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i heard senator nelson was also walking through this a little bit with you, the older generation, those who remember what cuba was like under fidel castro, are really very opposed to doing anything that s going to seem to reward the castro family. whereas younger members of the you know, the second or third generation of cuban immigrants are more inflclined see openness as a positive step. i think we also have to wait and see how the politics of this evolve over the course of the next few years. and on that front, kasie, you ve been following jeb bush around the country. he just spoke out against this move. do you see this playing as a positive for democrats, as we get into 2016 fever? reporter: i mean, ronan, i think that this cuts a couple of different ways politically. i think that in a general election, if you see hillary clinton run and this becomes an issue, if there are problems with how this is implemented, you know, if we see cuba continuing to restrict rights
white house, and they can move down that path, but we re all going to be watching very closely. look, i want to see a much better relationship between cuba and the united states. but we ll continue to speak out about human rights violations because we know that s the best way to protect people s rights is for us to continue to put spotlights on countries doing things that are wrong. senator, we re just getting an over the wires a reaction from florida governor and of course much potential 2016 candidate jeb bush. he says he opposes this move to normalize cuba relations. we ve been hearing similar reaction on the hill from people like marco rubio who said that this is appeasing cuba too much. what do you say to that argument that cuba doesn t concede enough in this arrangement? first of all, it s in our interest to improve our relationship with a country so close to us and in our own hemisphere. it s in our national security interests to have a better relationship. alan gross is bac
aisle who pushed for gross s release. one of them senator bill nelson of florida is with us. senator, thank you so much for taking the time. always a pleasure to have you on. can you talk about these efforts to get him free. they can you talk about these efforts to get him free? they went on for quite some time. i want to say at the outset because you re getting mixed reviews. i m as anti-castro as any of them. this is a good exchange of two americans held in captivity for three cubans and then it is an exchange of discussions of recognizing cuba for cuba freeing the dissidents and starting to institute reforms. and that is absolutely essential to give the cuban people freedom. now, to your answer, a year and a half or so ago, i was with
briefing and what comes out of this conference from alan gross. a lot to keep track of here. i m going to go to casey hunt, still following the reaction on the hill. i just talked to florida senator bill nelson about this who said, wait, hang on a beat. we don t know yet how cuba is really going to act on this shift in relations. and until then, it s too early to say whether there would be congressional whetherpower to revisit the embargo. reporter: absolutely, ronan. you also actually saw senator harry reid reacting to this. he said he stood by the obama administration but he still has concerns about whether or not this is going to enhance political freedom in cuba. so you also had senator marco rubio on the other side, his fellow senator from florida, who at a press conference this afternoon said very strongly that this congress will not lift the embargo. i think with republicans in control of both the house and the senate, doing anything legislatively to move on this, is going to
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