you know my name abdul angel. as american egyptian, i am here coming today on behalf of the young children who live around us. young children have become [speaker not understood] abused by their own parents and close relative. my ex-wife one of them. i've been shot in my mouth and i keep it in my earnest heart what happened to her when she was young, 14 year old. she becoming child abused by her parents and her brother. many other people who becoming victimized like her, they beginning to talk about it. they also write a book like you see here. [speaker not understood], she is not the first one. my ex-wife olivia [speaker not understood], she is not the last one. we should [speaker not understood] one of our supervisor, man or woman, to put the time to make a law or new law to protect these lovely children around us. ladies and gentlemen, i don't care if man or woman of you coming with law, to do something else, because i am going to see our and my friend the governor of california to do something else to protect

joining now is iman abdul nure from los angeles. he's the editor and chief of all for syria, and he's a former friend of the syrian president. welcome. good to see you. >> hello, john. hi. >> can you tell me a little about your friend and what you think about him now. >> he was a friend when he wasn't supposed to be a president since '84. since i knew him, he passed through three stages in his life until the 21st of january, 1994 when his older brother was killed in an accident. then the stage was prepared for him to be president. it has led him to be a totally different personality. then after the death of his father in 2000, when he became president, also his personality totally changed. so he's not the same person we knew him as in 1984. that's the issue. >> when his personality totally changed, what happened? >> what happened? he became more prepared and started to take lessons especially after 1994 to be a leader and to know more about syria and all the secret accords done by his father with a lot of international powers and ab