one later this month, and one that was supposed to happen next month. back to you. melissa: rich edson, thank you so much for that report. as we bring it up to the couch, juan, the house foreign affairs committee adding to that statement just read from the state department. this is the foreign affairs committee. 30 years after the chinese communist party s beautiful massacre of peaceful protesters, in tiananmen square, we are concerned they would again consider putting down peaceful protests. we urge them to not make this mistake, which would be met with universal condemnation and swift consequences. the problem, as we saw from that video, it isn t all peaceful. juan: it s not peaceful, because there are two ways to look at this, melissa. one, the protesters are forcing the issue and you have authorities responding. the other way to look at it is this was provoked by mainland china, trying to impose extradition rules on hong kong that really aren t new, different, and provocative
a lot of people say no way this could never happen. but it could, right? well, extradition lawyers are kind of split on this issue. and i would say a majority thinks she won t be extradited. but a substantial number say yes, she will be. we have an extradition treaty with italy. what happens when a terrorist goes to italy or a mafia hitman goes to italy and we want them back? well, we signed an extradition treaty. they ll say you didn t give us knox why should we give you them? it only counts for hit men but not girls from seattle? you have to make a distinction. if we re saying the italian system of justice ace joke and it s not fair as supporters of amanda knox have said, at least in the way it s handled in this case, what s going to happen with the relationship with italy? so it s a political question. and the secretary of state john kerry is really the one who s going to have to make the decision ultimately. can he risk rupturing our relationship with italy or apply the extra
can he risk rupturing our relationship wittily or h italyy the extradition rules. or not extradite her because of the american court of public opinion. we don t know all the facts. why is that court more viable than the italian court? because we signed an extradition treaty. when we signed that treaty we say we recognize your justice system. if you convict and give somebody a fair trial we re going to send them back to you. we expect you re going to send criminals back to us under similar circumstances. we didn t have to sign the treaty. and we don t sign treaties with places like china and russia places where we think there s an unfair system. plenty happening on that front. this is going to be a tough one. thank you very much, paul. let us know your thoughts on that. again it s a pretty interesting take. she could end up having to serve 26 years in jail in italy if this goes into conviction direction. our fourth story outfront a life-saving catch. a 61-year-old veteran is
presidents personally and the reason is because number one i shouldn t have to. this is routinely dealt with between law enforcement officials in various countries and this is not exceptional from a legal perspective. no, i will not be scrambling jets to get a 29 year old hacker. not going to be scrambling jets to get a 29 year old hacker. the president ruling out military assets to get to the bottom of the case saying he believes extradition rules apply and confident that russia will help in this. returning is colonel oliver north. thank you for being here on that comment by the president. i am not going to scramble the jets to get a 29-year-old hacker. i got to work for a president
[inaudible] calling the cops. shepard: tonight why airline officials insist this was perfectly okay. but first from fox this friday night the accused serial stabber is going back without a fight. elias abuelazam agreeing today to let teams to bring him back to michigan to face charges. rampage across tree states. murdering five people. injuring some 13 more. agents arrested him at the atlanta airport on wednesday night just as he was about to catch a flight home to his native israel. today we heard the suspect speak for the first time as he asked a judge in georgia about extradition rules. my understanding is that you are giving me the chance to choose [inaudible] here or michigan. no. you are going to face the case in michigan. all we re doing is talking about extradition.