Cenk, Ben, John, and Wes hosting. Catfight between Rubio and Rand Paul over the normalization between the U.S. and Cuba. Video of Rand Paul speaking positively about the agreement on Thursday. Video of Sen Rubio telling Fox News that Paul doesn’t know what he’s talking about since the embargo has holes in it, which allow exchanges and travel to happen. Rubio also excused the popularity of the deal among Cubans and Cuban Americans by claiming they’re simply hoping anything will work. Rand Paul responded directly to Rubio today on Twitter by calling him an isolationist that wants to build a moat instead of ending an embargo that he admits doesn’t work. According to the IRS head, the Republican led cuts to their budget may delay tax returns to taxpayers in the next year. The reason the GOP pushed these cuts was to allow their rich donors to have less IRS audits, and let them cheat even more on their taxes. Cenk points out that this is another reason fake IRS scandals were pushed so hard, to delegitimize the agency, making it easier to cut it.

Bill O’Reilly declared that he’s won the War on Christmas since he hasn’t heard of any stores that are stopping employees from saying Merry Christmas. Infamous video of O’Reilly claiming he’s covered 4 wars with a pen. President Obama has announced the creation of a panel to look into reforming police departments and their approach to interacting with their communities in less violent ways. This is some concrete action TYT was hoping Obama would take on the subject, rather than just speaking on it. Wes tells the story of being involved in a holdup in a bar.