joining us now florida congresswoman kat
kamik back with us
your reaction to cubans and over 32
cities taking to the streets in
retaliation
against the communist regime chanting
freedom down with communism
they're carrying the american flag too
they're impoverished
they're suffering they want an end to
communism your thoughts
well i can tell you of the 2 million
plus cuban americans that call the
united states home these days over 60
percent of them
call florida home so as a floridian i
stand
in solidarity with those that have
bravely taken to the streets
protesting peacefully carrying the
american flag calling for freedom
and the notion that the bite
administration has said that this was in
protest to
covid just again shows that they are so
out of touch with not just americans but
people all around the world and those
striving for our most fundamental basic
right
of freedom and i just like i said i
i cannot say enough about the bravery of
those that have taken to the streets
protesting this communism
communist regime and it's eerily quiet
coming out of the aoc and squad camp as
well as bernie sanders which
i find a little bit confusing that she's
not even said a word about
the the protests that are taking place
in cuba or across the country
congresswoman we've heard from people in
venezuela and we've heard from
uh people who've left fled cuba that
when there is
silence on the atrocities committed by
these communist regimes
where they're literally disappearing
people that that gives
agency to the communist dictators to do
more is that your take is that true
absolutely i mean you think about
what is happening in places like cuba
and venezuela where
you have food scarcity you have medical
supplies
that are in in scarce uh demand and
supply
you you have tremendous violations of
human rights
and the united states under the biden
administration has been
tremendously quiet and in fact silent
and i think again it points to a bigger
issue
of this administration who has a problem
with words
they couldn't muster up enough uh
courage to say crisis when it came to
our open porous borders in the
southwestern region of the united states
and now they're having a problem saying
communist which is
in fact what the cuban government is a
communist
repressive regime that has stolen the
future
of so many cubans and has caused many to
flee
uh causing tremendous pain and suffering
to many families who have fled their
country their homeland
at great risk and peril to themselves
and their children and when you talk
about the response
coming out i'm sorry go ahead well the
president put out the
the president did put out a statement
saying he supports the clarion call for
freedom
inside cuba and relief from what's going
on of decades of repression and economic
suffering
uh the president has kept president
former president trump's
um you know sanctions on cuba and the
embargo there
uh now we've got cnn blaming trump for
that
we've got the new york times the
messaging saying
you know freedom is an anti-government
slogan
your concerns about how the media may is
misreporting and giving misinformation
on what's going on in cuba
well i think that the polling that came
out here recently that talks about how
the majority of americans
believe that the media has become really
an enemy of the people
in promoting fake news and this notion
that freedom is now
an anti-government um calling
i appreciate that um the the left is
trying to
twist definitions very basic definitions
of human rights as an
anti-government ploy but that's just
nonsense
and when you look at the the work and
and
reporting from cnn and msnbc they're
saying
that the communist regime that has uh
really done horrific things against
humans and
and really like i said stolen the future
stolen the lives of so many cubans
and you think about them promoting this
notion of the bite administration going
door-to-door for a vaccine program
uh engaging in gun grabs these are all
things that communist or socialist
regimes engage in
and they've encouraged it so it's no
surprise to me that outlets like cnn or
msnbc are willing to promote and do the
bidding
of the socialist regimes that are
hell-bent on controlling
individuals and thinking that government
is knows best
we in america as americans we know that
we
are capable of making the best decisions
for ourselves and our families
at the most basic levels and we don't
need an overbearing overreaching
government to do that for us
which is why again i'm so proud for so
many
standing up and fighting for their that
most basic human right
freedom yeah we've got problems now a
chain reaction being set off in
venezuela
where one white oh uh was being
threatened with arrest
they showed up with machine guns at his
residential building
uh his number two and his opposition
party has been arrested
word is he's been thrown into a prison
known for torture inside caracas
uh we know that there are protests
breaking out in miami and also
we're hearing in cuba they're starting
to disappear people
um you know your word on is there enough
do the american people know enough about
what exactly
communist cuba does to its people
you know i think there's a second
generation of cuban americans that
have started to lean a little bit left
and maybe romanticize the notion of what
a socialist
dictatorship looks like and i think
that's particularly dangerous so now
more than ever we've got to tell the
stories of that first generation of
cubans
who came here and fled that regime
congresswoman cat kamik thank you so
much for joining us we're coming up
against the heartbreak
it's good to see you