current political momentum in russia which of course is the nationalist putin version of the future then you will perhaps see your life be forfeited. i think that s what comes out of this no matter what we find about the actual perpetrators and a tragedy for the russian people something that s going to haunt their political system in the days ahead and much further beyond that. a tough day for russia. thank you so much. buck sexton. we ll bring you more as we learn it here on cnn. up next just before the controversial trip that may already damage a fragile relationship between the united states and israel benjamin netanyahu going to the holy site there and sending a last-minute message to president obama. we ll talk about that message.
the entrail the israelis were absorbing tens of thousands of refugees, needed financial help seeking billions of dollars in loan guarantees from the united states and basically told the shamir government you re not getting those until you cease the settlement activity on the west bank and that caused a real rupture. what you don t see now what you did see in 1991 was actual cutoff of aid, if you will. one of the strengths that israel has had over all these years is that it s had strong support among republicans and democrats. among liberals and conservatives. if you undermine or poison that relationship it will hurt israel in the long run. they ll have a lot of work to do. cnn commentators ben ferguson and mark lamont hill. ben, i was thinking about this and wondering what your take is on whether or not how these two leaders personally feel about one another as long as they have the same goal when it comes to iran, if it matters.
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that has been there under his administration and previous administrations because i guarantee you another concession the president has given to the castro regime is he s going to take cuba off the lists of state that is sponsor terrorism, that it is a state sponsor of terrorism. president obama has appeased it, giving it everything that they had been asking for. and the only thing there are no guarantees for people having more freedom. there are no demands, frankly, for any verification of the little that the president says he s asking for. but what he has given is what the castro regime has been demanding, asking for and praying for for decades. president obama, shouldn t surprise us, has basically bailed out the castro regime. representative mario diaz-balart of florida, thank you for your perspective. lots of reaction coming in to cnn from here in the united states from cuba all over the
described as a 45-minute or one-hour phone conversation, the most significant conversation, the most detailed conversation that an american president has had with a cuban leader in more than 50 years. once again, going back to the cuban revolution in 1961. cnn espanol s correspondent has been covering this relationship for a long time. juan carlos, how is this going to be received throughout the hemisphere? i think the united states was really the only country, correct me if i m wrong, that did not have full diplomatic relations with cuba. reporter: it s sinking in, wolf. the announcement is sinking in. a lot of people just listening and hearing and reading and trying to confirm because obviously to a lot of people, a lot of people who followed the cold war and have seen the relationship between these two countries, this is a huge deal. this is something significant. it could be significant for the better or for the worse, depending on who you ask and the position we just heard senat