Establishing Ties with Rául’s Cuba

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With Amb. Roger Noriega, Mark Krikorian, Franklin Miller, Fred Fleitz

Amb. ROGER NORIEGA, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs:

• Timing of American outreach to Cuba given the current oil market and the regime’s ties to the Venezuelan government
• Rául Castro’s claim that he will use U.S. economic concessions to strengthen the socialist totalitarian regime
• The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s push to lift the embargo on Cuba
• Will the Cuba prisoner exchange serve as a blueprint for future Obama policy with Iran?

MARK KRIKORIAN, Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies:

• The congressional funding bill that will only provide short-term spending measures for the Department of Homeland Security
• Cruz’s (R-TX) proposed amendment for a vote on the constitutionality of the President’s actions on immigration
• Republican willingness to shut down the federal government to foil an executive amnesty

FRANKLIN MILLER, former Senior Director for Defense Policy and Arms Control on the NSC Staff:

• Looking at the U.S. nuclear arsenal amidst growing modernization of other nations’ capabilities
• An urgent need to modernize warhead delivery mechanisms
• Russia’s violations of the 1987 INF Treaty and contempt for international agreements that don’t constrain the U.S.
• Is it time to enlarge the U.S. nuclear deterrence in Europe?

FRED FLEITZ, former CIA analyst:

• The co-dependency of the Cuban regime and Venezuela’s Maduro government
• Cuban intelligence operations inside the U.S. as evidenced by the “Cuban Five”
• A Shariah-inspired atrocity in Pakistan
• John Brennan’s poor defense of the CIA’s enhanced interrogation program