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>> let me bring in the panel. danielle, let me start with you, because foreign policy is your wheelhouse. if this had happened 10 or 15 years ago, would anything change? this doesnt have the same feel that i think we all thought it would have ten or 15 years ago. could something change? >> i dont think anything is going to change. as marco rubio said rightly, fidel hasnt been in charge. raul is in charge. the transfer happened a decade ago. the problem is not -- was not fidel. it was the system ...

Between the two countries, if they have been able to get to the united states, and it was the easiest for them to immigrate if they could get on land. when they saw the improvement in relations happening in cuba many people tried to leave because they were worried that that would change at some point in the future. >> you have covered several state visits to cuba with presidents carter, and secretary of state, john kerry, and how have u.s./cuba relations evol d evolved? >> they had been improvem...

Freedoms that chris was just referring to. ive interviewed castros over the years, first met him in 1999 when i went down there over the controversy of elian gonzalez. and there were demonstrations from the streets and we started a long series of conversations which led to a numb were of interviews and a long documentary that we did for msnbc back in 2002. but ive traveled down there when jimmy carter went in 2002 on a human rights mission and also, you know, of course more recently under raul c...

This step makes it inevitable that things will continue to open up in cuba and as american business begins to move into the country, i think what you are going to see is a gradual transition away from this or talk raw see that the castro bothers have had. dont forget, raul said he is stepping down in two years as well, and its a new era for the cuban people. >> any idea who might be in the running to replace him? >> i dont think we know anybody, but nobody will have the charisma with the castros...

Years have had so many false calls, people calling him dead. and all of a sudden he is not. >> right. >> and you go back and you ask questions and you do your homework, and the reality is that he is alive and well, this time is for real. even those things were controversial about his life. >> so whats going to happen over the next few days? he is going to be cremated. im not asking you the blow by blow. we dont have that information yet. im thinking more in terms of the politics of cuba. bass wh...

Commercial ties to cuba as one of his premier legacy achievements, foreign policy achievements. so i do think that what donald trump does now is he measured? is he taking a wait and see? does he give raul castro some time to divert away from the hard core policies like hes been doing away from his brother? or does he jump right out now and aggressively attack the castros? so i do think this is a bit of a test. i dont know which way hes going to go because as weve seen, you know, donald trump is ...

Ere erected. and im sure that some day when the castros are no longer in power those monuments and those statues -- it reminds me of the saddam hussein statue in baghdad. the one that the americans pulled down with the help of the iraqis. thats going to be the fate of those castro statues. >> a cllist in with the miami herald joining us this hour. stay with us well come back to you. >> rafael rommo joins us now. cnn correspondent. rafael, as we now have the confirmation that fidel castro has pas...

Congress will have an executive action. he does it on many other things with foreign policy. he will happily have an executive order to close guantanamo bay. bill: there is your map. you predict that the castros get gitmo back under this president. is anyone else talk like that? who not really, but they should. if the president is going to close off the options for the next president to reopen gitmo, he has to give it back to the cubans. if its just shuttered the next president can open the shut...

Then, of course, he had a meeting with the current president of cuba. one of the interesting things where we just landed is this is the birth province of the castros. it gives you a little lay of the land. were expecting pope francis to celebrate mass today at revolution square in holguin. another revolution square, yesterday, we saw him celebrate mass in havana. were going to take a look and see how -- what the crowds are like here. if theyre anything like we saw yesterday, theres going to be t...

Pictures here revolution square in havana, cuba. the faithful, as we heard, the hopeful there tens of thousands packing into the square awaiting a sunday mass celebration by pope francis. >> cubans are opening the pontiff can open the country up to the rest of the world. and something we take for granted. were talking about wi-fi. the first time some of these kids, the pope will meet with a little bit later, will have access to free wi-fi. its going to be a big moment. chris cuomo will talk abou...