NEW: US military reportedly preparing for possible Cuba mission

Welcome back to the special edition of Hannity. All right, so tonight according to a report, the U.S. military is laying the groundwork for potential action around Cuba. Now an internal army reserve message reportedly asking whether military police, medical personnel, other support units could be ready for southern command within 90 to 100 days or 120 days. The message does not mention Cuba and there are no deployment orders, but multiple officials say the planning is focused on the communist island and comes as the Trump administration now puts intense economic pressure on Cuba. Here with Reaction, President of the Security Studies Group, Jim Hansen, along with the Hudson Institute Senior Fellow, Fox News Contributor, Rebecca Heimrich is with us. Rebecca, let's get your take. For some time now, I've been hearing the fall of Cuba is imminent. So I think, Sean, it's incredibly fragile right now, but Secretary Rubio continues to say that obviously the preferred course for the United States is to squeeze this regime economically. It's incredibly weak and to come up with some kind of diplomatic solution. I don't think that there is, doesn't look like there's an imminent threat of the United States doing something militarily. It does look like this is standard contingency planning. However, I do think it's important for the Cuban government to know that the United States is standing ready, that the threat is credible, and that they better get negotiating in a negotiating frame of mind to deal with this, to deal with the United States. Because again, look to see everywhere where the United States has been incredibly militarily successful, militarily competent. And so if I were the Cuban regime right now, I'd be pretty nervous, Sean. Jim, let's get your take on it. Well, I don't want to set off any alarm bells, Sean, but I drove by Andrews Air Force Base this afternoon and I saw Secretary of Everything Rubio getting fitted for a parachute. And I don't believe there's actually an October surprise of some sort of Cuban invasion. This is President Trump using rhetoric, as Rebecca said, to remind the Cuban regime that now would be the time to make a deal, because after the midterms, there's nothing stopping President Trump from rolling in and taking Cuba if we decide that's the thing we need to do for our security. And at this point, it would be a humanitarian gesture. You know, the people of Cuba have been suffering under that regime for 67 years. They've got crap food. They've got almost no electricity. You know, life there is a joke. So someplace 90 miles from our border is something that we could look at as fixing the rest of the hemisphere, as the Don Roe doctrine has been prone to do so far. Well, I mean, they don't even have gasoline to put in their 1957 Chevys, which are plentiful in Cuba because they can't get new cars. But the poverty level has been going through the roof, Rebecca, for a long time. And the people have suffered on this island. You know, this after Castro comes to power, he he seizes everybody's property. If you were part of the resistance, you were murdered. Family members were murdered. There's a reason people getting broken down, dilapidated, rickety boats and shark infested waters, if they want to risk their life just to get one dry foot on dry land in America to be here. I really don't blame them. They must be pretty miserable to do that. They're pretty miserable, Sean. And, you know, your last segment talking about the socialists that are running for office. We can just look at 90 miles from our border and see what socialism brings. You brings you poverty, desperation, destitute. And so, you know, like, you know, Cuban people are suffering. But remember also, Sean, this is about geography. Cuba is essentially been a signals intelligence staging ground for the Chinese Communist Party because these authoritarian countries tend to stick together. And so China has been trying to spy on the United States from that critical piece of territory. Russia continues to collaborate with the with the Cuban government as well. So this is really important for the United States to make sure that there is not an anti-western communist essentially anchor so close to our borders, spreading anti-American ideology, which Secretary Rubio has been so eloquent in explaining. That's what Cuba does. The Cuban government spreads leftist, anti-American ideology throughout the region. It poisons our own population with these ideas. And that's one of the greatest threats that Cuba poses today to the American people. Jim, we'll give you the last word. My prediction, Cuba falls. My prediction, if it does, it could become one of the best investment opportunities in America. Cuba used to be a fantastic place for the people who lived there and for anyone who wanted to visit. It was the coolest place in the 1950s and 60s for anybody who wanted to hang out. So the idea that it could return to that when right now it is the poster child for why communism and socialism are failed ideologies. And I think it's a gift to the Republican Party that the Democrats are running all their socialists while this is collapsing right there and showing why there is a better way of life and America represents it. Cuba is the false answer.