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BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Yeah, so Obama is in Cuba. A bunch of the Drive-By Media are in Cuba and they're wearing Che Guevara shirts and other Cuban revolutionary garb. Chris Cuomo, the son of Mario "The Pious" is wearing a shirt that Castro gave Mario "The Pious," as he's there with ABC. BREAK TRANSCRIPT RUSH: As I said to open the program, President Obama has landed in Havana. One small step for man, one giant leap for Marxism. We have a montage of Drive-By Media types. This is the most excited they have been for an airplane landing since Gorbachev...

HAVANA (AP) -- Brushing off decades of distrust, President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro shook hands Monday in Havana's Palace of the Revolution, opening a meeting aimed at advancing the diplomatic opening that both leaders have pursued. Obama and Castro stood together as a Cuban military band played the national anthems of Cuba and the United States - stunning sounds in a country where resistance to the U.S. has been part of the government's national mission for decades. Obama and top U.S. officials warmly greeted their Cuban counterparts before the two presidents sat down for their meeting. For...

President Obama and his family will arrive Sunday in Cuba for an historic three-day visit filled with symbolism, but with few expectations that the president’s legacy-building will improve human rights for Cubans under the repressive communist regime of the Castro brothers. Air Force One will land at Jose Marti International Airport near Havana late Sunday afternoon, making Mr. Obama the first sitting U.S. president to set foot on Cuban soil since Calvin Coolidge in 1928. After a stop at the U.S. Embassy, the Obamas are to visit the Cathedral in Old Havana to meet Cardinal Jaime Ortega, the archbishop who...

---SNIP-- In the years prior, President Jimmy Carter had, like Obama is now, attempted diplomacy with Cuba. Detecting an opportunity, he agreed to accept 3,500 of these refugees. But this figure was quickly surpassed when Miami’s Cuban ex-pats began flooding the port with boats to pick up their families. Rather than discouraging this technically-illegal act, Carter welcomed it, and from April to October of 1980, 125,000 Cubans came to America

Let this be a lesson to all the naysayers who claimed Obama’s “engagement” or rapprochement with the Castro-Family-Crime-Syndicate (euphemized as “Cuba” by the media and State Dept.) was pointless and idiotic —who claimed that the Castros would not budge from any of their policies. Your humble and hard-working servant himself must now eat crow. Exactly a year ago he went on John Stossell’s FoxBusiness show to hysterically berate Stossell and a CATO Institute scholar. These dogmatic libertarians claimed Obama’s policy was very wise and sound—and would shrewdly and magically beget modifications in the Castro regime’s modus-operandi. OK, so there’s nothing...

When President Barack Obama makes history as the first sitting U.S. president in 90 years to visit Cuba next week, the first family will be by his side. Michelle Obama, the couple's daughters Malia, 17, and Sasha, 14, and the First Lady's mother Marian Robinson will all travel to Cuba and Argentina with the president from Monday through Thursday, the White House revealed during a press call. After touching down in Havana on Monday, the Obamas will visit a variety of historical sites with an emphasis on cultural outreach. One of the tour stops will be to the Havana Cathedral,...

President Barack Obama will use an historic speech in Havana next week to lay out a vision of greater freedoms and more economic opportunity in Cuba, White House officials said Wednesday, offering a glimpse of how the president hopes to use his trip to encourage change on the communist island. Obama’s speech on Tuesday at the Grand Theater of Havana will mark a moment that seemed unimaginable only a few years ago, before Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro moved to restore relations between the two estranged countries. Obama’s advisers said they hoped Cubans would be able to watch the...

n the eve of President (Obama’s historic visit) to Cuba, authorities there are ordering dissidents invited to meet with the American leader to stay home instead, a leading human rights activist said Saturday. Elizardo Sanchez, a Cuban anti-government activist who chronicles political detentions month-to-month, said he and most of those invited planned to defy the government order. Sanchez, speaking by phone from Havana, said U.S. officials were offering to help the activists get to the meeting with Obama, scheduled for Tuesday. “Everyone is pretty determined,” he said. There was no immediate comment from the U.S. Embassy in Havana, the White...

President Obama foregoes meeting with Netanyahu in favor of flight to Cuba for first US presidential trip since 1920s. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has canceled his annual trip to the United States after President Barack Obama declined to schedule a meeting with him. Netanyahu had planned a visit to the US coinciding with the annual AIPAC summit planned for March 20 through 22. Netanyahu has made attending AIPAC’s annual conference a tradition, missing the event only twice. Officials around the Prime Minister pointed out that the trip would take place in the middle of a heated presidential primary season, and...