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. raul castro, the president of cuba will also give a news conference in his country that will happen at noon eastern time. of course cnn will continue to follow this breaking news throughout the day. thank you for joining me today, i m carol kos toll low. @this hour with berman and michaela starts now. hello, everyone. i m john berman. and. and i m michaela pereira. history is being made at this hour after more than a half century of tension and diplomat diplomatic silence between the u.s. it s releasing alan gross from prison after five years. a series of genuinely breathtaking developments. cuba is also releasing a u.s. intelligence asset, a spy, who s been locked up in cuba for more than 20 years. in return washington is freeing three cuban spies convicted in 2001 of espionage. that is big in and of itself. it all seems part now of something much, much bigger. president obama will announce major changes in u.s. policy toward cuba. officials calling them the most sw ....
Chris Cuomo asks the tough questions to newsmakers in Washington and around the world. 17 angry democrats. they take value in the number 17. a potential sign. i hope he didn t use that number for them. he doesn t always use the number 17. i don t see that as being intentional. but who knows these days? but he has their interest. so what are they doing now? well, they join in support of him and attacks of others. you saw what happened with jim acosta. if we go back to this video, when it gets to where jim was, you ll see there were a lot of those q people who were in front of him. they re even stalking stormy daniels attorney michael avenatti. why? why go after michael avenatti? because he s identified as one of trump s opponents. and they are now out to defend the presidential from their imagined array of opposition. and not a word from the white house about this. actually, that s not true. sarah sanders did say this today. unfortunately, it s now standard to abandon common ....
Chris Cuomo asks the tough questions to newsmakers in Washington and around the world. and what we see are passions on the rise. trump gets this very well. he plays to it for better and worse. i think that doing what works for him and his base, stoking discontent, abusing the truth, stoking conspiracy theories, may come at a cost. his lies have become so trek. okay? when we look at these kinds of things. the washington post has the truth detector that they do on it. the fact checker says he now lies at a rate of more than 7 1/2 times a day to you. and that works. it s reduced the impact on you and the ability of the media to track the same types of data and make the case to you that it matters. this tweet about the the tweet about the 17 angry men and the mueller conflicts, if it smacks of alex jones junk that s because a lot of it is. remember, the president is privy to information that s way better than what i have and what you don t be that ugly, don t be that hosti ....
Chris Cuomo asks the tough questions to newsmakers in Washington and around the world. but they won, and if you look at why the women won, almost to a person they were much closer to the center and the traditional democratic views than what we re seeing with the new crops, you included. do you think that is a reflection about how much change your party can take and how soon, that more of those candidates are winning because they re huing more closely to traditional democratic standards? well, i think you have to take a look at two things. where the american people are at and then also what wins campaigns. and it s no secret that while grassroots campaigns absolutely are have their place and are very strong in voter turnout when they are able to turn out voters. money does win elections. so when you have pac groups that are able to pour in half a million to a million dollars per race, that absolutely makes an impact. however, nothing changes the fact that the majority of am ....
Chris Cuomo asks the tough questions to newsmakers in Washington and around the world. Chris Cuomo asks the tough questions to newsmakers in Washington and around the world. you know, i think it is like that red herring where the more time we spend kind of debating any one individual person or figure is less time that we spend talking about medicare for all, tuition-free public college, and a great new deal. i think what we really need to do is have discipline on winning back the house. we need to spend more time talking about the issues that americans care about and the issues that are going to get more money in the average american s pocketbook and less money spent on totally expensive health care and education. so you go from the organizational structure of who are our bosses to the substantive. now, emily s list, which you re very well aware of, they put out an organization that said we want to promote women being in politics. they ve done very well. and in fact, s ....