Jimmy Carter: “I will nominate Michael B. Smith, of Potomac, Md., to be Deputy Special Representative for Trade Negotiations.”

Well, the agreement is not supposed to help the Cuban dictators and it doesn't. But the agreement does it helps both the Cuban people and the American people in the long-term.

The aircraft carrying the 52 American hostages had cleared Iranian airspace on the first -- first leg of a journey home. And at every one of the 52 hostages was alive, was well and free.

This is a very wise and very courageous thing for President Obama to do. And in my opinion, is long overdue.

I watched him on television. I thought what he said was absolutely ridiculous. There's no rational or logic to what he had to say.