we won. howard university students followed a long tradition of student-led protests and told their administration to put up and they have finally been heard, striking a deal after weeks of protesting what they call unlivable conditions in the dorm. some have been camped unlivable conditions in the dorms. some had been sleeping on air mattresses after facing mold, rodents, bugs and flooding. joining me now proving that the future is indeed female, student leader and freshman chandler robinson, and president of the howard university naacp chapter and co-organizer of the black burn takeover howard university junior channing hill. first, let me just say really quickly we did reach out to wayne frederick, and i just want to play his response. we have not gotten a response on reports of some of the things you guys allege. i want to play his response to
son took a billion and a half dollars in investments from a state-owned bank in china for his investment company. i m worried that the chinese communist party may think they have bought and paid for joe biden. i don t think that s true, by the way. i think biden has a lot to account for in that transaction. this is the way the chinese communist party operates, of course. if you re a friend of china you get all kinds of benefits. he has gotten a lot. where does he stand on this? is he going to be weak on china? laura: well, steve, here is what was amazing. the 30th anniversary of tiananmen square and cbs reporter goes there to tiananmen square and shows tanks putting down the student-led protests and it has been erased from the popular memory just like the soviets did with erasing their own history. totally erased.
million, a billion with a b in investments for a state-owned bank in china for the investment company. i m worried that the chinese communist party thinks they have bought and paid for joe biden. i don t think that s true, by the way. but i think biden has a lot to account for in that transaction. this is the way the chinese communist party operates, of course. if you re a friend of china, you get all kinds of benefits. he s gotten a lot. where does he stand on this. is he going to be weak on china? well, steve, here s what was amazing. the 30th anniversary of tiananmen square and cbs reporter goes there to tiananmen square and shows pictures, the iconic pictures of the tanks rolling across the square putting down the student-led protests. it s been erased from the popular memory, just like the soviets did with erasing their own history. totally erased. that s how they operate.
civil disobedience calls for protest and then that they join forces with some other student led protests and that became the movement that we know today and then during these movements they got arrested it s. just they ok so the activists are calling for for a greater say in their elections affecting hong kong what kind of sentences could the defendants and the. who are found guilty of these colonial era charges what kind of sentences could they face well they could face up to seven years of jail but we don t know that yet however a lot of them already said that they are not afraid if they are going to come back and that they will continue to fight for their political rights and what do these verdicts mean for hong kong and the pro-democracy movement there well. some say that this is sending a very very strong message to political activists and hong kong and that this will
looking at those pictures, powerful, student-led protests. what do you want people to know about that time, the power of the students and your movement that perhaps were under reported at the time. the biggest under reported part was the pivotal role the black students displayed. they were in the main student building of the college, the black students who were pretty disciplined and knew this was a demonstration and not a revolution. asked us not to come. but we were prepared, and we had support from the community. the big thing that kept this demonstration going for two weeks, was the fear that if a black student was harmed in any way, would have a big riot in harlem. and there was a country that was broiling and a campus which was really heated about the university s taking of land that