of thousands of their own citizens. my administration will not hide from it, excuse it or glamourize it. heather nauert said they re in regular contact with the cubans to resolve this and our embassy in havana is fully operational. we re told there s five victims. we don t have details about their conditions. cuban officials for the record are denying any responsibility for these attacks. but u.s. federal law enforcement officials tonight are investigating it, we re told and there s a twist on the story. they re looking at the possibility that a third party, maybe the russians, for example, were behind these attacks and not the cubans, dana. dana: thanks, ed. so will this lead to a quicker effort by president trump at stripping president obama s cuba legacy? here to talk about that, mark
theesen and democrat isaac wright. it s a bizarre story but troubling. this is irreversible damage that these people are dealing with. mark, you feel strongly about what we have ended up doing by reaching out to the cubans and trying to make nice. absolutely. look, one of the things that barack obama did when he normalized relations, he took cuba off the list of state sponsored terror. this was a terrorist attack against diplomats and families in cuba. they used a sonic weapon that could do more than hearing loss. it could cause organ damage, brain damage. these people could have died. the idea that the cuban government is saying we don t know anything about this absurd. next to north korea, this is the most oppressive regime on the face of the earth. these people are lived in cuban government-owned housing and under surveillance by state police. the idea that the cuban regime
sight. daniel ellsberg, whatever his intelligence gave aid to the military. it s a pleasure to see you, mr. ellsberg. what is your perspective on your relationship between the military, the truth, the government and people today compared to 40 years ago? truth is not, truth to the public is not much of a consideration to the military. they have their job to do and telling the truth to the public is not part of it. the president, we like to think of as being a spokesperson to us, but ira stone was right when he said all government officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. that doesn t mean everything they say is a lie, it does mean that nothing they say is to be taken as the last word. mark theesen talking about