mr. obama has spent the past three days in alaska talking about the growing threat of climate change. we have longer, more dangerous fire seasons in alaska, thawing frost that threatens homes and infrastructure and faster glacier melt and rising seas and melting ice that leads to some of the fastest coast ali rogues in the world. the president scored a foreign policy victory. maryland senator barbara mccul ski agreed to support the agreement. the president could veto any attempt to kill the agreement. a kentucky county clerk could find out if she is going to jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to sim-sex couples. same-sex couples. a judge will decide if she defied a court ruling that she must begin issuing licenses. she is refusing to obey on
gone on since 1961 when president eisenhower severed diplomatic relations with cuba over these past 54 years. it s almost breath taking to see what s happened over the past six months so don t you agree? i agree with that wolf. but it s not very surprising. the obama administration needed a foreign policy victory. they have not had successes in iran iraq syria the palestinian israeli talks, et cetera. so this came very handily as a very as a good political success story at a low cost. for the cuban it was very convenient because as you know, wolf cuba s economy is in a shambles they are dependent on venezuelan oil, venezuela is doing badly and nobody knows how long venezuela will continue subsidizing cuba with oil.
interlocutory between the two countries until this very moment. peter, let me ask you about the castros. rah rule castro is 83, fidel castro is 88. what does this deal, do you think, mean to them personally and what do you think it means to their legacy? well, i think that this change in u.s. policy is a tremendous legacy for president obama, frankly. it s a foreign policy victory of great significance. it s changing 55 years of policy. he has taken the courageous step that none of his predecessors since dwight eisenhower have taken to change a failed policy and promote u.s. interests along the way and cuban interests. for the castros, certainly it means the validation of their revolution. they have wanted to have the mutual respect of the united states, be treated like an equal party. they have been saying this to the united states literally since august of 1961 when the
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going to claim a big foreign policy victory. and they didn t want anything to get in the way. and so even though senior administration officials had to know that there were a lot of questions about sergeant bergdahl s past and his service, they decided to roll the president out with his parents in a rose garden speech. they sent susan rice out to talk about how he would serve with honor and distinction. and stars the story started to come out about his real background, they were in big trouble. but it s interesting, because it seems that some of the backlash here is as much about this idea they were promoting this and celebrating this as it was a tremendous victory with saying, for example, susan rice saying he served with honor and distinction. the issue here seems to be that they miscalculated that political oversell. right. i mean, you could absolutely make the case. and there s a case to be made that, you know, we don t leave american prisoners behind. they could have said this