of starfish media group, soledad o'brien. star of the film "fugly!vailable on demand, john leguizamo. our own "the nightly show" contributor mike yard. and executive director of cuba democracy advocates mauricio claver-carone. let's get started. i want to get the names right. that's very important. first, a lot of people brought up the irish shoe, let's not reward a dictator, that's what lifting embargoes do. but we have trade with other countries. what's about getting the panties in a wad about cuba? >> two or three wrong don't make a right. we haven't seen russia, saudi arabia or china any improvement in the respect for fundamental freedoms despite all the engagement and trade and everything we've done. to the contrary, we've seen some of the wealthiest tyrannies in human history develop. we don't want to see that in cuba. >> larry: you have family in cuba. >> yes my mom has relatives. >> larry: the o'brien side? (laughter) >> the o'brien side. >> larry: you're for lifting the embargo? >> clearly, the embargo failed. it has not worked. nine adminis

"america tonight"s special scrond soledad o'brien, correspondent, learns about a programme giving many hope. >>> it's been five years since the devastating earthquake struck haiti. many survivors are still struggling with wounds that will never heel. "america tonight"s special correspondent soledad o'brien bring the the story of young haitian amputees and the programme helping them to take a step forward. >> reporter: at 7-year-old this child seems no different from other hatian boys his age. he spends the afternoon in a fierce battle alongside his brother. moments later the camera man captures his tension. -- attention. he lives with his father, mother and brother in port-au-prince and lost everything in the earthquake. his father works as a driver during the day. he teaches his boys religious songs and hopes jesus will answer his prayers. his gather worries. this is why. >> he was injured in the earthquake, what happened? >> the foot was badly damaged. the house collapsed on him in his brother. >> he was alive. the next day they reached a hospital. a doctors said there was no need to

"america tonight"s special scrond soledad o'brien, correspondent, learns about a programme giving many hope. >> you know how they say that everybody has a purpose in life? well, at one time, i felt that selling cocaine was my purpose. >> we was starvin', just lookin' for a way to succeed. >> the first time i seen rock cocaine was 1980. >> the murder rate was sky-high. >> south of the 10 freeway, was kind of a "no-man's land". >> you know, we're selling it for the blacks. i said, you go into these neighborhoods, there's no cops you can sell it where you want and when they start killing each other, nobody cares. >> i was going through like a million dollars worth of drugs just about every day. >> that's like gold! >> we can make a fortune! >> he was maybe the biggest guy in l.a. >> freeway rick was getting his dope from a very big operator. i think we're into something that's bigger than us. something we really can't deal with. >> they had been trafficking on behalf of the united states government. >> she could prove what she was saying. >> [rapping] crack in the system. >> [rapping] thi

me and tanner and soledad o'brien. we were experimenting with this format. can we talk to each other and to a group? raquel and i had met on cnn many years ago, with one of her favorite people, don lemmon, to talk about obama and race stuff. and we wanted to continue this conversation and expand it. so that it actually isn't just black and white. so we reached out to raquel. we said, are you down? we had a lot of lunches and we're honing in on this event. so this came out of an attempt to expand the conversation we were each having or expand out of the pigeonholing that we have been put into to like "represent your people." talk about what latinos think about. immigration. and then not want to hear when you want to talk about something else, as an example. this was like the second iteration of that live event. there is no conscious effort to like avoid intersectionality. but i think we're accepting that it is necessarily a part of the context of the discussion. but we all have like "race" in the titles of our work and have been called upon to explore race as

sole dads o'brien remember her on cnn she is over there. joey chen. there is soledad.correspondent, there she is. randal pinkston, is he a friend of mine. former cbs news correspondent he is over there. john see again that you recall former nbc news anchor he is there i don't know. there is not enough money on earth for me to work over there. i just don't get it. bottom line, do you believe, adam, that this network is a threat worldwide to the united states and the west? >> that's a very good question. i don't think it's a threat to the united states. i think it's backing forces which are a threat to the united states. i think the qatary government is doing what it believes is in its best interest. i think they use the network to forward their interest. but those change every day. there is a man, for instance they embraced hamas, and there was a member of hamas who just four days ago left doah, they are changing their position so it flips. >> all the media in the world, this the is most favorable to terrorists. directly ahead two attorneys paid by new york city partici