lack of reporting on christians being persecuted in the middle east and with tv personalities ridiculing vice president pence for expressing how his faith informs him and his office. pete: talking about persecutions. we have numbers of what christian faiths worldwide today. over 200 million christians face persecution on a regular basis especially in the middle east. one in 12 christians worldwide facing persecution. last one islamic imoppression fuels oppression in 8 of the top 10 countries. have you ever attended a workshop at gw about radical islamic oppression and what that does to people? >> i have not. we have discussed the effects of extremism in many of my classes. pete: islamic extremism or extremism as this morphos idea. >> extremism on several fronts. i think that as we look abroad and see what christians across the world face, i think we can say that here in the united