1 million peasants jammed the square before cuba's national capital in response to the call of fidel castrothe sixth anniversary of his 26th july revolutionary movement. it is perhaps the greatest mass rally ever staged in the western hemisphere. a telling demonstration of castro's sway over the cuban masses. the unpredictable castro dons a baseball uniform to pitch a full inning in a benefit game. his new president tosses the first ball, and the game is on. castro pitching is credited with striking out the three batters he faces. this one game the ump really has to be careful. viva, fidel! ♪♪ in havana, deputy premiere opens a counterpart to the recent soviet fair in new york city. of more significance is the presence of premiere fidel castro at these opening ceremonies. his one-week visit and affair are part of a broad program to woo the good will of castro and cuba. while he was boosting russian and military achievements, havana's intelligencia led the orchestra. december might demonstrations, the soviet may have made real progress toward building up trade and re-establishing diplomatic

allied with the soviet union and china. >> from his stronghold in the wild sierra mountains, cuba's fidel castro emerged triumphant after two years of guerrilla warfare against the bautista regime. the revolution that began with castro a fugitive, practically alone landing with 82 followers, nearly wiped out by government forces and did with the fighting viktor bader and the entry into havana of rebel forces to be a claimed by the city. the forces of castro's 26th of july movement name for the anniversary of his first attack on the regime in 1953 have grown vastly. the power in largely concert by surrendered army weapons. nearly two years of hit and run warfare aimed at toppling bautista's government by paralyzing cuba's economy, culminated victory as 1958 and it. castro man in all of government offensive with a counterattack and in the battle for the key rail center of santa clara on the crucial victory. bautista resigned, and fled the country. he's rejoicing in the capital, as the first elements of rebel forces entered havana. . i first, the celebration was peaceful as shouting, cheering crowd

castro. they have only one thing in common. they want to overthrow fidel. the cia's problem is to find a way to unify them. [ speaking foreign language ] >> translator: the people of cuba will overthrow castro. normally the people are the ones who overthrow dictatorships. >> the announcement of the formation does not receive the expected attention. the summer of 1960 is a bad time for the united states. other events occupy the headlines. a u-2 shot down over the soviet union. nikita khrushchev in paris insulting the president of the united states. it is at this moment that the soviet tanker "peking" slipped into havana harbor, carrying a cargo of crude oil, setting off a chain reaction. castro orders american companies to refine the soviet oil. they refuse and castro seizes the refineries, offering no reparations. over angry cuban protests, the united states retaliates by cutting off imports of cuban sugar. castro seizes more united states property. now in the summer of 1960, the united states and cuba have reached the point of no return. in washington the e

and september, 1960, it has become a serious threat to fidel castro. he comes to the escambia high to take personal command of the military operation, but resistance continues late in september. [noise] late in september, castro leaves the afghan brian comes to new york. he is an uninvited guest. he will attend the un general assembly. [applause] while he is in new york, he sees his new ally, nikki to khrushchev. fidel! fidel! the data september 26th, 1960. castro will tell the general assembly, the united states is seeking to overthrow him. he is training in army to invade his country. he is interfering in cuba's internal affairs. >> a few weeks later, the democratic candidate for president is in new york campaigning. he issues a statement in which he says the united states is not doing enough for the cuban exiles. he says the united states ought to help them. and their television debate, vice president nixon disagrees. i >> i don't know what senator kennedy suggests when he says that we should help those who oppose the castro regime both in cuba and w

was fidel castro a communist? now you have to recall that in the late 1950s in the early 1960s the battle against the so called international communist conspiracy was the organizing principle on which american foreign policy was based and it wasn't just the spread of communism. that was so feared. it was the fact that the communists had nuclear weapons. and given the rhetoric coming out of the kremlin khristroff was saying all sorts of things like we will bury you and those are literally his words. they seem more and more willing to use them. i emphasize this to point out that the specter of a communist country 90 miles from american shores was simply intolerable. they're not just to conservatives like barry goldwater a richard but really to everybody. so if fidel castro was interrogated on the subject of communism everywhere. he went on his visit. by vice president nixon by congressional subcommittee by scores of journalists. everyone asked in the same question dr. castro. are you a communist? and he answered the

there's a question whether fidel castro ordered it. ohnson said something like, castro knew that kenny wanted to kill him so he went and killed kennedy. so there was a lot of speculation that castro may have ordered this himself. castro denies it vehemently. we do know that oswald visited the cuban embassy in mexico city shortly before the assassination. and perhaps got some sort of signal or communication there. but what we know for sure is that oswald, he was in the soviet union when the bay of pigs happened. and was infuriated by it. and thought he was doing fidel castro a favor by going after john kennedy. so, indirectly, yes, i do think the bay of pigs definitely leads to the assassination of kennedy. it may have had a more direct link, but that's very difficult, maybe impossible, to prove. over here, please. i'll come to you in a second. yes. >> what's confusing to me is if after the first day of the invasion it became very clear that the u.s. was behind it, and then if it was known without the secondary air strikes on the 17th th

fidel castro.many ways an unknown quantity in policy and certain to be dominant in cuba's new era just begun. fidel castro demonstrates his unchallenged power over cuba's masses. he announces his resignation as premiere and the response is explosive. mass demonstrations by workers and university students calling on castro not to resign. hailing castro the maximum leader of the revolution. the president is shown when castro installed him as provisional president was ousted to be replaced. it is certain whoever may be president or premiere, castro is number one man in cuba. in an emotional four-hour broadcast that evening, he accused the former president of near treason, toppling him from the role of hero to one threatened with mob violence. castro's dramatic show of strength makes it clear that after 6 1/2 months, he is still riding high on a wave of turbulent mass emotion. one million peasants jammed the square in response to the call of castro for a celebration of the sixth anniversary of his revo

the real problem you run into is there's not a lot of objective sources when it comes to fidel castro. you have people that knew him best. many of them still were pro-castro. you can't get inside the man's head because they're skewed in certain ways, and the others that knew him best were arch enemies and you're not going to get a straight story from them either. how do you actually learn this? you look at things and say this is a man, a man with an incredible following, a man with an incredible charisma that got people to follow him and do things they wouldn't otherwise. you hear these stories about cuban education and medicine being the best in the world, about how everything is free. later in life i would learn those stories were half true, half nonsense. cuba has some of the greatest medical schools in the world. the doctors aren't there because they have all been shipped overseas. they were sent to venezuela, traded for oil. the medical care in cuba is not very good for most people because the doctors, the best in the world, but they ain't there. they're somewhere else. but you l

you see, fidel castro could quiet revolution without people trained in economic, finance, and in problemsnsportation and communications. without training and running businesses and industries and agriculture, but castro could not stabilize his revolution without such people. when i asked those young south americans at the university of moscow this somewhat courses they were taking, interestingly enough, they were studying economics, finance, problems of transportation, communications, and the rest. it is an important characteristic of revolutions that they leave political, social, and economic vacuums. because the people who run revolutions find that they cannot press the people they revolt against. and in order to make their future secure, they often used very effective methods to make sure that people like these will not enjoy door the revolution. let's follow on your screens, they may have been trained in some important field of government work. these men, he's the enemy. and in dealing with such enemies, the way you are about to see. what you are about to see is this stuff that vacuum

fidel castro was still in power. what fidel castro invited angry cubans to do was to leave and come to the united states. this time around, a long time has passed, and fidel castro, of course, is deceased, and no longer is it an option for cubans just to come to the united states the way they used to. the laws that changed here, too. so this creates a far more difficult and complex situation for the cuban regime. people are angry, people are hungry, people are displeased with the government's response to the pandemic, and they're desperate. they also want to be free. they want the basic human rights that cubans on the island have been denied for over 62 years. this is dramatic and it's really unlike anything we've ever seen in cuba, at least since 1994, but it does seem that these protests are far more extensive than the ones we saw in 1994. everyone will remember that in '94 approximately 40,000 cubans came on rafts to the united states. again, that doesn't seem to be an option this time for the cuban government, so

army and was recruited by kprai to infiltrate into cuba and shoot fidel castro with a high-powered rifle. castro was given the rifle. three times they tried to get him into the island, three times they failed to actually infiltrate him into cuba. one time he was on a raft, supposed to meet a bigger boat. the boat never showed up. another time a boat showed up, but it was a cuban coast guard boat. so that's a problem. and the third time they were unable to get him close. eventually they scrapped the plan. that those at first they were thinking let's just do it the old-fashioned way. a high powered rifle with bullet can solve our problem. when this failed they went onthe other things. but there is an interesting coda for felix. he had a long and dished career. he never got fidel, obviously, but he got an amazing tune as a cuban refugee in 1967 to hunt somebody else down. he was the leader of the cia team that went to bolivia to get this guy. that's che. the man on the left? felix ds ro. this is the last known picture of che guevara alive. taken right before he was executed. he felix got ch

so it was thought that if we take out fidel castro, raul castro,er who just yesterday stepped downue from power, and also the argentinian revolutionary, it would just -- the people would be more likely to rise up against this leaderless regime. and there were some imaginative ideas. most of them never went past the drawing board. there were a fewre attempts. there was an attempt to enlist mafia figures who were offered $150,000 for a hit on castro using poison pills. they didn't work. the person never got into position to use them. in terms of castro's hold on the regime, you're absolutely rightt ii mean, it's sort of a feature of communist regimes, that they use repression. secret apolice. series of informants. to keep a lid on any dissent. so i'll justt let it go at tha. >> what t lessons did the cia a other american intelligence communities learn from the failure at the bay of pigs, and are any of those lessons still relevant today? >> oh, i think so. in terms of, you know, the conventional militaryne nature anan amphibious landing, that h never been attempted on that -- certainly

your father's sister, your aunt, was actually married to fidel castro, but ultimately your family wasfrom cuba during the revolution. would you say that your father had early insight into fidel castro, into who he was and what the revolution would become? >> so my famil was involved in cuban politics way before batista or castro, but what you just stated i factually correct. now, as to whether my father knew what castro would become, absolutely. look, as you stated, they knew each other very well. they were friends. they were roommates, eventually castro married my father's sister, but, again, because of castro being a psychopath, and that was pretty clear relatively early on, then obviously my father distanced himself rather quickly and rather severely from castro, eventually becoming one of his strongest adversaries, precisely because he knew him very, very, very well and he knew he was, frankly, a murdering psychopath. >> cuba is one of the last remnants of the cold war. you know, a soviet-friendly communist dictatorship that survived the collapse of the ussr. congressman, many peo

it was first fidel castro, then he turned it over to his brother, as if -- as if the cuban people onland were his personal farm, right. he turned it over to his brother, and now his brother has declared those who are going to follow him. but it is not a private farm. these are -- this is a country with people who want freedom, who have their dreams and who, by the way, now as we've seen rather vividly have turned out en masse in the streets. they know what they're risking, right, and they're getting bludgeoned for it and they're getting murdered in the streets for it. we have seen the images of the regime thugs going into people's homes and shooting them in their homes. we hav seen the beatings in the streets, the use of live ammunition, shooting people in the streets, and then not allowing the to even have medical attention. so the level of barbarism, of evil that the world is seeing and that the cuban people have had to deal with for 62 years is, frankly, hard to fathom. it is beyond orwellian. it is cruel. it is evil, and, yet, the cuban people risking everything are going in the

doctor josÉ went to school and college with fidel castro, today he is the brains behind the christianic movement. the fastest growing counter of illusionary movement in cuba. pedro, the former head of castro's air force, he was the first cuban official, he came to the united states by sailboat and warned the united states investigating community about a communist takeover in cuba. to back up the hoax of those counter revolutionary groups, tools like this are being collected. secondhand weapons of all kinds. they are loaded into small boats like these for increasingly dangerous -- trips to cuba. taking in supplies and bringing out refugees and fugitives from castro's police. in this way, many exiles have gone back to cuba to fight and many of those exiles have died, many more will. up to this point john cue american, you and i face a problem. are those highly emotional disorganized many interested, counter revolutionary cuban forces with no clear cut programs to meet the problems of the cubans that those men fought under castro to correct? are those people armed with the latest weapons

it was thought that if you took out fidel castro, raul castro, who just yesterday step down from powershea guevara, the argentine in revelation, -- argentinian revolution, people would more likely rise up against the leaderless regime. and there were some imaginative ideas, most of them never went past the drawing board. there were a few attempts, there was an attempt to enlist mafia figures, who were offered $150,000 for a hit on castro using poison pills. they did not work. the person not get -- never got into a position to use them. in terms of castro's hold on the regime, you are right, it is the future of communists regimes that they use repression, secret police, series of informants, to keep a lid on any dissent, i will let it go at that. host: what lessons did the cia and other intelligence communities learn from the failure of the bay of pigs and are any of those lessons still relevant today? nicholas: oh, i think so. in terms of the conventional military nature of an amphibious landing, that had never been attempted on that scale before by an intelligence agency and never wou

this man who went to school and college with fidel castro. is the wrans against the driven revolutionary matter, the fastest growing counter-revolutionary movement in cuba. and pedro, the former head of castro's air force. he was the first cuban official to defect. he came to the united states by sail boat and warned about a communist takeover in cuba. to back up the hopes of those counter-revolutionary groups tools like these are being collected, second-hand weapons of all kinds, custom are loaded into small beats like these for increasingly dangerous trips to cuba bringing in supplies and bringing out refugees and fugitives from castro's police. in this way many exiles have gone back to kouba to fight. and many of those exiles have died. many more will. at this point, john q. american, you and i face a problem. are those highly emotional, disorganized, many interested counter-revolutionary cuban forces with no clear-cut program to meet the problems of the cuban -- of a cuba that those men fought under castro to correct -- are those people a

those arms were taken away back in the 1950s by fidel castro. they have no way to defend themselves. >> jason: i only have 30 seconds left, i have to ask you, told the cuban people don't come to the united states, you cannot come in but down on the southern border, it is wide open and it does strike me and i do wonder, cuban-americans do tend to vote for republicans and they don't want them coming across to shore but if you are in the southwest, come on in. they are coming in by the millions. >> we are on the same channel. they are playing politics with the lives of those cubans on that island because they turn republicans later in the cubans who were being basically slaughtered on the street are being denied medical help. they have a tendency to vote republican. that is the measuring stick, shame on america, shame on using politics to determine what rights to give to people who need help. >> jason: real quick, ten seconds, last thought. >> shutting down internet access on the island stopped organization in speech and we are doing the same thing

this time around, the long time is past, and fidel castro of course is deceased. and no longer is it an option for cubans to just come to the united states in the way that they used to, laws have changed here to. so, this creates a far more complex situation for the cuban regime. people are angry, hungry, displeased with the government's response to the pandemic. and they are desperate. they also want to be free. they want the basic human rights that cubans on the island have been denied for over 62 years. [inaudible] it's not dramatic, it's unlike anything that we've seen since cuba in 1994. but it does seem that these protests are far more extreme than the ones we saw 1994. of course a lot of people see that in 94, probably 40,000 cubist came to the united states en masse. that doesn't seem to be an option is time for the cuban government. so they're gonna have to figure out how to handle the situation and a lot of people in miami think that this it could be the end of the cuban regime. >> i remember those protests back in 94, our laura, i remember protest exact

even though fidel castro did it? >> as always the cuban president blamed the island's problems on the united states and its trade embargo and called on all loyal communists to take to the streets as well. there are also reports of looting in some places. pretty much unheard of in the very tightly controlled communist nation. the last time miami cubans shut down this street was back in 2016 when after thanksgiving fidel castro was pronounced dead. our producer in havana is reporting in cuba right now things are pretty quiet. back to you, harris. >> harris: phil keating. thank you very much. critics hitting the biden administration with all that going on for suggesting cubans' protests are driven mostly by covid-19 issues. state department official julie chung tweeted peaceful protests as the cuban people exercise their right to peacefully assembly to express concern about rising covid cases and deaths and medicine shortages. we commend the numerous efforts of the cuban people mobilizing donations to help neighbors in

watch this. >> declared socialist he dramatically improved health care and literacy. >> fidel castrohe george washington of his country among those who remain in cuba. >> his supporters saw him as a social justice icon. he brought universal education and free health care for all cubans citizens. >> fidel castro was the prototype of rebel leader fighting from the jungle for something he believed in. he of course won. he became the prototype of a populist president, railing against a superpower. elizabeth: i'm telling you, when you talk to political dissidents and people who have been tortured by this regime, they have had family members killed, they have had their businesses seized, they are in utter shock and despair what they see the media reporting about fidel castro when he passed away. your word on that? >> i mean, there are no words that can describe the horror of this and that the american media and the democrat party and the socialists and the communists in the democrat party, they would rather side with a brutal, communist dictator than the people of that c t a t t it is jus

obviously, in past crises, fidel castro, and even ro, castro could lean on the legitimacy of being the historic leaders of the revolution . the people who founded the revolutionary regime. and they had a significant residual legitimacy among unimportant particularly older segment of the population of the us can obviously doesn't have that. and so he really has to demonstrate legitimacy through performance. and so far he hasn't made much headway, not so much because of the problems of his own, but because he just lacks the resources. he lacks the resources now serve in conclusion, could protest that many are describing is unprecedented. mark the start of a major opposition movement against cuba, communist regime i think we'll have to see, we'll have to see whether these demonstrations are now followed up by a kind of rising cycle of demonstrations against the government. like we've seen in a number of other countries, or whether this is just a single event and the government will be able to quickly re establish control by putting its own supporters in the street. professor william layer

fidel castro has a massive literacy program. is that a bad thing?not immediately return fox news' request for comment on the current situation in cuba. ashley: and then texas governor greg abbott is addressing the potential challenge from matthew mcconaughey. carley: he that's right. he certainly did. he says he will treat potential challenger matthew mcconaughey just like any other political rifle. take a -- rival. take a look. todd: that's not matthew. .carley: luckily, i do have wht governor abbott said. he said this on fox news sunday. he said it doesn't matter what the name is, i take everybody very seriously, and this after matthew mcconaughey is just one point behind governor abbott in a recent poll. so kind of neck and neck in texas on that front, guys. .todd: and meantime, the left s the reason we can't have nice things. carley: talking about richard branson, he became the first billionaire in space. take a listen to what he had to say. >> i was a child with a dream, looking up to the stars. you now i'm an adult in a space ship. carley: the

back in 2016 the blm organization released a statement, mourning the death of fidel castro thing we mustck against the rhetoric of the right and come to the defense of l, dante matured what they learned from him. blm is not the only one. as congresswoman out because you will cortez almost called for an end to the embargo. there's just one little public, as florida senator marco rubio pointed outub on twitter. it was actually cuba's government that had the embargo which was listed up to the protests which remember, were against the cuban government, not the united states. know that we have the facts straight the only question left tonight's with president biden will actually do anything to help the cuban people because they coached assure you that. joining us now is that leo terrel and sean duffy as well ae mercedes schlapp. mercedes, your family, your parents, they were actually cubans and they flood that island. this all playing out what comes to mind? >> they are the only ones that can benefit from any sort of income that has come in and come whether it be from the european union, russ

that's a play on fidel castro's motto, homeland or death. a choice that many cubans have rejected by leaving the island. the song went viral in a big political way, so the authorities banded and arrested some of those involved. but they can't make the song go away. instead, they produced a slew of state backed re mixes released on government run television channels and websites. here's one version. it's called homeland or death for life. in cuba, the beat goes off, was the next time here, the listening. the really good deal for me, this is the duddy does good and the most getting things in the for me, since i'm with my families, the pain is unbearable for of their relatives were killed last week doing a military operation ordered by the venezuelan government security forces accused him of being part of a colombian rebel group and said date, died and come, but the neighbors and family members insisted they were innocent, taken from their homes and executed under pressure vinnish. well, as defense minister of the me to pipe dream said the forc

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now you have a project that is all around the country and, and fidel castro. it's not a life anymore. and you have an another leader that don't have to correspond that used to have fidel castro. well, let's talk about this relatively new leader present. me go the can now, how much room does he have to maneuver, especially taking into consideration these very onerous trade embargo is still imposed by the u. s. kenning, do anything to turn things around without the us doing something. i don't think he has a lot of things to do to. he's just going to ask with repression. the truth is he would need to dialogue with whiskers, the united states. no, it would be wise from the bible and registration to go to, to meet at to do go towards yes. can. there is no tried to to loosen descent is again bad and asking for, for something respond, for example, the repression to that repressed the opposition anymore. to add qualified for elections? no, i don't seem to get yes. can it is going to square because he's really new. he doesn't have to support a he doesn't have to suppor

only posters of former president fidel castro, looting to the need for national unity. july 26, march the anniversary of the 1953 attack on the government to barracks that eventually led to the overthrow of cuba, former by piece the dictatorship. authorities of cancel the usual committee celebrations, claiming a severe spike in covey, 19 infections, and death. but this month, unprecedented anti government protest, also a factor. i will probably talk to a whole and there are many young people that didn't live through what i lived, who've seen better times. they want to live better, given the propaganda of the enemy. politics is like that. there are reports of hundreds of so called counting the mission, detained and being held in prison throughout the island. over the weekend, the government confirmed the 1060 protests as had been sentenced in summary, was accused of inciting public disorder. one of them was artists and yellow troy, yet whose mother was salish since of her son and it doesn't. others was sentenced to a one year prison term without a lawyer present me. hold

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behind the dictatorship in cuba, watch this. >> too dramatically improveea healthcare literacy. >> fidel castro day that george washington of his country among those who remain in cuba. >> social justice icon and universal education and free healthcare for all cuban citizens, fill the castro was ar prototype of a leader fighting for the jungle for something he believed in and of course he won he went on to become the prototype of a populist president raylene against a regional superpower. >> would you talk to dissidents and people who had been tortured by this regime and family members killed and businesses seized, and utter shock and despair of what they see the media reported about fidel castro when he passed away, your word on that. >> there are no words can describe the horror a of this ad that the american media and the democrat party and the socialist in the communist and the democrat party wouldld rather se with the brutal communist dictator than the people that country and to me it's a horrifying thought that were not supporting there freedom fighte, the communist dictators, what they'r

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that's a play on fidel castro's motto, homeland or death. a choice that many cubans have rejected by leaving the island. the song went viral in a big political way. so the authorities bandit and arrested some of those involved . but they can't make the song go away. instead, they produced a slew of state backed re mixes released on government run television channels and websites. here's one version. it's called homeland or death for life. in cuba, the beat goes off with the next time here at the listening. the really good deal is this is the daddy does good and i'm getting the only thing that really close to the on canceling the costs from internal conflicts to sanctions, as political and economic troubles or mounting can prime minister abbey. let's get a grit plus react to this, taking norway to court, over arctic thrilling county. the calls on our just 0 stories that need to be told, find a way and demand to be heard. opening a window into another light and challenging perception. witness documentaries. that change the way on al jazeera ah

philippines president stays true to form and its final state of the nation address. cuba remembers fidel castro's revolution, but celebrations are more muted than usual after recent political unrest. ah kennedy, a widely regarded as the only success story of the out of spring a decade ago is now facing its biggest political crisis. president chi said dismissed prime minister, he sent a message she late on sunday. now i'm a he, she says he's willing to hand over responsibility to whoever side chooses to replace him. the president is imposing a nationwide nighttime curfew for amongst the army is on the streets. president said, says he's fallen trinity is constitution, but he's being accused of a qu, said has also removed the defense minister and the acting justice minister. odyssey it is bureau, and tunis has been rated by security forces, and his journalists have been borrowed from the officers, the speaker of the parliament, as well as the deputy speaker and other leaders attempted to hold a meeting, but the army has stopped them getting into the parliament building, i said, stepped in after a da

this is an opportunity just like back in 2016 when fidel castro died to come gather.by very slowly honking horns all day. and people banging pots and pans and holding signs demanding cuba change. like i said after five decades of calling for that, nothing has happened in cuba. >> bret: phil keating live in little havana, florida. thanks. authorities in haiti say a florida man in his 60's is the latest suspect detained in the assassination of haitian president jovenel moise. a total of 2 colombians are suspected in that killing as well. 18 of them have been arrested so far along with three haitians. the head of haiti's police say five of the suspects are still at large and at least three have been killed. no motive yet from officials or authorities. u.s. officials who recently arrived in haiti, including representatives from the justice and homeland security departments met sunday with haitian officials. the u.s. has rebuffed haiti's requests for troops. john kirby over the weekend on "fox news sunday" says the request is going through a review process. up next, betwee

you know, when fidel castro came into office, you know what he did?racy program. is that a bad thing, even though fidel castro did it? carley: that was his thoughts in 2020. a spokesperson for sanders did not immediately return fox news' consider for comment on the current situation in cuba, guys. ashley: bernie sanders little salty ovary charred branson's - over richard branson's space exploration. carley: richard branson, he became the first billionaire in space yesterday and he was soaking it all in, 53 miles above the earth's surface. watch this. >> i was a child with a dream, looking up to the stars. now i'm an adult in a spaceship. carley: so pretty big deal, right? well, some on the left not too pleased, including bernie sanders, who posted a tweet saying here on earth in the richest country on the planet, half our people live paycheck to paycheck, people are struggling to feed themselves, struggling to see a doctor, but hey, the richest guys in in the world are off in outer space, yes, it's time to tax the big fairs. so -- billionaires. so a v

s is backyard, and fidel castro and nest to check out an id son, somebody in august cuban leadership up through today with miguel b as can know what a contrast to see me go be in the streets thing. the streets are the streets, or of the revolutionaries. it reminded me of trump running for his life, never, ever getting into the streets, but inciting how many people to come into the street. so to actually see human leadership standing. so that is so that with their people, i don't buy these diatribes from the forget of us corporate media. i think the us, human leadership has remained faithful to the people. clearly they're in a very, very difficult position. it's natural, it's imperialism $1.00 to $1.00. if people are going to migrate from the historically colonized areas, because he's broke away from be in the colonies in response to what michael saying, how many people are forced to leave the dominican republic in haiti in puerto rico and the other u. s. neil colonies every day. so no one's leaving cuba because they want to, but because of this blockade, and when you're cut off from

is that a bad thing, even though fidel castro did it? we condemn that. >> kayleigh: this after that 1986 audio emerged of senator sanders, then a private citizen, saying he was very excited by the rise of fidel castro. >> will: yeah, bernie sanders basically subscribes to that meme which is that communism hasn't been tried appropriately yet. i disagree with kennedy a bit, this is partially about covid-19 and medicine that access to vaccines, because it's about access to everything in a communist authoritarian society. there's a general inability to distribute, to innovate, to create goods. i'm sure the vaccine, just like toilet paper in venezuela, it's hard to come by when you try to control the entire economy. but the real trick is they've managed a partner that lack of access with oppression and tyranny. that's a beautiful track of communism. i want to say this last thing because it's important. you said it, kayleigh. some of the protesters were holding the american flag. so while we, the ungrateful grand children of prosperity, talk a

only posters, a former president, fidel castro, leading to the need for national unity. july 26, march the anniversary of the 1953 attack on the move government to barracks that eventually led to the overthrow of cuba as former by peace, the dictatorship authorities of cancel, the usual member to celebrations, blaming a severe spike in covey. 19 infections and death but this month, unprecedented anti government protest. also a factor. i will probably try to hold and there are many young people that didn't live through what i lived, who've seen better times. they want to live better, given the propaganda of the enemy. politics has like dots. their reports of hundreds of so called counter revolution, detained and being held in prison throughout the island. over the weekend, the government confirmed the 60 protest years had been sentenced in summary trials accused of inciting public disorder. one of them was artists and yellow troy, yet whose mother rational in spanish shows of her son and a dozen others was sentenced to a one year prison term without a lawyer present. yeah