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minutes. so when that statement comes, we ll, of course bring it to you. and of course all of this ongoing in sydney as it comes up on 6:00 local time. this siege going on now for more than eight hours. i m john vause at the cnn center in atlanta. and i m natalie allen. we have been with you for several hours, and we will push on as this situation in australia continues. it is breaking news of a siege there in a coffee shop that has been ongoing. a gunman holding people hostage at the lindt coffee shop in downtown sydney. sky news has just informed us that the gunman is calling himself the brother , and has contacted a radio station and two tv stations via hostages with demands, a conversation with the prime minister and an isil flag. we do know five people have managed to get out. three men were seen running out two hours ago. two of them were customers. the man in the blue jacket, the man in the white zirs and a few moments later there was a man wearing an apron who ....
organize. howard dean presided over the party at a time it did quite well, and the strategy he had was that they needed to compete in all 50 he was suggesting that the tens of thousands that you ve been seeing right now live out on the streets expressing their first amendment right to free speech and peaceful assembly, they re quote professional protesters that are part of a plot and that their presence can be blamed on the media. no less than the man who will soon be the most powerful person in the world assailing both the pregs of freedom of assembly and that constitutionally protected activity. the tweets at the top of the feed for all to see until this morning when he followed up with this, love the fact that the small groups of protesters last night have passion for our great country. we will all come together and be proud. joining me now filmmaker michael moore whose new film is michael moore in trumpland. you ve been monitoring the protests. they ve been quite organic. ....
tonight. this is one of the backward and nasty executive orders the president has issued. also today thousands of anti-abortion protesters gathered in washington for the annual march for life. mike pence told the crowd the president would announce a supreme court nominee soon and trump hinted strongly at the person he s choosing. the person i pick will be a big, big i think people are going to love it. i think evangelicals, christians will love my pick. and we ll be represented very fairly. jeff zeleny begins our coverage tonight out front at the white house. trump signing a flurry of executive orders this week, up to 14, but these on immigration, do they really have teeth? reporter: indeed they do. the ones that he signed late today, they do sort of play out exactly what he talked about in the campaign, extreme vetting. it should come as no surprise, but they are going at the heart of refugees coming here to the country, particularly syrian refugees. the white house ....
country have we had a president with these kinds of extensive business entanglements. or a president who refused to adequately distance himself from their holdings. president trump s businesses and his dealings violates the constitution s anticorruption provisions. known as the emoluments clauses. the lawsuit filed in maryland district court contends that the president s ownership harms the state and districts. the defendant has used his position as president to boost the patronage of his enterprises. foreign diplomats and other officials have made clear that the defendant position as president increases the likelihood they will frequent has properties and businesses. the press secretary dismissed the suit. it is not hard to conclude partisan politics may be one of the motivations. the suit was filed by two don t nourish a harmful story. if somebody calls you, accuses you of a crime, you have to respond. what you don t have to do is get into continuing exchanges with t ....
authorities are treating this as a likely terrorist event. i want to have bring in to the discussion the information that you have just mentioned which goes to the idea that there was a level of coordination and likely a cell that was involved in this attack. we have the initial event, which was the plowing down of pedestrians, tourists, families on las rambla, which is pedestrianized. it does allow for some vehicle traffic. now a follow-on event in a nearby street with the police, individuals apparently armed. now, as you have been reporting for the last 90 minutes, shepard, they have also shut down the subway systems. based on my experience, covering this area for more than a decade, they shut down commuter systems when they believe they have an ongoing operation. so they are trying to prevent follow-on attacks and they are trying to limit movement in their effort to identify suspects: on the rental vehicles. renting a van tells you that they wanted to maximize casualties, ....