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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 ....
nothing to do with his qualifications. they are opposed to donald trump pointing anyone to the supreme court. kneneil gorsuch a good man. it s the democrats who are breaking the rules, what they re doing is changing the 200 year status quo. the ironny is that you could have said the exact same things, regarding judge garland. that, of course, was president s garland s dom knee to fill the same vacancy who republicans refused to hold a single confirmation hearing, much less a vote. it was an unprecedented feet of obstruction. which mitch mcconnell on the campaign trail later, one of my proudest moments. the garland affairs seem to have taught democrats a lesson about the up sides of obstructionism and now with engaged based marching the streets and turning up the town hall showing to posed any kind of cooperation whatsoever with this president, there s new in washington. just four democratic senators came out against a gorsuch fill buster, facing tough re-election battles ....
he may be someone who in many respects is irrational, but he is not insane. also in the president s interview with routers you saw there, he weighed in the demands of the oval office and the take away and mr. trump saying being president isn t easy. i loved my previous life. i loved my previous life. i had so many things. i actually this is more work than in my previous life. i thought it would be easier. not exactly a new idea that being president is tough. president obama suggested that he had more problems than many other presidents first coming into office after the first 100 days. at any rate, the thing we re looking ahead to right now is the appearance of rex tillerson, the secretary of state at the united nations chairing a high-level meeting to talk about north korea. buckling to international pressure. they say this will only encourage their country to grow its arsenal more quickly. it s been a busy week on the ground here. you saw that exercise with hundreds ....
apparently he got the nickname of the commodore in his days as a kid running those ferry services in new york harbor. the other guys who worked the harbor alongside him called him commodore as a way of teasing him. and it stuck. and then that kid who they mocked as the commodore grew up to amass one of the largest fortunes in american history. the kind of fortune that leaves a mark. in 1917 right next to the then-brand new grand central station opposite vand built avenue, a huge new hotel went up with thousands of rooms. it was called the commodore hotel. it was named after correspond kneel i couldn t say, the commodore vand built. had a statute of him right out front. and that hotel was one of new york s big successful shmancy centrally located famous it was a big deal because the commodore hotel was a big landmark piece of new york real estate right next to grand central station. it also had this poetic storied connection to the great vanderbilt family. but it was a high-pro ....
so many ways to look at this. because you asked about sean, that s one way. another way is also what this says, maybe much more importantly, about the president of the united states, and how he has learned from the first six months about the way he wants to craft his white house with people who are loyal to him. people who know him, who are new yorkers. and are much more fluent in the language of trump than in the ways of washington. we re going to talk much more about that. jen palmieri, white house comes director for president obama and of course, you will know her from the hillary clinton campaign where she also served chief of communications there. jen, thanks for joining us. give us your reaction to this. all right. can jen? can you hear me? all right. we re going to try to work out the connection with jen palmieri, we ll bring her in soon as we have her. going to scaramucci, and i m sure sean believes that he s not the right guy for the job. and he d been we were ....