--- title: Republican Debate; Marco Rubio Repeats A Line Four Times description: Rubio kept saying the same answer at Saturday's Republican debate—much to the chagrin of Chris Christie. canonical: https://time.com/4210991/marco-rubio-gop-debate-new-hampshire/ author: Daniel White article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-07T04:05:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-05T08:41:05.463Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch Marco Rubio Repeat The Same Line Four Times og:description: Rubio kept saying the same answer at Saturday's Republican debate. og:url: https://time.com/4210991/marco-rubio-gop-debate-new-hampshire/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9aa8af9a90a48c23/69887c7ebc6cfce6413dba0d/timepol-gop-republican-debate-new-hampshire-12.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2835 og:image:height: 1595 og:image:alt: Republican Candidates Debate In New Hampshire Days Before State's Primary og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Marco Rubio Repeat The Same Line Four Times twitter:description: Rubio kept saying the same answer at Saturday's Republican debate. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9aa8af9a90a48c23/69887c7ebc6cfce6413dba0d/timepol-gop-republican-debate-new-hampshire-12.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Marco Rubio Repeat The Same Line Four Times > Sponsored content. 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He knows exactly what he’s doing,” Rubio said. “He is trying to change this country.” Eventually, Christie seemed to have had enough of the line, saying “There it is, the memorized 25-second speech.” Watch the clip above. ## Transcript And let's dispel once and for all with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing. Barak Obama is undertaking a systematic effort to change this country. Let's dispel with this fiction that Barack Obama doesnt know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing. He is trying to change this country. He wants America to become more like the rest of the world. [ NOISE ] So those were the facts. Here's the bottom line this notion of Barrack Obama doesn't know what he's doing is just not- There it is. He know's exactly what- There it is the memorized 25- second speech. Cuz I think this notion, I think this is an important point. We have to understand what we're going through here. We are not facing a president that doesn't know what he's doing, he knows what he is doing. That's why he has done the things he's done. [ UNKNOWN ] That's why we have a president that passed Obama Care, and the stimulus, all this damage he's done to America is deliberate. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4210991/marco-rubio-gop-debate-new-hampshire/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4210991/marco-rubio-gop-debate-new-hampshire/"},"headline":"Watch Marco Rubio Repeat The Same Line Four Times","datePublished":"2016-02-07T04:05:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-10-05T08:41:05.463Z","description":"\"There it is, the memorized 25-second speech.\"","url":"https://time.com/4210991/marco-rubio-gop-debate-new-hampshire/","keywords":["Debates","2016 Election","Sen. 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