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Medicare fraud, for instance. there's a strong suspicion, a few reports out there, that the cuban government is actually incentivized people to come over and commit medicare fraud as a way of importing money into cuba. you know, these are our enemies. we have been had their enemies. now we're in this delicate dance of perhaps not being enemies any longer. there's a lot of distrust and i used the word dysfunction earlier. there's a lot of dysfunction in our relationship with cuba and i don't think it's going to go away magically with the wave of a wand or executive action or even affirmative ac...
And what the united states has been willing to do in order to get the release of alan gross. there, there we will see a shift between those who say that there is no moral equivalency between mr. gross and the cuban spies in the united states and others who say this is all good for future relations with that regime. >> that's right. so that was -- that was the question. that was the difficulty. clearly the cuban government has long tied mr. gross's detainment with those of the five cuban spies who were arrested in miami. as you know the cuban government had proposed humanitarian release involvi...
Take this action. and that was kind of the final impetus. the final meeting that kind of crossed the ts and dotted the is on what we heard today took place at the vatican. we also know that the president then called alan gross today, while he was on the plane, returning back home. expressed his happiness that this had happened. but there are a lot of other things that happened that are critical to the timing of this. and i think one we have to point out, ari, is simply generational. that there's been a change both with americans generally who have wanted a majority now, normalization of relati...