>> hi everyone. this is al jazeera america i'm john siegenthaler. >> hifnghistoric step. >> we don't have to be imprisoned by the past. >> u.s. and cuba restore full diplomatic ties. >> greek debt. >> the government has to decide whether they're on the side of the people first and then first and

then the creditors. >> calls to reject the bailout deal. using race as a factor for college admissions. the contentious issue heads to the supreme court. >> my conversations with gary with gary hart,. >> i would never run for office today because of the way the press operates. >> more than half a century after it started the cold war is finally and officially over between the u.s. and cuba. today president obama achieved what would have better than been unthinkable a few years ago.

what was historic. we'll get to that in a moment but first mike viqueria is at the white house. mike. >> john good evening. this president obama says, opens a new chapter in u.s. cuban relations. it's more than just symbolism president obama says. announcing the end of 54 years of animosity and an historic opening to cuba. >> the progress we mark today is yet another demonstration that we don't are to be imprisoned by the past. when something isn't working we can and will change. >> in havana, a top official delivered a letter, in turn, castro wrote back, respectful and cooperative relations between our two people and governments.

unscripted december 2013 meeting between the two officials, at the death of nelson mandela. then another freeing moment. the freeing of allen gross, and then in return, mr. obama freed the last three members of the cuban 5. suddenly the time was right for change. in december of last year mr. obama announced his plan to normalize. the first time the two met together. >> sometimes we allow ourselves to be trapped by a certain way of doing things. for united states that meant clinging to a policy that was not working. >> critics like new jersey democrat robert mendoza be menendez

called it a mistake. but the white house sees benefits. not only for american agriculture, tech and tourism but the u.s. reputation across latin america where its cuba policy nurtured long standing fest resentment. most have known only suspicion of the united states. >> cuban government civil society and ordinary cubans that are reaching for abetter life. >> even if they had the votes or will to stop them, the cube ans cubans will raise the be flag, july 20th and over havana just a

couple of days after that. >> with mike, thank you. for expiems exiled, this is hard to sell. melissa chan is incomes little havana. melissamelissa. >> reporter: their opinion is not going to change just because president obama has made this change. for decades they have believed in the embargo but having said all that the cuban american community is starting to change just a little. two angry men. the only protesters in little havana's favorite cafe after presidentpresident obama's announcement of the opening of reciprocal embassies. but it was business as usual at

cafe versailles. many of the regulars expressed anger. >> they've been betrayed since 1898. basically when the americans sunk the maine with the excuse of invading cuba. >> the cuban government is going to benefit right, give me obreak. the cuban people is going to get naza. >> but feelings have -- nada. >> but feelings have changed. >> it's a mixed sentiment. 56 years of dictator ship and the united states approaches its traditional enemy, of course it is going to be a negative. what we are saying is we have to try different ways. >> a new cuban attitude supporting dploimsupporting diplomatic

relation would have been unthinkable ten years ak. but rick herrera says. >> i'm 36 years old like many my age, many younger we have lived our entire life under this policy and seen it yield no progress whatsoever. we are very much aware of the human rights record of the cuban government, of the ungoing repression that occurs in that country. we just don't think that by trying to isolate them or by us continuing this policy of confrontation we are going to in any way a alleviate that. >> the establishment voices in the community have long held sway. the obama bottomed move bold move has changed

all that. the administration has changed so much in the last ten 15 years. back in the 1990s if this announcement would have happened then we have seen a sea of people insensed. but the cuban american community is just not same iend front it used tounited front itused to be. thank you very much. >> former u.s. senator gary hart said he has supported normalized relations for 25 years. this is what he said about it. >> i thought it was silly having this country 90 miles away and having this embargo. and it made us look small in the eyes of the world. >> more of my conversation with senator hart who had a lot to say about issues, race, money on politics, that's all coming up in our next half hour. now to greece.

its prime minister repeated calls for a no vote in sunday's referendum. increasing are bailout this would giver them more negotiating power. on the streets of athens citizens desperate for cash are running out of options. barnaby phillips has the story. >> this man has a difficult job telling pensioners they have to wait. they are allowed in the bank one by one to collect money. they've been here for hours. these scenes are not good for alexis tsipras he says they should vote no for negotiations. >> translator: no doesn't mean a split division with europe but a return of europe of values. no means strong pressure for an economically viable agreement that will give solution he to the debt. >> reporter: the greek prime minister has made a new offer with concessions but it seems

that many of europe's powerful politicians are now giving him the cold showered. shoulder. >> translator: i always kept to what we agreed on. what our rules are what we agreed on in europe and what the national rules are. if everyone had done the same, greece would have not been in such a dispris dispris desperate situation. >> what do tourists think? tourism is vital to greece's economy. some taking in their stride, some oblivious to the situation. >> i heard that a bank may have been closed so i just brought some cash from home basically. >> we know there's problems over here but no, carry on as normal as far as we're concerned. >> reporter: for greeks themselves the situation is much more worrying. they can't escape their

country's financial crisis and yet for all the tensions and disagreement in this country the vast majority of greeks have dealt with the situation with great calm and patience. patience. lila gives bankruptcy advice to greeks. 120,000 have claimed bankruptcy in the last few years. what will she tell them now? >> there's a lot of insecurity and uncertainty at the moment so we just say wait and see. we have a referendum at the end of the week. maybe some things will happen. maybe not. we will see. >> somehow, amidst aim all this, greeks have to make a momentous decision being barnaby phillips, al jazeera.

>> still vote no to a bailout deal. 54% oppose, 33% approve but the yes movement appears to be gaining strength. an earlier poll showed 57% opposition to the bailout. secretary of state john kerry says there is progress in the nuclear talks with iran. negotiators in be vienna have until thursday, this thursday the chief of the international atomic agency, will meet. ali velshi is in vienna. >> there is a possible very cautious optimism about this zeal. as you know the sedate extended to july 7th. but the optimism doesn't extend to the date. what it comes is the visit of

the iaea meeting with president rouhani here in iran to discuss the two issues with respect to iran the access, the type of access the frequency of access, that inspectors will get to iranian plants and enrichment facilities and centrifuges. this is been a point of contention for quite some time. also iran maintains that its program is for the creation of energy, others believe it is for the creation of weapons and the pierchp-5 plus one believes if they can get to inspect they can get to the bottom of this. it is inappropriate iran feels for people talk to their scientists. this is a bit of a deal breaker.

the idea that these meetings are taking place about what role the iaea can have the about assuring the world about iran's capabilities and intentions, is pretty clear. not clear whether the negotiation will go on for until the last minute, the deal needs to be met by july 9th then technical song will have 30 days to approve. at every point the negotiations, the ayatollah has been briefed by the president by the foreign minister javad zarif. iran walks away from geneva with a deal, for iranians who are waiting for sanctions to be lifted that wait is going to go on a little longer.

john. >> elementary chemall right ali. you can see more about his reports on "on target" tonight. security officials say dozens of soldiers were killed in the suicide bombings at army checkpoints on the sinai peninsula. at least 100 fighters were killed during the hours of fierce battles. i.t. was the biggest battle in the sinai since the 1973 arab-israeli war. next making the people pay facing a debt crisis in puerto rico, hits residents with a big tax like. plus new video the new details new criticism in a pasco washington police killing.

>> puerto rico has escaped default for another day. officials say they made a series

of debt payments to creditors. still, that island is more than $70 billion in debt that it cannot afford. today residents awoke to a steep increase in the sales tax. many feel the worst is still ahead. robert ray is in san juan tonight. robert. >> reporter: john, good evening. indeed, puerto rico escaped some of the debt today. they paid vefertion paid investors and bond holders about $1.2 billion. the concern this evening the speak on the street is sales tax increases and cuba. it's the first day of a new fiscal year in puerto rico. the sales tax jumped to 11.5% to help curb the island's financial crisis. but the reality is more than $70 billion in debt looms. robert ray, al jazeera america

hola. >> an emergency meeting between the governors on wednesday looking for solutions and common ground on perhaps the biggest challenge the commonwealth has ever changed. >> you guys are mayors. you have a finger on the pulse probably a little bit tighter than the governor has. >> that's why we're here actually. >> reporter: do you believe the governor is doing this with the correct way negotiating with the bond holders and also washington, d.c. $? what would?what would you do differently? >> there's hue ideological differences here. but whether we agree or not. >> they feel like second class citizens and they need washington's help but the white house has said don't expect a bailout. carlos rodriguez and his family have owned this store on a colorful cobblestoned street

since 1918. they keep the lights off because the cost of electricity is so high. he feels the increase in sales tax will drive customers away. >> i'm a bit angry. this was like we knew it was coming. since about ten 12 years ago. the way we're going it was going to happen sometime but someone didn't take the right measures to stop this. >> but at the mall of the caribbean a surprising reaction to the seams tax increase. >> i think the be government expenditures are too high, cell phone too low. it should be about 20. >> not only is sale tax a concern, the cruise ship is a huge part of its economy and with cuba opening will this

effect this island? cuba is seen as a potential boost to the economy. >> they had to reconstruct housing, sewer infrastructure, power infrastructure, in puerto rico we have architects, engineers and contractors who can help them with that work. >> reporter: but for now that's all wishful thinking. is this politics at its best, bureaucracy in puerto rico, do you think there's going to be a solution or is this a game plan? >> no, no, there's going to be a solution but it's going to take hard work. it's not going to happen in one or two days or one or two months. it's going to take a while. >> the governor, mayor and sort officials say they will have an economic restructuring plan by the end of august. >> you know john if you talk to a lot of people here on the streets many of them have are relatives already on the mainland united states, and a lot of them told us they expect friends and family leaving

puerto rico and headed for the states because of the lack of opportunity here. there's really just not a lot of jobs out here. and indeed, the average median income for the average joe here is about $19,600. so years away from this getting any better here in puerto rico. but we heard some of those politician he say they're all trying owork -- politicians sail sai they're all trying to work on things but as you know can we believe it? john. >> robert ray thanks very much. >> a battle over race, involving a massive oil refinery and two struggling communities, one predominantly white the other mostly black. when the refinery expanded two years ago it offered huge buyouts to homeowners, almost all of them white pnl bisi onile-ere reports. >> it looks like insanity, that's what it looks like

because i don't understand how you could take something and make it that mammoth. >> about five tree lined blocks north of emma's home and across interstate 75 sits marathon oil refinery. it's a huge operation. >> we don't live near the refinery we live in the refinery that's what it feels like. >> in sweat detroit be boynton and oak ridge heights which is mostly white. >> we are equidistant. >> embarking on a $2.2 billion expansion, marathon offered to buy some residents' homes for as much as $250,000.

boynton, 10 out of 100 were offered buyouts and lockridge's home was not one of them. >> she said we are not interested in buying your home ever. >> lockwood was also left out. >> it is a racial discrimination and i will stand on that. >> reporter: why do you believe that? >> why do i believe that? because i see it. i hear it. >> reporter: some residents worry the air quality has led to asthma respiratory incidents and high incidence of cancer. >> i have be kidney dialysis. >> and you ftc blame marathon? >> absolutely. absolutely. >> increases that the michigan department of environmental

quality say are all within the levels allowed under the federal clean air act. >> if you have to put yourself in such a situation in boynton would you thrif? >> i would live there for the sense of community. if i had children i would have to say i probably didn't wouldn't for my children. >> roe shechersrochelle ca castaneda is a city council woman. >> residents sit down together to talk about what the possibilities would be. >> do you think that state leaders, city leaders are doing enough? >> when you say marathon, basically, it's like a hands-off. nobody wants to deal with

marathon. >> reporter: marathon declined an on camera interview but defended oakwood heights buyout saying it was little or no buffer between them. oakwood heights also was bieched bypassed for federal funding. boynton did qualify for millions in federal assistance. >> that stabilization doesn't mean anything to us. it doesn't mean a single i thing to me. >> have you seen any improvements? >> there we go. i have not seen any sled of evidence of any stabilization. in fact we have lost more houses and had more houses abandoned. >> for now marathon says it has no plans to offer buyouts. so lockwood has proceeded with a lawsuit. >> how long are you willing to

fight? >> until i die became of. because i already have a death sentence. >> bisi onile-ere, al jazeera detroit. is. >> coming up next on the broadcast, the u.s. supreme court takes another look at affirmative action. some call it unconstitutional, others say it's desperately needed. we'll hear both sides.

>> hi everyone, this is al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler. be affirmative action. >> for an institution of high are learning makes no sense to me. >> a supreme court decision that could signal the end of race based college admission. washington state will the officers face criminal charges. plus gary hart. >> what i hear in washington less and less is people talking

for the good of the country. >> politics journalism and the scandal that dashed his hopes for white house. the united states and cuba took an historic step towards ending five decades of hostility. president obama announced that the united states and cuba have restored diplomatic ties. the two countries will reopen their embassy in the next two weeks. secretary of state john kerry will travel to cuba to open the embassy. melissa ju informationoso, ambassador welcome. >> thank you. >> what is the significant move for president? >> it's a significant gesture in terms of moving forward with the relationship and the conversation that start ed years back under the obama administration with cuba and

with the cuban people. it's one of the most important symbolic moves the president has done with respect to cuba and generally latin america. under his administration for certain and over the last several decades by any u.s. president. >> opening the embassies what's the symbolism there? i mean obviously it's practical if you're going to restore relation between two countries but the symbolic nature of it. >> we have a mission in cuba. and they're a group of u.s. personnel already in that mission. but we did not have formal relations, meaning we had to work through the swiss government to present any type of communication to the cuban government and the cuban government in washington has a mission and they too had to work through the swiss government to communicate with us. it was a protocol established under the carter administration and now those barriers are going to be removed in opening in

formalizing the relations where you have official embassies which would allow both ambassadors and the u.s. ambassador in particular to be able to critique if he wishes the government of cube and cuba and also have fluid relations with cuba. >> there are people in little havana who don't like this move. it is painful because they suffered at the hands of fidel casey trow and the cuban government. what do you say to them? >> it is understandable that there's a lot of history and baggage there and we have to understand that history in order to move forward. but i think the foundation of the move is, in order for change to occur in cuba, we need to empower the cuban people that are in cuba. and how do we do that is really by allowing those cuban people to have greater access to information, greater access to new ideas and really, move

forward and push the cuban government. >> that's good for the cuban people and not to interrupt you but for these poor people who left their homes who remember these buildings where they lived, their businesses were taken away by the cuban government and their children, i've talked to them they feel that pain severely. what do we say to them? >> that is something we need to understand and claim right? in terms of any negotiation with the cooun an government, i can guarantee to you because i was involved in those negotiations, those issues, those questions those critiques and those claims are ongoing and are part of the negotiations with the cuban government. but you want do that unless you can communicate with the cuban government. >> we had a story yesterday that talked about the haves and the have nots in cuba. and that generally is perceived that this is going to be an

economic boom for the cuban people. and there are rich who are going to get richer and poor who are going to get poorer in that maybe. what is your reaction to that? >> this whole process is slow. and it should be slow because there's a lot of work and years of an overlapping policy that have not generated the results that we intended. you already have economic inequality in cuba, right? how do you minimize the policies so there's greater omg opening and the greater opportunity? the cubans who left cuba they came from all sectors. by allowing them to give bam to their relatives in cuba, you do give them opportunities to be independent of the cuban state. which is part of the logic of

the opening. >> ambassador, thank you for coming. >> thank you. >> now to affirmative action. headed back to the supreme court. the justices agreed orehear a case challenging race based admissions in college. in a decision that could reshape race in college admission roxana saberi is here. roxana. >> discriminated against her saying it turned down her application because she's white. now she's praising the court for taking a second look at her lawsuit against the school. the supreme court is entering a new battle over the issue of affirmative action in universities. the consequences would be striking if the justices side with the plaintiff abigail fisher. she's suing the university of texas at awrch austin.

the college turned her down in favor of minority students with lower grades. >> i always thought from the time i was a little girl that any kind of discrimination was wrong. and for an institution of higher learning to act this way makes no sense to me. >> in her 2007 lawsuit fisher claimed that the admission policy favors two groups, african americans and hispanics. but the college president stated our admission policy is narrowly tailored and been upheld numerous times. >> what changes starts here changes the world. >> top of 10 regardless of race. students not in the top 10% can still get in depending on criteria like their talents family circumstances and race.

fisher was in the top 12% of her senior class. her case made it to the supreme court once. the justices sent the case back to a lower court which sided with the university. the school's then president praised the decision. >> one of our core arguments all along has been the education value of diversity to all of our students regardless of their background. and we continue to believe deeply in that fact. >> reporter: supporters of affirmative action fear with the supreme court taking up the case for a second time conservative justices might limit or even do away with racially based preferences in higher education. but opponents have long argued that giving an extra boost to hismshistorically diverse minorities is reverse discrimination. >> i'm looking forward to the day when students' race isn't used at all in college

admissions. >> the court is scheduled to decide the case when it reconvenes in august. john. >> in los angeles tonight. professor you want affirmative action gone, why? >> i actually don't want affirmative action gone. i favor reforming affirmative action. and i think the main issue -- >> you favor what? >> i favor reforming affirmative action which i think is the issue before the supreme court. >> how would you do that? >> well, when the court issued its 2013 decision it says we want to regulate the use of race. we don't want to give universities urch unfettered discretion. what do these economic result from their use of race. >> we just heard from the plaintiff that she doesn't think race should be involved in this

decision. you do? >> well, the issue between the supreme court and the fifth circuit is that the fifth circuit gave a very cursory review of what the university was doing. didn't really do what the supreme court asked them to do which is to lay out the exact mechanisms they want to use to use race, and what are the benefits that derive from that. it's very big. >> lay it out for me. what would it mean in your reform how would it be handled? >> well, the main thing is for universities to be very transparent in what they're doing. currently, universities don't provide what weight they give from race and what benefits using race. >> they do with other criteria too. we don't know what criteria they use and what weight they give to many different decisions they make on admissions right? >> well, that's true but race is unique. racial discrimination is generally -- >> why is it different? >> because it's barred by the 14th amendment to the u.s.

constitution. so strict scrutiny requires that any use of race has to be very strictly scrutinized. >> would that include white students who are legacies at universities as well? >> well i personally oppose legacy preferences but when universities give a preference to legacies they're not doing it on the base of a person's white but on their legacy. >> well they seem like they sure are. >> legacies pretty much across the board. >> you would say for how many years, 40 years that african americans have had the same access? i think a lot of people would disagree with you. >> well affirmative action became pretty large as of 1970. and most universities have had preferences that pretty much gave admission awards in proportion to the racial makeup of applicants. now again i'm not defending

this -- >> how long does it take? i would argue with you that i think that it's been happening for 40 years and i think a lot of african americans would argue with that and you may have evidence to the other -- that shows the other side of that. but how long does it take to reform racism in a country that saw -- that has seen for decades and decades that goes all the way back to slavery? >> i don't think anyone is argue today that university admissions are racist. the question is should universities be in the business of trying ooffset other disadvantages in society to try oequalize representation in the university? and the supreme court is saying well you can use lots of things to try ocreate that equalization but race itself has to be exposed to close scrutiny. you have to justify what you're doing and texas doesn't seem to do that. >> professor, good to have you with here, we are going to continue our discussion with theodore shaw, director of the

center for civil rights at the university of north carolina school of law, he is in chapel hill. professor let me ask you. why should race be used if somebody has the same scores and they are equal across the board why should race enter into the determination? >> well, first people have the same scores, then they may in fact be considering -- considered in the same way. although what we have in this country is a history of segregation seclusion that goes back at least to the founding of the country and actually the slavery and jim crow era was continuous from 1619 right on up until the late 1960s. we had affirmative action come into use in the late '60s, and it was not for purposes of achieving diversity. it was for the purpose of

remediating the discrimination that is deeply ensconced in america's history. worked? >> so this is a -- well, affirmative action has worked because institutions that were at once closed to african americans have opened up to some degree. it hasn't worked perfectly but let me be clear about one thing. whatever the merits of affirmative action, and one can disagree in some way with some of these issues but there's no asymmetry, to institutions that are conscious to admit our history in discrimination and segregation. there's no asymmetry between those two things. >> sit fair for this student -- is it fair for this student some this white student? >> abigail fisher has the mistaken assumption that she had right to be admitted.

she didn't. >> is she wrong in your opinion that race should not be considered in admissions? >> what the supreme court has said repeatedly and what i agree with is that institutions can seek to admit diverse groups of students and they can consider race as one factor among many in admission just like they consider a while range of considerations. and experiences. so to say that you can consider everything else about someone but you can't consider the fact that an african american student comes from a group that has been is secluded and excluded, be abigail fisher this should be moot as to her. she's graduated. >> not now. it's going to the u.s. supreme court. are you worried about what the

u.s. supreme court might do? >> absolutely but i'm saying this case shouldn't be before the court. they have the power to do whatever they want to do. she's graduated. what's her issue being refunded an application fee? why does she have the standing in this suit? maybe that's sour grapes but in the rule of law it's a legitimate issue. abigail fish he doesn't argue that there are many other white students that were admitted who had lower test scores. whatever the reason she didn't get in isn't because she was white. for goodness sakes the institution is overwhelmingly white. this is not an institution that has been discriminating against white students. >> we appreciate you taking the time to be with us professor thank you very much. >> good to be with you.

>> police killing of a migrant farm worker, shot in february. video of the incident sparked outrage. new video pictures and hundreds of pages of documents in the investigation. allen schauffler is in pasco washington. allen. >> john, the team investigating what happened at this intersection on february 10th was made up of police officers outside the pasco washington police department. part of their report was released to public view and the relatives of antonio zambrano the person who was killed have been fully briefed on what they will see. >> new perspectives on the night antonio zambrano died. a detailed time line shows the

first report of zambrano throwing rocks. just a minute later the first officer comes onscene. live video shows a taser has been be deployed with little effect. and another witness laughing while this cell phone video is shot. a second taser attempt fails and at 5:12 shots are fired. as zambrano throws a rock turns and runs. changing directions, he turns begins to raise his arms from his sides and is brought down by another volley of shots. it is five minutes after the first report of trouble. zambrano is handcuffed nearly ten minutes after he falls. no cpr is administered for nearly five more minutes. the toxicology shows zambrano

was possibly high on meth and other amphetamines. first one taking place 79 days after the shooting. brought to pasco from michoacan mexico. his parents say they can wait for their son. their attorneys are much less patient in the way the investigation was conducted. >> you don't wait seven weeks to interview the principal witnesses involved. i don't care what city that's in. detroit or miami florida. >> filed a $25 million suit against the city claims the case has been mishandled at every level. >> i'm frustrated at the delay.

not only am i frustrated with the prosecutor, i'm frustrated with the attorney general the u.s. attorney and the governor. why haven't they stepped in and made this process go far more quickly than it has to date? >> the prosecutor isn't commenting on the release of information and has offered no specific time line for a decision on criminal charges. what is certain is that the people of pasco know much more today about what happened that night. now we don't know how much of the final report was releasetoday. we don't know how much we are eventually going to get. we do know that more information will be released next wednesday. part of that report is interviews, extensive interviews with the three officers involved and they all say that they felt their safety was threatened, the safety of the public was threatened they considered antonio zambrano armed with those huge rocks when he took off running.

>> a lot we still don't know, allen, thank you. yemen one of the worst humanitarian emergencies in the world. antonio mora is here with that. antonio. >> the situation in yemen is desire. the country are on the verge of famine and its children are the most affected by war there. the children have be suffered physical and emotionally crisis. >> the situation in yemen is very critical, he especially the most vulnerable groups. >> many children in yemen have died from very basic injuries because of the lack of completely care. next how international aid agencies are trying to protect the youngest victims from the civil war raging around them. >> we'll see you then antonio and we'll be right back with gary hart.

>> former u.s. senator gary hart has a new bok out the republic of -- book out the prub republic of conscience. somewhere ii asked him why he wrote the book. >> what's awash in washington

now, i've seen that change gradually and then accelerating. over 400 former members of congress are lobbyists the cost of campaigning are skyrocketing and there's an increasing insider network in washington that is a closed system. >> here is what you say in washington a permanent political class has established itself in our nation's capital whether incestuous, it is certainly a system that increasingly a number of americans distrust. this is not the kind of government our founders envisioned. what did the founders envision? >> the founders envision a republic. we call ourselves a democracy and we are. republics are about the duties of citizenship. they warned us over and over again if their debates and their

correspondence, be careful about corruption. they defined defined that as putting one self ahead of the common good. >> to rid ourselves in front of the system, the campaign coffers, we will continue to fall far short and our government will be corrupt and corrupted. how do you punish the crook. >> you punish the one that puts their own narrow or special interest ahead of what's best for country. that's what's troublesome. not just the volume of money and the number of lobbyists, it is how they focus on their interests only. the amendment to the major bill, the exception to the tax laws, that's all they're thinking about. and they get millions of dollars for making sure their interest

is protected. but we, as a nation, we are more than just a collection of special interests. there is something called the common good. and what i hear in washington, less and less, is people talking about what's best for country. >> you talk a little bit about sort of gotcha journalism that came after watergate. were you a victim of that? >> depends on your point of view i guess. >> but peeking into the private lives of politicians did that happen to you? >> i guess yes it did happen to me. that's not what the book's about. that's an aspect of this revolution that's gone on in american politics in the last 30 years. >> in your opinion what needs to change about journalism in the way we cover elections like this? >> restoration of rewards for exposition of serious issues and not scandal.

reversion to educating the american people on the pros and cons of fighting i.s.i.s. this way instead of that way. elevating the intoir entire enterprise. less to promote a certain point of view but more where the country is going. >> what i believe you're suggesting here is that good people complex people maybe who might have something they don't want out in the public in their private lives are being run away from public office and that that's not good for the country. >> i know it for a fact because people have told me that. i would never run for office today because of the way the press operates. >> how much did you want to be president of the united states? >> not at all. >> i mean i read this article you laugh by matt bye in the new york times where he spent a lot of time with you. >> he wrote a book.

>> exactly. and he said how difficult was that process for you, how much did you want it and how bad was it for you when you didn't -- >> you don't start where i started in a small town in kansas with no political advantage, no money. run for the senate in colorado, successfully see the changes going on in our country. and nok that we knowing that we had to skip to another generation and not be able to can that and then see the consequence is of not being elected in the case of the iraq war, unnecessary loss of human lives, american lives included and owhole bunch of consequences. had i been elected history would have been different. how hard that is you can imagine yourself. >> gary hart, thank you very much. the book is called the republic of conscience.

not a long book but clearly your voice and it comes out loud and clear. >> thank you very much. >> thanks ogary hart. that's our show tonight. to gary hart. that's our show for tonight. the news continues with antonio mora.

>> wave of attacks. >> united states strongly condemns today's terrorist attacks in egypt's north sinai. >> fight breaks out between i.s.i.l. and egyptian government. >> proudly raise the american flag over our embassy once more. >> president obama makes it official announcing a new chapter in relations with cuba.