Sentence:  `` The President says '' , the translator came in , `` that the reason he asked you where you were going <WSD>is</WSD> because he hoped you would be visiting other areas in Southeast Asia , and that everywhere you went , you would seek the answer to your question . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)