. >> it didn't happen in china or vietnam, or there would be more openness. >> i think there's a concern, the kavt rose are getting up there - 83 and 88 - should they pass what will happen next. you speak to people in southern command, u.s. military command. they are worried about massive refugees coming across. >> there has been an influence in recent weeks. >> that's for two reasons. the economic circumstances have deteriorated. they need $2.5 billion to keep economic growth. >> roberta jacobsen said the economy is in a tailspin that it was not a life line the u.s. deal with cuba but with venezuela, the main sponsor. talk about an economy in a tailspin they will not be able to support the cubans is it not a live line? >> worse case scenario let's imagine the venezuela life line is cut. it accounts for 100,000 oil per day. 25% of the g.d.p. if you take that away you are looking at a collapse which i don't think you want to see 90 miles off the shore. >> peno nieto was in washington. he spoke about how mexico could help the united states in the effort of bringing democracy to cuba. do yo

have a policy for china or vietnam? it is simple. politics 101. rst of all the cubans are not vietnamese or chinese they would like to have the kind of policy that the united states has with the society that they live. people live in chile over costa rica. why is it some people like to have the worst level applied and be all that? i guess the folks at the state department know very well the idea of one policy for the whole world is nonsense. it is not the same as the policy for mexico as canada. that gets this is what we hear from this white house. and they say by having foolhardy and diplomatic relations will bring civil liberties respected and the recovery of the cuban economy. do they know cuba has full diplomatic relations with spain, france, canada? do they know they have trade relations with those countries more than 50 years? is it the american dollar is better than the dollar that goes from the canadian gore the british? as a matter of fact cuba has had more assistance, more development aid in the revolutionary period the the in european co

if we want to see it become one of the ploeft lucrative dictatorships in human history like china's or vietnam'si think the spread on the wrong side of history. in regards to small steps takes two to tangle. we're seeing on the eve of this historic negotiation with cuba the first thing that's happened unannounced a russian intelligence ship has just been docked in the port of havana. in a sign of lack of good faith on the part of the castro dictatorship. throughout this entire negotiation the release of political prizsoners on the list of 53 negotiated some have already been rearrested. seen any political prisoners. we're seeing a cuban regime laughing at us. >> the administration says even if three are re-arrested that makes 48 free today that weren't before december or the 18 months that they spent in negotiating this deal in secret. in other words small steps, if something -- just to repeat the question, if something doesn't work after 54 years, isn't it time to try something new? >> yes. the huge step is throughout the negotiations 13,000 cubans were arrested. there was 13,000. >> forke is o

scholars have noted that normalizing our economic policy with oppressive countries like china or vietnamproduced no significant improvements in human rights treatment. given the precedent there is no reason to believe the situation with cuba will yield significant different results. in fact, we already know that the suffering for cuba's citizens will continue unfortunately. raul castro proclaimed that there would be no renunciation of any of their principles. cuban restrictions on free speech assembly and press will remain they proved it just this last week. travel and tourism will remain strictly controlled by the castro regime. tourism dollars that americans will spend will go directly to the oppressors. we cannot ignore the sense of betrayal that cuban defectors feel in response to the president's plan. we should be demanding genuine freedom, release of all political prisoners universal human rights, democratic principles and free market for the cuban people. in order to ensure the citizens of cuba stand a chance to benefit from this ill-advised agreement, cuba's despots must relinqui

an accidental or not so accidental war between china and one or several of its neighbors. >> charlie: japan? japan philippines vietnam of that? >> think about the origins over the first world war, began at the very pinky finger of europe. what we learn is that sometimes minor sparks at the far peripheries can move very quickly to the center, if a variety of equities are at stake. most of us have never heard of the sinkoku islands, these rocks in the middle of nowhere. because of our treaty guarantees to the japanese, because of the chinese claims to the islands it is not unrealistic to imagine an accidental cop flood victim leading to something much more serious over something so seemingly trivial. >> charlie: let's talk about terrorism and it's threat today and how we deal with the threat of some caliphate in some islamic state in between syria and iraq. >> you talked about islamic state and you used the word "caliphate." i think it's important to be clear about what we have. we are dealing with a caliphate, at least as they imagine it. the difference is the state has borders. every state knows at some point there a

instead of heading towards vietnam or up towards southern china it's going to come down along the northernst of borneo and as it spins it could intensify the rainfall which is already intense. this is four or five days away. >> tom, quickly, with all that happening on the surface there from these storms does it affect the currents in terms of moving nor debris around that may be lower? >> not so much below let's say ten feet 20 feet. anything that's on the surface of the java sea is not going moving. there's a lot of sediment. i'm sure the aircraft is not moving. generally the last five days the currents have been almost due east but earlier andrew stevens said authorities talked to local fishermen to take a look at this coastline in their fishing areas along the southeastern coast of borneo. >> tom sater, thank you. one theory that's been floated that the pilot could have been trying to land on water of the java sea. many of you probably remember when captain sully sullenberger landed that u.s. airways flight 1559 happened back in 2009 here on the hudson river. he was a guest on "the situ

no different than previous efforts to improve relations with other communist countries like vietnam or china. here's the problem with that premise. in each of those cases the president engaged with congress in a serious conversation and debate about the best path forward, a plan was developed, serious concessions were agreed to and each nation mutually benefited from these meaningful actions. unfortunately, in the case of cuba president obama again has decided to cut congress out of the process and act alone with no real plan to accomplish his stated goal. this approach is the wrong way for our government to operate. and it has once again resulted in a bad deal. columnist charles krauthammer put it best when he said you know how to achieve a breakthrough in tough negotiations? give everything away. mr. speaker, i can't help but ask, what reforms cuba will make as a result of this deal. let's not forget, this is the same cuba under the same regime who during the cold war had nuclear missiles on their soil aimed at the united states of america. this is the same cuba that refuses to let the chu

us the same price, they just increase the amount of profit they make a making things over in vietnam or chinaadesh or wherever they are making them. if americans cannot buy it, who is to be the market? host: jonas from maryland. caller: thank you. like the lady just said previously, who is going to be the new buyer? i think it is going to be china and africa. they want to replace the american consumer with a new desperate, upcoming economy. the american boom is dead and done and i am only 33 and that is what i believe. you can get cheap labor overseas , but they don't put tariffs on it. the thing we have here to export is financial terrorism and weapons and drugs. that is it. what about the chinese? $250 billion trade deal they did with latin america? and now we are communicating with cuba. host: the white house is considering changes to the way doctors are paid under medicare. medicare's current payment system known as fee for service costs taxpayers $352 billion last year. according to the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services critics say the traditional payment scheme failed t

clear pathway to adopt a child host: what about a child born in china or guatemala, although we don't have sdomingsz in that country but vietnamother nations? guest: that's a more complicated issue. marriage equality here in the united states may not solve access to adoption for same-sex couples in foreign countries. adoptions adoptions. those countries consider. china was notable in the news for rejecting couples over a particular age, which is much lower than what we typically consider here in the united states and people who are overweight. >> what would you say to critics who say a child should be raised by twol a mother and father not two mothers or two fathers? >> the evidence doesn't back that up. there has been a huge body of research following the children of same-sex couples. that the has demonstrated over and over again that the children of same-sex couples do just as well as the children of opposite-sex couples. more importantly, why should any child languish in foster care when there are loving committed families out there just waiting for them? host: our guest, sarah warbelow. alvin on the phone thank you for wai

china and vietnam. and so, they were wrong about vietnam. we knew it and nobody would admit it. that, i think -- and i still don't understand what hoover's motivation was, but he had a sick envy or hatred of martin luther king. >> on hoover, yes. i remember hoover sent this memo out describing dr. king. unbelievable. you are right about the selma thing. after bloody sunday when the march resumed, johnson sent troops. we nationalize the guard to protect the marchers. my instruction was to send memos to the white house every two hours about those marchers. you can read them. they are on the lbj library tapes. every two hours, where they were, how far they had gotten. i sent them to jack who would bring them into the president. he was so focused on selma and on that march working. it was really quite remarkable. >> one of the things people forget is how many things were cheek by jowl -- senator kennedy was in the plane crash on the night the senate passed the bill. your head spins at all the things the president is dealing with. it was remarkable how unwilling president johnson was for such a famous wheeler and dealer to wheel and deal. he was sent away in 20 minutes empty-handed.

vietnam and china that we do business with communist countries? >> the chinese and japanese can make money and become millionaires or billionaires or well to do. >>r: he is sensitive to the needs in cuba but says current trade restrictions put u.s. farmers at a disadvantage. >> we are the ones in my opinion that are getting hurt from not being able to trade with cuba. rice farmers i mean they get their rice from somewhere else. >> reporter: and another big reason a lot of leaders in louisiana tony feel they are in a good position to trade with cuba is because they kept a good relationship with the country over the years and former governor visited cuba former new orleans ray visited cuba over the years and tried to keep the relationship intact despite the embargo placed on the country and some of the current leadership including the governor right now is opposed to really resuming relations with cuba under some of the current conditions. >> jonathan for us in new orleans a new law in russia driving the gay population to seek asylum in the united states a first look at america tonight investigation then it's "real money" with ali velshi. >> high a

countries like china and vietnam you can have relatively economic free countries that co-exist with political repression. and that's what we have in cuba. and you also have to remember ors what we could possibly have in cuba under this regime. you also have to remember that while the u.s. has not been trading with cuba for a long time, other nations have, and there's no reason to believe that u.s. dollars will work some sort of magic that hasn't been worked by these other countries in the west that have long been trading with cuba. >> a.b.? >> well, what's interesting is the way that president obama, i think, saw this was generational, that as george said, 50 years, it wasn't working but this is an issue that is not of any concern to people who are young in this country. this is now, his new policy is 60% approval rating. it's much higher almost 70% among younger americans. and so he's thinking if there's a short-term benefit to this change, to the regime, long term, he is hoping that like other proponents it's going to hasten the dictatorship's demise and that history will view this as the right decision. >> critics say, charles, point to a country where this has work

china and vietnam that we do business with? >> the chinese and vietnamese can make money from transactions and can become millionaires and billionaires orven just well to do. >> we stay away from politics. >> reporter: he too is sensitive to the needs of those in cuba but current trade restrictions put u.s. farmers at a disadvantage. >> we are the ones in my opinion that are getting hurt from not being able to trade with cuba. rice farmers, i mean they get their rice from somewhere else. >> reporter: let's stay in louisiana where there is high anxiety over low oil prices and coming up, a project that was supposed to create hundreds of jobs there is now in jeopardy, you are watching "real money" and next week this show moves to prime time and it will be 10:30 eastern and 7:30 pacific starting monday or set your dvr, we are back in two minutes. >> because i was african american i was trying to fit in >> misty copleland's journey wasn't easy >> dancing gave me the opportunity to grow into the person... i don't think i could be without it >> now, this trailblazer is opening the door for others >> i wanna give back to ballet what it's done f

china and vietnam that we do business with communist countries? >> that can make money from their transactions and be millionaires and billionaires or even just wello do. >> we stay away from politics. >> reporter: kevin is sensitive to needs in cuba but says current trade restrictions put u.s. farmers at a disadvantage. >> we are the ones in my opinion that are getting hurt from not being able to trade with cuba. rice farmers, i mean they get their rice from somewhere else. >> reporter: and one of the other reasons, john that leaders in louisiana feel they really do have an edge and really in a prime position to resume trade with cuba if them bar bar, embargo and the senator and ray took a trip to cuba years ago and sent some goods to cuba louisiana has in the past a few years, most of that john through humanitarian effort. >> change in landscape for farmers and other businesses as well jonathan thank you, coming up next in this broadcast the saudi blogger sentenced to a thousand lashers and the college professor willing to take his place, a breakthrough in the research of peanut allergies. there are concerns tonight about the health of a blogger

the countries like china and vietnam you can have relatively economic free countries that co-exist with political repression. and that is what we have in cuba. you have to remember, oribly in cuba. you have to remember that while the u.s. is not been trading with cuba for a long time, other nations have. and there is no reason to believe that u.s. dollars will work some magic that hasn't been worked by these countries in the west that have long been trading with cuba. >> what is interesting is the way the president saw this was generational. this is an issue that is not of any concern to people who are young in this country. it's higher on 70% of the younger americans he's thinking this there is a short-term benefit to this change long term, he's hoping that it's going to hasten the dictatorship dictatorship's demise. >> stablishing this opening it from the inside has changed the dynamic for improved human rights. >> well, that is refuted in cuba, itself, by the empirical fact that the rest of the world -- the united states is the only major country that does not have relations with cuba. canada has them. france has. britain has. spain. it hasn't had an iota of chan