that makes the notion of a conflict much more troublesome both in terms of impact on the people involved and in terms of managing it from a policyr of view. mike,t( as you have been talking, we aree1 showing pictus of president xi standing in solidarity with president putin. their extended visit in moscow, what shouldxd americans make of this, to be seen with president putin a year into the invasion of ukraine where the west is on the side of ukraine and funding and backing president zelenskyy while russia is attacking civilians, attacking infrastructure. what does this mean for our relationship withe1 e1china? xi jinping si] embrace of vladimir putin is not going to help t(china s relationship wit the united states. the chinese and the ñrrussians, think, see themselves asñi alli in trying toxd counter and push back against what they see as the oku.s.-led world order, and while we don t know a lot of
plays in pain, it s known as a willis reed moment. you will hear a young marv albert s voice saying, here comes willis reed. the first title was won with collide fraser and monroe a few years later. it was their last title, and that s a matter for another day, 50 years ago. truly, one of the all-time greats not just in basketball, mike, but in the history of american sports. there s no doubt about that, willie. the world iconic is over used, but it can be applied here. it was herald in madison square garden, and he participated in the final series and beating the
billionaire, supposedly, lying aboutq $130,000 payoff to a por star to cover up an affair a couple of days before a presidentiylk■election. you want equal justice under the law, kevin mccarthy, then you ll get it. and donald trump will be charged with this because, mike, these other people, you know what they think, those poort( schmucks, is just like the rioters, one after another, that aree1 rotting in jailñr right now because of dond trump, and donald trump is still sittinge1 in mar-a-lago, and here s kevw.$s,(p)thy stille1e1 defending donald trump for things that would havexd sent other people to prison years ago. you know,t( joe, i would modestly suggeste1 that you aren to something heree1 in your discussion just now. it s much larger in a sense than what is going on with all the
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in tee enman square. joining us now long-time foreign correspondent mike chanoi, a non-resident senior fellow at the u.s. china institute at the university of southern california and author of the new book, assignment china: an oral history of american journalists in the people s republic. thanks for being on this morning. so great to have you with us, mike. my god, what you ve seen through the years, why don t you tell us what we re going to see in the book? the book is based on over 100 interviews i did in the past 15 years with people who have covered china for the u.s. media from 1945 and the start of the chinese civil war right through the covid pandemic up to the present day. the idea is that most folks who watch the news or read the news don t have any idea how that news got there. but as anyone who s in the news business knows the process by