i was in one of cuba's most prominent schools when i made a joke about president fidel castro. the kid that slept on the bunk bed on top of me recorded that conversation, and i was expelled from school. my mom said the only choice is for us to leave cuba. i'm a businessman. i've lived in miami 35 years. it's my home base. i come back and forth it cuba. i've been coming to cuba for over 20 years. i mean, cuba is a communist country in economic transition. >> fidel castro allowed cubans to establish more businesses, there are people that are making money, there are people that have created a tremendous amount of wealth. >> people with family connections to the states, people tied to the exploding tourist industry, small business owners, taxi drivers, people operating in ever-changing gray areas of what is permissible. how's it work right now? if you're cuban, you can sell your property to -- >> another cuban from cuba. that's what's happening right now. a lot of cuban-americans, a lot of cubans living abroad are now coming back and through relatives are buying property. >> obviou

no, fidel castro killed john f. kennedy. these are the stories power has told about itself throughout my life time. essentially these are the real conspiracy theories and they are told by power. with the complicity of the american media, appropriate media. these are the stories that had unfortunately some tragic consequences as well as we all know from the examples i just cited. it is the job of people like me, historians, alternative historians, journalists, to present the truth. basically, to cut through mythsmaking, spinning of history, of reality. it is no easy task because there is hollywood, there is the corporate media, there is a fox news. again and again day after day 24/7 they are telling us there reality and as the great sociologists who wrote the power elite during the cold war in the 1915s, one of the first to analyze the phenomenon of the dulles brothers and the power circle, as he famously said about these. is such men as these, they were 99% men and 96% today such men as these are crackpot realists. and we ar

. >> going to play a love interest of, get this, fidel castro. more on that. >>> a look inside today's . >>> you know her for he roles in american hustle and the hunger games. and now jennifer lawrence is tapped to play fidel castro's former lover. how the 19-year-old met and had and how she helped the cia with a covert assassination attempt. not confirmed and no details on when the movie will be released. >>> jamie foxx is called a hero after coming to a rescue of a flaming truck. the man lost control and the truck rolled before bursting into flames. happened off the road and into a ditch, causing it to roll over. the driver was trapped inside. that's when fox jumped into help. >> i don't look at it as heroic. this is just -- had to do something. and it all just worked out. >> police say that driver did suffer burned and also arrested for driving under the >>> the annual convention for tv, nat-p. >> the national association for television programming executives is all about the buying and selling of tv shows. lisa petrillo has been there all day

marita was 1 years old when she game fidel castro's lover. later she claims she was also present during the planning of john f. kennedy's assassination. the production company considering cuba as a possible shooting location. >> i don't know who is playing fidel castro, but he's a lucky guy. >>> still a lot more ahead for the next half hour. the run. north miami police are on the hunt for a dangerers criminal they say is responsible for a string of armed robberies. >>> south florida, as you head out the door on this thursday morning, want to grab the sweaters because it is on the cool sidede we're waking up to temperatures in the 50s. id to low 60s. as we head out the door, things are looking good. especially dropping kids at the bus stop. as theay goes on, a few more of the clouds rolling in. things should be okay by late morning into the early afternoon hours. after the >>> w at 5:30, a live look at jackson memorial hospital where a miami police officer is being treated after being stabbed in the face. >>> winter is coming for the east coas

no, fidel castro killed john f. kennedy. these are the stories that power has told about itself throughout my lifetime. essentially, these are the real conspiracy theories. and they're told by power. with the complicity of the american media, corporate media. and these are the stories that have had, unfortunately, some tragic consequences as well, as we all know. from the examples that i just cited. sost the job of people like -- so it's the job of people like me, historians, alternative historians, journalists, to present the truth, basically, to cut through this myth-making, this spinning of history, of reality. and, you know, it's no easy task because there's hollywood, there's the corporate media, there's fox news. and again and again, day after day, 24/7, they're telling us their reality. and as mills, the great sociologist who wrote "the power elite" back during the cold war in the 1950s and was one of the first to analyze the phenomenon of the dulles brothers and that power circle, as he famous hi said about these men

what is your favorite fidel castro joke? his face went white.ittle beads of sweat rather on his four head. i do not knowd -- what but i will tell you one later. that is the difference between the united states and the freedom that so many people have sacrificed so much for it. we have men and women out there who are fighting to guarantee our liberty and our freedom. the freedom that we take for granted. i don't think any editorial cartoonist -- to educate the masses, to make sure they understand that the government works for the people. brian: you made some people who have an iranian connection mad at you for this. let us put this on the screen. the cockroaches. cartoon received a lot of criticism. if you look carefully at the cartoon -- on the bottom of the globe. it talks about terrorism. specifically about extremism in iran. brian: it is the country of iran and it has a sewer lid over it and cockroaches coming out of it. it is talking about a very specific segment of the population of iran that is andonsible for in gender the surrogates of ev

. >> she's set to play fidel castro's lover. she was just 19 years old when she became fidel castro's lover. the cia later recruited her for an unsuccessful mission to assassinate the cuban dictator. shelater claimed she was present during the planning of john f. kennedy's assassination. the company is considering cuba as a possible shooting location. >>> jennifer lawrence isn't pretty or anything. i can't imagine why they chose her. >> not talented at all. >> it's 6:25 on this thursday morning. a string of robberies. many of which were caught on camera. you're looking at it this morning. clue to tracking down that suspect. >>> straight ahead, what we now know about an officer stabbed in the fafa this morning. >>> south florida, as you head out the door this morning, we'll not be dealing with any rain. you can leave the umbrellas at home. grab the sweaters. we are waking up to temperatures in the upper 50s acrcrs the area. county. >>> right now at 6:28. that breaking news starts at a south florida casino where a policefficer was

i actually met fidel castro. greg: you met fidel. >> i did. he hosted a dinner at his palace for us. we actually sat through a four hour lecture. we had transmitters on our ears. greg: what else is going on? >> we are talking about oprah winfrey. iowa bred. i eat it every day. i lost 26 pounds. it goes up 20% yesterday. powerful this tweet was, $9 a pound. >> i love oprah winfrey. i would love to interview her here. her weight goes up and down more than mine does. >> may be the equivalent. greg: fidel castro. did you smoke cigars with him? >> i would have gotten up and walked out. >> it was too interesting. >> some of us fell asleep. >> thanks lauren. do not lose your mind. live on greg: george mike quell his old friend, ap drew. rosanna: you know what is pun ny? i met george make kell's manager. greg: you always bring up the darkest episode his life. in beverly hills. rosanna: i din say that when i met him. i said he produced us. he said we love george michael. would you bring him on good day new york. greg: i like wam. we got to bring andrew

you had jimmy carter, fidel castro, martin luther king, the beatles, founders of google and we can go on and on and we're not even taking about the stars and the comedians. playboy was very pleased to have this. they even created a special leather bound edition of that issue, which was completely just brown with gold embossed lettering with dick cheney and it's very rare that they do that. playboy has a department that tablets have frequently as content is picked up another media. they tabulated that the playboy interview with dick cheney contacted by james rosen had picked up 650 million hits around the world and i was in the audience at the washington helton in april, of 2015, when president obama himself commented on it and he made the wisecrack we talked about earlier, which was i see where dick cheney says that i'm the worst president of his lifetime, which is interesting because i see dick cheney is the worst president to my lifetime. >> host: what an insult to president george bush. point of personal privilege. >> guest: probably intended c-2 intended to hurt president bush. >>

in 1965, while fidel castro was the prime minister of cuba, alberto left his island home in search of more opportunity. >> i came basically looking for freedom. it was not opportunity for me back in the island. so i decided to come here to be free. karen: several years in several jobs later, he detected an opportunity to do something no one was doing at the time. he saw latino populations in lawrence and boston growing at a rapid pace. but there was a disconnect within latinos across those communities. >> i didn' t know what was going on in those cities. so it was no communication between them. what a good idea to have the newspaper that can cover all karen: he would be surprised to find his experience writing for a college newspaper in cuba would be his ultimate calling. with little money and a lot of hope, el mundo boston newspapers put out their first publication in 1972, a weekly newspaper that would become synonymous with boston' s latino community. >> in 1972, community was different, demographics was different. even the purpose of the paper -- my father was a cuban exile, so he

. >>> jennifer lawrence is set to play fidel castro's lover. she is set to star about marita, the 19-year-old woman who became his lover. she was recruited b y the cia with a mission to assassin ate the dictator. she claims she was present assassination. >>> a swee deal. they are taking advantage of the media frenzy surrounding el chapo. they are making el chapo cupcakes. what do you think? do you like it? decorated to depict him wearing a dirty t-shirt like the one he was wearing when he was recaptured. the pastry chef said the reaction is shocking. el chapoo was arrested on january 8th and taken to the same prison he had escaped from six months earlier. what do you think? look tasty to you? >> why? >> and it is shocking. people didn't make a big deal about that. el chapo. >> so the heat are struggling. you know that. but tonight, not only a loss, a bigger issue, a los of a key >>> the heat injury situation goes from bad to worse. miami already without wade and dragic and ulrah. so the last thing they needed in washington tonight, more key pla

. >> the flames of crisis burn far stronger, fed and fanned by the bitter tirades of fidel castro. >>

i saw that jennifer lawrence is set to star in a biopic about a a spy who became fidel castro's lover in the late '50s. i won't spoil why they broke up. let's just say he had a little bit of a cuban missile crisis. [ laughter ] >> steve: zoink! rink! ronk! [ laughter ] >> jimmy: and finally, this have you seen this, higgs? this is really funny. last night on "wheel of fortune," we love "wheel of fortune." we love pat and vanna, and everybody. we were watching. these two contestants had back-to-back guesses that were pretty interesting. watch this. >> and the category is the ever popular food and drink. [ ding ] >> homemade waffles? >> no. still time. [ ding ]. christine? >> homemade waffles? [ laughter ] >> still not that.no. still no. yeah. "i'm sorry, pat, she's --ffles?" [ laughter ] "that's the wrong show." "pat, i'd like to buy a a waffle." "we don't have any damn waffles." guys, we have a great show tonight. give it up for the roots, right >> jimmy: very nice, very nice. so far. there's more ahead. tomorrow night, my pal here. >> steve: yeah! >> jimmy: and youtube star, lilly si

i interviewed fidell castro. pick your terrorist in the middle east over the years i have interviewed. you don't always interview nice people. i have a perfect moral compass. >> charles manson was in prison already. >> i have interviewed other fugitives and moreover i have gone into drug dens and been with dealers and confronted various people. the key to me is -- and this is simple test. was it newsworthy? i am distressed that sean penn agreed the product could be reviewed by elchapo. i admire sean penn for admitting that and claims that elchapo asked for no changes in the interview. >> should we be concerned that sean penn and a mexican actress can find him and authorities can't? >> that is why i am demanding that america should demand of mexico now that this man be extradited. as i said on friday i have no faith that the criminal justice system can hold this notorious billionaire fugitive for the simple reason that he has the money to buy, to threaten to cajol, to intimidate. he can kidnap relatives of prison

. >> i'm going to say fidel castro. >> my prediction? be the most amazing new year's eve show ever and i ought to know because i've hosted quite a few. i think this is going to be the one that outdoes them all. it's going to be awesome, fascinating, incredible, marvelous, stunning, surprising and unbelievable and huge because we have donald trump and melania joining us from mar mara-lago. >> i'll double can down on that and jump on it. dp, you're up? >> i got last year's right. and i said that kate middleton would announce she's having another baby. listen up, this is big, i believe there will be a vacancy on the supreme court before the election in 2016. >> hmmm. >> that will be huge. >> huge. >> do you have a name? >> no. >> i meant who is leaving? >> i do not have a name. but i predict there will be a vacancy and that will change everything. >> gregory? my man, you're up. >> my prediction in who will fill that vacancy. >> elizabeth hasselbeck. my prediction is, as we know, elizabeth hasselbeck has left fox and "friends," who will repl

and the revolutionary government of fidel castro simmered down. according to the "wall street journal" video showed, a few months turned into 50 years. for some, crossing the gate meant leaving their old world forever. phillip gale that included his son. >> when i leave it was a few years, one month and five days old. now he's 52 years of age. and i haven't seen him again. >> cubans were day laborers who worked on the u.s. base and faced increasing pressure from the cost roh government as relations between the two nations soured. the u.s. naval commander offered temporary asylum on the base. over the years barracks turned into houses and now for those in their '80s and '90s, assisted living facility naxtd to free housing, the cubans receive free medical care and subsidized meals on the base. many became american citizens and left for america. others decided to stay on the base. >> they take care of us real good here. don't charge you rent and a lot of things that they, they give you here, you know, if you live somewhere else, you'd have to pay for

he was working with a student on a research paper on fidel castro and history, latin-american history is his wheelhouse. so those are the kind of classes that he teaches here. again, he will be teaching those two classes today, so come 12:30, that's the first class, a lot of eyes will be on him in that classroom in bowman hall as well. live on the campus of kent state, i'm nichole vrsansky. >> tia: it made national headlines and a week after a another k-9. they will donate a new police dog to the department to honor jethro's heroic service. he died after being shot three times during a robbery investigation. his actions saved the life of an officer. >>> tests continue on the flint river this morning for levels of lead in the water there. that's what is keeping people water. here. >> we have high confidence that we'll always be meeting requirements regarding lead. our water will always be safe. >> tia: in the last ten years the city has spent $650 million to upgrade the water plants, and lake erie is regularly tested for lead. this story has a lot of people asking about water filters.

. >> you know, it reminded me of 1980 when fiddle castro-- fidel castro opened the borders for the flood. you had a lot of people here in south florida getting on boats to go grab family members or anyone that they could. that was different. this time it strikes me wet foot dry foot, coming from labdz is automatic-- land, is automatic dry foot. did you hear anything from anybody talking about that risky voyage across the water is so uncertain. this way, we're on land the whole which. >> and it is so amazingly easy forhem. the dangerous part is going through mexico because that's where they can become targeted. mexico, and remember they mentioned colombia being one of the tough spots. but brian and i were there and we were surprised to see how easy it is. all you have to do is walk over a bridge. you report yourself, and you say i'm cuban and i am seeking political asylum. >> and what do they say at border patrol, welcome? welcome but they start the process. and the process entails grabbing their documents, making sure they know who they are. a long interview process. one gentleman, the f

. >> what about fidel castro. >> my prediction.eve show ever. and i ought to know it because i have hosted quite a few. awesome, fascinating, marvelous, stunning, surprising and huge because we have donald trump and melania joining us. it'll be fantastic. >> i will double down on that as well. >> i'm excited. >> i'll jump on that one. all right, dp, you're up. >> last year i said kate middleton would announce she is having a second baby. that's true. i've done well two years in a row. this is my prediction for 2016. i believe there will be a vacancy on the supreme court before the election of 2016. and that will be huge. >> do you have a name? >> nope. >> i meant who's leaving. >> i do not have a name. >> i predict there will be a vacancy. and that will shake everything up. >> gregory, my man, you're up. >> my prediction on who will fill that vacancy? >> yes. >> elizabeth hasselbeck. my prediction is, as we know, elizabeth hasselbeck lost fox and friends. who will replace her? donald trump. he will make the couch great again. >> he

. >> fidel castro could have written it and it would be lousy journalism. >> there is always a motivationjournalism comes to play. and i think the motivation is for sean penn to attack his country. he keeps coming back from that. >> what could the motivation for rolling stone other than being stupid? >> money. all of these publications are in dire, dire trouble. money. >> sure. i don't know where the money stems from this. i think this just causes more trouble. >> sales, attention. editorially it does but i think they have given it up. >> i'm not sure what advertisers want to be in a magazine that is celebrating this guy. >> that's a good point. selling el chapo, maybe the legalize marijuana places would want to do it? >> this would put them out of business. >> that's exactly true. but el chapo, of course, is proud of selling heroin and methamphetamine. he is proud of that. all right, mr. brill, thanks very much we appreciate it? >> see you. >> by the way we have invited mr. penn on the program and of course, declined, he has never appeared on the factor. why does juan williams continue t

and revolutionary @government of fidel castro @simmered down. @this"wall street @journal"showed a few months @turned into 50 years. @sore some, crossing the gate @meant leaving their old world @forever. @for phillip gale, that @included his son. @>> when i left he was three @years, one month and five days @old, now he is 52 years of age @old, now he is 52 years of @age. @and i haven't seen him again. @>> reporter: the cubans were @day laborers who worked on the @u.s. base and faced increasing @pressure from the castro @government as relations @between the two nations soured @between the two nations @soured. @the u.s. naval commander @offered temporary asylum on @the base. @over the years, barracks @now for those in their 80s and @90s. @an assisted living facility. @in addition to free housing, @the cubans receive free @medical care and subsidized @meals on base. @many became u.s. citizens and @left to live in america. @but others decided to stay on @the 45-square-mile base. @>> they take care of us real @good here. @they don't charge rent, and a

heeps int he's interviewed fidel castro and other people before.iniscent of john miller, peter arnett, other journalists able to interview bin laden in the late 1990s. they extracted important information from bin laden. a dangerous, risky assignment back then. the difference here is that sean penn is an actor, no formal training as a journalist. this article was going to be published before el chapo was captured. >> either way. >> this was in the printing press, about to go to the printing press, when captured. that means shah sean penn wasn't -- there was no indication he was giving information about the where about thes to authorities. >> what timing, though. danny what about protection in mexico? obviously the laws are quite different in mexico and the united states. you've got mexico sort of shamed by the fact he escaped once from their president. he kind of, i don't know, could we see sean penn face any charges in mexico? >> isn't it interesting that we've been talking about extradition from mexico back to the united states, and now people ma

all the cuban people were going to rise up in rebellion against fidel castro.hey forgot he educated them and gave them health care and totally transformal transformed. >> garrett nelson is a longtime sanders watcher. welcome, professor nelson. >> hello, chuck. >> i think we got the answer to what did a mayor sanders do when he ran into problems facing both parties, republicans and democrats. he just went and ran against them. so i take it that's what we should assume would happen if a president sanders ran into a gridlock and a roadblock with congress in his first year in office? >> hard to do. very hard to do. and once again, we've god two parties, both have been around for two centuries for the democrats and 150 for the republicans. yeah, it's going to be hard to do that. jimmy carter tried it, tries to speak over the head of congress, to the people, and it didn't quite work. so, he's going to have to make some adjustments, make some sort of peace with at least the democrats. >> as an executive, when he was mayor of burlington, how did he handle, when things

you had jimmy carter, fidel castro, martin luther king, the beatles, the, the beatles, the founders of google, you can go on and on. we are now even talking about the stars and the comedians. playboy was very pleased to have this. they even created a special letter letter bound addition of just that month's issue which was completely brown with a golden boss letters that said dick cheney. playboy has a department that tablets how frequently its content is being picked up in other media, they tabulated the playboy interview with dick cheney have picked up 650,000,000 hits around the world. i was in the audience at the washington hilton in april april 2015 when president obama himself commented on it. he made the wisecrack that we talked about earlier which was, to the where dick cheney thinks i'm the worst president of the left my lifetime -- >> host: probably intended to hurt her president bush. >> guest: in some respects. but it goes to show that they thought dick cheney was the power behind it. nobody knows knows the falsity of that with greater, more painful first and express and di

the same way i was a reporter when i interviewed charles manson or fidel castro. >> charles manson was. >> or arafat. >> arafat wasn't going to be in jail. i bet you, geraldo, knowing the drug problem in the u.s. and his involvement, you would tip off authorities. >> i would not, sean. >> you would not? >> i absolutely not. you would be asking me to be a traitor to the first amendment, a traitor to my profession. look at john miller. you know john miller is the commissioner of the police now and in charge of intelligence. great reporter, interviewed osama bin laden in 1999, the year after bin laden blew up the african embassy. >> all right. >> he didn't tell the cia what the location of the world's most dangerous man was? that's not our job. >> look -- >> that's your privilege. but that's not about that. >> he is not a journalist either, he is an actor. and he sucks up to every two-bit dictator it seems in the world. >> he likes hugo chavez. but that's not the point. >> and he went to see saddam hussein and met tariq. >> it didn't make him a traitor. >> it's not the same thing. if it w

jimmy carter, fidel castro, martin luther king, the beatles, the founders of google, on and on and we're not even talking bet the stars and comedians. and playboy was very pleased to have this. they even created a special leather bound edition of that month's issue which was completely just brown with gold embowlsed lettering that said dick cheney, very rare. playboy has a department that tabulates how frequently its content is picked up in other media. they tabulated that the playboy interview with dick cheney conducted by james rosen had occurred -- had picked up 650 million hits around the world. and i was in the audience at the washington hilton in april of '2015, when president obama himself commented on it. and he made the wisecrack we talked about earlier, which was i see where dick cheney says i'm the worth president of his lifetime, which is interesting because i see dick cheney as the worth president of my lifetime. >> host: what an insult to george bush. point of personal privilege. >> guest: probably intended. >> host: right, intended to hurt president bush. >> guest: some re

you had jimmy carter, fidel castro, martin luther king, the beatles, founders of google and we can goon and on and we're not even taking about the stars and the comedians. playboy was very pleased to have this. they even created a special leather bound edition of that issue, which was completely just brown with gold embossed lettering with dick cheney and it's very rare that they do that. playboy has a department that tablets have frequently as content is picked up another media. they tabulated that the playboy interview with dick cheney contacted by james rosen had picked up

and revolutionary government of fidel castro simmered down. "the wall street journal" individual shows a few months turned into 50 years. for some crossing the gate meant leaving the old world for be ever. >> when i leave it was cheers. now we're 53 years of age. i haven't seen him again. >> the cubans were day laborers who worked on the u.s. base and faced increasing pressure from thenment as relations between the into nations soured. the u.s. naval commander offered temporary asylum on the base over the years barics turned into houses, and now for those in their 80s and 90s, an assisted living facility. in addition to free housing, the cubans receive free medical care and subsidized bhee ed meals on. many became u.s. citizens and left to live in america. others decided to stay on the 45 square mile base. >> they take care of us very good here. they don't charge rent and a lot of things that they give you here, you know, if you live somewhere else you have to pay for it. >> reporter: with the current thaw in relations between the u.s. and cub

you know, talking to those who might be rogue dictators or trying to talk peace as he did with fidel castrotting a sheen on a guy who is not a nice guy from a country who doesn't have the nicest of reputations? >> if you look what they actually do at home, it's a good deal worse than the image he is projecting here in europe. neil: right. >> i think by giving him that sort of legitimacy it really does continue to encourage bad behavior. we got a long, long record of the west looking at dictators and projecting on them the wishes that we would like to have. of course the pope is interested in promoting peace. who wouldn't be but i think iranians have a very different agenda. we've seen that recently in the persian gulf. it is very worrisome. neil: you mentioned a profound point right at outset i didn't even think of, ambassador. when europeans are locked into these kind of deals, they don't want to risk undoing them. so they be loathe probably to revisit sanctions of any sort that would leave just the united states and even our interests in such activity, at least judging from the white hous

said a couple of times, but i remember i was talking to him after the first meeting he had with fidel castroin panama. battle thing had gone well because cuba, but the whole hemisphere was so welcoming and you could see that we kind of had broken through this seal that had kind of put the united states in one place in hemisphere for decades comin, ne are having a different conversation. he says something along the lines come he's always very generous to his staff and thanking us for computation should be part of this. i said look, anybody could, you know. did i do the negotiations in cuba? yes. anybody to talk to these guys. it takes the president to stop going to open relations with cuba. like he is willing to again challenge convention and do things. the only reason, no rational person i think would look at our cuba policy and think that made sense and was worth continuing. but you just don't do that. that's the third rail. you don't touch cuba policy because that's always been that way and there are some people who would be really mad if you do that. time and again he's been willing on, o