naacp and nbc reporter perry bacon jr. l. joy, let me begin with you. julian bond was a remarkable figure that you knew as part of the naacp that i knew very well in my own circles. one of the interesting things about the passing of julian bond and the black lives matter movement is that people don t recognize, he was part of snicc and dr. king s group, diane nash, james lewis, james bevel and julian bond and many others were for a leaderless movement. they challenged the top-down hierarchy put forth by preacher-led movements like selc. black lives matter had its first real incarnation to some degree and some measure with snicc from the 60s. often times we look back at history and have a very
those were between president eisenhower and batista, the cuban dictator. president obama also called the meeting a turning point. i told president castro in private what i ve said in public. that our governments will continue to have our differences differences, and the united states will continue to stand firmly for universal values and human rights. at the same time, we agreed that we can continue to take steps forward that advance our mutual interests. we ll continue to work toward re-establishing diplomatic relations, reopening embassies in havana and washington and encouraging greater contexts and commerce and exchanges between our citizens. i m optimistic that we ll continue to make progress and that this can, indeed, be a turning point. now castro for his part says he agrees with obama, but he did urge patience. nbc s perry bacon jr. is at the white house this morning. so perry, what more can you tell us about as the president says a truly historic meeting? reporter: it wa
about normalizing relations with cuba in december. and this was a big first step was this meeting they had yesterday, a very historic meeting. the next two steps are, one, currently the u.s. government has cuba on its list of state sponsors of terrorism. so that s the next step. the president talked about it a bit yesterday. there s a study and review going that s likely to see the u.s. remove cuba from that list. embassies opening up in havana and here in washington. i should also note since it s kind of hillary clinton day, clinton was a big advocate in her big book she wrote about needing to change our policy on cuba. she wanted to normalize relations as well. this is one issue where hillary clinton agrees with president obama. and the republican candidates all strongly disagree with president obama. perry bacon jr. live for us at the white house. a beautiful spring morning behind you. reporter: it really is. joining us to discuss the future of u.s./cuba relations, former u.s.
thanks to you. i appreciate the time and insight this morning. our parnl is back with us. republican consultant toure, and perry bacon jr. this was the biggest story anywhere this week, was this crash. and let s talk about it for a minute. we ve had a few days to digest it. we heard the retired airline pilot reassuring us how rare this is. i m a person with a great fear of flying. i just i m curious your reactions to this in terms of how this makes you feel? does this change at all the way any of you feel about air travel? no, not at all. it s an extraordinarily rare event. we keep telling people 40 million flights landed safely last week. 3.5 billion people got to where they wanted to go safely. you are safer flying in the air than you are driving to the
who can capitalize on it? let s get today s panel. toure toure, perry bacon jr., and joining us is report costa national political reporter. this question of who the sort of anybody but bush candidate could be, if a consensus candidate is able to emerge there and take advantage of all that resistance to jeb bush who is it going to be? for the last few months it looked like scott walker. we re showing you some of the clips he s been getting the press coverage. even among conservative publications not that favorable. is walker hitting the rocks here? checking in with some of the top republican donors this week i got at private messages is they re going to look at rubio. they wonder if christie has missed his time on the national