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The country condemns as a an act of war. u.s. law enforcement officials tell cnn that the strong suspicions is that the country is the instigator of the attack and possibly outsourced it to a group elsewhere. the fbi is scrubbing sonys computer system trying to gather enough evidence to be able to definitively point the finger at the hacking culprit. >> sit a complex nuance investigation. the more sophisticated hackers have gone through multiple infrastructure to get to where theyve gotten to. s...

Active trade with cuba. in a sense were losing an opportunity to have influence and contact in cuba. it is american contact commerce that is more likely than anything to have an impact because we always do bring with it concerns about human rights. we press these countries. we dont have any relations with them right now so its very difficult. so as i say, there is an alternate strategy and theory here, more contact and more commerce will have the effect of softening the regime, em pempog the soc...

Issue of the islands. others follow the issues of their home country, the united states. so they are interested in cuba but you have seen a shift in the way they perceive their relationship with cuba. if you go to miami now, the debate is much different than what it was ten or 20 years ago. i happened to work as a local news reporter in the city and just returning now you see that the debate is a lot different. so there is no solid one reaction from the cuban community. there are many perspectiv...

But also for others who dont like that. >> and its interesting you say that because, you know, i was asking fareed about how cuba characterizes alan gross. they obviously consider him a spy, right? >> they call him a spy. >> well thats ridiculous. lets just remember what the guy was going in cuba. alan gross is a youish man who was in cuba helping the small jewish community that still remains in cuba get internet access. he was not trying to topple the government. he was trying to get his commun...

Thuggishness. as you know, it had become a great cause. until that was solved, this was the obstacle they had to get past. they had been trying very hard. >> and the kaiwan five, they were spying for cuba on the united states, right? thats what were talking about. >> cuban intelligence operatives who were doing stuff in miami, exactly. >> and they served time in u.s. prisons, right? >> exactly. >> some more than 15 years and now three of them will go back. >> exactly. and the cubans have a very,...

Exchange, which is how you characterized it, which i think is exactly right, its a problem that every country faces. and all i can say is that the toughest regime in the world on these issues is the israeli government. and they routinely do prisoner exchanges. not doing it becomes an obstacle and the feeling is, lets move on. so you could say, yes, the obama administration did something wrong. but i pound out netanyahu have been prisoner exchanges that are far more lopsided than prum just did. >...

Things, its really is process because its going to be a big change. but it shows a lot of behind the scene diplomacy that weve seen now for months and years. and all along weve heard that the major impedmemedment to geta relationship more normal to u.s. and cuba has been alan gross. cuba said, even more importantly, return of these three intelligence agents that he sent to the united states. i covered their trial in miami almost 15 years ago and it was very controversial in miami. you can expect...

Addition a whole lot of diplomatic initiatives, including president obama saying he is going to move to restore diplomatic tie to cuba and see about taking cuba off the state sponsor of terrorism list. this is not a reward to the castro regimes. there have been modest reforms on the island and they want to encourage that. nay realize this is a recognition, the embargo not working. if the u.s. wants to change in cuban, it needs to engage more with the cuban people. and i might add, as part of thi...

Worked. the attempt to isolate cuba since 1959, 1906 -- 1960. fidel castro is the longest serving head of state in the world. basically its been the longest serving head of state of the world. and what that tells you is that the embargo has not worked in its objective. the bet now the that the 0 bam that administration is making is that a different strategy will work. it will erode the control that the cuban regime has over its country. if yes think of all of those countries, china being the bes...

The first time since the early 1960s a formal diplomatic relation being restored between the u.s. and cuba. is so theres a lot more to come down the pipeline. but at least for today the headline appears that alan gross will spend his first day outside. hes almost never let outside of the cuban prison cell where he was and the cuban five, the three remaining members of the cuban five, people who are expecting to spend long prison sentences in the united states, one member, the ringleader, was exp...