she's going to go get alan.ternally on this? who supported the president on this? were there strong voices of opposition within his inner circle? >> well, that's a great question. secretary kerry has made this one of his key goeshlgsz ronan, from when he was first in talks with president obama to become the secretary of state. so, i think that once it was decided that he would be secretary of state, that it was clear within this administration that this was going to be one of the key goals moving forward. to not only secure the release of alan gross, but to normalize relations with cuba. of course, there are always internal discussions and debate about how specifically that is going to be done, but i do think there was broad agreement that what had been going on in cuba for the past 50 years had not been working and that it was time for a restart. ronan? >> kristen welker, thank you for that update. i know you'll be watching the briefing and what comes out of this conference from alan gross. a lot to keep track

alan gross is in declining health.e's lost more than 100 pounds during his time in prison in cuba. let's get more details now on the release of alan gross and the dramatic overhaul of u.s./cuban relations. let's bring in jim acosta and cnn's patrick oppmann, the only u.s. network correspondent reporting from havana. jim, let me start with you. president obama actually spoke yesterday with the cuban president, raul castro, for about 45 minutes, president obama was in the oval office. that's the first time an american president has had such a substantive conversation with a cuban leader in, what, more than 50 years? >> reporter: that's right, wolf. and i think it is pa sign that the cold war with cuba is over. that's what president obama announced just a few moments ago here at the white house. the president culminating a deal that's been in the works since june of 2013. senior administration officials held a conference call with reporters earlier today laying out sort of how this all went down. the deputy national secur

alan gross. on board is his wife judy, his attorney scott gilbert and as well three u.s. congressman senator jeff flake from arizona, patrick leahy from vermont and congressman van holland from alan gross's home district in maryland. these are three congressmen who have been very much involved in winning his release. then they take off after 8:00 a.m. and we're told at 8:45, the pilot gets on the intercom to tell alan gross that they are now out of cuban airspace. alan gross stands up and is i'm told unable to talk he's so overwhelmed by emotion then he calls his daughters and his first words to his daughters are "i'm free." you can only imagine their reaction at this long nightmare concluded for their father. where do u.s. cuban relations go next. i'm joined by a long time diplomat here in havana. they restored semi relations and you are the chief of the u.s. intersection, what do you think looking at the future of the relations between these two countries? >> i would con garage late this admini

alan gross released. the big question is what does the united states get out of it and what is the united states willing to give up to get this gentleman back. >> in the short term the united states gets the release of a man who was in terrible medical shape. as chris and some of your other correspondents referred to this morning. alan gross had lost a great deal of weight. he was in really really difficult medical straights. the cuban were worried about it. the united states had been publicly committed to getting him out. it would have been a disaster politically as well as of course for alan gross and his family had he died in prison. that's a short-term thing. obama gepts the possibility of improvement in the political climate between the united states and cuba. which has long been a goal. that it was frankly, just crazy from the get-go but politically has been unable to do anything about it. this could provide an opening for at least some more normalization, not a total normalization in the time he ha

there is a picture tweeted of alan and judy in havana, and now president obama has called alan gross while he was midair on route back to andrew air base on that joint trip. a lot of choreography, the white house in full public relations mode. they're forwarding all of the supportive statements they can find backing what the president is going to do from the office of the record of national intelligence to all the usual suspects including president, congress department, and members of congress. so this fight really is just being joined as we sift through what has happened here and the president dropping this bombshell, really, in announcing this opening to cuba 50 years in the making. >> mike, we'll ask to you stand by as far as what you saw on the screen. we have a spokesman at the law firm stepping up to where they'll speak. they'll have a statement, then a short break, and then alan gross will step up and speak, but he will not take any questions. mike, on the point about the choreography and again, the administration in order to sort of really sell this, and again, this is someth

alan gross himself.be his first commentary since his release imprisonment in half in a for all those -- havana for all those years. we're going to hear from members of congress who traveled from washington to cuba today. we're going to bring you any news that happens out of both of these. gross landed late this morning after as we mentioned being held for five years in captivity on espionage charges. he was arrested while working for a sub-contractor on a controversial u.s. agency for international development project, helping to set up internet access. cuba's view, circumventing their crackdowns on information access. president obama spoke about gross's release last hour from the white house, and announced that major overhaul in cuba policy. >> over many months my administration has held discussions with the cuban government about alan's case and other aspects of our relationship. his holiness pope francis issued a personal appeal to me and to cuba's president raul castro urging us to resolve alan's cas

and she called me first thing this morning and said alan is released, alan is released.oke up, we've been jumping up and down. >> i'm sure you could not believe what you were hearing. >> we were very happy to hear that. >> did you have any idea, any notion that this was -- >> no. >> nothing? >> no, i knew nothing. i knew nothing. but i'm very happy that he's coming home. actually he's landed actually i saw. >> yeah, we are showing the video right now. that he has landed. he's here with his lovely wife. they are now together for the first time in five years. >> yes. i saw that picture flash, with him and her before they left, and he had a big smile on his face. my husband and i laughed because he had a pen in his pocket just like my dad always used to. and that really made me laugh. >> and i know the family greatly concerned about his health over the past few years. and that is a part of what the cuban government said they were dealing with his health, and releasing him on humanitarian grounds, but we now know that alan will make a statement here shortly. >> yes, i'm look

/cuban relations to get alan gross freed.e francis issuing a statement now congratulating the united states and cuba saying the vatican will continue to support the strengthening of bilateral relations between the united states and cuba. an important statement from pope francis. let's go to our senior white house correspondent, jim acosta, who's been watching what's going on. it's been very, very carefully choreographed. obviously kept under tight wraps for a long time. but it looks like this was something that was in the works for at least weeks, if not months. >> reporter: wolf, according to a senior administration official who briefed reporters on a background call within the last hour, this has been going on since june of 2013. and to put all this in perspective, you'll recall when the president went to nelson mandela's memorial service last september and he had that handshake with raul castro, they were shaking hands as the u.s. and cuba were involved in these talks -- >> jim, i need to interrupt you for a moment. senato

and cuba has been alan gross. cuba said, even more importantly, return of these three intelligence agents that he sent to the united states. i covered their trial in miami almost 15 years ago and it was very controversial in miami. you can expect in miami there might be protests today because these are people that the cuban american community in miami saw as traitors. you have to give something to get something and it seems that president obama has decided to stake out as one of his major policy initiatives normalizing the relationship with cuba. and certainly the steps that are announced today are going to go a long way, much further than perhaps any administration in living memory to try and reach a normal and racial, sane policy with cuba. >> thank so much for the reporting. cnn is the only american network in cuba on the ground at this morning. sounds like the flood gates are about to open personally and financially. >> it's going to be interesting to get the reporting on the ground. there are generations of c

alan gross. let's talk about this., democrat from california, is on the phone right now. welcome, congressman. >> thank you. what great news. >> give me more of your reaction to this news. >> well, i visited with alan gross in may and he was in very frail condition. we've been advocating to the president to release alan gross, to get the prisoners released because two of them have already been released and i think, frankly, this is a very modern mature move by both countries. it's long overdue. this has been a failed policy for some 53 years. we have a lot of americans that have been traveling there illegally. the enthusiasm to get there and be legal and be able to import and export goods. i think it's long overdue. now congress has a lot of work to do because we have a very onerous law called the helms-burton law and we certainly have to go back and repeal that, or amend it. >> does it bother you, the prisoner swap aspect of this? because cuba's going to get back these three cuban spies, they're -- they were spying fo

alan gross spoke this afternoon. at times he was feisty and at times quite humorous. >> well, david, quite the day in u.s. history and quite the interview as well. popcorn on the plane and it seems that alan gross is almost back to his old self. who is this man held by the cubans so long. who we were told was becoming sicker and more depressed every day that passed. >> alan gross on home soil for the first time in five years, and not afraid to show it. >> i'm incredibly blessed finally to have the freedom to resume a positive and constructive life. >> a website said that he has traveled the world for a quarter of century helping people in 50 countries to create jobs and improve agriculture. ironically it was the worldwide web that kept him in cuba for five years. the state department overseas development wing he was accused of smuggling and sentenced to 15 years behind bars for attempting to distribute internet equipment to cuba's small jewish community without the proper permits. his wife judy appealed for alan's re

>> robert gross -- >> alan gross. >> pardon me. alan gross was a usaid employee.s sent down with satellite increment. -- increment. sometimes other people were sent. the equipment was used to allow people on the island to directly cumin a kit with the united states so that the cuban security networks work cuban internet lines would not pick it up. was supported because he was jewish by jewish groups he originally claimed he was down a working on behalf of jewish groups to spread information to other jewish groups in miami. he ultimately admitted that wasn't true. he ultimately sued the american government percent in him down without warning him specifically about what was going to happen to him. very little question any longer that he was sent by the government. he said he was sent by the government and the government admitted it. asamerica he is per trade something other than that -- portrayed as something other than that. >> you met with alan gross in cuba, is that right? yes, i'm that with alan gross twice over a one-year period for a total of seven hours. , aw

it turns out alan gross is quite the character after all. from popcorn on the plane coming only, one of the things that he missed the most about not being in the united states, to watching president obama address along side secretary kerry and joking about it and the kind of work that secretary kerry will be doing in the coming months it seems that alan gross is almost back to his old self. who is this man held by the cubans, and who we were told was sicker and more depressed every day in prison. alan gross on home soil for the first time in five years and not afraid to show it. >> i'm incredibly blessed finally to have the freedom to resume a positive and constructive life. >> a website pushing for grows' release said that he has traveled the world for a quarter of century helping people in 50 countries to create jobs and improper agriculture. the state department overseas development wing i was accused of smuggling and sentenced to 15 years behind bars. earlier this month his wife judy appealed for alan's release on health ground. hip prob

they are pleased that alan gross is home. let's listen to josh earnest. >> as it relates to support in congress i have seen the comments of some who had been critical of this decision. i think the president acknowledged that there would be some who did not agree with this decision. at the same time, there are many in congress both democrats and republicans who are strongly supportive of this decision. let me read you the comments, senator flake said i've been in the congress house and senate for 14 years. all 14 of those years i pushed to lift the travel bans. it's high time for a trade. that's the sentiment of the president today. and it's also strongly supported by the vast majority of the american public. >> senator flake illustrated that he has been trying to do this for quite some time, and he has not been able to. what change in attitudes. >> president obampresident bush did not support making this change in political. president obama vowed to address the cuban policy that for more than five decades has failed to bring

his name is alan gross.freed from a cuban prison as part of a deal to release three cuban hostages in the united states. mr. gross was detained while working as a contractor for the u.s. state department. he was set

the wrongful imprisonment of alan gross for five years. over many months my administration has held discussions with the cuban government about alan's case and other aspects of our relationship. pope francis issued a personal appeal to me and cuba's president urging us to resolve alan's case, and three cuban agents who have been held in the united states for years. today alan returned home. he was released by think cuban government on humanitarian grounds. separately, in exchange for the three cuban agents, cuba today released one of the most important intelligence agents that the united states has ever had in cuba, and who has been in prison for nearly two decades. this man who's sacrifice has been known to only a few, provided america, with the information that allowed us to arrest the network of cuban agents that included the men transferred to cuba today. as well as other spies in the united states. this man is now safely on our shores. having recovered these two men who sacrificed for our country, i'm now taking steps to place the int

did alan gross -- when did you first see him? >> we first saw him when we walked off the plane and the tarmac into a build in havana. as you can see from the pictures he's lost a lot of weight, he's very fragile. >> where was his wife at that time? >> she was the first to come in the room. that's why his face lit up. judy has been fighting for five years to bring alan home. >> you see that picture? it's a great picture. >> i can tell you he was in great spirits. obviously even greater spirits when he got on the plane and it lifted off. he's maintained some strength, even though he's wiry and gave everybody a big bear hug. >> this is not new to you. he campaigned for you years ago. >> alan was one of the people who helped go door to door in my first campaign. after he was taken prisoner, i worked very closely with his wife, judy, and his entire team to try and make this day come about. but there were lots of ups and lots of downs -- >> you got a good phone call the night before this election, i hear. >> one of the things that happ

and that and alan gross. republican senator marco rubio asking earlier today on the fox news channel what is cuba changing about its system of government for its people? i want to get back to doug live at the white house again with us. did anyone see this shift in policy changing, dog? dog? >> changing, doug? >> you could kind of see this coming. it was really difficult to read the tea leaves. the u.s. senator from arizona jeff flake was on the airplane with gross when it landed at andrews air force base this afternoon suggested he was certainly well aware of it and held it very close to the vest. there were other signals as well. the organization for any gross was working recently announced earlier this month, this was advertise covered through associated press investigation that they would stop trying to foment dissident move meteorologists in totalitarian countries. that may be part of some deal as well. in addition to that tony blinken the nominee for deputy secretary of state in his confirmations hearing

now, i am overjoyed for alan gross and his family. he has been a hostage kept against his will for far too long. our prayers are with him and his family because he was not just a prisoner, he was a hostage. but this president has proven today that his foreign policy is more than just naÏve. it is willfully ignorant of the way the world truly works. this administration just last agreed, after months of congressional pressure, to impose sanctions on the venezuelan officials were were violating human rights. a government who has spent all of 2014 killing, jailing, and oppressing their own people. and yet, we make historic concessions that supports and is behind the tierney in venezuelan. tyranny in venezuela. the cuban government is influential at the highest levels of the regime. this policy contradiction is absurd. and it is disgraceful for a president who claims to treasure human rights and human freedom. this president is a single wish negotiator we have had in the white house in my lifetime. he has basically given the cuban governme

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remember, it was not for alan gross.n unnamed intelligence officer. >> i agree with representative rangel. in fact, i was just in cuba, i was in havana yesterday with charlie rangel. barbara lee led a delegation there. i think our policy is extremely outdated, as the president said in his comments. you can't have a policy for over 50 years and not work and continue that policy. so, i'm glad to see a new day. i would like to give you a very specific example of how both sides are hurt because of this policy. we were in cuba because the cubans discovered of a way of preventing amputations in diabetics. tens of thousands of diabetics have their feet amputated in the united states every year. the cubans have discovered a medication. that medication needs to be available to diabetics in the united states. because of the blockade, that is not the case. now because of this policy, maybe we will be able to have a medical exchange pp, scientific exchanges, educational exchanges. this is the only country on the planet we have this

i am overjoyed for alan gross and his family. he has been a hostage of this regime for far too long. our prayers are with him and his family. but this president, has proven today that his foreign policy is willfully ignorant of the way the world truly works. this administration just last week finally agreed after months of congressional pressure, to impose sanctions on the venezuelan government firme government -- officials. a government that has spent all of 2014, killing, and oppressing its own people. and yet this administration is making historic concessions to the government that is behind venezuela. they have helped them master mind the crackdown on the venezuelan people. this policy contradiction is observe, and it is a disgraceful for a president who claims to treasure human rights and human freedom. this president is the single-worst negotiator we have had in the white house in my lifetime. who has given the cuban government everything it asked for. and received no assurances of advances in democracy and freedom in retur

i am glad allen is out. -- alan is out. alan gross asked to be out on humanitarian release, to visit his dying mother and they wouldn't let him. but they let the cuban prisoners visit their family. this is not apples to oranges. what did cuba do to merit a change in policy? we've never considered them normalization as an end in itself. we've been supporting human rights in cuba, rapid change, but they're wondering what is it the president thinks is going to result from the gestures he's thinking? does he think 88-year-old people in cuba, the leaders are going to change their policy at this stage in their -- when they're on the verge of their death beds? i -- and i agree with that. i think that we -- you know the president said that it's time to change our policy because it hasn't worked and my question has always been: well name me one country in the world whose policy has worked. we are the only country in the world who hasn't had free unlimited trade travel and tourism in cuba. 20 million americans have gone to cuba in 50

this is for alan. hope this isn't missing the point but i read one page here but you said the three main sources are uncertainty over the next 25 years, over longer time horizon, past business cycles i guess, is productivity growth, interest rates on the debt and health care costs growth. so again, not to miss the point but did you give any thought to just suggesting, well, if those are the sources of uncertainty, maybe we push them in a positive direction? reforming education system for example. >> i don't understand what i mean by push them in positive direction? >> [inaudible]. >> well, first of all it is kind of hard to come up with anything that has substantial effect on any of these factors in terms of policy. i'm talking here about uncertainty. so again, i. i want too separate what we should do about projected imbalances and uncertainty about the projected imbalance. even if we improve the excess, trajectory of excess health cost breath, that means we have a smaller job ahead of us, but still do

and alan has another problem. the lines of the other man's chute is wrapped around his neck. >> it's what we call a wrap. your parachute is open but somebody else's parachute is wrapped around you. in that case, the person who has the parachute wrapped and you, they need to go into free fall and that takes the tension off. >> falling at nearly 50 miles an hour, the skydivers have less than two minutes before they hit the ground. the first guy manages to break free but his parachute remains behind, its lines still wrapped around alan's neck. >> the parachute's line has wrapped around him twice. the other guy cut away, the tension stayed on alan, the parachute was still partially open, the lines were wrapped around alan so the parachute was pulling those lines tight. like a chinese finger trap, it sticks to you. >> with time running out, alan has only one option. cut the other skydivers chute line but as he does that it causes another problem. >> once alan cut the line, the other parachute started going news and sta

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the release of american aid worker alan gross is part of the u.s.storic shift in diplomatic relations. it was nothing short of splashy. we saw photos of gross meeting with secretary of state conqujo kerry and being greeted by loved ones and even held his own news conference and yet very little is known about the details surrounding the other prisoner released from cuba. a u.s. intelligence agent who up until now very few people even knew existed. i am joined by cnn national correspondent jim sciutto. what do we been this agent? >> this is a big diplomatic move and it's an old-school cold war spy swap, and known in the u.s. as the wasp network. in exchange, cuba releasing, we are told, a cuban man who provided critical assistance to the u.s. a statement from the office of director of national intelligence saying information provided by this person was instrumental in the identification and disruption of several cube inintelligence operatives in the united states and ument matly led to a series of successful espionage prosecutions. his release from pr

government plane bringing alan gross back.imself. there we are on television. it's not gratuitous. it's nice to be part of history, especially when it's good news for someone. >> oh, we were truly flies on the wall for this historic moment. but just to tell you the backstory more of what was happening at this moment, that was the moment after alan gross had just looked out the window, he raised his hands in that sort of victory salute and a voice off camera. there's a video at this moment that i've tweeted out, a voice off camera. maybe congressman jeff flake says, u.s. air space, how does that feel? and alan gross takes a big inhale and smiles. and it's just so nice that this is the moment that so symbolizes his freedom. >> powerful. the image says it all. chris, we'll get back to you in miami in a bit. we want to take a look at some of your headlines now and we start with russian president vladimir putin addressing a three-hour news conference saying whether he runs for re-election depends on the state of his country. putin

subcontractor, alan gross, for five years. over many months, my administration has held talks with the cuban government. his holiness pope francis gave a particular plea to me and the cuban government for the release of alan gross. today, alan returned home, reunited with his family at long last. alan was released by the qa -- by the cuban government on humanitarian grounds. separately, in exchange for the three cuban agents, cuba today released one of the most important intelligence agent that the united states has ever had in cuba. he has been imprisoned for nearly two decades. this man, who sacrifice has been known to only a few, provided america with the information that allows to arrest the -- that allowed us to arrest the network of agents and other spies in the united states. this man is now safely on our shores. having recovered these two men, who sacrifice for our country, are now taking steps to place the interest of people of both countries at the heart of our policy. first, i have instructed secretary kerry to rees

aid worker alan gross. released from five years of captivity. >> 5.5 decades of history shows bellagerens inhib its better judgment. two wrongs never make a right. gross has the utmost fondness and respect to the human people and regards the olive branch as a game challenger that he supports. the white house hopes time will show that gross is right. >> jamie mcintyre, for much of the last half century u.s. and cuba have been at odds. jonathan betz is here with a look at it. >> reporter: this is a 50-year plus divide that began before many of us were born. >> reporter: tears from cuba to miami. after astounding words from a u.s. president. 50 years has shown that isolation has not worked. >> reporter: so many for so long... >> the u.s. at first warily welcomed fidel castro to power in 1959. vice president richard nixon met with him in washington. castro seized private companies and taxing american imports. in 1961, severed relations. the next year it imposed the embargo, cutting off the island. >> we were ac

>> baila como alan. >> tiene mÁs ritmo que alan. >> baila mejor que muchos que yo conozco. >> quÉ ternurao veces al día". ¿mucho no? [ locutora ] crest whitestrips se adhieren a tus dientes uniformemente. remueven las manchas bajo la superficie del esmalte. el resultado es profesional y dura hasta 12 meses. ¿puedo probar los crest whitestrips? [ locutora ] crest whitestrips, la manera de blanquear. >> muy bien. nos estamos arreglando. aqui estÁ el antes y el despuÉs. >> me encanta tu capa de leopardo. quiero presentarles a veronica bastos,, se estÁ preparando para los lengÜilargos. >> quiero contarles sobre el anuncio histÓrico de estados unidos. sobre la liberaciÓn de las relaciones, entre estados unidos y cuba >> buen dÍa. alan gross recuperÓ su libertad. esto abrio la apertura de las relaciones. los bancos podrÁn mantener relaciones. >> marcos rubio dijo que hara todo lo posible para mejorar las relaciones con la habana el senador menendez dijo que la acciÓn de obama reivindica el atroz accionar del gobierno cubano. >> muchas gracias por el informe. dia histÓrico. veremos que dice el c

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alan gross says it is good to be home.epublicans, most of them are not so happy especially senator marco rubio. >> this president is the single worst negotiator we have had in the white house in my lifetime. i can tell you that his foreign-policy is at a minimum naive and perhaps even truly counterproductive to the future of democracy in the region. as part of a long record of coddling dictators and tyrants that this administration has established. today, by conceding to the aggressors this president and this administration have let the people of cuba down. >> texas senator ted cruz also super unhappy. >> this is yet another manifestation of the failures of the obama-clinton-kerry foreign-policy. this announcement will be remembered as a tragic mistake. it is also 90 miles away. cuba is an ally of north korea. it is an ally of iran. it is an ally of venezuela. it is an avowed enemy of this country. >> who else is unhappy with the president's decision? john boehner and more republicans, most republicans who are calling the

contractor alan gross on american soil with his alan gross on u.s. soil. the untold story of the toll his captivity took on his body. >> what a blessing it is to be a citizen of this country. and thank you president obama for everything that you have done. today and leading up to today. >> before dawn u.s. officials and law makers boarded a government plane for havana to pick up gross. >> on the airplane back as we findly crossed into u.s. air space, you saw him give a big hurrah, put his arms up, he was clearly glad to be home. >> some fweeted photos of gross on the joyful reunion. from secretary of state john kerry, a hug on arrival. the humanitarian release was accompanied by a spy swap. on another plane, out of sight of cameras, a highly important u.s. intelligence source held by cuba for 20 years was flown to the u.s. his identity is secret for the information he provided to the u.s. on a shadowy network that spied on cuban-american exiles in u.s. military base. three of those spies held for more than a decade were released by the u.s. today and sent

alan respira profundo y se vuelve a sentar. del aviÓn que le llevÓ de regreso a la isla, los siguiÓ ramóny luego antonio guerrero. raÚl castro saliÓ a recibirlos y su llegada fue transmitida en directo por la televisiÓn cubana. >> estamos todavÍa emocionados. gracias. >> le dicen a raÚl castro que estaban listos para la misiÓn que les asignen. aquÍ tambiÉn hubo abrazos de reencuentro. el estilo cubano gerardo hernÁndez saluda a su esposa. ramÓn lavaÑino tambiÉn saluda a su esposa. Éste cambio generÓ toda especies de reacciones en estados unidos. el misterioso espÍa cubano que trabajaba para gobernar todo ese que fue liberado hoy llegÓ a suelo norteamericano pero lejos de las cÁmaras de televisiÓn. trabajó como criptÓgrafo en cuba y fue arrestado en el 995. estuvo 20 aÑos en prisiÓn por espiar para estados unidos. >> vamos ahora a hablar de mÉxico en donde una mujer en la capital del paÍs quiso entregar una nota del presidente enrique peÑa nieto durante un acto y las autoridades la sacaron del lugar. f el incidente tuvo lugar en

andid not succeed there -- alan was very despondent. i know i wrote him a note at one because we were concerned and his lawyers and his life was particularly concerned about his state of health. today, i saw a man rejuvenated by seeing his wife again, by being restored to american soil, and knowing that he told me he was going only by his sense of humor, and i think you have seen a touch of that today. he asked for his privacy. some point, people will get to know him better. for the moment, i think we have seen the man who poignantly and excitedly and passionately extolled the virtues of being american and gratitude for being back in the united states. with respect to the u.n. resolution, we have not seen the language yet. we do not know precisely what was filed. we have been troubled by some of the language that has been out there in different points in time. we do not have any problem with them filing some sort of resolution, provided it is done in this. of working with able to see how we could perceive forward and his thoughtful in a

alan began with a -- alan's presentation was, people like peter and myself, allen never feel comfortable unless we see a well worked out model. of course that wasn't in this paper but as peter alluded to, i don't think it's there in the literature, even in alan's earlier work in 2007. when i was in graduate school and i learned that savings arguments, the effect of uncertainty on them depend on the third derivative of the utility function then my view was oh, this is really subtle and we shouldn't be drawing strong conclusions. now whether even -- whether that argument even applies to government savings, i don't know. but even if it did, this is subtle, and even if we want to leave aside the political economy questions of how congress reacts, that peter was raising, and just view this as a traditional economic social planning problem, i'm not sure what would be sensible government policy. so i take what alan's done today as doing us a service by sticking his neck out and making a strong proposal, which i hope would lead to research that would really get underneath us. >> you haven't spen

alan, you're in the center of things with regard to oil. consumption about 1.6 million barrels less per day than oil production for opec. they can't keep this up, can they? >> well i think they can. what is their cost of production? you know -- david: very low. >> what does it cost for their assets there. the cure for higher prices is higher prices. the cure for low prices will be low prices. exploration and technology will slow down but in the long run we're all dead if we wait for fundamentals. i still think it is important we were only down 30 cents in oil last week itself. david: look at it now. >> it is only 8% of the s&p 500. david: look at it now. the price of oil is plummeting a lot of u.s. companies particularly shale producers will go under. >> they're up to their eyes in debt with little mom-and-pops developing. saudi arabia only costs 5 or $6 a barrel for saudis to develop oil. so they can drop prices lower. the break point is 50 to off a barrel for shale developers in the united states, david. david: is that the goal of saudis?

yesterday i spoke with raul castro to finalize alan gross's release and to move forward. i made my believes known that this constrains cuban citizens. we lease cuba's decision to release a large number of prisoners. we welcome cuba's decision to provide more access to the internet for their citizens and increasing engagement with institutions like the united nations and the red cross that promote the universal values. but i'm under no illusions of the barriers that remain for freedom for ordinary cubans, no cuban should face harassment or arrest or beatings because they are exercising a universal right to have their voices heard, while cuba has made reforms to gradually open up its economy, we believe that cuban workers should be free to form unions and to participate in the political process, and given cuba's history i believe they will pursue foreign policies that are at sharp odds with american interests, i do not expect the changes today to bring about a transformation of cuban society overnight but i'm convinced through a policy of engagement we can stand up for our

alan greenspan joins us. also, bob schiller of case-shiller index joins us. ♪ >> indonesian search crews are finally finding debris and bodies from the air asia flight that went missing three days ago. that makes this search different from that of the still disappeared malaysian air flight so why do air disasters keep happening in southeast asia? one potential answer -- a boom in regional air travel. based in and serving indonesia and malaysia including a good number with safety regulations that do not meet western standards. with us is john rose, chief operating officer at ijet. john, good morning to you. there is lots we still do not know, but at this point, when we look at what happened to the malaysian airlines jet, when we look at what happened to this airasia jet, can we draw conclusions about the safety standards, the speed at which these airlines have grown and expanded their service, and the increasingly bad safety record that we are beginning to see? >> i think you can draw a little bit of conclusio

alan and howard, this is-- we're here.receivables and those payables don't start matching up, you will not be in business in the next year. i am not writing a check for more than a million bucks. do we have a deal? >> yeah. >> yes. >> come here, you big guy. >> we came from 5 million down to the 1, to be more realistic. >> i'm very comfortable with the million dollars, especially with everything that he's going to add to the business. >> see ya in the morning. good morning. my name is marcus lemonis. and i fix failing businesses. this business last year did $50 million of business. unfortunately, we didn't make any money. you guys sell a lot, but there's one thing that you don't do very well. what is that? >> collect. >> collect money. so last night at dinner, i made a deal with alan and howard. and i'm putting in a million dollars. but you know what they forgot to do last night? they forgot to ask me for my money. it's a theme, but it's not funny. because your paychecks and the rent, all get paid when we collect the money