martha: if they didn t want that to be the appearance everybody would have in this country they could have separated it by a few weeks. they could have brought alan gross home, then release them a month later. bill: the good thing is the intelligence that will be going to cuba through telecommunications and the internet. if that happens you will open up a new world of technology. but you have no way of of knowing whether the cuban government will follow through with that. one senator calling the policy change a quote tragic mistake. after six years we have seen a pattern where four friends and allies no longer trust us and our enemy no longer fear us. first was russia. then it temperatures iran, now it s cue d then it s iran, now
get him on the vatican pipeline to speak for human rights and humanitarian releases. well, we got a new pope, he put it in the pipeline and whatever pipeline pope francis has to whatever higher power and whatever power president obama could use, we now have alan gross home. it is a great day, alan is now with his wife judy, they ll be at home, recuperating and receiving medical evaluations. we re going to be able to work with him and while alan is recovering, we will be moving on to new policy days in the future to normalize diplomatic travel and other relationships with cuba. i look forward to supporting the president in that endeavor. i do think it s time, and now it s time for senator carden. let me thank the senator for the successful strategies of
cuban-american community, you re also hearing from mario diaz whose been a key republican alley of the obama administration on immigration who called him the appeaser in chief. i spoke to senator rubio as well earlier today and he said that in this deal, cuba gets a ten on the one to ten skill while the u.s. just gets .5 out of this. you heard him say this is something i m going to ask you to hold this thought. senators barbara mckul sky and ben both speaking on the release, i want to take a listen. one of our maryland constituents who had been held unjustly in a cuban prison for five years. senator carden were at the tarmac today to welcome alan gross home. this was a culmination of our effort for more than five years to bring him home and to get him home safely. yesterday, i received a call