well, maria ressa joins us now in our new york studio.rior to launching rapplerer in 2011, maria ressa worked at cnn and abs-cbn. welcome to democracy now! i met you and we were both covering east timor. you worked for cnn for close to two decades. congratulations on your work. noware you operating right in t the philippines? you have a also expanded to indonesia with these relentless attacks by the president of the philippines, close ally of president trump. >> i would say we hold the line, write? these are all political attacks against us. they have not shut us down. we continue operating. but we are fighting any cases, six or seven different investigations, legal cases. these cases -- it is like a war of attrition. our legal fees have gone up. money that i would have wanted to use to expand rappler, particularly in this age of looking for new business models, looking for new technology solutions. all of that is going to legal fees. only place ourhe government has succeeded. we continue to do investigative work and we continue to expose

government is threatening to go after her and her news organization for allegedly of voiding taxes maria ressa denies the accusations and she joins us now from paris maria thanks very much for being with us so let's talk first of all about the discounts of russian war on drugs from president to territory was your organization reporting on this and is this part of the reason that the government is coming after you now with these alleged tax dodging. certainly one of the reasons one of the key things there is really impunity rate you're talking about the police has actually admitted that they've they're five thousand people that have been killed in shootouts with the police but when you see them all of the evidence points that it looked like a police killing and then you add all of the deaths under investigations that they put and human rights group put that casualty toll at a much higher number tens of thousands killed anywhere between twenty to thirty thousand the exact number no one really knows because it's been obscured so much that's one of the reasons we need to keep looking at this our l