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Whether that happens and there are serious concerns about human rights and lack of all that in opening up the relations with cuba, and nothing from the white house as of yet, and we are promising to hear from the statement, and perhaps making it the time the forceful case to engage the cuban people, and the big problem with the administration is what the president has done is through executive orders, and congress would have to remove an embargo, and there's no intention, no indication that congress is going to do that anytime soon, particularly a republican-controlled congress, and uncertaint...

They are driving a car. >> thank you for that and we will check in a ttle later. some leaders are calling this a new beginning. >> joining me now is the senior fellow at the center for american progress and he served as secretary of defense in the reagan administration. >> thank you. >> now that castro is dead, will anything change for the island nation? >> i think that the fact that president obama started trying to normalize relations and then

Caribbean sea, was towing the barge that collided with the anchored duck boat causing it to sink. two people were killed in last week's crash. embattled oscar winning filmmaker roman polanski is now a free man. according to the swiss justice ministry polanski will not be extradited to the u.s. to face sentencing for child sex charges. he pleaded guilty in los angeles to having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977 but fled to europe before being sentenced. polanski was arrested in switzerland last year. switzerland says the u.s. did not supply the legal records it requested. the state...

War. andrea mitchell has more on the revolutionary leader. >> to his followers, he was fidel, and to his enemies, a feared dictator, one of the world's last communist. a student radical he graduated with a law degree and doctorate and tried running for the national assembly in 1952 until cuban strong man seized power, batista, and castro ended up in jail for two years until he went into exile, and then he regrouped with his brother, raul. the three forced back to cuba in

After undergoing intestal surgery, he turned over his power to raul. and then there was a delayed celebration of fidel's 80th birthday, but an ailing castro did not attend the celebrations, and two years later he stepped down and was succeeded by his brother, and he emerged publicly for the pope's visit in 2012. and for vladimir putin and chi, and he never commented through with president obama's breakthrough. to the end, castro insisted his revolution would out live him. >> translator: if i die tomorrow morning there will be no problem