Well, it is relatively calm in hong kong now just hours after a second record breaking protest in a week. This was the scene sunday. Organizers say 2 Million People flooded into the streets to call for the withdrawal of a controversial extradition bill. Police say it was just over 300,000. Opponents fear the bill will lead to dissidents being sent to Mainland China for trial. Protesters are also demanding chief executive carrie lam resign. Prodemocracy activist joshua wong was released from prison monday. He was the face of 2014s occupy movement. He immediately joined this protest. Hong kong people, we will not keep silent under the suppression of president xi and the chief executive carrie lam. Carrie lam must step down, otherwise i believe in the next few weeks, before the 22nd anniversary of hong kong transfer of sovereignty, more and more hong kong people, not only 1 million or 2 Million People, will come and join our fight until they we get back our basic human rights and freedom. And our anna coren joins us now live from hong kong. Anna, it is 2 00 in the afternoon there. What does the day look like as far as these protests go . Reporter well, other than being a little bit rainy, rosemary, it is quiet here in hong kong, which is a stark difference to what we witnessed yesterday. It was absolutely historic. A sea of people making their way through the heart of hong kong. For hours and hours they came from Victoria Park to where we are here in at teymar, outside the Legislative Council building and stayed well into the night. Hundreds of protesters then camped out overnight into the Early Morning. There was a brief confrontation with police, rosemary, and police surprisingly backed off protesters also said they werent going to block any more roads. Those protesters have now moved to the Legislative Council behind us. There is an area there where they are allowed to demonstrate, so that is where they are at the moment. But, rosemary, joining me now is a very special guest, joshua wong. He is, of course, the face of the prodemocracy movement here in hong kong. Certainly the face of the occupy movement in 2014. He has just got out of prison 3 1 2 hours ago. Joshua, how does it feel to be free . Its really my pleasure. Its really a good time to come and join our fight to fight for freedom and democracy and let the emperor xi, president xi jinping to know that hong kong people will not be kept silent. You must be so incredibly proud of your fellow hong kongers. The scenes yesterday and also last sunday, but yesterday, it was absolutely extraordinary. They just kept on coming. Five years ago after the end of Umbrella Movement we claimed that we would be back. Yesterday, 2 million of hong kongs people came to the streets to show that no extradition law and no extradition to china. It shows how the hong kong people realize that its a longtime battle and its time to join our fight and let people around the world to realize that we will continue to fight for freedom and democracy. Do you wish you had. There yesterday . Unfortunately, in the past few weeks i was in prison and cant join any demonstration. When i saw how police physically assault on activists, on the youngsters, even students younger than me, or how the police those police just pepper sprayed or tear gassed within the city of hong kong, it just shows the onecountry two system in hong kong is just a failure. The violence you were talking about, referencing the ugly clashes from police last wednesday, that is not something weve seen here in hong kong. It took it to another level. It also made ledgeco realize and carrie lam, the citys chief executive realize, they cant continue with this bill, hence they shelved it. Were you saddened to learn it was the violence that forced carrie lam to shelf this bill . Hong kong people sacrifice, pay the price. Some protests have been sent to hospital. I just hope that carrie lam realizes that we are not only asking for suspension of that bill. We are asking for withdrawal of the evil bill. Unfortunately, carrie lam, the one just elected by 1,200 elites just ignored our words. Its time for her to step down and its now the best timing to let the world know that hong kong is still far away from democracy, but we will continue our battle. Yeah, she is an embattled leader, there is no denying. And the consensus is shes lost credibility. Shes certainly lost the faith of the people. You are calling on her to step down. There were thousands of people standing outside her offices last night chanting exactly that for hours on end. Will she listen . She made that apology last night. Was that good enough . I am really curious when president xi from china faced the case yhaos of the trade war the g20 summit in the next week. So when carrie lam just creates certain political burdens for president xi, i believe beijing might have a certain perspective or opinion on how carrie lam just created mass chaos for the chinese government. And one point i would like to emphasize is in this battle hong kong people showed that we will not be silenced and we just try our best to let the world know that in this fight it will never end. Will you be satisfied when carrie lam steps down . Carrie lam step down is the first step, but what we ask for is freely elected the leader of our city. Why carrie lam suspend a bill, need to wait until more than 1 Million People come to the street . Its because carrie lam is never elected by the citizens of hong kong. We asked for democracy. Years and years. Decades by decades. Unfortunately, they just ignore our words. However, in this battle i believe mass largescale or massive mobilization will happen in the next few weeks, especially first of july, its the 22 anniversary of the transfer of sovereignty of hong kong. Yes, of course. That is the anniversary when hong kong was made a special Administrative Region under the onecountry two systems. And under this policy, hong kong has enjoyed freedoms. Freedoms that these people have taken to the streets in the millions are fighting for. Freedom exists in name only, under the suppression of beijing, and we realize that in the future we might need to pay more of a price and sacrifice more, but were ready for it, and even i was in prison. When i watched the tv news reports of how thousands or 100,000 people come to the street, even more, a Million People, it shows the dignity and the spirit of the hong kong people. I am proud of being a hong kong citizen. Joshua, are you willing to die for this cause . When you say youre willing to sacrifice so much more, how far are you prepared to go . The question is how far carrie lam prepared to sacrifice her political career . I think thats the significant question that we ask. Carrie lam stepping down, already become majority consensus. What i mean is hong kong is just a small International City with 7 million citizens, but 2 Million People come to the street already. It shows that we have the consensus and we just wait for carrie lam. Its time for her not only apology or suspend, she needs to end her political career. Joshua, finally, what is the next step . Are you feeling emboldened . Are there going to be more demonstrations, more marches over the coming weekend . Suspension the evil bill is not enough. Were asking for withdrawing the proposal. In the next few weeks, massive mobilization, march and demonstration will happen again. Yesterday 2 million of hong kongs citizens came to the street. I believe there will be more and more citizens that join our fight in the future. It shows the hong kong people deserve democracy and we are not afraid to uprise the china model. Joshua wong, great to speak to you. Thank you. I will let you go. I know there are so many more people who want to talk to you, including your family. You havent spoken to your family yet. Youve been in jail for the last month so well let you get back to it. Many thanks for joining us here on cnn. Thank you. Wishing you the very best. Reporter so that was joshua wong, the face of the prodemocracy movement here in hong kong, who has been in jail for the past month for his involvement in the Umbrella Movement. Well, joining us now is a probeijing lawmaker here in hong kong. His name is felix chung and he joins us from our hong kong studio. Felix, you just heard from joshua wong. He is not going to back down. They feel they have momentum. Theyre feeling emboldened. Are you concerned . Of course i understand his concerns, and i think a lot of hong kong people also are concerned about the latest situations. Otherwise they wont have that much of people come out from the street in the last two sundays. I actually i do pay a very high respect to the demonstrators that were coming for the demonstration in the last two last sunday because, i mean, with the heat, the pack of people, they still come out for for showing theyre concerned. So the government have to respond to that. And it is historical. And how is the government going to respond . These protesters are not just calling, they are not just calling for this bill to be postponed, they want it completely withdrawn. Will that happen . Well, in theory, it just happened because even though the government is saying that theyre delaying the bill, but, actually, it will never come back. It will be just like its been withdrawn. So its just the terms, but the actual situation so you think this will just be like the sorry, felix. So you feel like this is history repeating itself . That the National Security bill of 2003, which called caused mass protesters to come on to the streets, those massive demonstrations, that bill was shelved. That was 2003. It is now 2019. So youre saying the similar similar thing will happen with this extradition bill, that it will be shelved and it will just go away . Well, for the other one, the article 23 is another story. Its a totally different story. Article 23 is written down in the basic law and its our constitutional duty to do it. For the extradition bill, we dont have anything that need to be done. Thats the problem of the government. I really dont know why initially they put it to the ledgeco, but, of course, the reason why from the government is because they there is a murder case from taiwan and there are some loopholes that we should do it. We dont want hong kong have any International Criminal there. Its actually just a case. There is an indian person who came to hong kong but he is actually an International Wanted criminal. So, i mean, now hes being detained because he committed crimes in hong kong, but after he finished his sentence, he still can live in hong kong yes. And not have i mean yes. That sort of example i understand. I understand the arguments, but if you speak to legal experts, they will say that case by case extradition agreements can be made. So they dont necessarily buy the governments argument. But let me ask you now about the citys chief executive carrie lam. Is she on borrowed time . Has she lost the credibility and the faith of the people . Well, certainly she lost quite a lot of her political power to the to the whole society. She paid a very high price for this. Of course nobody expect and definitely she didnt expect that was the result of this information of the extradition bill. What to do next i really dont know. Of course some people asked for her resignations. To stay or leave, i think to stay is not is even a tougher job for her. But the problem is created by her so you think she should go . You think carrie lam has to go . Well, that well, i do not have the answer for you. Because this is not a simple question that she can leave or not. Definitely need to have the consensus from the central government. Yes. Okay. Felix chung, im afraid were going to have to leave it there, but thank you very much for joining us. So, rosemary, as we know, the government is feeling embattled. Certainly the chief executive carrie lam feeling extremely embattled. She is under a great deal of pressure to step down. By all accounts from these protesters they are not going anywhere until she backs down and until they withdraw her extradition bill. Rosemary . Theyre making that very clear. Anna, thank you so very much. Well come back to you with more on this story. Many thanks. Well, the u. S. And iran now blame each other for thursdays tankers attacks in the gulf of oman. Irans parliamentary speaker says washington resorted to the attacks because u. S. Sanctions did not work. Americas top diplomat says the Trump Administration has intelligence that shows iran carried out the attacks. Our Fred Pleitgen reports on the escalating tensions between the two countries. Reporter the iranians now throwing some allegations back at the United States. This time in the form of the speaker of Irans Parliament who on sunday came out and said that he believes that the u. S. Is behind the attacks on those two tankers in the gulf of oman. He said that he believes that its part of Americas Campaign of maximum pressure against the iranian government and also that he thinks that the u. S. Did this, in his words, because that campaign of maximum pressure isnt working and because the sanctions have not brought iran to its knees yet. Now, there wasnt any evidence provided with all of this, and at the same time you had secretary of state mike pompeo come out and once again say that the u. S. Believes that iran was behind the attacks. One of the other things that mike pompeo also said is that he believes that the Trump Administration is trying all diplomatic means to prevent an escalation of the conflict in the middle east. The iranians, for their part, again in the form of the parliament speaker, are saying that they believe the campaign of maximum pressure from the Trump Administration is not a diplomatic tool but rather economic warfare. And the iranians now also announcing that they are going to go one step further. Theyve already said that on monday they are going to come up with and make public new ways that they are going to scale back their commitments, according to abiding by the Nuclear Agreement, even though the iranians are saying that by and large they want that Nuclear Agreement to stay in place. 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Trump. Cnns Boris Sanchez has the details now from washington. President donald trump lashing out at the New York Times this weekend over report that indicates the United States has attempted to infiltrate russias power grid and implanting malicious software. The president unhappy. He sent out a series of tweets suggesting that the times may have committed treason. Important to point out that officials essentially sidestepped the president , not requiring his authority to go forward with these activities. Since 2015, american officials have pointed out that russia has been trying to infiltrate the American Power grid so they feel that the United States is responding in kind to russia. Why that would make the president angry. Hes repeatedly said he wants a Good Relationship with Vladimir Putin for the United States and russia. This clearly made him unhappy. The president also making news for the way hes rationalizing his decision to not fire special Counsel Robert Mueller during the russia investigation. Listen to what he told abc news. Robert mueller had a total conflict of interest. And has to go. I never i didnt say that. Look, article ii, i would be allowed to fire robert mueller. There was not assuming, assuming i did all of the things i said i want to fire him, number one, i didnt. He wasnt fired. Okay . Number one. Very importantly. But more importantly, article ii allows me to do whatever i want. Article ii would have allowed me to fire him. So it sounds like you but i wasnt going to fire him. Because you know why . I watched Richard Nixon going around firing everybody and that didnt work out too well. So very simply, article ii would allow me to do it. Important to point out that in the Mueller Report there are at least ten instances of President Trump trying to interfere or intervene in the russia investigation. Perhaps most glaringly, when he told former White House Counsel Don Mcgahn to fire robert mueller. Mcgahn declined. He essentially threatened to resign. The president ultimately relenting. So in this accounting of the president s story, hes clearly indulging in some revisionist history. Boris sanchez, cnn, at the white house. And President Trumps campaign fired several pollsters after unflatterin