the feminist chinese women during the turn of the century and i wanted to write about my japanese culter. i didn't have the story or the culture unfortunately because i was born in san francisco, half chinese and half japanese but raised in the chinese culture. when it was time to write the second book and i knew i wanted to explore my japanese side it was going to be difficult in the way that i didn't know the culture. right away i had to learn a lot. it was something that was not engrained in me besides the story. i sat down and thought about the story my mother told me about her brother being ill. he at one point went from hong kong to japan to recuperate. he was the one that wanted to be an artist and wanted to paint. i thought about that because it must have been hard growing up in hong kong to be far away from everything and have a dream and get sick at this point. i thought u is there a story here? that's the way it begins for writers. people think things jump out and we have it in our head. it's the opposite we have nothing in our head. we turn on the machine and praying for some

. >> man came up behind me and he put a box culter to my throat and he stabbed me in the palm of my hand and he told me if i screamed he would kill me. >> reporter: eleanor was able to get away before she was raped but not before getting stabbed three times with a box cutter in northwest d.c.. >> and he start today push me into the -- started to push me into the brick wall. >> reporter: as horrific as the experience was she felt victimized again when she went to police. >> they were completely unresponsive to me and they inaccurately reported what happened to me. and i really -- i mean it was horrible that night was horrible. i was traumatized. but i really didn't feel like so much of a victim until i started dealing with the police because i saved myself. >> reporter: eleanor is would be of the 170 cases human rights watch says was not reported or not properly investigated. >> over 40% of people who enter the hospital had a sexual assault exam. and reported to police while they were at the hospital had no investigation done on their cases. >> reporter: we reached out to metropolitan pol

mewhile, conservative commentator and culter has come up a bit provocative argument on the issue wonderingof american citizens should be made public. >> why are we getting ames of recently paroled criminals? people with gun permits by definition do not have criminal records. why can we get a record of women who have had abortions? they give money from planned parenthood, money from medicare, medicaid. much of this, tax subsidies. mothers might want to know what other women on their street have -- might be willing to murdered child. lou: if liberals weren't paying attention before, my guess is they're beginning to now. thank you, ann coulter. officials in putnam county new york fighting back after a newspaper published on-line maps detailing names a addresses of gun permit holders into neighboring counties. putnam county officials are refusing to and -- hand over any information to the journal news on gun permits. for the latest in this battle and joined by putnam county executive maryellen adelle. great to have you with us. >> thank you. lou: you have taken principled stand knowing that yo