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of the principles of their regime. >> divided lines, there is opposition and there is support for the president's trip in the cuban american community. we will have thatebate. >> the fact is we have to bring our party together. >> donald trump says it's time to unify the gop and that he's the one without can do it. party leaders have other ideas. we will take it to the round table. >> good morning, and welcome. in just a few hours president barack obama is set to become the first sitting u.s. president to visit cuba in almost 90 years. >> this trip caps more than a year of seismic change in the relationship between the u.s. and cuba. nother community feels that change as deeply as ours. the heart of the cuban exile for more than half a century. >> an our team is in havana this week.
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and the expectations. >> and we have a chance to connect within with him this morning and there you see on the left dr. okendo. our friend calvin hugh, well, they are all our friends. gentlemen, good morning, great to see you there. >> good morning. >> beunous dias from havana michael and glenna. we are here right now but we understand there is some breaking news off the top we want to tell you about. >> we've been really in touch with the dissidents here on the island. i just got off the phone with burta solare who tells me she was on her way to every sunday march happening and we were told by one of our photographers who is in that area that at least one journalist was arrested. at this point we're not sure. we do know that he was an uncredentialed journalist, so everybody here, if you are a press you carry one of these around. so it could have been that that person may not have been carrying this around. thissives go you sort of access
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but at this point, one uncredentialed journalist arrested. typically that means, calvin, that these are folks, journalists who work locally in what they call independent journalists. >> interesting to hear too, we heard from the chief photographer, there in miramar in front of the st. rita's church. in fact he said that the prosession that they normally take outside is happening on the inside. the march of the ladiesn whites tens, that is something very important. because back in september it didn't quite happen when the pope was here. >> that is exactly what we are waiting for thatunday. they march of every sunday. we were waiting for them to march when the pope was here, that one though 25 people were arrested. so we do h he a photographer there following this one very closely for us. we can tell that you before his trip down here president obama did send a letter to burta solare the leaders of the ladies in white kind of supporting, saying that he wants to speak
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they are going through to fully grasp the situation here. >> i think what' important to remember too, oftentimes we get the question when we come back to miami of weather or not we're actual@y able to talk to whomever we like. this is your second time like. have youver had any issues talking with anyone here? >> it's incredible how often we get this question. let's make thisser cloo. at no point has anyonever told us who we can talk to, without we can't talk to, what we can shsht, what we can't shoot. here. we are-- our access has not been impeded in anyway. he we want to make that clear so everybody knows. we go our own way. after the fact, people do watch our coverage once we're on the air but nothing is determined before hand. >> the proof is that every time we have been here since january of 2015, we've been able to talk to dissidents every time without any hassles. >>eep in mind communist cuba remains one of the most repressive governments on the planet, not to mention they have
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you spoke to one of the most prom i dent dissidents on the island when we first arrived hear on thursday, you had a chance to talk with h h as well. what did he have to say. >> we sat down. we had a conversation about 30 minutes. and really we wanted to know whether he was going to be attending that meeting with the president of the united states. he said he had been invited to some sort of high-level meeting. he didn't say or he wasn't told whether it was going to be with th president. but he did talk about some of the things he wanted to get across if he had the chance to speak with the president. here's what he said. >> what do you say to him? >> i will tell to him that cuban need to be respected. cuba need to be free. i think that the main point here in cuba right now is the topic of the human rigigs and the promotion of democracy. if we don't have frereom. you cannot talk about anything. even now it is worse than before. >> how? >> because there is more violence.
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and our dreams is freedom. >> what do you hope his visit accomplishes? >> to@ open a way for the freedom of cubans. >> all right, that is antonio-- one of the dissidents who may be meeting with president obama. heheave us a list of other folks he thinks may be there as well. but the question remains will all these dissidents be able to make i ito that meeting on tuesday. >> we also heard from a top government official from cuba as well yesterday. >> thiss all ahead of the president''s arrival which we want to remind you just hours away at this point. let's listen here now. >> we can speak frankly and openly about the differences of conceptions that we have. but not with the pretension that we will change you or you will change us. because it will be finally up to our population which are sovereign to decide what kind of
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they consider better for t them. >> that is the top cuban government negotiator back in january when the talks began to normalize relations for the u.s. government it was roberta jacobson. so we talk about the president's schedule right now. know where he's going to go after he lands here, just around 4:50 this afternoon. >> it a tight schedule. for the first stop, meet with staffers there. and thens he headed to old havana. >> that is where i think he will get a tour not just of the older part of the city but he is also expectedo then visit the cathedral where he is expected to meet with cardinal ortega. as you know he has been crucial, him and pope francis in these negotiations. >> michael and glenna. we mow that the church played a major role in bringing these two nations together. that u.s. embargo remains in tact and that is something that the president, he can come e over here and see a lot. he can make a lot of promises but that is one thing that he cannot overturn. michael, as you know, that will
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>> it did, indeed. in fact i got an e-mail yesterday from congressman mario diaz ballart of miami who in scathing terms said mr. president, you can do some things but you can't overturn the embargo unilaterally. and of course congress doesn't seem inclined to d/ that, glenna, before the election in november. >> gentlemen, can i go back to the issue of the press. i know you were talking about you spoke w wh bertasolare there was an arrest of an uncredentialed journalist, apparently. i want to let you know last time i was there we spoke with a ministry of the interior representative who was absolutely floored tt american press can say anything they like on the air as long as it's correct, as long as it is factual and as long as it is fair. this is such a foreign concept to press in cuba. and i wonder, do you know if-- there is control of the press, no doubt, whether you
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have you seen any people who feel like they were not credentialed and had to go without credentials in do you know about numbers of who, who in the press they're allowing in, allowing to be free? >> well, i think when you talk about the press there's certainly dififrences between american press and the rest of the press. what we can tell you, g gnna, is that we understand, talking to folks here on the ground, is that even the cuban press as we have been told by folks who live here and practice journalism day in and day out, they're telling us that even the cuban press is now being given more flexibility in what issues they report. unprecedented. so not only are we being given some access but also they're they report. which is amazing to see. >> let me sort of advance that a little bit. we know there say news
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between president castro and obama. the question is will the press be able to did open questions.we're going to find that out when we have you covovered every step of the way. our from our colleagues, we'll send it back to you from havana. >> and we will look forward to your reports this afternoon, tomorrow, tuesday. we're glad our teais there in place. >> absolutely. and the president's trip is being watched so intently here in south florida. a community with deep personal stake in the outcome.
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when we come right back. >> the president's arrival in havana tod caps 15 nonts of changes an reanied relations between the united states and cuba. and south florida's cuban dmerican community obviously is watching intently on the edge of their chairs, as it were. and they have mixed reactions, i think. and we're going to talk about that today with our guests. they include alex barajes, founding member of cubanel, an organization that works for paving the way for better opportunities for the u.s. and cuba relations. he grew up in cuba. he is an advertising executive now in miami. mario is a miami attorney active in hispanic affairs and the represent can party and andy gomez is a retired professor from the university of miami
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american studies. he recently traveled to-- traveled to cuba for the visit to pope francis. >> good porng. >> thanks for being here. >> great to have you come in. >> so andy gomez, is this visitt simply for the president's legacy or will this really be able to achieve something? >> well, mhael, it's bittersweet. because less than 48 hours ago we saw nine cubans drown in the ocean. >> yeah. >>-- very little has happened. there is change going on in cuba but change still lacks a defition. the president of the united states going to cuba i think say little bit premature. because i don't think cuba has basically put much on@ the table in terms of not only diplomatic relations but a long process of normalization. what president obama, i think the most important issue is going to be what president obama
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the cuban people. >> and that is all on tuesday. i mean mara lee there is lots of leadup of what we are going to see on tuesday. that is when he meets with the dissidents and then goes on cuban state tv. that say big moment. >> and then he watches a baseball game and catches a pean and leaves. so my position is thatted dissidents have suffered tremendously in the last 15 months. my position is similar to shall itit when asked why he didn't go. he says only if you are from miami you can undererand why i am not going. amelia stefam when he got off the plane after going to the white house with several leaders that are in cuba, he said i cannot go yet because there have been not enough changes. so what w have seen is 8,000 arbitrary arrests last year, over 2200 arrested in january and february of this year and just imarch in a two-week period, over 600 arrests of cubans.
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communist newspaper said there's& no human right as beuses in cuba otherwise obama wouldn't be coeing here. they had-- go to halfana on friday night two days before obama's visit to make a point that they're not changing their idea logical beliefs. >> it's true, there are a host of things that have happened that mitigate against anything meaningful coming out of this. but alexx barreras, in fact, it is still possible that something good could come out of thi >> i think some good things will come out of this. i agree, it say perspective that is mostly unique to miami. i think outside of peoplee, especially in cuba, the visit is something that the cubans in cuba decided, theyave been pining for it and i think it is a symbolic move that moves the aggregate of cuba of the hostilities of the u.s i think it takes away the enemy that if you grew up in cuba, it has been told to you since you were little.
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the what theyeed to continue pushing for that change that is coming. it might not bee coming at the speed they want but it's definitely coming. >> although, was it a year ago or 15 months ago the president had said he will not travel himself to cuba until there is, i think the words he used substantive change. andy gomez,here has been really no substantive change on the cuba side. so why did the president dece to now go? >> even though i disagree with the strategy, i understand his strategy. since jf, can, every president, republicans and democrats have put conditions on the can government before coming together. this white house decide glenna, let's take all the conditions off. and let's see what happens. my concern of this is that economic interests is driving the chang. and by economic reforms don't necessarily bring about what we
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>> but andy, isn't that essentially the presis-- premise of the obama administration philosophy i if we open up come ners-- comers and trade and travel, once the toothpaste of democracy is out4of the tube. u can't -- castro can't put it back in, so that there will be. >> your own colleagues calvin and hassle on their first report friday asked a number of cubans on thetreet just like when i did when i went for pope francis' visit, when calvin and hassle asked are you better off today than you were prior to establishing relationship with the united states. and most of the people in the interview said no. the only ones that have seen positive changes are those that have access to tourism dollars or working the tourism sector. which is the minority of cubans on the island.
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cuba last year, 78% of cubans believe that the engagement policy will lead to economy. >> that's different, a groo i agree. >> it doesn't happen overnight, again. but we're seeing more licenses, more people working-- . >> the banking changes, especially this week, now you have hard dollars and credit. >> let's talk about hard dollars. we were speaking off camera before, the "miami herald," when they went to pope francis' visit paid a thousand dollars for a a two-star hotel room. where does that money go? with the average wage is $20 a month. we a a helping the cuban government. we've seen in our policy changes cuba over 100,000 new tourists to the island. we haven't seen anything related to democracy or bter human rights. so we're going to have like a china next door because in china they have a great economy but they have no rights. >> an at theame time, i agree
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you can isolate a country, particularly an island, as long as we have and expect change. and change is going to come from. >> what do you mean they're isolated. they're not isolated. >> let me finish. you talked about the ideology. the ideology with raul and others has not changed. in 91ee professors from the university of havana published an article in their own magazine that they were concerned that the ideology was being lost. today's young cubans, those that we seen trying to leave and crossing into the united states,& via central america, don't believe any more in that ideology.( >> they don't believe in anything. they don't believe in anything beuse hi. >> and that's dangerous. >> i had my nails done yesterday by a 23 yeaold that came three years ago from cuba. i asked her, her mom is in santa clara. i said do you talk. what do you think about obama's visit. she said you know, we don't talk about that in the island. nobody is involved in politics.
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>> i think it is asking too much ask people that grew up in one part of the system, to be acknowledging of the policy. we understand them in the u.s >> and a as aj leavingly said, the press is free as long as you >> yeah. >> the only person who owns the press is the keushan government. >> i spoke with monroe when he was here last week. i had like two minutes alone with him. and i said really quickly because i wasn't invited to the main meeting with the folk that you know-- . >> within ben roads and the other. >> at the miami dade college, and privilege of being a trustee. i within to the first meeting with the students, and i asked him, is he meeting with fidel, no, is he meeting with the ladies in white. yes, he. is i said we need more internet and communication on the island. bus as lanas they control t nothing is going to change. >> let's pick up there when we
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break >> we are back and want to pick up where we left off before the break. we're talking about thepresident's trip to cubament alex barreras, during the commercial when we have sometimes our best conrsations we are talking about when you left cuba in the mid 90s in the special period and you came because-- to put the heaine on it, you were hungary. what was really interesting to us sitting hear s that you
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what freedom meant. >> yeah. we had an idea of what is tree dom, democracy, multiparty elections, even being involved politically, we had an idea in fact, we rejected that because politics in cuba was communist politics so we didn't want to be a part of that. >> so right now you ave 11 million or so people, the mass majority of them have grown up knowing nothing but what they have. >> i what does that mean for change. >> i think the key argument politics starts in my opinion by empowering. and cuba that has to start by economic empowerment. by giving those 11 million people a way to see a their opportunity that they can do inside their country. the change in cuba is not going to come from the u.s it is going to come interimly fsm those pem are not@ empowered, if they don't get access to ommunications, internet, it is already happening and they need to push them. if those people don get access, contact with people in the u.s. to show a better way to do things, then we are not going
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>> the danger of po wellerment fothe government in power is to lose political control. >> the economic@ might of the united states is not going to change that the i f the keushan government really wants to empower the cuban people, let's begin by raising their salaries from $24 a mth, let's double it so they can have the purchasing powere to you know, to participate on what american economic might be like. >> on that point, carl os of the cuba study group who is in cuba with the president he toll me this week that since 20114,000 licenses have been granted to the small business people, i mean sometimes it's, you know, fixing lighter, cigarette lighters or repairing shoes whatever it is, but never the less. >> riding your buy siblg, being a little taxi.
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money and they have to pay the rights. >> but marilee, the point is shall. licensement. >> but it is-- they are self-sustaining, they are not rely on the $24. most 40% of the keushan labor force works for the private sector or the grara market. and to me, it is cuba that doesn't depend on the government for salary say cuban more empowered to advocate for that change that they want. they will ask for more opportunity that will eventually come political opportunity. >> this is the 20th anniversary of the brothers to the rescue shoot down those planes. nobody went to jail. so we're rewarding the cuban government by legitimizing them, by going there, shaking their hands and saying good job, we're here. big smiles.while they have the little souvenirs with obama and raul castro next to it, they say we will never, we will never give up. because the revolution in their
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being the same will we legitimize them what we are saying to the dissidents and the people, this is a government that you have to answer to. >> how do you think that will their '80s.. >> no, no. >> with respect to. >> he is going to step down in 2018 supposedly. >> is he 84 years old, right now. >> he will step down, he will bounce it to somebody, even though it has never been safe to be the third person in cuba as we all know. >> or a military person or his son in law or son. >> we'll have to wait what happens april 16th and so with the internet in place we learn five fester of the people have access w all these little economic changes, there now with the embargo in place, is there a thinking that this is the start of an eventually change? >> a young man that i sat with in cuba that finally had access
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getting some information turned to me, you know what he asked me. what happened to yeug slaf ya? >> wow. >> so that, that group of people is like feeding a baby. you can't give them too much information too quickly, they're going to choke. and that's the problem. change has got t/ come gradually. cuba is not ready for democracy today. and i dare to say, it will not be ready for democracy in five years. ed other thing tha apparently american companies are chaifing to get in there and have discovered that? fact the cuban government does t move fast. they're inept and they haven't been able to get contracts. although i did note that at&t, carnival cruise line, starwood hotels, all say that they are ready to sign deals. >> they stoorwoo will manage three hotels, hotels
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so meanwhile we vn o the island people that fled the u.s. that killed police officer, weeave people that have milked our medicarereystem, none of those things have been addressed. i think it is immoral to d d business with the cuban government. if you do business in kowba are you doing business with the castro family. >>-- it would also be providing employment, economic growth which benefits the cuban people. i think one of the areas, and idon't think it is a coins dense that the new deal under the new rules s s established a tractor factory in cuba. >> a tracker assembly factor at the port of mariachi. >> and there will be a lot of growth and that has been a sector neglected by the current government. and the private government has an opppptunity to show the cuban people that they want to come provide food. >> right. you know, just to button this up. one of the big questions right now and maybe the president will raise it in the private meetings is any foreign company that does businene in cuba, you know this obviously very well marilee, has
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by the cuban government the cuban government get paid in euros or dollars and they pay in cu cs in the cheap cuban currency to the employees and a stumbling point for american companies is being able to say i want to hire jose or maria or whatever, they cannot hire their own employees right now. >> yeahnd they are pushing for that change. and that is a change that in 10 years they used to pay cuban pesos and they are pushing for more changes. >> the bottomline of this whole thing is that for 58 plus year, the policies that we have had in >> absolute slee. >> as painful as it is, and it is painful for me to see some of this we have to look the asomething else. i'm not saying that this is the right policy, let's see what happens. >> andy, i agree that the normal glaikspolicies that need to change between the cuban government and its people. it's not between us and then.
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cubans. >> that is the last word. thank you all for the discussion that i hope we wod have, thank you all very much. >> up next we are going to take it t the round table if you're going to say "better ingredients. better pizza." you better deliver. which is why i'm introducing our new papa's quality guarantee: love your pizza, or get t other one, absolutely free. get any large pizza up to 5-toppings for just $9.99. online only.
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>> we have a lot on the plate for this week's round table which includes some familiar
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president of the trip scott law firm, active in republican party politics local leand fatly. henry crespo is president of the democratic black caucus of florida, he also hosts a radio program and new to the round table we are glad to welcome mille her aro founder of the miami grgrp consulting firm. she is active in the democratic party and has extensive experience in business and labor. mille. >> good morning. >> welelme. >> great to have you here. >> thank you. great to be here. >> this is exciting. so ed, looking at the president's trip, do you have any expectations that this is cuba? >> no. and i think it's overplayed. the president should not go down there while the cubans have not moved at all on human rights or impacted the lives of their sustains or opened up freedoms. but you know, i guess they're going to go down for a good ballgame and come home. >> so his own statement in december to yahoo news when he
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been substantive as glenna quoted him earlier, sub san tiff improvement in human rights, that should have been t t standard? >> well, that was the standard. set by president o bma. but clearly like other things we've seen out of the obama administration, the line was drawn and then erased and then you know, he decided that this was more important from a legacy perspective, his own legacy, not really in changing the life and the opportunities for the cuban people. >> you know what's interesting. >> mille, jump in. >> i think it's really important that he go. respectfully disagree. changing. he can nuj, and yes, he said he would go when there was happened. them. and i think that you need to sit down with your advsaries it's important to sit with your adversaries and say let's negotiated. you told me you were going to do this, you are allowing the hard hard-liners on the island, just like there are hard-liners here, they are allowing the
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cuba. so yes, you need human rights. advocacy and actually action in cuba. freeing the political prisoners, allow-- allowing the cuban peop toette broo, to be able to be in a round table like this on a daily basis and talk about listen, i don't like the way things are going in cuba. and that needs to happen. you know, cuba is a big issue in south frida but nationwide, the president is coming to the d of his tenure, henry. there are so many crises a around the world. cuba is not really that significant in the big scheme of things to the united states national interest, why there and now. >> as it relates to the american ikeee overall, i think other than big alliae, i think that cuba is a major discussion ever since 1966 when john gilbert passed or introduced the cuban
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plus got passed by lbj, president, democrat, in d.c.. they have a lot to tha the democratic party on that. >> but to your point on. >> ed, are you feeling a little outnumbered here. >> i got to point that out. >> but the point of. >> i think he makes a great point, by the way. >> but the point of this movement inuba, he mentioned it in 2008 when he came to the omni. he spoke at the cuban american foundation where marco rubio leave. he spoke about having some discourse with cuba. and i think this is the right time. >> he's b bn-- the president has been talking about cuba for a long time, in the greater scheme of world affairs. it has not that important but to us in south florida, it is critical. we've got a million or so cubans, cuban americans here. and who mille herera is onend proud to be. >> and divided on the issue. >> they y e divided.
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how divided, , ve got, this week i went out and i spoke to two prominenttuban americans, one pro, one con, and i wanto play the sound bite and get your cocoents on. the first is a woman named sophia, part of something called theothers against repression. she was on one of the only surviving plane when the down. the secretary is with carlos group. let's play it now. >> when i see him, president obama with his family, walking through old havana, like so many people have done before him, tourists and the like, i will think of the countless numbers of families that were uprooted, separated, their lives destroyed, not because of the united states but because of the castro regime. >> this mission is t t open up the doors and window totion the
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from 2011 to 2016, over 400,000 people have gotten licenses, and they have in those short years, they have employed 40% of the cuban workforce. isn't that amazing? >> you know, watching sylvia it strikes me that marilee fuelly brought it up in the last segmentment raul castro, the castro regime admitted ordering the shootddown of the brothers to the rescue plane. there is an indictment. what happens when the presidede think of that? is there anything about maybe a future raul castro trip to the u.s. when he touches soil, will he be arrested? doesn't that have to be atop of mind? >> i'm sure that there are going to be some very, very intense conversations. watching and knowing president obama, he seems very calm on the outside. but i think that he is going to give an invoice saying hey, listen, these are the things that need to happen. you need to move. you need to start making some
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we have to look at, as i said, i was born in cuba. i left when i was ten years old. i can tell you frirs hand what it was like to live in communist cuba. i used to come home every night and tell my parents this happened, this happened and they would tell me, please, millie, shut up. you're going to get us arrested. because i have always been very-- very vocal about how i felt, even when i was a child. so i know that there are lots and lots of human rights violations going on. but the politics in the last 50 something years have not worked. they have not worked. but we have now, carlos with his microloan program, 1200 individuals had have seeched funding so they can give food, i mean put food on their tables. >> also let me point out that neither carlos nor mike fernandez or any of the prominent there are a dozen or so prominent miami businessman, cuban americans who are trying to encourage entrepreneurship in cuba.
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business in cuba. there is no personal profit here. they just think that they want to help the cuban people. >> and maybe that's true. >> it is true. >> but for me, i don't have the confidence in you president obama to go an draw the line e the sand. because lines in the sand from this administration. >> but that's politics. governing. it. and so you cannot wipe away 50 or 60 years worth of human-rights abuses, harbouring fugitives in cuba, totally killing people. you know, come on. you cannot wipe that away inn one fell swoop. >> speaking of politics, we have a lot totoalk about in local politics and we're going to do
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come right back >> on this sunday moing live in our studio we are in the midst ofur round table with ed, henry crespo, millie herera. let's talk a little presidential politics. i know you want to do. this i do, certainly. >> this week i did not see it, but thankfully glenna dissm she saw the stephen colbert did a vicious little number on marco rubio after he had dropped out. so here is a bit of what colbert had to say. >> so for the record, florida votes yes on jimmy buffett.
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on marco rubio, no thanks. >> so for anyone who hasn't seen the hunger games, that is what that get-up was with the skit. you know, yes, to pythons. hashtag o florida. what happens to marco rubio now? it sounded, ed, listening to his speech, it wasn't a concession speech as much as a suspension speech. but it sounds like he's not much into the political world for this future any more. >> well, let's put it in perspective on a personal levelful he has a young family. a beautiful family. and a bright future. but he has been through a year's worth of high pressure presidential politics. i think he needs and desesves the time with his family next 6090 days whenen things settle down and he can think clearer. i wouldive go him thatt time before we see. >> ed, where did the rubio cacaaign go wrong? it started off with real optimism and hope and about three weeee, it went over the houston debate was when he rid alled donald trump's spray tan
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about the hands and so forth. mean it just took a nose dive right there. >> i'm not so sure that the rubio, you can point on things like you mentioned about what he did wrong. but i think you cannot fight a wave. and so what you have in trump or even cruz is an outsider set of angry republicans wititut do not likehere the country is. who truly do not like the establishment. and want to change the game completely. they are totally unsatisfied withhat washington is providing the american people. and so with respect to that, i would say it's less about what marco rubio did wrong, but more about trying to fight against the current. >> think marco rubio was wrong the moment he filed to run. was not ready for prime time. i think that him filing agast his mentor and the way that he attacks jeb bush was like a death sentence for him. did he not have the graph i task. he did not have the experience. remember, he has been running for office all his life. he really doesn't have experience.
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>> you know, exactly. and you know, him saying that he's not running for vice president, that he's not running for governor, yeah, right. yeah, right. him. >> he might buy buy it. >> i don't know. >> what do you think, henry, 2018, do you think that in fact rubio may say hey, maybe agovernor is something i would like to do. >> well, look, i think when he ran for office he ran on the wave of this anti-obama movement that the republican party has done a good job in make og bama the boogie man. but the reality is that he got a taste of what conservatism is about. these conserve tis people that are dominate-- dominating the party. but to your part, without do they blame. do they blame obama, really sph but listen, when yoyo go to one of these states, you have the city councilman, is a republican. republican. the congressman say republican. the u.s. senator say republican.
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the state senators-- . >> most-of-these people coming to the trump rallies that are upset and r presenting the heart hand of america is happening on the republican primary and they are represented by help cans that are not. >> so then where does rubio's support go. >> these are people who haven't voted before. a lot of them vnlt voted in a long time. >> but they're affected in their communities. >> ou're ignoring the results from florida. we all agree that florida is a very diverse state, different interests. but he took 48% of the republican vote and basically drummed everybody else in that race except for dade county. when you take 66 or 67 countee, there say message in there. and it's not necessarily about marco rubio. it was about what donald trump is speaking to and the anger that. >> what is he speaking to. establishment.
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speaking to other than vulgarity, other than hatred, other than bigotry, othehe than just sheer nonsense. what he is talking about. what are his real policies. >> make graryk great again. >> america is great. great. i don't know if anybody h h lived outside of the country but let me tell you, we are great. >> he's speaking to the corruption that is, say, example, like an fbi investigation about e-mails. he's speaking to the clinton foundation. >> oh come on, come on. >> he's speaking to shall. >> no, no, no. he's speaking to the insider game that is washington. and the american people, bid way, it is yus not-- listen, 200,000 people in florida switched to be republican to vote in the primary. that i a very badign. when republicans outnumber democrats of the people who@ participated in the primary in floor darks that is again a very bad sign.are you missing the basic point. >> the talking points, republicans are getting charged
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the majority have done nothing care. >> who he is speaking to is the pops that punched the young manan going up the stairs, sucker punched him, right. and then says he doesn't condone violence but he p pd to for his speaking to. >> that say good point on which to endnd ed, henry and millie, great to you have come, come back again, we with love to have you. bust round table. >> i love it. >> coming up, why would more than 3 million voters sit out the florida primaries. well, because they are no
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back. >> good afternoon, south florida, still pretty gloomy out there. but we've had a bit of a break in the cloud sotion temperatures warmrmg you up already to thoses low '80s. some of us getting too the mid '80s a by the way, the models are still show thak shadows will once again develop through this afternoon. and into the evening. there could still be a few showers left over. but that cold front arriving tonight is going to bring our temperatures down by tomorrow morning. we're waking up to the low 60s along the coast. could see temperatures in the 50s inland with a high of only 70 degrees monday. >> jennifer, thanks. we spent a lot of time talking about the right and the responsibility of casting your vote and the fight to do so freely and fairly.
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odd to say i did not vote in tuesday's presidential primary. neither did michael and chances are you didn't either. mr thanking three and a quarter million floor a da voters had no say in choosing the man or woman without runs forresident bus we choose to have no party affiliation. florida is one of a dozen or show sates with a completely closed primary. no way f an independent or unaffiliated voters to participate in presidential preferences. there are reasons for thik and all benefit the two big parties. democrats and republicans may say well, why shouldn't people with no allegiance to our parties have a say about our nominees. fair enough, the parties run the primaries and they make the rules. but the parties don't pay for them, we all do. from the polling stations, to the process, to the tally, we pay but we can't play. but between more important openinin florida's primary would force can the das to focus less on party politics and focus more on convincing every voter why
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we saw that happen in realtimee in states as different as new hampshire and south carolina. candidates were on the ground for weeks there before those open primaries. voters. and they were accountable on issues important to everyone. in florida, unaffiliated voters are on track to become a third of the electorate. nationally, some four in ten americans reject party labels. so what are the chances for an open primary in florida? well, none, at the moment. since the change would be up to the state legislature which means we're relying on those who have the least to gain from it. and effort too get a constitutional amendment on the state ballot didn't get enough signatures this year. but maybe after this primary, it will get more attention for the to 18 cycle.there are certainly enough happpp. >> open primary. >> yeah. >> we invite to you weighn on that or any topic you like. >> and you can get us by e-mail, facebook, twitter, all of those.
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