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Cabinet. >> theres going to be a tremendous number of hispanic americans to fill the post. this is the first time weve ever left cameras up here. >> and an exclusive behind the scenes tour of the transition office, fox news was shown the mock hearing room where nominees were in practice sessions. >> this would be known as a murder board. >> how tough were you on the nominees? >> they had code pink mock protesters to people getting up and yelling to replicating the senators that will be up there....

To montgomery where john lewis was beaten nearly to death on the bridge, so jeff sessions is a direct tie to the people that led the march in 1965. the anger at sessions for prosecutor albert turner who later went on to lead the mule at martin luther kings funeral is part of why theres so much emotion in the civil rights community about jeff sessions because he represents a tie to what the civil rights community says were the bad old days. >> if you look right now, you are looking at the images ...

Americans, including african-americans. he led the effort to give alabama native rosa parks the congressional gold medal. he was a leader to store voting rights. this is a guy who has shown by working indeed over the last 30 years his commitment to civil rights, race relations, and frankly, its a shame that the senate is doing this. earlier, you mentioned, individuals from code pink stood up and tried to disrupt the democratic process. i think the democrats should be held accountable and should ...

Kasie hunt also covers the hill for us. to reemphasize the point kelly just made tensions very high today. we had several interruptions for protesters. this many people guessed this was going to be the most contentious of all the folks donald trump has sent up for nomination. >> reporter: i think thats right, brian. could you tell the capitol police were very prepared for this. as you know this is a police voice many of the guys have been here a very long time. people are very comfortable with h...

Has a long history of understanding the law, both working in the department of justice as a state attorney general, as a u.s. attorney, and he understands where those lines are, and i think that is why he is going to make a phenomenal u.s. attorney. >> harris: as we have watch this, one of the things that has been said as he pulled back you will get a little commentary to go back in, is that sessions is very calm. you can tell that he was very prepared for this, and sean, you are nodding. meghan...

It would be somebody in medical america that had written something in high school, does donald trump denounces person? i think the democrats should be asked, are you going to denounce the tactics by code pink? they need to be held accountable the same way that we are apparently held accountable for the tactics of people who have a right-leading thought. >> harris: its interesting, because im looking across the couch at julie roginsky and you are nodding. >> julie: hobbled in outset, i dont speak...

Often thee protesters will be holding signs you may not like. but tip here, never try to grab the sign from the protester. its a bad idea because win or lose, you end up looking terrible. take what happened last week when one of donald trumps security guys took on a protester outside his press conference. its a big guy, got the sign easily and then things degenerated badly from there as he pops the protester in the face. then theres what happened today when a guy took it upon himself to try to...

Allowed to participate at the event. he was dishonest to you in the interview. he said this is a question of space. the fact that the u.s. embassy in havana is five times the size of the cuban embassy in washington, d.c. where 500 people were invited including code pink that was outside partying outside, and yet now theyre not going to allow the cuban dissidents at this event in order to raise our flag but lower our standards in regards to human rights. instead, theyre going to meet with the dis...

It can get much stronger. we should be thinking, activists, who have taken the risk to make sure our lives are represented in every candidates platform and that is our plan from now leading up to 2016. i think the other thing thats important just to acknowledge is that bird dogging and disruption is about as american as apple pie. but when we talk about bird dogging when folks like code pink or mostly white folks are disrupting the president, theyre disrupting businesses as usual, we dont seem t...

Forced bernie sanders to have a strong platform. it can get much stronger. we should be thinking, activists, who have taken the risk to make sure our lives are represented in every candidates platform and that is our plan from now leading up to 2016. i think the other thing thats important just to acknowledge is that bird dogging and disruption is about as american as apple pie. but when we talk about bird dogging when folks like code pink or mostly white folks are disrupting the president, they...