evan osnos is "the new yorkers'" china correspondent, but he is here this week in new york. welcome. >> thanks. glad to be here. >> so this sounds like something out of a murder mystery. how do you think most chinese people are reacting? the news of this guy who was really one of the most admired people in china from what we could tell has suddenly been now revealed to be a corrupt hack or is being kind of painted as a corrupt hack by officials. >> this story is unprescedented. we're talking about the world's second largest economy, the most powerful men in charge. bo shi li was going to be perhaps one of the nine people running the country this fall, and now he has been -- he has fallen from grace, and, of course, in the course of just a few weeks, and this has really left people's head spinning because in the chinese press, they're being told every day this man was a criminal. this man who had been celebrated just a couple of months ago, and this is very hard for the party to explain to people. this is a problem that's hard to houb is a man accused of wiretapping his peers