They dont know yet how far with this. But people are were tired already of this not having a relationship with america and now they will see an opportunity to increase business and things will come from america that will create jobs. People in cuba believe that we have so much in common with america. And with americans. And so this is certainly good for both partners we believe. Cuba plays a very Important Role and now they are expressing how happy they are and they see america with different eyes. So it opens a new market for american producers is good for the American Business with the
congressman, your thoughts as alan gross comes home and the possibility of normalization with cuba. First of all, were always elated when an american gets to come home, so i congratulate alan gross. He got his freedom, he got to spend hannukah with his family. Thats wonderful news. What is not wonderful news is that the families of the brothers to the rescue shootdown, those four wonderful american patriots, they are spending yet one more christmas without their loved ones and they died at the Hands Of Fidel and raul castro. What is sad is that tomorrow the cuban people will wake up and they will still have no political freedom. They will have no human rights to be expected. There are no Political Parties that exist in cuba, that has not changed. Obama has given away the store. Has given everything to the Castro Regime. Of course the regime is happy. We got nothing in return. Congressmanelect carbello,
you are a new generation of cuban american. Your generation, does it feel in South Florida, does it feel the same way as the older generation or are they looking forward to some sort of normalization . We all wanting the same thing for the cuban people. We all want the same thing for the United States and thats a Strong America that leads and a free cuba. Nothing that happened today gets us closer to those goals. The president of the United States has made every american serving abroad less safe today. Hes provided a blueprint for dictators throughout the world. If you want to extract unilateral concessions from the United States, all you have to do is hold an american hostage and be patient. We have given cuba everything at the president s disposal for alan gross. Were happy that hes back. Were happy that hes back. But alan gross wins today, thats a good thing. The cuban government wins. But u. S. National security loses. Freedom and democracy throughout
the world lose. Congresswoman, was our Foreign Policy with cuba working . We have this 1996 act where we have this embargo and i guess the president is trying to sort of soften up some aspects of it. Im not even sure if the law allows him to do it but thats a wh whole other debate. Was our Foreign Policy working . You bring up a good point about him possibly breaking the law. I believe he has broken the law. There are three laws that he has violated. Were going to do an investigation about the clarity of how he got the mission to do this. But what it shows, greta, when you ask a key question, has our policy been working. Well, the policy of 190 other countries who have been wheeling and dealing and going to Tourist Trips and doing everything with castro, they have not brought cuba any closer to freedom or democracy. So its not that the United States policy has not worked, the other policy of engagement
has not worked. And in fact what President Obama has done today, normalizing relations, that will not bring the cuban people any closer to democracy either. The one that will not change is the cuban communist dictatorial regime. These guys are not going to change. Congressmanelect, i started to ask you before about men and women ine. Youre in your early 30s if i remember from the last time we talked. Do they feel the same way you do about it or is that more of an older generation thing as we look towards cuba . Yeah, greta, i told you our generation wants the same thing that all generations living in this country want. We want to see the cuban people free. My parents were born in cuba. They had to leave. My grandfather served a political sentence, Prison Sentence in cuba. So we feel it in our hearts. And today we are very sad because we feel that for the
first time in this 56yearlong drama that the cuban people have lived, for the first time the person in the white house is on the wrong side of history. We want the president of the United States to stand with the cuban people. We want the president of the United States to stand with those heroes that are sitting in castros jail today, and we want the president of the United States to stand for a strong United States that leads with a clear voice and with moral authority, and that is not what happened today. And we shouldnt be surprised, greta, because this is the same president thats at the table with the iranians. This is the same president that draws red lines and ignores them. So what happened today is alarming, but its not surprising. Thank you to both of you for joining us. Thank you, greta. Thank you, carlos. Congressman Chris Van Hollen has more on the Government Plane that lifted Alan Gross Out of cuba after a very tough five years in prison and landed back on u. S. Soil. He joins us. Nice to see you, congressman. Before i get to the question about how the flight was, what did we gain out of this . What we gained is a change in policy that might finally have a chance might finally. To enpower the cuban people. What we know the policy has been a failure. What was the failure at spent of it . The failure was that by isolating and punishing cuba, you were somehow going to get a change in regime from the castros or have an opening in cuba clearly failed. What it did help do is sustain the Castro Regime. The castro brothers have survived eight president s. Except that were sort of getting to the end of this biological clock with the two castros. I mean they cant last forever. Theyre both getting to be pretty elderly gentlemen. And cuba isnt a threat to us in any way. But we now have an opportunity to empower the cuban
people because the one thing that theyre probably most afraid of is more engagement, more travel from americans, more trade, more communication, opening up the world to the cuban people. No one is talking about the Castro Regime changing their mind, thats not the issue. They didnt change their mind with 54 years of the failed policy we have. More engagement with the cuban people, a little more taste of free market and free ideas will, i think, encourage more demand for change from the cuban people. What was that plane ride like . Did alan gross when did you first see him . We first saw him when we walked off the plane and the tarmac into a build in havana. As you can see from the pictures hes lost a lot of weight, hes very fragile. Where was his wife at that time . She was the first to come in the room. Thats why his face lit up. Judy has been fighting for five years to bring alan home. You see that picture . Its a great picture. I can tell you he was in great spirits. Obviously even greater spirits when he got on the plane and it lifted off. Hes maintained some strength, even though hes wiry and gave everybody a big bear hug. This is not new to you. He campaigned for you years ago. Alan was one of the people who helped go door to door in my first campaign. After he was taken prisoner, i worked very closely with his wife, judy, and his entire team to try and make this day come about. But there were lots of ups and lots of downs you got a good phone call the night before this election, i hear. One of the things that happened is as we got over the years we were ail to get alan more privileges, including calling. It used to be once a week and then he got to be on the phone so, yes, i got a call from him in october saying best wishes in the election. So he did bring me luck. It mmhmm been amazing after you left cuba airspace. When they leave that airspace and enter the u. S. Airspace, what a thrill that is. It was. You can see a great weight lifted. Did they announce that . And he kind of said yeah, you know. So it was a great moment. Its always great to have an American Home who was held overseas. Congressman, thank you. I imagine it was a great trip and lots of fun. It was fun, but everyone was very, you know, on edge until we actually got alan on the plane. I dont doubt that. Congressman, nice to see you. Thanks. Thank you. While alan gross finally got his freedom today, so did three cubans. Many republicans and some democrats are calling it Prisoner Swap. The white house denies its a Prisoner Swap. Ed henry joins us live. Ed, what difference if we call this a Prisoner Swap or not . I know the white house denies it, but whats the big deal about this . Well, the deal, greta, is the white house is saying getting Alan Gross Out was separate from the swap. They dont want to be tied up and look like there was a trade there. Theyre saying that cuba on a
humanitarian basis let Alan Gross Out, then the u. S. Was able to make this swap of three cuban spies, as you say, let out of american prison and then there was an intelligence asset to the u. S. Government, we believe a cuban man, who was helping the u. S. From cuba thrown he was caught by the cuban authorities at some point and thrown in prison, been there for some 20 years. So that was the swap. Look, that might be a distinction without a difference. All of this was happening around the same time. It was a deal between the president of the United States, the dictator from cuba. I think the big question moving forward, youve got democrats, not just republicans but democrats like bob menendez saying they think it was a direct swap and how that might matter moving forward. Will someone like bob menendez go along with formally lifting the embargo with cuba. Hes saying no. While there are republicans not normally aligned with the
president , Congressman Plake wants to see the embargo lifted so this is scrambling the parties a little bit. Ed, thank you. While some are jumping for joy, some are blasting President Obama for the plans to normalize economic and diplomatic things with cuba. Lindsey graham said i will do all that i can to block the use of funts to open an embassy in cuba. Even senator Robert Menendez is not wild about President Obamas plan. He said trading mr. Gross for three convicted criminals sets an extremely dangerous press denting. And joining us john, what did we get out of this . We got a chance, an opportunity to turn the page. For what, though . Hes talked about this going
back to 20072008. Hed wanted to say lets get rid of the old policy and start a new policy. That wasnt possible as long as alan gross was held captive. Releasing him gives you the chance for the new page but there are limits to what he can do. Senator graham is going to try to hold up funding. The idea of full normalization, a lot of lift has to happen and thats where the give and take has to happen with the Castro Regime. You wouldnt see that at all without these first steps. Susan, im all for making friends with everybody and i think its important everybody be friends, but the fact is that this regime, theyre monsters. I mean were not talking about the Human Rights Violations going on in cuba right now. Id love to have a great place and everything. But they have the worst record for freedom of the press, they lock people up for political opponents. So im not quite sure is the idea that maybe if were a little bit nicer theyre going to release prisoners and theyre going to stop locking people up and all of a sudden let newspapers flourish . I think the point congressman
van hollen made is a good one. No one is expecting the Castro Regime to change. But no rights are going to be added to peoples lives because of what happened today. But they are getting near the end of their biological clock as you said and there may be an opening in the future where people will want freedom and a freer society will evolve. But the points made today by rubio and menendez and others who are opposed to this are that this is not going to change anything. People arent going to get more rights. Theyre still going to be Human Rights Violations. Whatever freedoms are provided by the u. S. , the internet or travel, the cuban government will control tightly. Thats a really important thing to be aware of. So essentially, john, susan is saying were trying to get our foot in the door for when the castros die. Were trying to get ahead of the game. Thats the theory, but i mean what the people who support the embargo have always said is this is our last and always leverage
point for when theyre gone. That is when we want to negotiate with their successors and say you want normalization, you want greater economic interaction, then give some more freedom to your people. Let them speak freely, worship freely, move freely. You got none of those things today. I dont really see theres the theory if we engage a little more, they will be inspired. I hope thats right, i fear its not and i fear the cuban people will be owe pressed longer than they would have. I think they think the cuban people themselves will force change in the government by having more exposure. Weve had some bad luck with the arab spring where we have the expectation. Its really hard to predict what people are going to do. Panel, stay with us. Straight ahead, former florida governor, jeb bush, and hes a potential president ial candidate. He says the Obama Administrations decision to restore diplomatic ties with cuba undermines americas credibility. Youll hear more from him. Plus a longtime friend of governor bush goes on the record
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after he left office. That said, the Political Climate here in florida, polls do show a shift of opinion in favor, more people wanting to see us improve relations with cuba. But you have to keep in mind those who oppose the direction that we saw the president take today are very fervent and very passionate about this. They tend to be very loyal voters and often can be single issue voters when it comes to this. We only have 20 seconds left. What does this mean having if governor bush gets in, what does that mean for senator marco rubio . Its going to be a problem for marco rubio. If this Debate Advances to the senate, it can elevate his profile. But keep in mind theyre very much aligned in terms of how they believe with respect to this issue and in terms of donors and support with jeb bush out front. This continues to be a problem for marco rubio if he chooses to run for president. Craig, thanks. All eyes on florida, of course, as always as we approach 2016 in two years now. Thank you, craig. Sure thing, thank you. Our next guest is the chairman of the American Conservative Union and he has been friends with former governor jeb bush for decades. Good evening, sir. Greta, good to be with you. I noticed youve told us about the fact that governor jeb bush might run for president. You said you have mixed feelings and you go on to say but hell be a Difference Maker. What did you mean by that . A Difference Maker meaning, look, we live in an area of gridlock, less people turn out to vote than they ever did before. More people are registering no party affiliation. Folks dont seem to be happy with either party. So jeb bush, whos a conservative problem solver, is coming and saying, look, its time we get together, we heal our nation, we move forward with a positive vision, but weve got things to do. Weve got Energy Policy to put together. Weve got tax reform. Weve got to balance our budget. Weve got to deal with our
entitlements. Im going to be the candidate with ideas. Im not going to go out there with a strategist telling me precisely how to win. Im going to share my vision and i hope the American People buy into it. I hope they do. If they dont, ill go home in peace but im not going to be led by a group of strategists who tell me what to say, what not to say and end up in a process where im part of this toxic environment that politics is all about today. Hes just not going to do that. I can tell you, i hear the consultants in these races all the time and so i get the frustration that candidates can have with the consultants but im curious, theres a big difference from being a great governor or great president than being a great campaigner, which office. In iowa, youve got to go door to door, youve got to be in kitchens, youve got to talk to the people. Some people are better talking to audiences. Is he the kind that can sit in a kitchen and is he willing to do that . Ive seen jeb bush walk down a street with me in the dark of
night and stop to see a homeless man and see how he was doing. This is a different kind of candidate. One of the most caring, one of the most compassionate candidates youre going to see in the trail in your lifetime. Im curious, whats the downside for him . Whats going on in his mind why he might not . It sure looks like his toe is in the water, but why might he not run . Well, look, hes proud of his family. Hes got one son who just won statewide office in texas. Hes got another son whos by his side every day in business. He loves his daughter, loves his wife. He travels a lot but is more at home than he was before. Hes dangled a bit in business, hes done well there. He gets to play golf on sundays. Hes going to give up a lot of this life to try to help america get back on its feet and to heal our country, and thats a major sacrifice and hes giving up a lot to do that. Does he have the fire in the belly to do that . Hes the most competitive guy ive ever met. Ive been with him and two campaigns for his dad, three campaigns for him, two campaigns for his brother and hes the most tireless worker, most compassionate and competitive guy ive met in the process, so hell be ready for anything and anyone if he decides to do it. We just saw a picture of the two of you and of course i hope youll come back because if he does get in, well need to talk to you a lot and find out Whats Going On in the governor bush campaign. Thank you, sir, for joining us. My pleasure, thanks, greta. And you can see our complete interview with al cardenas. Executive orders by any other name. President obama finding another way to bypass congress. Thats coming up. Here at fidelity, we give you the most Free Research reports, customizable charts, powerful screening tools, and guaranteed 1second trades. And at the center of it all is a surprisingly low price just 7. 95. In fact, fidelity gives you lower trade commissions
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so tell me your thoughts on this. Yeah, i think this is a big victory for the bad guys. I think thats the dangerous precedent in this. This was essentially a Terrorist Act and by sony now giving in after equivocating a little bit, you go back to the original making of this movie, if youre going to make the movie and not stand by it at the end. My colleague talked to President Obama even today and the president s advice is go to the movie. Obviously this was the intended effect was to squelch this movie, to make it not happen and its worked. You know what, ive told both of you during the break, i actually ive been to north korea, as you know, three times. North korea looks at this they have Nuclear Weapons and they are so erratic, you cant even point at a picture of kim jongun without risking going to some prison camp. I dont know why sony didnt make this a fictionalize movie about some makebelieve country
because were not dealing with normal people. Were not dealing with a normal situation. Were dealing with people who see us as complete enemies and were trying to kill them every single day. Im noticing on social media people are joking can they make requests to producers about what kind of Pictures Sony can produce because it looks as though theyre being dictated in terms of what they are going to put out there. I think thats the sad fact about all of this. We should not have a foreign Country Dictating the terms of what comes out, no matter who they are. Of course we shouldnt, but were not dealing with a full deck on this. I mean thats the problem is that, you know, this is a predictable response. If youve ever been there, literally they think we are training seven days a week, all three of you and im training every day to try to kill them when were not doing any of that. But they see that and see this as such an insult, theyre going to go nuts. But what does going nuts mean . This, this. Are producers upset about the hacking. Its a terrible thing to hack. Look, they did a terrible if theyre the ones that did it, its a terrible thing to hack. Its a terrible thing for us to bow to the pressure. Its a terrible thing to have the terrorists act on the movie, but its all going back to the judgment of making that movie, knowing that we were dealing with a situation that wasnt quite normal. I mean i think north korea is the most brutal regime in the world. Its run by a totalitarian psychopath. I think if hollywood had any decency, they would make a serious film detailing the brutality that is going on. Thats a great idea. An i think right now i hope theyre just delaying this. We dont know all the details. Maybe there is some credible threat we dont know about. Imagine if isis isis is actually carrying out terrorist attacks against americans. What if they threaten an american mall or Football Game . I know, its terrible. They caved to pressure because they feared people would not show up on one of the most profitable days for movies. I am not defending north korea. Im just saying its a very dangerous situation sony got into without using good judgment to begin with. I am not defending north korea in any way. They made a movie they arent prepared to stand behind. Does it even look funny . What exactly is the joke in all of this . I think sony has a lot to explain to the American People and to the World Community about the making of this movie and of course this halting and contradictory response. And all their embarrassing emails too. We didnt even get near their emails. Anyway, panel, thank you. If you are outraged over President Obamas use of Executive Action, brace yourselves for this. Turn out it is not just Executive Orders. President obama also using something called the president ial memorandum to bypass congress. According to usa today, President Obama has issued the memorandum more often than any other president. Gregory courty joins us. Nice to see you. We have president ial memorandums and Executive Orders. Whats the difference . The differences can be subtle. Executive orders are what were probably all familiar with. Theyre numbered. Executive order 1033 or Something Like that. Mem memorandums are called by scholars Executive Orders by another name. Theyre more regulatory in nature but very similar and both carry the same force of law. Theyre essentially the same then, right . Theyre used a little differently. But you could you could use them interchangeably . There are some areas where previous president s have used an Executive Order. For example, nixon had an Executive Order on lets get rid of some of these federal properties were not using and save some money. President obama did that by memorandum. So the fact is that all these things that theyre doing by Executive Order or president ial memorandum, are there instances when they can only use one and not the other . They tend to only use
Executive Order but there is any restriction . If youre going to amend an Executive Order, youre going to use an Executive Order to do that. Neither of these terms are defined anywhere in the law much less the constitution. So its precedents. President obama says the truth is even with all the actions ive taken this year, im issuing Executive Orders at the lowest rate in over 100 years. Hes not mentioning the president ial memorandums so im wur wondering if thats a slippery quote. He said people didnt have a problem with george bush when he uses Executive Action. He uses the terms Executive Order and Executive Action somewhat interchangeably. So slippery, transparent and deceptive . I have no evidence to suggest this is a deliberate misdirection by the white house. He must know the difference between president ial memorandum and Executive Order. Hes got to know the difference. He signs them. And when you add president ial
memorandums and Executive Orders together, is President Obama on the low end or has he done more . Hes certainly signed more president ial memoranda than others. When you call them both Executive Actions, hes on pace to take more than any president. The reason i ask this because as i read this, it seems that theyre essentially the same thing. Whether they have historically been used for different purposes or not. You can amend Executive Orders with Executive Orders. It seems when the president says im issuing Executive Orders at the lowest rate in more than 100 years, hes being a little slippery because hes not mentioning the president ial memorandums which he does so much more than other president s on the president ial memorandums. No. These are precise terms that even the president , even the president s Press Secretary sometimes slip up. Josh earnest said hes issued an Executive Order on immigration. There was no such thing. The immigration Executive Action
that republicans are so upset about were not done by Executive Order, they were done by memorandum. Last year when he took Executive Action on gun control, those were not Executive Orders, those are president ial memoranda. If hes going to tell the epa how to enforce the clean air act, thats done in a memorandum not an Executive Order. Right now are democrats on a desperate search for a message for 2016 . Plus were trying to solve a mystery that has to do with the release of alan gross and Sergeant Tahmooressi finally released from a mexican prison. Celebrate whats new, the bigger, better menu at red lobster with more of what you love try our newest woodgrilled combination
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hollowing out jobs there. Its not just attacking wall street. Like thats one of the things that is a goto populist liberal you know, Elizabeth Warren attack wall street. Wall street does need to be reformed. Republicans may offer tax cuts. The tax system does need to be reformed but no one is addressing the economic consequences of where this tech economy is taking us and how do we get the American People to participate in it and whether thats job retraining, other things, but somebody has got to speak to it. But that requires a long vision. It seems to me the voters are looking more right now. Can i put food on the table and pay the tuition, so thats the problem. Thats right. And, you know, everybody is going to offer up really quick, Simple Solutions that no one believes anymore. Or youve got to take a step back and really talk to the American People with what we have to do to be competitive, to move forward and to get
people its not the same old, same old. A lot of the ideas look, i was a ted kennedy liberal and, you know, there are a lot of populist Liberal Progressive economic ideas i believe in but a lot of the ideas on both sides are obsolete now. You need to take those principles but apply them to the issues that are for us right now economically and lead the American People there. Joe, thanks. Good to be with you. Remember that outrageous Convention Government employees spending your tax dollars on themselves, face hotel suites and mismatched wine glasses . You didnt like that. You need to stick around for our next segment. Soy buddy here is going to help me find it. Here we go. Woo who, woah, woah, woah. Its out there somewhere spreading the word about americas favorite potatoes heart healthy idaho potatoes
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benefit to taxpayers. How does she figure that . How could it possibly be we dont want exact information . Well, she cited difficulties in actually gathering the information and keeping track of it. And said, basically, you can either have an accurate report or a timely report, but you cant have both. Okay. So why cant we at least change the time requirements a little bit . I think most taxpayers want to know whether or not theyre partying on our dime again. Right. Its essentially the bureaucratic answer of we cant get this data because we dont have it because these services are being provided by contractors. I read your story and it said that hhs had 140 conferences last year. That seems like a lot. I dont know why theyre having all these conferences. Go figure on that one. The ig, the Inspector General, looked at only four of them. So out of 4 out of 140. And out of the four the ig looked at found hhs had failed to list 1. 4 million. So is there a discrepancy in each of the four . Yes. Each conference had a discrepancy. And that 140 number that you just cited, those are just the
conferences that cost 100,000 or more. They actually have more conferences than that. And hhs actually spent 56 million on conferences alone in 2012. Its stunning, though. If you look at four conferences, if you sort of the Inspector General looks at four of them and finds 100 mistakes, they have 136 more at over 100,000 a year a conference, and nobody is going to bother to look at those . Right, exactly. You can only imagine that there is similar waste in all of the other conferences. And keep in mind that this was two years ago. So there was, you know, two years of additional conferences that we dont know where the money went. And the cfo at hhs doesnt see this as a problem . Evidently not. Its just kind of evidence of the bureaucratic culture that leads to so much waste in our agencies today. But its worse than bureaucratic culture. Its our money. Ladida. Why does she get to decide that . Exactly. She cited the fact that there are already guidelines in place
to produce reports that have estimates. So she said that sufficient accurate reports arent necessary. Well, there is our government working for us. Anyway, sarah, thank you. Thank you. And coming up, after the release of American Allen Gross from cuba, im not trying to solve a mystery. Ill tell you what i mean, Off The Record next. But here is a hint. It has to do with Sergeant Andrew tahmooressi. At 10 00 p. M. , senators marco rubio and ted cruz talking about cuba. Tonight 10 00 p. M. On hannity. People with type 2 diabetes
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