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Senator leahy was visiting cuba. and while she was there she set up a meeting to plead her characteristic and the case she pled was a very human one. she was in her early 40s. her husband was serving life sentences in a prison and she was desperate to have a child. senator ple eor leahy was moved story. he saw a way to help. senator leahy's office to reached out to the u.s. state department to see if he might be able to bricker something to help out the spy and his wife with the pregnancy dill emla. he confirmed that conjugal visits were out of question. the senator's office, though, had a bac...

Serving a double life sentence and not able to see her for more than a decade now is obviously delighted with her very prominent pregnancy. and he had that reaction because against all odds and some of the well-understood lies of biology and the no conjugal visits, that bald guy, that just-released prisoner is the father of -- yes, he's the father. yes, i know. here's how it happened. in february 2013 when the effort to improve u.s./cuba diplomacy was still in its gestational period, he took a trip. while senator pat leahy was visiting cuba, the wife of the cuban spy who the u.s. was holding i...

States and president of cuba to make an announcement at the same time that they are moving toward normalizing relations. there hasn't been anything like this in the past. that doesn't mean that over the next two years we can't anticipate them taking certain actions that we may end up finding deeply troubling. either inside of cuba or with respect to their foreign policy. and that could put significant strains on the relationship. but that's true of a lot of countries out there where we have an embassy and the whole part of normalizing relations is that it gives us a greater opportunity to have...

There's nothing specific where we're trying to target some sort of visit on my part. colleen mccain nelson? >> reporter: you spoke earlier about 2014 being a breakthrough year and you ended a year with executive actions on cuba and immigration and climate change. you didn't make much progress this year on your legislative agenda and some republican lawmakers have said they are less inclined to work with you if you pursue executive action so aggressively. are you going to continue to pursue executive actions if that creates more road blocks for your legislative agenda or have you concluded it's...

Cuba. it has to. they've got an economy that doesn't work. they've been reliant for years on subsidies from the soviet union and then on subsidies from venezuela. those can't be sustained. and the more the cuban people see what's possible, the more interested they are going to be in change. it's country specific and culturally specific. it could happen fast. it could happen slower than i would like. it's going to happen and this change in policy is going to advance that. leslie clark? >> reporter: i have a number of questions as well. >> do i have to write all these down? how many are they? >>...