and roger noriega of the american enterprise institute.a former assistant secretary of state for western hemisphere affairs in the george w. bush administration. and we welcome you both. roger noriega, to you first, what's your impression to is far of how this trip is going? >> well, it was a little clumsy today, i think, the very awkward press conference, but i can understand the excitement of the cuban people that was described by your previous guest. you know, there is something sort of exotic about cuba, people haven't been able to travel there in a long time. it's a tropical island, has a shortages of fish and tropical fruit. something clearly is wrong there. but, on the other hand, the people aren't that different than people anywhere, and they -- you know, why would anybody choose to be in a dictatorship? why wouldn't they choose democracy? because the government has a totalitarian hold on every aspect of their lives, and that worries me because the government, in the final analysis, will have the say of whether the economic opening