while we are grateful that assistant secretary posner at the state department has been repeatedly and persuasively relentless himself, the only with a that we're going to see movement on these cases is by having the highest level government officials engage directly with the chinese government. and i would submit we have here today, in the audience, dr. yan li, someone who i worked with for five years. >> if he could stand and be recognized. >> congressman smith was deeply engaged in his case. the way he got out was president bush raised the case twice to hu jintao, secretary rice raised it twice, secretary powell raised it once and the u.s. government had to be relentless. without that kind of direct engagement, we are not going to see the release of people. i would be all for quiet diplomacy if it worked. if it was working, wouldn't feel the need to speak out in the same way. but clearly, we need to strange our strategies. >> mr. fu or li? >> i agree with mr. chairman, your overall assessment. but the past three years, the field so-called quiet diplomacy, the indifference diplomacy.

so is he planning to make russia more democratic and how discuss it with the head of the general posner sounds department at the high school of economics mr coffee and mr simon schuster head of the time moscow bureau. over the last two months russia has seen the biggest really since the time of yeltsin an active electorate and they did political debate is what makes the current presidential race different from the previous two it all started with protests over the stay do my election results last december when the ruling united russia party won which triggered ballot riggin accusations ever since the opposition has regularly how this rallies and has become exceptionally active online demanding changes that would make the election process more transparent last weekend however the protesters had to face the fact that the . government supporters are also ready to defend their point of view on the streets according to the data he should by the police the pro-government rally even outnumbered the anti government one in their position addressed both sides shortly after the meetings in the oth

. >> i bought into the posner case closed but i don't believe the warren commission is correct eitherthey got a lotight but there is a lot of mysterious missing pieces. i don't really think we yet know whose payroll oswald on or what his pure motivation was, whether cuba was involved, the union was involved, are the mob. bumore than that, 9 warren -- the warren commission was an attempt to sweep this issue under a rug. it's easy to forget, charlie, just how worried people were this was an international conspiracy and how quickly ndon johnson needed to get this whole kennedy assassination behind him. and in doing that i thi things wereedacted, edited and empt can from the warren commission to get closure and of course the american people haven' wanted closurabout it for a while, they want answers. and this new tape is going to start raising more questions and provide a few more answers. >> charlie: what questions does it raise and whatnswers disitdoes it provide. >> the main question raises is why now. when oliver stone's movie came out in 1991, we had by 92 the john fnch f. kennedy as

bizarrely, judge posner has agreed with us with respect to specifically mutual fund fees, ceo compensation, where he said it is so broken that it is appropriate, so i think about is where we can begin to see a smart prosecutions and remedies that address it in a more satisfying way. >> i totally agree with you, and i want to make a point, because i completely agree. in a former life i had to deal with special counsel. i have always been critical for the very recent you said, -- the very reason you said, but on the one hand we have not done enough, and on the other hand taskforce those are too aggressive, but you can get it right. i am not going to comment on enron. i defended people in that case, but a whole point is to promote the very dialogue you talked about. we do not have it all right. if this new residential mortgage-backed securities working group permit me to have more discussions with camilla harris or joe biden or others who are saying we have more flexibility in, i think that is right. i think it is on us not to about to political pressure, but i think it is incumbent on us to