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>> the united states of america is changing its relationship with the people of cuba. >> normalize relations for the first time since 1961. >> the biggest shift in u.s.-cuban relations in more than 50 years. >> our goal is not the victory of might but the vindication of right. >> any nuclear missile, launched from cuba as an attack by the soviet union on the united states. >> i will move promptly on the pending helms-burton cuban legislation. >> it is a slap in the face to a tyrant. >> the legis...

People in the u.s. congress on both parties and they stick together when it comes to this because it is so important to the first hand victims that they represent. >> dan, what do you say? you serve in the obama white house. what do you say to the charges this is essentially rewarding bad behavior, an oppressive regime? >> a failure in reaching goals isnt a reward to anybody. continuing the policy would have been a reward to those who it benefits. this is the u.s. being more relevant in the futu...

May recall, at nelson man dell w dellas funeral. you see them talking to one another. this is the first engagement at the presidential level since the cuban revolution. the white house says president obama had numerous conversations with members of congress before agreeing to the deal and multiple lawmakers were briefed. president obamas historic announcement regarding cuba is already having an impact on the race for 2016. potential candidates were quick to weigh in on this including two senator...

Rest of the continent so we believe it is good for both parties. >> abel, thank you very much. florida senator marco rubio, the son of cuban immigrants, calling president obama the worst negotiator and insisting that congress will never lift the embargo. >> entire policy shift announced today is based on an illusion, on a lie. the lie and the illusion that more commerce and am ses to money and goods will translate to political freedom for the cuban people. all this is going to do is give the cas...

The future of cuba. one thing i agree with marco rubio who deeply disagree is we need to see a free and democratic cuba. president obama said we havent been successfully getting there with the policy weve been following for the last 55 plus years. lets try something different and lets try something thats been consistent with what marco rubio calls an illusion and a lie is the basis of democrat and republican since the end of world war ii. the greater commerce, greater economic interaction is par...

Fidel castro is a figurehead but no indications that he was involved and may not even have been aware of the deal. >> patrick from havana, thank you. political reaction is divided, not exclusively among party lines. new jersey senator robert menendez condemned the deal. senator nelson, a florida democrat called it a hallelujah day and hopefully a rebirth of economic ties between florida and cuba. but marco rubio strongly disagrees. >> this entire policy shift announced today is based on an illus...

To negotiate with a tyrant. >> it was the latest in the marco rubio media tour deforce. this morning he took to the pages of wall street journal to publicly accuse the president of the united states of lying. the entire policy shift is based on the illusion and in fact, on the lie that more commerce and access to money and goods will translate to political freedom for the cuban people, but if marco cubeio thought he cornered the market on kepticel hard right cuban-americans he was mistaken. >> t...

>> all of this is entirely unprecedented. >> a lot of history seemed to fall down at once. >> the united states of america is changing its relationship with the people of cuba. >> normalize relations for the first time since 1961. >> the biggest shift in u.s.-cuban relations in more than 50 years. >> our goal is not the victory of might but the vindication of right. >> any nuclear missile, launched from cuba as an attack by the soviet union on the united states. >> i will move promptly on the pe...

Freedom of press or freedom of speech or elections, no binding commitment was made to truly open up the internet. no commitment was made to allowing the establishment of political parties or to even begin the semblance of a transition to a democracy. and in exchange for all of these concession, the only thing the cuban government agreed to do is free 53 political prisoners who could wiped up in jail tomorrow morning if they once again take up the cause of freedom and to allow the united nations ...

U.s.-cuban relations in a new direction. >> reporter: twice in his first term president obama took executive action to liberalize american travel to cuba but the state department categorizes the cuban regime as authoritarian, guilty of every abuse you can think of against cuban citizens. >> you know the old saying if you dig in a hole and you get deeper and deeper, stop digging. >> if i were an americaned a very stair now in moscow and pyongyang, i would be saying two more years of the obama adm...