session next week to vote and work through some of these proposals. was the president trying to change the dynamic because they felt like they were on the losing end of this and the biggest pressure point that people really do need to take a look at is senate republicans and whether or not the support is waivering there at all. we know how the house will vote, before christmas the senate was on record as voting for 1.3 million dollars for border security. so the pressure point is on senate republicans. i think when they took to the diplomatic room for that nationwide address, that was the target audience. joining me now is raul raez.
just the celebration of someone s death, it s the end of the era, expression of all the hopes of their grandparents, people who did not live to see this day. if you go to nbc news.com, it s right there? nbc news.com/latino. and i retweeted it out. what is your take? can this be a new beginning with castro s brother still if power until 2018 when he promised to step down? i think raul is making a nice distinction between the economic side of this piece and the geopolitical human rights side of it. i think unfortunately as long as raul is in power this is a long-lived family, the older brother passed away at 91 earlier this year. i think raul has a few more years left in him. i don t see big geopolitical changes. what is interesting to note, as you look around the region, this does pose a challenge for
which is their newspaper, because we created the fourth fleet, which is something he saw as directed against cuba. it obviously was much more of a regional effort but he was definitely on the radar screen with me in those years. tell us a little bit more about that. how did that feel? well, first of all, any time you re in opposition to someone like fidel castro, you actually feel pretty good about yourself, because of his track record of repression and all the terrible things he did in the island of cuba. holding 11 million people back from an opportunity to progress. over time, i felt as though you could feel his grip on power slipping away and by the time i left in 2009, his brother, raul, was firmly in control. you were in the thick of it for so long. what was your reaction when you first heard that fidel castro was dead. we talked 20 one reporter this morning who frankly didn t believe it at first. indeed. there have been so many reports like mark twain, the reports of my
justice department is getting ready to charge with corruption says he s on the fence. if he s charged before lynch s confirmation vote he may choose to recuse himself, and that would leave lynch scrambling for another yes vote. dick durbin told reporters this week that he s worried lynch may not wind up being attorney general after all. on the other hand lindsey graham says he believes more republicans will step up to support lynch once push comes to shove. joining me now is the president and executive director of the lawyers committee for civil rights under the law. and raul raez. is loretta lynch going to be the attorney general? she has to be. the african-american women community, we re not going to sit back and allow her to be
violence. if his words sound familiar, it s because we heard similar rhetoric in president obama s speech in chicago. what are the rules about who gets to criticize single parent households? raul raez is here. people went nuts when romney said it. it s interesting the context where people can criticize single moms. there s sketches in the minority communities when they are exposed to the largest society, that s when people become very uncomfortable. for someone like mitt romney whose own legacy in terms of family and wives is complicated. when he talks like that, it confused me when i first saw it. i didn t think it had to do with gun violence.