our athletes? this should be moral oofnsd principles over money. because people s lives depend on it if they don t stand up against dictatorship, who will? critics say the olympic committee has become a vehicle for chinese propaganda. indeed the vice president of the olympic committee already in the past ruled out pressuring china over human rights saying we have no ability to go into a country and tell them what to do. all we can do is award the olympic tolls crawn tri in a condition set out in a host contract. senator marsha blackburn has an idea and wants to be host the freedom games in the u.s. instead of china. senator cruz athletes should go to china to compete so in his words they can in his words beat the commis. bret? benjamin hall in the state department. joining us is gordon chang a fellow author of the coming clasp of china and great u.s.-china tech war.