On August 11, 2026, Secretary of State Marco Rubio stepped away from the machinery of American diplomacy and into a far more domestic spotlight, joining his wife Jeanette inside the State Department's Thomas Jefferson Room for a taping of The Katie Miller Podcast. The show has quietly become a favorite venue for this administration's officials to set policy aside and talk about the rest of their lives, and Axios has described it as the West Wing's go-to outlet for exactly that kind of loose, personal conversation. For nearly an hour, Rubio — who holds both the secretary of state title and the role of acting national security adviser — let the conversation wander from his overnight work schedule to his marriage, his music taste and his eating habits.
