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Expert. Not a cuba i study the u. S. Cuba relationship. I want to focus on what intrigues me most about washingtons policy toward cuba. That is the mental software we use to undergird our policy. That is what the book is about. What it attempts to explain is what everyone agrees is a dysfunctional policy. Saysirst, as wolf blitzer on the situation room, we have some breaking news. I want to talk about what president obama did yesterday. He announced a relaxation of the u. S. Embargo of cuba. This began in october, 1960. It was instituted by president eisenhower just a few days before the election between Richard Nixon and john kennedy. Candidate nixon asked the president to do something to show some spine toward cuba and step thato was the was taken. [no audio] i think there is a little truth in advertising to begin. Not a cuba specialist. I studied the u. S. Chiba relationship. What i would like to spend about 30 minutes doing now is focusing upon what intrigues me most about washingt
To make a 30second comment on what you just said. I am not going to yield to you. Im going to ask my questions of the gentlemen. The president has dispensed the law, suspended the law until he says otherwise. That is not what you normally think of as prosecutorial discretion, typically involves suspensions of criminal law, not the Immigration Laws, at least the civil aspects of immigration. And president obama sites an opinion of the justice Departments Office of Legal Council to justify his executive legalization of millions of unlawful aliens. Isnt it true that the Legal Counsel doesnt have a particularly great track record when it comes to questions of executive power. The Obama Administration in 2012 touted an olc opinion justifying the president s controversial recess appointments. Didnt the Supreme Court rule those appointments were constitutional in a unanimous 90 ruling. He lost 90. The Justice Department office of Legal Counsel states that the sail yen feature of classbased af
The dream act. When you only get 27 wasnt that of the latino vote in the last president ial election i dont think you want to go into this one by starting out with a declaration of war against the latino community. Now Mitch Mcconnell in the last day up in hershey, pennsylvania basically from what weve heard told the House Republicans were not going to do that in the senate. Were not going to go there because we dont think thats a smart move for the party. I think they have to deliver on issues that are important to the American People and get off the just anything obamas for is wrong. Get off the basically the chamber of commerce, if you will and you think for the 1 is good and deliver on some things like immigration reform. I would suggest maybe even climate change, tax reform trade issues. Not far left issue, but things where they can come together. Amy weve seen this dynamic play out very prominently inside republican circles since the rise of the tea party. Theyve been trying to h