demonstrations here, covered them over the years, and it was certainly the biggest one i've ever covered, george. >> andrew, look, the chief executive, though, is defending this bill, pushing ahead this bill that would allow suspects, as you point out, to be extradited to mainland china. what did she have to say about it and did she address directly, andrew, the massive protests we're seeing with our own eyes? perhaps they don't see it in mainland china. perhaps it's blacked out now. but we see it here with our own eyes. hundreds of thousands of people on the streets of hong kong. >> reporter: that's right. to your point, china has been blacking out any coverage of cnn showing the protests. %-pe referring to earlier. but carrie lam, she ostensibly addressed it. she had a press conference. she told the press here they were listening to the people of hong kong and they had made changes to the extradition bill. they put in new safeguards. they made sure that extradition