The New America Foundation/US-Cuba 21st Century Policy Initiative just hosted this high octane media conference call that included more than 50 journalists and featured the following commentators:

Representative Jim McGovern (D-MA-03), US House of Representatives

Col. Lawrence B. Wilkerson, Co-Chair, New America Foundation/US-Cuba Policy Initiative; former Chief of Staff, US State Department; blogger, The Havana Note

Julia Sweig, Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

Peter Kornbluh, Director, Cuba Documentation Project, National Security Archive, George Washington University

Sarah Stephens, Executive Director, Center for Democracy in the Americas and blogger, The Havana Note

Jake Colvin, Director, USA*Engage, National Foreign Trade Council and blogger, The Havana Note

moderator

Patrick Doherty, Director, New America Foundation, US-Cuba Policy Initiative and blogger, The Havana Note

I would have loved to have been on the call too but couldn't swing it from Japan -- but I hear from many sources that the audio clip here is excellent.

-- Steve Clemons