the warrant requests the company provide over 1 million ip addresses along with other information on visitors to the web site, which was involved in organizing protests against president trump on inauguration day. let s bring back our panel. the federal government is saying look, we want information on these people who were obviously interested in joining the trump resistance movement, at least on inauguration day. that web site is trying to turn this down. do they have legal standing? they do not. they are making two arguments, they are saying the language is too ambiguous and without the information requested is protected. the function of a judge is to determine whether the language is in fact specific enough. here the search warrant was issued, which means it suffices
the special prosecutor, with immense powers to go that route when already in negotiations manafort camp, shows me concern. and a quick reaction that the justice department has been seeking the identities of all the individuals who went to this website organizing protests against president trump on inauguration day. what do you think? it waysing the question what is the reason noor? holding a protest against an american president in america, under the first amendment. nothing wrong with that. why would they consider that acceptable? do they have evidence that crimes were committed or violence at some of the marches? it doesn t appear at this point, that s why you have such a strong pushback from the group involved. it raises that question. what s the driving force behind this? and is there evidence of a crime? or is there an ulterior motive?
cnn crew from reporting on the trial of a human rights attorney, accused of organizing protests against official corruption. here s his report. reporter: so we re heading towards a court in beijing, where prominent activist goes on trial today. please, please! reporter: this is a public space. no need to shout at me. the name of the activist is chu, and he had a gathering of people several times and was one of the founders of the new citizens movement. that is why there are all these police surround meg here. we re going to go try and look at the entrance of the court, which is just here. sorry, you can t stop me. soon, the situation violently escalated. police in plain clothes, men targeting us, taking away our phones and i.d., and breaking the camera. they re physically man-handling
arresting him and charging him with the same thing. ultimately there were five of them charged with potentially death penalty offenses for organizing protests. ultimately it was that fall. a three judge panel that ruled that that georgia sedition law was unconstitutional. all five activists be released as well as a 14-year-old girl who had been held in solitary confinement. that was early 1963. in april 1963, coretta scott king had just given birth to her fourth child, bernice. she was just days old when her father, reverend dr. martin luther king, jr. was arrested on good friday in birmingham alabama that april. that arrest is remembered because while he was in jail in birmingham, a group of mostly white clergy in alabama spoke
iranian lawmakers want opposition leaders tried and executed for organizing protests that turned violent on monday leaving two people dead. iranian police flooded the streets using tear gas to break up the crowds and arresting dozens. the anti-government protests were banned by officials but drew 20,000 to 30,000 people. the media was barred from filming the protest. this video was posted on youtube not shot by nbc news. we are joined now from tehran. these protests yesterday, were they bigger, about the same size to the protests during the elections that iran held and we had those protests about that? we may have lost him. we may have. we have a tricky satellite in order to broadcast out of tehran. as soon as we get that hooked up, we ll check back in with him in a second. let s go elsewhere in the