A civil rights activist from Spokane, Washington, a business owner and the founder of a winery and his family were on the floatplane that crashed in the waters of Puget Sound, killing 10.
welcome back. the sad breaking news into cnn. former congressman john conyers jr. has died. his son confirms he passed away in his sleep. he was 90 years old. conyers represented the detroit area for more than five decades. he was a korean war vet, a civil rights activist but his career came to a bitter end when he was accused of sexual harassment and accused of misusing taxpayer funds. cnn congressional correspondent has more on his life and career. reporter: he was one of the longest serving members of congress, an activist in the civil rights era. he fought on behalf of the african american community for more than five decades. justice in the united states
bring saudi arabia into modernity. jared kushner saw muhammad as somebody who could help him, you know, advance his middle east peace deal that he s wanted for israel and the palestinians, as someone who could present this beautiful sort of first foreign trip for president trump with the red carpet and the fighter jet fly over and all the bells and whistles that trump expected from that trip. and we re finding out now that there is a bit of a reckoning for jared kushner. he s having to realize that prince muhammad is not everything he thought he was. what s your response to that? well, he didn t think that he was that, but why was he slipping to him information classified intelligence that he knew he would use to liquidate these opponents. i mean, to call muhammad bin salman is like calling david duke a civil rights activist. you need just to look at, from the moment he took power two years ago, even as defense minister, bombing to oblivion,
relationship. prince muhammad saw jared as somebody who could vouch for him, who could champion him as a reformer, as someone who would bring saudi arabia into modernity. jared kushner saw muhammad as somebody who could help him, you know, advance his middle east peace deal that he s wanted for israel and the palestinians, as someone who could present this beautiful sort of first foreign trip for president trump with the red carpet and the fighter jet fly over and all the bells and whistles that trump expected from that trip. and we re finding out now that there is a bit of a reckoning for jared kushner. he s having to realize that prince muhammad is not everything he thought he was. what s your response to that? well, he didn t think that he was that, but why was he slipping to him information classified intelligence that he knew he would use to liquidate these opponents. i mean, to call muhammad bin salman is like calling david duke a civil rights activist. you need just to look
deadly charlottesville protest, thousands of anti-hate protesters out numbered the rally steps away from the white house. it was a gathering aimed to bring together multiple white national organizations including neo nazis. the group was met by thousands of chanting counter-protesters at lafayette park across from the white house. meanwhile, in charlottesville people gathered for the one-year mark of the deadly clashes and to pay respects to heather heyer, a civil rights activist who was killed last year after a man drove a car into a crowd. president trump, who was criticized for saying both sides shared the blame for the violence last year on saturday tweeting, the riots in charlottesville a year ago resulted in senseless death and division. we must come together as a nation. i condemn all times of racism and acts of violence. peace to all-americans. well, european and asia stocks are falling this morning as relations between nato allies, the united states and turkey continue to pl