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Home to one of cuba's most celebrated writers. [ speaking foreign language ]. >> author of the internationally successful mario 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. >> more or less. more or less. >> happy place to grow up, this neighborhood? >> yeah. i was totally free. >> i notice a lot of people just hanging out. who lives here? >> all kinds of people. doctors, for example. enginee...

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. >> more or less. more or less. >> happy place to grow up, this neighborhood? >> yeah. i was totally free. >> i notice a lot of people just hanging out. who lives here? >> all kinds of people. doctors, for example. engineers. workers. and people who makes nothing, like that guy. >> right. >> he don't make nothing. >> how does he live? >> trying to find something to do or something to sell. making a small business.

>> author of the internationally successful mario 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. >> more or less. more or less. >> happy place to grow up, this neighborhood? >> yeah. i was totally free. >> i notice a lot of people just hanging out. who lives here? >> all kinds of people. doctors, for example. engineers. workers. and people who makes nothing, like that guy. >> right. >> he don'...

And by definition, the 1.5 billion adherents of it, regardless of their political or military views, and that includes the 1% of the american population, citizens here, under the united states constitution, that actually follow islam as a religion. >> well, reza, i just want to quickly respond, because, you know, when confronted with facts a lot of times, the other commentators ad hominem attacks, which is what you just did to me. i have read the bible, and there are academic scholars that disagree with your facts, andy mccarthy, i named him, federal former prosecutor -- >> he is not a scholar...

Absurdities and suggest that islamic americans will not have constitutional rights. they have all the constitutional rights that i have as a christian. president-elect trump has never suggested otherwise. and it's irresponsible to come on here and cry racist, islamophobic. let's listen to president obama and give him a chance. >> fear of muslims is rational, that's what he said. >> president-elect trump at various times in his campaign has called for banning all muslims from the united states, he's called for monitoring muslim neighborhoods, he has peddled a lie that american muslims celebrate...