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Thanks our show for today. i will see you tomorrow morning 10:00 a.m. eastern. why? because beyonce and j ze went to cuba and it is all the uproar. cubas complicated. were going to talk about that on tomorrows program. but now it is time for a preview of weekends with alex witt. >> arent you going to ask beyonce to be on your show again. >> i basically spend all my time asking beyonce to be on the show. >> its an open invitation. thanks so much, melissa. a budget battle building on capitol hill....

Courageous. johani sanchez was here recently and had support from cuban americans. another black woman who was dragged through the streets many times has been able to leave cuba and is in spain right now and these are all young cuban women that have the support of the young cuban american community. >> greta: ninoska and this time i pronounced right, thank you very much for joining us this evening. >> thank you for having me he, greta. >> greta: what do you think is more annoying, beyonce and ja...

Producer occasional actor and husband to beyonce, jay-z, already has a handful of full-time jobs now hes applied to become an agent for major league baseball players. hes also part owner of the nbas brooklyn nets but hell have to sell his shares so there are no conflicts with the players association. to politics now, the fight over guns, the senate is expected to take up a new gun control bill next week at the heart of the bill is background checks. really, thats just a small part of the discu...

Tressi issued my license. you know how i got it? it was taking a long time. treasury is slow. i called my senator and asked them to have someone call treasury and they did and my license was there the next day and i was able to travel and do my research and write my book some of which is critical of the regime and some of which talks about things they did like the literacy campaigns. the point is that we need to engage more are with cube ba and jay-z and beyonce being there is the right way to g...

Tourism industry which is owned by the military in cuba, if americans start going down to cuba it will give them the oxygen they need for being in power and continue the repression. the fact that they might be superstars an arrogant song like the one he did and their disdain for what happens in cuba i can file it all under "g" for garbage. >> greta: could young cuban americans have the same sort of thoughts that you do? i know people who have a little better idea of h history may be paying more ...

They are still intimating that it was president obama that gave jay-z and beyonce special mission to go to cuba even though the treasury department says, no, it was us. >> i listen to the song but i dont really know hip-hop. its the newspaper of the streets, its basically -- jay-z is telling his story and his reality is that he went to cuba and theres probably something that rhymes with treasury. so hes using obama as a metaphor. hes got reality in the song, some fantasy in the song, some pop cu...

Tornadoes ripped through the south. >> its getting big. >> and snow. >> youre looking at the green grass starting to come. >> hail and rain, the megastorm stretching from canada to the gulf of mexico and the path of damage in its wake. nuclear north korea? john kerry trying to ease tensions that north korea may have weapons. plus -- jay-z fights back with a rap after his trip to cuba with beyonce. and theres an app for that. he lost his hands in an accident and now a smartphone is giving h...

Carriage if police had not intervened. police did not release any information about who could have planted the device. onto dubai now, a country dripping in wealth. meet the latest addition to the police fleet, a green and white lamborghini. the car worth about $500,000 can accelerate from zero to 60 in just 2.9 seconds. it will certainly help police catch speeders. they often drive at more than 130 miles an hour in dubai. dubai isnt the first place where the police force is buying one of thes...

♪ >> messing with me about the music. jay-z got rapped by lawmakers by going to communist cuba last week with his bride beyonce and now responding with a rap of his own called open letter. took a shot at the people who questioned his holiday in havana. >> a boy for the hood forget white house glamour. said yall i dont agree with yall cameras. the politician never did [bleep] for me ♪ except lie to me to distort history ♪ you want to give me. fine, let me commit a real crime ♪ obama said ...

Atlanta ♪ shirts and bandannas ♪ obama said, chill, you going to get me impeached ♪ ♪ chill with me on the beach >> the white house is making clear president obama had nothing to do with approving jay-z and beyonces trip. it was actually okayed by the treasury department. officials say there was an educational element to the couples visit. so it was permitted. patrick hoffman discovered beyonce and jay-z arent the only americans excited to see cuba. >> reporter: strike up a tune to earn ...