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Of the leader daniel ortega. the regime deployed paramilitary forces and police to counterprotesters. nearly 300 people have been killed in three months of protests. demonstrators are fighting against what they say is the governments control of the media, electoral fraud and corruption. >> reporter: it was the day of peoples resistance met with overwhelming state violence. months of rebellion in nicaragua was confronted brutally as daniel ortega looked to silence dissent. putting gunfire and sni...

So what will his nomination mean for the russia investigation? get ready for a battle. thats going to last all summer. tens of millions of dollars spent. rallies, marches, protesters and counterprotesters outside right now. one gop operative telling cnn, quote, were prepared for an all-out war. there is a lot to discuss right now. gloria borger and dana bash are in washington. michael zeldin is here with me in new york. weve assembled a great group of people. ariana, i need to start with you. pr...

Welcome back, everyone. time now for a global checkup and a look at the stories making headlines on the globe and we start in israel where the israeli military says it struck a hamas target in the southern gaza trip. three pillians were reported killed in that attack. in germany thousands members of the right wing adf party marched through berlin. they were met though and outnumbered by counterprotesters, some who arrived on boats. >> in ireland, catholics attending sunday mass today expressed...

White house correspondents dinner. a tranquil veevent right now. people are happy. on the right side is where the president has just arrived. his rally in michigan. police officers are in full force as we are now starting to see confrontations between the presidents supporters who are turning out for his rally and counterprotesters. who have also shown up to rally against what the president is doing there in their state. you can hear the chanting, our diane gallagher is continuing to keep an eye...

Display of hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides. on many sides. >> im not sure many sides was written in that script. anyway, he changed his tune a tew phew days later about why he was drawing a moral equivalency between the white supremacists and the counterprotesters demonstrating against them. lets listen to his more scripted remarks. >> racism is evil. and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs. including the kkk, neo-nazis, white supremacists, and other hate gro...

Charlottesville, which included of course the kkk, neo-nazis and members of the alt-right, the president didnt outright condemn the groups. lets watch them. >> we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides. on many sides. >> im not sure many sides was written in that script. anyway, he changed his tune a tew phew days later about why he was drawing a moral equivalency between the white supremacists and the counterprotesters demon...

White supremacists defended on this town 0 to take part in a unite the right rally. forcing virginia governor to declare a state of emergency. later that day, a gray dodge challenger drove into a crowd of counterprotesters, injuring 19 people and killing 32-year-old heather hyer. former president obama weighed in, tweeting out this image with a nelson mandela quote as his caption, no one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or religion. that tweet beca...

Called a unite the right rally. brawls broke out between the demonstrators and those opposed to them, forcing virginia governor terry mcauliffe to declare a state of emergency. later that day, a gray dodge challenger drove into a crowd of counterprotesters, injuring 19 people and killing 32-year-old heather hire. former president obama weighed in, tweeting out this image with a nelson mandela quote as his caption. no one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his backg...

Few days later after his remarks raised questions over yes was drawing a moral equivalence between the supremacists, the white supremacists and the counterprotesters demonstrating against them. les lets listen to his most scripted remarks. >> racism is evil, and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the kkk, neo-nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as americans. >> but just one day later the president dou...

Its been four months since the world watched as men carrying nazi flags clashed with counterprotesters in charlottesville, virginia. heather heyer was among those demonstrating. the 32-year-old was run down by a man who drove his car into the crowd. something that upset heyers mother who i spoke to shortly after her daughters death. >> heather knew she might die. >> why did she think she might die at a rally like this, susan? >> because we knew these people were violent. theyve been here before....