During Wednesday’s Morning Joe, a news package from MS NOW reporter Britt Miller played and decried the capture of Venezuela dictator Nicolas Maduro for putting pressure on the communist regime in Cuba. She ignored the anti-communist protests against the continuing Castro family-influenced government, as she predicted another Bay of Pigs fiasco.
Miller’s report also highlighted former Obama Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes, nicknamed by Rahm Emmanuel as “Hamas,” as a premier policy expert.
Miller’s report came amidst the recent military action in, first, Venezuela and then Iran, which the MS NOW report based solely on regime change.
On Wednesday’s Morning Joe, a news package from MS NOW’s Britt Miller decried the capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro for putting pressure on Cuba. She ignored the anti-communist protests against the Castro-influenced government, as she predicted another Bay of Pigs. pic.twitter.com/P04yXRv4Tw
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Miller introduced pushback to possible Cuba operations with “policy experts,” who happened to be just Ben Rhodes, who spent his airtime with similar talking points from the Iran conflict:
MILLER: Like operations in Iran and Venezuela, Trump is pushing for regime change through a possible deal with the Cuban government. But policy experts are questioning why now.
RHODES: And they’re actually not even identifying some threat that they’re trying to eliminate. There’s no nuclear weapons in Cuba or missiles. It just seems to be settling a very old score for the United States.
It is an interesting stretch to have the only policy expert on a story against actions in Cuba be Ben Rhodes. Policy experts was actually plural.
Then Miller’s report did not fully give background on the history of Cuban persecution under Fidel Castro and, now, Castro-affiliated governments.
Here’s the only reference to Cuba and Fidel Castro being bad actors:
After Fidel Castro’s revolution, Cuba’s relations with the Soviet Union grew stronger, stoking U.S. fear while on the brink of nuclear war. Generations were torn apart under Castro’s rule as families escaped to the US.
Miller then turned to blame the current Cuban crisis on Trump removing former Venezuelan Dictator Nicolas Maduro:
Today, Cubans are suffering with high inflation, food shortages, power outages and a worsening energy crisis after the US captured ousted Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and cut off Cuba’s access to Venezuela’s oil.
The only interviewee in favor of actions in Cuba, Marcel Felipe of the American Museum of Cuban Diaspora, said he and many Cuban-Americans were “very, very excited.” Miller turned that into: “But not all Cuban Americans are hopeful a regime change will mean better days ahead.”
To end her piece, Miller went back to Rhodes to “scrutinize” Trump’s entire foreign policy and complain about international law:
Was the Venezuelan operation legal? No. Was the Iran war legal? No. Is there any kind of legal basis to be strangling an island with sanctions and kind of demanding that the government change itself? No. And so I think what people around the world see is the United States that is no longer in any way bound by international law.
Muammar Gaddafi couldn’t be reached for comment.
In Miller’s final trick, she alleged the operation could turn out like the Bay of Pigs:
(…) his talk of removing the Castros from power echoes a long US History of trying to reshape Cuba, including the CIA effort to overthrow Fidel Castro during the disastrous bay of pigs invasion in 1961.(…).
The package’s reliance on Rhodes and a downplaying of the Castro aligned communist government of Cuba actions should make some reflect on the production of this hit.
The transcript is below. Click “expand”:
MS NOW’s Morning Joe
March 11, 2026
7:28:34 AM Eastern
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MIKA BRZEZINSKI: The focus right now is on Iran, but the Trump Administration seems to also be setting the stage for regime change in Cuba. MS NOW Reporter Britt Miller has that part of the story.
[Cuts to video]
BRITT MILLER: As the US-Israel war with Iran rages in the Middle East, President Trump is setting his sights on another target: Cuba.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: It may be a friendly takeover. It may not be a friendly takeover. It wouldn’t matter because they’re really in there down to, as they say, fumes.
MILLER: Like operations in Iran and Venezuela, Trump is pushing for regime change through a possible deal with the Cuban government. But policy experts are questioning why now.
BEN RHODES (Fmr. Obama Dep. National Security Adviser): And they’re actually not even identifying some threat that they’re trying to eliminate. There’s no nuclear weapons in Cuba or missiles. It just seems to be settling a very old score for the United States.
MILLER: After Fidel Castro’s revolution, Cuba’s relations with the Soviet Union grew stronger, stoking U.S. fear while on the brink of nuclear war. Generations were torn apart under Castro’s rule as families escaped to the US.
President Obama later easing travel restrictions to Cuba and removing the country from the state sponsors of terrorism list. But nearly 70 years later, the Castro family still exerting power even after Fidel Castro’s death.
Today, Cubans are suffering with high inflation, food shortages, power outages and a worsening energy crisis after the US captured ousted Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and cut off Cuba’s access to Venezuela’s oil.
MARCELL FELIPE (Chair of American Museum of Cuban Diaspora): Well, like everybody else here in Miami and on the island, everyone is very, very excited. Cubans are going through the difficulties that they’re going through. So, the fact that now there is a horizon makes people hopeful that the pain is going to be short lived, it’s going to be temporary, and it’s going to lead to something much, much better.
MILLER: But not all Cuban Americans are hopeful a regime change will mean better days ahead.
LADY: We haven’t seen him do anything else for Venezuela. He’s dropped it. Now it’s Iran and now it’s Cuba. So it’s like a little boy that has a new toy.
MILLER: However, the Trump Administration is making it clear this is no game as the DOJ aims for criminal charges against Cuban leaders.
FELIPE: Well, you know, the criminal charges is something that this community has been asking for the last 30 years.
MILLER: As Trump continues to tighten his grip on Cuba, his approach to foreign policy is being scrutinized.
RHODES: Was the Venezuelan operation legal? No. Was the Iran war legal? No. Is there any kind of legal basis to be strangling an island with sanctions and kind of demanding that the government change itself? No. And so I think what people around the world see is the United States that is no longer in any way bound by international law.
[Cuts back to live]
MILLER: And while the president’s move for regime change in Cuba appears to be diplomatic for now, his talk of removing the Castros from power echoes a long U.S. history of trying to reshape Cuba, including the CIA effort to overthrow Fidel Castro during the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. Back to you.
