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The enforcement action. >> we got a fire. another fire. >> the crowd here very angry over the elian gonzales situation, extremely angry with the justice department's handling of this situation. >> after the elian incident, i think the democrats were terribly harmed by what happened.
And we gave it to them. >> we had things like dianne sawyer going to have playdates with elian. we spent some time drawing some waves. a dolphin himself in an intertube. me, he said. i was sinking. >> i always tell him i'm his cousin. he says moddy stands for mom. [ speaking foreign language] >> nobody cares about a little boy who lost his mother and now
Translation by local television and insisted elian said he didn't want to return to cuba. >> he has been manipulated. that is what really concerns me. it's been concerning me for a long time. >> it has been suggested in some quarters. i'm going to give you the opportunity to respond. that the reason you didn't come to miami is because the cuban government is afraid once you get to miami you would defect. how do you respond to that? >> translator: who said that? i think i have been extremely clear. people think or some people think that i'm under pressure here. i have always said i haven't lost...
This was going to take time and there was always the possibility they would not be able to get him home. i've been involved in cuba for almost 40 years. if you've been to cuba and you come to know cuban people, you have a different view than if you only so i had to go to fidelity castro and i had to ask permission to take him. ♪ >> the grandmothers came and we tried to arrange a visit for them with elian who was in miami. and then ensued a back and forth over the terms because in fact there was such tension and unresolved issues and disagreement within the family itself. >> it was not a nego...
People that six years old is too young to speak for themselves. >> under u.s. law it was the attorney general janet reno who had the final say. born and raced in miami reno emphasized with the cuban exiles. she had a passion for child welfare issues which she handled before working with the clinton administration. >> she devoted her life to keeping children safer, reducing domestic violence and helping families. >> as reno stepped forward she made no secret of her competing. she invited elian's miami relatives to plead their case. >> we filed a very significant lawsuit in federal court. it's...