Mario Díaz-Balart: “I hope you realize that you have folks here who want to be helpful and understand that that issue is of the--I mean, it…”

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Actually, I just want to thank you for having this.

To call those folks the counterparts of the U.S. Coast Guard is not only insensitive and insulting, but it shows a lack of understanding of reality.

I was outraged, by the way, when the U.S. Department of State... approved a visit for members of that terrorist regime.

This absolutely does not happen without the coordination and the approval and the support of the Cuban regime.