Sen. Ted Cruz

And he says to her, he said, I was too much of a coward to escape.

And I've consigned my children to misery.

You had the courage to get out of here and your daughter has an incredible future.

And she said he sat at that table and wept for about 10 minutes.

Then he got up and he went to the sink and he turned on the sink and he got some water and he like cleaned his face and he smiled and opened the drapes.

But that's what's happening in Cuba.

And so it is my prayer that this economic pressure is enough to cause the regime to collapse.

And by the way, the upside for Cuba.

If you actually had a government in Cuba that was democratically elected, that you had free free elections and free speech and freedom of religion and that wanted to be friends with America.

I think you would see, I think you could see in Cuba what Hong Kong was in the 1990s.

You could see an oasis of free enterprise.

There's a massive Cuban American community in the United States who would love to come back and invest billions in the island.

I think you would see a tourist, they're 90 miles away, some of the most beautiful beaches on planet earth.

I think the prosperity and abundance that could come from Cuba with a government

that was not a communist regime is enormous.

So will that happen now?

I don't know, but I think the pressure is greater than it ever has been.

You know, it's interesting.

This week, Palmer Luckey, the tech executive, came and had lunch with all the Republican senators.

And Palmer's a friend of mine, and I know Palmer quite well.