on select models at the season of audi sales event. visit audioffers.com today. .the getaway vehicle! for all the confidence you need. td ameritrade. you got this. thousands of marchers took to the streets in washington and cities across the country this weekend, hundreds of protesters also gathered in a small town of north carolina. population 1700. the people who live there and people from out of town they want to know what happened to a
justice system has to treat everybody equally, black, white, rich, poor, and that s always been an issue. this is not a new issue. it s just an issue that is very emotional and very, very wrong and has to be addressed. reporter: addressed here in washington, d.c., and beyond. and demonstrators i spoke to yesterday called this justice for all, a symbolic march on historic avenue, they say it s the first step in a long road ahead, many equating it to the modern civil rights era movement they say that they will continue to put the pressure on police to change their tactics and get more attention to these deaths of unarmed civilians. nick valencia, thank you so much. reporter: you bet. thousands of churches across the country are hosting black lives matter sunday to remind the nation how important the lives of african-americans are. we ll have more just ahead as we re joined by a couple of pastors from the movement from yesterday, today and well beyond. an important conversation,
i want to get back to one of our top story, the bipartisan weekend vote on capitol hill approving the massive spending bill and avoiding another government shutdown for the moment. candy crowley joins us from washington. we saw the sabotage and infighting this weekend. clearly a sign of things to come in 2015. it is but you know, most of the infighting was the most interesting. when you looked at the split in the democratic party between sort of the elizabeth warren wing progressives who objected to what they felt was a bank bailout in this spending bill, and you saw republicans objecting because they don t want to fund, among other things, they don t want to fund the president s amnesty program as they call it. most of the fireworks and a lot of the enmity was certainly intraparty and it tells you that not just next year, but 2016,
that s after a bipartisan group of lawmakers approved a controversial $1.1 trillion spending bill. that bill, of course, now headed to president obama s desk. erin mcpike is live in washington with the latest. erin? you said it. it was bipartisan. it passed 56-40. here s who voted against it, liberal democrats and conservative republicans. 21 democrats, 18 republicans, and one independent voted against it. now the reason they were able to get it done is they struck this deal with ted cruz, that junior republican senator from texas. very high profile. they allowed him to have a point of order vote, essentially just making the point that he wants to make, that president obama s executive order on immigration is unconstitutional. listen here to him make that point last night.
the protesters against police violence and lawmakers will do something about it. thousands of demonstrators turned out in cities across the country. ft. lauderdale and boston and san francisco, chicago. let s go to boston first. nearly two dozen demonstrators were arrested when police said they tried to shove past the line of officers. but washington is the city where four moms took their voices. the families trayvon martin, michael brown, rice and eric garner. all four boys killed by bullets of police. garner s mother addressed the huge crowd there in washington. it s just so overwhelming to see all of you that came to stand with us today. i mean look at the masses. black, white, all races, all