Jan 26, 2016 ... “When I become president of the United States, our adversaries around the world  will know that America is no longer under the command of someone weak like  Barack Obama. And it will be like Ronald Reagan where as soon as he took  office, the hostages were released from Iran,” Rubio said. Similarly ...
Jan 18, 2016 ... "When I become president of the United States, our adversaries around the world  will know that America is no longer under the command of someone weak like  Barack Obama, and it will be like Ronald Reagan, where as soon as he took  office, the hostages were released from Iran," Rubio said.
Jan 20, 2016 ... ... Marco Rubio made an obviously true claim about the timing of the hostages'  release after 444 days, namely that it occurred as Reagan took the oath of office  on January 20 of that year. He further stated that the Iranians knew that America  would "no longer (be) under the command of someone weak."
Jan 20, 2012 ... The New York Times said that Reagan's address “made no reference at all to the  long-awaited release of the hostages” as he was “apparently following a ... 4,  1979, when a group of several hundred militant Islamic students broke into the  United States embassy in Tehran and took its occupants hostage.
Jan 17, 2016 ... When I become president of the United States, our adversaries around the world  will know that America is no longer under the command of someone weak like  Barack Obama and it will be like Ronald Reagan, where as soon as he took  office the hostages were released from Iran.” But Rubio's invocation of ...
Hostages were released as soon as Ronald Reagan took office because Iran perceived that America was "no longer under the command of someone weak."