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That we have imposed on cuba all this time. the president can't do it on his own. those have been a really, really big deal. today the reopening of the embassies after 54 years of being closed. president obama said today the secretary of state john kerry will travel to havana this summer to raise the american flag over our embassy there. as for the cuban embassy here, well, cuba has an interest section in d.c. that has served for years. that building will probably be the new embassy when we get a new embassy again. over the last few weeks that building has had a freshly paved driveway. they re...

Hearing in just a few moments. here in the rose garden, president obama announcing that the u.s. and cuba are reopening their embassies, located of course in washington and havana. located in their existing offices of the u.s. special interest section in havana and the cuban interest section here in washington. the cubans, as a matter of fact, recently installed a flagpole, that they'll be raising the cuban flag at. and we understand there's no timetable set for when the u.s. embassy will open up in cuba although we expect it to happen this month. the cubans are saying their embassy will open ...

U.s. official he is a u.s. diplomat. he doesn't have an ambassadorial rank. there will be a full embassy in halve -- full ambassador in havana and a full ambassador here in washington. some oppose the development and expansion of that building which will be a formal u.s. embassy as opposed to a diplomatic interest section technically under control of the swiss government. there will be opposition once the president formally nominates someone, that person has to be confirmed by the u.s. congress. but the sense is this train is leaving the station, the full diplomatic relationship will be announ...

Negotiations with cuba. what that looks like how, that's processed, how we do that overtime. >> reporter: and the white house has not ruled out a presidential trip to cuba before president obama leaves office. that would be astounding. it was usen the current head of the u.s. interest section in that vanhavana. you could almost see the white house from the interest section building. >> thank you so much for all of that. >> you bet. >> usa, usa, usa. the american women are headed to the world cup soccer final after

>> marco rubio -- >> both. >> they've been two of the -- the thing is congress has to approve the money. so we need $6.5 million to fix up what is now our interest section down there. i got to get the money. if they don't, i don't know what they are going to do. got to fight about everything. >> right. president obama admits cuba has long way to go to giving its people freedom. rights like free speech and political opposition they don't have those. the president says u.s. will speak up whenever cuba violates human rights. steve, things are moving forward, but the debate is not over. >> it's ...