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He's in rockville, maryland. senator patrick leahy from vermont and republican senator jeff flake. we have a democratic senator, a republican senator, we have a democratic congressman. senator leahy, i'll start with you, you're the veteran there. you must be pretty thrilled about this decision by the president to normalize relations with cuba. >> i'm very thrilled with it. i've talked with the president many, many times about this over the past few years. like my two colleagues here have gone to cuba numerous times, met with alan gross while he was down there. but what i kept telling the presi...

Flew from havana to joint base andrews outside washington, d.c. we'll be speaking with those three lawmakers, senator leahy, senator flake, representative chris van hollen, get their take what it was like as they flew back to the united states. let's talk about this dramatic new shift in u.s./cuban relations right now, what it means. joining us, ana navarro joining us from miami and here in washington, evan perez, our global affairs correspondent, elise labott, and our chief national security correspondent, jim sciutto. pretty strong, jim sciutto, statement from marco rubio. you heard how angr...

So i'm not exactly sure that marco rubio and those who are fiercely opposed to this improved relationship with cuba are necessarily, correct me if i'm wrong, going to have the votes? >> the ones who oppose are in very strong positions. marco rubio's going to be the next chair of western hemisphere. any ambassador that needs to be confirmed to cuba would have to go through his subcommittee. jeff flake is going to be the number two. so there's a lot at stake about marco rubio being there. bob menendez is the ranking member on the entire committee of foreign relations. you have mario diaz-balart ...

Republican colleague, senator marco rubio, a member of the senate foreign relations committee, that anyone that the president nominates to be the american ambassador to havana, to koocuba, he will vote against and any funding to establish a formal u.s. embassy in havana, he will vote against any funding for a u.s. embassy in havana, what do you say to senator rubio? >> he has strongly held views on this. i respect those views but i strongly disagree. we have a u.s. interest section in cuba. and we ought to have an embassy. we ought to have normalized relations. that would do better to protect ...

Of the accident is "under investigation." >>gregg: a major update as bipartisan senators known as the gang of eight appear to have passed a key hurdle attempting for sweeping immigration reform. owe national correspondent has more from washington on that story. >> in spite of a breakthrough on issue of guest workers florida senator rubio says reports that the legislation is finalized of premature. he is one of the gang of eight senators trying to hammer out an agreement and wrote the judiciary committee chairman to make sure they have rigorous public hearings saying in his letter, you have sai...