gillespie, he is a trumpeter.driver. >> reporter: for ten years, the cuban government allowed sandoval to tour overseas with gillespie, and in 1990, made a one-time exception for his wife and son to meet him in london. >> the next day, early morning i went with mr. gillespie to the american embassy, asking for political asylum. >> reporter: you were able to get into the embassy? >> oh, i came with mr. gillespie. >> reporter: so they opened the door? >> oh, you bet. >> reporter: but the cuban government found out. >> but when my wife call me and crying, i went to dizzy gillespie's room. i wake him up 2:00 in the morning. and he said give me my wallet there. and he took one of those business card and called the white house. >> reporter: just months later, sandoval was on stage in washington, d.c. at the kennedy center honors paying tribute to the man who helped save his life, his mentor, who he called maestro. >> incredible blessing for me. became a close friend or your hero. >> reporter: you still practice? >> i ha

and former australia fast bowlerjason gillespie resigns as head coach of pakistan's test side afterjust eight months in charge. welcome along. thank you forjoining us. so, 17 matches in the uefa europa league on thursday. one of the best was at ibrox, where the scottish premiership faced the english premier league as rangers took on tottenham hotspur. in the end, both had to settle for a point. it finished 1—1. jane dougall was watching in glasgow. this was the first time that tottenham and rangers had met competitively in more than 60 years. but not just for that but notjust for that reason was that a huge build up to this game. ange postecoglou, the former celtic manager, of course, was bringing his spurs side to ibrox for the first time, and how the rangers�* fans would love to exact revenge on the former manager of their bitter rivals. it looked for a while that that may be the case. a cross in from james tavenier found hamza igamane, and he scored to set ibrox alight. it was an early christmas present for the fans — or so it seemed. but tottenham weren't going home empty—handed, ei

jason gillespie has resigned from his role as coach of the pakistan test team after refusing to joinafrica over disagreements with the country's cricket board. the former australia bowler was appointed head coach on a two—year deal in april, with former south africa opener gary kirsten named white—ball coach. kirsten resigned in october for similar reasons. the pakistan cricket board confirmed gillespie�*s resignation and named former pace bowler aaqibjaved as their interim red—ball head coach. australia all—rounder mitchell marsh says he expects india to bounce back in the third test of their series which starts in brisbane on saturday. marsh — speaking to the media earlier — says his team has full faith in middle order batter steve smith who's struggled to find form in the two tests so far. the series is level at one match a piece and marsh knows india will be keen to take control: as we saw last week, we're a good side and we bounced back. we know that india are a really good side as well. we expect them to bounce back. i think in this big series, you know, we know that's going to

and ed gillespie was with us.nd i started telling the senator exactly what i told everybody else, the white house, etc. and i could see that his face looked as if it was just in stone. there was no emotional response. i got an emotional response from everyone. but not him. so i talked to a few minutes and i said to myself, stop and see what comes out of him. he listened to me and he said mr. silverstein, he said, you know, world trade center was hit in new york, the world stops. the building in oklahoma city came down, the world didn't stop. everybody is running to new york, nobody is coming to oklahoma city. i said senator, in all due deference, this was an attack on america, not just the twin towers. these people are trying to destroy everything that our country represents. our values, our structure, everything. so i said it is not just the twin towers, it's an atomic o -- an attack on everything our country stands for, and they are trying to bring it down. he said mr. silverstein, i am not impressed. your peopl

geoff: meeting dizzy gillespie on tour in cuba.at us and laughing. the bottom line is, when he came back to new york, he started talking about that band he heard in cuba. geoff: at gillespie's recommendation the president of cbs records signed sandoval to a life-changing record deal. arturo: he put us on a plane from havana to laguardia in new york. we landed there midafternoon. they put us on a small bus, drove us to the sound check. we did not even check into the hotel. to the sound check at carnegie hall. geoff: the first time you played in the states you played at carnegie hall? arturo: not the first time, the first day, ever. ♪ geoff: it was gillespie who became a friend as well as mentor who helped him defect from cuba, along with his wife and son, while on tour with the united nations orchestra in 1977. what did you learn from him? arturo: to keep your passion and love for music alive. it does not matter the age, your fame, does not matter anything. keep that passion alive, always. geoff: you still practice every day? are yo

gillespie fue fichado en la cárcel del condado fresno y enfrenta cargos por ser un delincuente convictoncia controlada para la venta y otros cargos relacionados. el sábado, la policía de stockton buscó activamente a 2 sospechosos que huyeron de un vehículo robado. 1 de los sospechosos se atrincheró dentro de un baño en una gasolinera cercana y posteriormente fue detenido. pero tras una investigación, este individuo no estaba relacionado con el robo y ha sido puesto en libertad. la búsqueda del otro sospechoso que fue visto por última vez cerca de los apartamentos wall street, concluyó sin que se localizara al individuo. y en san josé, los agentes del grupo de trabajo de robo al por menor realizaron 6 arrestos en la tienda marshalls, ubicada en la avenida capitol. los ladrones fueron capturados en el acto robando bolsos, ropa, juguetes y productos de belleza. también fue encontrada un arma fentanilo y parafernalia de drogas y se recuperaron más de 3.000 $ en mercancía robada. y estamos a solo 2 días para que inicie el 2025, lo que significa que entrarán en vigor varias leyes nuevas en el

and former australia fast bowlerjason gillespie resigns as head coach of pakistan's test side afterjustrjoining us. so, 17 matches in the uefa europa league on thursday. one of the best was at ibrox, where the scottish premiership faced the english premier league as rangers took on tottenham hotspur. in the end, both had to settle for a point — it finished 1—1. jane dougall was watching in glasgow. this was the first time that tottenham and rangers had met competitively in more than 60 years. but notjust for that reason was that a huge build up to this game. ange postecoglou, the former celtic manager, of course,

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all right. >> maura gillespie, thanks so much for your insight into this. we appreciate it thanks for having me. up next, a vigil is held in germany for victims following the deadly christmas market attack. we're going to have a report from the scene. also ahead, the impact on your holiday packages and lattes. as thousands of workers at starbucks and also at amazon strike in several cities. you're in the cnn newsroom can't fool myself. >> it was the most exciting time in the world. >> his life had extremely joyful moments and some really difficult moments. >> you only come across an artist like luther vandross once in a lifetime. >> luther. never too much new year's day on cnn from creating memories. to finding the perfect gift let us make this holiday season a little easier right now. save up to $60 on select as battery sets. happy holidays from steel. >> you don't stop being you just because you turn 65. but you do face more risk from flu and covid. last year alone, those viruses hospitalized nearly 1 million people 65 and older. 1 million vaccines lower

cnn political commentator maria cardona and founder and principal at bluestack strategies, maura gillespie. okay, donald trump certainly did not run on any of this. and i know you all remember back in the day when he talked about buying greenland before. now he's added, taking control of the panama canal and making canada the 51st state. why is why is he doing this? mara, this is not what the american public, not what he ran on. certainly. why? why is he talking about this right now? >> it certainly has republicans like myself concerned, because it certainly doesn't follow along with his america first platform, kind of deflecting to land grab issues that were not what the american people voted on on election day. just gives us pause about what it is that his plan is for addressing the real issues that americans are concerned about, and voted for him in november, you know, mainly with immigration and with border control and with the economy. and by picking at panama and greenland as a land grab thing, as opposed to actually having policy issues addressed. it's concerning. and i think it jus

>> that was from a poem by john gillespie mcgee jr. a -- an air force flier in world war ii. in 1938, i think in training. he was very eager to get into the war, and he got in early. i think joining canadian forces, and he was eager to get into the war, and he died in an airplane crash, but before that, he wrote a beautiful poem about the joy of flying called "high flight." how did i know it? two things happened that day the challenger blew up. i thought of that poem when i saw the repeated waving good-bye of the astronauts. there was a tape, remember, that we kept playing that day. we didn't have that much tape, but a dreadful disaster had just happened, and then we kept showing the astronauts waving good-bye before they got on the capsule early that morning. that wave good-bye made me think of "high flight" which i learned in the public schools in a poetry class in seventh grade in massapequa, long island. i thought of it and i knew something. i absolutely knew ronald reagan knew that poem. i didn't really know it, but i just felt he

joining me now is maura gillespie, former adviser to house speaker john boehner and julie roginski andu. some of the democratic leaders have opted want to run for dnc share and sherrod brown are all out and how difficult is to find the next standard bearer and people people are saying it doesn't mean anything? well, it does mean something, and i hope people take a look at what it mean asks to me it means building it from the grassroots up and certainly invest in judicial races all across the country and not just in the federal level which are appointed, but also at the say the level, and we need to invest in messaging mechanism that transcends what wooe been doing because what we have been doing has not worked and for people to think that the dnc chair doesn't mean anything because if there's something that comes up short and not to focus on 2028 and not just focus on 2026, but focus on the state legislative races and state judicial races and build this party back up we will be at the mercy of whatever the republicans do for the next generation and i, for one, am kind of sick of it. >>

. >> gillespie. >> yeah. >> you saw it. >> well, what are you going to do about it?the black man had slapped a white man but he lived to tell the tale. he survived that. >> i just couldn't believe it. my mouth flew open in the movies. i was like, mom, they are going to shoot him. >> then there was "guess who is coming to dinner." a movie that wouldn't even make a wave today but back then was shocking. >> "guess who is coming to dinner" was shocking because we understand we are all people. you know? black. light. gay. straight. >> one of the only ways that hollywood had to deal with race in the 1960s was via sydney. the only two only two - you owg you could ever do for me. star they had to work with. >> he was on the edge of exploding but you always knew he couldn't. >> you owe me everything you could ever do for me like i will owe my son if you ever have another but you don't own me. >> the biggest name in pictures. justin hoffman, we never heard of him. but man did he make an entrance. >> the oldest end of the baby- boom audience was essentially the age of benjamin