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Home to one of cubas most celebrated writers. [ speaking foreign language ]. >> author of the internationally successful mario detective series, padura has been able to portray the daily struggles, the absurdities of life in cuba. its a delicate dance, and few have been able to replicate it. your hero in the books, does he live in this neighborhood? or another neighborhood. >> more or less. more or less. >> happy place to grow up, this neighborhood? >> yeah. i was totally free. >> i notice a lot...

Absurdities of life in cuba. its a delicate dance, and few have been able to replicate it. your hero in the books, does he live in this neighborhood? or another neighborhood. >> more or less. more or less. >> happy place to grow up, this neighborhood? >> yeah. i was totally free. >> i notice a lot of people just hanging out. who lives here? >> all kinds of people. doctors, for example. engineers. workers. and people who makes nothing, like that guy. >> right. >> he dont make nothing. >> how does...

>> author of the internationally successful mario detective series, padura has been able to portray the daily struggles, the absurdities of life in cuba. its a delicate dance, and few have been able to replicate it. your hero in the books, does he live in this neighborhood? or another neighborhood. >> more or less. more or less. >> happy place to grow up, this neighborhood? >> yeah. i was totally free. >> i notice a lot of people just hanging out. who lives here? >> all kinds of people. doctors,...

And by definition, the 1.5 billion adherents of it, regardless of their political or military views, and that includes the 1% of the american population, citizens here, under the united states constitution, that actually follow islam as a religion. >> well, reza, i just want to quickly respond, because, you know, when confronted with facts a lot of times, the other commentators ad hominem attacks, which is what you just did to me. i have read the bible, and there are academic scholars that disag...

Absurdities and suggest that islamic americans will not have constitutional rights. they have all the constitutional rights that i have as a christian. president-elect trump has never suggested otherwise. and its irresponsible to come on here and cry racist, islamophobic. lets listen to president obama and give him a chance. >> fear of muslims is rational, thats what he said. >> president-elect trump at various times in his campaign has called for banning all muslims from the united states, hes ...

>> author of the internationally successful "mario detective" series, padura has been able to portray the daily struggles, the absurdities of life in cuba. its a delicate dance, and few have been able to replicate it. your hero in the books, does he live in this neighborhood or another neighborhood? >> more or less. more or less. >> a happy place to grow up? this neighborhood? >> yeah. i was totally free. >> i notice a lot of people just hanging out. who lives here? >> all kinds of people. docto...

Republicans, serious about conservatism. very practical the way ryan was in the proposals he made for medicare reform in the past. and that i think is the future of the party. despite the blood bath and the absurdities that we are seeing right now in the presidential race. >> he is a big thinker. but it always seems we are one election away from big things passing. >> well, -- right now his party needs the white house for the big things to actually happen. thats the big hurdle. but the fact that...

Successful mario detective series, padura has been able to portray the daily struggles, the absurdities of life in cuba. its a delicate dance, and few have been able to replicate it. your hero in the books, does he live in this neighborhood? or another neighborhood. >> more or less. more or less. >> happy place to grow up, this neighborhood? >> yeah. i was totally free. >> i notice a lot of people just hanging out. who lives here? >> all kinds of people. doctors, for example.

Portray the daily struggles, the absurdities of life in cuba. its a delicate dance, and few have been able to replicate it. your hero in the books, does he live in this neighborhood? or another neighborhood. >> more or less. more or less. >> happy place to grow up, this neighborhood? >> yeah. i was totally free. >> i notice a lot of people just hanging out. who lives here? >> all kinds of people. doctors, for example. engineers. workers. and people who makes nothing, like that guy.

Absurdities of life in cuba. its a delicate dance, and few have been able to replicate it. your hero in the books, does he live in this neighborhood? >> other place. >> happy place to grow up, this neighborhood? >> yeah. totally free. >> i notice a lot of people just hanging out. who lives here? >> all kinds of people. doctors. engineers. workers. and people who makes nothing, like that guy. >> right. >> he dont make nothing. >> how does he live? >> trying to find something to do or something to...