three days after we announced relations, deng xiaoping, the unquestioned leader of china, said there were or to have reform in china, and that is when china began to open up not only aggressive human rights for their own people but to reach out for the rest of the world. it was a turning point in the history of china and our country. tavis: there is a c 100, a prominent chinese americans who are making sure american journalists have a chance to talk to the people. i was surprised that we get this impression that they do not want to talk openly about issues and cannot "the government publicly, but in private conversations will tell you honestly how they feel. what is your sense of the future of our relationship with china? because this imbalance coming in so many ways, seems to be becoming more critical. >> for more than 12 years, i had a contract with the government of china to promote democracy in little villages in china, over 600,000 villages. they have pure, open, honest, completely democratic elections for the little villages. we monitor those. we have a website that has more th

the developing world cook their meals on permited indoor stoves fuelled by waste, would, coal, and deng. every year according to the united nations, smoke from these stoves kills 1.9 million people, mostly women and children from long and hard disease and low birth weight. this is your area, right? >> think about that little kid who is strapped on, others back end breeding and that smoke -- on their mother is back and breathing in the smoke and later dies of pneumonia and a mother says it is god's will, but it was the smoking was breathing. >> tell us what you see and what your experience brings us here to the table. kind of a mini summit we are having here. a little security council. >> thank you very much. i see a world where we are all interconnected, without borders. a where what you do is going to affect your neighbor. in the end we must work together or we will be forced by circumstances to work together. you think of some former farming upstream and cutting the trees, and the water and the rain falls, and the flooding goes down and dooms the people down the hill. we must think th

francis deng made reference to that, uh, and the others as well. in afghanistan, i think, we're seeing this problem be confronted head on. the military operations are not done, but development, getting economic development going in that country is really a big, big, big challenge. what's the answer to that? is government the best answer to that? are non-government organizations the best answer to that? ambassador? >> well, i think it, it's a little bit of everything. you're right. afghanistan is a very poor country. usually in these civil war situations, they start with a poor country and destroy what they have and, and so they dig themselves economically an even deeper hole to climb out of. certainly, there's a role for government in providing development assistance, humanitarian assistance, which is essential to make sure that the population has enough to eat, has medical care and the basic necessities. and then you worry about the other kinds of things, the more complicated economic development issues like infrastructure and utilities and that s

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he is kre denged. he was speaker of house so in that sense-- and he's very conservative.ake no mistake about it. and that, those all resonate this year in florida. >> lehrer: what about the point that was really made dramatically in gwen's piece, what this is doing to democrats in florida. you look ahead, there could be some scars, right? >> right, and scars over the future of the party. i mean it's funny how the entire democratic party is getting their recriminations in early, even as the race is gng on. and they've got to figure out if there is an election, they've got it figure out-- or if there is a defeat they have to figure out what this means and sort of the collapse of the democratic candidate in florida has launched this early. >> lehrer: this is tough stuff. >> no question. democrats who privately a lot of leaders down there is a gee, is there a way we could support crist. he had robert kennedy, jr. and arnold schwarzenegger endorse crist this week. that is sort of reflective of the breadth of his support and his potential. but kendrick meek won the democratic p

. >> judge o'malley, a former prosecutor, was appointed to a 10-year term did i then governor glen deng. as a first-district judge, she considers herself a positive force in often troubled lives. >> i like it because i get to deal with people every day. i feel like i'm a problem solver. if i'm in a criminal case i can try to divide the sentence that will help them. >> what don't you like about your job? >> putting people in jail. i don't like it. it's not a pleasant thing to do, to take someone's liberty away. >> katie o'malley, love of my life. >> they married in 1990 and have four children. 19, 13, 8 -- they join her for an appearance at johns hopkins. they grew up in a family steeped in public service. they are extremely close. the busy mother of four said she relies on family members daily. >> i am very fortunate i have great family support from my parents. my brother max and his wife. whenever i need -- can somebody grab this one or that one or whatever, i have great support. >> after raising a family in the political spotlight, katie said overall marylanders have been kind and res