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nicholas kristof was in tiananmen square on those fateful days in june 1989. prize for his reporting. he is a columnist for the new york times. jiayang fan was a child at the time of tiananmen and moved to the united states at 8. she's a staff writer for "the new yorker." welcome both. nick, what do you remember? what is the most vivid memory of you have of that day? >> you never forget watching a modern army bring in tanks and truckloads of troops, and at tiananmen square using that to mow down protesters, students and workers. but what i remember particularly strikingly was not just the savagery of that, but also the heroism. and there were rickshaw drivers, guys in the countryside with tricycle rickshaws, bicycles, pulling the little cart behind them. whenever there was a lull in the firing, there would be these broken bodies in front of us, between us and the troops, and we all wanted to rescue them, take them to the hospital. but none of us did anything except those rickshaw drivers. and they would drive out toward the troops and pick up these bodies of p

joining us now is pulitzer prize winning columnist for the "new york times" nicholas kristof.or being with us tonight as i read in this morning, the first thing i wanted to do was get you here tonight. so you get down there with that very simple question of why are you leaving and according to your report, you saw the answer everywhere you looked and with everyone you talked to. >> that's right. clearly the answered are very different depending where in central america you go. in the western highlands where i was, climate change was a huge drive of migration. and you know, look people are aiming for a better life but it's also that they don't have any alternative when their corn crops are withering and when they have nothing to feed their kids, you mentioned one woman i talked to, 19 years old, she has had two kids and she has lost them both. what do we tell her? and there's just this desperation in some of these villages, 70% of the kids are stunted from malnutrition. and that means they're stunned is physically but they're also being stunted mentally. if you love your childr

as "new york times" columnist nicholas kristof points out trump tried maximum pressure with north koreand is continuing to produce nuclear weapons. with china we may be facing a trade war. venezuela, exacerbating hunger in the streets but leaving the dictatorship in place. the palestinians refusing to mote with u.s. officials. with iran we may be on the brink of war. here's the question, does it ever work? tightening the screws, that's what he's doing. >> in the obama administration, we learned if you have a point to your sanctions, if you had allies together, you worked in concert toward an objective. the objective was getting iran to the table to get an agreement. that's the iran nuclear deal we got in 2015. so the problem is the trump administration has said we want to use maximum pressure and iran will buckle. that's not going to happen. they've said we want to get a better deal. no attempt to reach out and start diplomacy. >> yeah. >> they said that iran is going to take this pressure and they will stop messing around in the region. we've only seen escalations increase. so the appr

"new york times" columnist and friend of ours, nicholas kristof went to guatemala to answer this questionside, a winner of a win a trip contest. you saw a very scary reality. welcome to both. nick, tell us about the people you met there and what their biggest concerns are, because some would tell you they're just coming here for our free education and our great roads. >> the reasons vary to some degree where they're coming from, but we were in the western hil highlands in guatemala. the biggest problem there is climate change and drought have caused crops to fail, so there are problems with mal19-year-ol had two kids and both had died in the last two years and so if you love your children, i mean you're not going to stay there. you're going to try to find some outlet. that's one reason why president trump's efforts aren't more successful. these are people who just cannot stay where they are. >> because of climate they can't sell their crops, they can't feed themselves. they are starving to death. for you this, is one of your first endeavors as a journalist. what stuck out to you the most?