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now by correspondent charlayne charles impel who's in hong kong so charlotte tell us what is happening right now where you are. mariana we are only a few hours into this protest and already we have seen a tear gas being fired on multiple occasions now where very nearby where that to a gas was fired we can still smell it still lingering in the air at the moment it was fired outside a police station very close to protest is also have been seen throwing molotov cocktails at police station we've seen water cannon already on the streets as well not been used so far as far as we know but tensions really are very high here that was of course expected this march was originally organized by it organization a group called the civil human rights front the people behind a number of the remember the protests that we've seen in recent months here in hong
agent to them. he bamboozled them. he's going to try that again, and if we don't clearly have a message and a set of solutions and the heart and soul to show people on their side, we're going to lose them. i want to settle that in the primaries. i don't want to find out the hard way in the general election. >> mayor bill de blasio of new york. come back with charlayne. >> as you probably saw as he was speaking with bill de blasio over his shoulder there, that is a u.s. representative from maryland, the sixth district, john delaney. and he's speaking right now. >> i want to be the president that can get those things done. things that matter to the american people. urn, in 1958, john f. kennedy
charlayne and i to talk to two kids that of course we saw the parallel to our own children and hear them trying to put on a brave face and make sense of such a painful situation. they were incredibly admirable, impressive young men. i told them i lost my own dad when i was 18 and that as painful and difficult as it is, families come together, people find a way forward. i also told them we would all be there for them. that the nypd family would be there for them and the people of new york city and the family of new york would be there for them. and we will be. we went to see the liu family. and this family is feeling such a profound pain and fear for the parents -- this was their only child, their only son. they feel distraught like so much of what they lived for is gone. his wife of only two months -- i
historic moment settling and finding a pathway to settle and end the appeal on the stop and frisk case. we are moving the pre-k and after school plan. these are all the things people sent us here to do. if the media is concerned about my pizza habits or anything else, that's just part of the reality. >> and you know something else they brought up, and i'm going to be transparent. they seem to question the role your wife is going the play, who has always been your partner. and full disclosure, my former communications director is working for your wife starting monday as chief of staff. >> starting monday. >> what do you say about those that are uncomfortable about your wife charlayne playing a role, something that some of us always felt she always did, but now that your in city hall, what do you say to those that are questioning that? >> rev, look, charlayne has been my partner now in everything i do for 22 years. we've been married for 19 years. we have two children, teenagers. this is everything we've done, we've done together.
having to do with that. but let's talk about the political leadership here. you're going you have to two parties who are trying to claim the mantel of it. >> more than two. three or four political parties vying. it's one of the gifts mandela left, which is his vibrant democracy. even the booing you talked about on the stage. >> almost an odd way of celebration. shows you the maturity of this democracy. >> exactly. a tradition of funerals being political events during the struggle and it continues here. it's one of the strengths of the country. people ask me about south africa and its future, and i'm a big believer in its phi chur because i believe in the people of south africa and the legacy mandela brought to them. >> when you go to jo-burg, you do feel as though you're in the future and feel it will be one of the great world cities of the 21st century. thank you very much. charlayne hunter-gault, how do
but also president zuma reads most of his speeches and when he's speaking in zulu, he's much more impressive than when he's reading from a text. that may have had something to do with it. i'm not sure. but i'm in soweto outside of former president mandela's house and diplomats and heads of state are arriving at his house to look at what is now a museum. it's a very exciting moment just behind me. >> we expect president obama there as well, right, charlayne? >> i'm not sure. my understanding was they were going to leave immediately after the memorial service. but if he comes, i'll be the first to let you know. >> i bet. ambassador gibbs, i want to go -- south africa postman della. there is going to be a fight for his -- control his legacy and there's been prankly a soap opera with some of his family
eradicate poverty, to end bad schools, to do those things that are contemporary challenges, that not only we face here in the united states, but the world faces. >> charlayne, we know relationships in the past have been formed, president obama and president bush rode air force one together. we saw president obama shake the hand of raul castro, cuba's president, obviously. i wonder if we could see nelson mandela's influence extend in this way too. when george h.w. bush rode with bill clinton to asia for tsunami relief, the former adversaries became friends. what will be, do you think, his impact going forward as we watch some of the video of the greetings that went on in that crowd among world leaders? >> well, that's the $64,000 question. maybe not in this recession, it might be even less. but i think what's important to remember is that nelson mandela, barack obama, barack obama
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