joining me for more on this is josh lederman, the associated press reporter who broke today's news ons; and marÍa de los angeles torres, a professor of latin american and latino studies at the university of illinois in chicago. she has written about cuba and cuban politics extensively. josh, let me just start with you. the latest on this, you know, there seems to be a difference in the word choice. we're now calling it an attack. just a week ago, we were calling these incidents. >> that's right. and the united states hasn't exactly explained what has changed. it was only a few days ago that they were saying, look, it's premature to say attacks because we don't know what's causing this so how can we say it was a deliberate attack? now we have pressed repeatedly to say you're not just using this new term casually. there's an actual difference of position here in saying specific attacks and u.s. officials say, yes, we are now confident that americans were targeted in havana and this was an attempt to harm them. >> in there, josh, the president said they did bad stuff to us. i'm trying to

continue to search every avenue to try to get to the bottom of it. >> sreenivasan: all right, josh lederman from the associated press, thanks so much. >> thanks. >> sreenivasan: stay with us, coming up on the newshour: 10 years in the making, ken burn's new documentary series, "the vietnam war." and fresh air host terry gross explains why she is on the radio and not television. but first, tech giants are increasingly under scrutiny from politicians, regulators and experts on the left and the right. some are concerned about their growing power, even calling them monopolies. and the tension keeps building: whether over privacy, politics or the displacement of workers by automation. yet their role in contemporary life isn't shrinking. and we, too, at the newshour have worked and collaborated with facebook, google and many other platforms. a new book zeroes in on some of these criticisms. economics correspondent paul solman has a conversation for his weekly series, "making sense." >> google, facebook, amazon, apple are among the most powerful monopolies in the history of humanity. >> reporter:

josh lederman is a foreign affairs reporter that covers national security for the associated press. today's article on the u.s. pulling diplomats out of cuba. josh, great to see you. you look at the relations between cuba and the united states and right now they're paper thin and this is not about to help. >> they were dell cut to begin with for sure. this will make it harder for that warming of relations that took form in 2015 to continue. cuba spent the last couple weeks pleading with the united states not to do what it did today. saying don't be hasty. you have no evidence this was united states. the u.s. decided today that yes, that's true. the u.s. isn't pointing the finger at cuba but cuba has been unable to assure the u.s. government that diplomats are safe on cuban soil and the u.s. has to take significant actions to protect not only american diplomats but tourists that could be harmed by this. >> sure. they're extrapolating saying it's not just the u.s. envoys. if you travel to cuba and you're in havana, then, you know, you have the same risk. and the question becomes if you

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