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Devastating humanitarian impacts, crushing poverty for the cuban people and an entrenched cuban communist party. if we think that continuing this hawkish, hard-line policy towards cuba will do anything to help the cuban people or to advance the cause of human rights in cuba, we're refusing to learn the lessons from several decades of history. >> indeed, and that whole definition of insanity, doing the same thing again and again, excepting different results. it applies in cuba, iran and so many places around the world where we just keep doing the same thing, regardless of the results. and, of c...

This is a simple question we asked in the obama administration, we've been trying an embargo. we've been trying the total isolation and pressure on the communist party for more than 60 years. and all it has led to is devastating humanitarian impacts, crushing poverty for the cuban people and an entrenched cuban communist party. the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again. if we think that continuing this hawkish, hard-line policy towards cuba will do anything to help the cuban people or to advance the cause of human rights in cuba, we're refusing to learn the lessons...

>> ben, you mentioned cuba's 90 miles off the coast of florida. this is a major political dilemma for the democrats right now. you've got val demings running for the senate against marco rubio. she can't win a place like florida unless she takes on cuba, and that's been a problem for the democrats. florida is a swing state where a bunch of conservative people on cuba insist on a hawkish policy on cuba and your party has to go along with it. >> mehdi, barack obama ran for president of the united states in 2008, promising to engage in direct diplomacy with cuba. he took steps to relax the embarg...

Dilemma for the democrats right now. you have val demings running against marco rubio. and that's been a problem for the democrats. florida is a swing state where a bunch of conservative people on cuba insist on a hawkish policy on cuba and your party has to go along with it. >> barack obama ran for president of the united states in 2008 promising to engage in direct diplomacy with cuba. he took steps to relax the embargo in his first term and opened things up in the second. the only democrat who has won florida in recent years is barack obama. he won florida twice. because he offered a real c...

Donald j. trump. he targeted cuba with a raft of policies. all but reversing the obama era policies. and these moves have helped cripple the country and its economy. paired with surging cases of covid-19, cuba is now in serious economic turmoil. to be clear, much of that turmoil has also been caused by the dictatorial regime in havana. this week, we've seen protests. government supporters have taken to the streets, though it's difficult to tell what's driving different groups of people in that country. what's the new democratic president of the united states to do? especially as he's being pre...