we have an expert with us, professor richard tapia from miami-dade college. professor of political science and he's talking a lot with us this morning about really what this means, more importantly what it possibly could not mean for the people of cuba. so many questionstill surrounding exactly what is going to happen from this day forward and especially looking at -- we're looking at a change in presidents here in the united states too. you know, with new faculty takkg over, a strong foundation laid now could take us many, many years down the road in term of a positive direction with our relationship. >> certainly, if you are watching this, if you are a cuban or cuban american, it has to be pulling emotions, whether it's outrage or a sense of hope. we have jackie d jawann who have been there several days now and talking to folks there and getting a sense of how they are feeling and how they are taking this trip in. i believe we have them in the phone with us. actually able to see what we see here in the palace of raul castro and president obama shaking hands

that see that, that want to see that real change and i'm also joined this morning by professor richard tapia of miami-dade college. you are professor of political science and international relations. you know a lot about this. >> correct. >> i want toalk about jose mart marti being a strategic unifying figure both sides. >> to understand that, you have to go backto t t war of independence. independen, he's also cuba's signature poet. a lot of principles within cuba and principles of politics in cuba is always claimed by jose marti. you have to understand he was the unifying force for the war of independence. the first warsaw the loss of horrific life. it lasted 10 years. there were 55,000 cubans that died in that effort. the war came to that end and a lot of people thought they were not goin to achieve their independence until jose marti res you are rected it. he was able to reunify all the heroes of first war of independence. who were later in their life and had given up on this idea of a he reunites the cuban people. he grabs maximo gomez to once again fight for cuban independence. he dece