pla plans. staging a sit-in in hong kong s international airport. it s part of an ongoing two month long battle over a bill that has been suspended. reports could extradite people from hong con. the protests have expanded to include other democratic demands. ben wedeman is there to describe the scene for us. pamela, we re at hong kong international airport, the eighth busiest airport in the world which is very busy today with this massive protest. there are thousands of people here in the departure lounge calling for democracy and freedom in hong kong. they re using signs. they re using all sort of things. they re even passing out boarding passes that say flight hk 809 from hong kong to freedom and in chinese below it says the
case which is he is claiming as his great civil rights legacy. we worked in the justice department civil rights division which brought those lawsuits. we can state categorically that jeff sessions had no substantive involvement in any of them. sessions has not worked to protect civil rights, he worked against civil rights at every turn. jeff sessions knows his real record on race and civil rights is harmful to his chances for confirmation so he has made up a if i can one. but many of us who were there in alabama in the 80s and 90s and beyond, we re still around, we lived that story, too, and we are here to testify that jeff sessions has done many things throughout his 40-year career. protecting civil rights has not been one of them. all these things happening at once. the sit-in including the president of the national naacp, the 1300 law professors, including lots of household names, theeval patrick letter telling the scathing story, dianne feinstein trying to delay the hearings. ot
protest against his nomination was going to be like this, was going to be activists by the handful staging a sit-in at one of his offices, your count of that opposition would be off by roughly a gazillion jillion. the jeff sessions nomination today, it all started coming together, this appears to be the cabinet nomination that s going to reap the whirlwind and that kind of remarkable story is next. stay with us.
protect civil rights, he worked against civil rights at every turn. jeff sessions knows his real record on race and civil rights is harmful to his chances for confirmation so he has made up a if i can one. but many of us who were there in alabama in the 80s and 90s and beyond, we re still around, we lived that story, too, and we are here to testify that jeff sessions has done many things throughout his 40-year career. protecting civil rights has not been one of them. all these things happening at once. the sit-in including the president of the national naacp, the 1300 law professors, including lots of household names, the deval patrick letter telling the scathing story, dianne feinstein trying to delay the hearings. other civil rights and judiciary groups saying his questionnaire he s supposed to give the judiciary committee is shockingly incomplete. all of these forms of objection to him, they re all interesting stories in and of themselves. what ends up being the most interesting s
yesterday this is what the visible resistance looked like to the pick of jefferson beauregard sessions iii to be the next attorney general of the united states. but if you thought the organized protest against his nomination was going to be like this, was going to be activists by the handful staging a sit-in at one of his offices, your count of that opposition would be off by roughly a gazillion jillion. the jeff sessions nomination today, it all started coming together, this appears to be the cabinet nomination that s going to reap the whirlwind and that kind of remarkable story is next. stay with us. at red lobster s big festival of shrimp, get your perfect pair for just $15.99. choose 2 of 6 new and classic shrimp creations, like bold new firecracker red shrimp. exploding with flavor? yeah they are. or try new creamy shrimp linguini, and new sweet bourbon-brown sugar grilled shrimp. flavors like these are big.