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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 ....
we need to slow down and get it right. like mom used to say, you rush and you make mistakes. democrats are going to continue in their head-long rush to pass a government takeover of health care. from where i stand and frankly many republican senators stand who are troubled by the pace is of concern. we should have had more time to digest it. i guess history has a funny way of repeating itself. what a difference eight years doesn t make. republicans today sounding a lot like republicans back in 2009 on health care reform. only this time, they are battling themselves. can president trump and house speaker paul ryan bring their own party on board? this as one new report says at least 15 million people, joe, will lose their health care coverage under the new gop plan. this morning, we are going to speak live with the u.s. secretary of health and human services dr. tom price. plus, the man responsible for whipping votes in the house, republican congressman steve scalise a ....
saying, oh, no, never mind that, you re fired. to be clear to the viewers, we don t have the reporting confirmed that you re sharing with us. but that s obviously something we re trying to get information, answers to the white house, the justice department not commenting specifically on this firing. but let s talk a little bit more about bharara, his role here in new york, and really when it comes to litigation on such a large scale that impacts the country. he was not necessarily in just a routine post. so he gets called in the southern district of new york, called the sovereign district of new york. because it s a huge orbit. rudy giuliani was there. comey from the fbi. bhrara is looking at the mayor of new york city, has this ongoing corruption probe. he s about to try two of andrew cuomo s closest confidantes. and looking at things international in scope. really big and interesting. in addition to the fox thing i mentioned, significantly. he has an investigation excu ....
it looks like he s going back to exactly how he got elected. he s going to the people and bringing his arguments to the people. but there is a particular sound here on the media where he talks about the media deserving a failing grade. do we have that? take a listen. the media s job is to be honest and tell the truth. then i think we would all agree the media deserves a very, very big fat failing grade. not all of them. we call it the fake news. even is using the word fake news. when did you hear it first, folks? judge jeanine: is this classic donald trump where he has been graded for the fast few days about the first 100 days. he literally spun it around and graded the media. you look at the media coverage of this president. an analysis was released last week that said from january 20 to april 9 of the 1,900 mines, 186 minutes of that time was either neutral or positive. which means 96% of the time was negative coverage. the american people know the fake news is real, t ....
friend and their children. there was just smoke and there were embers falling down from the roof and people were screaming and we just ran and ran and ran. reporter: bethany keeling was right near the exit when the bomb went off. i saw like a flash. like, an explosion flash. i grabbed my friend s hand and we just ran. but we looked and we could see the bodies on the floor. reporter: victims were lying where they d fallen. the ground was streaked with blood. the killer today identified as 22-year old british-born salman abedi. police believe he detonated his suicide bomb here, in an area connecting the massive arena to the nearby train station, which then descended into chaos. when the bomb went off, many parents were waiting outside to collect their kids after the show. for some of the youngsters, it was their first concert. joe gregory was sitting in his car, waiting to pick up his girlfriend. 22-year-old salman abedi, was born in manchester, the son of a family who e ....