andrews, they are greeted by a lesser figure, sometimes a secretary of state, for the official greeting. and the military review that we're about to see happening the next day. >> well, fair enough. you had bruno rodriguezign minister, greet the president at the airport. that said, mr. castro had greeted other visitors before. there is a disparity, if you will, between the scale of the united states and the scale of cuba. so what i thought this signaled to me is the cuban government was trying to slightly, i don't know if the word is downplay, but keep all this under control. and that's a reminder that they're uneasy. one of the things we want to do is change cuba. we want to see political and economic change come to that country. obviously, the regime wants to keep the lid on all that. so my hunch is by not showing up at the airport, it was a way of trying not to lose control and trying not to make this visit seem bigger than it was at home. the president, for his part, when he speaks to the cuban people, has to somehow signal that change needs to come to cuba. that's the tension between the two sides. the way dissidents are being treated is a reminder that even though this is a step towards one anothe