Certainty and predictability. Thats the best way to make business decisions. Having the president make this controversial announcement, then indicate right away they may or may not be committed to it is not the kind of certainty Corporate America is looking for. Those are some of the broader impacts. Whats the potential impact inside his own administration, and for his own Press Secretary who has to go out and defend a policy shes not sure is etched in stone . Obviously shes in an impossible situation. I think what it does inside the white house, its corrosive to any effort to put in place a process to make decisions. Because people know that the Decision Making process is precarious at best, that theres never a final decision thats made and theres an opportunity to influence it at a variety of junctures or to go in and intervene with the president at the last minute. It means theres no coherent process in place and the result is you have decisions that are halfbaked at best. This has
athlete that chose china. he made the choice. he has decided to not focus on the me too aspect. reporter: beijing was always going to be a controversial sport. at the seat of power, questioning dissent, threatening neighbors and minorities, claims china denied. the u.s. and like-minded companies boycotted ed the opening ceremony, china chose a weiger athlete, numbing the nose. state media showed her family cheering from her home. it was a way of saying, we will continue to manipulate this population and put forward our version of reality and deny atrocity crimes even in the context of the opening
her ability to receive that gold medal and compete in the rest of the games will be held in an urgent hearing in the court of arbitration for sport. they are pushing for her suspension. cnn contributor christine brennan joins us live to discuss this controversy. just to be clear here, russia knew back in december she had failed a doping test, right? reporter: she took the test, jake, december 25th. so the people around her new, the adults. this 15-year-old doesn t make the decision by herself the test results only became known february 8th. that is a ridiculous length of time to not know, of course, leading to lots of questions sometime in january have they found out? have they covered it up? all kind of questions we don t know. here is another athlete who is cheating and sadly and so, of course, they had to know. what will be discussed in this hearing that will decide vialiyeva s fate?
the fanfare and flam our of the oly glamour of the olympic games. from tennis player pong shuai, these olympic games may be the ultimate game of pro-chinese propaganda. cn s david culver gives us a closer look. reporter: when a beam gets on the jumbotron, the ioc president watching free skiing superstar eileen gu one day after retracted a sexual assault allegation aimed at a china leader. appearing to be in line to the narrative, that pong is just fine. that narrative by the success and happiness of gu, an american
. reporter: yes, the first hearing, there will be two. the first will be whether or not the russians were allowed to continue to let her pennsylvania she should interest suspended right now. she s not. so the ioc is saying she should be suspended. it s finally good to hear from her after 24 hours of hemming and hawing, i asked, are you for or against drugs? they came out with that answer, they want her out of the olympics. as harsh as that sounds they are against doping. there could be one court of arbitration for sport if, in fact, the russians then appeal, an expected loss. then the merits of the case will be looked at, the drug test, the sample. all this happens to happen before tuesday. what s the potential fallout if she is suspended? reporter: yeah, well if she is suspended, russia will be furious. russia as you alluded to in past