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Month after we were here last year, it was euphoria, people were heading down in droves, and i think everybody thought this was going to happen very quickly. but any of us who spent any time in cuba know things don't happen so quickly. they've had trouble adjusting to our speed and accepting the changes we've been making so they've been taking it very slow, which is why we haven't seen a mcdonald's and starbucks on every corner down there. >> what can be realistically expected to change in cuba when the same exact people who on january 1st, 1959 before many of us were born took power are still...

Changing, flight service reestablished, mail service reestablished. talk to me about the fundamental changes that have taken place. >> we've seen slow but emerging business deals between the u.s. and cuba. we maintain an economic embargo on the island. >> which still stands in place. >> and only congress can change that. but what we started to see are companies like sprint and verizon, now they have roaming agreements with the cuban government. you can book a room through air bnb, a san francisco-based company for rooms in cuba. that means american airlines will get on board and jetblue. >> ta...

To cube cuba. you can be a journalist, you can be going to learn about the cuban people. this agreement says you don't have to go through this long process of securing a charter flight, you can just book it online and do it like you're doing anywhere else. >> let's talk about what has not happened. one of the things that has for sure occurred in this last year is there has been a pretty substantial increase notice repression against human whites activist, like the ladies in white who go to mass every sunday. >> you heard from the obama administration this wasn't going to happen overnight. gett...

Change its behavior before the united states should extend them any sort of olive branch. the argument from the obama administration is that's what we've been doing for decades and it's not working. it's the definition of insanity to do the same thing over and over and expect a different outcome. >> what he's doing is not going to work. to absolutely just cave in to the cubans. you saw what castro did after that, after he's been given diplomatic relations now he says he wants guantanamo back and represent rations. does that show that she have any bit of gratitude for the fact that we extended ...

Said that this rhetoric was way over the line, and didn't help the cause. what do you think? >> let's talk the facts of the deal. we shouldn't be getting the hyperbole. we should talk about the facts. the facts that we have to wait 24 days to inspect a site if the iranians object is outrageous. jake, as you know, as u.s. attorney, that would be like me getting a search warrant, coming to somebody's house who i think is committing a crime and saying here, i have a search warrant, i'll be back in 24 days to search. >> if it was a radioactive crime. the idea the inspectors say they would be able ...