i saw him -- i saw him in hong kong while was there. we have all been working on this for very long time. there are some new prisoners that just came out of china to account for the treatment they received. this list on my poster is a list of heroes. you are, too. thank you for your courage to turn out here today to stand into the capital, to hold us accountable to our own values and to continue to work together to remember the massacre, to get a public accounting of it, and can i say just one thing in closing? it was shocking to me. on the way there, perhaps you saw the frontline documentary on tiananmen square. this icon is seared in the minds of people throughout the world. and they had, in this documentary that they showed it to students at beijing university, and those students had no idea what this was a photo of. they said, what is that? is it art? did you put that together? this is an indication of how the chinese government has suppressed what happened on june 4 in the days leading up to it. this was actually a couple of days a

this all -- influence the type of disease that started in hong kong and killed 1000 people. the concern is that you can spread a biological weapon, and we wouldn't even know that it has been spread. it can be done clandestinely, and all of a sudden you have a lot of people sick. think about how the swine flu has spread. host: on the issue of terrorism, take the anthrax issue. is that you from eight years later as an incident of domestic terrorism? guest: we still don't know who did it. september 18th is when the first letters appeared. my understanding is we still do not know how that was perpetrated. we don't know exactly who. that is one of the advantages of a buyout weapons attack. this is one of the things that there were most concerned about. this is -- this can be done clandestinely. it is relatively inexpensive compared to other weapons of mass destruction. they feel that this is a major threat. caller: i have a question regarding, does the united states get flak from iran and other countries, when they can easily make the argument that the u.s. is the only nation tha

. >> today, the assets of a hong kong company were frozen -- is this likely considered to be a threatening action? is there concern that might be taken as a threatening action by north korea? >> i hesitate for a number of reasons to speak for the north koreans. >> [unintelligible] >> let me characterized some things about north korea. they have stated a lot of bellicose things. that threatens to do certain things. a lot of times with a threat to do, they follow up on. but this administration, whether it is through sanctions and monitoring of north korea potentially moving any sort of arms out of their country through proliferation, what ambassador rice negotiated in the past at the un security council is part of it. it is also a stepped-up role in ensuring that we're cutting off any potentially harmful financing. in this case, we have been fairly explicit with the north koreans about the responsibilities they entered into that we expect them to live up to. i think today's action demonstrates the seriousness of what we intend to do to address it. >> was any consideration given to the kind

in hong kong, 150,000 people showed up for a candlelight vigil in remembrance of those who died 20 years ago this week. the government shut down much of the internet, including western news sources for fear that its citizens may learn what really happened. the police are using umbrellas to block cameras. it's a spectacle and it's a travesty. for too long the west has looked the other way as china declares a war on human rights. for too long the west has rewarded china with lob sided trade policies while china continues to carry out a war on minority cultures. the united states should not endorse in any way the brutal and horrific policies of the chinese government. instead we reward them. our trade deficit in the first three months of this year was more than $50 billion. last year it was a quarter trillion dollars. china manipulates its currency. most economists agree that the chinese wuan is 30% under value. that manipulation is a coerced and false price reduction. it puts our manufacturers at a disadvantage. but there's so much money to be made by u.s. investors that investors and larg

>> well, we will operate the a-380 on the longer routes, routes like tokyo, hong kong, australia, los angeles, new york, and it's a great plane and we're actually at the moment talking to airbus to try to persuade them to lengthen it because i think the economics of the plane will be outstandingly good if they can have a double-decker. thank you. >> one of our members of the audience says he avoids heathrow because of high taxes and fees and congestion and suggestions that why not move virgin's hub to another nearby airport. >> well, the only other airport nearby is gatwick and we do have some flights out of there. the problem is the economics at gatwick are not as good as heathrow and the majority of people who fly to and from the uk, the business community in particular insist on flying out of heathrow. if you fly on virgin atlantic, we have our own drive-through check in service and we can get you into our lounge in about four minutes from the time our limousine drops you off at heathrow. and so if you haven't flown virgin atlantic, give us a try and hopefully we'll win you over to

it was the carrier abraham lincoln that was that poured in hong kong on a routine visit over the christmas holidays on a sunday. by saturday, she was providing 50,000 pounds of food and water a day into this tsunami affected area. in indonesia. that event also led us to adjust our strategy i think in a very significant way. as i said, we have been responding to disasters during our history we said, let's see what we can do proactively. we began a series of humanitarian missions that, to date in four of which we have been conducting them, have touched 409,000 patients from our ships. that is in south america and the pacific and africa. if you consider the 409,000 patients, that is like going to the verizon center, packing the house, and then having doctors treat each one of the people in the verizon center 20 times. that is not an insignificant contribution that our people are making. it is not just the aircraft carriers. it is the cruisers and destroyers that are out and about. the forces of our fleet as i like to call them. and they are flexing from the high end of warfare to the low end.

they operate in major financial centers including london, chicago, hong kong, and san francisco.erves as vice-chairman of the chicago public education fund. our next witness is robert pickle. the executive director and chief executive officer of the international swaps and derivative associations the global trade association for over-the-counter derivatives. previously he was the general counsel of isda since 1997. prior to joining isda he was in the legal department of an international oil and gas company from 1919 to 1997 -- 1991 do 1997. our fourth witness is christopher whalen, but mr. whalen is a proud resident of hudson, new york. they provide consulting services for audit tore, regular laters and he consults with global companies on a variety of financial and regulatory issues and the regional director of the professional risk managers international association and is a board adviser to a global business security risk in asia. -- huh, hu, would you please begin. >> mr. chairman and distinguished members, thank you for this opportunity. i teach at the university of texas la

it is astonishing to me that hong kong built an airport in the ocean 600 meters of ocean depth. they blew up a mountain. crushed it, dumped it. they didn't have an aclu to raise questions about it, and they didn't have environmental impact statements to file. dumped it in the ocean. 3 meters above sea level, built 2,500-foot runways and had aircraft taking off while at the same period of time seattle's 8700 foot cross-wind runway was just getting bulldozer on the property site. now, that's not being competitive in the world marked place. mr. keating, do you have some counsel for us on project expediting? >> the only counsel i would give is the sooner we can get everything moving, the better. because, in essence, we're in business to pave roads and build -- and supply the materials to the roads and bridges. you know, i think the ultimate game here is to get work, get it engineered, put it out to bid and then execute the work. >> now, commissioner brown, mr. casey, i would ask you to review our expediting -- project expediting language and give us your thoughts about improvements

. >> treasury today froze the assets of a hong kong company relative to north korea's missile regime. is this likely to be considered a threatening action? is there concern that it might be taken as a threatening action by north korea? >> well, i hesitate for any number of reasons to speak for the north koreans and what they may or may not -- >> speak to what the consideration was? >> well, let me do characterize some of what north korea. north korea has made some -- they've usually, they've, they've stated a lot of bellicose things. they've threatened to do certain things. a lot of times what they've threatened to do they follow up on doing. but this administration whether it is through sanctions and monitoring of north korea moving, potentially moving any sort of arms out of their country through proliferation what ambassador rice negotiated in past through the u.n. security council is part of it as well as a stepped-up role in insuring that we are cutting off any potentially harmful financing as in this case. again, we have, i think, been fairly explicit with the north koreans abou

it was the aircraft carrier abraham lincoln that was quietly at port in hong kong on a routine visit over the christmas holidays on a sunday. and by saturday she was providing 50,000 pounds of food and water a day into the tsunami-affected area in indonesia. that event also led us to adjust our strategy, i think, in a very significant way. as i said, we have been responding to disasters throughout our history, but we said, well, let's see what we can do proactively, and we began a series of humanitarian missions that, to date, in the four years in which we have been conducting them have touched 409,000 patients from our ships. that's in south america, the pacific and in africa. and if you consider the 409,000 patients, that's like going to the verizon center, packing the house and then having doctors treat each one of the people in the ve -- verizon center 20 times. that is not an insignificant contribution that our people are making. but it's not just our aircraft carriers. it's our cruisers and destroyers who are out and about, the workhorses of our fleet, and they're flexing from