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Be much better, there will being, obviously, more trade commerce, visitation back and forth to promote democracy and congress has nothing to say about which country is recognized diplomatically. thatseoz privilege or opportunity or maybe some kind of burden thats given to the president alone. congress has nothing to say about that. the senate has to approve the nominee to be a full ambassador down there. but i think the main thing is to go ahead and lift the embargo and sanctions and thats somet...

By. and well have greater travel. not open travel but greater travel. and so i think this is an evolution and the president has done what he can within the fact that we do have an embargo and thats legislative. >> all right. >> secretary penny pritzker thank you so much. great to have you on the show. >> can i ask her a quick question. understand why for obama, for kerry, for this country its a great move. its counter intuitive castro would be doing this at this point. whats in it at him. an 85-...

Monopoly of the state. >> if you look at the tourism dollars already spend in cuba, right? if you look at the tourism dollars that are spend in cuba that money doesnt make its way to the people and a lot of the sort of governments narrative is around, its america doing this to you. i think that will be a great opportunity. its not america doing this to you. your leadership has to change. the demographic changes are already there. >> you still have the leverage of the embargo thats there. youre n...

War. the groundbreaking developments began with yesterdays prisoner swap. cuba released american aide worker alan gross imprisoned for five years along with an unnamed intelligence agent who spent the last 20 years in a cuban president. in return the u.s. released three cuban spies the last of the cuban five detained in 1990. the presidents plans are sweeping. they include re-opening the u.s. embassy in havana. reviewing cubas deis ination as state sponsor of terror and easing travel and expandi...

Talk about cuba. you have been following this for a long time. >> as a reporter, my mother is cuban. left cuba before castro came into power. i think its going to be better than what exists. you cannot argue that the embargo has been successful and it has not moved the needle. what its done in a lot of ways part of the government. any problem they say see its the united states. see heres the problem. so i think theres a potential for actually supporting the cuban people who are very close to ame...

>> the presidents plans are sweeping. they include re-opening the u.s. embassy in had a va narcotics reviewing cubas designation as a state sponsor of terror. expanding economic ties. and easing travel restrictions. he looks forward to engaging congress in an open and honest debate about lifting the long standing embargo. on another note americans who travel to cuba can bring back $400 worth of goods including $100 limit for alcohol and tobacco. >> thats the richard haas plan. richard, "the wash...

Eight years ago it was totally state-controlled and now you have 500,000 entrepreneurs. im just proud to stand on the side of the farm bureau and business community to open this up. >> what about access, those to medicines and to medical treatments that are heretofore been unavailable to many people in cuba. >> well, a lot of that is going to have to be changed in congress when we deal with the helms-burton act and other embargo lengation thats in place. theres a chance of doing that on foreign ...

But telecommunications is a huge opportunity here because only 5% of the cuban people have access to the internet and only 2 million of the 11.4 million cuban people have a cell phone. theres enormous opportunity in terms of connectivity, terms of engagement. i think the presidents approach here of openness and engagement and recognizing that our policy has not worked to date is one thats very profound. >> richard haas. >> secretary pritzker makes the right point. youre diluting the government m...

The castro regime in cuba was growing steadily darker. the modest reforms adopted to improve its abysmal economic situation evolves from cuba as restriction on economic freedoms. the huge subsidies that kept the castros afloat were in peril. "the washington post" goes on to say a growing number of cubans were asking for basic human rights. on wednesday cass tros suddenly obtained a comprehensive bail out from the obama administration. "the washington post" editorial staff right? >> no. what you ...

I would be happy to talk about this. >> richard has a question for you. >> whats wrong with taking away the excuse from the castro government and others that the real problem in cuba is the american embargo and american economic and political isolation. here we do we ease the isolation, we give cuba a chance to grow. either it grows in which case it will whet an appetite for future growth or it doesnt and castro administration cant blame it on us. >> if your question was 30, 40 years ago i would...