censor our own employees. they can t have it both ways, appease both audiences. what s the general understanding? if you re a u.s. business doing business with a communist country like china? what s that understanding? well, there are a lot of compromises that american companies have had to make in order to have access to that market. some of those are financial or economic. they have to do with giving up intellectual property and some with freedom of expression of other politically sensitive issues. a number of companies like marriott, cafe specific airlines and trying to think, banks have gotten either in trouble for explicitly referring to places like taiwan as a separate country or instructed employees not to do so. there is sensitivities there that they basically are not going to fly here in the united states, but are a condition of doing business in what is an enormous market. you add to all this the fact
every day they tossed us a little bread and water, and every day they would interrogate 15 or 20 of us with unbearable brutality. laura: as long as the nba gets its franchise fees, okay by them. this is a barbaric regime. this is a dictatorship that controls how many children couples could have forced sterilization and abortion on women. are those endangered lives worthy of a protest or just saying, you know, money is good but we cannot do it anymore. or really cancel games over bathroom signage controversy. the nba is quick to virtue signal when it costs them nothing, but the moment their chinese overlords balk, they cower in the corner. shut down acriticism, china s . china s treatment of the rockets as a warning shot to every professional sports team and any american business doing business
15 or 20 of us with unbearable brutality. laura: as long as the nba gets its franchise fees, okay by them. this is a barbaric regime. this is dictatorship controls how many children couples could have forced sterilization and abortion on women. are those endangered lives worthy of a protest or just saying, you know, money is good but we cannot do it anymore. or really cancel games over bathroom signage controversy. the mba is clicked over to signal when it costs them nothing. but the moment there chinese overlords bulk, state power in the winter. check out the criticism, china s treatment of the rockets as a warning shot to every professional sports team and any american business doing business in china. play bear their roles or you will be punished.
agricultural goods. $5.6 billion worth of farm products went to china last year. you cut that off, and at the will of the farmer. the base support for president trump for the most part they say they support the president. we know china is cheating, everyone knows they are cheating, we know we were doing. but the pain for the farmers is there. he said that he will give subsidies, but they want to deal so they get back to normal. melissa: i think with the really want when i ve had private conversations with people, we all have. we studied this for so long in dealing with it and talking to people. farmers have said, i sell nuts. i get so frustrated and the different ways he will treat catches this way and pecans this way. i can t plan. what is this, one date set. i can t take it. now they are being forced to look for other markets. i wonder if they try to change their business doing things not with china. are you better off in the long
someone register generally and that guaranteed other outcomes is a good thing. martha: so my next guest demanded after reading explosive story that came out in the miami herald just about a year ago, asked the department of justice to look into just how that whole deal in 2008 him about and whether or not there was a way to reopen this case on different grounds and the doj could open this brand-new layer of investigation. nebraska senator ben sasse will join us here. thank you very much for being here. what was it about this case that drew your attention so stronglt you involved in reopening it? this is what government exists to do, to protect the powerless and the voiceless. so many things in washington, d.c., that got the government does it has no business doing, but this is what government is for. it s to defend weak victims like all these girls. now many of them i guess our