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Remittences, cuban americans sending money back to cuba. but this, of course, is a major change. you heard president obama. he didnt give it as the definition of insanity. but the idea that doing the same thing over and over and over again and expecting a different result didnt make sense to him was what he invoked. he also did talk about the fact that cuba is still doing arbitrary arrests of human rights activists and the cuban people. and in fact in 2013, the state departments own country repo...

Carmax. start here. we have a serious hairball issue. we clean it up, turn around, and there it is again. its scary. little bit in my eye. [ michelle ] underneath the kitchen table, underneath my work desk, weve got enough to knit a sweater. [ doorbell rings ] zach, what is that? the swiffer sweeper. the swiffer dusters. its some sort of magic cloth that sucks in all the dog hair. its quick and easy. pretty amazing that it picked it all up. i would totally take on another dog. [ kevin ] really? ...

To those who have supported these measures, i thank you for being partners in our efforts. in particular, i want to thank his holiness, pope francis, whose moral example shows us the importance of pursuing the world as it should be rather than simply settling for the world as it is. the government of canada which hosted our discussions with the cuban government and a bipartisan group of congressmen who have worked tirelessly for alan gross release and for a new approach to advancing our interest...

Really changed and the reason has been the effectiveness of the anti-castro cuba lobby. who is the cuba lobby? and why dont they want to change? >> the cuba lobby has, i think that phrase almost doesnt even work anymore. because in the 1980s and the 1990s, there was an organization that had an office in washington and they actively lobbied members of congress. and there was cuba pack moan although there still is but it is much less. it was accurate to say there was a lobby. now there is a doorwa...

Cuba and turns a new page. joining me now, california congresswoman karen bass, a member of the foreign affairs committee, and nicholas burns, former u.n. ambassador to nato. now a professor at harvard university. thank you both for being here. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> ambassador burns, let me go to you first. how significant was the presidents action today? >> well, i agree with you. historic decision today. we have not had a normal relationship with cuba for half a century. i t...

Trying to normalize relations. how do you view this in the whole view of other presidents not being able to move at all in trying to advance this policy toward normalization? >> well, sir, on the surface it is historic. as up, no other president has been able to do this. when you think of the political congratulations and how the republican party in particular used position on cuba as against democrats or anyone who wanted to normalize relations. what the president did today was not historic but...

From other countries, that our values really do trump out. i think thats what will happen in cuba. >> so your bottom line is you think that alan gross seems to be okay physically right now? you say he was in good spirits -- >> absolutely. >> based on your eyewitness account, you were there, you received him at joint base andrews outside of washington, d.c. you seem to think hes okay? >> of course, he was with his wife, that always makes someone feel better, he was with some of his friends. he wa...

Thing to do. >> you know, joe, the question bears asking. why couldnt democrats before this do this? >> do this before? i think once again, it is political. theres no ifs, ands or buts about it. you have to keep in mind that you have an older leadership that gets called up in it. florida plays a big role. particularly in presidential elections. thats where the bulk of your opposition comes from. you have new leadership. as a matter of fact, you have new leadership in cuba. you have a younger gen...

Country, it must stop. despite the blockade, measures have become law, the president of the united states may be able to modify its own obligation in years by his own executive action. we propose today to the united states to adopt mutual measures to improve the bilateral climate and to normalize the mutual links between our two countries. based on the principles of international law and the united nations charter, cuba reserves

The three remaining members of the cuban five, they are released as a humanitarian gesture, according to u.s. officials. the cubans have also freed alan gross, an american contractor who had been held in a cuban prison for five years. patrick oppmann is our man reporting live from cuba right now. patrick, what else did the cuban president, raul castro, say? i understand like president obama, he thanked the pope for his efforts behind the scenes as well. >> reporter: absolutely. it was not just w...