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Will the change in name at the top alter anything else significant in the nation? joining me are two people who know that nation well. the author of "cuba: what everyone needs to know" and research fellow at the lbj school of public affairs. and john paul rathbone, editor and author of "sugar: king of havana." let me ask you, julia. is this a symbolic change, or is it more than that. >> look, fareed, clearly its a symbolic change. but it has to be more than that. if we take a look at the goodbye...

Quiet. barack obama said would stay engaged and put out a statement other day and called on people going into the streets. could it be barack obama, his presence that pulls the party together? >> what i thought was the driving force of that statement, although he praised protest, i think it was trump administration using barack obama as example of defense as what he did with ref jazz. when barack obamas legacy items are on the table and trump folks try to build a different narrative around it, t...

. the president and the first lady in chicago last night at whats probably their last major public event together before the inauguration. lots of friends on tonight. i cannot wait to hear your impressions, michelle, of this speech. >> i loved every single word that the president uttered tonight, but obviously one of my favorite parts of the speech is when he looked at his wife and at one of his two daughters and just had nothing but pure love in his eyes for his wife. you know, it was just --...

Public event together before the inauguration. lots of friends on tonight. i cannot wait to hear your impressions, michelle, of this speech. >> i loved every single word that the president uttered tonight, but obviously one of my favorite parts of the speech is when he looked at his wife and at one of his two daughters and just had nothing but pure love in his eyes for his wife. you know, it was just -- it was romantic. last week she gave a very emotional speech. her goodbye speech. one of the t...

Moment. next, president obamas goodbye speech, his last huge moment as president of the united states. why do some people from his hometown feel let down? montel williams is my guest. and a strong man summit, donald trump and vladimir putin are going to meet. and donald trump fires back after meryl streep said this. >> hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners. and if you kick em all out, youll have nothing to watch about football and mixed martial arts which are not the arts. when you...

Experience. 5% just think shes the best choice out there. being a woman candidate comes with its own land mines, but do you think that poll has it right, that her gender is an asset? >> i absolutely do. i covered the hillary clinton campaign in 2008 for the ap, so i spent a year on a plane with at that point the new york senator. she was so reluctant to talk about that aspect of her candidacy. she was very, very broadly coached by her aides not to discuss it, to really project this image of stre...

Neighbors because of the, you know. >>know, some perceived satellit. you mentioned the word paranoid. hes obviously that. hes a crazy, heavily armed person. authorities are doing their best to be patient. at some point theyre going to worry about this child and how much longer this child can survive under those conditions. >> the child, the patient patiee whole community. well, senator? >> i havent made the decision, but ill definitely invite you to the victory party. thats all i care about. >> ...

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