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and it is fairly shocking in terms of what it is saying aboutjudicial independence of the united states. roger, has been sent or has been found guilty of all sorts of illegal things. he is an advisor to president trump. i'm trying to beat a justice of my words here because it is obviously still a life story. he, along with... he was charged with making false statements, obstruction and witness tampering. he was convicted of all seven councils and has been convicted of this about sentencing. this is about about sentencing. this is about a sentencing. this is about the sentencing. it is pretty interesting to see this prosecutors or resigning en masse. you can't really get a stronger statement from them about how they feel political interference is coming from the white house and from the attorney general mr barr. donald trump which tweeted about acidity? yes, yes and you would expect to see a separation. this is the kind of behaviour that you would x backed to see from a autocratic regime whether grand leader would be interfering the judicial process. other really seeing with these resignations

these competent lanty are patrolling the state border between roger stone and how they are now in northwest india they're on the trail of couse smugglers. all over the recovery. of yes you did. different states have different laws on cow trading and slaughter which traffickers take advantage of. this is a known smuggling point in recent months the vigilantes have intercepted several trucks here with cows on board. which was not a book. or just to give her current economy rambling she is said go to the concert when i get a look in the home of b. of a struggle i think what that will keep the studies going the. chapter g. want to ask or just the how to get crewman not going to get quote got cut out of that i'm good at shutting it down go to excess it could be with me putting it. in july 28th teen rock work on a muslim cattle trader was attacked by car vigilantes as he led a small herd of cows along the route track. a few hours later he was dead. i've travelled to rock village in noon in the state of hardy honor to meet his family. a source. of. cinnamon to their home done that i think. we're l

following state elections in 2018 the congress party replaced the b.g.p. in rogers time they passed an anti lynching law and launched an appeal against the judgment. in northern india i'm curious to hear the views of traders at this catholic market . you're going to see about because we are going to push that he's not going down yet was he i guess you believe it is the game. is on the market which neither. of you is going to because i'm going to get some kind of a dozen or you will knock. down some numbers on that i'm going to do you know what i'm going to let you know now i'm going to dinner going to them some put them out of them which i'm here. let's go here somewhere i'm all the time. i'll double ones of the. same no going down low and i you know what i'm going to go but i need to. put up a heavy i'm going to forget that i'm your bottom if you want you've got less people going to get. a good year. in the muslim guy sagal yeah i got you're going to. come out in the standard. sauce and when i guess i can when i get to say mills you look at somebody they just have

they claim he was attempting to smuggle cows across the state border between rogers town and her yana they told us in rajasthan the trade in cows for meat is fast trip to the neighboring harry and. they took us to the field where akbar was attacked. yes he did say you want the. little farmer to pity because i want to see the little thing. was i want to go. sell some of them to. you so i'll only say you will become real mad if i sleep over an old guy we absolutely will and i will eat out and say the only 1000 no luck yes luck a little luck on your body. this picture of rock was taken by vigilante before the police took him away he was in police custody for over 3 hours when they delivered him to a community health center he was dead. get on the gun because guess it would be it but you never did the. job of a took charge of the job or the jacket it was because of. a good school because of a political monies. that. rocked or it was just one of dozens of muslim men attacked in the last 3 years for trading in. the new khan was a cattle trader who's lynched as he transported cows to the tow

probably the one of the best issues that shows the difference in the media culture in the united states about roger stone i know a lot about roger stone and i think alex would agree with me he's a political prankster he's an operator he's a braggart i mean he thinks a lot of roger stone all of us that have watched politics over the years from the conservatives i know all about roger stone all right and he's not a danger to society nor to himself all right but he's been turned into a poster child they need they need to put him in jail because that will vindicate the russia gate hoax that's why they wanted to go ahead and i think this is a one of the big dangerous united states polarising which is in the one's interest now that it's the right's drifted so far apart this spilling over again. to the judicial branch as well so as we see in many cases of this before if we come back to the cabin our hearings for example that was. disgraceful in terms of how politics is now and this coming from both sides. but probably more in the hall from the left because they also see it was a sentence for lying but if

why does it all with the truck 23 people were injured the bus was in route to the state of koala from bangalore. roger stone a longtime adviser and ally of us president trump has been sentenced to 40 months in prison for 7 counts of lying to congress obstruction and witness tampering charges stemming from an investigation into alleged collusion between russia and the trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election. campaigning has ended in iran after or ahead of a parliamentary election on friday it will be the 1st such poll since the u.s. withdrew from the international nuclear deal and reimposed saying sions on the country many arabians have endured severe economic hardships as a result opposition figures are calling for a boycott of the election saying it doesn't give people a real choice as to research roper reports tonight from tehran. to touch research business is slow and life has become more difficult even here in northern tehran in an old district with many wealthy presidents few people here think much will change after friday's election. that people want lots of different changes but no

divestment and sanctions movement as backing the pro palestine group is illegal in many states across the us roger waters told us so on r t why he is not giving up. major league baseball ransom pre-sale adds before a presale tickets for my shows which is very nice have always had a very good relationship with the m o b i have done shows the yankee stadium and wrigley field i'm fenway park another great great baseball stadiums all of the united states so i have a close relationship with them. and so there was never any question of us continuing to run more ads of to the priest so feared so i think they just lend let it let it go away quietly. there is nothing and he's met a good bout b.d.'s the b.d.s. movement has consistently and constantly and and of quickly stated that it is against all forms of isms racism anti semitism anti muslim as anything any of any of that any of those race hatred or anti religious movements of any b.d.s. absolutely disavows itself and its always been extremely clear about that and so a man i have never done anything anti semitic or had an anti semitic thought in my life

william barr told abc news that his personal intervention as attorney general of the united states into roger stone's sentencing recommendation was a totally normal, just a, you know, tuesday morning kind of thing. he definitely would have done it anyway. you know, he does it all the time. it only looks like he's running the justice department for the benefit of the president's friends because of some stray, totally coincidental remarks by the president that honestly have made things very awkward for william barr who is, after all, just doing his day job. >> i had made a decision that i thought was fair and reasonable in this particular case, and once the tweet occurred, the question is, well, now what do i do? and do you go forward with what you think is the right decision, or do you pull back because of the tweet? and that just sort of illustrates how disruptive these tweets can be. >> so you're saying you have a problem with the tweets? >> yes. well, i have a problem with some of the tweets. i'm happy to say that in fact, the president has never asked me to do anything in a criminal case.

i indicted a state prosecutor for witness tampering, so what roger stone did wasn't some low level druges. this was whether the russians infected our democratic process. it doesn't get any bigger than that, and roger stone did everything in his power to obstruct that investigation, which to me was right and just, and the mueller report both volumes one and two are a treasure-trove, a treasure-trove of improper actions by the president. >> gene, thank you, and as kaitlan pointed out, standing in front of the white house the real question if president trump does pardon him, is it after the sentencing, after the election? i know that may be a gamble for him. we're going to talk again gene rossi, hold your fire, we're going to have you back, all right? i can already tell. thank you very much, gene. i appreciate it. >>> coming up next, president trump says he'd rather run against mike bloomberg than bernie sanders. the former new york city mayor looks way ahead to super tuesday. >>> i'm a new yorker, but i'm not afraid of trump, and trump is afraid of me. see great and look great. "guarantee

attorney general of the united states publicly criticizing the president of the united states in the aftermath of the rogerne recommended sentence. originally seven to nine years by federal prosecutors, but bill barr, the attorney general and others cut that back maybe half as much recommended sentence. jim mabaker, you were the gener counsel at the department of justice. when he says, the attorney general, i cannot do my job here at the department with the constant background commentary that undercut mess. he's blasting the. >> he is, but what he says is true. in con strast, the attorney general made some statement he ignores tweets and doesn't think about them in a directive to the department of justice. and i think he's just had to live in the reality of the tweet world of donald trump since t n then. and the tweets that the president issued recently were just over the top and completely unacceptable. i don't think this ends it. strong statements, people are still concerned. four prosecutor res signed from the case. one from the department of justice altogether. that's a serious matter that still needs

roger stone is trying to cover up for the president of the united states. >> john, i think that's a strikingo remember if we do see the president move forward with a pardon, that it wasn't just that roger stone lied, he lied in order to protect president trump, candida candidate, that he was protecting him. >> he would be rewarding someone who corrupted the system. >>> we come back to the studio with the question of a pardon. adam schiff was the ranking member when the republican-controlled congress and all this played out. stone was charged with covering up and threatening a witness. she adam schiff said, it should go without saying, but to pardon stone when his crimes were committed to protect trump would be a breathtaking act of corruption. >> he has very much weaponized it as a case of blustering. so i think more than his past history, this is the most likely use of his pardon power. >> he has some time to do it because roger stone is not going to prison tomorrow. we don't know exactly when he's going to prison. >> the president has the internet at his disposal. he has a rally tonight so

following state elections in 2018 the congress party replaced the b.g.p. in rogers time they passed an anti lynching law and launched an appeal against the judgment. we're in the studio. in northern india i'm curious to hear the views of traders at the scaffold market. could you see about which way are people going to push that he's not going down yet was he i guess you believe it is the game. is on the market is neither. of you is going to time and then. some type of money doesn't come or any we're not. going to mention that i'm sure not going to get there no no money in going to come out of them switching here. from where i am all the time. i'll double ones of the. same no going down low and i you know what i don't know but i need to. put up a heavy i'm going to forget that i'm your bottom if you want you've got less people going to get. a good year and a hindu muslim guy sagal yeah going to go up with me come out in the stand make it sound sauce and when i just like on when i get to say mills you look at somebody just. sometimes they're more they just sort of got

roger stone. and syria state television says several missiles have been downed or for damascus loud explosions shook the capital shortly before midnight the missiles reportedly flew from the southwest over the israeli occupied golan heights meanwhile the united nations says more than 800000 syrians have fled their homes in a province the last remaining rebel held area since december 1st relief workers say 10 children have died over the last week as the cold winter weather sets in and storms blankets the area with snow. journalists in the philippines are demonstrating against attempts to close down the country's largest television network a government lawyer filed a petition to council the franchise of a.b.s. c.d.n. corp on monday the network has been a few critic of president will draco detect. protests over a planned pipeline in canada have forced the closure of the 3rd largest rail network in north america c.n. rail announce it would shut its eastern track network after indigenous lead demonstrate is blocked rail lines for days the decision has forced the cancellation of nearly all passenger train

trump says he will not grant clemency to roger stone for now. >> i'm not going to do anything in terms of the great powers bestowed upon a president of the united stateswant the process to play out. i would love to see roger exonerated. i think he was treated very unfairly. >> the mueller probe claimed another victim. trump's former advisor getting 40 months in prison for lying to congress and here to weigh in, francey hakes. thank you for joining us. what is your take on this? did he get what he deserved? >> interesting question. with respect to the sentencing guidelines themselves it seems like a fair sentence. it is a normal guideline range the discounts that absurd sentence the mueller prosecution team asked for and the enhancement they thought applied that would made him looking at 7 to 9 years instead of 3 to 4 but when you look at the case of selective prosecution that is where it is difficult to say he was treated fairly. it is clear to me he did what he is accused him. he lied to congress. when you look at other people similarly situated people who lied to congress and lied to the fbi when they have a democrat next to their name or affiliated

as kay's son roger and his daughter-in-law pam cooled their heels in jail awaiting trial, all the while maintaining their innocence. pam said she was offered a deal if she turned state's you just tell them what they want to hear, then you could go home. but for me i was not going to lie just so that i could be a free person. >> roger's public defender, anthony howell, believed his client was innocent. >> i was looking for that piece of evidence that would be ah, that's the thing i can't explain. and there just was nothing. >> but here was the rub. howell knew juries, and as trial approached he was deeply unsettled. >> i was worried he was going to be convicted regardless of what i tried to do. >> why? >> because this is the kind of case where a jury would be worried that if they didn't convict then they would be letting a murderer go free. >> but howell didn't get the opportunity to defend his client in court. the reason was that phone call to the utah county sheriff's office, a call from a woman named rachel bingham. and here's what she had to say. what she had been blocking out was a bombshell. her ex-husband, martin bond, told her he and a friend named benjamin ret

being the personal fixer of the president of the united states. >> and wolf, it is important to point out that the ramifications are beyond rogerentencing and the narrow legal issues. >> and michael flynn. >> the united states, and international institutions are constantly impressing upon the developing countries the need to establish the rule of law, because it is necessary for the confidence in the international relations of those countries, and the economies of the countries. if this administration continues to raise questions about the rule of law here, that could have bilg, bg, big impacts down road with the united states being the leading diplomatic force in the world and the economy. >> and now, david axelrod, many people signed on to the letter to give us more credibility with former justices and how much credit of 2000 of them signing this letter? >> it is unprecedented and it does have a great deal of credibility, but there is only one person who matsers he ermatd that is the president of the united states. and he could look at this and say, well, this is concerning, 2,000 highly respected professionals of both partie

roger king case. it is disingenuous to say president do not comment on criminal matters. what is most important here, two things, one is the president of united states has not asked or directed his attorney general privately to do anything in any criminal matter including roger stone. number two, he works hand in glove with the attorney general as we all are privileged to do on any number of matters in the country. chris: policy is different than criminal case. >> the attorney general and department of justice cover a lot of territory. we work very well with them. drug trafficking, human trafficking, gun trafficking, sanctuary cities, eldercare, elder fraud we are doing, i just went to something about law enforcement. our law enforcement feel more deeply respected and better resourced because -- chris: can we talk about michael bloomberg. >> speaking of. chris: a war of words over the past week, certainly, between the president -- be met they were were between michael bloomberg in the african-american community. the way he feels about people is so demeaning. the policy may have been stop and frisk -- it's a disgrace. >> you anticipated where we are

is looking at the roger stone case he gets sentenced this week 3 years 40 months or 40 months altogether i want to read you this do this district court judge amy berman jackson stated this case could not arise because roger stone was being. sued by his political enemies it arose because roger stone characteristically injected themselves smack into the middle of one of the most significant issues of the day is the wrong. thing correct this is roger stone being roger stone he's known to be a shady bunny of sorts he's been doing this for years and it's finally caught up with him in a way because president trump did a lot to ensure that roger stone didn't get the maximum the maximum amount of time it has actually gotten less than half of the initial the initial amount and you know we've seen all of the all of the arguments and everything and circled around bill barr and the conversations he's had how he tried to dial things back as the trump's trump instigation in this in this process but i do think that there's something to be said about this president deciding that because he's had such a loyal person and roger stone that he was going to ensure that he did not he did

roger stone case. >>> the united states senate approved a bipartisan measure requiring the president to get the approvale taking military action against iran. ray bogan tells us this follows the trump administrations action earlier this year that killed a top general. >> the resolution has passed. >> reporter: the senate passed a resolution to require president trump to remove military forces targeting iran, within a month, unless congress approves. resolution states, congress has not yet declared war upon, nor enacted a specific statutory authorization for use of military force against the islamic republic. >> no president can sidestep congress. >> reporter: it is feeling debate about the balance between the presidents powers to defend against imminent threat, and congress has constitutional authority to declare war. the discourse escalated in january, when iranian general, qassem soleimani, was killed in an airstrike. democrat say that president trump should have briefed congress and received approval before taking action. >> in terms of other decisions that the president makes, that congress has a ro

now after that conviction, after roger stone's sentencing, the president of the united states is the person who is leading the charge to denigrate that process, including by name, to make them into villains. to carry down any of it. to intimidate any juror in any future case to make you think twice about how you might want to rule in a case like that given those other jurors who got attack attacked. jury tampering on a mass national scare personally carried out by the president of the united states. they go through all of this trouble to protect that jury. vans with tinted window. we need to make sure you are not aren't the harassment and determination. give roger stone a new trial. those jurors letting me know they're back. i know there's a lot going on, but that is a remarkable continue. it has remarkable consequences of cases going forward indefinitely after the president has done this. and inside the justice department the president's pressure on the process has been more droekt. katie and at a.m. recording with the view from in there. a trump employee has been ousted because of

states. i want the process to play out. roger has a very good chance of exoneration in my opinion. >>> the u.s. believes russia is at it again. trying to interfere in this year's election. sources tell cbs news a classified briefing to the house intelligence committee happened one week ago. national intelligence directors told lawmakers, russia is working to help president trump get reelected. so far, it is not clear what the evidence is. >>> usc is taking a step today to make college more accessible. the university announced today it will offer free tuition to families making under $80,000. the new policy kicks in for the upcoming school year this fall. >>> it's hard to imagine your workday without cut, copy, and paste commands on your computer. at silicon valley pioneer has died at the age of 74. while working at xerox in the 1970s, he invented the cut, copy, and paste commands, but find and replace. >>>, thank you larry. up next, dragged across the parking lot holding on for dear life. why the southern california woman says a

states. she went on to say this, quote, this case did not arise because roger stone was being pursued by his political enemies. it arose because roger stone characteristically injected himself smack into the middle of one of the most significant issues of the day. so let's start at the white house with our chief white house correspondent jim acosta. as i mentioned, the president's critics are warning him against pardoning stone. have you heard any response yet from the president on his friend? >> reporter: not just yet, brooke, and we should point out the president is speaking live right now in las vegas. he just took the stage at an event for former prisoners who are transitioning back into the work force. this has been a subject the president has been talking about. he talked about it during the state of the union speech, prison reform, and he's going to be talking about it here. it is quite the venue, i suppose, symbolically if the president were to go ahead and announce he's offering some sort of pardon or commutation of sentence to roger stone. i will tell you, brooke, if you look at th

support behind roger stone but stopped short of offering a pardon to the dirty trickster. >> i'm not going to do anything in term thocs of the great powe bestowed on the president of the united stateshe process to play out. i think that's the best thing to do. because i'd love to see roger exonerated because i personally think he waserated unfairly. and now akutded her of being an antitrump activist, in respuns to defending the prosecutors in the stone case. >> so, i hope the judge will find she's tainted and if she isn't, that will be fine too. anybody here know about a bad jury? mr. trump unleashed a flattout false hood of highs own when he said trump was not involved in the campaign. >> roger was never involved in the trump campaign for president. i think before i admounst it, but he was not involved when i ran for president. and again, he knows a lot of people having to do with politics. >> stone is part of a growing group sentenced or awaiting prison sentences. he he's floating the idea to keep them private. ophorine with rebard to fight and signal if they stay on the team and don't reveal further information, that thal rr be taken care of. >> at one point saying at the former

roger stone is too much. and not going add mccabe, is there still. >> deep state in the justice department. >> to start with withccabe. what do we know from the horowitz report? he's a disgrace to the fbi. he gave numerous false statements under oath. he was part of the comey-mccabe with a fake steele dossier pushed it forward despite pushback from the cia. inspector horowitz was very clear. the man is a disgrace. he's not a good person. the fbi is very lucky to be rid of him and our country is lucky to be rid of him. but then you go to someone like roger stone. you remember when they raided roger stone's house? they treated him like he was a mass murderer in the middle of the night. they went into his house with guns drawn. that man was not a threat to lives, to society. but they arrest him that way. judge jeanine: isn't that proof of my theory that you have got a deep state trying to go after republicans in a way that's so unlike how they handled democrats? it's ridiculous. you are the expert here, pam. >> the justice department and bill barr stepped in and did the right thing. the justice department said roge

his place when dozens of federal agents armed with automatic weapons dragged roger stone from his home at dawn. talk about stateor the last few days, the hyenas on cnn have been driven into hysteria by the thought that the justice department might reduce roger stone's sentence even by a day. >> it is clearly, utterly offensive to the rule of law. this is what sets this country apart. this is what a banana republic does. that is what a dictator does. it is outrageous. i hope people are infuriated by this. >> the reason they are doing it is a slimy, sleazy, dirty. >> roger stone is somebody i hold in minimum high esteem. so i was not happy to see him get seven to nine -- >> you didn't think that was too aggressive? >> i thought it was aggressive. >> tucker: wait a second. with that relieved john dean telling you how happy he is that roger stone will die in jail? so cnn's moral arbiter on questions of law and order is literally a convicted felon? it's enough to make your head spin. but at least it's now clear what's actually going on. this is a pure political hit. roger stone is facing prison because he is a high

roger has a very good chance of exoneration in my opinion. i'm not going to do anything in terms of the great powers bestowed upon a president of the united states. i want the process to play out. i think that's the best thing to do because i'd love to see roger exonerated. >> joining us now glenn kirschner, form prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst. he attended roger stone's sentencing today and the trial. glenn, so the president wants the process to play out or what is left in the process? >> the only thing left is for the judge to rule on an outstanding motion. it's a motion for a new trial, but you know what, lawrence? i was in the courtroom on tuesday when they had a teleconference and all the parties -- everybody in the courtroom could hear what was being discussed and at that point judge amy berman jackson said i've got the new trial motion from the defense, i have also looked at, i've skimmed the government's opposition, the prosecution's opposition. i think we can proceed to sentencing. you know, you don't have to read between the lines there to realize that judge jackson was saying she will deny the motion for a new trial. however, here'

the president's supporters, that roger stone was just a trickster and essentially he was exercising his first amendment right to support the president of the united states. and she kept saying, this is not hiji nrk hijinks, this is not about roger being roger. this was her way to sort of say, look, roger stone, you lied to a committee at the time that was led by republicans. so this is not about political party, this is about the conduct that really showed utter disrespect to the institutions of this country, not only to the congress which deserved the truth, but also to the courts, which he repeatedly, flagrantly violated the rules about his social media activity during the trial. >> brianna, i think that was one of the many things the judge and prosecution in court were trying to do today. they were trying to hold up the sanctity of the justice system. we saw the defense apologize to the judge, we saw them say they believe the judge will be fair and just. there are real consequences when you decide to lie and obstruct and witness tamper, so i think it was sort of a coordinated effort by the judge and the prosecutors in this case to try to defend this

would begin in the united states where president donald trump's longtime advisor roger stone has been sentenced to 3 years and 4 months in prison stone was convicted last year of lying to congress witness tampering and obstructing the investigation into russian interference in the 2016 presidential election prosecutors originally recommended a sentence of up to 9 years in jail that was later reversed by the justice department after trump complained publicly. that's going on that our white house correspondent kimberly halkett kimberly the length of the sentence was just one of the controversial elements in a case this cause ructions at the justice department a standoff between the president and the attorney general. that's right in fact. the judge berman jackson in her sentencing took into account she said both recommendations by the justice department the initial one of up to 9 years 7 to 9 years and the downgrade recommendation by the department of justice prosecutors and as you pointed out that downgrading of the recommendation came after the u.s. president weighed in on twitter cal

the united states who said, listening to nonsense from the president of the united states carrying on endlessly of roger stone's nine-year sentence for being unclear as to what he did. the president actually just said nobody even knows what he did. he is going on on a rant about james comey and the mueller investigation and all of this. i just want to be really clear about roger stone. he was convicted in november of lying to congress and tampering with a witness to prevent investigators from learning how the 2016 trump campaign tried to benefit from stolen democratic party emails. five counts of making false statements including lying to congress. one count of witness tampering. one count of obstruction of an official proceeding. yet the president continues to go on and on and on about how nobody even knows what he did. i don't know if we have ken dilanian. i think we have cynthia oxny. >> yeah. >> this is kind of remarkable. i mean, this is -- this goes to a whole new level. not just the president potentially influencing his attorney general to influence a court decision. that would be problematic in

fact that we're talking about roger stone and the fact the original sentencing guidelines from the doj were inappropriate was highlighted by the president of the united statesultimately the president is right to call out this injustice. >> that was congressman mark meadows, one of several coming to the president's defense after comments on roger stone's sentencing. democrats have taken a slightly different stance. joining us, democratic congressman from new jersey. react, please. >> obviously it is outrageous the president would get involved in ongoing investigation in the justice department. i am glad the attorney general has finally stood up here. >> do you believe he's stood up? you don't think that was just a show? >> we're going to hear more when he comes and testifies in coming weeks. this will be a question many of us and you even heard mitch mcconnell come out minutes ago and say this is a line you don't cross as president, you don't get involved in the justice department in ongoing investigations. >> except, congressman, with all due respect, there are no red lines. the president absolutely does cross a line. and he doesn't care. you're right. you'

difficult to believe that there was ever a good state intention of investigating and really probing what happened to these people now you have the roger talk shows back and going to buy a bunch of bucks i was defense chief during the final leo's of the civil war and he was elected with a vast majority in the elections or in the recent elections what does that mean for sri lanka and sri lanka he ordered ones. it's plenty of they want to heal old wounds electing rajapakse i was not the way to do it i mean it's a good i'll bet i'll buy some sense was accused of 7 wall crimes he has somehow evaded all these investigations into his war record and now he's back in power and he is known to be an authoritarian leader and quite a violent one of that and so to have him at the head of the government at a time when minorities are vulnerable as they always have been in sri lanka is a particularly problematic thing to happen you spoke about the minorities being vulnerable and it's something that you allude to in your book as well but i'd just like to know from you is true lanka an island for have a divided along racial ethnic and language lines. we