names and what is amazing is the large number of filipino journalists that are mentioned there it has one of the highest attrition rates anywhere in the world according to the country reports at least three journalists a year are killed and many more injured and a and broadcast journalist in nineteen ninety one he stumbled upon a story where he was the only one who saw it the corruption of a big city mayor and you reported it and it was broadcast a result of that he has suffered tremendously in the philippines and he outlined that in his testimony and he was able to come here to the united states now one of the arguments that the government and the board of immigration appeals raises is that he does not have a defined statutory ground when journalists let's say cathy kirk or brian williams they're not asked what their political opinions they report what they see as corruption or what they see us wrongdoing and that in itself is a political opinion when your opposed to corruption when you dared to expose corruption now needham he's his best friend the one who was providing him with a lot of support and who was known as his close friend was killed and he feels very result of exposing it if any of the three filipino journalists who are killed every year managed to have escaped the philippines before they were killed and would be testifying and asking for political asylum i doubt if they too would be able to purpose of this for the state of the free press in any democratic country and therefore he did what he was asked to do as a member as a journalist and  i'm not sure why he wasn't able to get it cording you know it was difficult some of the ones he had to have been lost because of his hurry in leaving the country he didn't there was no adverse credibility  validity of what he said originally when he said he strongly career real acted afterwards and that he couldn't did he ever explain why he couldn't get copies of the newspaper articles a lot of the newspaper articles he provided the information a lot of the broadcasts he provided the information he was the reporter who got the information fed it through the others now he may have said when he said that he destroyed obviously the man he sought to expose went on to be reelected and after he left he was able to become senator and although this is not in the findings therefore getting rid of him once was something that certainly was what we can understand the mayor wanted to do and certainly contributed to his subjective fear that because of what he did and he stumbled on it he just happened to be covering it one day and then he saw what he saw and he reported what he saw and that has caused him in measurable difficulty since then not from a lot of the objective standpoint but we can understand when all of this happens and it happens right after you expose then he was the only journalist to do so and this man was a very powerful man and then a series of events happens and of course if you terms of protecting the rights of our journalists in order to make sure that we are able to have a free press and alive and breathing journalists to provide that free press that we you know that we understand how how  please the court my name is joe and johnson and i represent the united states in the case before the court today the instant petition for review should be denied because the record evidence does not compel a conclusion contrary to the agency's denial of the petitioners application for asylum and withholding of removal to prove the case first siloam as the immigration judge had some of those documents were photographs that he had taken some of those documents were from when he came into the united states and more documents  from political officials in the united states the documents from the philippines included some letters from friends in the philippines and relatives as well as a document from his media organization indicating that he was employed there there was a photograph of him with the mayor that he alleges  corruption and whose alleged corruption he alleges he exposed that's that's a summary of that i could go through more of those if you're on a has more questions about the specific what is it that is really in question here is it that he was a reporter that is really in question is it no your honor it's the problems between petitioners testimony on direct and what was revealed on cross which which undermines the validity of his application for asylum in withholding of removal it wasn't persuasive evidence to show that he met this burden of proof for example with respect to his journalism he had indicated that he'd written several articles yet he had not produced any articles that he had written nor the print produced any articles that indicated that he was instrumental in exposing this alleged corruption of the day and i'm sorry i don't have the transcript here was he asked why he didn't have copies of the articles when he was asked why he did not have copies of the articles he had indicated that he had moved  to different parts of the philippines and had lost track of the articles however it's been several years since he's come to the united states and he is not a prior to even the hearing in the united states and he did not produce any of these alleged articles that he'd written or any articles describing the corruption that he allegedly exposed which undermine m i believe and and he as far as whether that organization was so large that it would be that he would be able to obtain those articles  that was not presented however during his testimony he did indicate that his story was picked up by the a p process and there is no evidence of that produced in the record which is big  your honor as i indicated with respect to why these articles this krog writing evidence wasn't provided he explained that it was because he had relocated to different parts and had lost track of the articles for example so he didn't provide any reasonable explanation for these discrepancies in the record which you know further undermine the validity of his c  the radio station revealed this alleged corruption that petitioner had exposed there's nothing in the record however indicating anything that happened to that broadcaster who exposed corruption  in addition the mayor whose career was allegedly destroyed as a result of petitioners exposure of this corruption was reelected several times as petitioner conceded during cross examination which further undermines the validity of his claim that he should warrant asylum and next with respect to the death of his friend there's no evidence in the record indicating that the came to the united states importantly his family continues to reside on harmed in the philippines which also further undermines the validity of his fear of persecution as far as that's that's all very understandable but what i don't understand is you know this was these articles were so open and notorious the that is true and the family is still there why weren't copies of any of these articles that would show that nature we did would would would document the risk why weren't they