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But thanks to the tanker jet, u.s.-led aircraft can stay airborne as long as it takes to find their targets and take them out. fred pleitgen, cnn, with the u.s. air force over iraq and syria. >> thanks to frederik pleitgen for that report. coming up live in the cnn newsroom, more reaction on the death of cuba's fidel castro. senator mel martinez will join me live. you'll see what a fair price is, and you can connect with a truecar certified dealer. now you're even smarter. this is truecar. what ever happened to theo say, "handling"?ing and handling"? i do all the handling. can you handle thi...

To discuss castro's legacy, i'm joined by u.s. senator from florida mel martinez. he left castro's cuba in 1952 and settled in florida. thank you so much for coming on the show, senator. >> good to be with you, pamela. >> what was your reaction when you heard the news? >> you know, it's something that has been anticipated for a long time. and it finally came. it was almost anticlimactic in a way, although it was a day of tremendous excitement for cubans inside and outside of cuba. one of my first thoughts was my parents didn't live long enough frankly to see a day without fidel castro hanging ...

The relationship with the united states was better. the question is how do you get there. do you get there through pressuring the regime or by engaging the regime? most experts that i talk to who really know cuba will tell you that it takes a mixture, okay? you can't just isolate the island and expect the castro regime to fall. at the same time, we shouldn't abandon our appeals to the cuban government to give its people more human rights. the trump administration will have to thread that needle and come up with a system of sticks and carrots that uses u.s. influence in the greatest possible wa...

The regime. the question is how far does that filter and what is best for the cuban people going forward. rather than focus on the sordid past that castro has been a part of, my hope is the future that can come to the cuban people will be one of change, dramatic differences from what has been, that raul castro will use this opportunity to institute the kind of changes that president obama was hopeful would be the case with his opening to cuba. none of that has materialized. one can only hope this pike a turning point in which change can come to the cuban people. >> we'll have to see what happe...

System actually hurts, because, as we know from the congressional budget office, you would be looking at deficit reduction thanks to comprehensive immigration reform. the reality is that there is economic impacts there. there was still a lot of intramural fighting. one thing i agree with senator martinez on her is that there was no clear winner. jeb performed as well or as bad as everybody else. that means the middle class was the losers last night. when you have an entire field up there talking about how bad increasing the minimum wage would be it shows they don't understand the struggles tha...