Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.

Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall.

It's the Riggishay podcast. I'm James Lillickson. Of course, we have Charles C.W. Cook here.

And who's walking through that doorway? It's founder Peter Robinson. Yes, let's have ourselves a podcast. Will you make a public commitment today to rule out U.S. regime change in Cuba? Regime change? Yes. Oh, no, I think we would like to see that regime there change. We would like to, that doesn't mean that we're going to make a change, but we would love to see a change. I'm not asking you whether we would prefer a different

kind of government. I'm asking whether you are trying to precipitate the fall of the current regime.

Yeah, but that's statutory. The Helms-Burtain Act, the U.S. embargo on Cuba, is codified.

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and we're waiting for peter robinson to say hello it's been a while. Hello, Peter. It has been a while.

How are you, James? Couldn't be worse. And Charles C.W. Cook, who is with us from Florida, Charles.

Glad you've joined us. Nice to be here. And of course, I'm in Minneapolis or Snowgood issue, as some people

are calling it. It's a term I'm particularly fond of, but it has been another week.

It has been another week.

We'll get to some of the things that happened, but the most breaking story, I love saying that.

Breaking is that they not only arrested Don LaMond, but they arrested an independent journalist in Minneapolis, St. Paul area, for participating in the church break-in or the sit-in or the curfluff, whatever you want to call it, where they barged in and started telling everybody how bad they were.

This is interesting to me because, and I would like to pretend to grapple with it before coming to my pre-examined by predetermined conclusion but this whole arresting journalists thing

there's a lot in that there's a lot in the word journalist there's a lot in independent

journalist where are we exactly now with this and is this a dark new age that is besetting the country?

Peter, I'll let you start because it's been such a long time.

Sure.

I want to hear more from you in due course, of course, Jane.

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