McConnell: We Won’t Confirm Obama’s Ambassador to Cuba

MCCONNELL: "Let me quote somebody I rarely quote. Former President Jimmy Carter, who said he’d be hard pressed to think of any place in the world where we were in better shape now than we were when President Obama came to office. President Carter got it right. What the president — this president has been involved in is talking to a lot of countries — talk, talk, talk. And Cuba is a good example. He thinks that simply by engaging with them we get a positive result. I don’t see any indication that Cubans are going to change their behavior. What are we getting as a result of normalization of relations?  I think it — I think we’ll not confirm an ambassador. They make — believe they don’t need that. There are sanctions that were imposed by Congress I think the administration will have a hard time getting those removed. This is a policy that there is substantial opposition to in Congress."