Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently had to give a CBS host a history lesson.

This, according to Fox News, is because the host - Margaret Brennan - tried to claim that Nazi Germany used free speech to bring about the Holocaust.

What brought all of this up is Vice President J.D. Vance's recent speech, in which he blasted Europe for its "Soviet"-style censorship.

Brennan was attempting to get Rubio's take on Vance's speech, when things went very wrong for her.

"I have to disagree with you"

The segment began with Brennan attempting to paint Vance's speech in a bad light, claiming that all it did was "irritate our allies."

Rubio replied:

Why would our allies or anybody be irritated by free speech and by someone giving their opinion? We are, after all, democracies. The Munich- Munich Security Conference is largely a conference of democracies in which one of the things that we cherish and value is the ability to speak freely and provide your opinions. And so, I think if anyone’s angry about his words, they don’t have to agree with him, but to be angry about it, I think actually makes his point...

Rubio continued to hammer his point home before Brennan jumped back in, and, this time, she tried to claim that Vance, when he made the speech, "was standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide."

Rubio was having none of this.

He said:

Well I have to disagree with you. No- I have- I have to disagree with you. Free speech was not used to conduct a genocide. The genocide was conducted by an authoritarian Nazi regime that happened to also be genocidal because they hated Jews and they hated minorities and they hated those that they- they had a list of people they hated, but primarily the Jews. There was no free speech in Nazi Germany. There was none. There was also no opposition in Nazi Germany, they were a sole and only party that governed that country. So that’s not an accurate reflection of history...

Background

The leftist media has not only been trying to condemn Vance's speech but it has also been trying to get Republicans to do the same.

This even includes President Donald Trump.

Like Rubio, though, Trump was having none of it.

"I heard his speech and he talked about freedom of speech. And I think it’s true in Europe, it’s losing. They’re losing their wonderful right of freedom of speech. I see it. I mean, I thought he made a very good speech, actually, a very brilliant speech," Trump said.

He added, "Europe has to be careful. And he talked about immigration. And Europe has a big immigration problem. Just take a look at what’s happened with crime. Take a look at what’s happening in various parts of Europe."