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Is going back to obama the answer now? >> it wasn't clear that what we did then made a big difference. i'm not sure what it means to engage the cuban people in a country which is tightly controlled by the government. i would actually say what we should think about is offering to reduce certain sanctions in exchange for specific reforms, be it about cuban foreign policy. t not clear why they need to have thousands of their intelligence people in a place like venezuela or domestic economic and political reforms. we already give them food and medicine. that's not the issue. it's other types of co...

Try to blackmail the united states by threatening to send a lot of its citizens to south florida. >> harris: thank you very much. byron donalds, republican congressman from florida is in "the faulkner focus" now. good to see you, congressman. first of all, what is the effect of silence or the omission of a word like communism when the white house responds if and when they do to the protesting that's going on for freedom in cuba? >> that only goes to support the regime that has been in power for more than 60 years in cuba. it is high time the united states takes this seriously and that we do ev...

Reopen up relations with cuba. he didn't do that. and maybe he's glad now in the sense that these protests really seem to have spread almost from nowhere. there are limited tools. there are tools but we've had sanctions for years, pressure campaigns on due baa for years. right now, there's a humanitarian crisis that involves both economic crisis and also the covid factor which i think is playing into these protests there. there's been blackouts on the island. so you know, the u.s. plays an outsized role whether it likes it or not in the fate of cuba. it's never been able to force regime change...

Does the government have enough control? you castros with the personality, the infrastructure of the communist party. do we have a good sense of now that the castros are gone, can the government withstand these kind of things? >> look, i think that's the big question. when you see the repeatty and speed with which no one took hold. it reminds of the early arab spring moments coming almost from nowhere organized on social media platforms like facebook, on apps like telegram. is it sustainable? will it last? the cuban government has been engaged in a crackdown in recent months. that seems to hav...

The police. we saw the government sending in their own counter protesters that said they supported the revo revolution, to try to drown out the anti-government protesters and cuba's president, the successor to the castros, said that the supporters of the revolution needed to take to the streets, needed to defend the revolution and he was giving them an order to flood the streets to defend their government. so, so far at least, despite these calls for change, unprecedented calls for change, the cuban government does not appear to be giving an inch. patrick oppmann, cnn, havana. >> of course we'...