Michael Weiss

What does he most want done?

Marco Rubio, the son of two Cuban emigres, one a bartender, the other a housemaid, growing up in Miami, Florida, most wants the crowning achievement of his life in government would be toppling the Castro regime in Cuba.

And it looks very, very likely that that is going to happen while Donald Trump is still president, because Axios News reports that Rubio is in direct conversation with Raul Castro's grandson, probably about some kind of transition.

So Venezuela was first.

That was the first domino to fall.

Now we control the oil.

Now there's an oil embargo on Cuba, which is descending faster and more comprehensively into failed statehood.

They can't keep the lights on.

The hospitals can't treat patients.

There's no food.

It's a disaster.

For Rubio, Cuba would be everything.

And then when it comes to Ukraine and Russia, you know, recall, I brought up that 28-point Dmitriyev plan from November.

It was Marco Rubio who basically intervened and stopped that thing from becoming codified U.S.

policy.

And how did he do that?

He called up his friends from the Senate who were then gathered at Halifax Security Conference in Nova Scotia and said, don't worry about this.

This is a, quote, Russian wish list, knowing that they would come out and say that.

They came out and said that.

He denied he made that call.