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On Monday, hosts and reporters on the NBC, ABC, and CBS morning shows could hardly contain their excitement as they cheered an “historic new era” in relations between the United States and Cuba. On NBC’s Today, co-host Matt Lauer touted: “Overnight, for the first time in five decades, full diplomatic ties were officially restored. That paves the way for the reopening of embassies in Washington and Havana.”
In the report that followed, Chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell gushed: “History was already made earlier this morning when overnight Cuba's flag was hung in the lobby of the State Department for the first time. This day has been long in coming.”