>> rachael: check this out. >> i'm monica malpass on inside story restoring a relationship with cuba after 56 years, disaster or diplomatic break through? let's get the inside story! good morning, and welcome to. ♪ story, let's meet our insiders this week, nia meeks, communications executive ed ed turzanski, and ajay raju. very strong feelings about cuba after 56 years of considering it an enemy because it's a communist regime and the torture

that has taken place. president obama believes this is the requirement to restore relationships and restore business between the two countries, many people saying we should not be legitimizing a terrorist organization many people hurt in the united states. u.s. senator bob menendez whose parents came from cuba was horrified. what is the correct reaction? >> the question is why now? it's typical of president obama goes alone and doesn't build consensus for a decision like this without setting a rationale for it, showed in his speech a total misunderstanding of the relationship between cuba and the rest of the world. they are on a state-sponsored terror list and they have been there since 1982. he said this is the right thing to do.

they were supporting terrorism and communism throughout the 80s and 90s. i don't think we should open up. >> this exchange of people, with up for 3. that's comparing an imarnl alworker -- international aid worker who was arrested. >> we got another spy who was working for our side who was able to to go home after a long time. there are a lot of components a lot of it is generation as well. you have older cuban american you have harden feelings. if you're younger, the feelings are different you want to reconnect with the land of your parents and grand parents. you want to visit the place and meet with relatives. this is not toppling the castros. this embargo has done nothing except hurt the people. again with the terrorism aspect

i understand that, with but we understood that rel son mandel -- nelson mandela was considered a terrorism he didn't get off the list until well into his 80s. we have other countries that we deal with that are not acting so nicely on democratically. >> to val's point this administration has a peculiar way of giving a lot and getting little in return. to nia's point the older to younger, the more experienced people take a longer view and look at the regime and recognize the i am balance. and the fact that you have given away leverage in the hope that the castro regime may reform itself. that may happen, but typically you try to build consensus, it's

interesting that the opposition to this is not partisan. it's on both sides of the aisle and you have interesting people on both sides of the aisle who are in favor of it. >>le pope was in on this, hope negotiate the peace deal and businesses from the u.s. can go and set up shop and get new business resources as far as workers and the new outlook. there could be relationships between families, some see many pose oscar pistorius pose many positives. >> cuba has the lowest internal penetration from the world. residents construction company will benefit, because that manufacturing will go from u.s. into that economy, having said all of that, i have mixed feelings about there, because the timing is peculiar. with oil prices plummeting,

cuba's main ally, venezuela their support is diminishing, we're going into a society that u.s. dollars will prop up the regime not the population. from a standpoint of 54 years of embargo, yes did not make an impact, but our own dollars will continue to strengthen a cuban dictatorship that has a horrible record on human rights. >> this about bomb's legacy -- obama's legacy his way of saying it's a comparison to the berlin wall coming down. what was the back story. >> it's a change of conversation, he was not doing well in the poll had his hat handed to him in the elections it's a way to change the conversation and use unilateral action and show he is a leader and buildings legacy, as well. >> if you look at a

presidential memoranda, quadruple of recent presidents. >> the senate anticipate republican house said they are going to come together, there's not much more he will be able to told. again when you go back to the florida international university poll and you look at the people who have recently come from cuba, they are more willing saying let's change the embargo conversation particularly the younger ones, it gets down to generational. it's like gay marriage in a a lot of ways, a cultural stament people are closer to what's happening more contrary contemporary stories. >> 54% support it. it's how you execute. the timing is not good. >> north carolina -- north korea, the possible impact it had in the sony cyber attack.

besides the e-mails leak and the movie that was shot, the interview the premise having an assassination of a world leader, now the movie will not be released on any platform, period, there will be no theaters that could exposed to a possible 9/11 style ray tack threatened by some party. our own government said it's tied to north korea they either sanctioned it or caused this mayhem. people actors specifically are outrage that the ability to speak or do their work has been compromised. any big group could say we don't like you to drink a coke or we'll do a 9/11 bombing. where does it stop? >> let's keep in mind cyber espionage, cyber crime, this is an old story.

american phones who have been hacked by the chinese, who steal as much intellectual property do as much as they can to subvert our defense companies this is old news. the big difference here is that an element that shapes the culture was attacked. so now, we're talking about whales arguably the greatest leverage the united states has in the world. even in the places where we are hated they love consuming our media. now they went after entertainment, but the next time it could be someone saying to a news organization like abc, by the way i noticed your reporting on fill in the blank whatever the issue is, you have the e-mails, don't you. you've got some secrets you wouldn't want revealed, and once you've given into this blackmailed you've created a market that will never close. >> didn't they up the ante,

this particular movie when they crafted a movie about assassinating a leader it's not a saturday night skit where you make a joke and call it a night. is there a reason that the people in another country should be afraid, you play with us, we'll play hard. >> sony did an overcorrection with this. if you're going with this premise and saying this might be interesting let's put this out hear, we've done this types of things throughout time, why all of a sudden right now say oh, my goodness, these people are going to do something to us. on one side we're told that the north koreans have access to the internet. >> they have nuclear weapons. >> they have that, right? >> you think nor nor nor korea is behind it.

>> someone is behind it and north korea gave sanction to it. what if tomorrow is isis? sony is losing $44 million on the production, they have to eat $44 million. they have to say if there's a bombing at a theater even by a rogue united states resident who is latching on to this topic it's on us, they could lose zillions in lawsuits. >> sony is not that good at this. it's suspect they would entertain this topic they are victims of being victimsful atacks. when we give into the fear of terrorism and change our behavior after a threat is in, 9/11 we went shopping, the stock market rallied, that was a

message back to the terrorist you will not affect our way of life. sony's response is a dangerous thing. >> they lost $38 million in the cyber attack much less the money they lost on the movie. how does the movie maker or the neck newspaper or television station anybody in the media industry prevent an attack by any rogue state. >> or the power grid, that's when the next war will be fought, i can assure that the united states does a lot of the same probing, pat meehan has been an leader on the issue, he passed three bills to protect americans. that's where the next war will be fought. the other take away is the danger of letting rogue states have nuclear weapons. iran is next, we have to make sure they cannot hold us hostage, nor -- north korea is

the back water state. what's the state of cyber security in the united states in terms of protocols laid out by the united states government. how does this happen as regularly as it does? it just happened to have found a weakness that got everyone's attention. but we labor under this impression that we are so far ahead of the rest of the world in terms of our capabilities and we had better wake up to the fact that we need to really look at the state of cyber security in this country in all of those things utilities, military, private industry as entertainment and information. >> because they are coming after us. >> reporter: this is the shot across the bow. it got everybody's attendance. >> let's move on and talk about race relations, what's the next step tore the protesters, after

two grand jury decided not to indict white police officers in the death of unarmed black men, still a lot of outrage these are pictures from protest in new york, several people were injured, there's been a big outcry about was this a fair thing for the grand jury. it shows a cavernous difference between weather we are handling race relations properly in the county whether police are being fair whether it's brutality or we have such a raw wound that any action will cause an outcry. we've seen a lot of protests peaceful in philadelphia, not peaceful in ferguson, missouri, nia do you think we're on the brink of the next step? >> i think it will depend on whams from the 21st century policing task force that commissioner ramsey is on. what are the next steps, what is it you want to achieve.

it's wonderful to get out and express yourself. you have the first amendment right to petition your government. what are the actionable items how do you coal less to move those things forward that's not conversation that's not taking place. we have raw emotions behind on many levels it's not just african americans. north dame girls women's baseball team had i can't breathe t-shirts on at a recent game. a lot of it people are questioning the tactics that are being used it's not that they don't poetry support the police. everybody wants to be safe, but they want to his justice meeted out across the board. >> the police had a harsh reaction to the rhetoric that's going on. we worked hard to get police incidents with people unarmed down, and in fact he showed a much-improved relationship with the community he wanted to say

for the record philadelphia police have not had as many incidents in the last few years as they had in the past. he meanted that on the record. -- he wanted that on the record. do you think we're moving toward action? >> through the rails baiters -- race baiters they are dousing a burning fire with fire. from that stament we're moving -- from standpoint we're moving back words. overall as american we made progress, but more progress needs to be made. the pendulum has shifted we're looking at all law enforcement officials throughndiced. eyes. >> 40 mill interactions between

police and united states citizens every year. less than half a 1% has any allegations of attached them. more whites than blackings. the real tragedy are the 7 to ten thousand african americans who are killed what are the outrage there, we need torched a way to come together and fight that epidemic. >> inside stories continues right after this. >> inchts

>> welcome back to inside story, two more philadelphia democratic state representatives have been named in a sting operation for allegedly accepting brights. have avanessa brown and walter s has been charged. this is partly of an on going argument many saying kathleen cane said this case was not prosecuted, wouldn't pursue it. she did have to hands-on over the files. now da seth williams is pursuing the case, she miss the the case altogether, there's deep pieces of evidence showing these people accepted money and they should get their day in court and time in prison. bob brady weighed in saying she was asleep at the switch. is this another black eye for her? >> she did. and setting williams caught on to it. bob brady isn't just the congressman he is the chairman of the democratic party 2349 city of philadelphia -- in the

city of philadelphia. and given the collective weight of all the missteps of kathleen kane will have a hard time to be renominated. and i think seth williams would have a easy time to get it. >> there's talk of her being a gubernatorial candidate. >> we are looking at the death of kathleen 's career. >> because she got in her own way? >> she has a total lack of understanding about what her office is. first she told the lie about the sandusky investigation that it resulted in the fact that more children were abused and she

lied about the investigators in the investigation. that turned out to be a bold-face lie. she could be the subject of a grand jury investigation for leaking her office leaking information that was subject to a grand jury i felt. >> i itself. >> is there any back story or is it just kathleen kane is blowing it. >> i would not have her the marker of all females. i would not have her as the marker of all democrats. in fact when we look at the case, we look at the missteps, i don't want to forget about the abuse of public trust is a punishable offense. when we look at kathleen kane, she has not endeared herself across the board. she has a core of supporters,

but her out lying support has dwindle the. 40% of the votes are in this part of the vote it will not pour tend well for her. seth williams said i don't think i can afford the pay cut, but he could have this post, but don't be surprised if there were another post he could consider on the national stage, because we're talking about statewide appeal. else a penn state grad, he is someone that could bring in a lot of rm due to what '-- respect due to what he has done he could par lay into a national washington, d.c. post. >> reporter: jeb bush was floated as a possible candidate. else taking his name off all private businesses like banks where's an advisor, he getting it is ducklings in a row, does he have his own party backing, or people will be stunned that another bush and clinton are

coming together people are sick of the two families and they want somebody new. >> reporter: there's dynasty fatigue, the democrats are lining up for coordination, although that was the --e --cor. >> jeb bush will have support, but he'll have an anchor that will pull him down. exception or promotion of common core will wrankle large portions the electorate in the republican base. in addition to quitting boards he is disclosing e-mails from his time always governor. >> but he has a lot of folks in the ranks that are coming behind him. >> the bush family has larger than the clintons, they have the

largest knelt work -- knelt work of volunteers. it forces a time line for a someone like chris characterize and all other primary contenders. it changes the landslide escape with his announcement that's -- the landscape. it emboldens and strengths other candidates coming in. >> we'll have inside stories after this. >>

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to new york, spend money at the kimy center. >> it's beautiful, as well. thank you for all your ideas and thoughts. thank you for watching. we'll see you back hear next sunday morning!

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