tender person. mike: you don t even think of fidel castro as being shy, but you obviously, at the same time, knowing this man would come to your house, but there were policies that you saw in cuba. how did you deal with some of those things, the shortages and did you come to a place where you say, hey, this isn t working out well? my first reading the letters that people hand to me, to give it to him. so, i started reading real tragedies, since i was a small child. that s the first experience i had with the other side of the story in cuba. the letters that people gave to me, for me to give it to him. and not written the way they had parents that were executed, they had people in jail, victims. mike: and at what point did you start saying, i think i need to get out of here? you know, you don t have a political conscience or anything like that, you just feel uncomfortable and you think that things are not right.
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(applause) we re back with former house speaker newt gingrich and are joined now about mice wife calista. great to have you here. you re more fun to talk to than newt anyway, you didn t respond to that (laughter) you know it s true. you are the wife of a very public figure, but a very controversial public figure. yes. and he says things that sometimes ends up on the front page of the paper and can be controversial. how do you personally deal with sometimes the controversy that he creates? well, i know newt has worked very hard for many years and he has very firm ideas about his policy positions and he really hasn t wavered. if you look back at the 80s and 90s and the things he believes in are the things he always believed in so you have to look at the positive. i believe in what he does and you have to just block out the negatives, because if you go looking for it it s out there and you just have to ignore it. now, calista, there s no way that i expect you to give me th
well, i was told by my mother, but he was a visitor so i wasn t surprised. he would come to your house. he s a nice person and come often to my house, bringing presents and playing and he was a nice person, so he could jump from the tv screen to the living room just like this. your mother was married to another individual and yet, was carrying on a relationship with fidel castro and that s how you were conceived and became the daughter, but years later when you found out. when you first knew him and he would come, what kind of relationship did you have? how did he, how did he act around you? well, at that time my mother had left the country, as a traitor or warrant which is the way they call people who leave the country and well, he started visiting the house very often and he acted like a normal, shy
doing, carrying on the tradition so we re fortunate. mike: there s a great passion in irish music. there s a tune, i m sure you ve been asked to sing it a million times and you should know you re not going to be able to come here and not ask me to sing perhaps the most familiar irish song that americans love and irish people love on your cd that all of our audience is going to get a copy of by the way (applause) how can we have you here and not do danny boy. danny bourkes i never heard of it. mike: you re going to hear it today and sing it today. we ll give it a little shot. let s do it. maestro. oh, danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling from glenn to glenn and down the mountain side the summer song and al sound