i think leahy was. >> i'm going to go with bob mendez of new jersey or jeff flake of arizona. >> you ning towards mendez. weren't you leaning towards mendez? >> i'm going to stick with bob mendez of new jersey. >> steve what's the right answer. >> let's check wednesday's show. >> a bipartisan group of lawmakers who flew to cuba today. you see there chris van hollan, joined by pat leahy, deeply involved in trying to get alan gross freed. but they were also joined by republican senator jeff flake of arizona. >> that leaves bob menendez and krista is 1 for 2. >> i will take the top part of the cocktail shaker if you win with that one. one more question, one more chance. one of the spy stories that ended up in this week's news because of the cuba bombshell on wednesday, one of those spy stories that was fascinating was the story of anna montez. we talked about her on wednesday and thursday's show. she had a high-ranking job with the pentagon but was secretly a cuban spy. which is not known to be one of the spy techniques that she used to evade detection. a, passing invest between shopping

was it senator pat leahy of vermont, b, senator jeff flake of arizona, c, bob mendez, or d chris vanf maryland. >> was not on the plane? >> three of those members were with alan gross, but one of them wasn't. and i should tell you, the one who wasn't really doesn't like what president obama just did about cuba. >> that's what i was thinking. i think leahy was. >> i'm going to go with bob mendez of new jersey or jeff flake of arizona. >> you were leaning towards menendez. >> i'm going to stick with bob mendez of new jersey. >> steve what's the right answer. >> let's check wednesday's show. >> a bipartisan group of lawmakers who flew to cuba today to bring allen gross home, you see at the end of the table, you see there chris van hollan, joined by pat leahy, deeply involved in trying to get alan gross freed. but they were also joined by republican senator jeff flake of arizona. >> that leaves bob menendez and krista is 1 for 2. >> i will take the top part of the cocktail shaker if you win with that one. one more question, one more chance. one of the spy stories that ended up in this we

bob mendez cuban american slamming the president for releasing spies in exchange for american bob grossne spy was convicted of conspiracy to murder for his role in the 1996 tragedy in which he gave information to the castro regime that ultimately led to the castro regime shooting down innocent civilians planes in which several americans lost their lives. >> i should have said allen gross. i apologize for that. their faces adorn murals and stamps. the men were agents working to stop ter ror attacks. they were convicted of espionage in 2001. ment accused boston marathon bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev is due in court. it is his first public appearance in more than a year and a half. tsarnaev could face the death penalty if convicted in the 2013 bombing that killed three people and injured 250 others. he has pleaded not guilty. >>> a major pot bust on the southern border. u.s. border patrol ceasing 207 pounds of marijuana picked up in a pickup truck. the smugglers hiding the drugs with a black sheet and other debris. one american two mexicans were caught on the run. the border at that tipatrol sa

on that vote i already have 17 democrats with me including leading lights like chuck shimmer and bob mendezake a veto on iran. >> if does he have votes and they're on record saying they want to see these tough new sanctions against iran, that puts this president into a very tough position. >> well, if he negotiates everything away the way he has everything else, yes, and it would be a good thing to be able to exercise thro veto a way to restrain a president unbound who now wants to fulfill sort of these adolescent faculty club fantasies about remaking the world by appeasing our allies. the example of cuba is so shocking. here is a weak, insignificant country, economically in desperation. obama negotiates and gives castro everything he wants gets nothing in return. compare this with the mid-'70s when the soviets were at the apogy of their power and yet nixon and kissinger were able to negotiate a kind of detante which at least we got in return in return for recognizing soviet con quests in eastern europe, at least we got in return the helsinke accords which gave us tremendous leverage in the

. >> it's probably both in bob mendez's case. not being consulted, being blindsided. >> can he claim he was blindsided. can he claim he was blindsided. >> if he was not consulted and he's there on the foreign relations, i think he was. blindsided. what marco rubio said is what a lot of people have been saying about president barack obama since he was elected in terms of being a negotiator. in this case what this version - we gave it away and you give it all away to the castro brothers, that's bad news. >> is it giving it away when the same policies - they haven't changed anything. >> this is a great little couple of days for the conspiracy theoristment the oouper conservatives out there, who would love to have everyone believe that president obama is a communist in moderate clothing. for poem who - there are people who believe that to an extent president obama agrees with a marxist social. this is red meat. it might have been the bump marco rubio was looking to tweet. >> i got back from miami two days ago, and we were seeing a lo

. >> most politicians to understand cuba like senator bob mann mendez or bob graham have said they wouldckly. charles: this plays into your editorial where you criticize the democrats for being what you call the new stupid party. keystone is one of your examples. also this thing with andrew cuomo banning fracking. i cannot believe they have done this. does he get the todd make an award? >> the democrats keep going in that direction. the green party has captured the democratic party in no small part because big time green donors like tom styron give them millions of dollars but as a result they will not -- barack obama can do a deal with fidel castro but he cannot do a deal over the keystone pipeline which would have employed tens of thousands of private-sector union workers. as a result of not approving keystone the international labour union which has 500,000 members has denounced the democratic party. the parties it keeps doing that is to. rich: said cheaper stimulus funded with taxpayer dollars but how will -- now we have senator elizabeth warren leading the charge. people have told m

mendez and rubio. >> i support it. marco rubio and bob menendez from new jersey. it's a step in the right direction. we have to come in to the 21st century. cuba has been propped up by venezuela. now venezuela is in economic cardiac arrest. cuba has been propped up by russia. they are in the same kind of economic distress. and, therefore, cuba is out there. it's a moment in time that things can change. and i want to see if they will bring freedom to the cuban people. listening now and saying you're making my point. venezuela is not there for them, the russians are not there for them, this is the time when raul and fidel and the entire communist regime might collapse and the people might get their country back. it's been 50 years but couldn't we wait another minute? i'm sure some are saying exactly that. >> well it's that moment in time that we couldn't wait another minute for the life of alan gross and a lot of people interceding. you heard about the pope and that is true. you perhaps have heard about the president of haiti. that is true. so it was that moment in