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Saw a prisoner was lease was suggest bergdahl being released and the white house faced criticism for that. this is not just a prisoner release, there's a humanitarian release, there's also a change, a call for change in policy in a long standing 50 year battle, if you will, or at least a freezeout there will be backlash. >> it's fascinating. we're hearing from members of congress, some cuban americans. we're hearing from people within the state department who said they felt shut out of these negotiations that started last spring. the question is why weren't they involved more? so the white hou...

My first point was people often say the cuban embargo is hurting the cuban people and my answer is that's absurd. the cuban people get theoretically by-products from any nation on earth. the reason they don't have those products is not because of the cuban embargo, it's because of their government being incompetent. now, the u.s. embargo is leverage because cuba cares. we're the united states. we're not some small country halfway around the world we're the most powerful country on the planet, we're their closest neighbor. their number one priority of the cuban government is to affect u.s. fore...

Castro -- well t-cas trows have been in power for more than 50 years now. so whatever efforts to change things didn't seem to work. >> well, first of all i would say that you talk about the economic conditions in cuba being so miserable, cuba trades with every country in the world. the reason why they have an economic disaster because their leaders are incompetent and their model of economics doesn't work. we don't have economic sanctions on venezuela and their economy is almost as bad as the cuban economy because they follow the same model. as far as it not working, it's the fundamental misun...