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The castro regime. they dont have free elections and they are repressive and not allowing anyone to flee back. and take a look at human rights watch, right now today, the cuban government continues to repress individuals and groups that critize the government and call for basic human rights. it is instilling fear in the public including public acts of shaming and termation and threats of long- term imprisonment. >> has their behavior changed and do you think it will? >> the engagement with the h...

And how politics dont happen in a bubble, what are your thoughts? >> the administration has been working on this for a long time, time around christmas with a slow news cycle probably benefits the white house. i dont know if they planned it for this time but there was coronation which he mentioned with the castro government because it is unprecedented to see both men speaking at the same time. i would say this from a political perspective, it is quite a shift in the democratic party when you loo...

Media will turn on you. the people will grow tired of this. they will turn on you. and when they do, you are going to be abandoned. for me, i dont want to die because the democrats in the senate dont have the courtesy to ask the cia to explain what they view as abuses that occurred when theres other evidence, 6 million documents, and they cherry picked what makes their point out of it and put us in danger. >> and now more with dr. james mitchell. dr. mitchell, take us back to when the program fi...

No one who participated in the program got to have their say, got to offer any concepts, any perspective. hes pointed out that in this report issue bid the democrats, they talk about how there were abuses of the program, those analysts were over there and they went too far and others had to report these abuses. he says they make it sound like i was doing the abuses, actually i was the one reporting them. but they dont mention that in the report. >> greg? >> i guess i have a comment, maybe a ques...

Than most of americans on such issues, especially on surveillance and that kind of thing. many people do think we overstep. youre right this is not a politically popular movement, but there are people who have grievances and there are abuses and excesses. >> as long as theyre legitimate -- >> because theyre bad apples doesnt mean the fact country need to be traaddressed. >> if people feel theyre not getting good policing or fair shake from people who have power over them, they absolutely should ...

Of people that makes out the rest of them that says i would never do that, its better to let 3,000 people die than lose the moral high ground. im a big proponent of the drone policy. but i dont think that there is a moral equivalence between blowing up a picnic and killing granny and slapping ksm on the belly or waterboarding ksm as ugly as that was. i just dont see the equivalent. we dont have a targeted assassination program. if we did, we wouldnt have to be killing granny. we could get to the...

And he was hallucinating of his wife and children and begging to be killed before the informant said he made it all up? do we owe him an apology? >> here is the thing. when someone -- >> this is the reason i am against the death penalty. mistakes are made, greg. every time the state gets more power there are more abuses of the power and it is hard to make things right. you cant unkill somebody and you cant untorture somebody. >> you sound like a jilted lover. really. you keep bringing up the pas...

Like youre making a political argument rather than dealing with the case. >> im reporting the news, juan. mary catherine, what about the police? what about the police samuel l. jackson is speaking about? apparently mr. jackson, multimillionaire, doesnt think hes free or, you know, not free. i was a little surprised at that. >> yeah, i would disagree with samuel jacksons political argument in his song, possibly with the idea of him singing more songs, but what i do think is that, yes, when people...

No one who participated in the program got to have their say, got to offer any concepts, any perspective. hes pointed out that in this report issue bid the democrats, they talk about how there were abuses of the program, those analysts were over there and they went too far and others had to report these abuses. he says they make it sound like i was doing the abuses, actually i was the one reporting them. but they dont mention that in the report. >> greg? >> i guess i have a comment, maybe a ques...

Than most of americans on such issues, especially on surveillance and that kind of thing. many people do think we overstep. youre right this is not a politically popular movement, but there are people who have grievances and there are abuses and excesses. >> as long as theyre legitimate -- >> because theyre bad apples doesnt mean the fact country need to be traaddressed. >> if people feel theyre not getting good policing or fair shake from people who have power over them, they absolutely should ...