he was elect third-degree way. this is what phovoters voted on. >> welcome to the axe files. >> senator rubio, good to be with you. i want to apologize at the top and to our listeners because i'm fighting a throat thing. but i want you to do most of the talking. >> i've worked hard to have a voice as deep as that. >> it's not going to last. you know, i read your memoir. the beginning is very, very compel ng the retelling of your family's immigrant story. your parents came from cuba in the '50s. why? >> i think if you asked them and you know i didn't have a chance to, my dad didn't talk a lot about h his childhood and my sense of it years later learning more was that it was very painful. but i think at the core is they lived in a society where they felt limited. they really couldn't move forward. it was an unstable place.