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>> anthony: author of the internationally successful mario conde detective series, padura has been able to portray the daily struggles, the absurdities of life in cuba. it's a delicate dance, and few have been able to replicate it. your hero in the books, does he live in this neighborhood? or another neighborhood? >> leonardo: more or less. more or less. >> anthony: happy place to grow up, this neighborhood? >> leonardo: yeah, yeah. i was totally free. >> anthony: i notice a lot of people just hanging out. who lives here? >> leonardo: all kinds of people. doctors, for example. engineers. worke...

This is a profitable industry. in the military we used to call absurdities, a self-licking ice cream. i'm in a relatively cheap media market and campaigns cost $3 million. it's getting out of hand. steve: that feels like arms race. anything we can do about that? when you talk about campaign spending, you get into the territory of the constitutional objections to that. what's your view on what we can do about that? >> i don't take pac and lobbyist money. steve: this all sounds great, is anything going to happen? how are you going to make it happen? >> well, i do think there is a genuine belief ...

This is a profitable industry. in the military we used to call absurdities, a self-licking ice cream. i'm in a relatively cheap media market and campaigns cost $3 million. it's getting out of hand. steve: that feels like arms race. anything we can do about that? when you talk about campaign spending, you get into the territory of the constitutional objections to that. what's your view on what we can do about that? >> i don't take pac and lobbyist money. steve: this all sounds great, is anything going to happen? how are you going to make it happen? >> well, i do think there is a genuine belief ...

You'll have a lot of republicans who wish they had a time machine a few years from now to show more courage now. it's not like we're asking these guys to land on the beach. just to stand up for the principles of the party and what's right for the country when we clearly have an unfit person in the white house. >> off of that last reference that you made, let me ask you this. we are all familiar with the littany of incompetence and moral absurdities uttered by the president. people feel there's a character gap in the republican party. speak to that, if you could. >> well, look, it's -- we are s...

The president tweeted at the end of the day, i guess he wanted to sort of put an exclamation point on the day saying it was a great day at the white house. ivanka trump tweeted that she looks forward to serving alongside john kelly. is there anything wrong with this picture? >> yes. she's not serving alongside john kelly. she's working for the white house chief of staff. this is the problem of having presidential kids around. it was inappropriate for her to be seated with heads of state at a g-20 table. it makes the country look like a banana republic. it's well past the hour where people ough...