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To pass to the captain. then i ordered people to stay calm and asked people to stay calm and asked the stewardess to give everybody free drinks compliments of the revolution. >> potts then directed the plane to go to cuba where he has been ever since then. at the time, black panther, potts hoped to receive military training to ultimately overthrow the u.s. government. that wads his plan. instead, cuban authorities tried, convicted, and imprisoned him for 13 years. and now he's hoping that prison time in cuba will play into his favor as he faces charges here in the united states. let me go stra...

Situation, but he says he misses his young daughters terribly. they were born in cuba, raised in cuba. he sent them to the united states last year. he expected to be able to turn himself over last year, but there was a lot of paperwork involved in a fugitive turning himself in. he had to be taken off the no-fly list temporarily, given a temporary passport he can only use from cuba to the united states, and arrange to be escorted by two u.s. officials on the plane, keeping him from hijacking the plane again, having second thoughts. we talked to him on the plane. let's listen in to the exclusive...

Cocaine. >> how do voters decide which politicians to forgive? also, what's up with rob ford's vintage nfl tie? hi, there. i'm brooke baldwin. you're watching cnn on this wednesday. we begin with this bizarre homecoming of an american hijacker living in cuba for years. i'm talking about william potts. he's seen here on this plane. he has now been in the united states where he was born for more than two hours now. and moments after this chartered plane brought him to miami, federal officers swooped in. they took him away. here's the backstory. this guy is wanted for hijacking a plane on a fli...

Plane. what does he have to say about the return of potts? >> we spent weeks trying to track down members of this flight, people who were onboard, and many of them have simply died. it's been 30 years. the captain of the flight, a man named carl gamble, was nice enough to talk to me, remembers it like it was yesterday. remembers lieutenant spart aks saying he had a gun, he was going to bring the plane down. there were two pilots and he would shoot one if he had to, and they needed to take him to cuba and that's what he did. despite all that, he said he would be willing to listen, hear out pott...

>> we hear from people all the time, conservation organizations who want to check on species, fish and game groups, teachers who want to get these into classrooms and we're excited about all of them. coming up, the one-time black panther who decided to hijack a flight back in the 1980s is now back on u.s. soil because he wants to be. and cnn had the only reporter on that plane. we will tell you what happened when they touched down. plus, explosive testimony today in the trial of that doctor accused of drugging and drowning his wife. hear what an inmate said the doctor told him behind bars....