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Totally clearly written, anyone can understand it, his own lawyer, 15 hours previously in front of a night circuit court judge, said, im sorry. we did this and an awful hurry, were just trying to make the best of what we can with the language. >> tom: he did seem like a junior litigator, that guy. i didnt even watch the whole thing. >> a lot of people recuse themselves, sorry, im conflicted. it kept going down the ladder of the justice department. it was not very well written, most lawyers i kno...

Acknowledging there are going to be areas where we disagree. >> translator: china is willing to engage in dialogue and exchanges with the united states on the basis of mutual respect and the principle of non-interference in each others internal affairs. >> reporter: amidst the carefully choreographed state visit, a misstep. translation glitches that plagued the joint press conference. >> translator: because of the technical translation and interpretation problem, i did not hear the question abou...

>> the translator is now tra translating the question into chinese. >> the technical translation and interpretation problem, i did not hear the question about the human rights. i would like to ask the interpreter to interpret my two quekzs correctly and accurately. >> thank you so much for your patience. due to the technicalcal difficulties. >> there were serious -- president obama looks kind of irritating, shooting the death glare at his staff. tapping his fingers on the podium. yeah. not happy...

>> translator: first, i would like to clarify, because of the technical translation and interpretation problem i did not hear the question about the human rights. >> reporter: he eventually did answer that. you had these moments where both leaders were standing there, really kind of awkwardly, uncomfortably as there was a lot of translation in mandarin going on. in fact, it really felt like a lesson in the mandarin language, and then finally a chinese reporter got up and -- and basically said, h...

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