity for people to find dignified work. So we have to do a better job of understanding that there's no absolutes here, and ultimately the market is an example, is a tool. I think we have to recognize that people are struggling. There's no doubt about it. There's no doubt, and I think the numbers are clear, that younger people today are further behind than their peers were 20, 30, 40 years ago. And to ignore that would be to close our eyes. I think we sometimes forget that, yes, I'm not saying the stock market is irrelevant and unimportant. But for most people, the health of our economy has nothing to do with the stock market. The health of their economy is whether they have enough money to be able to afford the things they need and want. That's how they judge the health of our economy. So we do have a lot of work to make these arguments. People call it populism. I just call it common sense. I think it's important, though, that it all starts with a founding belief or the foundation of making these arguments that's expressing to people the extraordinary story of America. And one of the things that's most extraordinary about our history is this unbroken chain of each generation leaving the next better off with a safer, better, more prosperous country. And that's the challenge before us now. Because I do think there's a legitimate fear that we will be the first generation to leave the next worse off. And that can't happen. That's un-American. It runs against our story. It runs against our history. And I think the foundation for all of it is explaining to people that America is exceptional, but it's not self-perpetuating.