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Text show to 33-777-7. Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our 2.

Hello, America.

Welcome.

It is Eric Erickson here.

I promise I will move on from war coverage when I can, but there's so much happening. And we've got the intelligence community having their public meetings for Congress. I'm collecting audio on that. Probably be able to summarize and get to that stuff in the third hour.

There is other stuff I want to talk about, including the Hugo, or the Caesar Chavez story.

You should know up front, though, I mentioned the New York Times ran a story that claimed the Trump administration is supportive of allowing the communist regime in Cuba to stay in place

so long as the president of Cuba goes away.

Marco Rubio this morning tweeted out that story and said, it is not true.

It is a lie.

The sources cannot be trusted. And that is not the vision we have for Cuba.

The president of the United States tweeted out, how about statehood?

Now, he didn't say that was for Cuba, but we all kind of know.

I will say, some of the Joe Kent defenders out there are calling me a neocon. I want it on the

record. I am not a neocon. I am an American imperialist. I believe an American empire would be good

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