peron. lucas was commenting as well as hearing, viva raul, viva fidel, the national anthem part of what we were seeing as luke so well described what was happening there. what do you make of what we were hearing? reporter: well unlike some of the stereotypes that luke mentioned, i m a young cuban american who sees this day with great sadness. the way i see it with great sadness is that flag that went up is worthy of the hands of free cubans. instead it went up by a regime that had blood on his hands. not too long ago, cubans were arrested for giving their opinions. to raise a cuban flag in washington, d.c. the united states did not have to lower its standards. in order to reach this agreement and the talks that have been
embargo. and gabe interesting that here in washington, d.c. at the state department 4:30 in the morning, they raise the cuban flag. in about an hour they re raising the cuban flag in washington, d.c. but even though today, that building that is behind you becomes the u.s. embassy in cuba, no such ceremony until a future date when the secretary of state can go to havana and do something, right? yeah. they erected a flag pole at this building, but right now, no flag flying there. it s because the u.s. flag will not be flying here at this building at the u.s. embassy until john kerry visits havana. we expect that to be later this summer. you re right, even though this is a u.s. embassy, there is no law that says there has to be a u.s. flag flying here. right now, while there s all this fanfare in washington, here in havana no flag yet. gabe thank you very much for being with me. i want to bring in republican
solidarity for oeppressed people, we should have more freedom throughout the world. but we should not be advocateing for a communist regime to have u.s. dollars so close to our shores when they re doing espionage to the united states. that s an espionage that china does and russia does too. shame on us for allowing cuba to join that rank. congresswoman, thank you very much for being with us. appreciate it. thank you, jose. we ll show the flag raising live about 24 minutes from now. in the meantime let me toss it back to my colleague in new york richard lui. richard? reporter: we ll take you now to florida live where right now we have a republican presidential candidate jeb bush saying what he is going to do how he is going to be an outsider and reform washington. this order is enough to sound the alarm all by itself. when it comes to the norm, when there is no accountability and
they re shouting viva fidel, and violating every fundamental right of the cuban people. that is not celebratory by any means. morissio what the white house has said is any discomfort that has accompanied that time that what we re satisfying today by the flag being raised we should do something different. and you re saying doing something different is not good, and also what they ll say is there are only a handful of countries, of policies around the world that the united states does not have some sort of relationship with. and, therefore, with china and russia as well why not do this? because the fact is that 34 out of 35 countries in the western hemisphere are democracies, and foreign policy is done regionally. we have something here called the interdemocratic american charter which holds democracy to be at the forefront of our regional policy. we are now downgrading democracy
we already see a lot of guests who are coming here to participate, and amongst those heading the u.s. delegation who will have no type of speaking part here is under secretary roberta jacobson, who we all know has been at the table and negotiating with the cubans in the last few months. she will also be accompanied by other members of the administration who had different departments who have also been engaged in those conversations. now, what will happen a lot have asked, after that? bruno rodriguez, the foreign minister will then go to the state department. he will meet there with john kerry. and he will have a press conference afterwards. in havana we don t expect to see anything happening today. they are not obligated to raise a flag there. and we re expecting that that will not happen until mid-august, but as of today, richard, that too, is the american embassy in havana. back to you.