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The Illegitimate Birth of the American Empire

The "Cuba Five" chose exile to the United States - so began the massive influence they were to play in Irish America. 

On this day Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, the Irish Fenian leader and member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, died in Staten Island, NY. He was the Fenian Lazarus who kicked off the Easter Rising.

Instrumental in convincing cub a. like the united states wanted the deal more than cuba did, your thoughts on that? >> i don't know. but clearly the holy father has influence and we saw this when pope jaup paul went to cub a. despite the communist regime, there are devout catholics and huge crowds that turned out for the pope. and he apparently communicated with president obama, although that was not an issue. he brought it up with the pope when he met the pope last march. but reached out to the castro, the president of cuba and the secret meeting held in the vatican. and yes, the vatican play...

They better have strong evidence that he was under his brother's spell. and that is a tactic to avoid the death penalty and lessen the punishment. i don't think it will help him in the guilt or innocent phase. it will go in mitigation and why he participated and help them avoid a death sentence which is the goal at this point. >> we'll be be watching that. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> eric, while you were speaking just then, we have a fox news alert. josh earnest announcing that president obama will hold a year end new's conference. there will be a lot of questions that people ha...