doing. we had a march for the ladies in white in support of what they are going through in cuba, getting beat up for walking peacefully in the last seven years. they walk, ask for the freedom of their political prisoners injustly incarcerated. this year they were beat up, thrown on a bus. to have the president of the united states here after he issued a strong statement on march 24, i think it was. it was an honor to have president obama here. i support him. i think -- you know, he's in a tough position. i think anybody that took over this country at the moment that he did is going to go through a lot. i think, you know, we're coming back, little by little. >> did you get a chance or will you have a chance to speak to the president about this issue of u.s./cuba relations and what have you or what will you say on that matter to the president? >> i did very much. we already had the event. we had it in two parts. a small group of people met with him first on one side of the house. and then after he greeted them, i was able to show pictures of the march that we had pictures of the l

five-month saga of the 6-year-old boy from cuba takes a dramatic turn. in the little havana section in miami four or five minivans swooped down on the modest home of lazaro gonzalez, approximately two dozen federal agents with them and they used a battering ram to gain access to the home, shortly thereafter carried elian gonzalez, the 6-year-old boy carried into the white van you see there. >> now that little boy you see in the arms of that agent is 16 years old and not surprising, attending a cuban military academy. no custody battle. no tv crews and no raids from the bedroom. cnn's shasta darlington reports. >> reporter: you probably remember the face, elian gonzalez, the cuban rafter boy at the heart of a politically charged custody battle. he's not so little anymore. elian, now 16 attends a cuban military academy. he joined the union of communist youth vowing to follow the example of fidel and raul castro. elian was just 5 when a smuggler's boat headed to the united states flipped over and killed his mother. he was found clinging to an innertube and handed over to relatives in sout

. he came to this country in 1962 from cuba as part of the peter pan program and became an american citizen in 1968. i asked him what he thought of the bill. and he told me, you know, he's a big baseball fan. he said what if i go to arizona to see the diamondbacks play and i go to the game and i forget my i.d.? i've been an american citizen for 42 years. yet i speak with a spanish accent and look very pspanish. what happens to me if i'm stopped without proof of identification on me? obviously, a lot of people are not too supportive of this. i talked to several people from h mera costa college. we talked earlier, you have some strong sentiments about this senate bill and it becoming a law. >> yes, i do. i'm completely against it. i think that anytime you have a law that gives so much power to the state and singles out a group, it's dangerous and it sends the wrong message to the community. i myself am an immigrant. i came in 1985 to the united states. and since then, i've earned a high school education. i have a bachelor's degree and two master degrees. all of it comes from the suppo

terrorism detainees at the guantanamo bay detainny prison in cuba. the magic wall for the volatile political environment. it in this political environment president obama will name a successor. we have seen the left and the right dominate oirg politics. take michigan, for example. bart stupak a democratic congressman resigned today, trying to make the case in that district that his health care vote was the right vote, because the tea party says no, some on the left criticized him. bart stupak saying 38,000 people in northern michigan will get health insurance and nearly 200,000 will see their costs lowered. that is a view from michigan of the contested political environment. utah, bob bennett a republican senator, been in office for years. he's being challenged from the right in part conservatives say, because they don't like these votes. here's one, school safety ability of 1999. passed by 73-25. 31 republicans vote ford this bill yet conservative says senator bennett should not have. another vote, the ashcroft amendment a bill that would punish parents if they let their children