99 Chinese Balloons plus NYC Invades Canada, Hunter Risks Contempt & Cuba Libre Street Signs

all the time and we just didn't know about it. Well, let me say, I feel like I'm at the circus. I'm just looking up in the sky and seeing balloon after balloon after balloon, and I don't know about you. You and I are filming this Sunday afternoon. Tonight's the Super Bowl. I'm made during the Super Bowl, just sitting in my backyard with a rifle and see if I can spot any balloons coming over your house? Right? You know, Holy cow, we're up to four now. So we had

starting two weeks ago, the Chinese by balloon. Number one that we know about, well, the number one that we know about because people in Montana looked in the sky and said, what in the hell is that? Yeah, and then suddenly it got on Twitter and got an NBC News and then the Biden administration is like, oh, yeah, that would be the Chinese by balloon that we were ignoring.

So that was number one. That one they shot down over the Atlantic off the coast of South Carolina after it traversed the entire continent of the United States, conducting espionage most of the way. The second one was one that we shot down over Alaska a few days ago. The third one was one we just shot down over Canada a couple of days ago. And the most recent one that you just just sighted, broke within the last

hour or so over Lake Huron. I don't know where precisely because they haven't given the details yet, but again, coming from the North and the Great Lakes, what's going on here? I would say several things are going on here. Number one, you asked, has this been happening for a while? Yes. Interesting. As I mentioned to you last week, I had a two hour classified briefing went into great detail. Much of

that detail I can't get into. What I can discuss is what is already publicly available publicly known, and the Chinese by balloon that we shot down a week ago was not the first. Why are we seeing so many of them now? I mean, that's that's the natural question, what the heck has happened? And I think it's a combination of several things. One of it is, frankly, we're looking for so we didn't used to have our assets are radar. We weren't looking for really high balloons coming

from the north. That was not our focus. We're looking for things like icbm as. We're looking for things like, you know, jet fighters, But we didn't necessarily have the radar arrays pointed in a direction to figure out what was happening. And so I think it is entirely possible that we missed a bunch of these. Wow, and these obviously are doing something for them, Otherwise they wouldn't be spending so much money in time and effort into putting them up in the air and steering them over the US.

So let's be clear. The one we shot down we know was a Chinese balloon. It was a large balloon. It had a payload that that was quite large, that that was the size of several school buses. It was big explain payload. You've been and a lot of people, I think are confused on what that means. Some people here payload and they immediately think that's weaponry. What does

that include. Payload does not mean in this case, bombs or missiles that you might think on a jet, the payloads of baying that this is a balloon, Think a hot air where you got the balloon up top and you got the basket down below. When I use the word payload, what I mean is the thing the balloon is dragging, got it. And in this case, the thing the balloon was dragging was was a big hunk of metal the size of several school buses, so it was large.

This is the first Chinese balloon. And when it was discovered, our military engaged and went up and looked at it, I mean took a close look at it. They're saying, first of all, they wanted to make sure that that it didn't pose an immediate danger. So they wanted to look at it to say, all, right, are there bombs and missiles on it? You could have a balloon with bombs and missiles that are that are prepared to destroy homes, kill people, And the military says they looked at it,

and it didn't appear to me that that's good. H that's a much more. You know, we've seen in prior wars balloons used to drop off dangerous weapons action in the Middle East, in Israel, we see the and they use balloons and they'll drop off in gasoline and fire bombs and and and it's a it's it's a in sometimes a cheaper way than a missile of causing harm. Causing harm. So by payload, I mean a bunch of stuff to conduct espionage. Now what the stuff is we

don't really know yet. We don't know exactly what was there. We can make reasonable inferences. We can reasonably assume they're cameras, high powered cameras that are designed to look down on the ground. Um, the first balloon was at about sixty thousand feet. That's a lot lower than satellites. Look, the Chinese have satellites, so they're taking pictures. And that was

the argument the White House made very clear. And they were trying to say, hey, this is a this is a balloon that is not that is doing basically the same thing as their spy program, their satellite there's space program. They were trying to say this is this is a redundant thing. I think clearly now that we're shooting these things over over Alaska, shooting this next one we just learned about. That was a liar missley in the American pete.

It was complete nonsense. And I mentioned in the last pod we did that when they said it at the briefing, it was a stick eye and several of us basically laughed at him. It was so obviously political spin off. Well, not that big a deal. Look, satellites are much higher, so typically the resolution you can get, presumably is not as strong. If you're at a sixty thousand foot altitude or forty thousand foot altitude, you're a lot closer. A satellite is also continuously moving, which means you have a

window that you can examine and then you move elsewhere. Sure, one of the things about a balloon you can hover over a military base, you can hover over where we have stealth jets, you can hover over nuclear missile silos, and you can hover for some real time and take extended pictures, extended video. And that's what people didn't understand. And I think everybody's trying to get caught up to speed. Here is a lot of people thought they launch a

balloon and it just flies to the wind. Right you launch it, you know where the jet stream as you know which way. This was a balloon that had steering where you could basically hit the pause button over an area you wanted it to be, and then you once you got whatever it is you wanted, you could then redirect it to the next place you wanted to stop and take pictures or do whatever it was doing. And

its path demonstrated it was clearly maneuverable. It wasn't just wandering over some it you hope it gets you close to where you wanted it to go. It wasn't just sitting over a scarecrow in the middle of a cornfield. It was just just miraculously going from one military base to the next military base to the next military base. And there were obvious national security concerns all along the way. The path it traveled was not accidental. So you have the capacity to be a lot closer than you are

with a satellite. You have the capacity to be stationary and stationary for an extended period of time, so you can take pictures, presumably possibly you can take video. I'm speculating they didn't tell us in the briefing. This is me speculating. You also presumably have the capacity to try to engage in interception, to intercept phone calls, to intercept Wi Fi, to intercept countless things, radio, whatever communications are

happening beneath you. You got to assume in the big spy package they got there, they've got gadgets that are designed to try to intercept whatever's going on. The Trudeau got involved with us with Nora Ad and before I put up his tweet, I want to remind people about one of our sponsors. If you've got a cell phone, and you've got a cell phone with big tech, there's a company that you should take a look at and

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slash Verdict Center. There's also something that was interesting in Trudeau and I want I want you to look at this tweet that he put out and it says there I ordered the takedown of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace. Nor AD Command shot down the object over the Yukon. The Canadian and US aircraft were scrambled and a US F point two successfully fired at the objects. He said they didn't spoke with President Biden in the afternoon.

He said, Canadian forces will now recover and analyze the wreckage of this object. Thank you to NOD for keeping watch over North America. All right, let's do it dive real quick in the NORAD. How does this agreement work? It's weird to see Canada order the shooting down of an object and then America do it on their behalf. Ye do they pay that bill? Do we pay that bill? And he says, now NORAD is going to be looking over all this. Are they basically now our brothers in

this fight against these unidentified objects. So the way the military structure, you've got Northcom, which is the Northern Command that is protecting North America, and then you've got nora AD that is engaged in watching what's happened in the skies, whether from planes or missiles or other aerial attacks that could be coming in to North America. In both instances, North COMMONORAD we work very closely closely. We work seamlessly with the Canadians. We are blessed to have a very

strong ally to our north. We don't always agree on economic or cultural matters, but on defending North America, we are lockstep. That is a great blessing to the United States. Why, if God forbid we ever come to World War three, if God forbid we come to a nuclear weapon, the most likely pass for missiles to travel that are going to hit the United States are going up over the

North Pole and down over Canada. And so Canada has a huge chunk of the airspace right above us, which in the event of a serious war, that's where the pass get. And it's because the Earth is curved, it's actually shorter to go from China or Russia over the North poland down to US that it would be to around that. If you're looking at a flat map, that doesn't make any sense, but when you think of the curvature of a ball, it's a shorter path. And so it is very much in the United States's interest to

be closely intertwined with Canada. And it's also in Canada's interest. Obviously we're much bigger country with a much stronger military, and so they are quite glad to have the US military protecting them. Now, why did Justin Trudeau give the order? Because it was over Canadian airspace and so we don't almost giving a blessing. Hey, whoever gets there first of America, you can get their first, knock this thing out of the sky. So we don't make it a practice of

shooting down anything over someone else's airspace. That every country has a right to their own airspace. You think of the first Chinese balloon that we had, when Biden should have shot it down was when it entered US airspace. We don't have to ask anyone's permission. If it enters US airspace, we can shoot the damn thing down over Canada.

And remember that first Chinese spy balloon entered Alaskan airspace, was there a couple of days, and then it went into Canada and it was there a couple of days, and then it came down in the United States over Idaho, Montana, and it kept working south and east across the United States. So for the first balloon, we asked the administration multiple times, why didn't you shoot it down over Alaska? They gave lots of spins about well, this and that and this

and the other. One of the things they finally admitted is, yeah, Joe Biden didn't even know about it. Like the whole time it was in Alaska. We didn't bother to tell the commander in chief. He had no idea that we were just sitting there with a Chinese balloon surveilling us. So Biden finds out after it's left Alaska airspace. That's what they and that's taking politics out of it. That's good to know, because it's important that the fact they

didn't even tell the president is that normal? Was that normal? How this would work under Trump when he was in office. Well, we didn't have this happen under Trump. So one of the things, and we talked about this in a prior podcastle let me be clear. What we didn't have happened is a Chinese surveillance balloon that we knew about and that the senior officials were informed about. So you'll recall

we talked about this in the last pod. When the first Chinese balloon incident happened a couple of weeks ago, the Biden administration went out and tried to spend reporters and said, well, this happened three times under Trump, while deliberately not telling the reporters. Yeah, but you know, no senior officials knew about it. Trump didn't know about a Secretary of Defense didn't know about a Secretary State didn't

know about it. Like it was almost after the fact they went back and look it down and said, oh wait, that's what that was. So it's very different. In this instance. The Biden administration knew the incident happened. In fact, they knew before it was happening. They were tracking it even before it crossed into the US airspace. They just didn't bother to inform the commander in chief. They informed the commander in chief. And this is all based on what

they publicly disclosed after it had left Alaskan airspace. We asked, why didn't you shoot it down over Canada? And they said, well, gosh, you know, shoot it down over Canada. You know it might hit population, very dangerous. Blah blah blah blah blah blah. Finally, they let it complete all of its espionage all over the United States until it exited to the Atlantic. They shot it down over the Atlantic. What's changed, Well, we've

seen now three shot shot down in a row. The biggest thing that's changed is I think they had so much egg on their face for sitting there for over a week and doing nothing that they finally grew a pair and said we have to do that, and said we're gonna shoot him down. And let me say this, even look at the president. The president units it's America is now rewriting history, flexing his muscles. He was asked at the White House about shooting this last one. It's like, oh,

this is this is just what I do. Look at this the object shot down dent success. Well, let me do something I don't do very often on this podcast, which is praised Joe Biden. The reaction to the first balloon was incredibly weak and ineffective. But the second, third, and fourth one, thank god, Like, this is exactly what you should be doing. If you're flying over our airspace,

We're gonna shoot you down. I'm glad of that. It took a while, they had to get embarrassed and shamed into it, but they to the right outcome and and and so that's good. I am glad of that. This is an deterrent. Now as we're sitting here today at Sunday afternoon, we don't know if the three subsequent ones, we don't know if they were Chinese, we don't know if they were spy satellites, if they were spy They weren't satellites, they were too low to be satellites, but

we don't know if they were balloons. I assume next week we will have another classified briefing. If we're not, I'm going to press very hard for one. So the last classified briefing I had, we only had the first one. There have been three more since then, so I have not received a classified briefing. Yeah, at this point, surely they'd say we need to give you an update. I

certainly I expect that they will. I mean we a week ago when we were doing the podcast, I said, listen, I think it's very likely we'll have a classified briefing. Everyone's going to want to know. I think it's likely next week we'll have another. One obvious question on these three that have been shot down in the past few days, were they Chinese or they balloons? Where they did they

have a similar payload of spy equipment. I don't know the answer to any of that, because what I know on those three is what you can read in newspapers. What they are saying is the three that were shot down were at forty thousand feet instead of sixty thousand feet. And here's why that's relevant. The Biden administration had a couple of spins on why it didn't shoot down balloon number one. One of the spins was, well, it was up at sixty thousand feet, which means it's not a

risk commercial air traffic. And in fact, as a sort of throwaway that line, they said, if it were forty thousand feet where there's commercial air traffic, we would have shot it down. That gives them a fig leaf to say these were down at forty thousand feet and so they shot them down. We had no choice because it was where commercial airlinns fly. Even the White House tried to act like and you can see they're still trying to figure out how to back pedal on the embarrassment.

The last one, they had this White House briefing. The media's clearly not buying their bs on this, and they said, well, these balloons are different. Ones the size of a car, ones the size of a bus. Take a look at this. I can tell you that the President doesn't regret the way that we handled the first balloon that time. We first of all apples and oranges here in terms of size.

As I said, this was size of a small car, and it was over a very sparsely populated area, but also more critically over it was over water water space. When we ordered this down as we did as we did the last one, but completely different size and the debris field for this we expect to be much much smaller than would have been for the other one. That's difference one. Difference two. We knew for a fact that the PRC balloon that we shot down last week was

in fact a surveillance asset, So size matters. The lighthouse is telling you, now, that's what they're saying. If it's small, well we might shoot it down. If it's big, it may be different. And if it's over a water area. This is a very weird way of putting this. Look,

I'm going to leave that alone. But but what I will say, so Kirby starts off there with a statement that is demonstrably false and laughable, which is, Oh, Biden doesn't regret regret not shooting the first one down as he sat there over a week, looking week and impotent while it engaged in espionage all over the United States. Obviously they regret it. They realize now he didn't know about it because no one told him about it. Sure,

but it was a screw up. It was just when he did find out he had an opportunity shoot down earlier and he didn't. But to their credit, they learned the lesson. And remember one of their defenses as to why they didn't shoot it down before as well, it was overland, very sparsely populated land, but overland, well, these were two and there were periods where it was over water where they could have shot it down as well. Look, they learned the lesson. I'll give him credit for that.

I don't know. Listen, a payload the size of several school buses is pretty different from the payload of the size of a small car. I don't know what these were. I assume they were spies, like spy equipment, but I don't know that presumably, So with all of these, we've got salvage to teams that are going to go try to find, Okay, what was this thing we just shot down, and we'll figure out what it is? A question I

don't know sitting here right now. I mean, we've seen four in just a few days, where they're always this many of them. That's yes, number one or number two. Did the Biden weakness on balloon number one caused China or someone else to say, let's put a bunch up there and see what happens. I don't know. I have to admit hypotheses number two I'm a little bit skeptical of, just because I'd be surprised if they could execute it

that quickly. If we saw a bunch coming a month, I would see it as a more likely hypothesis that the weakness was provocative and caused this. But I don't know. I don't have the technical knowledge to know whether these could be put in the airspace in twenty four hours. It's a very short time frame. So if and when we have the classified briefing, I expect to ask these questions because I think they're good questions, and sitting here

right now, I don't know the answers to them. We've heard China last question on this, but it's one I think people want to know. And we hear this and it's China, China, China. Is there a real possibility that there are other bad actors in the world that have the same capabilities that could have been pulling this off? And I go back to what we learned after nine to eleven. We had a lot of vulnerabilities that we

didn't even see. Is this one of those kind of new vulnerabilities that maybe we didn't even know we had until recently when a guy in Montana saw in the sky. Is it possible that this big of a vulnerability could happen with all the money we spend on surveillance everything else where. Now it's just like, oh, we're waking up to this. So I think that's possible. You know, our military part of the reason they say people spotted it over Montanas that we knew it was there and we

were engaging with it. So they did, among other things, they halted airspace over Montana and that got a lot of attention. And so that's part of their argument. Now, as we pointed out in this podcast before, Look, I don't think Biden would have acted if it hadn't gone public, if it hadn't gotten on Twitter, if it hadn't gotten an NBC News. I think they would have let this balloon go all over the United States and never said a word, never told anybody about it, and kept it

a secret. So it is only because people noticed it that they got guilted and shamed into acting. In terms of could it be other actors. My guess is it's likely China. If you look at the combination of military technology, economic resources, and hostile intent, all three of those are most heavily concentrated in China. Look, could it conceivably be Russia? Possibly? Are there other bad actors a North Korea and Iran that would want to do this? Yes, I'm less confident

they have the capability. North Korea money off. North Korea has put satellites, and they put satellites that have crossed the United States multiple times. So I don't know if it's impossible that North Korea is trying this. Also, it does seem make such a securely speculating here, So I want to put that marker down that I know nothing on that question other than what I've read in the paper and then just speculating. Canada had a very interesting week.

They're heavily involved in this story. Then another story pops up. It's gonna be I think now clearly a rift between Canada the US. You have illegal immigrants and are now getting one way tickets to wherever they want to go. That's how they're spinning at New York City. For all the illegals that have been many of them bust there and others have just shown up, and a lot of them have been going to Canada. Now, Canada doesn't like it. They don't like this idea that all these illegal immigrants

are coming into their country. The Mayor of New York City is like, we're tired of dealing with him right there their sanctuary city. Look at what he had to say on TV. Those who are seeking to go somewhere else, not we're pushing or forcing. If they're seeking to go somewhere else. We are helping in the reticketing process of what we found that people had other destinations, but they would be compelled only to come to New York City. And we are assisting an interviewing those who seek to

go somewhere else. Someone want to go to Canada, someone wants to go to warmer states, and we are there for them as they continue to move on with they pursue up this dream. I wish reticketing center was this easy. When I'm doing it with the aero lines, when I get a flight that's canceled. I love how he's like,

it's like they're a travel agency in New York. Now, So I want you to be clear that is a liberal Democrat, yeah, who proudly proclaims New York City a sanctuary city, a loving, welcoming sanctuary city, who says that all the Republicans concerned about illegal immigration are mean, evil, racist bigots, that it's terrible, it's heartless. And then when Texas began sending illegal aliens to New York City, suddenly he lost his lunch. He has been freaking out, demanding

federal dollars, demanding federal dollars, declaring, it's a crisis. We've had five point five million people cross illegally since Joe Biden became president, most of them in the state of Texas. A few thousand go to New York City, and he's practically reduced to a puddle of tears Martha's vineyard. Never don't forget that they brought in fifty and they actually called up more National Guardsmen to come deal with fifty than the number of illegal immigrants that were shipped there.

So now the liberal Democrat mayor of New York City is buying bus tickets and plane tickets to send illegal immigrants in New York to Canada and send them by the hundreds. And by the way, he's paying New York City tax dollars to transport them out, to say, get them the heck out of our city. Cheap earth in the hotels they've been putting them in, and it is fairly amazing. You know, Mayor Adams, I think as presidential aspirations, he's not in the top tier of Democrats, but he's

looking at it. He's looking at it. He's ambitious. So you can see as he's talking there to the reporters, he's trying to walk the sort of fine line of Oh, we want them all here, but here's the ticket, please leave, please leave. And what's funny is like he's he's you know, some of the people they're sending or people like from Venezuela. I gotta say, sending someone from Venezuela to Canada. The

first winner they hit, Holy caw. That's a that's a wake up and I will you know, as you know, I was born in Canada and Calgary, and my parents are the oil and gas business, and I came down to Texas when I was four. My mom was American, my dad was Cuban. I was an American citizen by birth, but I came to America when I was four. And there are a lot of liberals who are still pissed at Canada and our poorous border for letting me in. And so maybe this is the revenge is the mayor

of New York City circle right? You know you didn't keep cruise in Canada, so we want to send all of our illegal aliens to Canada. And what is interesting is listen, Justin Trudeau and the Canadians have all of this rhetoric about how we love illegal immigrants too, and their view is changing as knowing that they're going to change the way they did immigration with the United States of America and how they're going to secure their border if they do that, there's a high level of partners.

There's an old line that a conservative is a liberal who got mugged. And what is fascinating is all of these lefties love illegal immigration until it shows up on the door of their country club, and then they lose their minds. Governor Abbott, I know you've known him for years. You guys have worked together, a close friend. He took a lot of heat when he started busting illegal immigrants

to Washington. See when they into New York City, to Martha's Vineyard and I, and they said it was a stunt and it was mean spirit, and I said, it's not a stunt. It's brilliant to let the left understand what we're dealing with on a very very small scale,

Like you said, five million plus crossings in Texas. You look at the numbers under this administration, they've hit every record basically you can hit on the number of legals come across, the number of legals caught, the number of legals that are apprehended, the number of illegals that have criminal records that are caught. They've blown every record out of the water. Is there a tide do you think

turning in this country in general on this issue? Finally? Oh, look, I think it's an issue the American people are overwhelmingly unhappy with the chaos at the southern border South Texas. They're incredibly unhappy. It's an issue that if you look to the substance, the Democrats can't defend. Their only defense

is hoping the media ignores it. And I do think there are some Democrats who realize that it's dangerous for them politically, But I think the reality is they've handed their agenda over to the extremes and the extremes on this issue want open borders. They look at every one of those people coming in as a Democrat voter and they want them all in. And so I wish I were optimistic that things are going to get better in

the next two years, and I'm not. I think this administration is going to continue to do everything they can, not just to fail to secure the border, but to speed up illegal immigration, to facilitate it, to act as the last mine. I look, Joe Biden is the biggest human trafficker in the world. And I said that a couple of weeks ago on a TV show and got it made a bunch of press statements. But listen, that's

not political rhetoric. That is an objective fact. There is no human being on planet Earth who has trafficked more people, more children, more women, more people who are vulnerable than Joseph Robinette, Biden Junior and the cartels who are making billions. They bring people across the Rio Grand they drop them off to the Biden administration, and the Biden administration is

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that's Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden has gone on offense. We talked about that in one of our earlier podcasts. He's setting out these letters saying I might be suing you, and you might want to keep all your records to all these Republicans, acting like he's going on offense here. The media obviously lap that up. Then you have people asking the question now about this administration, how compromised are

they by China because the family's business deals. There's new polling out that says there was sixty four percent of Americans believe that Joe Biden's involved with his son's business dealings and it could put them in a negative, basically place when it comes to doing his job as a president. Now, you look at all that, and we still haven't had a present walkout telling or demanding, are calling out China directly. You better stop seeing these Dan balloons. So you now

have the House looking into all this. When you see all these different areas coming together, how big of a deal do you think the story can become? Well, look, if sixty four percent of Americans believe Joe Biden was involved in his son's business dealings, then thirty six percent of Americans either aren't paying attention or are such partisans that they refuse to knowledge facts because it is screamingly obvious that Joe Biden was involved and quite possibly deeply

involved in Hunter's business dealings. Hunter's business, I believe was selling access to his dad, and it was a very lucrative business. Now, I will say the whole investigation in the Hunter Biden has taken an interesting turn because we talked about the last podcast how Hunters lawyers getting very aggressive, is after Republicans, going after everyone he perceives his opponents.

They also took an odd stance. So the House Oversight Committee, James Kohmer is the chairman of it, sent a request to documents to Hunter Biden for a whole series of documents that they're examining, and Hunter's lawyer wrote back and essentially said, go jump in a lake. Screw you, We're not doing it. You don't get no frigging documents for me, and it's across the board. It's just hell no. I think that was a really stupid move for Hunter Biden's

legal team. It's stupid politically and it's stupid legally. Why what's going to happen next? What's going to happen next? And I think this will be in a matter of days, if not weeks. Is you're going to see the House Oversight Committee subpoena those documents. And if and when Hunter Biden defies the subpoena, which is what he said he's going to do, I think you will see the House

of Representatives hold Hunter Biden in contempt. And the reason that is I think such a massive strategic mistake on their part is during the prior administration, when the House subpoenaed Steve Bannon, and Steve Bannon refused to comply and the House held him in contempt. What happened The Department of Justice prosecuted Steve Bannon for that contempt, arrested him, arrested him, prosecuted, and brought criminal charges. What Hunter Biden's legal team is setting up for is the same thing

to happen to Hunter Biden. And if you're Merrick Garland, how the hell do you explain? Well, when Steve Bannon defies a congressional subpoena, it's a criminal offense that I'm trying to put him in jail for. But when Hunter Biden does it, never mind, nothing to see here. Even as political, even as double standard as the Biden DOJ

has been, that's an impossible position. And so I think Hunter's team would have been better to say, we're happy to cooperate and with reasonable requests, will comply, and we may have some disagreements over scope, and we may go back and forth, like that's your fifteen documents. You may not get fifteen hundred, right, but at least look like you're trying to comply to spend. Yeah, if your opening bid is screw you, yeah, that tends to escalate pretty quickly.

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This is pretty interesting. No one's talking about the media, so let's talk about why this matters and why you're working on this. Sure. So as wald Upaya was a democracy activists in Cuba. He is a hero. He was someone who stood up against the Castro regime. He had incredible courage. He spoke up for human rights, he spoke up for free speech, he spoke up for democracy, and

he was murdered. He was murdered by the Castro communist July twenty, twenty twelve, there was a very suspicious car crash where outside observers it seems clear the Cuban police basically drove his car off the off the road and killed him. Wow. I've met multiple times with his daughter, Rosa Maria and one of the things that I've done is I've filed legislation to rename the street in Washington, d C. In front of the Cuban Embassy Oswaldo Paya Way. Now,

a couple of things are interesting on this one. Oddly enough, in the last ten years, I've actually had a strange body of work, legislative work and legislative success on street namings. Now, how is that. Let me go back to the first one. The first one that happened was when you're by the way when you Reinforsted. I'm sure you never thought that was going to be something one would work on ithim to be very successful one. Well, so the first one

that happened, You're right, I would not have thought. That was back about eight years ago. I think it was twenty fourteen and I was dealing with China and I introduced legislation to rename the street in front of the Chinese embassy Lujabo Plaza. Lujabo was a Nobel Peace Laureate, was a democracy activist in China. He was wrongfully imprisoned in China, and my legislation was to rename the street in front of him. I actually got the idea this was not Maybe it was a hairbrained idea, but it

was hairbrained. It was not my hairbrained idea. It was actually Ronald Reagan's hairbrained idea. So during the Cold War, Reagan renamed the street in front of the Soviet embassy Sakarov Plaza, after the famed human rights and dissident Sakarov in the Soviet Union, and it was it was part of a broader strategy of winning the Cold War, of calling out the evil Empire. My strategy was the same on China. And look, on some level you might think, all right, a street name, it's not that big a deal,

But then pause and think about it. If you change the street name, it means anyone who wants to write to the Chinese embassy has to write to that address, has to write lu Java Plaza. So you have to acknowledge that lu Java exists, that this dissident, this nobel laureate who's been wrongfully in prison, that he is real. You know, you've got someone who wants to go find the embassy. You got to go on Google or map

quest and look for it. You get the address, or if you have a meeting there, you know the website, the Chinese website. If they want to put their damn address, they have to acknowledge the name of the dissident. It's why, It's why Reagan did it. It's powerful. So what happened with lu jabal Plaza is I introduced legislation. I went to the Senate floor and sought to pass it by unanimous consent. Diane Feinstein stood up and objected, and we

had a debate on the Senate floor. And Di Fi, by the way, everyone calls her Difi's that's the nickname she has. Difi stood up. She said, you don't understand this. This will make the Chinese government angry. And I laughed. I said, no, no, I actually I do understand. That's a feature, not a bug. That is the objective is to force them to confront they're horrific evil. Well, she objected. I tried it again, tried to pass about unanimous consent.

She objected again. And so what I did, and this is now twenty fifteen, is I put a hold on every state department nominee, stopped them all. The Obama administration was freaking out because they wanted their state department nominees to move forward. I had holds on all of them. They came to me. They said, how can we get you to lift the holds. I said, very easy, get Difi to lift or hold pass my bill. They said no, no, no no, no, we don't want to do that. I said, okay.

They said, how about't we just pass a resolution, this non binding. I said, no, pass my bill. Finally they blinked. The Obama White House went to Diane Feinstein, leaned on her, got her to withdraw her objection. So my legislation passes the Senate one hundred to nothing, unanimously passes. I'd say, I didn't think anyone would be on the wrong side of that. So two epilogues to that story. Epilogue number one. Did it pass into law? No? Why? Maddeningly because the

Republican House of Representatives wouldn't take it up and pass it. Wow. We passed it through a Democrat Senate, but the Republican House wouldn't take it up. It was infuriating, so it didn't pass. And I will say I had some harsh words for the Republicans involved in not taking it up at the House at the time that I expressed very directly to them. But the second epilog, and this is

very interesting beginning of the Trump administration. Twenty seventeen. I'm having breakfast with Rex Tillers in the new Secretary of State. I'm at foggy bottom in the State Department, and we're talking about a whole host of issues, and we're talking about China. And he said that he had just had a meeting with his counterpart, the foreign minister in China. And he said they came and they said they had three top priorities at the time, foreign policy priorities. And

he said, ted is the damnedest thing. One of their top three priorities is to stop you from passing your legislation to rename the street in front of their embassy. He's like, I think it's idiotic, but that's what they list. And I laughed. I thought it actually speaks volumes about the weakness of a tyrannical regime, just how vulnerable they are to sunshine, to being called out. But what I told Rex at the time, I said, I'll tell you what.

So at the time, Luja Beau had passed away, he was no longer alive, but his widow, lu Shah was still in China. They wouldn't let her go. And actually, Lucia Bou was entitled to I think it's like one point four million dollars for winning the Nobel Peace Prize as a cash prize that comes with it. They'd never gotten it because they wouldn't let him out of China. Wow. So I told Rex, I said, I'll tell you what you tell China if they release Lucia, if they let

her leave, I'll stop pushing this. And I said, make me the bad guy, but you tell them. If they don't, I'm going to keep pushing it, I'm going to pass it and get it done. And I said, listen, I've already passed the Senate one hundred and nothing once and so you can let them know I'll get it done this time, and they're going to see this law pass in the law and the sign changed. A couple of weeks later, they released Lucia. So the streets Sign literally

resulted in freeing a prominent democracy producy. Yeah. So that's street Sign Legislative Portfolio number one. Here's Legislative Portfolio number two. Do you ever see the movie Hidden Figures? Oh? Yeah, awesome, fabulous movie. Yeah. Hidden Figures is about the African American women who worked at NASA, who if you've never seen the movie, everybody should watch. It's unbelievable, true story. It's a true story. They're mathematicians who help help NASA go

to the moon. And so I took I took Heidie to see it. I took both our daughters to see it, and I took my mother to see it. So all of them we went in Houston together to the theater to see it. And afterwards I was talking with my girls and it was an interesting interesting time. Number one, so first time they'd seen a movie that showed segregation.

Like there's a great scene where you know, they had tragically segregated bathrooms and Kevin Costner gets a sledgehammer and slams down and knocks down the sign that says color restrooms, knocks it down and it's and I remember my girls were like so puzzled, Why would why would we do that.

We had a very good, long conversation about the tragic history of segregation, but they'd never seen it depicted the movie, But we were also talking about So my mother, she came out of Rice in nineteen fifty six and she went to work at Shell as a computer programmer. She was a mathematician, a computer programmer, but then she went

to work at the Smithsonian. And the opening scene of the movie Hidden Figures, they're computing the trajectory of Sputnik, the Russian satellite launched that started the whole space race. When my mother was at the Smithsonian, one of her job responsibilities was writing the computer program or helping write the computer program to track the orbit of Sputnik. Wow. And so I told our girls, I said, Mimi, They

called my mom Mimi. I said, Mimi was was one of those pioneering mathematicians and computer programmers, and she was actually doing it ten years earlier. She was doing it in the fifties, whereas the movie said in the sixties. So it's ten years later. And I asked my mom, I said, okay, how realistic was the movie like? Like? And she thought it was very realistic, just sort of the challenges women faced in that era in science and

computers and math. And I told her, I said, you know, Mom, one of the things that I thought sounded weird just to the modern ear was they referred to these women as as computers. Yeah, and we think of a computer as a hunk of metal. They were actually the women. It was a job of profession, a computing of the numbers, and my mother laughed. Her very first job title at Shell was computer and she had a business card that

said eleanor Dara Computer. And so it's for years. I was the chairman of the Space Subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee, and so I'm very active in space. I passed a lot of space legislation. So I introduced legislation to rename the street in front of NASA headquarters Hidden Figures Way. That's awesome. Now it gets even more interesting.

I introduced the legislation, and oddly enough, a Democrat member of the DC City Council sees my legislation and thinks this is a really good idea, so he introduces it in the DC City Council. The City Council passes it, and so if you go today to the NASA headquarters, it is on one Hidden Figure's Way. And I have in my office the streets sign, the actual street sign, another a replica copy of it. But I went to

the dedication and I spoke at the dedication. The dedication, the DC City Council members of Democrat spoke and I spoke, I talked about my mom, and I said, look, on one level, you might think of KA street sign not that big a deal. But at another level, fifty years from now, one hundred years from now, some little girls, some little boy is going to come to DC, is going to want to see the NASA headquarters and they're gonna look up and see the sign. I'm gonna say,

what is that? What is hidden figures what is? And they're going to hear the story of these heroes, these African American women who never got recognized in history, who did something historic. So that is done and accomplished, which leads us back to where we started this whole thing, which is Oswaldo Payahweh. So I introduced that legislation last Congress, and much like Lujabau, it passed the Senate one hundred to nothing. So it's bipartisan legislation. Bob Menendez, Democrat from

New Jersey, Cuban American, he's joined with me. So it's the Cruise Menendez legislation. It passed the Senate one hundred to nothing. In the last Congress. It was a Democrat Congress. We couldn't get the House to pass it. I've got real optimism number one, Bob, and are going to pass it again in the Senate. I believe we did it last Congress, so I think it's quite likely, and I think there's a very good chance the House will pass

at this time too. I hope. I hope too. Just like I was at NASA for the dedication, I hope to be at the Cuban Embassy, which I've never been to in DC. I'm not a fan of the Cuban government, but I will happily attend the dedication of the street sign so that every day those communist bastards go into work can look at us Waldo Paya and have to confront the courage of standing up for freedom. It's such a cool story. Keep us update on it. I love the history aspect of that. Don't forget. We do the

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