don t. i didn t imagine they could take this risk. given the amount of money at stake here. it was interesting because they talked a lot about i did a 60 minutes piece with him a couple of months ago. and you know, they talked a lot about not only the threats that he and his family, you know we re facing which are just horrific, but also, you know, employees at all levels of the corporation, you know, getting death threats over the phone. own people doxing their houses, things like that. um right. i don t know if you know some of the attorney before in our last you know, i m not sure that some of those employees will actually be seeing any of this money. i guess she was saying people who are shareholders will, but that s it would seem to be a good a nice thing for, you know, others in the corporation. it s not that big company well, you ll have to ask the private equity firm that owns it. it s called staple street capital. um you know, i think probably they will be rewarding certain pe
didn t imagine they could take this risk. given the amount of money at stake here. it was interesting because they talked a lot about i did a 60 minutes piece with him a couple of months ago. and you know, they talked a lot about not only the threats that he and his family were facing, which are just horrific, but also, you know, employees at all levels of the corporation, you know, getting death threats over the phone. own people doxing their houses, things like that. um right. i don t know if you know some of the attorney before in our last . you know, i m not sure that some of those employees will actually be seeing any of this money. i guess she was saying people who are shareholders will , but it would seem to be a good a nice thing. for you know, others in the corporation. it s not that big company. well, you ll have to ask the private equity firm that owns it. it s called staple street capital. um you know, i think probably they will be rewarding certain people when i interviewe
district, um, entered into a disney before desantis controlled that that district or that board so they re going to try and dismantle things dismantle this development agreement it it s going to be a tricky situation. to write something that doesn t just trigger years of lawsuits. yeah and that seems to be kind of where this is all heading kind of a big legal battle. ceo of disney, bob iger a few weeks ago called what desantis is doing anti business and anti florida. he said this violates their constitutional first amendment. right right of speech to speak out and take a position on something. i m interested if you think you get the sense or your reporting shows that desantis is actually willing to harm. one the bottom line of one of the biggest employers in the state of florida or if this is more about politics and optics. um you know, i think it s hard to
section of the ministry of interior operating, and, uh, in nondescript building on the outskirts of chinatown at the northern reaches, where he had 34 police officers. you had a couple of supervisors there. and they were tracking down chinese dissidents that were known to be in the united states, uh, tracking down people who were critical on social media, and in the background there were running a troll farm that was pushing anti american chinese propaganda. they had an executive at zoom, who was actually knocking off people from the zoom platform who where critical of china so you had a multifaceted chinese counterintelligence operation operating that was not registered with the state department as being a government operation and hiding in plain sight. almost talk about intimidating dissidents, intimidating them how you would get a visit from a couple of chinese police officers, and they would say we re from the chinese national police and, um
and at the very end when everything happened. um i don t remember several seconds of it. i don t actually remember being hit by the shrapnel. just remember the sound of the heat. and being pushed sideways. um i didn t even know that i had finished the marathon. um you know, i don t remember crossing the finish line. your resiliency is remarkable in the way that you ve channeled the trauma and the pain to help others is more than notable as well. i do want to ask you about tomorrow. and i mean i m so impressed to hear that this is going to be your 11th boston marathon. is there what goes through your mind? because you you that means you ve run a marathon almost every year since that bombing occurred. what is it like for you to run the marathon year after year? it s really is incredible. i was i was going to be one and done. when finishing that day, i was running for a dear friend that was dealing