the cubans offer hospitality to general alexander alejandro o'reilly. he rose through the ranks of the spanish army. the spanish sent alexander o'reilly to cuba to form a militia. he was appointed governor of louisiana and head of the army later on. he arrived in august, 1769, and took formal possession of louisiana for spain. think of new orleans and cuba, in particular havana, governors there were also in cuba so there was all this traveling from one city to another because later when i got my ph.d. from tulaine university and i went to the irish channel. it's interesting, the irish history connected with new orleans. so the o'reilly family has been in louisiana for centuries. in cuba, nobody remembers him but it was the street of calle oreilly, famous until the 50's for its banks and bookstores. it was one of the favorite streets of (inaudible) secretary of the spanish count of fernandino, my grandfather, another irish man feeling at home in havana. there, at the busy corner of calle street and oreilly was a cafe bakery owned by a catelan. it was des

five these are five cubans imprisoned in the u.s. who claimed to be in the u.s. monitoring terrorist groups now they're working thirteen years of incarceration in prisons across the u.s. today and if you haven't heard anything about them it made me because the mainstream media doesn't talk much about them despite calls saying that this trial these trials were miscarriages of justice earlier i spoke to william endorsees attorney for one of the cuban five luis medina and i asked him his thoughts on richardson's visit to cuba and if we can talk about freeing an american from cuba without talking about extradition for the cuban five. i don't see how you can there are really two sides to the same question i have of course no personal knowledge of mr gross's case but the cuban government decided that he was engaged in activity which is illegal under the laws of that country and they tried him and convicted him in a sentenced him and for my client you mentioned luis medina that was his cover name to protect his family his real name is ramon

they're cubans who claim to be in the u.s. monitoring terrorist groups and you claim they had an unfair trial and of the victims of miscarriages of justice but they are being there they've been there for thirteen years this marks an anniversary of their incarceration in prisons across the u.s. if you haven't heard about them ever it may be because you don't see much about them on the mainstream media ever despite calls that this trial was a miscarriage of justice now former presidential candidate gloria is one who has made that call she joins us to talk about it. being i know you've got a lot on this we've heard about richardson's trip to cuba why do you think there's no message message do you think there should be a mention of the cuban five when there was reporting done on it well regardless of former governor richardson trip to cuba the cuban five have certainly deserved front page news in the united states because they are prisoners in the united states and victims of us aggression against cuba the five as you said were in

miscarriage of justice for these five men earlier i talked to william norris he is attorney for one of the cuban five luis and the dean and i asked him his thoughts on richardson's visit to cuba and if we can talk about freeing an american from cuba without talking about extradition for the cuban five. i don't see how you can there are really two sides to the same question i have of course no personal knowledge of mr gross's case but the cuban government decided that he was engaged in activity which is illegal under the laws of that country and they tried him and convicted him and sentenced him and for my clients you mentioned luis medina that was his cover name to protect his family his real name is ramon not a nino he was accused and given a trial and sentenced initially to life in prison that has subsequently been reduced to thirty years but still a very substantial satins when you think he has died at the same question what is that question. the question is that if someone is engaged in an activity which tends to further the interests of their own country and they're doing that in a foreign

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cubans in july.er september 1st, i arrived september 7th. i was told that i would meet the foreign minister who is the main decisionmaker on this. i had a delightful lunch with the foreign minister, bruno rodriguez the second day i was there. after the lunch he said three things. one, you will not take alan gross back, two, you will not see president castro, and three, we're not going to let you see him. i was stunned. i was flabber gassed. what i think happened was there are some hard line elements in the cuban government that basically don't want to improve the relationship with the united states. now, we have to continue the effort to free alan gross because he's a man who is depressed right now, he's been there two years. his wife, a wonderful woman, his family has been very concerned, his daughter is sick, he's depressed. he's got lesions on his body. he was already sentenced. and this was a perfect time for a humanitarian gesture. my message to the cubans was, look, oomi'm a private citizen,t i

. >> and cubans pay tribute to the late defense minister. now, an independent inquiry which will examine allegations the british security services were complicit in the illegal transfer of terror suspects to libya whilst colonel qaddafi was in power, will be carried out by a judge who is already involved in another case involving libya. >> david cameron said the accusations against them were significant and should be investigated but also reminded m.p.'s that in 2003, just two years after 9/11, there were terror groups in libya allied to al qaeda. our securityes services and intelligence services are trying to work for the good of the country to keep us safe. britain should never be complicit in torture or extraordinary rendition. >> secretary at the time, said the allegations were serious. >> given the serious nature of these allegations, it is entirely right they should be examined in every detail. >> the task of going through these secret documents found in tripoli over the weekend will fall to an existing inquiry led by gibson, already l

five cubans who are imprisoned in the u.s. who claims to be in the u.s. monitoring terrorist groups now they're marking thirteen years of incarceration in prisons across the u.s. government heard about them it's needed because the mainstream media doesn't tie.

cuban relations because the news coming out of the richardson visit is that he was rebuffed and not able to see grows yet he was quoted over the weekend saying he'll stay until he gets to i think he was quoted saying my sense is there are some elements in their government meaning the cuban government they don't want to improve relations in the united states is something like the issue of the cuban five a roadblock that needs to be addressed in terms of improving communications between cuba and the united states and the real bonus for improve relations between both countries is on the united states government it's the u.s. that holds the blockade it's the us that holds the cuban prison it's the united states that sent men like alan gross into cuba to bring surveillance equipment espionage equipment against the country continues to finance openly financed by the millions of dollars organizations in so puberty this country it's a one way trip on behalf of the united states and the u.s. navy often says well if cuba doesn't make this move then the relations will continue bad bill richardson v

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a cuban court found him guilty of trying to subvert the cuban government and sentenced him to 15 years sovereignty of cuba. i have learned from my parents and through experience that respect is something that one must have in order to receive. >> reporter: judy gross reads from a statement that her husband wrote by hand and delivered to a havana court in march. is that what he sounds like? >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: yeah? >> that's very outgoing, very confident. very moral, very ethical. >> reporter: alan gross loves music. >> one string. >> reporter: so these are instruments that he collecteded? >> some of them, not all of them. >> reporter: and there were times early on when judy gross had hope music would help him through his ordeal. when he was in prison, he actually played instruments with his guards? >> once or twice, i think it was the warden of the prison who i think was a musician gave him an instrument. >> reporter: in early august, the cuban court turned down her husband's last appeal. she's asking president raul castro and the cuban government to release him on humanitarian

mario can speak for the cuban population in florida. >> before he does let me take a quick break. we will have a chance on the other side of this break. stand by gentlemen if you would. we will take a quick break. the aruba world exclusive is scant minutes away.???ñpu >> what if the republican nominee is rick perry relative moderate on the important latino issue of immigration reform or mitt romney and he chooses marco rubio senator from florida as his running mate? i will go to you first if i may congressman. george bush wanted -- won by the hair of his chin knee chin chin, 2004 he won it decisively. president obama turned it around in 2008. florida clearly florida's latinos the population is changing as congressman suggests there are cubans in the south and florida increasingly. do you think in a state like yours in florida that the latino vote will be the de sighs i have vote? -- de sighs i have decisive vot. >> here's the problem he has. lack of confidence. lack of confidence in how he handled the economy. lack of confidence he is going to tax them or regulate them. the

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/cuban relations. but right now the secretary of state hillary clinton has made it clear there will be no improvement at all in u.s./cuban relations until alan gross has been freed. he was sentenced to 15 years in prison in cuba. we're staying on top of this story, we'll get reaction. much more coming up. in the meantime, the headline, bill richardson who has done this on many occasions before, having gone to many countries to try to free americans, he was scheduled to land just a little while ago in cuba with the mission of trying to free alan gross. we'll stay on top of this story for our viewers. >>> meantime, on the eve of president obama's big jobs speech, he has a draft proposal on the table right now. and we're learning some of the key points in it. i can't stress this enough. this is a make or break moment for millions of americans who need work, who need a job, and for a president who wants to keep his own job. let's go right to our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin is working thi

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he and his bearded entourage arrived in washington loaded with cuban cigars and cases of cuban rum, and castro spent most of his visit hugging and smiling and saying all the right things. there were some americans, including some in the eisenhower administration -- including dwight eisenhower himself -- who had pretty serious concerns about eisenhower, mainly that he was a communist in the making. but many found him to be quite charming and, certainly, charismatic. after a few days in washington, castro took a train to new york city. from the moment he arrived at penn station where he was greeted by 20,000 people, he had a grand old time. he went to the top of the empire site building, he shook hands with jackie robinson, he went down to city hall, went up to columbia university. having less fun in new york city were the policemen who were assigned to protect him. because there were all these assassination plots surrounding castro, and these were reported in the press every day. and none of these turned out to be real, but the police didn't know that. and castro was completely impossibl

. ♪ my first musical memory is the amazing cuban music of celia cruz.s only 18 months old. we weren't allowed to take anything with us. coming from a musical family, it was a big part of our life so my grandmother started smuggling cuban records in baby food that she would send me from cuba because they didn't make mango compote here in the united states yet. celia is that song. i remember hear iing "ferry acrs the mersey" on the radio. i didn't want to move. i got goose bumps. i could smell that clean laundry smell and to this day when i hear that song, i get that smell back in my brain. ♪ the first song that i sang with miami sound machine was "what a difference a day makes" back in the '70s. when i first met emilio, they called us over on how to get a band together. a guy was playing "do the hustle" on the accordion. very brave and there was so much charisma in this band and everybody was having such a great time. after everything was over, he came to me that night, he said, you know, we don't have a singer in the band. are you interested? ♪ you make

founded on the cuban river at the end of the eighteenth century. from a small pool site outpost to a modern administrative capital. and as soon as you write this one lady you really need to go and see. this. catherine and she is the patron saint of president up i am legend has it that if you come into a monument and stand on this circle then you come under the same protection for the time you were in this. was really to get sight see cardboard stalls for the birds on t.v. . now this is president's famous water tower it's one of many constructions remaining by famous russian engineer bloody mess and it's still one of the best places to take a look at this it. is often referred to as russia's thomas edison because of the quality of his invention he need hyper beloit towers like this although after fifty years of just use it is starting to get a little rusty her. grave. it may no longer be because of those tallest buildings but for a panoramic view there are a few better places. who are clearly maybe hungry but luckily just a place to go. i'm always l

and from the cuban five to the white house twenty seven a group of activists fighting to shut down the school of america will explore the criminal charges these activists now face after deciding to fight for their rights and beliefs. evening it's monday september twelfth seven pm here in washington d.c. i'm lauren lyster and you're watching our t.v. fear in the markets today came as investors and economists are worried that greece could be closer to defaulting on its debt now analysts say they don't believe the u.s. can be insulated from the stress on european banks economists are already worried the u.s. is headed into recession and worry europe could be the tipping. point but in a crazy world obama took this opportunity to go to the calm of the rose garden to try to sell his jobs bill. the world economy. that is full of uncertainty right now in europe in the middle east some advance may be beyond our control. but this is something we can control obama says what we can control is passing his bill but president obama doesn't really have control to pass this measure with a divided washi

. >> now thousands of cubans cued for hours to pay tribute to the late defense minister who died overthe weekend of a heart attack. he was a close associate of president raul castro. his death puts a focus on the fragility to have cup's aging leadership -- of the country's aging leadership. >> one of the original revolutionary fighters. his death was marked with full military honors. throughout the day, thousands of cubans of all ages filed past his portrait in the lobby of the ministry of defense. outside the line stretched as far as the eye could see. julio rigero was a trained accountant who gave up his job in the late 1950's and headed to the mountains to join fidel castro's rebel army attempting to overthrow dictator bautista. he was 75 years old. he was one of the younger leaders in cuba. his death has brought into focus that there is no clear plan for a transition to a younger generation of leaders. president raul castro is 80 years old and so is his number two. if i had el castro who no longer holds any official position, is 85. he has not been seen in public since this appear

and now this is a typical day we're on patrol but you only want to do is go down the cuban river all the way to places where bedding is allowed and most importantly where it's not allowed to. shoot the problem is that there is a very strong current in the kugan river and swimming can be very dangerous. some people try to do it when they're under the influence of alcohol or. teenagers over there for instance but as the boat drove past they seem to change their minds pretty quickly. so you guys are they're just hard to put a place for. these two and his colleagues normally patrol the forty kilometer stretch but state the public role playing the use of the river. of course it never hurts to issue a gentle reminder to everyone having a nice time don't go swimming don't go. see and nobody's going swimming pool see how impressed they are with all authority . mind you there were one or two people who did look like they were getting ready to hold themselves it. usually victims. so from being very cautious but things were about to get interesting. well everyone's been doing very well behaved

came out, a billionaire, and mark cuban said this. he says we shouldn't be trying to shift the benefits of wealth behind some curtain while some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, i don't. i find it patriotic. i think that that's an interesting that now we're starting to see different people of that top 1% or 2% come out and say what are you all talking about? what's wrong with this? and in fact cuban says, alex, it's patriotic. >> billionaires coming out of the woodwork saying take my money, please. i think that that, you know, speaks to a sense that we are sort of off the rails in terms of our tax policy and as senator boxer said, look, the top 0.1% of the country makes 10% of the gross income. there's something -- there is something off kilter there, but to your earlier point, reverend, there is backlash to what the president did on monday, and that's inevitable and a lot of people understand why he's doing it. one, the sort of political strategy. i mean, the gop has basically dug in its heels on every level to the exte

we heard about the cuban missile crisis. this is about the bay of pigs. >> i remember so well that that happened, whatever the a was, it was in the morning. he came back to the white house. he started to cry. but just with maine, he put his head in his hands and wept. i have only seen him cry about three times. twice the winter he was sick, but tears would roll down his cheek. and then that time. and then when patrick, when we came back from the hospital, and he walked in one morning about 8:00 in my room, he stopped and put his arms around it. and it was so sad, because all of his dreams, and for this awful thing to happen, and he cared so much. he did not care about is 100 days, but for this poor man. with all the hopes and promises, and they were shot down like adults. he cared so much about them. host: in our remaining minute, what did you take away from that and the 7.5 hours that you listen to overnight? guest: what is fascinating with jackie kennedy, even the president kennedy sought to have a barrier on his home life

it was not one of the great presidencies -- >> cuban missile crisis. >> right, that is what i meant by carmageddon. it is not have run over us today. europe and japan were rubble. of course we have a dominant, strong economy. we had no competition. living in a cloud of nuclear annihilation in a way we just do not remember now. it is different now. our economy is weak, but it is a different kind of existential -- >> talking about this moment illustrates the fact that when you do is look back with rose- tinted glasses, because we're still talking about his presidency and its former first lady. >> i was on active duty during the time of the cuban missile crisis. i don't recall thinking we were under some nuclear powcloud. we had is owns it knocked out in cuba -- zones knocked out in cuba and were to do something. >> exactly. there was a chance of a nuclear exchange would which would have killed millions. you were at the time right at their. john mccain was also in florida at the time, waiting for his orders. this was as close as we ever got. it was not at the time. -- it was not a happy t

one of their lowest moments came during the cuban missile crisis when he called her at their virginia >> it was just so unlike him. i could tell from his voice it was wrong and that's the whole point of being married, you can sense trouble in their voice and you musn't ask why. so we came right back. >> reporter: the missile crisis lasted more than a week-- one of the few times americans thought a soviet nuclear attack was a real possibility. >> i said, please don't send me away to camp david, me and the children. please don't send me anywhere. i just want to be on the lawn when it happens. i just want to be with you and i want to die with you and the children do, too. >> reporter: today would have been their 58th anniversary. chip reid, cbs news, washington. >> pelley: serena williams was fined $2,000 today for what she said at the u.s. open women's final. >> pelley: williams ripped into the chair judge after being penalized for yelling during play. $2,000 isn't much compared to the $82,500 she was fined for threatening a line judge in 2009 or the $1.4 million she earned at this year

ap guayabera represents the ultimateness in cubanness, he says.er gera creation with the cuban flag on the back turned heads when delgado wore it on stage. it also caught the attention of a big name fashion designer. but if all goes well, the shirts for men and women could be on sale in european department stores. in the meantime, gera has taken on a big challenge at home, where guayaberas are associated with government and bureaucrats. i want to attract young people to guayaberas, he says, i'm giving them more shape, more curves. at $20 to $100, the hand crafted shirts are out of reach for many in cuba where the average salary is $20 a month. guerra is doing his part to keeping the tradition alive, even dedicating a song to a guayabera. if you put one on, you can go anywhere. shasta darlington, cnn, havana. >> a catchy tune. cuba's guayabera reminded us of traditional garments we've seen from other countries, modeled each year at the asia pacific summit. leaders traditionally pose wearing the host country's national costumes. one of the most memo

i listened to my mom's cuban records that they smuggled out.hen we came together those influences came together. i brought the ballads to the band and learned how to do dance music and learned to play percussion. it came very natural to me. it happened very slowly. we had this vocabulary from both worlds that we could really bring into our own. it was never like oh, let's do this because it is happening. it was like this sounds really good. this rhythm sounds really good melded with this and this sounds really hot and we liked it. it was always about expressing ourselves and everybody came along. tavis: back to "miss little havana," you said, i made a comment and you jobed, they still sell -- you joked, they still sell records? the record business moves like to speed of light, like the speed of sound. when you stay out of the game for any space of time, >> like five seconds? tavis: exactly. speed of light, speed of sound. how do you know -- they say get in where you fit in. how do you know where you get in, to fit? ? how dow you know your sound

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shoot the problem is that there is a very strong current in the cuban river and swimming can be very dangerous. some people try to do it when they're under the influence of alcohol. teenagers over there for instance but as the pope drove past they seem to change their minds pretty quickly. you guys are they're just hard to put that plays back on. the tour and his colleagues normally patrol a forty kilometer stretch but today the public will obey movements of the river. because it never hurts to issue a gentle reminder to everyone having a nice time don't go. don't go. see and nobody's going swimming to see how impressed they are with all authority. runs you there were one or two people who did look like they were getting ready to hold themselves. future victims. but. a little been very quiet as us things were about to get interesting. well everyone's been doing very well behaved out in the living state but to go as he still needs training which means they need a victim. class markets. it's a little difficult to do a good impression of a drowning man in a highly buoyant suits but i do

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cubans -- cuban missile crisis. read the transcript and listen to the tapes. kennedy always calls mike panera bob and he always calls dean rusk, secretary rusk. that tells you something about their relationship. ronald reagan was very close to of one bird and had been in california. he tolerated the very open disagreement between the secretaries that caused all kinds of problems in the administration. he said there both my friends and i'm not calling to choose between them. he was close and drew upon his closeness to the president. who else was close? well, clearly george marshall who served only a year during the korean war had previously been secretary of state under harry truman and then came back. he was close to truman. -- those are the ones that come to mind first. i looked at the list i might add one or two others. >> how would you assess the lack of military experience with members of congress and how it affects their ability to provide oversight? if you look at the members the do have it, the experience in the navy in and secretary of the navy, mccain

a cuban court found him guilty trying to subvert the cuban government and sentenced him to 15 years inf cuba. i have learned from my parents and through experience that respect is something one must have in order to receive. >> reporter: judy gross reads from a statement her husband wrote by hand and delivered to a havana court in march. is that what he sounds like? >> oh, yeah. very outgoing, very confident. very moral, very ethical. >> reporter: alan gross loves music. >> it's one string. >> reporter: these are instruments he collected? >> some of them. not all of them. >> reporter: there were times early on when judy gross had hoped music would help him through his ordeal. when he was in prison, he actually played instruments with his guards? joshgs once or twice, i think it was the warden of the prison i think was a musician, gave him an instrument. >> reporter: in early august, the cuban court turned down her husband's last appeal. she is asking president raul castro and the cuban government to release him on humanitarian grounds. >> one of my biggest fears is i'm going to get a c

they want to do is go down the cuban river all the way to places where bathing is allowed and most importantly where it's not allowed to. the problem is that there is a very strong current in the kugan river and swimming can be very dangerous. some people trying to do it when they're under the influence of alcohol. teenagers over there for instance but as the boat. post they seem to change their minds pretty quickly. too guys or they're just hard to put. between his colleagues normally patrol to stretch but to date the public. as a result. of course it never hurts to issue a gentle reminder to. everyone having a nice time don't go. don't go. see and nobody is going swimming to see how impressed they are with our authority. to people who did look like they were getting ready to sit. future victims. been very quiet but things were about to get interesting. well everyone's been doing very well behaved down the river today but to go as he still needs train which means they need a victim. class monkey and. it's a little difficult to do a good impression of a drowning man in a fight. but i do try my

different sense -- i have a question here that says that some constitutions -- and they mention the cuban one -- include health and literacy as basic rights. should we think of those as basic rights? you will certainly realize that at least as to help, that is one of the key problems going on in the present debt ceiling controversy in washington. >> my favorite book just recently, and i tell you it is $9.95 on amazon, is president kennedy's book called "nation of immigrants." it was written in the early 1960's. it will take you a couple of hours to read it again. it is a fabulous book and makes you realize that nothing has changed in the last 50 years. he talks about why we are a nation of immigrants and why that has been the strength of america. so, yes, we are all a nation of immigrants. we should remember that in these debates. but florida has an interesting process, something the all states should adopt, but every 20 years, a group of 30 citizens are awarded by the governor, the speaker of the house, the senate, supreme court, to rewrite florida's constitution, every line of it. it do

the former cuban leader made the mocking statements in an essay on cuban state media, referring to theust a day after president obama said the tough line on cuba could change if the cuban government would liberate its people. >>> and china launches its first unmanned spacecraft in the hopes of eventually building its own space station. the 8 1/2-ton will conduct experiments and practice docking maneuvers over the next few weeks. china plans to send astronauts into space for the project sometime in the next year. >> that will be very interesting. chinese space station, huh? >> yeah. that didn't surprise me at all. i mean everybody knows that anyone who has been following what's go on with the chinese government, they're trying to keep up, trying to establish a space program. this is just another part of that, joe. >> one small step for china. >>> for years banks have been pushing us to use their debit cards. one of the largest u.s. banks wants to charge you extra every single month. the first votes around the corner. the republican presidential primary calendar is still in disarray. det

even in her humor, it is reflected when she talks about meeting their recently freed cuban exiles who been part of the secret of american and that failed efforts to invade cuba, the bay of pigs. and she talks about how haggard -- they had just come out of prison. here you are in use cds man with these el -- and you see these faces.ith the el greco she is making a pop culture reference to an 1940's dance band, and then referring to a classic spanish portraiture of el greco. this botflies out of her very easily. she worked hard and constantly and float -- improved ermine and she really absorb information. she had a thirst for knowledge. host: from carl anthony online, he rides on his website. caller: i have a question. a fellow person who works on the jack kennedy assassination got me on this. the connection with birth pain, and george bush, and howard hughes actually knowing jackies family. the second question, the comet would be anything you might know about jackie and bobby kennedy's supposed meetings where they discussed peripheral involvement by lbj. in the assassination of jfk and