Delaware Democrat Sen. Chris Coons told “FOX News Sunday” that Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s comments at the Munich Security Conference about the shared heritage between the U.S. left other allies like Japan and India feeling “somewhat cold.”

SHANNON BREAM, FOX NEWS: Yeah, and a lot of hopes pinned on those talks this week for some actual concrete progress in that conflict. I want to talk about Secretary Rubio’s speech there in Munich, because a lot of people were still smarting from what they heard from Vice President Vance last year. It seemed like a very different tone. “Politico” even called this a valentine to our European allies from Secretary Rubio. He talked about, we want to work together. We have to work together. We need for you to be strong, for all of us to have success. He talked about the common bonds. But he did talk about this issue, which is a debate here domestically, but internationally too. He talked about the issue of borders. Here’s what he said. MARCO RUBIO, SECRETARY OF STATE: We must also gain control of our national borders. Controlling who and how many people enter our countries, this is not an expression of xenophobia. It is not hate. It is a fundamental act of national sovereignty. And the failure to do so is not just an abdication of one of our most basic duties owed to our people. BREAM: I wanted to say this is an urgent threat. He said mass migration is destabilizing a number of countries and cultures, and that there is some acknowledgment among some of our European friends and allies. What do you make of that point? SEN. CHRIS COONS: So, two things, Shannon, if I might. Yes, the idea that we need to control our borders and that nations need to control migration, I think is widely agreed in the United States and in Europe. But where he went with this point next was somewhat concerning to me. He talked about the threat of civilizational erasure. And he talked a great deal about the shared legacy history of civilization between the United States and Europe. He talked a great deal about our shared commitment to Christianity and to European culture. But I think he spoke more loudly by what he didn’t say than what he did say. He didn’t call out Russia as the aggressor against Ukraine. He didn’t call out the PRC, Communist China, as the aggressor in the Western Pacific. And he didn’t say that the urgent challenge of the moment, given that North Korea, Iran, China and Russia are increasingly partnering and working closely together, is for the United States and our democratic allies around the world, whether it’s Korea, Japan or Australia, Europe, Germany, France, Italy, the U.K., Poland, that it is urgent for us to come together as free market, free societies committed to democracy. His focus on the civilizational ties between the United States and Europe left a number of folks in the audience who I spoke to later who are trusted partners from Japan, from Korea, from India, democracies that the United States has long partnerships with. It left them somewhat cold. And frankly, it was more reassuring than J.D. Vance’s speech last year, which was more of a punch in the mouth. But it failed to meet the moment, given that we are just days away from the fourth anniversary of Putin launching a full scale and brutal invasion of Ukraine. BREAM: All right, Senator Coons, we have to go. Can you give me a yes or no on whether you plan to attend the State of the Union this year? COONS: I am planning to attend. Look, frankly, last year was a very difficult speech. And I’m hopeful that President Trump will find a way to speak to all Americans, not just to his political base. That’s the challenge for a president in a State of the Union.