Marco Rubio: “The only lever in this negotiation is the congressionally imposed sanctions regime.”

The truth is Cuba has already fallen. It’s not – it doesn’t have a functional economy and it’s governed by people who continue to preach about some revolution that has been dead for 20 years that’s never worked.

What we’re not going to allow ever under any circumstances as long as President Trump is President is we’re never going to allow Cuba to become a base of operation against American interests or pose a threat to our national security.

In Venezuela two things are happening. One, their economy needs to continue to recover because the people of Venezuela have suffered so much.

So I think that the Iranians are fundamentally misreading our political system.