1.5 million people in this country, 50 billion in assets to help them. but i think at this point her claims are reasonable, appropriate, and she certainly can start the march towards her freedom and gaining control of her life. brian, i talked to somebody who is rather skeptical of the free britney movement, somebody who has had interactions with her and says that he doesn t understand why so many people in the media seem to be thinking that britney spears father and judge after judge are in on some conspiracy against her as opposed to a number of screaming fans who have never met her. how much is social media driving this story, do you think? well, in an enormous way. i think it s been two years since that free britney protest movement started. and now it is swelling outside the courthouse. and certainly they are the most vocal. they are the loudest. if celebrity media, the tabloids, the paparazzi played a role in britney s downfall, then it is the social media movement that is t
it, do you think they think it s dangerous? people in the more recent time have started to think it s dangerous because i know a lot of people, like, seeing people throwing them out windows now. a social media movement in the right direction. so alisyn and john, as much as we talk about the concerns about social media, you see that it can be a powerful force for good, as well and some of these changes that we want in our kid, sometimes they re the ones that will lead the way and that s what we re seeing now on social media kind of makes that point. thank you for sharing all of that with us. thank you. and for staying on this important topic. all right, thank you to our international viewers for watching. for you, cnn newsroom with christina mcfarland is next. we have breaking news. secretary of state mike pompeo changing his story. newsroom continues right now. this is cnn breaking news.
say it. you can t unring that bell. i look pregnant from the side, gosh. i m due the same day as game of thrones premiers. how dare they. how dare they. we ll start a social media movement. have a good afternoon, katie. i never worked for russia in the midst of the longest government shut down in united states history, that was president trump responding to krist kristin welker. i never worked for russia. not only did i never work for russia, i think it is a disgrace that you asked that question because it is a whole big fat hoax. are you now or have you ever worked for russia mr. president. i think it is the most insulting thing i have ever been asked. i think it is the most insulting article i have ever had written.
because there s a major confrontation between protesters are marching and police we don t have an idea of how many are injured but there have been a few people taken into custody there s also been blockades at airports and to lose the airport was was blocked police also used tear gas to evacuate people from a tunnel between under the alps so really different ways to try to shut down the country today and of course there was a woman who was killed person was killed when a woman drove her car into a crowd after she panicked she was surrounded by protesters she panicked and there was this unfortunate so it s a huge protest but it wasn t organized by a union or political party what s the story behind this fascinating story because it was organized almost exclusively on social media the kind of social media movement goes back to the end of last year when kohl proposed rather passed a hike in diesel taxes which hit
who are really really upset and very very unhappy with what happened here in the last few weeks and that the senate now is apparently deciding for mr brett kavanaugh so there is a lot of people at least in the left on the left and democrats were fired up to say just wait for november wait for the midterms we re coming after you you re not going to be back in the house of representatives or in the senate. in the washington thank you. well the capitol controversy has become a flashpoint in the me too movement against sexual harassment by men in power it s been a year since the movement took off spot explosive allegations against hollywood producer harvey weinstein on me to remains a powerful force on social media d w social media editor richard reed hospital welcome let s take a look back at them how did made to start the made to social media movement that we know which began