Former Prisoner Recalls Sanders Saying, 'I Don't Know What's So Wrong' With Cuba

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Former Prisoner Recalls Sanders Saying, 'I Don't Know What's So Wrong' With Cuba

March 4, 20205:06 AM ET

American Alan Gross, a prisoner in Cuba for five years during the Obama administration, is accusing Bernie Sanders of commending the communist country when the senator came to visit him behind bars.

Sanders visited Cuba as part of a congressional delegation in 2014, along with Sens. Heidi Heitkamp and Jon Tester.

During the one-hour meeting, Sanders told the prisoner that he didn't understand why others criticized Cuba, Gross said in an interview with NPR.

"He said, quote: 'I don't know what's so wrong with this country,' " Gross recalled.

Sanders' campaign declined to comment about the meeting with Gross, and Tester said he did not recall the discussion.

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/04/811729200/former-prisoner-recalls-sanders-saying-i-don-t-know-what-s-so-wrong-with-cuba

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1. An ad which includes a pic w/Heitkamp and Tester as they give their

recollection of what Bernie said. Play it over and over in Florida.