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Have to keep doing what doesnt work is interesting advice. i authored along with a couple of other senators in 1999 the first ability to sell food in cuba because i think using food as part of an embargo is immoral. so food and medicine and we were able to do that and even then we had the same discordant voices saying shame on you, you cant do that and its time for us to wake up and understand this 50-year embargo has failed and i would like the commissioner and others to explain why its okay to...

Lets talk politics, shall we? potential 2016 presidential contenders weighing in on president obamas surprise announcement that he plans to normalize the u.s. relationship with cube why. republican jeb bush, the former governor of florida, took to facebook saying "cuba is a dictatorship with a disastrous human rights record, and now president obama has rewarded those dictators." former secretary of state hillary clinton says the best way to bring change to cuba is expose their people to the valu...

Korea. how did they tell you that this helps? >> its interesting, because obviously like in any defector situation, whether its cuban exiles in miami or defectors from north korea, people have different opinions about what works and what doesnt work. we take the approach that we should go on all levels trying to use smuggling routes, trying to use radio and at the same time trying to use balloons. many of the people you actually see in those photographs received a brochure, received a leaflet an...

Years ago. we could have done the day poor alan gross was put into jail unjustly and what the president did today is insult the cuban-american community. we want freedom and democracy to come to the cuban people. this is not the way to get to it, wofrl. >> congressman, you make solid points and you make a bad point about patrick oppmann, he is an excellent journalist and he was reporting what he saw on the streets of cuba and it is unfair that hes not giving talking points for the cuban regime. ...

I heard that church bells were ringing. have you had a chance to speak to cubans? how are they reacting to the news? >> i havent been in cuba in havana. i have actually. im in havana right now as a matter of fact. there was tremendous enthusiasm in the streets here in havana when the news came that the u.s. was going to ease restrictions on cuba. were going to establish diplomatic relations with cuba. its been a long time coming. let me just say that the embargo, the hard line policy that the un...

Think in retrospect, some of these practices fly in the face of everything that america values and stands for. >> i was struck, david, by the amount to which cheney basically said, i did, and we did, and we got it authorized by the president, but i was running the intelligence program, i was doing this. >> well, also, it indicated to me, what he said throughout the interview, he didnt know about it in certain ways. he said a lot of things were just wrong. he said it worked, it worked, it worked....

These practices fly in the face of everything that america values and stands for. >> i was struck, david, by the amount to which cheney basically said, i did, and we did, and we got it authorized by the president, but i was running the intelligence program, i was doing this. >> well, also, it indicated to me, what he said throughout the interview, he didnt know about it in certain ways. he said a lot of things were just wrong. he said it worked, it worked, it worked. the report comes up with num...

Product of this, we all saw elizabeth warren on the democratic side galvanize opposition because of thek"u(áu of the bill that effectively gave the banks the ability to trade risky derivatives and then get bailed out if it doesnt work. this could be the beginning of her presidential campaign. >> it gave her a forum to start out. >> its given her a reason or a way, certainly her supporters have to get into the mix and i think it was 300 obama supporters on friday said they wanted her to run. >> ...

>> i think theres a lot of people that are behavior problems in the jail that its just made it worse and exacerbate their already underlying illness, being in a stressful, close approximation to other people. the whole system is helping pop pa gate another type holding ground or treatment facility for the population that cant get into the mental health center. >> william jarrett says he suffers from an anxiety disorder which has been made worse by his 23 hour-per-day confinement in a small cell....

Months, you need to call us and well talk to you about prostate cancer. >> my mom took the doctors challenge and got her brother for the first time getting his prostate checked. he has a clean bill of health, however, his cholesterol is high. doctors want to put him on lipitor. i said, no, have him change his diet first. you can monitor your cholesterol level by changing your diet. then if that doesnt work, you go to the medicine. but my mom says its high. >> i want to congratulate your family f...