i'd like to ask pos tar bob fu if you'd proceed. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you very your leadership. thank you for the honorable congressman for your continued support on behalf of chen and his family. while we're still waiting for real progress report about the chen and his close family members, any plan or about the issuance of a passport from the chinese government today i want to focus on the plight of his extended family members and his supporters. and especially i'm deeply concerned about chen's nephew. and i want to really give you an updated report after talking with at least two of his lawyers and another legal representative in the past few days. he's the chronology for what had happened to mr. chen. he has been you should criminal detention since april 30th. then on may 9th, he was formally arrested with the trumped up charge called intentional homicide. this is what the so-called homicide happened. after his escape last month the local official who has been directing the persecution of chen, led a group of people in a raid of the home of ch

first, bob fu. [ speaking in foreign languag ] language ]. >> the great wei jingsheng. reggie littlejohn. [ speaking in foreign language ]. >> chai ling and mrs. mei. and we're also joined by congresswoman bass. [ speaking in foreign languag ] language ]. >> and congresswoman buerkle from new york. [ speaking in foreign language ]. >> briefly, the focus of the hearing has been about your safety around your wife and children. [ speaking in foreign languag ] language ]. >> with a particular emphasis on your cause, fighting, as you did so bravely to prevent women from forced abortion. [ speaking in foreign languag ] language ]. >> and to rally congressional support and hopefully executive branch support and hopefully worldwide support for your extended family as well as your friends, like hu kai run. [ speaking in foreign languag ] language ]. >> if i could ask very briefly. >> translator: thank you. >> has the united states government, our embassy, been able to in any way make contact with your extended family and your friends who are at grave risk and are suffering beati

i hope today's witnesses will shed some light on the matter, especially bob fu, chen's friend who ispersonally predicted some china's most courageous dissidents and advocates. even though there's much we do not know, this much is certain. the administration, the obama administration, has a moral, a high moral obligation to protect chen and his family, to do anything less would be scandalous. president ronald reagan famously said that the u.s. constitution is a covenant that we made natalie with ourselves but with all of mankind. some in washington may forget that the document transcends history, but this freedom loving people the world over know this intuitively to be true. there's a reason students protectors in tiananmen square, the american deadlift of independence and carried a papier-mÂchÉ model of what looked to be the statue of liberty. america missed an opportunity, america missed an opportunity in tiananmen. will this administration fail to see the historic moment? the reverberations of such they are nearly impossible to calculate. the world is watching, both dictators and d

hopefully. >> pastor bob fu, thank you so much for your testimony and insights. now yield to wei jingsheng. a political prisoner for 18 years. the father of the democracy movement. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: in january 1904, 1994, i met for three hours in beijing. he was aware of the policy for chinese human rights. at the time, the secretary of the statement with me in beijing in that spring. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: since then, there is a very important negotiation going on. that negotiation has not only affected the human rights situation in china, but also u.s. and china relationships. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: to this point, there were not too many people that had the knowledge of this history. and i think it is very important for the negotiation. it makes a good reference to the present. therefore, i give you reflections of the history because it is long, i will have my assistant read out my statement to you. thank you. in september 1993, i was released a half year ahead of schedule with conditions restrict

bob fu, you've known mr. chen a long time, you talked to him today. how did he sound today? did he sound as committed as it sounds that he wants to leave? >> he's very clear to me last night when i had phone call and today at the congressional hearing he and his family do not feel safe? china, they want to leave as soon as possible. >> brown: and there was the suggestion in that clip that you are suggesting there are dangers to his family, to neighbors, to other people. >> that's right. he's concerned his family members are being arrested or threatened. so that's his concern. >> brown: is it your sense that he had a change of heart? there's still confusion about what he told u.s. officials and what he later said when he left the embassy. >> apparently he said he was not getting the full picture for the threat, the length of threat his family member had received before he walked out of the u.s. embassy. so he was... he felt some sort of threat before he walked out of the embassy already when the message came to him, basically said if you don't walk out today then your family

first, bob fu. reggie han, ch hi ling and mrs. mei. we're also joined by congresswoman bass and congresswoman burkele from new york. briefly the focus of the hearing has been about your safety and your wife and children. with a particular emphasis on your cause, fighting as you did so bravely to defend women from forced abortion and to rally congressional support and hopefully executive branch support and hopefully worldwide support for your extended fam y family, as well as your friends. if i could ask you very briefly, has the united states government, our embassy, been able to in any way make contact with your extended family and your friends who are at grave risk and who are suffering beatings? >> translator: for that question i'm not very clear on the specifics but i do know, however, the u.s. embassy has been communicating with me every day. >> if i could, your wife and your children, how well are they doing under this enormous burden? >> translator: they're doing fine, especially my two children. they kept telling my wife and i

bob fu is the president of china aid. he's joining us right now via skype. so you spoke to chen before he boarded that flight. give me an idea what the conversation was like, how you were able to get he and his family off so quickly? >> it's really the answer to a prayer. i think it proves the international pressure with constructive diplomatic dialogue did produce results. and the congress had two hearings in 10 days only for chen guangcheng and his plight in china. i think all things work together that has been happening. i talked with him six times before he boarded his flight today. he sounded very upbeat. although i can tell he's very concerned about his extended family members that he will leave behind who are facing some real serious retribution by the local authorities. >> what are his fears specifically about what kind of retribution those family members, extended family members, one specifically, a neph nephew, left behind might possibly face. >> that's right. his nephew had been charged with a trumped up charge called intentional homicide for simp

my name is bob fu. most people here know me as bob. am the founder of china aid association based in midland, texas. in 1989, i was part of the democracy moment in tiananmen square. though the movement was crushed, the hearts for freedom have continued. later i became a house church pastor and would eventually build a church and a secret bible school. in 1996, my wife and i escaped to hong kong, and in 1997, we were admitted to the united states of america as refugees, just days before hong kong was handed over to china. banned unofficial churches in china have 60 to 80 meetings on trend followers, who are at great risk, and are trying to exercise their chinese constitutional guaranteed religious freedom. those in prison for their release are typically denied access to religious materials, including the bible. one group of prisoners transcribed each book of the bible by hand into notebooks and circulated them within the prison. i am presenting one of those notebooks to the president and mrs. bush for the inclusion in the freedom collec

i want to thank bob fu for setting up that phone call. and that just absolutely underscores why we're here and why we will be unceasing if i could go to some final questions. mr. wolf, did you ask your questions? mr. horowitz, you made an excellent point about the willingness to negotiate and to be the last person standing, so to speak. your afl-cio analogy was a great one. i actually met with the pentecostal seven in 1982 when they were holed up in the russian-u.s. embassy to the soviet union in moscow and we did stand steadfastly by them and time was not the issue. i thought your point was extraordinarily well taken if you wanted to elaborate that. my hope is and i know the press have all left, but i think it's very important that the president of the united states, i would appreciate your views on this, speak out from the perch of the white house. obviously as the leader of the free world, it's amazing to me that when asked about guangcheng he said he had no comment. during the horrible days of aparthe apartheid, if any president, reag

bob fu, if anybody would like to make any final statement before we conclude the hearing. >> yeah, i would like to, you know, chairman smith, you such a hero and inspiration to all of us, too. there's no anyone else in this country have fault and stood together with the vick trims like mei shunping and chen guangcheng. thank you for your work and we encourage the leaders, including president obama and secretary of state hillary clinton to join us and bring about an end to the this horrific and largest crime against humanity this year. thank you. >> i want to thank our distinguished witnesses. we will continue pursuing obviously chen's case until it is resolved successfully and the focus he's brought on the hidos one child policy and god willing it will end. hearing adjourned. >>> the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck japan in 2011 washed merely five tons of debris, including cars and boats into the pacific ocean. some of that debris has reached the u.s. and canadian shores with much more expected. today officials from the coast guard and noaa will testify about the u.s. r

bob fu is out, so if anybody would like to make any final statement before we conclude the hearing. >> yeah. i would like to, you know, chairman smith, you know, you are such a hero, inspiration to all of us, too. there's no anyone else in this country has fault as to the victims like chen guangcheng for the past 30 years. thank you for your persistence. may god bless you and, you know, all the work that you are doing, and we do believe this year china's one-child policy and gendercide will come to an end. we encourage the american leaders, including president obama and secretary clinton and all the congressional leaders to join us, join the people and to bring about an end to this horrific, the largest crimes against humanity on earth and this year. thank you. >> i want to thank our distinguished witnesses. we will continue pursuing obviously chen's case until it is resolved successfully, and the focus that he has brought on the hideous one-child per couple policy will increase in terms of focus, scrutiny and god willing it will end. the hearing is adjourned. >>> the state department

thank you, brother bob fu, sister reggie littlejohn for all of your prayers. this is what happened. 20 hours later in midnight on the next day in china, because they were watching us at 4:00 a.m., their time, lilna was blindfolded, together with her mom, blindfolded and drove off and dropped off outside beijing two hours away and released alongside, together with her baby and mother. a dramatic answer to our prayers. and chen guangcheng, despite the fact chen guangcheng chg has not obtained the full freedom, but his ability to escape from a massive prison was no less a miracle either. your words are so important. media attention is also so important and prayers very important as we speak publicly as this also reminds us that the chinese government watches us. the world watches us, and acts in response to our conviction. so with your permission i would like to end this testimony with a prayer. heavenly father, you, lord, hear the desires of afflicted and encourage them and listen to their cry. you hear the cries of people in china calling for your justice and m

my name is -- [inaudible] fu, most people know me as bob.ical american name -- chinese name. i'm the founder of china aid association based near midland, texas. in 1989 i was part of the student democracy movement in tiananmen square. though the movement was crushed by tanks, yet the hearts for freedom have continued. later, i became a house church pastor out of -- and was eventually jailed for running an independent house church and a secret bible school. in 1996 my wife and i escaped to hong kong, and in '97 we were admitted to the united states of america as refugees just days before hong kong was handed over to china. banned unofficial churches in china have 60-80 million followers who at great risk are trying to exercise their chinese constitutional guaranteed religious freedom. those in prison for their beliefs are typically denied access to religious materials including the bible. one group of prisoners, imprisoned laborers, transcribed each book of the bible by hand into notebooks and circulated from within the prison. last year i pr

i want to thank bob fu for setting up that phone call.and that just absolutely underscores why we're here and why we will be unceasing. i could go to some final questions. mr. wolf, did you ask your questions? mr. horowitz, if i could begin with you. i think you made an excellent point about the willingness to negotiate and to be the last person standing, so to speak. your afl-cio, i think, analogy was a great one. i actually met with the pentacostal seven in 1982 when they were holed up in the russian/u.s. embassy to the soviet union in moscow, and we did stand steadfastly by them, and time was not the issue. so i thought your point was extraordinarily well taken. if you wanted to elaborate that. my hope is, and i know the press have all left, but i think it's very important that the president of the united states, i would appreciate your views on this, speak out from the perch of the white house. obviously, as the leader of the free world, you know, it's amazing to me that when asked about chen guangcheng, he said he had no comment. if,

pastor bob fu, founder of china aid association translated. >> he wants to come to the u.s.time of rest. he has not had any rest in the past ten years. >> reporter: chen told fu he no longer feels safe in his home country. >> i really fear my other family members life and we have installed seven video cameras and even with electric fence. >> reporter: fu told congress members that chen had every reason to be worried. even his wife was being threatened. >> the interrogator told her that if her husband did not walk out of the u.s. embassy, they would kill her. >> reporter: even republican presidential candidate mitt romney is talking about chen's situation. while stumping in virginia, he called it nothing short of a debacle. >> if these reports are true, this is a dark day for freedom, and it's a day of shame for the obama administration. >> reporter: at this point there's little help the u.s. can offer chen. he's back in chinese hands, so the most diplomats can do is monitor his safety. diana perez, abc news, new york. >>> newly released documents show osama bin laden was foc

. >> the man holding the phone right there, bob fu, helped organize chen's escape from house arrest andthere testifying on his behalf. bob, it is good to see you. a dramatic phone call like that, a chinese dissident in a hospital surrounded by chinese authorities, allowed to call into a u.s. congressional hearing. yet, u.s. embassy officials that want to see him in person are kept outside the hospital and not allowed in. what does that tell you about what's going on in the chinese leadership? >> i think it shows the chinese leadership are having some difficulties to find the easy solution to handle this man and his story. >> i want you to listen to gary locke, the u.s. ambassador who says that he says that the united states team laid out the threats and risks and that chen wanted to go. >> he was very, very clear all along. he wanted to be reunified with his family. he wanted to stay in china to be a freedom fighter. he did not want to go to the united states. >> you hear the ambassador say he did not want to go to the united states. as soon as he made it to the hospital, it seems he ha

that's congressman chris smith of new jersey and pastor bob fu on the right, holding a cell phone and translating for mr. chen. >> translator: i want to meet with the secretary clinton. i hope i can get more help from her. i also want to thank her face to face. >> what happens now is unclear. presidential candidate, mitt romney, wasted no time today criticizing president obama for this unexpected almost unprecedented turn of events. he called it, quote, a day of shame for the obama administration. secretary clinton is scheduled to depart china tomorrow.

that's congressman chris smith of new jersey and pastor bob fu on the right, holding a cell phone and translating for mr. chen. >> translator: i want to meet with the secretary clinton. i hope i can get more help from her. i also want to thank her face to face. >> what happens now is unclear. presidential candidate, mitt romney, wasted no time today criticizing president obama for this unexpected almost unprecedented turn of events. he called it, quote, a day of shame for the obama administration. secretary clinton is scheduled to depart china tomorrow. the next 24 hours are going to be critical for mr. chen and potentially for america's future relationship with china. this is what has happened so far. the next 24 hours are going to be really important. stay tuned. >>> declassified documents. papers seized from osama bin laden's lair reveal the terror leader's final thoughts. >>> supermoon. why this weekend's full moon will be bigger and brighter than any other day this year.

. >> so that was bob fu translating for him. >> andrea again, that underscores that the extended family we knew of at least four, maybe more of his family members who were interrogated and you know interrogation means this, they come at you, they use a great deal of force to try to compel information from the individual and sometimes they just do it out of hate and spite. but that story and what's happening now needs to bring light on these other individuals. you know, we cacs chen. my strongest feeling was that he should have been given more time in the embassy to really think through his options but again, there was a hurry-up offense to get him out but hopefully it has a happy ending. let's not lose focus and keep our eye on these individuals who again, as soon as the lights go out, the media scrutiny as well as other scrutiny seems to dissipate, the chinese if past is prolong government will move aggressively against them. that is my greatest fear now. >> congressman, thank you very much. thanks for joining us today. >>> and joining me now, former u.s. ambassador christopher hill wh

that's congressman chris smith of new jersey and pastor bob fu on the right, holding a cell phone andng for mr. chen. >> translator: i want to meet with the

actually pastor bob fu from china aid set up the phone call. i had been trying to days to get in touch with chen guangcheng and he actually made the contact and then we put it, obviously, to the microphone so all could hear some of his comments. he is very, very concerned about his welfare. but even more so about his family, his wife, his extended family, his nephew as well as people like the woman who actually brought him in her car to the embassy. she has disappeared. she may be under house arrest. nobody knows for sure. but she is in a terrible, terrible situation and we're very concerned about her. >> what else did he say? obviously you're talking about we heard some of what he said on the microphone. what else did he say? >> he's also concerned that even though there seemed to be an agreement, and i am very concerned myself that it was never -- or apparently was not written down as to what safeguards he and his family were given and who enforces it. there was a hurry-up effort, it seems to me, to get him out of the embassy. you know, i hea

bob fu. even though there is not much we do not know, this much is certain. the obama administration has a high moral obligation to protect chen and his family. to do anything less would be scandalous. ronald reagan famously said the u.s. constitution is a continent -- covenant that we have made not only with ourselves but all of mankind. some in washington may forget it transcends history. freedom-loving people the world over know it is true. there is a reason the student protesters carried models of what looked to be the statue of liberty. american missed an opportunity. america missed an opportunity. will this administration fail to see the historic moment? the world is watching, both dictators and dissonance. the administration must be bold. the minister is and must make -- the administration must make sure his safety and that of his family. if news reports are to be believed, the administration must grant him and his family asylum and refuse to apologize despite a chinese government' demands. throughout history of america's embassies have been silence of

i take some of the questions posed by all do and by bob fu need to be answered. and i think we need to take him and they say this to the press with their grain of salt, with gratitude for efforts made on his behalf. i believe we have dropped the ball significantly. i've been in this business of human rights work for 32 years. i broke my eye teeth on soviet jewry issue. my first trip was moscow leningrad in 1982. as a mentioned earlier, to mr. horowitz in response to his mention of the siberian seven, the pentecostal christians met with him and we stood firmly, clearly under u.s. lay with those who are espousing freedom and democracy and said we are a solidarity with you, and in the case of soviet jewry, we risk superpower confrontation by linking with the release and freedom of soviet were being horribly treated by moscow. we need that same kind of fire in the belly for human rights at the white house. i still find it appalling that president obama had no comment when speaking about chen guangcheng. he should have gushed about this brave leader, and equally his w

i want to thank bob fu for setting up that phone call. that absolutely _ is why we are here and why we are working. let's go to some final questions. did you ask your questions? if i could begin with you. i think he made an excellent point about the willingness to negotiate and be the last person standing, so to speak. your analogy was a great one. i met with the pentecostal in 1982 when it will hold up in the russian-u.s. embassy in moscow. we did stand by them. time was not the issue. i thought your point was well taken. if you wanted to elaborate. my hope is, i know the press has all left. i think it is important that the president of the united states speak out from the perch of the white house. obviously, as the leader of the free world, it is amazing that when asked about chen guangcheng he said he had no comment. at the time, during apartheid, when nelson mandela, if any president, reagan, bush, were to be asked about those individuals, they would launch into a defense of those brave men and women. and yet, no comments from the pre

i just want to apprise everyone bob fu has made contact with chen guangcheng. we just had an interesting and enlightening conversation. we are going to put him on the speaker. >> [speaking chinese] >> [speaking chinese] >> i want to make the request to guaranteed because -- the translation, i am sort of lost. he wants to come to the u.s. for some time of arrest. -- of rest. he has not had any rest in the past 10 years. [speaking chinese] >> [speaking chinese] >> i want to meet with secretary clinton. >> [speaking chinese] >> i hope i can get more help from her. >> [speaking chinese] >> i also want to thank her face to face. >> [speaking chinese] >> i fear for my other family members lives. they have installed seven video cameras. even an electric fence. now, he wanted, he said those security officers in my house, he said, we want to see what else chen guangcheng will do. >> [speaking chinese] >> the thing i am most concerned with right now is the safety of my mother, my brothers, i really want to know what is going on with them. >> [speaking chinese] >> thank y