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Built for business. bill: senator marco rubio, slamming president obamas decision and handling of the exchange with cuba. american alan gross is free this pop with cuban prisoners. heres what marco rubio says about the presidents negotiating ability. >> the cubans ha particularly venezuelan government. we are lifting sanctions on them, how absurd is that? how all these tyrants around the world of the u.s. can be had, pretty easy deal at a minimum barack obama is the worst ago shooter as we have ...

Not likely be able to get overall for the u.s. to abandon the policy would be a big item for the president and congress especially republican congress that the president could direct the treasury department to stop enforcing it because the treasury department is the key because the ban is not on many states, it is on cuba and u.s. money going to cuba so they can use it to prop up the fallen regime. that he has options. bill: when you look at the choices this president has in front of him, the ma...

Trading the american for convicted criminal is extremely dangerous precedents. he says the actions on cuba vindicates the brutal behavior of the cuban government, so what about the united states charting new ground? senator marco rubio from florida is with me now. his parents fled cuba in the 1950s immigrating to the u.s. as fidel castro began his rise to power. thank you for your time. your reaction and what we expect today. >> first of all obviously we are glad mr. gross is back with his famil...

Home, but the optics of a trader to people who are actual spies, targeting southern command and spying for a foreign government is somewhat troubling. martha: if concessions are to be made one might think that would have been an appropriate negotiating tool to get mr. gross back. >> the u.s. government, its heartening how much we do pay attention to our citizens who are held abroad. but we are a government with interests and we have to defend the united states. despite the fact of its relative s...

Where do you think this leads us now? >> it empowers them to act out further against americans understanding they have a president they can deal with. north korea says we will give back the americans if you send a cap and officer to us, now cuba? it is all these other concessions as marco rubio pointed out that are inherently beyond the policy of this president, blindsided the government by doing it. this and the terrible message to those seeking to do us harm and those were trying to influence....

U.s. and cuba. an american has been released. his name is alan gross, hes 65 years old. the white house says it will start talks to normalize diplomatic relations with the communist government in havana. president obama and the cuban president will speak this morning. its breaking news on americas newsroom and well have much more in a moment. soft and full like a flower, with new covergirl full lash bloom mascara. finally! volume thats soft - not spiky. new full lash bloom mascara from easy, bre...

Russia and in turn gives us leverage in the situation in ukraine. enormous amount of new economic power because of the collapse in the price of oil, which in part is the result of america fracking. bill: do you think the ruble been trouble this way without the sanctions, or do you think the energy technology would do it on its own? >> sanctions make it worse, but the underlining collapse in the price of oil is the prime mover in the collapse. bill: where are we now per barrel? 60 bucks? >> 65 an...

Thank you as well. merry christmas to you both. thank you for being here. marthabill: i miss between commt cuba and the united states. we will hear from the president this one. and senator marco rubios here, his parents escaped the regime. martha: plus the house oversight committee under new leadership come january and will earn a turning scandal under lois lerner is back in play, as are some other big issues. we will be right back. >> we dont know what she has done so i would you give somebody ...

Of cuba an in recent confirmatin hearings. it is a very complex story and all of that has been ironed out. martha: is bring in fox news digital editor for his take on this new spread this looks like a major initiative on foreign-policy we will here at noon. >> shirley across washington is a great deal of support for a family united, this case looks at maybe the political cover where the sugar to help the medicine go down to get the focus on one man while they embark on an enormous change. what w...

Law. how do you then work within this law or talk to congress to get congress to allow you to proceed with opening an embassy? to be cautious on this, it is just a consideration for talks to move in that direction. do i have that correct? >> that is correct. it would require approval of congress with a two-thirds vote by the united states senate. we have the issue of unilateral, but the normalization of relations with bipartisan support in the senate, a lot of resistance to the expatriate commit...