France, opinion polls point to a decisive win for the Party President Emmanuel Macron. Tom good evening. U. S. President donald trump announced earlier on today that he will partially reverse the Obama Administration policy of whilst towards cuba, maintaining diplomatic relations. Put theys the u. S. Will brakes on the flow of cash to the country, in particular any linked to the cuban military. He says it is part of a plan to empower the cuban people and hold the regime accountable. Plans are also in place to tighten restrictions on americans traveling to havana lets listen to what President Trump had to say. Policy thatump makes less sense than the prior administrations terrible and misguided zeal with the castro regime. The previous administrations easing of restrictions on travel and trade does not help the cuban people. They only enrich the cuban regime. Tom u. S. President donald trump speaking there. For mark and we can cross for we go to harding. Not a major surprise, this annou
Other stops on our tour at www. Cspan. Org citiestour. You are watching American History tv on cspan3. Next come historians discuss u. S. Foreignpolicy on human rights during the latter half of the cold war. Chileters focus on iran, and cuba. They also examined the american stance on womens rights, torture and oppression in the developing world from the 1960s on. This session was hosted by the American Historical Association at their annual meeting. Its about an hour and a half. Thank you for coming to this session on human rights in the late cold war era. My name is amanda moniz. On the curator of philanthropy at the Smithsonian National museum of American History. Until recently, i was associate director of the National History center of the American Historical Association, which sponsored this afternoons panel. Amanda perry is the new assistant director. We are grateful to sarah snyder for organizing this panel. Panelistsroduce our all together and then we will hear their papers, wh
To make it harder on an incoming president when the guy replaced wont shut up . Absolutely. Can you imagine any job do you want the last person that had it opining on your performance . And i tell you what makes it even richer. Barack obama really has had no criticism from george bush, even though he threw him under the bus every opportunity he could. George bush didnt say anything. He didnt comment. The economy was he never he had so many chances. I can see the first year, but nothing for eight years. But really to say somehow hes going to keep donald trump in check, hes some sort of a, you know, alternative out there, some sort of social conscious that will make sure that the new president does the right thing is absurd. But it does speak to his ego. What do you think . Well, i remember when jack welsh gave picked jeff immelt to run ge. Afterwards that was jacks pick, but afterwards they didnt get along. Right. Very much at odds about the management of the company. Immelt used to say
The president elect promising to take immediate action on things like energy, infrastructure and trade so more americans can get back to work. Will his plan work . Welcome to cashing in. Our crew this week is lisa booth, and rachel. Welcome. An ambitious jobs plan for trumps first 100 days in office. Will it put americans back to work . Absolutely. This is what americans wanted and i think he will deliver particularly as a business guy. You look at energy. President obama even with the obstruction of the key stone pipeline were talking about tens of thousands of jobs supported and further looking at energy as well, you look at fracking which has added 190 billion and created 1. 4 million jobs. The wall street journal has said it saved Americans Energy costs but president obama has pursued federal regulations against the fracking industry even though it has been in the hands of the states. Even if you look at those issues alone, all those are jobs created, money added that is positive t
Castro. The former president of cuba died friday at the age of 90, beginning several days of mourning in cuba and kicking off celebrations among exiles. He was an icon of the cuban revolution who established a brutal communist regime. He was a symbol of the cold war, allying cuba with the soviet union and frustrating american president s from both parties. Earlier this morning it was a scene of celebration on the streets of miami, where so many cuban exiles settled to build new lives in the u. S. Phil keating is live in miami Little Havana neighborhood where the partying is showing no signs of letting up. Phil . Reporter we are looking at about 16, 17 hours of a street party thats been happening and take a look around. This is the scene here of celebration in miamis Little Havana neighborhood. Thats the heart of the Cuban Exile Community and where generations of cuban americans have now grown up. This is a day they had hoped to see for decades. No more fidel castro. He is now dead at t