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Heard anything from officials. >> pretty amazing, jim, that it was the white house that once again stepped in because otherwise who knows how long it would have lasted. >> and i can only imagine that perhaps one of these personal -- one of these personal e-mails somehow was forwarded to somebody on the nsc or somebody here at the pentagon shared it with somebody at the nsc, and they said, what? are you kidding many he? so they picked up the phone and called. it baffles the mind, really, to think...

The cuban military is the largest latin american hotel conglomerate -- well, latin america overall. it offers more hotel rooms than the walt disney world company. thats who we are supporting. so when the administration announces we want more travel to cuba, more travel to cuba is not an achievement. the castro regime puts billboards throughout canada, throughout latin america, throughout europe, wanting more tourists because thats their number one source of income for their repressive apparatus....

There. i guess a lot of light savers will be sold in the park. >> thanks, good to see you. >> take care, jose. >> marissa meyers is in the news after hosting an opulent holiday party. its said she spent $7 million for the holiday party. the company disputes that saying the party cost around $2 million. >> what do relations between cuba and u.s. after restoring diplomatic ties? much more ahead. the only way to get better is to challenge yourself,

Lthe u.s. and cuba have jus confirmed theyve reached a deal to begin commercial flights. not everything has changed. it was one year ago this morning we brought you the stunning, breaking news that the united states and cuba had reached a secret and historic agreement to restore diplomatic relations after more than half a century. weve seen embassies reopen in havana and washington in that time. the state department says american tourism to cuba has surged by more than 50%. here with me today ju...

Amendments at the time that were designed to sort of blow up the bill, to put democrats on the record as opposing certain limits that republicans -- some republicans were pushing for. and now cruz is distancing himself from those efforts. and its a mess for both of them. its funny, though. both of these guys are trying to claim that theyre not part of the washington establishment. that they havent necessarily enjoyed their time on capitol hill because they havent been able to get things done. bu...

Month after we were here last year, it was euphoria, people were heading down in droves, and i think everybody thought this was going to happen very quickly. but any of us who spent any time in cuba know things dont happen so quickly. theyve had trouble adjusting to our speed and accepting the changes weve been making so theyve been taking it very slow, which is why we havent seen a mcdonalds and starbucks on every corner down there. >> what can be realistically expected to change in cuba when t...

Changing, flight service reestablished, mail service reestablished. talk to me about the fundamental changes that have taken place. >> weve seen slow but emerging business deals between the u.s. and cuba. we maintain an economic embargo on the island. >> which still stands in place. >> and only congress can change that. but what we started to see are companies like sprint and verizon, now they have roaming agreements with the cuban government. you can book a room through air bnb, a san francisco...

To cube cuba. you can be a journalist, you can be going to learn about the cuban people. this agreement says you dont have to go through this long process of securing a charter flight, you can just book it online and do it like youre doing anywhere else. >> lets talk about what has not happened. one of the things that has for sure occurred in this last year is there has been a pretty substantial increase notice repression against human whites activist, like the ladies in white who go to mass eve...

Change its behavior before the united states should extend them any sort of olive branch. the argument from the obama administration is thats what weve been doing for decades and its not working. its the definition of insanity to do the same thing over and over and expect a different outcome. >> what hes doing is not going to work. to absolutely just cave in to the cubans. you saw what castro did after that, after hes been given diplomatic relations now he says he wants guantanamo back and repre...

Said that this rhetoric was way over the line, and didnt help the cause. what do you think? >> lets talk the facts of the deal. we shouldnt be getting the hyperbole. we should talk about the facts. the facts that we have to wait 24 days to inspect a site if the iranians object is outrageous. jake, as you know, as u.s. attorney, that would be like me getting a search warrant, coming to somebodys house who i think is committing a crime and saying here, i have a search warrant, ill be back in 24 da...