it's great to see you and also robert spalding is joining us this morning senior fellow and author of the upcoming book stealth war. i want to understand what your concerned most about when it comes to this weekend. we set this segment up and talked a little bit before we just came on right now how many how much of that campaign is being felt on the ground >> absolutely very little. i mean, the support for the protestors is still very strong in hong kong you saw almost 2 million people very peacefully in victoria park last weekend and we all hoped that we would see a less passive stance from the hong kong government and more of an olive branch it was the perfect opportunity and when this failed to materialize i think the sentiment here turned very