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Leverage is in their hands. the democratic transition will come. the castros are in their 80s. fortunately, they'll be gone soon. but it's important that now we not reward the castros for, you know, increasing the repression on the opposition and the cuban people and lift and give them now unilaterally billions and billions of dollars. as i say, this is an issue doesn't matter when people arrived, doesn't matter the age or the political party, they're supportive of conditioning the lifting of sanctions to a democratic transition, but we continue to get these push-pulls paid for by economic int...

Onus on to the castros to explain why they remained undemocratic and abusive. there's another example here of slight difference between the president and the then secretary of state. >> sure. on syria, these are stark differences, right, she's appearing more hawkish and i think generally she is and that's really the role she served in the president's candidate. but he's not particularly popular, right, and if she's trying to appeal to voters somewhere in the middle, this is one way she can kind of do it but i also think it's sort of difficult. the difficulty is she doesn't want to look like sh...

Going to have an enormous opportunity. we better make sure we're the first person into cuba, not the russians and the chinese. >> russia has the ties. >> but objects the astros are gone cube -- the castros are gone, it's an opportunity. >> if you were advise -- >> make friend now. >> if the russians keep bringing more ships. i think they're taunting us. >> it's almost like the kid who is just, going like that, whether it's in the middle east or whether it's in taking snowden or doing something in the eastern european states. trying to see what he will do. will we have a reaction? and they don'...

Privileges around the world in nicaragua and venezuela. so they want to have a blue water navy again, at the same time the russian defense minister said we're going to our old military bases in the former soviet union states and going to modernize those, and then today the russian military mobilizing on the ukrainian border. they're not going to invade but they're saying, take us seriously again. >> we have given them there are consequences, referring to you crepe. but in the case of cuba, when would be get alarmed, two ships, three ships, building weapons. >> the solution is not just to make ...

The government of raul castro continued to enforce political conformity using short-term detention, beatings, public acts of repudiation, forced exile. reports like that are at the heart of the opposition, closer ties to cuba and the castros, and on monday we saw the argument play out on capitol hill, as tom harken recounted in mostly positive terms a trip he made to the island. and he called for closer relationship between the u.s. and cuba. >> it's only our official policy that stands in the way of he exports of commodities and food products, plus related agricultural machinery, technology, ...