executive carrie lam, standing on the stage of the bohemian man people s republic of china and the hong kong and the pro-democracy leader unfurling a yellow banner and the yellow umbrella asking for universal sufferage. 777 votes electing an new official out of a city with a population of around 7 million. i can see where some of the criticism would come from. tell us more about carrie lam, who used to be the number two in the city s administration. reporter: carrie lam is a devout catholic, a life-long bureau cat, the former chief bureaucrat and the loyal secretary to the deeply popular executive c.y. long. she is seen to be a continuation of his policy. her nickname has turned into
far? well, this just came across my blackberry about 20 minutes ago as i was coming down to the studio, and it reminds me of a very important maxim that says, surprises are only for birthdays. so the fact that we are getting this. we are not in session, i think this once again is an example of an executive branch or administrative over reach to have an unelected bureau cat in janet napolitano coming out about a policy citizen which will affect residency in the united states of america. this is why we have oversight committees. it should have been brought up as legislation with the homeland security committee both in the house and senate, been debated, gone through a process where it would be refined and amended and brought up before the house floor and also to the senate floor for final approval. that s how we do business in the united states of america. we have representative governments, and i think right now this shows that we are getting away from government that is based upon th
the first one to draw parallels to watergate. they have been floating in the air all week. it took almost two years from the beginning to the end when nixon resigned. so i think we re at the first week in what could be a very long process. but what s really ironic about rod rosenstein, he was a bureau cat, people who know him say that he made the doj a way of life, known to be a very impartial, his reputation going into this was that he was impartial, he was apolitical, he was just about the doj and the rule of law, and the way the public finds out about him is in this very politicized, very toxic scandal and that he s now going to be forever associated with. even if this doesn t end in impeachment or the removal of the president, it will still go down in american history as a