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For the past two weeks, hundreds of truckers have been camped out, on the streets, in their vehicles, bringing the city center of ottawa to virtual standstill. the truckers call themselves of freedom convoy, originally came to ottawa to protest the requirement that canadian truck drivers, crossing the u.s. border, be fully vaccinated. those protests have since escalated. they started spreading beyond the capitol. we have now entered day three of protesters blocking the busiest crossing in north ...

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Welcome back. right now protesters in windsor, canada, are being cleared off a critical border bridge to the u.s., which they have been blocking for days now. the so-called freedom convoy has been suffocating supply chains across the canadian border as they fight against covid mandates. today another convoy is planning to stage demonstrations in buffalo, new york. we have reporters on both sides of the border. lets begin with cnns miguel marquez in windsor. miguel, whats happening right there? w...

Side but also on the human capital side. dont forget there are about 1200 people that live in my community that cross to work to work in health care institutions in michigan each and every day. so when the borders close it has an impact on those facilities as well. >> you said 12,000. i understand 40,000 people travel across the bridge every day. is that correct? >> yeah. >> does that protest create a threat for public safety then? >> well, i think it creates an economic threat for both of our c...

>> impacted billions of dollars. >> billions of dollars and this is happening in north america. >> yeah. so, then, what is -- whats the solution here? because you cant -- can you complain about the supply chain and that workers are hurting, that the economy is hurting if you are blocking and causing, to an extent, the supply chain to hurt and workers to be hurt and wages to be hurt? >> well, there are so many philosophical issues at stake here. but what it is perhaps doing is raising this conver...

That, i think everybody in this country ought to be terribly concerned when congress takes on the role of being a prosecutor, judge, and jury. >> laura: this is like a revenge fantasy, she hopes that this committee will lead to the ultimate blocking of trump from running for president and she said in this op-ed that the january 6th committee is going to show it was donald trump who provoked the attack against the capital and those kinds of lines lead her to fund raise pretty significant amount o...

Whats billed as the freedom convoy tied up traffic on the ambassador bridge which connects windsor, ontario, to detroit. this is a vital commercial link between the two countries. by some measures, the busiest crossing on the continent. cnns miguel marquez is there for us tonight. miguel, whats the latest from the border? any signs of this letting up? >> yeah, it looks like it might be letting up just a little bit. were on the detroit side of that border thats ontario, windsor, just across the w...

What should be looking at in more detail? i think whats happening on the border between us and canada is really quite remarkable. we are hearing some about it, and particularly in north america... we have talked about this quite a lot — tell us why you think we ought to be looking at it even more closely! it is no longer something happening just in the us and canada, right? what is remarkable about it is how the because of the rise of social media, instant access to news and what is happening,...