custody of his son within the space of a few days. that he's not going to have to sit in some room and watch his son on television being paraded around by these relatives. they were not willing to give me that commitment. i had nothing going down to cuba. other than to say now is the time to do it. >> we're talking with dr. andrew wild, the author of "eating well for optimum health." >> i think it is fine to lower kell levels. >> let's go to washington to greg craig as the offices of williams and connelly. >> i'm gregory b. craig. i'm pleased to report that juan miguel gonzales, his wife and 6-month-old son will be coming to the united states. they will arrive tomorrow morning, thursday, april 6th, at 7:00 a.m. at dulles airport.

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there is a mood in washington tonight of a president who is very much on the defensive.

[ speaking foreign language [ speaking foreign language ] it was the next day that we had the meeting with the attorney general. i'm driving the car. and i'm saying to myself, now is the time to tell juan miguel

what his options are. there's no cuban diplomats. fidel castro is not in the room. it's just the family. so i said to juan miguel, if you want to get elian back this afternoon and stay in the united states with your family, you will have that opportunity because you're going to have the attorney general of the united states, you're going to have the commissioner of ins and they will grant that request, if you want to do that. >> sir. >> he says thank you very much. >> at a certain point, the attorney general asked that everybody else leave the room. >> it was very powerful meeting. very powerful. >> he cut off the conversation almost when it started. saying, i stand by my word. i have a family in cuba. i have a life in cuba. my son is going to grow up as a

cuban. and i am not going to be claiming asylum. he was a very proud, very clear perso person. >> i called my cousin and said look, we need to go and meet with this father and find out what he really wants to do. this is our time to go and find out the truth. >> denad doe was instantly drawn to a camera. >> i begged him, no more shows. no more shows. and he got off the airplane at dulles. and it was probably the biggest media center i've ever seen in my entire life. once we got into the car from the airport, it was within 60 seconds that i knew the cuban national foundation.

they were already brainwashing donato and trying to brainwash me. they wanted it to look like that once we got there that juan miguel refused to meet us. >> the news conference is going to be in about five minutes. i would recommend since we've been going all cuban all the time that we take it. >> how you guys doing today? my name is donato del. would you like a spelling for that? >> yes. >> juan miguel said he wanted to thank them if it was possible to arrange without a whole lot of hoopla. one miguel came in and in a very sincere way thanked them for having saved elian's life. >> juan miguel was a very, very heartwarming, loving father with tears in his eyes when he would talk to me. high heart told me the right

thing and he wanted his child back. [ speaking foreign language ] >> we're talking about a 6-year-old little boy here, people. it's a child. that's what we need to be concerned about. nobody else. the rest of it is all bs, man. we need to put this baby to rest right now. donato has to speak for himself. >> i said i'm the donato, the fisherman, el pescador. i was there when your son was about do drown and man this guy's eyes started to well up with water. i ran over there and grabbed him and hugged him. [ speaking foreign language ] >> we didn't kick him out but we had to urge him to leave. >> i don't stand in the way of

his father. but i can tell you this. i don't feel that he is free outside of his lawyer here. juan miguel said he's not going to go down to miami. so what's going to happen? >> we needed a family meeting. away from the media, governments pitted against each other. the cuban national foundation versus the castro brothers. it needed to get out of that and we needed a neutral third party which i thought was the catholic church. we got the blessing of the pope about using the vatican embassy in washington. i had a private jet prepared. elian know was going to be taken to my hope that evening so that he could be on a plane at 4:00 in the morning. >> i got a call from jorge mass saying to go to jorge's family and tell them to bring elian to washington. i went to the house and i said, if you ask me, i wouldn't do it. because if you're going to ask

me for any guarantees what's going to happen, i can't give them to you. and i remember there was a huge thing of seafood or pay aia or something and la za row was so tense by this time that he grabs his phone and throws it in there and i'm just sitting there and i'm watching this phone, you know, sinking into the rice. [ speaking foreign language ] who knew that phones would start doing everything?

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♪ >> after the miami relatives refused to bring the kid to washington, it became clear that if we wanted elian, we were going to have to go into the house and take him. >> for the last couple of days, we weren't even 100% sure that elian was even inside the home. he was not being brought out by family members. he didn't make appearances into the crowds. the less we saw of him, the more concerned we had as to his welfare.

>> if it comes to taking elian by force, u.s. law enforcement officials have a plan. >> elements of the marshall s.w.a.t. like special operations group are available. the 11-member miami police department and the florida highway patrol has played units on alert. the final go or no go order will come only from attorney general janet reno. >> instead of discussing how elian should be reunited, the attorneys for the relatives continued to demand that we revisit the issue of whether elian should be reunited. that is not what the law provides. >> demonstrators break through those barricades to try to for a human chain around this house. if indeed fer agents came to seize elian gonzales. >> there were people in the crowds that had violent police records. there were armed individuals in

the crowd. the entire event was a potential powder keg. we wanted to effect a search warrant as soon as possible. the only delays were last ditch efforts made by the u.s. government to negotiate a peaceful, so to speak, surrender of the child to the u.s. government. >> miss reno was willing to exhaust every option. so when members of the community came in and said you know, we think we can broker a deal, she was willing to talk to them. >> we were afraid that this was going to bring a lot of harp to the community and the perception of the community. this was spinning out of control. >> my focus was to get the community to have a unanimous position that we're going to do this peacefully. in my view, we were very close to do in two days that which had

not been done in five months. we're going to create a scenario where the two families would go to a military base, have an opportunity to talk to each other and look for an elegant solution and a settlement. we developed the points and we faxed them toe janet reno. >> we get the fax off, and we had been eninstructed by aaron pot hearst, everything is good, man. you guys are fine. the agreement is still not finalized but our expectations were that we'll be out of here in a couple of hours. >> the offer was the aim as had been made repeatedly by the family. and that ultimately not only hadn't succeeded but was not willing to in any way concede turning over the child to the father. >> it was just another effort, i think most of us thought, to delay.

>> we had identified 5:00 a.m. to be an optimal time to execute the search warrant. we were ready, well prior to that and still awaiting a final green light from the department of justice. >> we were all in the attorney general's office. she stayed on an open line with mr. pot hearst. i stayed on an open line with the ins people in miami. because i needed to give them the order that it was a go. >> i had two lines. one to the house, and one to attorney general janet reno. it never occurred to me that there was a raid planned. and i kept saying to the attorney general, what's the big rush about? >> she gave them deadlines. she told them after this point, it's going to be too late. and then you are out of time. you're running out of time. >> that was the only night that

elian didn't sleep. he was scared that they would take him. >> it's well past midnight. and i tell him, look, i mean, i'm beginning to feel very uncomfortable like there's a problem there because there's no reason. this is a one-page document. >> there was questions in the room on, you know, are we on hold? is it a go? and miss reno said it's a go. >> then about 4:00, we got a call from aaron. and his voice is almost shaking. and he says to me, you got five minutes to wake everybody up. i woke everybody up. and while we're having that conversation, there's a bunch of

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>> back behind the barricades. back behind the barricades. >> hoards of people were going to do everything in their power to prevent us from reaching the front door. they chanted, they screamed, lights went on. they formed human chains. we virtually had to push our way to the front door. >> the whole world is watching this. >> behind us, there was a riot going on. >> stay back. it was clearly organized resistance. >> stand back. >> i pounded at the door. federal agents were executing the search warrant, open the door, open the door. i had to give the order to breach the door. >> i clearly remember the lady

that came in to get him saying where's the f kid, where's the f god damn kid. i did step forward a little bit. aggressive, you know, like mad. and she says if you take one more step, i'm going to shoot. >> if there was anybody, it shouldn't have been me that night that got elian into my arms but everybody seemed to be running for shelter because they're hearing the same thing i'm hearing, get down or we'll shoot. we're thinking oh, well, they're going to kill us. >> i see out of the closet donato and elian. the boy says to me, [ speaking foreign language ] >> i said nothing's happening. baby, but everything's going to be all right. >> boom. the door busted open and there's a federal armed agent with an assault weapon. and he's got that thing pointed directly at me and elian. all's i hear is ch, ch.

>> i'm flashing. i'm strobing this guy in the face. it was you know, freedom of press. they can't -- you can't touch that. >> he's screaming, give me the kid. give me the fing kid. within seconds a woman appeared in the room. and then that's when i handed elian over to the agent. >> get ready to get the boy. get ready. they got the boy. they got the boy. >> no, no. >> all i could hear was elian screaming, prima, prima, you know, just calling out. and i couldn't do anything.

>> come on. get this stuff. over here. across the street. >> elian was just a kid. and that day they risked his life. i sometimes wonder what juan miguel felt about that. i would have never wanted my child to be taken out like that.

>> elian gonzales is as we speak being flown to andrews air force base just outside of washington where he will be reunited with his father. [ speaking foreign language ]

[ speaking foreign language ] ♪ >> pictures taken by an "associated press" photographer which the administration will have to answer to. >> there is a picture of the little boy's fear, scared. so janet reno, everybody else, don't say you came here with no violence, but this boy okay. how can this boy be okay when he had a gun in his head. >> marry slay sis gonzales describing what happened here this morning. >> they treat us like criminals. >> i know. [ speaking foreign language ]

they broke -- they broke elian's bed. >> he was saying que pasa. what's going on. i just held his head like this. my god, america, what did you do to this boy? >> [ speaking foreign language ] >> up until the last, we tried every way we could to encourage lazaro gonzales to voluntarily hand over the child to his father. unfortunately, the miami relatives rejected our efforts. leaving us no other option but the enforcement action.

>> we got a fire, mark, another fire. >> the crowd here very angry over the elian gonzales situation, extremely angry with the justice department's handling of this situation. >> i was playing golf a couple of days ago. and then my friend, sheila, right as i was stepping into the tee box mentd a tip a pro gave her. no. yep. did it help? it completely ruined my game. well, the truth is, that advice was never meant for you. i like you. you want to show me your swing?

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florida back to the too close to call column. >> ah, the elian gonzales issue might have driven a lot of cuban-americans back to the republican party. >> an election in turmoil. a presidency in the balance. a nation waits. who will emerge the winner in the historic florida recount? >> there were 10,000 cuban-american democrats who became republicans po-elian. had the elian event been handled better, we might not have had the iraq war. >> i george walker bush do solemnly swear. >> president bush became the president of the united states in 2000 because of elian gonzales. there's no doubt in my mind. and i think that the numbers prove that out. >> i think it's a much bigger issue than that. i think what cost al gore the election was the fiasco in palm beach county, florida, with the ballots. ralph nader getting over 100,000 votes in florida. i doubt if elian will anything to do with al gore not carrying

tennessee, his home state. ♪ >> ma ris slay sis and her family would not see elian again. in late june, almost seven months after his rescue at sea, the supreme court finally lifted the order keeping him in the united states. he and his father were back in cuba before nightfall.

>> elian, elian. elian. elian. ♪ ♪

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[ speaking foreign language ] >> castro was, in fact, dedicated to getting that little boy home. and it became a matter of his heart. it was not now just a government victory. and elian became virtually like a child of his.

>> as elian grew up, fidel continued to celebrate the boy's return as a triumphant chapter in the larger story of cuba's revolution. [ speaking foreign language ] [ speaking foreign language ]

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>> i don't know what elian's life is like now in cuba. he's more prominent probably than he ever imagined he would be, but whatever he is on that island, it was created here. it was created here in miami. >> in hindsight, elian gonzales affair had a lot of impact because it became a pivotal point for many in the community to realize that we were not

having a rational approach 0 cuba, that it was getting out of hand than we needed to show a different view, a different approach. getting out of hand th needed to show a different view, a different approach.

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changes in american society. >> we definitely began focusing on a younger generation both here and in cuba. we have to talk to their hopes and aspirations. they're going to be the key to the future. >> first american president in 88 years touched down just a few moments ago here in cuba. ♪

♪ >> i have come here to bury the last remnant of the cold war in the americas. havana is only 90 miles from florida. but to get here we had to travel a great distance. over barriers of history and ideology, barriers of pain and separation. in many ways the united states and cuba are like two brothers who have been estranged for many years. ♪

i want the cuban people, especially the young people, to understand why i believe that you should look to the future with hope, hope that is rooted in the future you choose and that you can shape and build for your country. [ speaking foreign language ] [ speaking foreign language ] >> and you will win. you are going to win. >> i could be down here --

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♪ [ speaking foreign language ] [ speaking foreign language ] >> did i want him to stay in america? selfishly, yes. he was going to be scholarships, he was going to go to college. he was going to to live american dream. but in the end i realized this american dream wasn't for him. >> as he lives out his life,

what role he will play in cuba, what role he will play in the cuban revolution, that is to come inevitably, he'll be part of the new generation and how he will weather that, how he will respond to that is probably partly related to what will happen to cuba and some of that depends on us. zblooujs ♪ [ speaking foreign language ] [ speaking foreign language ]

>> we always said that's what would become, a little trophy for the government that they roll out whenever they need to. >> people have told me did you hear what elian said? he's brain washed. i say he's not a fault of what he's become where he's at right now, he doesn't know any better, so i don't judge him. i just sit and wait. [ speaking foreign language ]

>> i would love to see him here, even if it's just to visit, but i don't see myself going back to cuba. i feel that i would be betraying his mother. >> i'm not in his future, i'm in his past. years could go by and it's the same thing over and over. [ speaking foreign language ] [ speaking foreign language ]

>> whoever's right or wrong, we're family. and we love each other. i dream to the day comes that i can speak to him. i love him no matter who or what he chooses to be. [ speaking foreign language ] [ speaking foreign language ]

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