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Exchange, which is how you characterized it, which i think is exactly right, it's a problem that every country faces. and all i can say is that the toughest regime in the world on these issues is the israeli government. and they routinely do prisoner exchanges. not doing it becomes an obstacle and the feeling is, let's move on. so you could say, yes, the obama administration did something wrong. but i pound out netanyahu have been prisoner exchanges that are far more lopsided than prum just did. >> the cuban government tried to set imhup to take a fall, didn't it? >> i'm sorry, can you say tha...

Things, it's really is process because it's going to be a big change. but it shows a lot of behind the scene diplomacy that we've seen now for months and years. and all along we've heard that the major impedmemedment to geta relationship more normal to u.s. and cuba has been alan gross. cuba said, even more importantly, return of these three intelligence agents that he sent to the united states. i covered their trial in miami almost 15 years ago and it was very controversial in miami. you can expect in miami there might be protests today because these are people that the cuban american communi...

Addition a whole lot of diplomatic initiatives, including president obama saying he is going to move to restore diplomatic tie to cuba and see about taking cuba off the state sponsor of terrorism list. this is not a reward to the castro regimes. there have been modest reforms on the island and they want to encourage that. nay realize this is a recognition, the embargo not working. if the u.s. wants to change in cuban, it needs to engage more with the cuban people. and i might add, as part of this deal, cuba has agreed to release 53 political prisoners from a list provided by the u.s., allow mo...

Worked. the attempt to isolate cuba since 1959, 1906 -- 1960. fidel castro is the longest serving head of state in the world. basically it's been the longest serving head of state of the world. and what that tells you is that the embargo has not worked in its objective. the bet now the that the 0 bam that administration is making is that a different strategy will work. it will erode the control that the cuban regime has over its country. if yes think of all of those countries, china being the best example which was so closed and isolated, the more they had contact with the world, the more they...

The first time since the early 1960s a formal diplomatic relation being restored between the u.s. and cuba. is so there's a lot more to come down the pipeline. but at least for today the headline appears that alan gross will spend his first day outside. he's almost never let outside of the cuban prison cell where he was and the cuban five, the three remaining members of the cuban five, people who are expecting to spend long prison sentences in the united states, one member, the ringleader, was expecting to spend a life sentence in federal u.s. prison will return free men and receive a hero's w...