decent timing and kimmel pretty good as well. s john fugelsang with us, political comedian, with the professional opinion and will cain, columnist of theblaze.com. >> good morning. >> our starting point this morning, pretty shocking and daring escape that could have an impact on the u.s. relationship with china, a blind chinese discy dent evaded layers of guards after 18 months under house arrest, he made his trek 370 miles north to beijing. secretary secretary tim gigter in are expected to be in the country for the long planned strategic talks. neither governments are confirming of chen's whereabouts are at the embassy but a former senior china analysts at the cia says this, "this is the greatest test in bihall relations in years," 1989, when tiananmen square was unfolding. joining us is gordon chang, nice to see you. thank you for being with us. the greatest test, do you think that's an overstatement of what's happening right now? >> i think so. any time there's an incident we worry in public about ruining relation answer the chinese see this and say oh my gosh if we throw a tantrum we can get something from the americans so you would think after 40 years of relations with china we'd understand this dynamic but then again apparently nobody in the state department has ever raised a 3-year-old. >> apparently not. so the assistant secretary of state kirk campbell already made his way into beijing, earlier than planned, he's there to negotiate all of this. what exactly is at stake? could conversations be derailed? >> conversations could become derailed. on june 5, a man went there after the massacre and that put u.s. relations relations on hold, he lived there with his wife for a year. the same thing could happen again, probably won't but it could put relations on hold for aly while. it might not be a bad thing. >> by all indication mrs. chen does not want to leave china. so how does that affect the possibility of a solution in does that make it easier to find a solution? >> that makes it much more difficult because the one thing the chinese would love is for him to leave. once he leaves he becomes marginalized. most dissents who left were not the force they were when inside so chen doesn't want to leave and i can ernl understand that. >> what happens with his family? his wife, mother and daughter all are still back in his hometown, roughly 300 some-odd miles from beijing. >> this bxz eye much more complicated issue because they're not dealing with a man and his wife. we're dealing with a whole family andsidents are part of the conversation, too. that makes things much more difficult to resolve. >> john, i can see you want to hop in, i want to throw some things on the table and the conversationser this' looking to negotiate, china holds more than $1 trillion and f-16 fighters. >> not important. >> iber crime issues. >> everything, you know, everything and the question is, can the chinese be a constructive force in the international system and they haven't opinion. as a matter of fact we've been going in the wrong direction for the last several years. we need to change our approach. >> looking at the embarrassment, from the tiananmen square to not keeping a blind guy from walking out of his house? >> as the civilians have been feuding, going into this historic leadership transition the civilians have been running to the military. guy who was in trouble went to the 14th group army in quanming. when hu jintao decided his fate they did it at the headquarters of the central military commission. >> it is fair to say it's powerful, more powerful than the government? >> they have a policy with evident coordination from the civilians, hu jintao, premiere leader of china, reminding they are subordinate to the communist party. >> do the people feel safer with their military than their government? >> i don't think people really thought too much about that. i would think that it's supposed to be the people's army and this has been a major issue. the people did trust the army before tiananmen. >> does this now dissident now at the embassy we believe make an impact, we're now going to be watching the talks carefully to see the wording. >> i think they probably are going to make things much more difficult. those issues weren't going to solve the ones you talked about anyway because china wasn't really helping on them and we've had these strategic die logs for a look time going back into the bush administration and things are going sideways, so you know, i think we should probably talk less and probably would accomplish more. >> that changes diplomacy, thank you gordon. christine romans has the other headlines. >> good morning, soledad. the coast guard suspending its search for a missing sailor after a racing accident that left three crew members dead. it collided with perhaps a tanker in the coronado islands, authorities found three bodies and the boat's wreckage, the first deaths in the race's 65-year history. a terrible crash at new york's bronx zoo taking the lives of three generations of a local family. the suv was carrying seven people, including three general when it glipd over a guardrail, plunging 60 feet to the ground. it landed in an area close to the park's zoo. investigators are trying to figure out what caused that crash. they think the suv may have been speeding. police are looking for a second gunman after a lockdown at the university of south alabama. that lockdown has now been lifted following an armed robbery at a college dorm yesterday. the thief stole $1. aand a cell phone. one expect is already in custody. a new gloog will keblog wil updated on george zimmerman's defense. attorney mark o'mara it said it is to keep other toernds and his supports up to date. the waterboarding of terror suspects, jose rodriguez was in charge of the services from 2004 to 2007, he says harsh intertechniques have saved american supplies. he describes the water board of khalid sheikh mohammed saying she was the toughest detainee they had. >> he'd use his fingers because in all hikelikelihood, everythi else that was done eventually got to him. >> rodriguez saysity krices of waterboarding are hingering the fight against center. the one world trade tower will become the tallest building in manhattan if the weather cooperates. it would raise the tower 1,271 feet, 21 feet higher than the tallest building, the empire state building. when the construction is completed, world tried will stand 1,776 feet high, making it the tallest hemisphere in the western sphere. >> people are all creeped out about it post-9/11. >> i live there a few blocks from it and it's beautiful. >> i agree. president obama was actually funny, no topic off limit at the white house correspondent dinner in washington, d.c. take a look. >> what's the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? a pit bull is delicious. because my stepfather always told me it's a boy eat dog world out there. it's great to be here this evening in the vast, magnificent hilton ballroom or what mitt romney would call a ail fixer-upper. four years ago, i looked like this. today i look like this. and four years from now, i will look like this. >> his delivery there -- >> busting out by the catering table in the back. >> three big categories of jokes, dog jokes, secret service jokes and secret service behaving like dog jokes. that was it. the president had terrific time, wasn't quite as memorable while he was filleting donald trump he had sent the team in but didn't know the atmpt to kill well billion. an extraordinary evening. >> i thought he was better than jimmy kimmel. listen. >> mr. president i know you won't be able to laugh at any of my jokes about the secret service, so cover your ears, if that's physically possible. last week we learned the president's two favorite steaks are rib eye and seeing eye. and it doesn't matter if you're black, like president obama or white like president obama, or red like president obama's agenda. you remember when the country rallied around you in hopes of a better tomorrow? that was hilarious. there's a term for guys like president obama, probably not two terms, but there is. >> he was funny, too. >> he was tough. in the hall it felt like shrapnel being sprayed at different targets. >> are these people who rushed to you? >> i thought jimmy kimmel rushed through the second part of the set, a few jokes i wish he had done brief. i think he does better science on his show. >> the president has great comedic timic. i got to go last year, by this year my star was dimmed. the president really does have the creativity. >> it's timing more than anything else. rat-a-tat-tat, take it down and that's how it felt from home watching it. >> he was the sharpest set i've seen since colbert did the bush. still ahead on "starting point," a new update on the story that's sparked outrage. teacher says she wasn't even there that day. also the olympics goes high schools. there are plans to put surface-to-air missiles op. the roof of one apartment building. check out the rest of our show at cnn.com/startingpoint or on witter @ startingptcnn. ♪ ♪ [ man ] when i went to get my first new car, my dad said to get a subaru because they last. ♪ he drives a legacy, but i'm nothing like him. i got the new impreza. maybe i should have picked a different color... [ male announcer ] the all-new subaru impreza. experience love that lasts. ♪ welcome back, everybody. one of the teachers accused of being caught on audiotape bullying that 10-year-old boy with autism is now on paid leave, but kelly altonberg's attorney says his client wasn't even there at work that day. listen. >> those words were not hers, the voice was not hers, those comments were not made in her presence, she didn't condone those boards, didn't instruct them to act that way. >> stuart chaffetz sent his son to school wearing a recording device. >> oh, boy, knock it off. keep going. [ screaming ]. >> go ahead and scream, because guess what? you're going to get nothing until your mouth is shut. >> you'll get nothing until your mouth is shut. you can hear that said on the tape. many special needs advocates say this is a wake-up call for school districts across the nation. cnn education contributor steve perry is in chicago. nice to see you. good morning. are you surprised that this recording sticking a recording device in his 10-year-old son's pocket managed to capture clips like this that we played? >> not at all. i'm not surprised, it's just like the rodney king beating. i'm only surprised somebody finally caught it on day. teachers are people, come from all life and walks and ways of making decisions, these decisions were disgusting and reprehensible and if anyone tries to make light or make it make sense is also part of the coverup that we've seen so many times. what happens, sole bad, when there are people in our ranks who are allowed to stay in our ranches who do things like this, it makes all of us look bad. 4 million people logged onto youtube and looked at the video, heard stories of teachers doing something they found bad but the kids always seem to be lying. this is a parent -- >> i should interject it says unidentified voice, the teacher's attorney says that's why they had a substitute she was not there. the superintendent said "while we acknowledge there's always room for improvement in anything we do, we believe this regrettable incident is an anomaly and we wholeheartedly support the work our teachers and educational aides do every day." this was the one time he popped a recorder in his son's pocket. >> i don't think it's an aanomaly. that's the point. because of rumors of teachers doing this, when i say to a parent your child did something they're automatically on the defensive, well how do you know? what did the other kid do and my credible and the credibility of the rest of us who did things the right way is called into question because we as educators don't spend enough time policing ourselves. we need to make sure our schools are scrubbed clean of individuals who will do anything to harm children, completely clean. >> steve, this is will. what do you think about parents policing you guys, do you like the idea of parents sitting a recorder in his child's pocket and sending him off to cool school? >> absolutely. we don't have a private social club you have to be invieded into. we are in charge of the public's future. you have every right to open our doors and look and see what we're doing. we have your children, we have the money, you have every right to ask us. >> hey steve it's john. how do you feel having classes on the internet for parents to watch? >> i think it's a great idea. one of the things that happens is one of our teachers we had a staff member had to videotape a kid doing something bad, he was pulling his pants down and he's 6 but the point is that times you don't see what we see. a lot of times parents say it wouldn't be my kid, and sometimes it is your kid. we are watching the courtrooms, watching so many other places, i don't understand why they can't be warning what he's doing. >> the father said on cnn saturday the reason that he did this was to support his son and send an anti-bullying message. listen. >> one of its reasons why i went forward was to one day show him that people care, that what they did to him was wrong in addition to hopefully reaching out and showing with an emdemmic bul ep bullying is. >> one of the biggest issues is this, one bad teacher can mess you up bad. there are grown company walking around remembering a snide remark a teacher made in the fourth grade, eighth grade or 12th grade. one bad teacher can mess you up badly. that's how we have to work hard asset indicators to root our community of all of the individuals who would harm children because one of them messes up a kid -- >> especially a kid who can't defense himself 100%, he's not only 10 years old, he's awe tuck. >> soledad we could rip you up. we know how to vote vain and mess up a kid. those powers can make life not cool for a very young person. good luck in chicago this morning. hundreds of people in london are saying get real after saying there's a notice a pont to puss south fas to missiles. >> neighbors are allowed. >> are' watching st"starting point." great shot. how did the nba become the hottest league on the planet? by building on the cisco intelligent network they're able to serve up live video, and instant replays, creating fans from berlin to beijing. what can we help you build? nice shot kid. the nba around the world built by the only company that could. cisco. ifif y youou'r're e lolookokinio geget t totogegethther, yoyou u cacameme t to o ththe. bebecacaususe e heherere a at, wewe'r're e ononlyly a abob. fifindndining g yoyou u ththe e isis a allll w we e do. wewelclcomome e toto h hot. and who ordered the yummy cereal? yummy. 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