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Howard law schools first dean. its long been difficult to assess by the access by communities of color with barriers ranging from hard line racist practices to more systemic practices involving the locations of the courses. the president of howard university spoke to reporters about the significance of currys gift. lets listen. >> i want to also address mr. curry. you know, we are in a very interesting time in our country and our nations history, no doubt about that. theres a lot for us to be cy...

Only be held for 20 days. what theyre going to try to do is make it so they can be held indefinitely. this is one of the court cases, one of the barriers they have fell to in their immigration policy. it was one of the reasons they had the child separation policy at the beginning. now t to ignore, i guess, a court case here and try to do a workaround. i dont know if this is a distraction, but this certainly plays to the politics of immigration the president likes to focus on. >> yeah. you know, ...

Many votes here, as you can see, very efficient way to leadership of the country. i mean, i cant think of any other way, can you? >> dana: chris, explain for the congress woman, please. >> i mean, explain that? good luck. the reality is, we dont want to live in a pure democracy. our founders feared a pure democracy. populism that if the will of the people could reign we would be happier. we intentionally put up barriers to direct democracy because direct democracy stinks. when you have the will ...

Can you tell us what you are seeing and what sparked reignition of tensions >> reporter: well, it started as a peaceful protest earlier. it was quiet up until an hour ago. the riot police arrived. there are bus loads of them out there. they started battling their batons against their shields. that sent people here into a frenzy. they had barriers. they have been tipping tech et machines, fire extinguishers. in order to prepare for what they believe is the riot police getting in here. they have c...

>> reporter: so now they have the barriers. they have also lowered the security gate at this exit over here. trying to prevent police from coming in and also preventing people from being able to get out. . >> again, janis, no indication why this escalated so quickly from a peaceful protest just hours ago, within the last couple of hours she talked about, to this? we dont know what sparked the intensity of emotion here? >> reporter: there is an intensity to this. but i didnt see it over the weeke...

Told those states that engage in that behavior to cut it out, that you could not pass laws that have the ability to suppress votes without getting preclearance and for years that worked so effectively that the republicans pushed hard to get it gutted. in 2013 they gutted the act. whats happening over the last 20 years is states that have seen a shift in the demographics and have seen a shift away from republican conservative dominance, they have put in place laws that sound common sense on their...

You understand how the laws work, it e vis rais the right t. photo i.d. we know administrative barriers to getting photo i.d.s harm elderly people and students. in new hampshire, they are trying to stop elder students to vote and texas and georgia that he decided which college students id could be used. the most agreesous example is north dakota where they changed the rules to say you have to have a residential address to vote in north dakota knowing most of the native americans that live on res...

They signed the city of la for unsanitary working conditions for failing to clean up human waste new city hall. >> a recent court ruling prohibits cities in california from citing or removing homeless from public property unless they are first provided shelter. something the city and the state have not done. >> thank you very much. oregon breathing a sigh of relief after major protest was not as violent as some had expected. that tops the western roundup. more than 1000 protesters from antifa ga...

In our country illegally as now ineligible for it. ainsley: we were seeing 100,000 come in illegally per month. when the president had the deal with mexico and mexico started enforcing their southern border laws. then we saw that 80,000 in the latest months and latest members. it is still a lot. brian: by the august could be down 100,000. ainsley was up to 144,000. ainsley: one month, right. pete: really simple. look at that individual wrote we just showed. if there wasnt a wall there before and...

Removing homeless from public property unless they are first provided psalter. shelter. >> william, thank you very much. a sigh of relief after a major protest pass this weekend was not as violent as some had it expected. laptops tonights western round up. more than a thousand protesters from antifa had gathered in the cities. authorities used barriers and bridge closers to keep the two sites apart. border patrol is receiving almost 4 tons of marijuana hidden in a shipment of jalapeno peppers. t...