Verdict with Ted Cruz - January 28, 2026


Honoring and Remembering My Tia Sonia


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31 minutes

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170.64087

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495

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00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.
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00:00:04.840 Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
00:00:08.660 And today is a really special episode of Verdict with Ted Cruz.
00:00:14.340 And Senator, I want you to take it from there,
00:00:16.120 but we're taking a little pause from politics
00:00:18.240 and talking about someone very near and dear to you.
00:00:21.300 Yeah, on Sunday, January 25th,
00:00:24.840 my aunt, my Tia Sonia, went to be with the Lord.
00:00:29.940 She and I were incredibly close.
00:00:31.920 My Tia Sonia was my father's younger sister.
00:00:36.480 My dad, as you know, fought in the Cuban Revolution.
00:00:39.460 He was imprisoned and tortured in Cuba by Batista's thugs.
00:00:43.940 My Tia Sonia was younger than he is,
00:00:46.460 and so she was there after the revolution succeeded.
00:00:50.100 She fought in the counter-revolution,
00:00:52.920 and she was imprisoned and tortured by Castro's thugs.
00:00:57.000 And she's someone who I grew up very close to.
00:01:00.920 I called her my Tia Loca, my crazy aunt.
00:01:03.800 She is fiery.
00:01:05.600 She loved liberty.
00:01:06.860 She loved America.
00:01:10.160 She has been ill for the last couple of months.
00:01:13.180 It was not a surprise when she finally went.
00:01:16.140 My cousin Bebe, who is my Tia Sonia's only daughter,
00:01:19.420 has been caring for her,
00:01:21.600 and she passed Sunday morning in Bebe's living room
00:01:27.300 with her family around her,
00:01:29.880 surrounded by family that loved her,
00:01:32.940 that was praying for her,
00:01:35.080 and she's gone to be with the Lord.
00:01:37.020 And so our family is grieving
00:01:39.100 because Tia Sonia was a larger-than-life personality.
00:01:41.820 She had an unbelievable heart.
00:01:45.240 She would help anyone.
00:01:48.320 She was extraordinary.
00:01:51.380 And she was someone who, before she fell ill,
00:01:55.620 we had my Tia Sonia as a guest on verdict.
00:01:58.960 I wanted her to come on verdict.
00:02:00.980 And tell her story.
00:02:02.060 Tell her story growing up in Cuba,
00:02:04.600 seeing the communist revolution,
00:02:07.320 seeing Fidel Castro rise to power,
00:02:09.440 and then fighting in the counter-revolution,
00:02:12.660 being in a Cuban jail,
00:02:13.900 being tortured in Cuba,
00:02:15.180 coming to America with nothing.
00:02:17.940 And so in honor of my Tia Loca,
00:02:20.900 whom I loved with all of my heart,
00:02:25.000 I want to give you the interview we did
00:02:27.280 with my Tia Sonia,
00:02:29.260 an extraordinary warrior for liberty.
00:02:32.740 Welcome back to Verdict with Ted Cruz.
00:02:35.040 We are joined, as ever, by the senator
00:02:36.920 and also by the senator's Tia Sonia.
00:02:40.100 My Spanish is not very good,
00:02:41.420 but I think that was about right.
00:02:43.380 Aunt Sonia.
00:02:43.840 That is correct.
00:02:44.600 Thank you.
00:02:45.460 This is, in a few days,
00:02:47.060 going to be the 58th anniversary
00:02:49.020 of your fleeing the communist regime in Cuba.
00:02:52.740 That is correct, sir.
00:02:53.600 And yet we've got the leader
00:02:55.500 of the Democratic Party nomination process
00:02:57.640 is praising the Fidel Castro regime.
00:03:00.300 I think we have the clip.
00:03:01.380 Very opposed to the authoritarian nature of Cuba.
00:03:04.160 But, you know, it's unfair to simply say
00:03:06.440 everything is bad.
00:03:08.060 You know, when Fidel Castro came into office,
00:03:10.200 you know what he did?
00:03:11.100 He had a massive literacy program.
00:03:13.120 Is that a bad thing?
00:03:14.380 Listen, Bernie has spent his entire life,
00:03:16.640 his entire career,
00:03:18.200 praising communist dictators.
00:03:20.020 But this week,
00:03:21.340 his latest ode to Fidel Castro,
00:03:24.760 frankly, just pissed me off.
00:03:27.160 And this is not a joke.
00:03:29.760 This guy is the front runner
00:03:31.040 for the Democratic nomination to be president.
00:03:34.180 And he sings the praises
00:03:36.800 of Castro and Cuban communism.
00:03:40.620 My dad fled Cuba in 57.
00:03:42.740 My tia Sonia was still there.
00:03:44.360 She was a kid.
00:03:45.800 And so she saw the Cuban revolution firsthand
00:03:48.440 and she ended up fighting against Castro.
00:03:50.500 So tia, if you would,
00:03:52.160 I just want you,
00:03:54.180 first of all,
00:03:54.800 tell me what it was like to be in Cuba
00:03:56.560 when the revolution happened,
00:03:59.360 when Castro took over.
00:04:00.300 Actually, it was,
00:04:01.580 it was,
00:04:03.060 it was,
00:04:04.260 a lot of people were happy
00:04:06.080 because finally somebody was coming in
00:04:08.120 that was praising,
00:04:09.520 we're going to give you
00:04:10.500 a chance to change your hope.
00:04:13.100 We're going to change things around.
00:04:14.660 Everybody was going to have
00:04:15.820 whatever they want to.
00:04:17.400 The poor will never be poor.
00:04:19.020 The rich continue to have money.
00:04:21.340 And everybody will be the same.
00:04:23.460 In reality,
00:04:24.400 yes, everybody went the same,
00:04:26.540 but everybody was poor.
00:04:28.160 Everybody went down.
00:04:31.620 Everybody got paid the same amount of money.
00:04:34.280 There was no difference between the poor and the rich.
00:04:37.280 Everybody lost everything they had.
00:04:38.240 It's not that everyone was rich.
00:04:39.660 Everyone was poor and suffering and miserable.
00:04:42.120 And everybody was miserable.
00:04:43.980 Everybody was miserable.
00:04:45.440 What Bernie is saying is a bunch of garbage.
00:04:48.740 So you're there.
00:04:50.100 You're,
00:04:50.360 you're a teenager.
00:04:51.380 How old were you?
00:04:52.520 Probably 16,
00:04:54.040 15.
00:04:54.980 Okay.
00:04:55.220 So you're seeing this.
00:04:56.440 You're a teenage girl.
00:04:57.620 Right.
00:04:58.080 You see what's happening.
00:04:59.180 You see Castro begin executing people.
00:05:03.580 Yeah.
00:05:04.100 Persecuting people.
00:05:05.180 Nobody could talk.
00:05:06.100 Nobody could say anything.
00:05:07.640 They actually,
00:05:08.600 he trained the people
00:05:10.320 to even be against the family.
00:05:12.680 The sons against the father.
00:05:14.440 The daughters against the family.
00:05:15.760 So how,
00:05:16.320 how did he do that?
00:05:17.400 By indoctrinating these people,
00:05:19.600 by telling,
00:05:20.400 we're going to give you this and that and the other,
00:05:22.900 and it's all going to be free,
00:05:24.460 but you got to tell us what's going on in your house.
00:05:26.800 Who talked against the government?
00:05:28.540 So everything was persecuting one another,
00:05:31.520 especially the older people
00:05:33.040 that actually,
00:05:34.260 we lived a good life before in Cuba.
00:05:36.560 It was beautiful.
00:05:37.740 What do people face
00:05:38.800 in terms of their friends and neighbors and families
00:05:42.000 spying on them in the government?
00:05:43.220 You have people in each block.
00:05:46.080 There is somebody that is responsible
00:05:47.700 to keep an eye on you,
00:05:49.480 in your house.
00:05:51.020 So there's a,
00:05:51.880 there's a tattletale.
00:05:53.480 There's a spy on every block.
00:05:54.520 A spy on every block.
00:05:55.640 And they tell you,
00:05:56.380 you keep an eye on every neighbor of this block.
00:06:00.100 And what sort of things are they watching for?
00:06:01.720 They're watching for everything.
00:06:02.880 If you bring anything,
00:06:04.080 maybe I'm going from United States to Cuba
00:06:08.100 and there's somebody coming in.
00:06:10.880 So we need to watch their house
00:06:12.720 in case they go out
00:06:14.220 and sell in the black market
00:06:15.560 or they do something
00:06:16.500 with what you brought in.
00:06:18.340 So there's somebody
00:06:19.100 who's always keeping an eye on you
00:06:20.680 and try to report you.
00:06:22.980 A good,
00:06:23.280 a good thing that happened to,
00:06:24.680 something that happened to me
00:06:25.840 that is very interesting.
00:06:27.500 One of the trips
00:06:28.360 that I went back to Cuba,
00:06:29.420 I wanted to take the kids,
00:06:31.300 some of the kids from there
00:06:32.460 to go fishing.
00:06:33.440 I love fishing.
00:06:34.200 So I went in
00:06:35.860 and tried to rent a boat
00:06:37.380 and they told me,
00:06:38.700 we can't.
00:06:39.660 We don't rent boats
00:06:40.600 to Cuban people.
00:06:42.200 And I said,
00:06:43.000 you may leave.
00:06:43.860 And I said,
00:06:44.280 look,
00:06:44.940 I have a passport.
00:06:46.020 I have a flight
00:06:46.700 on Friday.
00:06:47.700 I already left.
00:06:49.040 So I'm coming in
00:06:49.980 to take my family
00:06:51.140 on a boat ride.
00:06:52.500 We can't give it to you.
00:06:53.900 We can't rent you a boat.
00:06:56.060 You're Cuban.
00:06:57.980 So.
00:06:58.700 Because they're so afraid
00:06:59.600 they know the people.
00:07:00.180 If you go there,
00:07:00.980 you can rent a boat.
00:07:01.540 You can rent a boat.
00:07:02.540 Right.
00:07:02.900 She can't rent a boat
00:07:04.140 because she's Cuban.
00:07:05.240 Even though she's
00:07:05.840 an American citizen now.
00:07:07.060 Yes.
00:07:07.840 You're Cuban.
00:07:09.200 So you can't do it.
00:07:10.600 There was a boat
00:07:11.420 in the river
00:07:12.120 that my niece wanted to go in.
00:07:14.420 And when we get in
00:07:17.700 to ride the boat
00:07:18.620 with the rest of the people,
00:07:19.720 they said,
00:07:19.960 you all cannot get in.
00:07:21.620 You all are Cuban.
00:07:22.680 And I said,
00:07:23.060 but we're paying
00:07:23.680 with the same money
00:07:24.440 that they're paying.
00:07:25.620 Well, I'm sorry.
00:07:27.000 You can't come in.
00:07:28.080 You're not from another country.
00:07:30.020 You're Cuban.
00:07:31.020 And Cuban people
00:07:31.880 are not allowed.
00:07:32.800 They're not allowed to leave.
00:07:33.800 No.
00:07:34.040 Because they know
00:07:34.620 if they were allowed to leave,
00:07:35.960 they'd all leave.
00:07:37.580 The Ferguson family
00:07:38.660 got bigger over the holidays
00:07:40.000 with a new puppy.
00:07:41.320 And I can tell you
00:07:42.200 having one dog
00:07:43.200 that is over a decade old
00:07:45.160 and a new dog
00:07:46.440 that's just months old,
00:07:47.880 there's one thing
00:07:48.920 they both have in common.
00:07:50.300 I want them to live
00:07:51.520 a great quality life.
00:07:53.400 And that is exactly
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00:07:56.280 Now, I've been telling you
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00:07:59.140 and some of the symptoms
00:08:00.600 that he was having.
00:08:01.740 Slowing down
00:08:02.560 and itching
00:08:03.200 and having bad breath,
00:08:04.600 losing interest
00:08:05.540 in playtime.
00:08:06.900 That is just part
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00:09:34.140 Sonia, how quickly after,
00:09:36.300 as you say,
00:09:37.060 you know,
00:09:37.340 people liked Castro
00:09:39.060 initially.
00:09:40.540 He was promising them
00:09:42.080 the world.
00:09:43.160 How quickly did it turn?
00:09:44.820 I mean,
00:09:44.980 how quickly did it turn?
00:09:45.940 It turned right away.
00:09:47.180 It turned right away.
00:09:48.140 He immediately starts saying
00:09:49.700 the policies that he wanted to do.
00:09:52.420 He was going to take things
00:09:53.420 away from the rich.
00:09:54.880 He was going to take things
00:09:56.100 away from the people
00:09:57.080 to give to others.
00:09:58.440 He was to actually
00:09:59.700 take money from you
00:10:02.160 and give it to the poor.
00:10:03.340 So on the other side,
00:10:04.360 I make my money.
00:10:05.720 I work for what I have.
00:10:06.940 My father worked hard
00:10:09.140 to be where he was.
00:10:10.900 My mother was a great
00:10:12.020 school teacher.
00:10:13.740 She was really,
00:10:14.760 was proud of what she was doing.
00:10:17.200 My mother itself was told
00:10:18.780 that she had to teach
00:10:20.600 at the school
00:10:21.240 a different kind of curriculum.
00:10:23.500 She was told she needed to teach
00:10:24.980 about the revolution,
00:10:26.640 Castro, the regime,
00:10:27.960 the things that needed to happen.
00:10:29.680 My mother had to actually
00:10:31.780 pretend that she was losing
00:10:33.700 her mind and she was
00:10:35.420 missing immediately.
00:10:37.340 So let me underscore this story.
00:10:40.060 I grew up hearing this story
00:10:41.720 as a kid.
00:10:42.340 I mean, I would sit
00:10:43.240 with my cousin, Bebe,
00:10:44.720 who's Sonia's daughter.
00:10:46.380 The two of us would sit
00:10:47.420 literally on the floor
00:10:49.240 in the living room
00:10:49.800 and listen to my dad
00:10:50.920 and my tia Sonia
00:10:51.580 tell us stories
00:10:52.480 about the revolution
00:10:53.320 and my abuelo and abuela,
00:10:54.740 their parents were there also.
00:10:57.140 So my grandmother,
00:10:58.440 my abuela,
00:10:59.380 she's a sixth grade teacher.
00:11:00.700 Castro takes over
00:11:01.700 and she's ordered,
00:11:03.640 you must teach communism
00:11:04.880 to the kids.
00:11:05.580 You must indoctrinate.
00:11:06.820 You must brainwash the kids.
00:11:08.740 And my grandmother said
00:11:09.840 she wasn't going to do it.
00:11:11.000 And so it's funny.
00:11:13.020 My tia Sonia mentioned
00:11:13.740 something just very mild.
00:11:15.840 But my grandmother
00:11:16.860 pretended she was insane.
00:11:19.000 In the classroom,
00:11:20.180 she began literally
00:11:20.880 foaming at the mouth
00:11:22.040 and pretending she was insane.
00:11:23.600 Why?
00:11:23.960 Because she couldn't quit.
00:11:25.700 In the communist dictatorship,
00:11:27.180 she wasn't allowed to quit.
00:11:28.380 And she made the decision
00:11:30.040 she would rather have the stigma,
00:11:32.860 have the shame
00:11:33.740 of people thinking
00:11:34.640 she was a crazy person
00:11:35.840 than be a part
00:11:37.980 of indoctrinating these kids.
00:11:39.440 That is true.
00:11:40.100 And it was very painful
00:11:41.240 because my mother
00:11:42.140 was a great teacher.
00:11:43.480 It was loved by many people.
00:11:45.620 But she had to play crazy
00:11:47.000 in order to get out
00:11:48.680 of that situation.
00:11:49.280 But what I want to know
00:11:50.140 is how in Cuba,
00:11:51.600 the public opinion
00:11:53.140 changes very quickly.
00:11:54.240 People see what a monster Castro is
00:11:56.020 and they start to hate his guts.
00:11:57.400 How is it that in the United States,
00:12:00.500 now so many years on,
00:12:02.540 58 years on now since you left,
00:12:05.500 you have a presidential candidate,
00:12:07.840 you got a U.S. senator
00:12:08.740 who's still singing
00:12:10.200 the praises of this guy.
00:12:11.600 What did he miss?
00:12:13.040 He had not been
00:12:14.340 with the Cuban people.
00:12:16.020 He only,
00:12:16.580 if you go there as a Cuban,
00:12:19.000 you go and see somebody,
00:12:20.400 a relative,
00:12:20.920 you're going to see
00:12:21.540 the misery that they live in.
00:12:23.580 They don't know
00:12:24.160 what to put on the table
00:12:25.300 to serve their kids.
00:12:26.340 They don't know how to get,
00:12:27.460 they're going to get the food
00:12:28.480 that they're going to eat tomorrow.
00:12:30.380 If you're going as somebody
00:12:33.040 from another country
00:12:34.540 or as a tourist,
00:12:35.720 you're taking to,
00:12:36.940 you actually become
00:12:37.980 prisoner of the government.
00:12:39.660 They take you
00:12:40.420 where they want you to go.
00:12:42.380 They showed you
00:12:43.220 the model school.
00:12:44.320 They showed you
00:12:44.860 the best hospitals.
00:12:46.280 They showed you
00:12:47.140 the best restaurants.
00:12:49.020 In 1989,
00:12:49.980 Sanders stated
00:12:50.540 after visiting Cuba,
00:12:51.560 quote,
00:12:52.440 I did not see
00:12:53.540 a hungry child.
00:12:54.480 I did not see
00:12:55.720 any homeless people.
00:12:57.400 Bernie said
00:12:58.040 the Cuban people,
00:12:59.300 quote,
00:12:59.820 had an almost
00:13:00.620 religious affection
00:13:02.080 for Castro.
00:13:03.120 That is not true.
00:13:05.000 He is lying.
00:13:06.200 He's lying to the people
00:13:07.280 of this country.
00:13:08.360 He is playing on the mind
00:13:09.680 of the younger generation here.
00:13:12.220 He was either
00:13:13.180 himself complicit
00:13:15.540 in the lie
00:13:16.200 or he was naive enough
00:13:18.300 or ideological enough
00:13:19.720 to let the Castro regime
00:13:21.640 lie to him
00:13:22.480 and say,
00:13:22.960 look at this,
00:13:23.620 this paradise.
00:13:25.080 They didn't take
00:13:25.900 into what the Cuban people were.
00:13:27.700 Cuban people
00:13:28.320 are starving to death.
00:13:30.260 Cuban people
00:13:30.820 don't have any money
00:13:31.740 to buy anything.
00:13:32.800 So let me take you
00:13:33.860 back to 59,
00:13:36.040 back to 60.
00:13:37.220 The revolution succeeded.
00:13:39.700 You begin fighting
00:13:41.160 against Castro.
00:13:43.360 What happened to you
00:13:44.360 as a result?
00:13:44.920 What happened
00:13:46.200 when you started fighting?
00:13:47.100 Well, I was constantly
00:13:47.980 persecuted.
00:13:48.780 People was looking
00:13:51.960 for me everywhere.
00:13:53.240 They want to take me
00:13:54.520 to prison.
00:13:55.200 They picked me up
00:13:55.900 several times.
00:13:57.160 So you were pretty clearly
00:13:58.600 fighting against the regime.
00:14:00.280 Totally against Castro.
00:14:01.420 Yes, yes.
00:14:02.480 So this is after Castro
00:14:03.560 has taken over.
00:14:04.240 So he's the dictator.
00:14:05.520 So what,
00:14:06.280 like when they picked you up,
00:14:07.360 what happened?
00:14:08.200 What does that mean?
00:14:09.000 Well, they put you
00:14:10.840 in a room
00:14:12.220 and there was people
00:14:13.240 sitting on the floor
00:14:14.220 and everybody's,
00:14:15.640 you know,
00:14:16.420 that's where you were
00:14:17.460 with a whole bunch
00:14:18.180 of people in the floor
00:14:19.160 and they keep you there
00:14:20.560 for two or three days.
00:14:21.620 My parents did not know
00:14:22.880 where I was.
00:14:24.200 My mother did not know.
00:14:25.640 So she was going crazy
00:14:26.740 trying to find me.
00:14:28.380 My friends,
00:14:29.780 friends that I have,
00:14:31.480 could not even come
00:14:32.420 and find out
00:14:33.320 with my parents
00:14:34.140 where was I
00:14:35.160 or what was wrong with me.
00:14:36.780 They were afraid
00:14:37.620 because everybody
00:14:38.400 was persecuted.
00:14:39.340 So it was very difficult
00:14:42.420 to leave
00:14:43.220 on the Castro regime.
00:14:45.820 When you left Cuba,
00:14:47.200 it was 62 you left?
00:14:48.680 Right.
00:14:49.100 You've been back
00:14:49.660 a bunch of times.
00:14:50.440 Right, yes.
00:14:51.620 What have,
00:14:52.300 so when you come back,
00:14:53.840 you usually bring
00:14:55.140 a duffel bag
00:14:56.460 with medicine.
00:14:57.500 I bring medicine,
00:14:58.240 I bring food,
00:14:59.420 clothes,
00:15:00.420 sheets.
00:15:01.600 Just for relatives,
00:15:02.680 just for friends.
00:15:03.580 Friends,
00:15:04.080 people that need.
00:15:04.900 So they can't get
00:15:05.780 anything there?
00:15:06.900 Nothing, nothing.
00:15:08.260 She leaves a suitcase,
00:15:09.060 she leaves.
00:15:09.640 Every bit of clothes
00:15:10.460 she bought,
00:15:11.360 she leaves her underwear
00:15:12.700 and bra.
00:15:13.460 Everything.
00:15:13.940 Because nobody has
00:15:14.920 underwear there
00:15:15.880 because there's
00:15:16.680 so much poverty.
00:15:18.220 You'll wear like
00:15:18.960 sweatpants,
00:15:19.540 a t-shirt,
00:15:20.060 and flip-flops.
00:15:20.320 That's it.
00:15:20.720 That's what she wears
00:15:21.720 on the plane coming back.
00:15:23.620 Right, that is correct.
00:15:24.780 A lot of people
00:15:25.300 don't understand
00:15:26.060 what is the difference
00:15:27.300 between socialism
00:15:28.040 and communism.
00:15:28.400 That is correct.
00:15:29.540 Socialism is simply
00:15:30.540 the economic system
00:15:31.840 of communism.
00:15:33.000 Socialism is
00:15:33.980 government ownership
00:15:34.860 of the means
00:15:35.540 of production
00:15:36.120 or distribution.
00:15:37.340 Cuba in the 1950s,
00:15:38.680 was the world's
00:15:39.640 number one producer
00:15:40.400 of sugar.
00:15:41.160 Yeah.
00:15:41.680 It had problems.
00:15:42.640 Look, Batista
00:15:43.140 was a corrupt dictator
00:15:44.320 and he was a bastard.
00:15:45.420 My father,
00:15:46.280 to this day,
00:15:47.200 doesn't have his front teeth
00:15:48.340 because Batista's police
00:15:50.120 kicked them in.
00:15:51.420 His guards,
00:15:52.140 his army officers
00:15:53.260 kicked them in.
00:15:54.080 But what about
00:15:54.940 the universal health care?
00:15:56.100 I mean,
00:15:56.260 we're told by a lot
00:15:57.280 of people in the United States,
00:15:58.400 a lot of left-wingers,
00:15:59.600 they say,
00:16:00.040 Cuba has some of the best
00:16:01.480 health care in the world
00:16:02.160 and everybody's covered.
00:16:03.180 I can personally tell you
00:16:04.660 that I went to the doctor
00:16:05.720 there because I have
00:16:07.000 mosquito bites
00:16:08.360 that it got into infection
00:16:09.640 and they put a shot
00:16:12.120 on me in front
00:16:13.280 of 60 other people
00:16:14.960 that were there
00:16:15.680 waiting for,
00:16:16.840 for, to being seen
00:16:17.680 by a doctor.
00:16:18.740 There's no transportation,
00:16:20.260 there's no gas,
00:16:21.680 so you can't move.
00:16:23.000 Doctors come to your house
00:16:24.180 in a bicycle
00:16:24.840 and they're hungry.
00:16:27.000 They're hungry.
00:16:27.980 When they get there,
00:16:28.720 they come to the house
00:16:29.540 to see.
00:16:30.400 Matter of fact,
00:16:30.740 I was in a house visiting
00:16:31.980 and they were trying
00:16:33.840 to see the little girl.
00:16:34.840 He came in a bicycle
00:16:35.780 and I bought some things
00:16:37.980 that there was somebody
00:16:39.000 in the street selling
00:16:40.120 and he said,
00:16:41.140 can I have one?
00:16:42.140 Probably the most visible sign
00:16:45.000 that Cuba hasn't changed
00:16:46.500 or hasn't progressed
00:16:47.420 is they have those old cars,
00:16:48.860 right?
00:16:49.380 Yes.
00:16:49.760 And, you know,
00:16:50.120 people like to think
00:16:50.980 that that's sort of quaint
00:16:52.100 and cute
00:16:52.620 that they have cars
00:16:53.520 from the 1950s.
00:16:54.900 The reason they have cars
00:16:55.900 from the 1950s
00:16:56.740 is they can't get anything else.
00:16:59.040 Canadian women
00:16:59.800 are looking for more,
00:17:01.140 more out of themselves,
00:17:02.180 their businesses,
00:17:03.120 their elected leaders
00:17:03.900 and the world around them.
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00:17:29.800 You know,
00:17:30.700 the scary thing
00:17:31.480 about all of this
00:17:32.280 is you've got
00:17:33.260 the experience of it,
00:17:34.780 58 years of experience
00:17:36.160 since you left Cuba.
00:17:37.980 There are various studies
00:17:39.200 that have come out
00:17:39.820 that show that
00:17:40.540 even the majority
00:17:41.660 of young Americans,
00:17:42.960 millennials and Gen Z
00:17:43.900 now embrace socialism
00:17:46.240 and prefer it to capitalism.
00:17:47.660 Now, the bright side,
00:17:48.480 I will say,
00:17:48.920 the silver lining
00:17:49.520 is that a much smaller percentage
00:17:51.500 can actually define socialism.
00:17:53.260 So there would seem
00:17:54.200 to be a problem there.
00:17:55.140 But beyond just ignorance,
00:17:57.380 beyond just not knowing
00:17:58.260 what it is,
00:17:58.780 is what is drawing
00:18:00.640 young Americans
00:18:01.500 to this evil,
00:18:03.280 evil ideology?
00:18:04.620 It's the work
00:18:05.380 that they have
00:18:06.440 given out,
00:18:07.160 the change.
00:18:08.480 They want to see
00:18:09.480 something different.
00:18:10.600 They want to try
00:18:11.340 something new.
00:18:12.840 It doesn't work, guys.
00:18:14.960 It does not work.
00:18:17.180 All of this ambition
00:18:19.000 and giving it to me,
00:18:21.020 there's nothing given to you.
00:18:22.500 You need to work
00:18:23.480 and try to achieve
00:18:24.800 your dream
00:18:25.400 by hard work
00:18:26.540 and by doing
00:18:28.140 what you want
00:18:28.900 to get ahead.
00:18:30.520 I mean,
00:18:31.080 I've noticed this
00:18:31.960 with your colleague,
00:18:33.540 Senator Sanders.
00:18:34.400 You know,
00:18:34.580 I mean,
00:18:34.740 he's been talking
00:18:35.280 about this for 50 years
00:18:36.700 and no one listened.
00:18:37.860 But now only,
00:18:39.520 you know,
00:18:39.920 now that he's in his mid-70s,
00:18:41.440 it's catching on.
00:18:43.680 And I even think
00:18:45.500 of this absent Bernie Sanders.
00:18:47.720 Forget about him
00:18:48.340 for a second.
00:18:49.960 It took a long time.
00:18:51.340 People knew
00:18:52.160 that communism,
00:18:53.140 socialism were terrible
00:18:54.060 for so long.
00:18:55.020 And now they don't know that.
00:18:57.420 Well,
00:18:57.780 and too often
00:18:59.540 they're not taught
00:19:00.120 in schools what happened.
00:19:01.720 You know,
00:19:02.780 how many Bernie supporters
00:19:04.980 know that the Soviet Union
00:19:07.180 killed 20 million people
00:19:09.560 and China killed
00:19:10.500 77 million people?
00:19:12.320 They don't know that.
00:19:13.260 No.
00:19:13.640 And so when Bernie defends it,
00:19:15.980 it seems,
00:19:17.420 look,
00:19:17.760 and I have to admit,
00:19:18.580 I remember in college,
00:19:20.380 a guy who lived
00:19:21.260 down the hall from me
00:19:22.100 had a poster on the wall
00:19:23.360 of Che Guevara.
00:19:24.680 Yeah.
00:19:25.440 And I went in,
00:19:26.440 I said,
00:19:26.680 hey,
00:19:26.820 that's really cool.
00:19:27.940 That's all,
00:19:28.220 you know,
00:19:28.360 Che Guevara was a guerrilla
00:19:29.380 fought with Fidel Castro
00:19:30.420 in Cuba.
00:19:30.980 And I said,
00:19:31.480 hey,
00:19:31.580 that's really cool.
00:19:32.420 That's awesome.
00:19:33.500 Have you thought of maybe
00:19:34.440 putting a poster
00:19:35.620 of Hitler next to you?
00:19:36.980 And maybe Stalin
00:19:38.440 and Mao?
00:19:39.040 Like if you're going
00:19:39.620 to celebrate people
00:19:40.640 that torture
00:19:41.380 and murder,
00:19:42.740 actually,
00:19:43.200 Che was amateur.
00:19:44.620 He was weak.
00:19:45.420 He was low
00:19:45.980 on the totem pole.
00:19:46.700 But,
00:19:46.960 you know,
00:19:47.140 he was good looking.
00:19:48.020 He had stubble.
00:19:49.440 And he was,
00:19:49.900 you know,
00:19:50.720 it,
00:19:51.580 these villains
00:19:53.900 have been glamorized.
00:19:55.480 Yeah.
00:19:56.220 And it's,
00:19:57.460 it's dangerous.
00:19:58.240 You know,
00:19:58.480 we've talked a lot
00:19:59.460 about the political
00:20:00.240 and the economic
00:20:00.920 side of things,
00:20:01.800 how the government
00:20:02.340 takes all your stuff
00:20:03.300 and then they take
00:20:03.960 power away from you.
00:20:05.740 You're both religious.
00:20:07.300 I notice,
00:20:08.120 Sonia,
00:20:08.620 you have a cross
00:20:09.340 that you're wearing.
00:20:10.520 Obviously,
00:20:11.160 Senator Cruz.
00:20:11.780 One of the big
00:20:14.780 aspects of communism
00:20:16.020 as it's always
00:20:16.580 been practiced
00:20:17.140 is the atheism
00:20:18.500 of it all.
00:20:19.140 And I wonder
00:20:19.760 if there's a relation
00:20:20.600 here that as religiosity
00:20:21.900 in America has declined,
00:20:23.240 as young people
00:20:24.180 are raised more or less
00:20:25.020 without a religion,
00:20:26.080 if maybe that's
00:20:27.020 playing some role
00:20:28.120 in why communism
00:20:29.340 is catching on.
00:20:30.200 You know,
00:20:30.340 one of the great men
00:20:30.940 of the 20th century
00:20:32.040 to defeat communism
00:20:32.900 was the Pope,
00:20:34.600 was Pope John Paul II.
00:20:35.500 Well,
00:20:36.220 and Pope John Paul II
00:20:37.760 played a profound role
00:20:39.200 of going to Poland
00:20:40.720 and promising
00:20:43.240 that Poland
00:20:43.820 would be free
00:20:44.500 and speaking up.
00:20:45.780 And it was truly,
00:20:46.800 I think,
00:20:47.000 divine providence
00:20:48.340 that you had the Pope.
00:20:48.580 Literature.
00:20:48.900 They said,
00:20:49.220 we want God.
00:20:50.180 And Reagan
00:20:51.220 and Margaret Thatcher
00:20:52.760 all at the same time.
00:20:54.320 And I think
00:20:54.780 those three people,
00:20:56.400 more than any human beings
00:20:57.700 on earth,
00:20:58.280 defeated the Soviet Union
00:20:59.620 and won the Cold War.
00:21:01.200 Mind you,
00:21:02.160 Bernie was rooting
00:21:02.840 for the Soviet Union
00:21:03.700 during all of this.
00:21:04.520 He's not even hiding
00:21:07.600 it that much.
00:21:08.280 Bernie honeymooned
00:21:10.400 in the Soviet Union.
00:21:12.240 No.
00:21:13.380 Michael,
00:21:13.720 where'd you honeymoon?
00:21:15.020 I honeymooned
00:21:15.880 in Hawaii, USA.
00:21:17.220 Okay,
00:21:17.420 that's where,
00:21:17.940 like,
00:21:18.260 normal people,
00:21:19.360 you go to the beach,
00:21:20.400 you go to,
00:21:21.000 Heidi and I
00:21:21.460 would say Thomas,
00:21:22.160 it was beautiful.
00:21:23.080 We were walking
00:21:23.780 along the beach,
00:21:24.380 we had fun.
00:21:25.040 What kind of
00:21:26.620 crazy ideologue
00:21:28.780 says,
00:21:29.940 sweetheart,
00:21:30.380 I love you so much,
00:21:31.600 let's do a honeymoon
00:21:32.580 in the Soviet Union.
00:21:33.920 You know,
00:21:34.100 that clip,
00:21:34.520 he played.
00:21:35.220 He says he's no friend
00:21:36.240 of Putin.
00:21:37.520 There's only one person
00:21:38.540 I know on the national stage
00:21:39.980 that honeymooned
00:21:40.960 in the Soviet Union.
00:21:42.140 You know,
00:21:42.380 the Soviet Union
00:21:43.100 killed over 20 million people.
00:21:47.140 This is not
00:21:47.960 cute little faculty leftists.
00:21:50.400 If Bernie was a professor
00:21:51.660 at some liberal arts college
00:21:53.040 out in the frozen tundra,
00:21:54.900 who cares?
00:21:55.500 He's just corrupting
00:21:56.260 a few young minds.
00:21:57.500 This is someone
00:21:58.240 who wants to be
00:21:58.860 president of the United States
00:22:00.140 and he kisses up to
00:22:01.840 and apologizes
00:22:02.880 for totalitarian dictators.
00:22:05.800 And you know
00:22:06.600 who he doesn't praise?
00:22:08.200 Americans.
00:22:09.100 Right.
00:22:09.960 Like,
00:22:10.520 when have you ever
00:22:11.240 heard him speak
00:22:12.140 as positively
00:22:12.980 about Abraham Lincoln
00:22:14.500 as he does
00:22:15.780 about Castro
00:22:16.580 and Ortega
00:22:17.280 and Mao
00:22:18.200 and Stalin?
00:22:19.060 Listen,
00:22:19.420 communism also
00:22:20.580 hates God.
00:22:22.840 Yeah.
00:22:23.080 If you look at
00:22:23.840 these communist regimes,
00:22:25.220 they persecute faith.
00:22:27.700 They persecute,
00:22:28.720 they prevent people
00:22:29.800 from,
00:22:30.580 the beauty of
00:22:31.640 the First Amendment
00:22:33.360 is it gives everyone
00:22:34.480 the right to choose
00:22:35.480 how to worship
00:22:36.340 what your faith will be.
00:22:38.000 You know,
00:22:38.240 Bernie,
00:22:38.580 when he praised China
00:22:39.600 in the debate this week,
00:22:41.760 somehow,
00:22:42.420 when Bernie talked about
00:22:43.220 its great poverty eradication,
00:22:44.660 you don't have to go back
00:22:45.380 to Mao to find
00:22:46.360 the torture and murder.
00:22:47.920 Right now,
00:22:48.660 today,
00:22:49.040 there are one million Uyghurs.
00:22:51.300 Yeah.
00:22:51.460 A religious and ethnic minority,
00:22:54.240 one million
00:22:55.500 in concentration camps
00:22:57.300 in China today.
00:22:59.640 How,
00:23:00.280 why
00:23:01.180 is Bernie
00:23:03.100 and why are leftists
00:23:04.180 so willing to praise
00:23:05.680 and be proud of
00:23:07.100 regimes
00:23:07.860 that are torturing
00:23:09.000 and murdering people?
00:23:10.220 Do you think
00:23:11.000 this is
00:23:12.460 part of why
00:23:13.520 they make their appeal
00:23:14.920 successfully, though?
00:23:15.780 Because
00:23:15.980 the thing I notice
00:23:17.300 so much
00:23:17.960 about the socialists
00:23:19.520 in America today
00:23:20.280 is they're all
00:23:21.060 making these
00:23:21.500 very moral arguments.
00:23:22.900 It's about human rights.
00:23:23.900 It's about giving people
00:23:24.600 their right to health care
00:23:25.620 and their right
00:23:26.400 to have a lot of money.
00:23:27.360 Here's a story
00:23:28.080 my grandmother told me.
00:23:30.220 In the schools,
00:23:31.960 you would have
00:23:32.920 Cuban soldiers come in,
00:23:35.060 and this is kindergarten,
00:23:36.180 first grade.
00:23:36.840 Yeah.
00:23:37.480 And they'd tell the children,
00:23:39.800 they'd say,
00:23:40.440 close your eyes
00:23:41.520 and pray to Jesus
00:23:43.620 for a piece of candy.
00:23:46.340 And the kids would all do it,
00:23:47.780 and they'd open their eyes,
00:23:48.620 and there'd be no candy.
00:23:50.480 And then the soldiers
00:23:51.540 would say,
00:23:52.300 close your eyes
00:23:53.160 and pray to Fidel Castro
00:23:55.520 for a piece of candy.
00:23:57.080 You're kidding me.
00:23:57.940 And the kids
00:23:58.660 would close their eyes,
00:23:59.840 and the soldiers
00:24:00.280 would put candy
00:24:00.940 on their desks.
00:24:02.060 And they'd open their eyes,
00:24:03.520 and there was candy.
00:24:05.460 This is the literacy program
00:24:07.200 Bernie Sanders
00:24:08.060 is praising.
00:24:09.920 This is the indoctrination
00:24:11.820 that my abuela
00:24:12.920 refused to participate in.
00:24:15.340 And that is true.
00:24:16.700 They are actually
00:24:18.280 indoctrinating the people
00:24:20.280 since they were
00:24:21.860 tiny little kids.
00:24:23.320 Did it work?
00:24:24.300 I mean, did the...
00:24:25.220 Of course it doesn't work.
00:24:26.240 It doesn't work
00:24:26.780 because people see reality.
00:24:27.540 It doesn't work.
00:24:27.940 People,
00:24:28.480 why don't they work?
00:24:29.900 Yeah.
00:24:30.460 They don't work.
00:24:31.140 Nobody want to work in Cuba.
00:24:32.580 Why do they want to work?
00:24:34.440 They're going to make
00:24:35.200 the same money
00:24:36.020 that you're making,
00:24:36.920 that he's making.
00:24:38.200 Why do I want to do that?
00:24:39.360 But do they believe the theory?
00:24:40.820 I mean,
00:24:40.980 does the indoctrination
00:24:42.400 end up persuading people?
00:24:43.540 Actually, they thought
00:24:45.260 that it was going to be reality.
00:24:47.300 They really blinded them
00:24:49.460 to believe
00:24:50.140 what they were saying.
00:24:51.900 But they immediately
00:24:52.900 took the blind off
00:24:54.320 and saying,
00:24:55.060 everybody's in the same boat.
00:24:57.240 We're all hungry.
00:24:58.380 They know they're hungry.
00:24:59.440 They know they're poor.
00:25:00.300 They know they're miserable.
00:25:01.380 They know that hasn't happened.
00:25:02.440 That's right.
00:25:03.020 I mean,
00:25:03.400 there's a reason
00:25:04.500 people every day
00:25:06.200 risk their lives
00:25:07.360 to flee Cuba.
00:25:08.300 That's correct.
00:25:09.280 You know,
00:25:09.500 Reagan,
00:25:10.080 in the height of the Cold War,
00:25:11.400 he had a great way
00:25:12.220 of putting it.
00:25:12.780 He said,
00:25:13.640 the thing liberals
00:25:14.420 never seem to notice
00:25:15.420 is on the Berlin Wall,
00:25:17.500 the machine guns
00:25:18.360 all point in one direction.
00:25:19.540 Right.
00:25:20.220 That you didn't get anyone
00:25:21.460 from East Germany saying,
00:25:23.680 or from West Germany
00:25:24.660 saying,
00:25:25.060 I got to go live
00:25:25.880 in that communist paradise.
00:25:27.280 Right.
00:25:27.500 The way I like to put it
00:25:30.400 as a Cuban-American
00:25:31.240 is the thing liberals
00:25:32.540 never notice
00:25:33.200 is in Cuba,
00:25:34.780 the rafts are all going one way
00:25:36.200 just once.
00:25:36.880 That's right.
00:25:37.200 I'd like to see Bernie Sanders
00:25:38.500 go hop on a raft
00:25:39.420 in Key West
00:25:40.060 and head to 90 miles south.
00:25:42.060 That's right.
00:25:42.600 And by the way,
00:25:43.280 he wants socialized medicine.
00:25:45.280 They have it there.
00:25:46.220 Then go over there.
00:25:46.340 It's just you can't get,
00:25:47.560 you can't actually see a doctor,
00:25:49.060 you can't get medicine,
00:25:50.380 you can't get toilet paper.
00:25:52.620 I want you to just pause
00:25:54.580 what you're doing
00:25:55.240 for the next 60 seconds.
00:25:57.020 And I want you to imagine Lucy,
00:25:58.880 a seven-year-old.
00:26:00.160 Her stomach often aches with hunger.
00:26:02.400 Her small hands
00:26:03.260 instead of holding crayons.
00:26:05.400 Know only the struggle
00:26:06.380 of survival on dusty streets.
00:26:09.160 School is a distant dream.
00:26:11.540 Medical care,
00:26:12.540 a forgotten hope.
00:26:13.820 Lucy's potential is overshadowed.
00:26:16.180 Her future is dim.
00:26:17.520 But what if someone stepped in?
00:26:19.320 What if there was a way
00:26:20.220 to ignite hope
00:26:21.300 for children just like Lucy?
00:26:22.620 Well, there is.
00:26:24.080 And that is with
00:26:24.740 Compassion International Partners
00:26:26.980 and the local churches
00:26:28.300 that provide children
00:26:30.180 holistic support.
00:26:31.720 More than just food,
00:26:32.960 they receive critical medical care,
00:26:35.640 life-changing education,
00:26:37.500 vital skills training,
00:26:39.020 and spiritual development,
00:26:40.340 all in Jesus' name.
00:26:42.060 And you can empower a child
00:26:44.000 just like Lucy
00:26:45.280 to break free from poverty.
00:26:47.540 I want you to do what I've done
00:26:48.740 and sponsor a child today.
00:26:50.920 You can visit
00:26:51.660 Compassion.com.
00:26:53.940 That's Compassion.com.
00:26:57.040 Well, actually, you know,
00:26:58.300 tying in all of these points
00:26:59.960 on the economic,
00:27:00.880 on the political,
00:27:01.640 and on the religious,
00:27:02.840 communism has been called
00:27:03.880 the God that failed, right?
00:27:05.940 It was a sort of substitute religion,
00:27:07.700 a substitute God,
00:27:08.560 and it failed.
00:27:09.940 And you saw it fail personally.
00:27:12.140 What was the biggest shock?
00:27:15.820 I mean,
00:27:16.040 what was the biggest despair,
00:27:18.780 the biggest regret
00:27:19.580 when you saw something
00:27:20.800 that you had believed in fail?
00:27:23.520 Well,
00:27:24.600 the biggest,
00:27:27.160 it was seeing the people suffering
00:27:29.720 for not being able
00:27:31.260 to even get food
00:27:32.780 to put on the plate.
00:27:34.160 It's so basic.
00:27:34.940 The basic things.
00:27:36.760 No,
00:27:37.320 don't be able to work
00:27:38.840 because
00:27:39.780 why do you want to work
00:27:41.340 when you don't have anything
00:27:42.260 to buy with?
00:27:43.920 You know,
00:27:44.340 that money disappears
00:27:45.540 from you immediately.
00:27:47.460 And you all know the numbers,
00:27:49.320 but,
00:27:49.980 you know,
00:27:50.280 an average person
00:27:51.240 makes $30 a month.
00:27:53.540 $30 per month.
00:27:55.040 $30 per month.
00:27:57.100 Wow.
00:27:57.360 So what are you going
00:27:58.240 to do with that?
00:27:59.340 Right.
00:27:59.960 So people are being,
00:28:02.700 drinking water.
00:28:04.720 You see the kids.
00:28:06.540 They drink water with sugar
00:28:08.200 to get their stomach full.
00:28:10.920 It's that basic need.
00:28:12.800 It's so interesting
00:28:13.300 that you say that
00:28:13.920 because it's,
00:28:14.840 communism starts out
00:28:15.840 as this idealistic fantasy,
00:28:18.340 very highfalutin,
00:28:19.340 very high-minded literacy programs,
00:28:21.300 all that,
00:28:21.840 and then the reality
00:28:22.940 of the failure
00:28:23.520 is people can't even
00:28:24.580 fill their stomachs.
00:28:25.400 That is true.
00:28:25.940 Although,
00:28:26.260 you know,
00:28:26.440 there is one exception.
00:28:27.940 Which is the Communist Party rulers.
00:28:30.240 Look,
00:28:30.680 Fidel Castro
00:28:31.480 lived like a billionaire.
00:28:32.900 He filled his stomach.
00:28:33.400 And by the way,
00:28:34.280 Putin lives like a billionaire.
00:28:36.940 Maduro
00:28:37.460 and Hugo Chavez before him,
00:28:39.140 they live like billionaires.
00:28:40.640 Right.
00:28:41.320 Communism,
00:28:42.180 when you have all the power
00:28:43.360 at the top,
00:28:44.520 and,
00:28:44.620 and,
00:28:44.780 and,
00:28:45.040 and what does Bernie suggest
00:28:47.200 it would be any different
00:28:48.160 if the government
00:28:48.760 is in charge of everything?
00:28:50.340 Yeah.
00:28:50.580 Every place that has happened,
00:28:52.400 the rulers
00:28:53.040 live like kings
00:28:55.880 and everyone else
00:28:56.800 is miserable.
00:28:57.920 Right.
00:28:58.260 Well,
00:28:58.740 we,
00:28:58.960 we did actually get
00:28:59.840 one mailbag question
00:29:01.000 that I think is very much
00:29:02.220 on this topic,
00:29:03.620 which is with the
00:29:04.660 Democratic Party
00:29:05.720 veering so far
00:29:07.060 to the left
00:29:07.600 and embracing these
00:29:08.640 absolutely disgusting positions,
00:29:11.260 hopefully will turn off
00:29:12.220 most of the American people.
00:29:14.000 Should conservatives
00:29:14.780 be happy?
00:29:15.720 Should conservatives
00:29:16.260 be happy that the god
00:29:17.240 that failed
00:29:17.680 is about to fail
00:29:18.320 the Democratic Party?
00:29:19.880 Not necessarily.
00:29:20.720 No.
00:29:21.200 You're not,
00:29:21.680 you're not as complacent.
00:29:23.100 I understand people saying,
00:29:24.740 okay,
00:29:25.000 great,
00:29:25.460 Bernie's so extreme,
00:29:26.780 that means Trump
00:29:27.380 will get reelected.
00:29:28.260 I hope Trump gets reelected.
00:29:29.480 I'm working hard
00:29:30.440 to reelect the president.
00:29:33.080 But listen,
00:29:34.000 what is truly terrifying
00:29:35.480 is I think
00:29:36.900 the American people
00:29:37.820 could elect
00:29:38.480 a wild-eyed socialist.
00:29:40.080 Yeah.
00:29:40.520 Yes.
00:29:40.820 The media,
00:29:41.660 we're a divided country.
00:29:43.400 If 100,000 votes
00:29:44.560 had flipped in 2016,
00:29:46.660 Hillary Clinton
00:29:47.200 would be the president
00:29:47.920 right now.
00:29:48.980 And Bernie,
00:29:49.800 the media treats him
00:29:50.780 kind of like
00:29:51.400 your crazy uncle.
00:29:53.180 Oh,
00:29:53.700 he's just the crazy uncle.
00:29:54.920 Isn't that cute?
00:29:55.840 He's praising,
00:29:57.280 murdering,
00:29:57.840 torturing
00:29:58.300 communist dictators.
00:30:00.500 Well,
00:30:00.920 this guy
00:30:01.660 believes this stuff.
00:30:03.160 Right.
00:30:03.760 In his heart
00:30:04.940 and soul,
00:30:06.080 he believes it.
00:30:07.060 His whole life
00:30:07.720 has been dedicated to it.
00:30:09.360 And I got to admit,
00:30:10.960 I am,
00:30:12.000 it's all fine
00:30:12.640 and good to celebrate
00:30:13.460 unless he ends up winning.
00:30:15.280 Unless it happens.
00:30:16.280 Oh, gosh.
00:30:16.580 God help the direction
00:30:17.680 this country goes
00:30:18.440 if that happens.
00:30:18.960 Well,
00:30:19.180 because you already
00:30:20.800 fled one
00:30:21.660 communist hellhole
00:30:22.780 and this was the great hope
00:30:24.840 as America's the great hope.
00:30:25.800 There's no place to go.
00:30:27.000 Where do you go
00:30:27.720 after this?
00:30:28.420 There's no place to go.
00:30:30.220 Senator,
00:30:30.760 what an incredible story
00:30:32.020 and especially
00:30:32.980 so timely
00:30:33.880 with what's happening
00:30:34.720 in Cuba
00:30:35.200 and in Venezuela
00:30:35.860 and in Iran
00:30:37.580 and just,
00:30:38.180 I hope it inspires others.
00:30:39.840 I hope people will share this.
00:30:41.360 Our thoughts
00:30:42.140 and our prayers
00:30:42.720 are with you
00:30:43.320 and your family.
00:30:44.300 But what an amazing legacy
00:30:45.680 that she has left behind.
00:30:47.540 Well,
00:30:48.060 she has left
00:30:48.900 an amazing legacy
00:30:49.880 including her daughter,
00:30:51.400 Bebe,
00:30:51.800 who is extraordinary.
00:30:52.960 She's like a sister to me.
00:30:55.020 Including me.
00:30:55.840 She impacted my life
00:30:57.100 in a very profound way.
00:30:59.140 I will tell you
00:31:00.060 a couple of weeks ago
00:31:01.000 I went up to see her.
00:31:02.300 She lived in Dallas.
00:31:03.200 I went up to see her
00:31:04.020 and brought Heidi
00:31:05.380 and the girls
00:31:05.880 and we saw her
00:31:06.800 in the hospital.
00:31:08.260 And she was
00:31:09.320 not fully conscious.
00:31:10.780 She was going
00:31:11.260 in and out
00:31:11.760 of consciousness.
00:31:13.340 But I told her,
00:31:14.860 I told her
00:31:15.680 that we got Maduro
00:31:17.140 and I told her
00:31:19.140 Cuba is next.
00:31:20.840 The Cuban
00:31:21.480 communist regime
00:31:22.960 is going to fall next.
00:31:25.020 And even kind of
00:31:26.040 coming in
00:31:26.660 and out of consciousness,
00:31:28.040 she smiled
00:31:29.140 the biggest smile.
00:31:31.900 And to have a chance
00:31:33.080 to tell her that
00:31:34.120 and for her to hear that
00:31:35.460 before she goes
00:31:36.680 to be with the Lord,
00:31:37.740 she is truly
00:31:38.840 a warrior for liberty.
00:31:40.260 Tia Sonia,
00:31:42.180 I love you.
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