WEBVTT 00:02.033 --> 00:04.666 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: As we reported earlier, President Trump took steps to roll back some parts of 00:04.666 --> 00:09.666 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% the Obama administration's opening to Cuba, which began two-and-a-half years ago. 00:11.100 --> 00:15.100 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% John Yang reports now on what's out and what stays in effect. 00:17.600 --> 00:20.100 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% JOHN YANG: President Trump made the announcement in Miami's Little Havana before an enthusiastic 00:21.700 --> 00:23.666 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% crowd in a packed auditorium. 00:23.666 --> 00:27.433 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% DONALD TRUMP, President of the United States: Effective immediately, I am canceling the 00:27.433 --> 00:32.433 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% last administration's completely one-sided deal with Cuba. 00:33.966 --> 00:35.966 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) 00:35.966 --> 00:39.133 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% JOHN YANG: While the president's action falls short of canceling, he said it fulfills a 00:39.133 --> 00:43.766 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% campaign promise to undo President Obama's re-engagement with Cuba. 00:43.766 --> 00:46.366 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% BARACK OBAMA, Former President of the United States: Today, the United States of America 00:46.366 --> 00:49.266 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% is changing its relationship with the people of Cuba. 00:49.266 --> 00:54.266 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% JOHN YANG: In December 2014, Mr. Obama restored diplomatic ties with the island nation, after 00:55.166 --> 00:58.433 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% more than 50 years of hostility. 00:58.433 --> 01:03.433 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% In March 2016, he became the first U.S. president to visit Cuba in nearly a century. 01:05.366 --> 01:09.233 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% President Trump says his focus is halting the flow of U.S. dollars to the communist 01:09.233 --> 01:11.300 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% government. 01:11.300 --> 01:15.233 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% DONALD TRUMP: Our policy will seek a much better deal for the Cuban people and for the 01:16.100 --> 01:18.200 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% United States of America. 01:18.200 --> 01:22.000 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% We do not want U.S. dollars to prop up a military monopoly that exploits and abuses the citizens 01:24.233 --> 01:26.300 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% of Cuba. 01:26.300 --> 01:29.933 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% JOHN YANG: The new policy bans transactions with enterprises, including hotels and other 01:29.933 --> 01:34.300 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% tourist-related businesses, ultimately owned by the Cuban military. 01:34.300 --> 01:39.300 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Mr. Trump is also reinstating a rule that restricts individual travel, and requires 01:41.300 --> 01:44.433 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% most visits to Cuba to be in group tours organized by American companies. 01:46.500 --> 01:49.766 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% But the policy continues direct commercial flights between the two countries. 01:51.833 --> 01:55.366 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% The administration will also maintain the U.S. Embassy in Havana, but still with no 01:55.366 --> 01:56.600 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% ambassador. 01:56.600 --> 01:58.866 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% In Havana today, Cubans reacted. 01:58.866 --> 02:02.800 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% MAN (through translator): Trump's words simply seem a bit ambiguous. 02:02.800 --> 02:06.866 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% If the governments want the best for both the Cuban and American people, they have to 02:06.866 --> 02:09.933 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% look out for the common things that exist between the two. 02:09.933 --> 02:14.733 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% WOMAN (through translator): If definitely feels like a huge setback in the relationship 02:14.733 --> 02:16.800 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% between Cuba and the United States. 02:16.800 --> 02:20.966 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% We will see what happens, but, right now, I think it's like going back to the Cold War. 02:20.966 --> 02:25.966 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% JOHN YANG: None of the changes will take effect until the U.S. Treasury and Commerce Departments 02:27.133 --> 02:30.833 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% issue new regulations, which could take months. 02:30.833 --> 02:35.300 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% For more on the revised policy, and how it's being understood in Cuba, we turn to Alan 02:35.300 --> 02:38.900 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Gomez of USA Today, who joins us from Havana. 02:38.900 --> 02:41.400 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% Alan, thanks for being with us. 02:41.400 --> 02:45.533 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% We heard in the tape piece a little smattering of some reaction from the streets of Havana, 02:46.666 --> 02:48.666 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% but I know you have been out reporting today. 02:48.666 --> 02:52.000 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% What are you hearing from average Cubans in Havana about this change? 02:52.000 --> 02:57.000 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% ALAN GOMEZ, USA Today: I mean, it's been a level of confusion, of sadness, of disgust, 02:57.800 --> 02:58.800 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% of anger. 02:58.800 --> 03:00.933 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% You know, just imagine. 03:00.933 --> 03:04.600 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% These people have lived here for decades without any interaction with the United States, with 03:04.600 --> 03:07.766 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% the U.S. just treating them as an enemy and closing off to them. 03:07.766 --> 03:12.033 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Then, two-and-a-half years ago, they get this opening, and they talk about this period, 03:12.033 --> 03:16.866 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% already in the past tense, as this glorious period where they were able to have more Americans 03:16.866 --> 03:19.866 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% down here, interact with them more, and visit the U.S. more. 03:19.866 --> 03:24.566 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And now Trump has taken it not all away, but has really cut that back significantly. 03:24.566 --> 03:29.566 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% So, yes, there's a lot of anger here right now and a lot of confusion over why it's being 03:30.033 --> 03:32.033 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% done. 03:32.033 --> 03:34.900 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% JOHN YANG: How have they talked about how their lives have changed, what difference 03:34.900 --> 03:36.966 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% this past two years has been to them? 03:36.966 --> 03:41.766 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% ALAN GOMEZ: Well, understand, Cuba, the state-run economy, you only get a certain salary from 03:41.766 --> 03:43.133 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% the government. 03:43.133 --> 03:44.933 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% You only get certain benefits from the government. 03:44.933 --> 03:48.866 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% So what they rely on so heavily across the board is tourism. 03:48.866 --> 03:53.866 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And what it's done is infused a whole lot of Americans down here over these past two-and-a-half 03:54.366 --> 03:56.366 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% years. 03:56.366 --> 03:59.666 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% So you think about everybody from private restaurant owners, to private taxies, to tour 03:59.666 --> 04:03.500 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% guides, all these people that interact with Americans, they're all the ones that are getting 04:03.500 --> 04:05.500 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% that benefit directly. 04:05.500 --> 04:09.433 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% President Trump talked a lot today about how all of the money that's been going down over 04:09.433 --> 04:13.733 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% these last couple of years is going straight to the Cuban government. 04:13.733 --> 04:16.833 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% But I can tell you, from being down here quite a bit over the last couple of years and talking 04:16.833 --> 04:20.433 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% to folks today, that they are saying that, no, they get a lot of it. 04:20.433 --> 04:24.866 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Yes, of course some of it goes to the government, but they're upset that, to punish the Cuban 04:24.866 --> 04:27.233 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% government, they're the ones that are getting hurt as well. 04:27.233 --> 04:28.700 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% JOHN YANG: How will they get hurt? 04:28.700 --> 04:32.733 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% How will life change for them under these changed rules? 04:32.733 --> 04:35.533 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% ALAN GOMEZ: Well, it's a combination of things. 04:35.533 --> 04:38.900 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% It's, quite simply, fewer American tourists are going to be able to make the trip because 04:38.900 --> 04:43.100 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% of the way that the Trump administration is going to change the visa system. 04:43.100 --> 04:46.866 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% It is going to be a lot harder for American tourists now to get to the U.S. 04:46.866 --> 04:51.533 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Right now, if you're an American and want to come down to Cuba, hop online, you can 04:51.533 --> 04:55.066 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% figure out your trip, and you can pretty much get your visa at the airport counter on your 04:55.066 --> 04:57.133 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% way down here. 04:57.133 --> 04:59.900 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Now they are going to go back to the old way, where you have to apply beforehand to the 04:59.900 --> 05:02.366 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% federal government, get approval to go down. 05:02.366 --> 05:07.266 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% And so the people down here in Cuba are just expecting that that torrent of American visitors 05:08.266 --> 05:09.533 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% is going to dry up. 05:09.533 --> 05:11.533 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% And then there's another aspect. 05:11.533 --> 05:13.566 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% There are just all these private business owners that have had a lot of interaction 05:13.566 --> 05:17.466 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% in the last few years, going to the United States, working with U.S. businesspeople, 05:17.466 --> 05:20.800 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% getting training in the United States and bringing those lessons back to Cuba. 05:20.800 --> 05:23.133 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% And so they're worried that that is going to be limited as well. 05:23.133 --> 05:26.300 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% JOHN YANG: Alan, in the less than a minute we have left, I want to ask you about a development 05:26.300 --> 05:28.933 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% on your regular beat, which is immigration. 05:28.933 --> 05:33.833 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% The Trump administration announced last night that they were going to keep the program that 05:33.833 --> 05:38.833 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% protects from deportation undocumented immigrants who came as children. 05:40.766 --> 05:44.200 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% The president during the campaign said he was going do away with that, he was going 05:44.200 --> 05:46.933 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% to change that Obama policy. 05:46.933 --> 05:49.500 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% What do you make of this, deciding to keep this? 05:49.500 --> 05:53.133 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% ALAN GOMEZ: What the president did was pretty much eliminate a program that would have protected 05:53.133 --> 05:55.300 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% their parents from deportation. 05:55.300 --> 05:59.466 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% That program, there's no immediate effect of that, because all -- that program had been 05:59.466 --> 06:01.766 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% on hold in the courts for some time now. 06:01.766 --> 06:06.466 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% But what it does is, it means that those parents are never going to get any sort of legal status 06:06.466 --> 06:08.533 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% under this president. 06:08.533 --> 06:11.633 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And, more than that, it means that those children that have been protected from deportation 06:11.633 --> 06:15.366 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, now they are worried that they are 06:15.366 --> 06:17.900 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% going to have that taken away from them. 06:17.900 --> 06:20.233 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% JOHN YANG: Although, in the president's announcement, or the administration announcement last night, 06:20.233 --> 06:25.233 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% they specifically said that that program would remain, would remain in place. 06:26.766 --> 06:28.833 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% Alan Gomez of USA Today from Havana, Cuba, thanks for joining us. 06:28.833 --> 06:29.400 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% ALAN GOMEZ: Thank you.