the u.s. intersection is the largest diplomatic gathering in the country. it s housed in the building that was the u.s. embassy before we broke off diplomatic relations, so the notion you re going to shut that operation down when, really, what you re doing is changing the sign on the door is one that doesn t square up with reality that much. marco rubio can make a ambassador confirmed but the united states has incredibly ranked career foreign services officer, when we normalize, he ll become sergeant of the affairs. when you don t have a confirmtive ambassador to run the operation, and it s important to those who visit the island on a regular basis. 300,000 visiting cuba since the president changed his policy in 2009. they should be afforded the same diplomatic. thank you, i appreciate it. you can watch 360 at 8:00 p.m. eastern and whenever you like. set your dvr and you re good to go. up next, former president jimmy carter with his take on what
cuban people. all of this is going to do is give the castro regime which controls every aspect of cuban life the opportunity to manipulate these changes. to perpetuate itself in power. this debate has been going on for decades. it s deeply personal. political commentator and gop strategist navarro and senior western security affairs on the counsel. ana, you re critical of the agreement. to rubio s point, there s relationships with china and vietnam, why not with cuba? well, first of all, china and vietnam are not in the state-sponsored terrorism list as cuba has been. instructing secretary kerry to take them off. you know, anderson, part of it, yes, is internal politics. the bottom line is that there are a lot of cuban american
off the coast of florida with his family fleeing cuba. in 2000, armed federal agents seized gonzalez from his family in miami returning him to cuba to be with his father. he arrived back home a national hero. tensions began to thaw with the election of president barack obama in 2008. the new president lifted travel restrictions for family members to cuba and the nelson mandela memorial, leader of cuba leader shook hands. by phone, jimmy carter tried to ties with havana. what do you say to the critics who say this is basically rewarding a repressive dictatorship and giving up leverage the united states might have had with cuba? well, the agreement is not supposed to help the cuban dictators and it doesn t. it helps the cuban people and
we would promote democracy and human rights and speak out forcefully. fidel castro is he aware of what happened? does he approve? i am not sure the i don t know what fidel castro s health status is. that s not anner eissue raised. it revolved around prisoner swap. sending back three cuban spies. cuba sending back an american agent after 20 years of prison there. separately in a humanitarian gesture, cuba released an american aide contractor, allen gross sentenced in 2009 to 15 years in prison for plotting to destroy the revolution. new photos of his departure. at a briefing he singled out the cuban people for praise. in no way are they responsible for the ordeal to which my family and i have been subjected. to me, cubanos or at least most of them, are incredibly kind,
one that doesn t square up with reality that much. marco rubio can make a ambassador confirmed but the united states has incredibly ranked career foreign services officer, when we normalize, he ll become sergeant of the affairs. when you don t have a confirmtive ambassador to run the operation, and it s important to those who visit the island on a regular basis. 300,000 visiting cuba since the president changed his policy in 2009. they should be afforded the same diplomat diplomatic. thank you, i appreciate it. you can watch 360 at 8:00 p.m. eastern and whenever you like. set your dvr and you re good to go. up next, former president jimmy carter with his take on what happened today and later, we