>> i'm not sure if he was born in cuba or america. but either way, marko rubio was born here. but i think this has definitely been an interesting night. i think there are lots of interesting narratives coming out of this. we here in washington like to set these standards that either this is going to be an anti-incumbent election or this is the year of the woman or this is going to be the insiders versus outsiders. what we're seeing tonight is none of these molds fit exactly and we're going to need to be more critical and more precise in looking up these races. >> larry: former senator martinez was born in cuba. >> thank you for the correction. thank you very much. >> larry: ari, are you surprised that scott is ahead of mccullom? >> everybody knew that was going to be a close race. mccullom has had a strongback, but i try to look at the overarching trend for a few months and the trend that i think that is going to continue right up to election night is you have a huge turnout for republicans in a much less interested turnout by the democratic party. in 2006, the democrats had 3

/cuba relations and what have you or what will you say on that matter to the president? >> i did very much. we already had the event. we had it in two parts. a small group of people met with him first on one side of the house. and then after he greeted them, i was able to show pictures of the march that we had pictures of the ladies in white in cuba getting violently beaten by the police and thrown into a bus. i gave him a letter from a martyr of recent times. his name is orlando sapato de mayo who died on a hunger strike and was beaten. 18 days without water. he died. another one, guillermo familez is about to die. he's asking for prisoners of conscious who are dying because they are so sick. he's been on a hunger strike for 85 days. i talked to him about that. give him letters from the mother of the dead dis-sident. he was standing by me as was everyone here at the party. it was a wonderful night. >> let me ask you right quick, you mentioned earlier that it was an honor for you to have the president in your home. trust me, it was an honor for the democrats as well and

>> i'm not sure if mel martinez was born in cuba or born in america, but either way, marco rubio was born here so -- >> he's hispanic. >> he's hispanic. this has definitely been an interesting night. i think there are lots of interesting narratives coming out of this. including the fact that he we here in washington like to set these standards that either this is going to be an anti-incumbent election or this is the year of the woman or this is going to be insiders versus outsiders. what we're seeing tonight, it seems, is that none of these molds fit exactly, and we're going to need to be more critical and more precise in looking at this. >> larry: martinez was born in cuba. >> there we go. >> thank you for the correction. appreciate it. >> larry: ari, how do you look at it? first, are you surprised that scott was ahead of mccollum. >> everyone knew that was going to be close race. we'll see how that ends up. what i always try to do in a long primary season is look at the overarching trend for a few months, the overarching trend that's going to continue right up until election night,

he came to this country in 1962 from cuba as part of the peter pan program and became an american citizen in 1968. i asked him what he thought of the bill. and he told me, you know, he's a big baseball fan. he said what if i go to arizona to see the diamondbacks play and i go to the game and i forget my i.d.? i've been an american citizen for 42 years. yet i speak with a spanish accent and look very pspanish. what happens to me if i'm stopped without proof of identification on me? obviously, a lot of people are not too supportive of this. i talked to several people from h mera costa college. we talked earlier, you have some strong sentiments about this senate bill and it becoming a law. >> yes, i do. i'm completely against it. i think that anytime you have a law that gives so much power to the state and singles out a group, it's dangerous and it sends the wrong message to the community. i myself am an immigrant. i came in 1985 to the united states. and since then, i've earned a high school education. i have a bachelor's degree and two master degrees. all of it comes from the support that

and we're 46th in infant mortality below cuba. how can we spend so much money and get so little? the system is broken and it needs to be reformed. that's what this bill does. it keeps americans alive. >> larry: congresswoman bachmann, what's your solution in a nutshell, agreeing that there's a problem? >> i agree there's a problem. we should let americans buy any health insurance policy that they want in the united states, purchase it with their own tax-free money and then fully deduct the rest of the expenses. that's what they're facing right now. the high cost of health care. unfortunately president obama's bill won't bring down the costs for average americans or really for very few americans, if anyway. >> larry: would that idea, congressman grayson, allow for most of the 38 million to have insurance? >> according to the congressional budget office, the democrats' plan will provide insurance to over 80% of the people who don't have it. that's what we need more than anything right now in this country. there's 122 people dying every single day in this country because they have n