i'm stephanie ruhle and this is joe weisenthal. obama will be announcing the normalization of relationship with cuba. white house correspondent phil mattingly is here. our chief washington correspondent is in d.c. and on the phone. -- what you think of this? bigs you said, this is news. we have not seen this kind of change toward policy on cuba in 50 years. policy ofery clear sanctioning and restricting cuba, and if in fact, what we hear might happen, this will dramatically change. there will be more economic engagement, more people traveling potentially to cuba, and there will be more opportunities, i believe, for peoplean people -- cuvb to engage the united states. that could create spaces that could ultimately lead to democracy in cuba. >> peter, what is the reaction? criticismction is from both republicans and democrats on capitol hill. marco rubio very critical, as but menendez, the chair of the senate foreign relations committee. also got a statement -- calling what the president has done today "outrageous." criticism from ca

joe weisenthal some cigarettes and wanted me to smoke them, but i said no.s are hard to answer. >> what is so hard to answer about what sculpture are you making? i didn't know you were interested in abstract art. >> i am not. they make us do it. >> why is it all on us? how was your week? do you have a girlfriend? what have you been up to? >> i see your point. it should just be more natural. ok. that is what we will do, starting now. >> you were saying about that scene? funny to see of all their willing himself consciously to be as good a father as he can be. it is a portrait of bumbling through that. i do not think anyone knows what they're doing. you're just doing your best. sense they really do love their kids and want to be connected to them. ethan inve described this as your news. >> well, this film was very personal. it was about my own parents and my own life. it became an important portrait for all of us. >> you never considered using different actors for different ages? >> i think you can only do that if there is a big enough age gap. for years, thre

joining us to discuss all of this is the bloomberg markets managing editor joe weisenthal and elliott got in. when are the elections going to take place? >> the earliest they can take place is january 25, and and thomas samaras is planning to meet with the great resident tomorrow to ask him to dissolve parliament and set the date for general elections. we will be back here in about a month's time. as you said in your introduction, the favorite to win the elections is the antenna astoria -- anti-stuausterity party. >> joe, is this 2012 all over again in greece? >> i think it is different from 2012. obviously, there are similarities. you have borrowing costs spiking for italy and spain and greece and all these countries. the question was debt sustainability. now it is about after all these years of crisis and weak economic growth how sustainable is the political system? we are seeing the first crack in greece and the possible election of a harlot artie -- of a far left party. the fear is not so much that there will be contingent from greece -- aof contagion from graceland that there is

joe weisenthal doing a great job with the des report. forrong dollar policy america. we bounced up against this resistance. here we are once again. with these tick marks. flight to quality, flight to quality. this one is not flight to quality. which is a blend. euro-centric. doesn't include china, mexico, and others. the new mediocre, the zeitgeist over the weekend was the resurgent dollar. a resurgent america sees good job formation on friday. a micro strategist at oppenheimer farms know that imaging market nations are at the mercy. definitely rally was a punishment. was a paper tantrum. that rally will he took out of the market all of the week ends in emerging market investing. in. has now been priced is strength of the dollar really more a continuation of a .undamental divergence the rest of the year has spent -- the rest of the world has been decelerating. started the year with the so-called franchot five. indonesia, turkey, brazil, south africa. -- best include performance, indonesia, only brazil has weekend. >> the emergence between the commodity importers in th