But they are so careful about not mingling interests of what got you here today was the talk about immigration. I thought about getting all of you together, but you have slightly different takes. You are a member of the group of eight. Maybe it is not a group of 7. 5, depending how senator menendez is doing. We will see. In the question of how the white house even today, the president said at the Democratic House retreat that he is heartened by democrats and republicans both seem to take this seriously. Politics may not be easy. There are regional variations in the country. There is youth and dynamism. I love you in your group of eight role. Also sharing your work with the colorado compact. Talk about the Michael Bennett vision of what we need to do to achieve Immigration Reform. If i can, let me take you to colorado on this issue. That is where my interest started first, as a School Superintendent in Denver Public schools. The lack of resolution for young people who have come to this
Different from texas, or california, or someone from the south is different from someone from the north. China is a massive, diverse country. If you come to visit, do not spend all of your time just in beijing. Try to go somewhere different. Other places are nothing like beijing. When i have friends come to visit, i love to go out and try regional foods. Hunan food middle eastern food, just to give people a flavor that, when we talk about china, and i am guilty of it too, it is just a short hand. There is no one china. Was story have you written that has gotten the most attention in china. A really good question. I think the story of the communist party chief, bo xilai. That exposed a lot of corruption at the high level of the communist party. I think the escape of the blind activists got as much attention from folks back here who are interested in the human rights agenda. Chen guangchens escape from harsh treatment and interrogation. Partly because he is blind and being a human rights
California, or someone from the south is different from someone from the north. China is a massive, diverse country. If you come to visit, do not spend all of your time just in beijing. Try to go somewhere different. Other places are nothing like beijing. When i have friends come to visit, i love to go out and try regional foods. Hunan food, middle eastern food, just to give people a flavor that when we talk about china, and i am guilty of it too, it is just a short hand. There is no one china. What story have you written that has gotten the most attention in china . A really good question. I think the story of the communist party chief, bo xilai. That exposed a lot of corruption at the high level of the communist party. I think the escape of the blind activist got as much attention from folks back here who are interested in the human rights question. Chen guangchens escape from harsh treatment and interrogation. Partly because he is blind and being a human rights lawyer and activist.
Communist party. I think the escape of the blind activist got as much attention from folks back here who are interested in the human rights question. Chen guangchens escape from harsh treatment and interrogation. Partly because he is blind and being a human rights lawyer and activist. Somehow, he escaped from these conditions. He made his way hundreds of miles from the province to beijing. That really got a lot of attention. That was a pretty dramatic story that happened over the last year. How exclusive were those stories to you . I got the first phone call when he was escorted from the embassy to the hospital. It was partly accidental. He was calling the Washington Post because of a former partner of mine who wrote a book, and he had a chapter devoted to Chen Guangchen which put chen on the map. I do not think he had a lot of access to the media and he wanted to let the Washington Post know. We had good relationships not only with chen and his allies. They would call us when there we
Charlest charleston, south carolina, mary schiavo, an aviation attorney who works for a law firm that sues airlines. Describe exactly what this team, u. S. Team, ntsb and faa personnel would actually do once they get there. Its true they have begun to find parts of the wreckage. One report is a door. If thats true, the most important thing the faa and ntsb will be doing is getting that wreckage in coordination and cooperation with the other countries that are investigating. Just from the pieces of wreckage, even a small piece, they can see if theres telltale fittings, if there was an explosion, explosive residue left on the plane, what that wreckage looks like, or if it looks like it was torn apart when the plane had fallen into the ocean. Thats going to be important. The fbi was detached to work on the case, whenever theres a threat of criminal activity, terrorism, certainly there was criminal activity with passports, we have a protocol the fbi takes precedence. You want to catch the