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The president to approve the keystone pipeline. >> you're an optimist, mary, god bless you. >> last year was a very bad year for democracy. this year's going to be a very bad year for strong men in the world. turkey with aerdogan, vladimir putin is in trouble, i think the young kim in korea is troubling. and i predict the castros will fall this year. >> and you say i'm an optimist. >> bring us down to earth, please. >> global warming, i think it's going to die this year. the environmental movement decides, given the kind of incredible cold weather we've had this weekend, they're going to wrap ...

Would normally see here in the united states but for the fact that he got pulled from his family in miami and taken to cuba. so i think it's going to be interesting to see, carol, what happens with him. especially because he is such an icon in cuba. and the castros have been attending his birthday parties. he hailed a hero. what's next? >> we'll see. thanks. a programming note for you. tonight's cnn's anderson cooper has a special report on the newtown shooting anniversary. it takes a look at sandy hook's parents turning their heartbreak into lasting legacies. that appears tonight only on cn...

We should all ask ourselves what would nelson mandela do? it wasn't a conversation, it wasn't a diplomatic meeting, it was a handshake, and at the celebration of a man whose entire life was focused on bringing people together, who disagreed on very big issues, i think a handshake is the type of world we want to live in. you know, we can't also forget that there are so many families who have been separated by 90 miles of water. of it is not -- bill: that's very true, and a lot of those families would tell you it was the castros who separated them. >> well, i think where we are right now in look...

Context. look, the united states has been at this since the eisenhower administration. there have been -- barack obama is the 11th u.s. president to have to decide how to deal with either fidel or now raul castro. you can understand the congresswoman. look where she comes from. she's a cuban-american. she comes from a community, many of them refugees, many of them exiles, many with painful person stories. so you have to understand her politics as well. but she would be the first to tell you that even in her community, there's a generational split now. if you talk to the older members, they wan...

How significant would it have been if the president of the united states just turned his head? >> i think the chances of that would have been about zero, craig. look at it. you're at the funeral -- number one this was a funeral. number two it was the funeral of nelson mandela, who among so many other things we've been talking about the last two days with a in favor of reconciliation. if the funeral of nelson mandela, and president obama who complained on a platform of talking to enemies even if you're in a condition of great hostility, given all of those things, you're going to expect presiden...