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The steps of the georgia capital earning the state flag in protest. that was 1992. abram sought to explain her flag torching this way. >> 26 years ago as a college freshman, i along with many other georgians including the governor of georgia were deeply disturbed by the racial divisis that were in that state flag with the confederate symbol. >> laura: let me be true but the governor of georgia at the time did not set the flag on fire on the capitol steps. he worked with the legislature to amend ...

Burning the state flag in 1992. she sought is to explain the flag torching this way. >> 26 years along a long with manyng others were deeply disturbed by the racial devisiveness. >> now that may be true but the governor of georgia at the time did not set the flag on fire on the capitol steps. he worked through the legislature to amend the flag and remove the confesse -- confe symbols. that is a question that the people of georgia will have to answer. and then there is super beto. some street art...

Appointed to fill his seat after he passed away. we havent seen him in a while. we will get back of course to the senator floor. while that suspense might be over, phil alluded to the fact that the fight is really just beginning. protesters are still making their voices heard. gathering outside the capitol. and the supreme court. that is where cnns tom foreman just saw police detaining some of them. tom, that is going on? >> reporter: hi, dana. the police have basically managed to reclaim the pl...

Is closed; right? he says yeah. i said are you going to arrest everybody who is up there? he says thanks for checking in. they went back to arguing amongst themselves exactly what they were going to do. back when this happened at 1:00 in the afternoon, up on the capitol steps, the u.s. capitol police brought out huge number of reinforcements and told the protesters you have a choice you can down the steps of the left and get arrested, walk down the steps to the right and go on your way. the issu...

Court where protesters are still gathered. mike, set the scene for us. >> allie, its pretty much all over but the shouting on this historic as you put it divisive day. the driveway behind me was where brett kavanaughs car, we believe, exited just moments ago. well, perhaps 15 minutes ago, 10 minutes ago from the supreme court after he was sworn in. evidently sworn in as the associate justice of the supreme court. it came at the end of as you described it, a day of anger on the part of these prot...

Kavanaugh? >> yeah, they figured that out pretty quick on twitter, chris. so they definitely all said, you know, were going to stick around and were going to chant and on and on and they say this is yet more proof of it being done in darkness, that they are going to swear him in on the evening of his confirmation. unclear, though, in terms of whether were going to get the numbers to stick around. it peaked here about 11:00, and thats when we had about 150 or so arrests up on the capitol steps. s...

That vote no, would vote present, so the ratio stays the same. politically speaking, this is all over on the brett kavanaugh saga. as you can see, it would extend significantly into the mid terms and potentially beyond if folks on the left continue to be this fired up on the way this went down. >> and certainly as were looking at the other side of the screen, were seeing people, dozens and dozens there on the capitol steps, we are seeing them being arrested one by one, in very calm manners, but ...

Show you the capitol steps, they took a couple of hundred people off the capitol steps there. steve, it was a remarkable moment when these protesters marched across. and ran up those steps. the police were taken by surprise. police on motorcycles zoomed in front of them. police on bicycles. trying to restrain the crowd. they were unable to do so. the protesters went around them and occupied the east front steps of the capitol. i dont recall ever seeing that in many years of walking the halls up ...

Steps, pretty much ran around the police who ran up to try to stop them, you saw the pictures up on the capitol steps, it was a moment of raw passion. a moment as you put it, at least the people very angry on this day. >> and well go to senate leader mcconnell. here he is. >> sorry to interrupt, but we have seen both sides of the senate during the same period. we passed an oipoid bill, we jut completed the best job on appropriations in 20 years. so a big robust fight and still work together on o...

The next months as we head to the midterms. >> thank you. we will go to cnn miguel markes on the other side of the street at the supreme court, protesters staging a sit-in before the final senate vote on brett kavanaugh. miguel, describe what you are seeing. >> reporter: yes, so we are on first street. just in front of the supreme court. as you can see, and protesters have lined up right down the middle of the street. they want to block it all off. the u.s. capitol police came over quite conce...