It is an honor to be asked questions about him will be doing this for an hour or maybe a little longer and if you have questions want to send in, you will see a q a box at the bottom right of your screen and you can send a question the latter part of this event, alex will answer some of those. To start us off, alex is as im sure many of you know, the Research Director Great Program on extremism at George Washington university which has become a go to resource for many people letting this topic. So why dont we start by asking argue take an interest on this and maybe you can fill us in a little bit on your background explain that. Think you for doing this. We been in touch over the years with shared interest in her article the 2000 the last decade with incredibly, it is my pleasure drinkers. Came across my radar around 2007 i just started as a researcher looking at activism into the uk in particular. As i was getting to know if the individuals and the networks in the uk, this name kept c
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The resistance. Here is our panel led to my immediate left is ms. Richards. [cheers and applause] but if you dont know what the planned Parenthood Federation of america and the action front with reproductive rights and bin 2011 federal funding for planned parenthood next is the speaker of the house of for prison this in bin central denver since 2010 and elected speaker in 2016 that same your going gangbusters us say recipient of emilys list. [applause] that it is exciting. [laughter] and since then around the country protesting Police Violence has a really remarkable effort. [applause] cofounder and executive director of the invisible project. [cheers and applause] day fer he worked as associate director of federal policy director so a couple of . Notes the panel will last 50 minutes and then take the question as to the texas tribune. And i would get the questions and sort through them then ask the panel. So i and interested to talk about the term itself. So are we talk about advancing
States, keeping the soviet union out. This is just under an hour. This is a political protest. Theelcome to the stage, president of prochoice america. [applause] good morning washington. [applause] we are joined by cities saynd the country today to one message of, we object. We object. [applause] to trumps agenda. We object to the people he is putting in place to do nothing but a search his agenda. We certainly object to a lifetime of appointments of put into place by a president under investigation cruising with russia. We object. We object. We object. [applause] story. Tell you about a i was sitting in the hearing of neil gorsuch a couple weeks ago when my phone started going off. It was my staff telling me that jim comey had just confirmed , who issident trump currently under investigation with russia, and i could not believe that to the same senate who said, our president obama as not legitimate to nominate Supreme Court justice, was moving forward with hearings for someone who was
The coalition of civil Rights Groups held a rally in washington, d. C. , over the weekend to oppose the nomination of neil gorsuch to the Supreme Court. They called the gathering the peoples filibuster. Hawaii senator mazie hirono is a member of the Senate Judiciary committee was among those who spoke at the rally. About 50 minutes. Good morning, washington. Were joined by cities all over the country today. Were getting together to say one loud message of we object. We object we object to trumps agenda. We object to the people he is putting in place to do nothing but assert his agenda. And we certainly object to a lifetime appointment of a justice put in place by a president under investigation for collusion with russia. We object, we object, we object. Cheers and applause] i was sitting in the hearing of neil gorsuch a couple weeks ago when my phone started going off and it was my staff telling me hat jim comey had just confirmed that President Trump was currently under investigation