what clinched it for me, the notion of global citizenship being a citizen of the world when gerard depardieu did not want to pay fringe taxes, he did not say i don't want to pay french taxes. he said i am a citizen of the world and that was it. >> before we get to the larger implications of this, if you talk about how you picked the site you went to as a reporter, how and why, quick on where you went and what you found. >> your ago i was in kuwait, a quick turnaround so i went, traveled a bunch to see conferences for citizenship, from malta to london but through this book in particular, i went to kuwait because i heard a rumor that kuwait was going to buy citizenship for stateless people. crazy thing happens. >> why did they want to do this for kuwaiti citizenship? >> really good question. kuwaiti citizenship means getting a lot to benefit. it is expensive and politically if the to give citizenship because you don't know how they are going to vote so the kuwaitis in general, bahrain is an exception, gulf countries don't like to extend their citizens that much. it makes sense. anyway, i went