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Ashley Woodard Henderson (0:00)
Foreign.
Andrea Pitzer (0:15)
From New York, Dallas to downtown Los
Ashley Woodard Henderson (0:17)
Angeles to New Orleans, I'm looking at you, chattanooga.
Andrea Pitzer (0:19)
Then Denver, Colorado.
Ashley Woodard Henderson (0:21)
I'm looking at you, Memphis.
Rahm Emanuel (0:22)
With 200,000 flooding into St. Paul, more
Unnamed News Reporter (0:24)
than 8 million Americans turned out in
Rahm Emanuel (0:26)
huge numbers yet again to protest against Donald Trump's policies. While President Trump spent the day at his Florida golf course,
Andrea Pitzer (0:38)
I, and I suspect a lot of you went to one of the no Kings protests around the country. No ice, no war, no Kings. For consistency's sake, I went to the same one I went to in October so that I could compare this weekend's event to a few months ago.
Rahm Emanuel (0:54)
With everything that's going on, I feel powerless. And today, in this moment, I feel like I do have a little bit of power.
Andrea Pitzer (0:59)
A lot of fabulous people turned out. And the most significant thing I noticed as we were getting ready to cross from the Virginia side of the Memorial bridge over into D.C. near the Lincoln Memorial was how much bigger, visibly larger attendance was compared to October.
Rahm Emanuel (1:18)
If Minneapolis and the twin cities in St. Paul are an indication of this, it's bigger all around the world. It's quite a sight to see.
Andrea Pitzer (1:26)
That appears to have been a national trend.
Unnamed News Reporter (1:28)
Yesterday's historic protests come at a moment when this country remains at war with Iran, solely at the decision of President Trump, who was reportedly considering sending more U.S. troops to the region.
Andrea Pitzer (1:39)
Even before the west coast no Kings events had ended, Co sponsor Indivisible announced that national attendance at thousands of events in the US had already exceeded 8 million people, making it the largest single day of protest in American history.
