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meantime the house democratic caucus elected new york congressman hakim jeffries to succeed nancy pelosi as leader of the democrats in the chamber next year. china's surveillance state ramping up in the face of protests that is our big story tonight. police are using data from resident cell phones to track down those demanding an end to the communist nation zero covid lockdown. susan li is in new york with the latest. >> reporter: protests in china returning last night despite the government rolling back on some tougher restrictions. in china clashes between protesters and riot police in has met suits. they have lifted most of their lockdown measures. 43 protests taken place in 22 cities across china according to reuters analysis. what has been remarkable for the china watchers, the ability for the protesters, organizers to get around china's infamous

surveillance and sensors. one technology that they have been used apple's airdrop feat ture, allows direct iphone to iphone sharing across bluetooth on the intermet. apple had earlier limited that feature. we reached out to apple for comment, no comment thus far. twitter is one of the most downloaded apps. citizens are trying to get around the great firewall to share and gather information. jackie. jackie: susan li, thank you so much. for more on china surveillance of protesters welcome fox news contributor bill mcgurn. welcome, always great to see you. your take first thousand foot view what is happening in china. xi xinping being brutal here. people are standing up trying to support, seeing some support for example, from canada. weak support here from the united states. many are saying we could be stronger in our trans on supporting protesters in china. >> yeah, thank you, jackie.

i think we could. the interesting thing is, look, the zero covid policy is not working. it is obvious to everyone. and it involves huge costs and suffering for the chinese people. so a lot of them are just tired of it but the problem is the party cannot admit that it made a mistake you know. it is always that it is someone else's fault. so when protests break out, yes, they moderated the policies in some cities but they can't just correct it because that would dispel the myth of the ccp's wisdom and benign looking out for the people and so what do they do? they blame foreigners for instigating it, not unlike what they're doing in hong kong now where jimmy lai is going to trial and they're accusing him of leading a foreign plot.

they can never admit that ordinary chinese people want freedom, don't like some of the policies and so forth. and that hurts them sometimes. jackie: joining the conversation as well is congresswoman claudia tenney from house foreign affairs. congresswoman, it is wonderful to have you and i was just asking bill about his thousand foot view what he is seeing happening in china right now but there is an additional element to this, there is the apple piece of it. apple does a lot of production in china. it has got component-makers based there as well, central to its business. it never really reorganized the business model the way some others chose to do. having said that apple talking about the it would, they are actually in practice limiting the airdrop function which is a way people share information and media on the ground in china. john kirby was on this

afternoon, but he basically said apple is a private company they can't tell them what to do. but they have no problem, this administration telling big oil what to do. so it is a little confusing what is happening here. >> very duplicitous. this is obviously a big problem. apple is kowtowing to the chinese like the nba did. we see this happening with big companies. a lot of money to be made. this free trade versus fair trade. until president trump was free trader. it was unfair that china was cheating. china manipulating currency. china was using intellectual property, stealing it to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars on annual basis continue to do that. they manipulate our children with tiktok. apple phones are popular, very popular, easy to use. apple is always afraid to lose its profits this is a real issue that america needs to confront. china is not just our adversary they are our enemy, and they have a goal of world domination and they have, they try to

minimize us to be the world's global power and once that happens, the u.s. is going to be very, very, have a very hard time trying to fight back on issue. once we slip away it will be hard to bring that back. jackie: i think that is an excellent point. governor ron desantis was on with tucker last night. less's listen. >> you have people in china really engaged in a noble effort to protest which is basically leninist rule. so what is apple doing with that? they are limiting the airdrop function of the protesters. so they are serving base as as a vassel to the chinese communist party. jackie: paraphrasing what the congresswoman said as well. when you look at the power apple has, bill as a technology, as a company and it is extraordinary because people are outraged what elon musk is doing at twitter but those same people are not

outraged by apple's actions. >> yeah. china has exposed many hypocrisies as the congresswoman said. the nba, apple is quick to jump on causes in the u.s. that are woke because there is no cost but where there is a cost, or would be a cost, like in china, the nba, apple, a lot of other big companies are silent and complicit. but let's not forget, the real problem is the ccp. they're keeping their people down and this idea that china is this stable society it shows it is not true. you never know when something will break out because the people don't have ways to express their disagreement with things. jackie: yeah. >> so it is always a threat when it bursts out, the question is will it spread or will it fizzle

out? jackie: congresswoman, you brought up a great point as well, you mentioned tiktok. what i find is so interesting the way china monitors its own people. they know who is attending a protest. they can send them alert they're on lockdown because they attended say protest even if they don't suspect that person may be necessarily infected with covid. having said that you look at tiktok, its operations here in this country and its popularity here as well. many will tell you, no, there is some sort of a chinese wall protecting the data. u.s. data is not going back to china. they are not tracking us in anyway. that is really difficult to believe. senator mark warner commented on this. then i will get your reaction on the other side. >> if you got the guys and gals who are writing code, writing that code in beijing i fear that no matter what they say about having a wall that keeps all this information somehow separate, i'm enough of a want

you to know if you're doing it and writing the code you're going to get access to a lot of that data. so i'm afraid how that information could be potentially used to leverage peoples behavior, to expose things that are, that are inappropriate. jackie: so my point is, if you see how they track their own people, congresswoman, why wouldn't they track us? we're giving them data. we're handing its over. >> absolutely. they are tracking us. what they give their own people in tiktok is tiktok lite. what they do for us they're collecting data on every single one of us, children, young people, anyone who engages in tiktok. governor kristi noem banned ticktock. i hate to do that in the united states. i hate to ban things. i lived in a former communist country. the former yugoslavia. which is nothing compared to the inhumaneness of the chinese communist party. your guest is right. this about the dividing and

conquering and bringing down the united states and replacing the chinese communist party as the world power. not the chinese people who crave freedom. some have no option though. this is what we need to recognize in this country. they fray freedom. they need it. they need our support. the administration is weak on this issue. they need to stand up to the chinese protesters who are against the chinese communist party. they are not just against the lockdown. it is the communist party that is limiting these people. we need to give them a hope for freedom and that is an opportunity that could be missed if the administration doesn't act on this. jackie: it is. censorship, the tightness of the rule there, which is an excellent point. i will remind our viewers as well president trump wanted to ban tiktok. obviously it didn't happen. he was thinking trying to look ahead to see where this is going. i appreciate you both coming on the show. great to be with you tonight. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> thanks, jackie.

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♪. jackie: new email obtained by fox digital reveal that business executive john neff very goal tapped earlier this year to serve on president president bis advisory council in africa was a long time business parter of hunter biden's. for more, jon levine, "new york post" columnist. always great to see you. we'll talk about this. we have emails here. i will read you the first one. this is from nevergole to joe biden. merry christmas to you and your family, looking for 2015 a successful for rose manned and abd. expanding our work together. let's make it a profitable year. catch up after the new year. best, john. >> there is nothing remarkable about people in business together trying to make money,

what is now remarkable one of those business partner's father is the president president of the united states. the other business partner is taking an administration job developing business in africa, exactly what they were talking about. anytime you have a business partner of hunter biden getting a administration job it should raise red flags. you have to wonder about improper access and whether they're still using their connections to profit for their own personal businesses. jackie: it would seem that that is the case for the people who have denied that the hunter biden laptop exists, they have a lot of egg on their face now and they realize the family does have very strong business connections and ties to you know, companies in china, ukraine, for example. kazakhstan. >> right. jackie: so you stand back and say, wow, this is still going on and you've got people out there denying who the big guy is. >> right, right. jackie: and, you saw the bidens vacationing for thanks giving in nantucket. they don't even seem to be

phased by any of this. >> not at all. when i was going through this reporting on fox news, what this struck me this is not the only time we've seen this if you look at the hard drive during the obama-biden years it is replete with examples of people close to hunter biden getting administration posts. there is a man named john mcgrale went to be a official from treasury department after a personal request from hunter to joe biden. president of hunter biden's investment firm was tapped to a white house, official position in the white house. he visited joe biden in the white house and dozens of other people in, in official buildings and official capacities during that period. jackie: yeah. >> it all raises a lot of questions what was the access here. jackie: as we're sitting here, we're watching pictures of protests going on in china, we see the president not really taking a tough stance on it, i will read a second email from nevergole, we can put it up, also to hunter biden.

one line, he says first let's catch up. he goes on to say and go over some ideas how we can work together overall on the china initiative. i mean you say in was not just about hunter biden doing business in china but lots of people were trying to profit from it. they're involved in this administration's work. you sit back and ask yourself how could this not be influencing their response to what is happening on the ground right now? >> one of the key questions the hunter probe seeks to ask to what extent is joe biden compromised by his son's business dealings. we know he didn't have one involvement there is one piece of evidence after another showing that is not true. golfing with business partners. they're meeting with him in the white house. they're taking money from foreign companies. 10% for the big guy. we've seen some pieces of evidence. when you see a lack of response to what is happening in china now it further inflames, fans the flames of those questions. jackie: this story and the elon musk story are stories that keep giving every single night.

we'll continue to talk about it. in the break you mentioned to me, this was a great point. we'll hear a lot more come january next year. we'll have you back on again. >> thank you for having me. >> house passing a bill to a void a railroad strike. will it get you there the senate? democrat new york city mayor eric adams ordering city workers to hospitalize more mentally ill people involuntary. will this help get crime off our streets? fraternal order of police joe gamaldi is next on "the evening edit." >> we need to have more supervision on the train. it has been getting really out of hand. >> i have to look around. maybe sure nobody is hiding in any corners. you know? it is really disturbing. ♪ over the last 100 years, lincoln's witnessed a good bit of history. even made some themselves. makes you wonder...

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guidance. up to now the mentally ill could only be hospitalized against their will in they only posed a to themselves or others. mayor adams says they have a moral responsibility to get people psychiatric help whether they want it or not. >> people are talking to themselves, no shoes on, shadow boxing, unkempt. we're walking by them. we're pretending they don't see them. >> reporter: critics accuse the mayor playing fast and loose with the legal rights of new yorkers. statement from nyclu, said in part, federal, state constitutions impose strict limits on the government's ability to detain people experiencing mental illness. founder of a homeless advocacy organization, says a court challenge is likely. jackie? jackie: david lee miller, thank you. welcome to the show from the fraternal order of police joe gamaldi. joe, always great to see you. i mentioned this in the intro.

i walk the streets of new york city all the time. i see it multiple times. people exposing themselves to me. people almost gunning for me, almost tackling me on the street, happened almost two days ago. another example of a mentally ill person, mentioned they do shadow boxing, almost mock punch you to scare you. this is becoming commonplace in new york city. eric adams trying to do something about it. the question will be if he is successful. >> well, nobody should have to live like this. listen, this is a step in the right direction for mayor adams to try to get people for people mentally ill and homeless. forgive my skepticism, what happens after they're stabilized in the hospital? are you putting them in a long-term treatment program? or putting them back out on the streets? that will not solve anything at all. that is just creating a larger problem. will this be used as excuse for d.a. alvin bragg who is utterly useless by the way not to charge people with crimes and continue todown grade crimes to a degree

of 52% of felonies last year while the violent crime rate continues to surge in 32% in new york city. as a society we have to balance getting people help they need, while at same time holding them accountable for their actions. people in new york city shouldn't have to live with the crime and disorder. for god's sakes, 61-year-old man beaten in the head with a wooden chair the other day. it is reprehensible. it has to stop. jackie: it has. gotten completely out of control. another story, we have a story in the bronx, a car was stolen. there was a child in it. i'm not suggesting, i'm not sure if this person was mentally ill or not but a lot of people suggest we are sort of playing up this crime narrative in new york city. if you look at, obviously governor hochul won the governor's race but if you look at the house seats, crime was an issue when people were voting, at least in that regard. >> no, you're absolutely right. crime is completely out of control in this country. our murder rate is mirroring what we saw in the 1990s and yet

we still have crime deniers, these so-called journalists and politicians trying to convince the american public all is well. well it's not. especially in our black communities where black men are being murdered by nearly double the rate by firearm that we saw just a few years ago. we continue to see our urban communities besieged by crime. in l.a., murders are up 32%. in philly robberies alone are up 37%. crime is rampant in new york. the list goes on and on. i just don't know what it will take for people to wake up and understand, that we can't go on on this. for all these crime deniers, you know, it's criminal that they are ignoring this and history will judge them for their cowardice and deception. jackie: it's a good point. it is impacting other peoples quality of life in this city. so many people have fled. they're continuing to flee. it is not just what happened during the pandemic as they see things are not getting better, improving fast enough. having said that one of the problems is down in the subway, right? you have a lot of crime

happening down there. people are being pushed, they're being attacked, being robbed, punched, you name it. now the mta is saying we need to raise fares 29% to regain pre-covid revenues. ridership is down because people are terrified to go down there. then there is a flip side to this. if you raise fares 29%, you will drive ridership down actually even more? >> yeah. this mirrors what we're saying. we're punishing law-abiding citizens for the actions of criminals. the sad part is, we know how to fix this. we can flood that subway system with police officers like we have been doing. we can increase arrests. we can make sure we're nailing fare jumpers, jumping turnstiles. we can enforce the laws get it uncontrol. as soon as we do, d.a.s like alvin bragg i will willing to release people back on the streets to do it over and over. this isn't rocket science. you have to hold people

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jackie: welcome back the house today to force rail companies and workers to accept a pending agreement and avoid a national rail strike. this coming after president biden called on congress to intervene in these stalled talks. for more on this, house transportation and infrastructure committee member, congressman brian mast. congressman, it is good to see you tonight. certainly we were worried about this as a country. we have enough on our plates to deal with a rail strike certainly would have a impact on the economy that would have been pretty brutal heading into the holidays. so many people are happy, that the house acted here. still got to go through the senate. it has the companion piece of

legislation about the paid sick leave, that may cause a problem. that is what the workers were fighting for initially? >> yeah. i think you can look at the situation to say yes, glad potentially that crisis can be averted. this has not passed the senate yet. it has not gone to the president's desk yet. so you don't want to do this on the heels of winter, on the heels of the holidays, on the heels of 40% of our goods coming out of the port of long beach, needing to get across the country. these are really big issues that matter to americans facing inflation wherever they are but there was a very, very dangerous precedent that changed, that was set starting in congress today. previously when there was a rail strike with the labor unions the precedent for congress was, okay, we'll force them back to the table and they need to work it out between the executives and the union bosses at the table. what was done today was totally different in saying you need to

take this deal. congress is going to force you into these hours. this with health care, this with wages, this with back pay, you name it. totally different precedent. that is very dangerous for the future. i will give you one other quick point on that, you think about on the west coast with the labor unions for the longshoremen, they're negotiating their wages right now as we speak. if anybody thinks they will look for anything less than what the rails just took, then they're crazy. jackie: that is a great point. thank you for bringing that up. having said that we've got some sound from our commander-in-chief talking about this issue. we'll listen and react on the other side. president biden: 10 years ago how many new what the hello a supply chain was? no i'm serious. it's a phrase talking about supply chain, people going, no reason why there should have been. not because they weren't smart. we didn't have to rely on the rest of the world. we, we, led the world!

because of the ibw, i got elected we'll lead it again. >> what planet does he live on, congressman? >> so, one planet arrogance i say the planet he is living on to say educated people on the term supply chain. nobody knew what that was prior to being in office 30, 40 years, letting people know what supply chains were. nobody in business could figure that out or anywhere else. beyond the arrogance the way he is speaking, you look at that there are ways we want to diverse our supply chain with semiconductors, with our medical supplies, with a host of different issues trying to create a tax situation that makes sense, to have business back in america. these are things that the president has directly pushed back against and that is what is so unfortunate about his statements there. we can do things and he is not. jackie: final question, i need to switch gears for a moment while i have you hear the president allowing president to

produce oil in venezuela. it is our understanding that chevron will first ship the first venezuelan by year-end this is a huge slap in the face to people who work in the energy industry in this country. >> very absurd to say okay, we're going to deal with the dictatorial countries instead of say getting fuel from canada through the xl pipeline through americans or through pipelines through michigan. some other ways we can go out there and explore and refine and produce and ship with made in america energy but we're going to go to these despot countries? does not make any sense for americans whatsoever. puts us in actually a far weaker position than what we even are right now. jackie: congressman brian mast, thanks for spending time with us right now. good to see you. >> all the best. jackie: crisis at the border, even now some democrats are speaking out. disgraced crypto founder sam sam bankman-fried purchased a major democratic analystics company with a trove of voter

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♪. jackie: disgraced former ftx ceo sam bankman-fried speaking moments ago at "new york times" deal book summit giving his version of the his crypto company's collapse. saying he never meant to commit fraud. kelly o'grady live from los angeles. >> reporter: jackie this was the former crypto golden boy attempting to craft a narrative where this doesn't end with him going to prison. his defense in the interview was i didn't know enough. the amount of times i didn't know, this was embarrassing mistake as someone who worked in

business before, it was mind-boggling to here a ceo try to absolve himself of responsibility so blatantly. so here are my takeaways. he is blaming it primarily on alameda research, the trading firm a sister to ftx. he said it was oversight on his part to think he knew what they were doing. he believes he is not criminally liable. he considered coming back to the u.s. to face questioning. remember he is in the bahamas right now which of course he hasn't done. there is a senate hearing tomorrow i'm sure lawmakers would love to get his perspective on but he is not expected to attend. finally the disgraced founder did get asked about all those political donations. here is a clip. >> where did the money come from for those donations? >> so i, you know, basically profits. >> reporter: sam bankman-fried is majority owner of the companies but i imagine investigators and customers who are losing hope of recovering their savings will be very upset

to here company profits were used to donate to politicians. overall, jackie, it was a very eerie vibe tried to be remorseful multiple times laughed out how quote it has been a bad month n a room of people that paid over 2 grand for a ticketed to come to this, it seemed out of touch to say the least, jackie. jackie: you could say that. kelly o'grady thank you so much. for more bring in idx digital assets chief investment officer founder ben mcmillan. wow, bern, i could not believe this was taking place today. this guy should be talking to the regulators, talking to "the new york times" via zoom from the bahamas. how is this possibly happening? >> i agree. what has been interesting is, kind of the story about his influence and softball treatment he got from mainstream media has become almost as big as the collapse itself. this was part of it. it is interesting, you know when he first announced on twitter that he would be speaking to at the deal book event a lot of

people thought his account was hacked, maybe a scheduled tweet. people were in disbelief he would do it. the interview certainly didn't do him any favors. as kelly said at the top of the segment, clearly positioning for the ignorance play, he is not criminally liable. he did not come across looking good. jackie: people asked me what do you think he will say? i find it ludicrous he is speaking and his attorney didn't tell him not to speak. he did say that i'm my own person. i'm doing my own thing. he will deny it. will pin it on the trading arm which was a different business. say i knew nothing about it. that is the only thing one could say right now. actually we have another sound bite of him, listen to that real quick. >> clearly i, i made a lot of mistakes. there are things i would be able to do over again. i didn't ever try to commit fraud on anyone. i, i was excited about the prospects of ftx a month ago.

i saw it as a thriving, growing business. i was shocked by what happened this month and you know, reproducting it, i, were there things i wish i had done differently. jackie: this is interesting, because i had just seen the clip in the first time, noticed in the first clip kelly aired looking straight in the camera. in this clip he kept looking down. i'm not a body language expert but it looks made did i. to say i messed up. billions of dollars will impact peoples lives here. i messed up doesn't really cut it. >> it doesn't really cut it. it is interesting i never tried to commit fraud. that is the same language he used in the direct messages with the vox reporter which is incriminating. if a prosecutor if you're looking at this doesn't matter whether you intended to or not, you did, assuming evidence were there. jackie: where were the controls? you were the ceo. you were at the top of the food chain. like what was happening?

>> its also interesting if you look at the day one bankruptcy after the from john jay. it is usually procedural, perfunctory he went out of his way how bad the it was internal controls. he said this is the worst he has seen in 40 years. this is the enron guy that liquidated enron. it is hard to step away. looking at billions of dollars. allayed maloneed sbf several billion dollars. when you put basic logic, it is difficult at the see how customer funds were not misappropriated. jackie: what about the claims he made? in the day up to bankruptcy he was calling around to big banks. he reached out to saudi arabia, trying to raise money, that is what you do in a ponzi scheme, when people redeem you need money to fill the holes so it doesn't blow up the way that it did but he claims allegedly, he had, if they wouldn't have filed for bankruptcy, only a day, you

know had remained, if he had one day's more time somehow magically $4 billion would have appeared and everything would have been okay. >> yeah. i mean you know i think that's you know highly suspect, probably just an out right lie. it is interesting too, he said at one point to somebody, independent reporters on twitter, you know, he never, he wishes he didn't file bankruptcy. if he didn't he thinks there would be 70% solvent today. liquidators will burn everything to the ground. it is testing shifting blame it seems. now he is kind of focused in on distancing himself from allayed ma, by the way the ceo of alameda, carolyn, ostensibly his girlfriend had an employee meeting -- jackie: throwing her under the bus. >> she had an employee meeting apparently where the memo was like she apologized for you know commingling client funds. so this was ostensibly not a secret internally. she was fessing up to it to

employees saying this got ahead of us. you know, he is clearly scrambling to avoid jail time at this point i would think. jackie: we'll see. we'll see what happens. there will be committee hearings here in the united states but i mean, i imagine at some point they are going to have to talk to him directly and get to the bottom of it but you know, there is the issue of the donations and how can you have people who accepted money for donations who, trying to investigate? it is very complicated. ben mcmillan, thank you. all right, the border crisis not letting up. now even some democrats are ramping up pressure on dhs alejandro mayorkas. congressman byron donalds next on that. separately here are more responses from people we asked on whether they feel safe riding the new york city subway system. >> almost got attacked by a homeless man a couple days ago. so i could see that. >> yeah, it has changed a lot. i'm much more aware of what is going on around me. i don't take the subway as much. >> it gets worse every day.

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jackie: g.o.p. leader kevin mccarthy puts more pressure on president biden to visit the border, fox news' ai aishah hasnie with latest from capitol hill. >> senator mark warner now latest democrat to know how the biden administration plans to deal with the southern border, 1 pandemic era title 42 border policy ends. this week 4 moderate democrats sent a letter to dhs secretary mayorkas requesting a detailed plan, writing: >> there needs to be a plan for when title 42 goes away. a plan. reporter: axios reports that officials considering barring some s asylum

seekers. in el paso, texas sector, there were nearly 2000 migrant encounters in last 24 hours, fiscal year is up 2 57% compared to this time last year. >> and president dodged mccarthy's ini have tying in-- invitation to visit the border, jean-pierre told fox the president has already been to the border but did not detail when. jackie: airbnb thank you. aisha. >> joining us congressman byron donald. we will talk about title 42 in a moment. and nature of migrants coming in but we will talk about fentanyl crossing. from 2016 to 21, deaths in l.a. county from 109 to

1504, your reaction to fentanyl comes in from china across the southern border. >> first, it is a disaster for the country, now number one killer for people betwages of 18 and 45. it is fentanyl overdoses. this is all brought to us by joe biden and his terrible policy on the border. china will do what dine will china will do but we have to have enough respect for ourselves to secure our own border, president refuses to do it and mayorkas continues to cover for him. jackie: kevin mccarthy inviting the president to border. >> i invited president to go to the border with me, if we would send people back, to the country they came from, the border agents would tell you they stop coming,

explain to the president what i saw, you can see the videos of cartels literally shooting tracers at our national guard, i also explained when is happening with fentanyl, every city today is a border city. jackie: president is not going there. he doesn't want to see what is going on, he would have to answer questions then. also you, have republican leaders saying we need to not only keep title 42 in pluplace but also enforce it, we're giving messages that border is wide open and taken advantage of. you have removed tigh title 42 people will come in, in droves. reporter: it will make things worse, that is because of joe biden reckless policy, the radical asylum policies he has put in place are a disaster. drug cartels are making 15

billion, dollars a year trafficking people into united states, and joe biden knows about it. he is letting it happen. these 4 democrats senators, i'm glad they sent a letter, but where have you been last two years. >> we have heard nothing from vice president kamala harris. she was tasked to be border czar. nobody is talking about her. congressman we have to go. it was great to see you thank you. >> thank you. jackie: i am jackie deangelis in for elizabeth macdonald, you are watching "the evening edit" on fox business, th thank you for watching, have a wonderful evening. kennedy: there was a time maybe you remember, u.s. presidents stood up for freedom. and spoke out against regimes that are murderious but, sleep