onset. he has many years of cover politics in latin american. talk to us about the ramifications of knowing this former leader of cuba is dead. when you think about what is going the happen next, a lot of people are trying to figure out what is next for cuba. the reality is that ten years ago when fidel castro first got sick and he had his brother raoul take power, that s when the success plan start. if you take a look at the new congress, the communist congress in cuba, all of the new leaders, albeit younger, follow the exact same political persuasion. so for those people who think that the castro s death may mean an overnight change in terms of the regime or the politics of cuba, it may take a bit longer than that because the reality is that a lot of the young people venezuela have been
deca decade. all of this stuff. the vietnam. entire way that the united states used to live and television was on a nightly basis. never seeing the same things at the same time. there were three networks. during the time of extreme change. televised presidential debate. the nixon kennedy debate changed the way we all cover politics as all of us have come to learn.
would get that far out in front of a story if he didn t truly expect that to happen. that brings me back to the lost in translation point. maybe they expected because they were told they would get something different, and that s not what mubarak and suleiman did. the president said orderly and genuine transition. he did not get either one of those. what he got was a deliberately, vaguely worded statement. in this kind of situation, we all cover politics here, the last thing you need to do or should do is being vague. maybe that s what the military wanted, though, wolf. in the end, the military, as elbaradei said to you, the military may be hanging back to be the heros of the day of egypt. let me play the clip of what he told congress earlier today.