haven't associations and president is here and eddy from the chinese chamber and, of course, our united states panama canal's who has been the wondrous celebration to this designed stamps that honor our cultural and honor the license number in charge new year not only the chinese but the korean and vietnamese and all the cultures that celebrate the license number in charge year i also want to welcome our nuttiest members of the board of supervisors our sprilg who represents district 3 (clapping) and i know she shares the same fascination of anita and i and others here of the expended design that make making and several other artists have put together to kind of view the latest intertwines with the levitated stamps i want to thank and congratulate the united states postal service those are times they ask the public's assistants because the great organizations but they also do the things we are proud of i want to congratulate her, she has to be routine by the planning commission, and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote international female postal stamp it's important to commissioner christense

it's very clear, a lot of people remember 1989, united states and panama and to take head of state noring a tkpwa out and subject to trial for drug trafficking. he had been on the c.i a. payroll since 1956. he was a major ally. george bush first was responsible for the action and from the perspective of many cubans on the island, the reason it happened was that the book argues and somewhat documents through some of the agents, it was an effort on the part of the united states to set a precedent to allow the united states to take out somebody in charge there of similar offenses. now, whether or not it's accurate as a hypothesis and i published that as a hypothesis in the cuban government there was a man who was very clean general and wonderful reputation in cuba and sudden will he out of nowhere he was subjected to trial for drug offenses for carrying out major trafficking. and it was a great shock to the cuban people. and there was the fall of the berlin wall and the execution. the trial with raul castro as the judge is a great, great hero of cuba and then his ultimate execution by firing

i'm thinking about what happened when you ended up playing in your country, in panama, in the middle of the united statesojosa: ...of your country. and what happened at that moment? >> oh, that was scary, actually. at the same time you realized that playing and performance are two different things. you're playing... with my father i grew up playing music all day. i didn't have a time where we would perform. we would get up in the morning, and he would sing. and he was making me play music all day, because i was even learning mathematics through music. you see? geography... >> hinojosa: how? >> he would put lyrics to it, you know? "papa, i don't want to... yeah, (singing in spanish) you know, he would... see, what papa did was, like, he taught me to look at the world through the lenses of the music. and that idea for me has prevailed forever. and when i was in a situation like the invasion in panama, all i was thinking was, "if i die right now, i want to die playing music." that's all i was thinking. >> hinojosa: and the people who came to actually watch that concert were from every political stripe, and

and in the enstiigration of pat lehe, the united states facilitated artificial insemination and hernandez had his sperm frozen and transferred to panama was impregnated. >> you read the propaganda, you would think it is a musical group. they were spies. hernandez, whom the united states was so eager to facilitate that his wife gets pregnant through artificial imsemination which i never heard of that for someone convicted of killing americans. >> since then, the five have returned to cuba and given a hero's welcome and hernandez returned to his wife who gave birth to a baby girl this month thanks in part to senator lehe. >> he killed and defoyed and he was returned to cuba thanks to the u.s. government and president obama. >> some feel betrayed. but those who take the spectacle personally. >> he is a murderer and i think it is sad that our president let him walk out of the door. >> this is the daughter of one of the men who died in the shoot down because of the cuban five. he'd escaped cuba at age of ten and served as a u.s. marine and became an american citizen. mar lean believes that president obama solid out all that her father beli

but i think that clearly the united states is more interested than cuba in having a flag raising in havana along the malacon before the panama event. from the cuba afnn standpoint, that isn't that important to them. their interest of venezuela is far more than their interest in the united states at the moment because since the december announcements, cuba has got an lot of benefit without having to do anything and that's hard to take away. from the cuban stand i don't like to say they're sitting pretty but they're in a good position to basically say to the administration, this is sort of what we need, and you need to find a way to do it. >> on the other hand, venezuela struggling and we'll have more on that later on in the show, john cavelic of the u.s. trade and economic council pleasure to have you with us. thank you. >>> optimism about the warming relations, andy gallagher spoke with a couple who went to dance their way to prosperity. >> reporter: this is the brandon city ballet in central florida, a small dance company with large ambitions. its autistic director okay taif director octavio came to the u.s. alone. most in

united states facilitated artificial insemination. hernandez in federal prison had his sperm frozen and transferred to panama where his wife was impregnatedu read sometimes the propaganda you would think it was a a musical group but they are not they are spies. hernandez whom the united states was so eager to facilitate his wife would get pregnant through artificial insemination which we had never heard of that for someone convicted of killing americans. >> since then the five returned to cuba and given a hero's welcome. hernandez returned to his wife who gave birth to a baby girl thanks in part to senator lehey. >> he killed for the revolution, spied for the revolution. defied the government for the revolution. in the end he was returned to cuba thanks to the u.s. government and president obama. >> while some feel betrayed there are those who can't help but take the whole spectacle personally. he is a murderer and he murdered american citizens. >> she is the daughter of armandoal han dray one of the men who died in the 96 shoot down because of the cuban five. he escaped at the age of 10 served as a u.s. marine and later became an america

your best shot maybe is to go down to the center of the united states by rail and then out through the panama canal to try to reach asia. that's very hard for a time-sensitive commodity. >> importers, you are talking retailers, manufacturers. they can try to loop it up to either canada or down through mexico. all right? but we're already getting reports those ports are beginning to fill up a little bit. what do you do? well, you can go from asia to the east coast. as janing pointed out, a lot of traffic is going that way. costs a little bit more. >> you bet it does. >> you talked about how much it was. >> about $4,000 to get into the west coast. talk about $6,000 $7,000 to get to the east coast. >> these are the east coast ports that would be getting that spillover effect. >> exactly. i was talking to a couple of sources this morning, they're saying that savannah and norfolk are actually turning out to be the big winners in this. big rail connections always key. you have to get it to the interior. >> who owns these ports, or who operates them many. >> the ports themselves are public facilitie

the congress of the united states appropriated $706 million over the next six years for the deepening and expansion of the savannah harbor. the panama canal next year opens to the shifts of the 21st century. are we they going somewhere else if we don't do trade promotion authority? we saw last week when they shut down on the longshoreman's strikes. that's the impact we'll have if we don't do trade promotion authority for the president. almost unanimously the members of the republican party are for trade promotion authority and it seems a significant number are against it yet their president is for it. all of us for jobs, all of us are for business and economic activity. it's time we put our differences aside and delineated for the president of the united states the negotiating parameters, the negotiating authority and the ability we grant to him to make deals in the trans-pacific partnership and the trans-atlantic trade and investment partnership. all three mean jobs not just for my state of georgia but for our country. all three will be good for our national security. people don't tend to fight with people they do business with. th

panama canal. they are asked and it. -- are expanded. their business is growing so much they have to do it. what was so significant about 2000? the united stateselax a lot of its trade agreements. we have got to decide that we will make this country competitive. if we do, our comment will not grow at 2.1%. a lot of these problems with debt and deficit and these problems with unemployment and benefits, they go away. host: we want to get there as many collars as we can. richard, go ahead. caller: i think the representative misspoke when his constituent called. he was complaining about the work on saturday and sunday. that is a state issue. i think south killer and is a -- caroline is a right to work state. they can offer pay at whatever rate they feel they can get away with. i hope the workers, i hope it works out better for them. i am a union democrat in kentucky. this president has gutted the middle class with this obamacare. my wife and i have lost our insurance. we have lost our doctors. he has taxed me and justice roberts said it was a tax. i didn't put two and two together. i've got procedures that i have already put off. first time in my