it was a nice audience when i walked in my brain was exat that timic, look at the people here. it's almost as good as last years. i said who did you choose last year. and the year before. and told me. i said do you realize they are dead already? >> i'm alive and shouldn't i pull in a little more? [laughter] to go off, thank you for coming. >> my pleasure. i just this month read your book dreaming water. and i was -- i'm very glad to have read it. i'm wondering 2 things. there seems to be more of an advocacy voice in terms of the discrimination of being you know an asian american. and secondly, warner's disease. i'm wondering how you got into writing about that? and the characters were wonderful. >> okay. your first question, first. you know to be totally honest, when i sat down to write dreaming water i thought this is the book that -- i had finished language of threads and written 4 books that took place in asia. because language of threads was a hate this word, the seekial to women of the silk i felt i came full circle and my asia period might have been done i wanted to write

we had about 10 patients total with shrapnel in them that was me at that timic debris.t looked like street debris that fell in the blast. three or four patients with ball small bearings about the size of bebes and some carpenter sized nails, small fine nails about half an inch in length with small heads on them. and obviously those did not come from the street. >> we received 10 patients, three critical patients at the beginning of our time with seven then able to be discharged at some point in time. three criticals took all of our attention and resources so we focused at try tg save skplifs then get the children off to the operating room where they needed their care. >> based on critical kids what can you tell us as the investigation looks into the damage caused? and children are lower to the ground. are you tibl see anything from the blast from the way that they were impacted with the shrapnel? the nails? that would tell us something about this? >> i can't speak to that but i can tell you there are odd things about how the kids got hurt. there were babies with nails s

they expected that congress would assert its authority and competition with andess at that timic tension with the president and with the courts -- and estatic tension with the president and with the courts. the gang of eight brought their bill out. wh is it? it's this. it's amnesty first. instantaneously legalizes everybody that's in the country illegally with a few tiny little exceptions and ask we run across them randomly and they helped to have committed a felony or three misdemeanors, that's then -- other than that, it instan taint ousley legalizes everybody here -- instantaneously legalizes everybody here, whether they overstayed their visa, whether they committed the crime of document fraud, those kinds of things are simply not enforced by this administration. they are treating immigration laws as it's a secondary crime. an example of that would be if you have states and say you can't pull somebody over for not wearing happens they're not wearing their seat belt, you can write a ticket for that. that's what's happening here. the president issued this edict, if somebody is guilty of

he died from this powerful an necessary at the timic called propofol as you know.w your theory he injected himself with propofol. however, are you not responsible for bringing the drug in the room and leaving him unattended? >> i'm not. i met michael jackson when he had his own stash of medication. i tried to get propofol from michael jackson. he may not have liked the approach i took but the circumstances were to get him away from the agent. >> speaking of the night he died and just those actions, you left the room. you left him unattended when propofol on the package label says it requires constant monitoring. >> i left the room, yes but no propofol in his way that he should have used. i didn't leave propofol that was available to michael to take on his own actions and cause his own demise. i did not do that. >> let me let valerie in on this. >> michael was not on a propofol drip when dr. murray left he room. he was on a saline drip. the effect was out of his system. >> that's dr. murray's contention. there was a larger amount found in michael jackson's body at a