, captain john burch in cold blood. burch was willing to sacrifice his life according to noland, to test the communists who pretended to be cooperating with the united states. so this is a rewriting of history, or it is new orleans attempt to say that history would have been different if only the truth of the death of this officer had been revealed at the time. >> why did he do that. >> he gave a speech i believe in october. actually it was september and it was a couple of months before the chinese enter the korean conflict. of course relations are already badly freighting and he will communists in general is the real threat. nolan was sometimes called the senator from vermont said. he gave so many speeches in defense of taiwan and junk a ship that he earned that. it wasn't robert welch who came up with the story of john burch, it was because robert welch read a speech in the congressional record of all places, imagine reading the congressional record it was in the congressional record three years later that robert welch

i think up until this point john burch and even the name the john birch society is even less known in china than it is in the united states which is not surprising. while the name of mccarthy may be well known or pretty well known in china, the name of a birch society did not reach that same level, mccarthy was in political office and had a different kind of platform from robert welch. in the birch society. i think think if the book were to be translated in published in china then there would obviously the more interest and it would be extremely interesting to know if there is more information in the archives about the incident. as far as i know the communist party to the late 50s and 60s, while they followed american politics at a distance in terms of the civil rights movement and were quite concerned and quite interested in what they viewed as oppression of african-americans, blacks in u.s. society and this was evidence of the ills of capitalism. not to mention imperialism, there was not that much attention, partly this is because the birch society was so heavily focused on the comm

i think of nixon, the rise of nixon, i think of the john burch society. home. and it used to be among the most reliable republican counties in the nation, brooke, and yet, when i learned as i spoke to the orange county business council a month or so ago, orange county, if it's not already is in the process of becoming majority minority. i just -- i thought that there was some significance to the changing demographics of the country that of all the locales, 3,100 counties in the united states, of all the counties where donald trump, the front-runner, could go and receive a hostile reaction, it was orange county which 30 years ago would have been where you'd expect the gop front-runner to be welcomed with open arms if that makes sense it. >> does, it does. that's as you said,l.a. area, the reception last night. again, you know, burlingame, this is bay area, san francisco, this is a very liberal population here. stay with me, michael. let's try once again here. technology willing, jeremy diamond, if you can hear me, i understand you have an update. >> report