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This. were looking at a president in the last two years of his second term. who a lot of people would like to look at as a lame duck. when you take this into account, what he did on the executive action on immigration, this is a president showing he will not be lame. and one other opponent interesting republican party and lots of folks on the other seed like to say this press is turning his back on freedom and democracy in cuba. the oxygen of democracy is freedom. particularly the 43 flow of ide...

That the u.s. specifically requested be released from cuban prisons. and our understanding is if theyve not already been released, they will be released immediately. while the speech was going on, wolf, we started to hear bells in churches all around us in old havana ringing. there was no reason for them to ring other than the fact of this announcement, it was history in the making, after long last, the u.s. and cuba are moving closer together. ive never seen anything like it where church bells ...

And is behind the tyranny in venezuela. the cuban government is influential at the highest levels of the venezuelan regime and has helped them mastermind thecrackdo crackdown on the ven people. this is absurd and disgraceful for a president who claims to treasure human rights and human freedom. this president is the single worst negotiator we have had in the white house in my lifetime. who has basically given the cuban government everything it asked for and received no assurances of any advances...

Morning. theyve landed at andrews -- joint base andrews outside of washington. theyre now coming here to downtown washington, d.c. theyre going to be speaking, making a statement. well have live coverage of that as well as getting reaction from lawmakers, those who support this dramatic historic change, improvement in u.s./cuban relations as well as those who are deeply concerned. there you see some of the pictures that came in from joint base andrews moments ago when alan gross arrived. hes wea...

Our chief national security correspondent, jim sciutto, is getting some new information on this u.s. intelligence asset that has been freed, 20 years in captivity for spying on behalf of the united states inside cuba. what are you learning, jim? >> reporter: thats right. until now we just knew it was an intelligence asset. but coming from the director of national intelligence, were learning the united states secured the release of a cuban individual from a cuban prison who the director of nation...

Sanctions gave castro a scapegoat to essentially say, our economy is bad because of the american sanctions and if you remove the sanctions, then they dont have that scapegoat anymore. they cant blame the americans for this. but i also think if you sort of take a step back and look at what president obama has done in the so-called lame duck years of his presidency, just post-election, youve seen massive immigration reform through executive action, climate change with china, cuba here. so anybody ...

That has been there under his administration and previous administrations because i guarantee you another concession the president has given to the castro regime is hes going to take cuba off the lists of state that is sponsor terrorism, that it is a state sponsor of terrorism. president obama has appeased it, giving it everything that they had been asking for. and the only thing -- there are no guarantees for people having more freedom. there are no demands, frankly, for any verification of the...

90 miles to sour south where many people fled and came to the united states there in florida and throughout the country who would like to see their families back in cuba, would like to travel freely to cuba. lots of americans would like to go to cuba. so this is a policy change that should have happened a long time ago. for lots of reasons which i think well get into, the political pressure was made to bear against members of congress and certainly against people in the oval office to not change...

The fear of communism. and isnt it quite absurd that for 50 plus years, weve been talking about, we dont want to do business with one of the smallest communist countries on the planet but yet we do business with china? >> right. that seems to have been a glaring contuld nontradiction t of american people. >> and did it work? for 50 years we thought if we keep the embargo in place, cuba will fold and embrace democracy. it didnt work. after trying something 50 years, lets change course. because cu...

Order to get very little in return. >> what do you say to the president and you heard carl levin say it, ben cardin said it. the u.s. can have normal diplomatic commercial relations with a communist regime in china, a normal diplomatic relation with vietnam. why not with cuba? >> because we dont have diplomatic relations with iran, a state sponsor of terrorism. by the way, im actually shocked that people use china and vietnam as the example to follow because those are oppressive regimes. i frank...