A plane carrying Secretary of State Marco Rubio was diverted back to Joint Base Andrews on Thursday night after experiencing a mechanical failure.

An Air Force plane carrying Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman, Sen. Jim Risch, to Germany for the Munich Security Conference was forced to return to Washington late Thursday after developing a mechanical issue.

On Sunday's Face the Nation, Margaret Brennan made a note of JD Vance's Munich Security Conference "lecture" and asked Rubio to respond to criticism.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet US Vice-President JD Vance for talks in Munich later, with the war expected to dominate a major security meeting of world leaders. Zelensky is also expected to meet US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are expected to attend a major security conference in the German city on Friday.

An Air Force plane carrying Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman, Sen. Jim Risch, to Germany for the Munich Security Conference was forced to return to Washington late Thursday after developing a mechanical issue.

CBS host Margaret Brennan suggested that Nazi Germany weaponized "free speech" to carry out the Holocaust on Sunday.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to depart Thursday for Munich and later this week will visit the Middle East amid an intensive diplomatic push to end Russia’s aggression in Ukraine, as well as efforts to follow up on U.

The crash occurred as the Germany city prepares for a security conference to be attended by Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio was headed to the Munich Security Conference, which begins Friday, along with Vice President JD Vance.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio sparred with CBS host Margaret Brennan Loading over Vice President Vance’s speech in Munich. Rubio joined Brennan on “Face the Nation” on Sunday, where he was asked what Vance accomplished by meeting with a leader of the far-right political group Alternative for Germany (AfD) and saying the biggest threat to Europe is censorship.

Zelenskiy is due to meet with Vance and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio before the Munich Security Conference, an annual international gathering of political leaders, military officers and diplomats in the German city.