cuban relations. or better u.s. cuban relations that is a very very deep and complex probe problem no it's not only you know the many crossed interests between these two countries but because there is such a large and strong cuban community live in herein the u.s. and specifically here in miami or south florida that many times you know one gets the sensation that this can just get in the way of any possible improvement but as i say it is such a problem and we do try to tendon find you know a turning point that would trigger a change but i don't really think the relations will change due to a single issue it's more a matter of will and of compromise absolutely well ali have time for our tease nicholas o'donovan from our miami studio thank you. and two former guantanamo bay detainees have asked a french judge to subpoena a former prison commander they accuse of overseeing their alleged torture bizarre saussy and morag vigilante are french citizens who were both captured by u.s. authorities in khandahar afghanistan the

and another member of the cuban find proof is released from us custody. the five men were convicted back in two thousand won on spying charges. that won't mean the hill that spew out to look at the history the cuban five coming up. and in california ap the city officers face charges of car that six of the city's top officers have been arrested for their involvement in a car in between each more than scraps and later in the show a fan. there's a february twenty seven. i am in washington dc. here is a bit in your watching art in america. any gains in saying that the news that britain's intelligence agency the gc hq collecting images from webcam conversations conducted by now the users this is all according to documents released by former government contractor and with snowmen entertained by the guardian report reveals the details of the surveillance program called optic nerve which the gc hq was collecting and storing these images and large quantities all the support of the us national security agency. oh and siemens rti who has said when you were not aware

the cubans inside cuba and outside even here in miami supported the release of the cuban five we already have two of them back in love and they story left two of them could be out in less than five. six years but the case is there's still one that's facing life in prison here in the u.s. and all precious precious little just to try to get him back home thank you so much i'm nicholas sanchez and i'm going to really appreciate breaking it down. that's our show you guys join me again tomorrow and break the set all over again. i marinate join me. for in-depth impartial and financial reporting commentary for news and much much. only on bombast and on. the nose c.n.n. the m s m b c news have taken some slightly but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate. that was funny but it's close and for the troops in the might think. it's because one call attention and the mainstream media works side by side the joke is actually on you look. at our team news we have a different pretty. good because the news of the world just is

has there been any statement from the cuban government regarding fernando gonzalez release. of the i received a small in was from the obama officials reaction but it was a very special one it was. the first member of the cuban five to be released it was around eight or nine am miami time and what he said was that finally fed is out of prison and fifteen years said that basically shows the feeling of the cuban people officially the only thing we've heard for the most. is that they will be a concert held next saturday to honor the cuban five we know that renee will be there what we still don't know is if. gonzales will be there at all i'm sure that when it comes the reaction will be obviously one of welcome in a hero back home cuba has always always said that the group of the cuban five were never responsible for any sort of violence and that they never try to infiltrate the u.s. army never targeted u.s. interests and that they only objective was to basically prevent future terrorist attacks as you just mentioned terrorist attacks that by the way were plotted here in miami two

and he is cuban-american. and we remembered how we were always kind of warned when we were out flying not to get mistaken between santiago and guantanamo because the runways look exactly the same. they're both east-west runways, they're right there on the ocean, there's a bay on both of them. and if you weren't careful, you might land at one rather than so all that time that we were flying out of there, we -- we never went to santiago, of course. we couldn't. but we used to see it as we patrolled the skies. now landing at sandia goa was kind of an interesting flashback in time when yo i was a young ny pilot. i wanted to get a firsthand look at life of the ordinary people outside of havana, and particularly i have long advocated in this country for a strong public health infrastructure. and i wanted to examine the strengths and weaknesses of cuba's public health system. so, as i said, that's what i did most of the time when i was there. when we first arrived in santiago, we went to visit the cancer hospital whi

/cuban relations. cuban police arrested gross in 2009. gross is accused of spying for the u.s. government. but he says he was there to set up internet in jewish communities. the cuban government said it is willing to release gross in exchange for four cuban citizens detained in the u.s. since 1998. >>> the american missionary obtained in north korea has been moved to a labor camp. kenneth bay was arrested in 2009. the u.s. state department tells his sister, it is concerned with his health. bay is accused of using his tourism business to form antigovernment groups. the state department is working for bay's release on hum humanitarian grounds. >>> people in japan are recovering this morning after a 4.2 magnitude earthquake hit the country. just off the eastern coast on the line with fukushima. japanese authorities say no one was hurt and that the area is not under a tsunami warning. there was some initial concern because of just how close the quake was to the disaster at fukushima nuclear power plant that failed back in 2011. those fears were dismissed after the facility was chec

/cuban relations have never recovered.g a struggling economy, castro eased emigration restrictions and more than 125,000 fled under president carter's open arms policy. but castro seemed to slip other folks in that policy. the u.s. tightened its trade embargo and mid it permanent. in the last decade george w. bush pushed hard to end communist rule. change sort of came in 2006 when fidel castro's failing health led him to hand over power to his brother, raul. after formally taking power, he initiated new reforms and offered to normalize relations with the united states. president obama has lifted some restrictions on travel. the strong anti-cuba lobby in congress and south florida has hampered further action. despite the fact that the president said just three months ago that u.s. policy towards cuba, quote, doesn't make sense. for years it's been assumed that cuba cuban-americans and the florida vote would keep change from happening. but it's no long er the politicl third rail it once was n. fact, support in south florida

taken to the cleaners the cuban missile crisis.he said in his memoirs mayland kennedy had killed he wept. there is not an iota of evidence so these are cubans are involved in the murder of john f. kennedy. yet two weeks ago our esteemed secretary of state, john kerry says in an interview with cnn, i never thought ocelot act to the loved. i think the russians in the cubans did it completely wrong. another question. >> you mentioned briefly perhaps possible setups in chicago and tampa. is it true the three men was holed up in tampa and kennedy's campaign appearance was canceled because of that? or am i getting that from quite >> they canceled the long motorcade that would have put them at risk. but i think in both cases secret service learned of the attempts and changes were made to avoid this exposure. there's no way to avoid the fact that in dallas secret service asked in a very strange way. i personally have been involved in 13 trips on behalf of the president of the united states and i understand there is a process involved in ma

>> tonight mark cuban for the hour. mark cuban is a man who wears many hats. dallas mavericks owner, axis tv chairman, investor. welcome to you. >> thanks, piers. >> where do we start with you? i watched you last night. amazing moment. your team beating the knicks in the last second with a typical cubanesque moment. i thought there's this guy who went you were 19, 20, you didn't have a dime to rub between you, right? and there you are the billionaire owner of a basketball team beating the knicks in their own backyard. what did that moment feel like for you? >> it's amazing. that's one of the beauties of owning a sports team when you get to run out on the court where there's a buzzer beater jumping up and down with everyone else and the cops aren't chasing you. it's surreal, an amazing feeling. >> do you pinch yourself sometimes? >> every day. i can't tell you how many times i'll just look around and my family and just everything that's going on and just -- it's crazy. it's amazing. and i try to never take it for granted. >> your story is extraordinary. because

and frankly, i think we need to ask the cuban people for change, the cuban government for change, ints its own people. to me, human rights is at the core of it. i think until they ease up on their horrible repression, until they make changes within their system that allows for a little bit of freedom, i find it really difficult to just walk away from our current policy. and, chuck, let me point out two quick things for you. number one, it isn't up to the president to change the policy. it's legislatively enacted. >> yeah. >> second thing is, it's not unusual to ask charlie crist to change his position. he used to be staunchly in charge of the embargo. >> that's what party switchers in general have to deal with, a lot of flipped positions. let's go to the issue of human rights. on cuba, we're holding cuba to a standard that we don't hold china to. i'm sorry, it's a contradiction that have very hard to defend. >> look, i understand that some people want to kblos it over. however, i would -- i would sustain that cuba's situation is far different from china. number one, it's right next d

i sent his medical records down alongside the cuban medical -- cuban missile crisis. alongside the cuban missile crisis. there were no concessions to his medical difficulties during that crisis. there were medications that i think how can get through it without stumbles. to get back to your point about sorensen, he was a somewhat prickly character. very defensive about kennedy as if he were the keeper of the flame. i don't know why jacqueline kennedy was so critical of him. i think she was overly critical in the sense that sorensen was a total loyalist and he served kennedy's needs and desires and wishes to the nth degree and it wasn't as if he stole funding from kennedy. -- as if he stole thunder from kennedy. he didn't make claims to having published "profiles in courage." >> did he or did he not write "profiles in courage"? >> that is a complicated story. he did write part of it. there were others who contributed. my research told me because kennedy would listen to the tapes, the transcripts of the chapters, he would edit them. it would be unfair to say that kenned

cuban students are in american schools. they share their eye-opening experiences. tonight we're hearing from survivors who escapes in order korea and their stories are shocking the world. extermination camps killing entire families, prisoners digging their own graves and forced abortions. a new united nations reports to be released in hours. it blames the kim family for years of crimes against humanity. >> it is a place that would make your hair stand on end. >> kim young sun, known as yodok. >> from sunrise to sunset you work. there are no set working hours. you get up at 3:30 a.m. and work until dark. >> she managed to escape the country giving evidence to the united nations and the south korean capitol seoul, for their year long investigation of the secretive regime. it is evidence of torture, widespread abductions and murder. also spoke of extermination campletion. >> i -- camps. >> i have escorted a family to camp 16. and then to camp 11. that is called ex terminating three generations of a family. >>> prisoner comes into an office and is told to take a seat.

he had come out of that cuban missile crisis. nuclear war, so much on the horizon. they were both, i think frightened, terrified by that experience. and as a consequence, kennedy wanted to move towards some datomp with the soviet union. that's how he got the treaty signed in 1963. happened very quickly because they had been hassled over there for years. it was a spin-off, i think from that cuban missile crisis and the terror they faced over that. i think we would have seen the talk with the soviet union more quickly than it came about with richard nixon. >> you spend a lot of time talking about the individuals around him and people like mr. sorensen and here was the view of jackie kennedy in march to june when they did these interviews with arthur sleshing ger. here's what she said about mr. sorensen. >> i know one thing about the legislative breakfast. larry couldn't stand ted sorensen until one night he was telling me, you know, they were obviously jealous. he said so many times larry would prepare an agenda for the breakfast and just before they were about to sta

the other hand the younger not entirely decided the security forces on the cuban basis of the cuban you know. so what these incredible that it is but i was too which is one of the richest country of the bg just too into it sooner. it's reached on a country where that can be when you have shortages of everything and you have a secure street security force organized acumen way to the legal ninety two. that modest entry i personally quite know what he says farming itself into a cuban economy. announcing the vet with noah. we all ate we are in an envelope that this impact in me the same way for them and they dealing with your position. the same way that dealing with these papers the same with enduring mysteries. and when i'm talking about. violence in the streets. it's the most violent country in the well see how it has become your blinds us to do the right gets it wasn't that way they used to could you stronger they used to be set says this as a self sufficient in the film. now they've gotten everything from colombia for example. from a few president can say i quote that these we need to s

there are others within the government but they are less pro-cuban pro-cuban. >> nicolas maduro made noises about meeting with president obama. any chance that will happen? >> no and nor should it. >> time to see what is trending on the website. >> one of the arguments that we here dash sorry, is it pre-taped. ... (technical difficulties) >> from priestly child abuse, cronyism crime and corruptions at the vatican bank pope francis has his handsful. we look at the scandals within the church that frannize has had to try to manage. expectations for the new pope could not be higher. >> francis is the first pope not to have studied in rome worked in rome or spent time in rome. he's an outsider. >> he's a man that can draw up the people and give them hope. one has to wonder if he can live up to his own less assy. >> i'm joined by author of "secrets of the vatican" debuting on pbs. anthony, great to have you with us. alarming things you raise. high hopes for pope francis. >> absolutely. >> when pope benedict xvi weren't there scandals in the church, and hopes he'd clean them up? >> absolute

the cubans began arriving in force. they run over kerry intelligence. civil intelligence. 50,000stimated over cubans in venezuela, teachers, doctors, many of them are the private security, the security for the president of venezuela and the current president, they run the internal security apparatus, and they run it like they do in cuba. no dissent. at the first sign of dissent, you cut off the head. that is way that astro has stayed in power 55 years and if met euro is allowed to do so, if maduro is allowed to do so, that is what will happen. unprecedented corruption in a country where corruption was a way of life, but with a corrupt -- flaunt their wealth. after 15 years of eliminating all political freedoms, speech, press, assembly, enterprise them and with very little attention and fewer complaints from the rest of the world, the venezuelan people got tired of it and they have gone out into the streets to protest in the only way they can. what is happening is a popular insurrection, not unlike that in kiev, but on a

has there been any statement from the cuban government regarding fernando gonzalez his release. of the first. i received a small in was from love ana it wasn't though an official reaction but it was a very special one it was written a gonzales the first member of the cuban five to be released it was around eight or nine am miami time and what he said was that finally fed in the is out of prison after serving and unfair fifteen year sentence and that basically shows the feeling of the cuban people officially the only thing we've heard for the moment is that they will be a concert held next saturday to honor the cuban five we know that renee will be there what we still don't know is if the fed and gonzalez will be there i'm sure that when it comes the reaction will be obviously one of welcome in a hero back home cuba has always always said that the group of the cuban five were never responsible for any sort of violence and that they never try to infiltrate the u.s. army never targeted u.s. interests and that they only objective was to basically prevent future terrorist attacks as

the key to getting the cubans of this clays where they -- theelong best place key to getting the cubans out of this place they don't belong is if you hold visas or go after practices. they will understand. that is the only way. nationalism, i don't think venezuelans are nationalistic. i think they are afraid. years,, mind you, for 40 there was always imperfections in democratic society. there was debate. there was consensus building. there was aggregation of interests and solution of conflicts. neither thek opposition or anybody in that this isught going to evolve in this way, and they were completely and anpared to fight authoritarian regime, and they are still unprepared. are learning, but they are learning at a very high cost. that is not a thing you learn through theory. you have to practice. in the practice has begun to be very very dear because of their pain. helps then't think it fact that -- because of the cultural heritage and the way the economy has always functioned in venezuela, which, a spanish, comes from heritage, whereby whatever wealth there is in the underground, it be

i know you're of a cuban-american background. cubans, they have property taken. they often come to this country with $5, come as tomato pickers, maids. >> i know people who have worked every kind of menial jobs. >> and they want to prove themselves. there were signs that said no dogs or cubans allowed. and they'll think you're going to respect me one day and i'll work twice as hard as anybody else to again that respect. >> you also mention cuban americans, lebanese americans, iranians, nigerians, and in all those cases it is what you're talking about. most of the immigrants, people who came from those places were people who were of the upper middle class and educated classes, and so didn't they come with an advantage, and isn't that why they're doing better? >> well, you know, it's interesting. they may have come with some stature, but not all of them were wealthy. this is very important. as you know, oftentimes a degree in other country is worth nothing here. cuban american doctors, when they came here they still had to be-- >> sure. >> the whole issue, what do

mormons, juice, asian, nigerian and cuban immigrants. according to amy twa, the superiority complex, a deeply internalized belief of your exceptionality. impulse control, the ability to resist temptation, especially the temptation to quit in the face of hardship. i'm joined by amy twa, the author of books including the controversial battle him of the tiger mother. and co-author with her husband jeff bloomen feld. bloomenfeld. thank you for being with us. >> thanks for having us. >> damaging our economy, our health, our relationship to future generations. how did we get the triple package and how did we lose it? >> in many ways, these are traditional american values. from our founding, america had a sense of exceptionality. , equality, democracy and opportunity. for most of our history, america has the exception aality as beig the underdog. >> as a colony. >> they wanted to show that our system was better, democracy was better than monarchy. they are all about preservation, thrift conditioned savings, hard work. >> how did that change? >>

americans, you also mentioned among immigrant groups, you've got cuban americans, lebanese americans, you've also got nigerians. most americans or disproportional part of people who came from those places were people of the upper middle class and educated classes. so didn't they come with an advantage and isn't that why they're doing better? >> you know that's interesting. they may have come with some stature. but not all of them were wealthy. and this is important. as you know, oftentimes a degree in another country, is worth nothing here. so the whole issue is what do they teach chair children, right? of course advantage is part of the equation. but it's for me it's let's look at the groups that are able somehow in a tough economy or tough situation to still rise, and why can't we learn from them? i want to stress though, there's all this emphasis, do you think these groups are better, absolutely not. these are qualities that anyone can learn. i've had letters from african americans, not immigrants, and they tell me, these three qualities, my mother instilled these three qualities

amazingly, by the cuban regime.such the cubans have great experience in exercising pressure and nba how to pressure societies. and they are doing that in venezuela, they control the military, they control the police, they control the intelligence agencies, so they are in full control today in venezuela . even though that's the situation we give them 100,000-barrels of oil a day. >> this began with hugo chavez's close relationship with fidel castro. but chavez was elected a number of times, maduro last year, very, very tight, almost split down the middle vote, but they also won elections in december. so what do you and other members. government? >> you know, actually, when chavez died, venezuela entered into a transition process which i believe has been now coming to an end with maduro. you know, to begin with, the last presidential elections, we won the last presidential elections, actually, we were not able to gain rick mission of that. but it's a fact. and in the election we won the big cities. but there is no ele

we have a great business for the cubans and the mafia groups and others. there's a great appetite to preserve the situation as we have it. nicolas maduro said to us last week, "i don't care, you never get back to power. and if i let loose the civilian groups, they have a lot of gangs" today they didn't because there's journalists. they have criminal gangs which killed three young people, and in valentia they shot another girl, a queen beauty was shot in the head. they use the groups in order not to let the armed forces, because the armed forces begin to get very concerned about the implications of the responsibilities that they may face in the future, regarding crimes that have been committed for many years. >> we see pictures of the opposition rallying in caracas and around the country. there's tremendous censorship. it's hard to get much of this out because the government controls almost all the media. >> you know, the control that they have is about 90%, but they have 100%, because the president enters - the chain, the link, all the televisions and radi

. >> cuban compiles open their arms.ey see me on it is streets, they ask me how i'm doing in school. >> a grube of students hoping the experience here will lead to big changes back home. >> i had one challenge that got me out of trouble in many places, which was my ability to draw funny cartoons. >> cartoonist al jaffe looks back at his 50 year career with mad magazine. >> good morning, welcome to aljazeera america. i'm libby casey. >> i'm stephanie sy. the united states nations has proof the north regime committed unspeakable crimes. a report will detail the accusations. >> the u.n. wants three generations of the ruling kim family punished for the crimes. aljazeera has more from people who lived through the alleged atrocities. >> it is a place that would make your hair stand on end. no words would help you understand what this place is like. >> kim spent years in the prison camp. from sunrise to sunset, you work. there are no set working hours. you get up at 330 only and work until dark. >> she managed to escape the cou

the biggest thing in the cold war, the cuban missile crisis.arships in cuba. >> thank you very much -- not really thank you but nice seeing you. >>> more layoffs because the feds won't layoff. charlie is ready to sound off. in the new new york, we don't back down. we only know one direction: up so we're up early. up late. thinking up game-changing ideas, like this: dozens of tax free zones across new york state. move here. expand here. or start a new business here... and pay no taxes for 10 years. with new jobs, new opportunities and a new tax free plan. there's only one way for your business to go. up. find out if your business can qualify at start-upny.com >>> this is not a good sign. jp morgan slashing 8,000 jobs, and is this about the mortgage business or the feds giving them the business and all these fines the company has to keep paying. so obviously someone has to go.e layoffs will not stop there. >> they won't and we first reported in dem that all the banks were going to experience layoffs -- >> because of the fines or the mortgage busi

the missiles of october. >> the difference between the day of pigs and the cuban missile crisis is thety to acknowledge errors and learn from your mistakes, and he changed the whole decision-making structure before the cuban missile crisis, and, again, lincoln, after the bull run incident when the troops ran away and more out was down, he stayed up all night knowing he had to figure out what had gone wrong with military policy. if you can learn, you can, indeed, grow. as long as you have that human quality to acknowledge you screwed up, and and i am going to learn from it. >> why did it take so long to was onelellan? >> that of his weakness is that with the other side of his strengths. he kept wanting to give them another chance, until finally he he couldthe only way prevent giving him another chance is to make a pledge to god and himself that if true -- mcclellan did not do the troops by a certain time, he would fire him. >> he said, my father always told me. >> and then you try to cover that by saying he was only referring to something. of the great political pictures, i think, of th

inviting in the worse case fears of another cuban missile crisis.y getting a little ahead of ourself. what do we do to count their impression we won't do anything. >> first of all, the ship in the cuban port is not anything to worry about. really. it's sort of a saber rattling thing which does not have any real effect. what really does have effect is we now have another invasion by russia. the paramilitaries are clearly russian, and coming out of their base, of a sovereign nation whose territory is very clear. the crimea became part of ukraine -- eastern ukraine is next. we're going to have to look at sanctions, have to have some german involvement in this is a well. leadership of the europeans. >> do you thinkbm:ip%óñr they wt involved? they'veline almost hands off on this, even more so than we have. >> i hope that they will. the cold war. >> john kerry said it's not another rocky iv. >> i thought it was -- the president's statement, this is not the chess match or the cold war. maybe it's not to the president and john kerry but it is to vladimir pu

when the soast union imploded and shrunk back and the russian federation was formed and the cubans had to stand on their own. the subsidies stopped. the support for the russian tractors being used and then they were robbed for parts and we ended up as the only economy that i know of that has gone from an strilized mechanical tractor production for agriculture for agriculture. i make that point to my junior senator. cuba digressed. it was digression and used animals when once they had tractors, they digressed from doctors in the clinic and hospitals to doctors behind the steering wheel and they die ress from a country that -- to a nation now that has been oppressed and under a communist dictatorship since 1959. and the senator from florida also menged that they don't have the freedoms there that even though there was discussion about access to the internet, i can tell you pirnlly, the senator from florida is right, they don't have access to the internet. i was on a trip up to a college up in the mountains in cuba. we rode up there in the back of a russian vehicle and it took an hour, 45

the cuban invasion, would have gone forward in eisenhower style, overwhelming force. eisenhower hated the idea of the ground war in asia. he would have said, dick, don't do it know, same way he kept us out of any real involvement in indo-chinain' 1954. did send money over there, and some arms and probably helped prop up the regime, about whether he would have gone -- i can't imagine, i can't imagine 550,000 american soldiers fighting a gradualist war under anyone except lyndon johnson. >> host: i agree with you at that point. i think 1961 would have played out quite differently had richard nixon been president. fortunately we have the history we have. >> guest: we do. >> host: you think that the kennedy assassination is a major turning point for richard nixon. >> guest: i do. i think the assassination was the worst thing that ever happened to richard nixon. he had a really traumatic loss in 1960. he ran for governor in 1962, at the urging of eisenhower. terrible mistake on his part. nixon wrote a long memo, shy run north run? the cons won the argument but he was -- yo

he is a cuban immigrant. fair enough. we like cubans. here is the question.nist patter and we all hate castro and simply he's projected what he came from on to this country. obama is not a marxist or a castroite or anything like it. he's not anti-god. he was just at the prayer breakfast. what is this about? why does he just cookie cut, i'm with the cubans on that one, they had their country stolen from them. nobody stole this country. obama was elected. where does he have his head screwed around to where he came from and adjust to the fact his son is a united states senator and representing him on the road? he ought to get his facts reasonably straight. your thoughts? >> well, basically, look, the fact that he is from cuba, that he left cuba, in fact, he fought for castro for a while, but then was fighting against batista. the fact that he has that as a credential makes the rest of this happen. he is talking and saying things that ted cruz wants him to say to particular constituencies. he's preaching to the choir. to a choir that's very important to ted cruz.

does this mean obama care is going to turn into the cuban health care system?e he should retire there. all right. if you have your own hit or miss, send it to us at jeron fnc. that's it for this week's show. thanks to my panel. especially to you for watching. i'm paul gigot. hope to see you here next week. >>> you can feel excitement is building here in the big apple with the super bowl just one day away. moments ago new jersey governor chris christie and new york governor andrew cuomo are handing off official super bowl duties to next year's host state arizona. represented by governor jan brewer, all happening right there in times square. i am ready for some football. are you? >> yes, i certainly am. i picked both teams in the

that abun adaptly clear when you listen to all those and read transcripts of the tapes during the cuban missile crisis. he was his own man, making up his own mind, held the joint chiefs, and at arms length, wanted to bomb, invade, and he didn't want to do it. >> an inside look at the kennedy administration sunday night at eight on c-span's "q&a." >> the search gifts are energy, enthusiasm, empathy, good humor, graciousness, and gratitude. four e's, three, g's. you won't believe how often i have not been able to remember that. i feel okay for governor perry, you know, how he froze in the debate when he wanted to abolish three agencies, and i've been with governor perry in an event since then, and he makes fun of himself. we have brain freezes. i do it all the time, interviewed on the television station, what are the seven gifts, and i always get six and hope they are not counting, i go energy, empathy, enthusiasm, forget encouragement, get the three g's, but i miss an e. i slide by, and no one's called me on it yet, but i'll show you each one of them. energy. if you listen to my radio sh

was in cuba last week and claims hes went on a 186 mile walk inn the countryside and concluded the cubansystem is quite arcable, very good. -- quite remarkable, very good. tomad harkin is the chairman the senate health and education committee. these are the guys who wrote the rules for the affordable care act.who does this mean obamacare is going to gradually turn into the cuban health care system. >> maybe hee should retire there.hou remember if you have yourthe own hit or miss please send it to us. be sure to follow us on twitter as well. that's it for this week's show. thanks to mymy panel, especially to you forally watching. i'm paul gigot. hope to see you right here next week. >>> fox news alert. oscar winning actor phillip seymour hoffman has died. nypd confirming to fox news his body was found inside his new york city apartment after an apparent drug overdose. we're live in a west coast news room with the latest. >> reporter: this is very tragic news to the entertainment industry. four hours ago police responded to a 911 call and once they reached the apartment building in the wes

cubans can't afford to lose maduro. they represent 15% of cuba's gdp. 100,000. $40,000, various trainers of the sort and advisors. military, spies, a lot of that. so a lot of the strategy, even the those that we saw crack down, the government thugs that have been violent? >> were based upon the committees of the defense of the revolution in cuba. they very much advised this government how to do the repressive strategy. cuba has been basically twisting in the wind comically. >> is there a danger there that that might increase the violence? >> i think the cubans are going to try to remain there as long as they can and try to prop up this government. maduro is their man. there are other people within the government. they are less pro-cuban. >> he has made noises about trying to meet with president obama. any chance that will happen? >> time to see what's trend okay al jazeera's website. check back in with lermella. >> one of the arguments we hear from people saying the u.s. drinking age should be lowered is it would teach

they say they were just trying to monitor violent right-wing cuban exile groups. another member was released in 2011. three others remain in prison. in environmental news, a probe by the state department's inspector general has found a contractor who analyze the environmental impact of the keystone xl oil pipeline did not violate conflict of interest rules, even though it previously performed work for the pipeline company transcanada. environmentalists said the contractor failed to properly disclose industry ties before issuing a report but downplayed the pipelines harms. president obama is expected to issue a decision in the next few months on the pipeline, which would carry tar sands oil from canada to the u.s. gulf coast. hundreds of protesters plan to lock themselves to the white house gates on sunday to urge obama to reject the pipeline, which they say would be a disaster for the climate. in related news, federal regulators say railcars being used to transport oil from north dakota's mocon shale pose an unacceptable safety risk. the cars were involved in rece

the latest on that ahead and another member of the cuban five spy group is released from the u.s. custody of five men were convicted back in two thousand and one on spying charges but back home they've been hailed as heroes a look at the history of the cuban five coming up. and in california king city officers face charges of carved eft six of the city's top officers have been arrested for their involvement and car impounding scheme more on the police corruption later in the show.

the united states where a trade embargo that bans imports as our correspondent michael voss reports cuban cigar sales are growing much pasta in the world economy as a whole the cue from abc and the calming his country in the americas but it takes great pride in producing one of the state as symbols of a successful capitalist large and roll cuban cigar. it is sales figures announced that the opening of the annual havana cigar festival soul turnover increased to four hundred and forty seven million dollars an increase of eight percent over the previous year. while we're in a national presence no one hundred and fifty markets is to this he does on the seagulls will like the city re read it for one site in the great agreed to marry white ghost. we can compensate. he sees in one region with the preseason the beach. sales to the number one market spain continued to decline. but these mumbles and compensated for by emerging markets in a share in the middle east the sale marks the twentieth anniversary of the creation of a bottle says say it's the company which has exclusive worldwide marketing r

he is a cuban immigrant. fair enough. we like cubans. here is the question. he brought that communist patter and we all hate castro and simply applied it to our politics. that's what it sounds like. conflate the cuban experience with a larger anti-communist and subsequently anti-gay marriage, anti-obama, anti-democratic philosophy and politics and it works with the folks he talks to. >> the only time i've seen his son go full moon like that when he was on after hagel with the mccarthy crap. he's picking the guy's tab up when he travels for him. is he his surrogate or not? >> absolutely he's a surrogate. he's a very charismatic speaker. he's someone who appeals strongly to the republican base, the conservative base. >> your base. >> well, the conservative base. especially -- >> okay. let's talk about the republican party. >> the ted cruz base. >> is the republican party include people who believe obama was born in kenya? a significant number of people who won't to hear that crap? >> i think there's a proportion. >> 5%, 10%? >> a number of folks. he has his per

can you imagine, madam president, apps like zello spreading to millions of cubans, millions of iranians, millions of chinese providing them the tools to directly speak out for freedom. but we have other ways of supporting those advocating for a more free and prosperous venezuela such as supporting the sort of liberal economic reforms that mr. lopez has proposed. given the remarkable natural resources that venezuela has enjoyed, it is ridiculous, it is tragic that the economy has been so mismanaged that citizens face a chronic shortage of basic necessities. but this situation is not inevitable and the united states is uniquely poised to help. for the united states, canada and now mexico, democratic market-ernestod -- market oriented energy production has been begun what we call the energy renaissance and there is no reason venezuela could not reap these benefits if they reverse the socialist policies that destroyed their economy. in this event the united states could help venezuela reach its full energy potential by offering a bilateral investment treaty that would cover the energy secto

he was selected by chavez and by the cubans. trained in cuba under the castro brothers because he was a very promising, not very intelligent communist to take over from chavez after chavez died a year, over a year ago. so he is really following the script that is written for him from havana. there is very little originality in what maduro or the people around him are doing in venezuela today. the violence is being directed from cuba. david: you know them very well. you lived there. you were ambassador there. you have family there. they are accustomed to democracy. granted it is not u.s. democracy. it has been imperfect at best over the past several decades. it's a democracy. they're not accustomed to that in cuba. if he is getting orders from the cubans who have no idea what democracy is, doesn't that mean eventually there will be such pushback that he will be gone? >> he is only going to be one if the army, the police, the security forces and the gangs of several hundred, or sorry, several thousand thug that is the cubans organ