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On Monday's CBS This Morning, as Florida Senator Marco Rubio denounced President Obama's decision to reopen diplomatic relations with Cuba, co-host Charlie Rose attempted to push liberal spin on the topic: "But what about the argument that in fact – if in fact Cuba is opened up, it will change? Vietnam changed." Rubio quickly shot him down: "It did not change politically. Nor has China, for that matter."
Rose continued: "But it changed in terms – it changed to a degree in terms of its economic participation." Rubio pushed back: "Sure, but my interest is freedom and democracy....And there is no contemporary example of a country with a resistant tyranny that an economic change has opened."