a pretty good look at china and we got a pretty good appreciation of the policies of the chinese communist party. there are you anxious to hear what conditions about conditions in this country as well well i remember interviewing guess harl who was your predecessor the and the head of the united states communist party years ago and he was a big friend of russia of communist russia didn't lula did the collapse of the soviet union affect the communist party united states a lot. it affected us we lost membership in the course of it but. the majority of members stayed in the state in the party and. were still. convinced that socialism offered a better way of life but it was an enormous change in the world setting and it was a start surprising that some people would. lose confidence and move faith in the possibility of socialism when the soviet union collapsed but again i think the majority of members. didn't waver and they continue to be convinced that socialism offers a better solution than capitalism the soviet union had a very poor record in terms of respect to individual freedoms and human right

chen says the factional rivalry within the chinese communist party was partly to plame for the failure to properly deal with the protests. he says this failure made the crackdown inevitable. after the tiananmen protest, chen was promoted to secretary of the communist party's bain jing muse pal committee, later dismissed from the post on corruption and other charges, sentenced to 16 years in jail but was later granted medical parole. chinese government says 319 people died when troops moved in to break up the protests. but others maintain that thousands died. >>> chinese leaders are trying to keep things calm as they head toward a leadership shuffle this fall. protesters in guangdong province started earning concessions. now xh . >> reporter: last december protesters took to the street in the eastern part of guangdong province. some protest ers attacked the local government building and clashed with police. the residents were -- protesters say the local officials seized 1,300 hectors of farmland. they add that the government sold it legally to developers. one of the protest leaders died

communist party. from this procedure we can learn several features concerning negotiation with the chinese communist regime. one, they are only restrained by their interests but not bound by their promises. this is because they do not recognize others but their own ideal from all evil cults. thereby insisting i stay in china in chong made a wrong judgment due to lack in common knowledge and u.s. government did not let him learn a common knowledge and brought to him the trouble that we have come up. two, the chinese government is not whole but consistent of various interest groups. the struggle is in those factions, lack of rules and national interests often become bargaining chip s between their own negotiations. promises mad by one faction often become targets to be attacked by other factions. non-compliance of agreement is common happening in china. the u.s. government by believing in promises made by one particular faction without any assurance has made a mistake of political judgment. three, taking hostage first and then make negotiation is a transitional waif negotiation by the chinese communists. in

what is it that set off the chinese communist party against him? the fact that he was one person in china who dared to stand up against the one child policy. he and his wife exposed the fact that there were an estimated 130,000 forced abortions and forced sterilization's in one year in 2005. and it was that fact that got him detained. he spent four years of treatment in children which time he was tortured. denied medical treatment, and now has been under house arrest. so women's rights without frontiers obtained the fieldnotes of chen guangcheng. we have the cases that he was working on when he was detained in 2006. we released those at a congressional hearing right here on december 6 of 2011, called the chen guangcheng report, and it is 35 pages of case after case of the most horrific human rights abuses that you can imagine. for example, a woman who was forcibly aborted and sterilized at seven months, villagers that would sleep in fields to a big planning family officials. family planning officials who broke three brims over the head of a man who

rid of the issue so they could concentrate on the trade talks between themselves and the chinese communist partyhings are more complicated but they're not -- they're not impossible. i think what the united states needs to do is give chen guangcheng and his family political asylum along with the woman who drove that car that saved him. it will be less complicated than dealing with the aftermath of having left him out to dry. >> her particular case, the woman driving the vehicle, the last time anyone had a chance to talk to her, she had to get off the phone because security forces were at her door and no one has had the opportunity to hear from her since. we're following that as well. appreciate your time, reggie littlejohn. >> thank you very much. >>> christine romans has our headlines this morning. >>> an emotional day in court for the daughter of john edwards. kate edwards left the courtroom in tears yesterday. she became upset when a former research director for edwards' campaign testified about a fight the candidate had with his wife, elizabeth. that fight took place in 2007 at the raleigh ai

i think the chinese communist party, which is a completely distinct animal, really does.i wouldn't necessarily agree with your comment that they know they have to change in the long run, because the kinds of, you know, tolerance for peaceful criticism or domestic debates, i think the party has made it pretty clear that it's not interested in making any kind of systemic change to take those --? not systemic change, but their tolerance level, their red lines do migrate somewhat. i mean, a lot of this is can depending on your starting point. if your starting point is to compare china to a universal standard of human rights, they fail. at the same time, if your starting point is china 20 or 30 years ago, this is a much different -- >> it's like they want you to leave them alone, but you start thinking and talking out loud, you have problems. >> if you have the political challenge -- >> we've got to go. continue your fight, sophie. great to have you on, p.j. this is something we're going to worry about for the rest of our lives, how far are we willing to upset the chinese. on

communist party. we don't think of the chinese communist party as a political organization these days. by technocrats obsessed with economic and engineering challenges. these men, and they are almost all men, are comfortable talking about detailed economic and technical data, laying out master plans for development, but they're not politicians adept at handling large crowds or palace intrigue. this apolitical system is a recent phenomenon, and the outcome of a conscious decision by the founder of modern china, deng xiaoping. mao preceded over a period of hyperpolitics. political purges, the great leap forward, the cultural revolution all designed to divide and destroy his opponents and consolidate his power. it was against in backdrop that the next great leader of china took power in the late 1970s. deng was determined to end the high drama of chinese political life and focus on economic development. he turned the party into a professional organization that was run by technocrats. by 1985, the country's top leadership, its central committee, was dominated by younger, college-educated g

i think the chinese communist party, a completely distinct animal, really does. the comment that they know they have to change in the long run. the tolerance for peaceful criticism and debating, the party made it clear that it's not interesting in making any systemic change. >> not systemic change, but their red lines do migrate somewhat. a lot of this is depending on your starting point. if your starting point is to compare china with a universal standard of rights, they fail. if it's from twenty or thirty years ago, this is a much different country. >> if you start thinking and talking out loud you have problems. >> we have to go, please, continue your fight. this is something we will worry about the rest of our lives, how far we're willing to upset the chinese. we'll be joined by clint hill, the great clint hill, assigned to jackie kennedy in 1963. what a friday night for us. when we return, i'll finish with is mitt romney the real deal or just a tool. ah, claim trouble. [ dennis ] you should just switch to allstate, and get their new claim satisfaction guaran

what is it that set off the chinese communist party against him? it is a fact that he was -- he was the one person in china who dared to stand up against the one child policy. he and his wife expose the fact there were an estimated 130,000 forced abortions and forced sterilizations and their city in one year. 2005. it was that act that got him detained. he spent four years in jail during which he was tortured, denied medical treatment, and now has been under house arrest. havemen's rights -- we obtained the field notes of chen guangcheng. we released those at a congressional hearing right here on december 6 of 2011. it is called the chen guangcheng report. it is 35 pages of the most horrific human rights abuses that you can imagine. for example, a woman who was forcefully aborted and sterilized and seven months, the visitors that sleep in the fields to of they'd family -- to evade family planning officials who broke abram over the head of a man whose children is expected to violate family planning law. they were forced to beat each other because so

but in fact, what chinese leaders are very much focused on is internal issues, whether the chinese communist party needs if fundamental changes. there are a lot of corruption issues they cannot sweep under the rug. these are very, very difficult times in china on domestic issues. >> chris hill, thank you so much. >>> and another weak month on the jobs front. what can be done? hilda solis joining us next. plus the rookie mistake in massachusetts. this is "andrea mitchell reports." a load of new listings... and two pills. after a morning of walk-ups, it's back to more pain, back to more pills. the evening showings bring more pain and more pills. sealing the deal... when, hang on... her doctor recommended aleve. it can relieve pain all day with fewer pills than tylenol. this is lois... who chose two aleve and fewer pills for a day free of pain. and get the all day pain relief of aleve in liquid gels. only hertz gives you a carfirmation. hey, this is challenger. i'll be waiting for you in stall 5. it confirms your reservation and the location your car is in, the moment you land. it's just another way

it's basically an arm ot chinese communist party to own capital state-owned enterprises. it's not market driven. no surprise there's all kinds of bad loans. they had a huge bailout in china, i think they're going to do another. >> jimmy, i think they are going to do another one. there are a lot of bad loans out there. but the question is on what basis does america keep this kind of a transaction from going through? and i quite frankly can't find a good reason for that. and neither did the fed because -- >> don and jimmy -- >> so did doj, signed off -- >> we have to break it up. it's a fantastic debate. all i can say is i hope china returns the favor and opens up their financial markets more. >> yes. >> to u.s. banks. and that would be an upside. just ahead on "street signs," it is raining royals. a side of prince charles you've never seen. >>> and we take you inside the intel investor meeting. the stock's had a pretty nice run this year, but dead money or so for the last decade. so we're going to ask the cfo what the company can do to ignite the intel engine. ntel en? you

to fund german of the communist party and eventually it had fallen out of the leadership, so without the ability to seize the power in the chinese communist party nothing would be possible just very recently there has been allegedly been within the core of the chinese communist authority the proposal to at least read the decision of the ambassador but highly controversial in the core of the communist authorities so i want you to comment on the impact is that stabilizing impact under the chinese communist party under the turning the table around on this issue. >> first your assumption general comment, first anybody had to have a firm grip on power to carry out his activities and that is true that two years after the vietnam war but i don't think that they are related and i talked to and i talked to many others and went through the records of the war, and what he was concerned about in 1979 when he invaded vietnam was that the soviets and vietnamese are cooperating the united states pulled out of vietnam he was very worried that the imam were going to circle around in circles china used by the soviet ships and there was a real dan

i am confident there will come a day when the communist party's brutal reign will end and the chinese people will experience a new birth of people. their oppressors and the one party structure will be on the trash heap of history, the same way president reagan said to tear down the wall and the evil empire would fall, the same thing will happen to the chinese government. until that day america should always stand with the chens oif the world. >> thank you very much. i would like to introduce our distinguished -- we have six outstanding human rights advocates who are testifying today. i will begin with the pastor, who is a leader in the 1989 student democracy movement and later became a pastor with his wife. authorities arrested them for their work. after their release they escaped to the united states in 2002. china it monitors reports of religious freedom in china. the pastor is for coli interviewed by media outlets around the world and has testified that u.s. congressional hearings. i know that when chairman wolf and i was in china on one of our major trips, we contacted fu who help

i also don't think this is an issue that spreads throughout the higher echelons of the chinese communist party nor does really affect the transes. >> rose: but there are those who look at this and say this is a problem china has. it's a problem of core runtion. >> oh, yes, it is. it is that. because let's face it, if you live in an environment where your top hundreds of officials are not just engineers and not just really smart guys, though they are that, but they are also worth billions and billions and billions of dollars, well, you don't want that information to get out. and yet we live in an information society. you remember when wiki leex came out in the united states, right. >> rose: yes, i remember. >> i was in the emirates at the time and i was seated next to a minister. >> rose: you hang out in the emirates but i don't. >> i don't hang out in the emirates, that's not truement i was there for the weekend. >> rose: for a conference or something. >> some god forsakeen conference and i was sitting next to some minister from qatar without said to me that we believed that we actually leaked

to fund german of the communist party and eventually it had fallen out of the leadership, so without the ability to seize the power in the chinese communist party nothing would be possible just very recently there has been allegedly been within the core of the chinese communist authority the proposal to at least read the decision of the ambassador but highly controversial in the core of the communist authorities so i want you to comment on the impact is that stabilizing impact under the chinese communist party under the turning the table around on this issue. >> first your assumption general comment, first anybody had to have a firm grip on power to carry out his activities and that is true that two years after the vietnam war but i don't think that they are related and i talked to and i talked to many others and went through the records of the war, and what he was concerned about in 1979 when he invaded vietnam was that the soviets and vietnamese are cooperating the united states pulled out of vietnam he was very worried that the imam were going to circle around in circles china used by the soviet ships and there was a real dan

to fund german of the communist party and eventually it had fallen out of the leadership, so without the ability to seize the power in the chinese communist party nothing would be possible just very recently there has been allegedly been within the core of the chinese communist authority the proposal to at least read the decision of the ambassador but highly controversial in the core of the communist authorities so i want you to comment on the impact is that stabilizing impact under the chinese communist party under the turning the table around on this issue. >> first your assumption general comment, first anybody had to have a firm grip on power to carry out his activities and that is true that two years after the vietnam war but i don't think that they are related and i talked to and i talked to many others and went through the records of the war, and what he was concerned about in 1979 when he invaded vietnam was that the soviets and vietnamese are cooperating the united states pulled out of vietnam he was very worried that the imam were going to circle around in circles china used by the soviet ships and there was a real dan

although pearl and jiang chung young appear safe for the moment, who knows whether the communist chinese party will retaliate against them if and when chen is able to come to the united states? women's rights of frontiers calls upon the congress of the united states to raise the safety of supporter who are heros in their own right. thank you. >> reggie littlejohn, thank you very much for that testimony. i'd like to ask chai ling fng she would present her testimony. >> thank you for your persistence in 13-plus years of fight to defend the victims in china and uphold human rights conditions in china. thank you for giving me the opportunity to share today about the cause that chen guangcheng has fought to uphold. you have heard much about his miraculous escape as the media firestorm surrounded him last week. you probably read dame about the journey and the twists and terps in diplomatic saga that followed. incredibly, u.s. officials fretted about the timing of chen's arrival at the embassy after he left they downplayed his concerns for his family's safety. several days ago an american official ca

although they appear safe for the moment, who knows whether the chinese communist party will retaliategainst them if and when chen is able to come to the united states. women's rights of the frontier called upon the united states and department of state to raise awareness of the supporters in their own right. thank you. >> thank you very much for the testimony. would you present your testimony to the subcommittee? >> thank you, chairman smith, and your 13-plus years of fight to defend victims in china and uphold the human rights conditions in china. thank you for the opportunity for me to share the cause that they have upheld. i heard more about the escape as the media fire storm surrounded him last week and talked about details to the journey of beijing, and you learn about twists and turns in the is saga that followed. and u.s. officials and the timing of the arrival at the embassy. after he left, he down played concerns about his family's safety. several days ago, an american official casually told the new new york new times that the relationship is over, and maybe they referred to

what is it that set off the chinese communist party against him?the fact that he was one person in china who dared stand up against one child policy. he and his wife exposed the fact that there were an estimated 130,000 forced abortions and forced sterilizations in one year in 2005 and it was the fact act that got him in d change. he spent four years in jail during which he was tortured, denied medical treatment and now has been under house arrest. obtained the field notes of chen guangcheng, we have the cases that he was working on when he was detained in 2006. we release those at a congressional hearing dec. 6, 2011. it is called the chen guangcheng report. 35 pages of case after case of or cumin rights abortions. woman was sterilized at seven months. villagers in fields to leave a family planning officials. family planning officials who broke a -- three brooms over the head of a man whose children were suspected of having violated family-planning law. family planning officials who force the grandmother and brother to beat each other because some

now, as i mentioned earlier, my fundamental belief, you see, china belongs to the chinese people, not communist party or government party. >> but is china's power -- >> so things are changing. >> but is china's new power good for tibet or is it dangerous for tibet? because the rest of the world may become so fearful of offending the chinese that they stop talking about tibet. >> some, yes, more sort of cautious. but somehow it's a tibet issue. this is a very much just an issue and also a moral issue. so number of chinese also showing they're changing sort of the sense of solidarity with us. and the world -- many parts of the world, at least who know something about tibet, the current situation, i think very, very sympathetic. so they have very much concern. and the political or business company sometimes cautious. >> how did you feel when president obama delayed his meeting with you when he became president because the chinese objected and he met with them first? did that offend you? >> no. >> did you understand why he did that? >> actually, he sent a special sort of representative. i mean, he send s

the communist party controls the government. less than one in 20 chinese people belong to the party. i had been warned not to stop chinese people and ask about their government. any criticism of the party could bring consequences for them and their families. >> you don't make a deal about the one-party system, you don't make a deal about taiwan. >> jeff andrews is the american director of the international school in beijing. he's also a former associate of former d.c. mayor adrian fenty. he has lived in china for 10 months. >> i don't think there are any listening devices in my house, in my car. >> i saw firsthand that the one- party rule often gets things done in record speed. most of these office buildings and condos have been pilot in the past two 1/2 decades. highways and 14-lane boulevards have replaced dirt roads. while democrats debate in the u.s. universal healthcare, it's already here. i got the chance to visit a hospital, specifically a cardiac unit where i was told the government mandates basic care the available to everybody although it may tak

communist party. so, susumu, are there any similarities in the way the chinese government has been handling this and the chairmanship? >> yes, there are some similarities. nhk's international tv reports on chen have been interrupted several times in china. the same measures were taken when bo's case came out. also, the search results for both bo's and chen's names are blocked on china's popular blogging sites. china seems concerned that if the chen issue drags on, it might lead to mounting criticism from human rights activists on the country's one-party rule. china will have its own leadership transition in the fall. what the chinese leader wants most now is a smooth transfer of power and to maintain social stability. >> susumu kojima in beijing. >>> greece may be headed for another round of national elections next month, if a coalition can't be created. voters rejected the government's austerity measures, that the partners couldn't gain a combined majority in sunday's elections. the leader of the new democracy party, antonis samaras. couldn't convince others to join him in a coalition led by his party.

communist parties is what it's doing. and this is a conversation worth having for the chinese people. >> we just played mitt romney saying tough on china. he said he called them a currency manipulator on day one, he said that in the past. here's what you said about mitt romney on china at the abc debate in january. >> it's important to note as they would say in china. court" to resolve a dispute over her engagement ring. he has been labeled someone police are looking at in the investigation. it has been six months and no arrests and no michelle. her family has been relentless in its search for answers, and today made this emotional appeal. >> i'm a mother. this is my first born child. and i don't know where she is. and i don't know who did it for sure. sure. i don't know where they put her. i want my baby back. and if somebody never goes to jail, i don't really care. i just want my girl. >> michelle parker's mother is "outfront" tonight. along with their attorney matt along with their attorney matt i'm glad you all are here.

the case of blind activist chen guangcheng, the chinese government clamping down, perhaps harder than ever on other voice of descent. communists parties authoritarian rule. we spoke to several on the inside today. the organization human rights in china told us they haven't heard anything from activist and chen confidant zeng chengdang for days. latest tweet two days ago when she announced she was under house arrest. human rights lawyer was also reportedly detained and beaten. he tried to visit chen in the hospital thursday evening. then there's this woman also known by her english name pearl pup see her there. she's the woman we told you about that helped chen escape his house arrest in the dead of night. she was detained herself. we are told by human rights groups she was released yesterday. take a look at this man. an unnamed supporter of chen's who actually would not allow cnn to identify him today pup soo pictures from behind him and his computer, not his face. why? he says he fears for his safety. coving this story, he and his crew, you see these pictures here. this is obviously -- you can see an altercation. followed by plained