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Election, we might have rallied around him. so, i think there is some of that -- that cuts both ways. >> who are your headliners this week on "meet the press"? >> i think it's been -- i'll tell you, interestingly enough on the sony front. we've had a hard time -- there's a lot of hollywood that doesn't want to speak out. that is afraid to speak out. we had some people that were on the hook and then decided out of safety concerns not to. i wonder if the president's words changes that mind. we'll also have marco rubio to talk cuba as well as some other folks on the other side of that argument. >...

But change is going to come to cuba. it has to. they've got an economy that doesn't work. they've been reliant for years, first on subsidies from the soviet union, then on subsidies from venezuela. those can't be sustained. the more the cuban people see what's possible, the more interested they are going to be in change. but how societies change, it's country specific, it's culturally specific. it could happen fast. it could happen slower than i'd like but i think it's going to happen. i think this change in policy will advance that. leslie clark. >> reporter: thank you. i had a number of ques...

The share the concern of dissidents there and human rights activists, that, you know, this is still a regime that represses its people. and as i said when i made the announcement, i don't anticipate overnight changes, but what i know deep in my bones is that if you've done the same thing for 50 years and nothing's changed, you should try something different if you want a different outcome. this gives us an opportunity for a different outcome. because sidly cuba is open to the world in ways it has not been before. it's open to americans traveling there in ways that it hasn't been before. it's o...

Believers inside cuba in ways they haven't been before. it offers telecommunications and the internet being widely available in cuba in ways it hasn't been before. and over time, that chips away at this hermetically sealed society and ofrsz the best prospect, then, of leading to greater determination on the part of the cuban people. i think it will happen in fits and starts. but through engagement we have a better chance of bringing about change than we otherwise would have. >> do you have a goal of where you want to see cuba at the end of your presidency. >> i think it would be unrealistic fo...