surrounding chinese human rights activist, chen guangcheng. he has been pleading for help and asking to come to the united states with the family. he left the safe haven of the u.s. embassy on monday but says officials misled him. he had a congressional hearing and described the conditions at his home. >> translator: i really am afraid for my other family members' life. they have installed seven video cameras. even with the electric fence. >> among those watching closely, president obama's campaign opponent, mitt romney. >> the reports are, if they are accurate, that our administration, willingly or unwittingly, communicated would chen an implicit threat to his family and probably or may have sped up the process of his decision to leave the embassy. if these reports are true, this is a dark day for freedom. it is a day of shame for the obama administration. >> stan grant joins us from beijing. your team spoke again to chen today. this is very confusing, some conflicting accounts here. what's the latest from his perspective? >> he is bottom line, he doesn't trust the chinese government. he doesn't see he has a future here. he still maintains his family's lives have been threatened and he wants to get out. yesterday, when we spoke to him, he made a direct appeal through us to president obama saying, please, mr. president, do all you can to get my family out of here. now, he is also saying he wants to speak to secretary of state, hillary clinton, who is in beijing right now for top-level trade talks. there are some even suggestions that he wants to get on her plane when she leaves on saturday. there is no doubt this is a man holed up in his hospital bed who has been very ill, caught between china and the united states in this growing diplomatic riff. all he wants to do is make sure that his family can live safely. >> the united states and chen have a lot less leverage. he has left u.s. embassy. so technically, he is on chinese soil right now. are the chinese limiting access to him? can the ambassador from the united states go see him? could secretary clinton go see him if she wanted? >> reporter: the hospital that he is at, john, is very, very heavily guarded. journalists have been pushed away from there. there was an extraordinary image of a very senior official from the embassy having to wait outside in his car, because he could not get in. we actually put it to chen, are you being held, basically, as a prisoner in the hospital? he said, i don't know but if i am being held here, it is not the hospital that's doing it, i.e. it is the guards waiting outside. he is regretting the decision to leave the embassy. i think you saw those images of the smiling chin hugging officials. he told officials at the embassy that he wanted to stay in china and be a freedom fighter here. from leaving the embassy, getting to the hospital, meeting his wife, hearing about the level of threat, the volume of tleng coming towards his family and speaking to us, he had backtracked. he said, no, i want to get out of here. he was upset with the embassy saying they should not have encouraged him to leave. i sat down with gary locke today. he said, no, they didn't do that. at all times, this he were guided by what chen wanted. chen has changed his mind. >> stan grant continues to keep us ahead of this traumatic story. thanks so much. fareed zakaria, when you hear there, there is some conflict. we are not there. we are here in the united states. chen says he feels he was duped. one thing u.s. officials concede, they told him about the risks but never talked to his wife. that strikes me as amateur. >> this whole thing has been mishandled. there weren't any good options. what appears to have happened and what my sources tell me, chen was very unstable in the u.s. embassy, emotionally, and may have had a breakdown. they should have understood there was a great likelihood that he would change his mind or his mood and in that context, change his mind or mood. i do think this could have been handled better. >> i will let you list to a host of u.s. officials, ambassador and white house press secretary, all choosing their words very, very carefully. >> we need to talk with him. we need to make sure we understand fully his wishes. then, we will take it from there. >> we are not sure what his intentions and goals are. >> we made clear we would continue to monitor his case and be enter touch with him as time moved on so we could raise concerns if there were concerns that needed to be raised. >> now, i understand that you understand better than i, fareed, this is about as sensitive as it gets when it comes to foreign policy challenge. they act as if they don't know what he wants. he has been calling reporters and his friends to say he wants secretary clinton to come see him and leave on her plane and come to the united states with his family. now that he is out of the embassy and not on technical u.s. soil, is there any way the administration could make that happen? >> it is going to be very difficult. you are right. the report suggested that he seems to have changed his mind. he had indicated many times he wanted to stay in china, be a freedom fighter in china. he appears to have changed his mind. he could have asked for asylum in the first place. now, granting him asylum becomes very difficult. remember, the fundamental fact here is we don't have a lot of leverage with the chinese. the chinese are very, very tough on these issues in general. think about it. in 1989, at a time when the chinese economy was much smaller, the u.s. was much more powerful, fong wiji, the astro physicist asked for asylum and we granted it. huge controversy and turmoil and we worked out a deal where he went back to china and had to write a letter of apology to the chinese government and promise never to engage in subversive activities again. they take this very seriously. it is a mistake. this kind of repression never works. it is tough to see how china today, the largest creditor in the world, the second largest economy, is going to roll over when we ask them to grant asylum to somebody who is not even on u.s. soil. >> very important reporting. fareed, thanks. we are going to stay on top of this story. we will talk about a u.s. activist who has been in touch with chen guangcheng. facebook will cost between $28 and $35 a share if you are lucky enough to get in on the ground floor. they set the price range about two weeks before the company goes public. let's talk with ali velshi. how do these numbers stack up to some other big names? >> you and i talked about this a few months ago when we heard they were going public. this is the range we thought facebook was going to come out in. it still makes it a very expensive stock. it is going to price in this range assuming there is the right demand. the company says the range they would like to be and they go out starting monday with morgan stanley and start going to hedge funds and mutual funds and saying, how many shares do you people want? if the demand is high, it comes in at the high end of the range. if low, the low end of the range. there are examples of it coming in much lower than the range they give or much higher. orn the night before the ipo, may 18th, march 17th, we will get a signal from the company that says demand has been stronger or weaker and the actual price of the stock will come out. you will not be able to buy it at that price. it willis the on the next morning on may 18th when the first trade opens on nasdaq. it will be anyone's guess as to what happens. i'll give you an example. if facebook prices at $35 and it starts trading and it is up $10 right at the beginning. you can't buy it until it is out on the open market. let's say you paid $45, i think i would be lucky to do that. you are paying 87 times last year's earnings. that's the price to earnings ratio. that's how you determine what a company is worth versus its peers. google closed at $611 a share, only 19 times last year's earnings. if facebook was at $45, it would be expensive vis-a-vis its peers. it doesn't mean it is not going to go up. it means it is expensive. if you remember back to google days, the stock was priced at $85. that's what the ipo wachlt. that's what it traded at. it closed at $100. many of us thought, wow, that's pretty high. a year later, $280. today, as i mentioned, $611. this is not an endorsement for facebook, john. it is just something to tell you. successful, good tech companies like google, like apple, have done particularlily well. >> that was the follow-up question. you seem to lean into it a bit there. you want to be careful not to put the ali velshi stamp of approval on it. does it seem like a good-bye for the guy at home? >> here is my view. generally speaking, yes. it will probably go up from its first day in the first year of its trading. the individual who wants to buy that stock should know what they want to pay for it. don't go in all willy-nilly and excited saying i am going to get myself 100 shares no matter what it costs. decide whether it is $45, $55 or $65 or $100, are you prepared to pay for that. if it goes higher, don't buy it. if it comes in at a price you think is fair, buy it. if i were not me and i were looking at that, i would say facebook has a bright future, probably worth the investment at a certain price. that's personal as to how you determine what that price is. >> i always apply the vegas rules. if you are not prepared to lose it, don't bet it. appreciate your help on that. in just a moment, we will talk with the activist who feld the phone today as chinese dissident chen guangcheng asked the u.s. for help. ♪ [ female announcer ] the vertical chair-climb. it's not an olympic sport, but it takes real effort and it takes a diaper that fits their every move. pampers cruisers with 3-way fit adapt at the waist, legs, and bottom for up to 12 hours of protection and all the freedom to play like a real champion. pampers. proud supporter of babies' play. ♪ pampers. proud supporter of babies' play. i have two car insurances in front of you here. let's start with car insurance x. four million people switched to that car insurance alone just last year. mmm, it's got a nice bouquet. our second car insurance, y. mmmmm, oh, i can see by your face they just lost another customer. you chose geico over the competitor. calm down, calm down. you're getting carried away. see life in the best light. 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>> i think it shows the chinese leadership are having some difficulties to find the easy solution to handle this man and his story. >> i want you to listen to gary locke, the u.s. ambassador who says that he says that the united states team laid out the threats and risks and that chen wanted to go. >> he was very, very clear all along. he wanted to be reunified with his family. he wanted to stay in china to be a freedom fighter. he did not want to go to the united states. >> you hear the ambassador say he d ot united states. as soon as he made it to t hospital, it see a change of heart. what happened? was one message conveyed by the u.s. officials to him before he walked out of the embassy that make his heart heavy. he was asked if he didn't walk out of the u.s. embassy that they, he would no longer have an opportunity to reunite with his wife and two children. he did explicitly tell me that he felt very, very hard it was almost a one-way street he has to walk to see his daughter, his son and his wife. he felt that he would have some insurance for the u.s. government for safety and freedom. >> you say some assurances. you don't chust trust the chinese government. anybody that has been involved in this kind of diplomacy before, doesn't trust the chinese government. do you think the ambassador should have said, stay and give us a few days to see if we can work on getting your wife in here as well or did the u.s. embassy handle this right? >> i do think it was a mistake to just let him walk on may 2nd after six days. i do think the ambassador and u.s. negotiators should give him more days to think through and give him all the options. especially, why not invite his family members to the u.s. embassy. >> secretary clinton is there for another 48 hours or so. what should she do in your mind? >> she should go to the hospital and request a meeting with mr. chen around his wife and their children and to listen to them in an unthreatening environment and what do they really want to do and what to go? >> what if he says, i want to go and his wife is sitting right there. he doesn't have a chinese passport. what leverage does secretary clinton have? >> it demands a political negotiation. even the chinese government did not characterize this chen guangcheng that he and his family members are criminals. they have no legal ramification around them. this he are free men. they are normal chinese citizens. they should be given chinese pass ports as a normal citizen applied to come to the u.s. for a visit. >> if the secretary of state leaves and chen stays behind, what do you think will be his situation? 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