tipped, he is john lewis' deputy john lewis, who is widely tipped, he isjohn lewis' deputy chairman,s grayling. the rail system, as anybody who travels on it, wherever they are in the country, it is broken. there have been strikes, there have been timetable things causing absolute chaos. it is expensive. it is unreliable. and because it is so fragmented, labour say they would renationalise the railways. nigel is in favour of that, as we heard earlier. interestingly, the john lewis model, which appeals to a lot of industry insiders in the rail industry, the john lewis model web workers are partners in the firm, it is a sort of nationalisation lite. why does that work better? while, they say it would work better than the current system. anything would work better than the current system. but how does putting john lewis on rails actually make the railway system work? i am assuming this would be across the board, or across the network, as opposed to individual companies. so it would actually do something aboutjoining companies. so it would actually do something about joining them compani

john lewis and partners. but will it work? s pragmatic for what is happening in retail. they have to have unique products so they don't have to price match. they are developing very good fashion ranges and across the whole piece as well so this will set them up well in future. there is no question department stores have been struggling. house of fraser was bought by sports direct last month after falling into administration. and debenhams just this week rushed out trading figures to fight claims it was also in financial trouble. john lewis insists it can prosper by being different and avoid becoming another casualty of the british high street. the inquest for those killed in last year's terrorist attack on westminster bridge has heard a man describe his frantic search for his girlfriend. andrei burnaz, a tourist from romania, was standing next to andreea cristea when she was knocked into the river thames by khalid masood's car. she died from her injuries two weeks later. this woman's boyfriend came to court this morning to tell

john lewis says the problems are down the high street.mise so if they cut prices it has to as well, john lewis says that has been cutting its profits heavily. the company says it has no plans to end that policy. it is not cutting back on investment either. it is rebranding store, focussing on customer service with a team of personal stylists and launched its own product label but will it work? i thinkjohn lewis's strategy is pragmatic for what is happening in retail. they have to have unique products so they don't have to price match. they are developing very good fashion ranges and across the whole piece as well so this will set them up piece as well so this will set them up well in future. there is no question department stores have been struggling. house of fraser was bought by sports direct last month after falling into administration. and debenhamsjust after falling into administration. and debenhams just this week rushed out trading figures to fight claims it was also in financial trouble. john lewis insists it can prosper by being

i think the strategy of john lewis is very pragmatic for what is happening in retail.p very well in the future. there is no question department stores have been struggling. house of fraser was bought by sports direct last month after falling into is ministration and debenhamsjust this week rushed out trading figures after claims it was also in financial trouble. john lewis insists it can prosper by being different and avoid becoming another casualties of the british high street. it is 7:55 p:m.. bbc news at six is coming up with the latest news. i will be back in ten minutes. and we are back with ben for the weather. it isa it is a mixed story in the uk but nothing too dramatic. first of all, this is the latest from the usa and the latest satellite image of hurricane florence, the storm was weakening a short time ago, category two but with winds of 105 mph. but don't take news of that and think it will not cause problems. as the storm becomes slow—moving, it is going to bring huge amounts of rain, with flooding and storm surge inundating the coast. back home, as i hint

it is likely that keith williams from john lewis partnership could be heading this up.hat would be interesting, because as we all know, john lewis is a co—operative in the sense that everybody working there is a partner in the company. there is a lot of, call it within the rail industry, to call it within the rail industry, to call dill the similar model. clearly what we have of umpteen different companies running things. we had the collapse of the east coast mainline franchise, the third time in a decade it has cancelled. we have strikes that are driving people absolutely nuts and south west trains, which have been going on it seems since beeching was around. there is nonsense that the timetable rescheduling, which is sitting on chris grayling's doorstep. they have to do something. they have to do something. but how many times do we have these reviews, people come up with really good and sensible stuff and then government goes... isn't the trouble is that transport requires very long—term planning, and yet politicians don't look like they will be in power all that time

they want to learn from the john lewis model where employees are partners and the owners of the businesslway workers could be the equivalent within their industry but there is a short—term tactical reason for this becoming news which is that the report into the timetable mess in may, the interim report is coming in the next few days and that could be grim reading and this gives the government a chance to be on the front foot. thanks forjoining us. a former british soldier's been sentenced to seven years in prison in turkey. joe robinson was charged with terrorism offences following time he spent in syria. he's accused of being a member of the kurdish ypg whom turkish authorities regard as terrorists — but his family say he was in syria helping civilians. richard galpin has more. joe robinson travelled to syria in 2015 to join a kurdish group known as the ypg, which was fighting against so—called islamic state. the former soldier, who had served in afghanistan, apparently frustrated by what he viewed as the british government's lack of action. although the ypg is backed by the united stat

even john lewis out, which is astounding, a 99% drop. al it is on the high street at the moment. yes, the middle class consumer wants discounting because they are going to amazon or aldi or liddle and it is linked to that and also, they have spent a hell of a lot of monetary policy because they have rebranded, brought on new stores and new lines, maybe they have done that at the wrong time but they are definitely going to hope that pays off down the line, this could be a blip but we will be watching certainly in january blip but we will be watching certainly injanuary next blip but we will be watching certainly in january next year and ina certainly in january next year and in a year's time. it is critical now, as we come into christmas period, their most important period of time. thank you. see you later. still to come. can global brands make themselves cool and appeal to a younger age market, just by hiring cutting edge film makers? we meet the woman who's made a business of connecting corporates with creatives. you're with business liv

we are buying more electrical that john lewis, but much home. d margins as well. it is a bit ofa has impacted margins as well. it is a bit of a perfect storm. they say in the second half of the year that is the big part of the year forjohn lewis and they are expecting to do much better there. there will be healthy profits in the back half of the year. john lewis partly blaming brexit, although dominic raab says there is a temptation for businesses not doing well to blame brexit. john lewis is trying to make itself it, i guess, to weather storms by cutting some of the debt. did you say it was a 96—year—old trademark of being never knowingly undersold, is it going to have to change that? he was asked about that today and he said absolutely no. that policy is there for the good times and the bad. he said it was an important part of the relationship with the customer and it is going to stay. thank you very much. this the number of people in england waiting for nonurgent operations is at its highest level in more than a decade. that's according to the

john lewis has recently rebranded itself asjohn lewis lewis has recently rebranded itself as john lewistners are those that work there. it isa partners are those that work there. it is a great idea that people do participating businesses but don't allow politicians to do it. mutually owned businesses, corporate, ones where people have share ownership, participation, all sorts of things, through to very large companies which share ownership schemes. asks only people who work in financial services not as investment bankers but who have pay with a bank and pension with a bank and long—term savings in a bank, and shares crash, an awful lot of those people say, did nobly point out these risks to me. northern rock, you would be in big trouble. or, natwest. eggs in a basket. forcing companies to do things rather than offering incentives smacks of being in the ussr, says one viewer. she has a point, the point of the capitalist system, there is lots of different ways of doing it, i have come across excellent neutral businesses, others are high—risk businesses, where people are putting up the cap

they are bringing in a guy from john lewis to do it, and that is no accident. lewis model, where employees are partners. they are the owners of the business. with the potential that railway workers could be the equivalent within their industry. but there is a short—term tactical reason for this becoming news now, which is the report into that timetabling mess in may. the interim report is coming in the next few days and it could be grim reading. this gives the government the chance to be on the front foot. pope francis has delivered an impassioned speech in sicily, appealing to italy's mafia to abandon a life of crime and violence. he visited the island to pay homage to a parish priest who was murdered by the mafia 25 years ago. courtney bembridge reports. 0n on his way to these sicilian capital with a clear message, pope francis joseph centre of mafia activity to send it. translation: today we need men and women of love, not men and women of honour, of service, not of overpowering. we need men and women to walk together, not to chase power. the catholic church

john lewis, profits fell by 99% in the first half of the year.of that promise, and we talked about it yesterday, to match prices from its competitors. that cost of £40 million. but better news from morrisons. morrisons, its best sales figures were a decade to compete with the likes of tesco and asda. 6.3%. with the likes of tesco and asda. 6.396. football is doing good to the community. birmingham play west brom in the championship tonight. one of the form of players, jeff hawkes field, is now a builder and he renovates houses for the homeless. asking fans to bring on any spare deodorant and shampoos. has he come back to his days as a brickie to paper over the cracks? this is a conundrum that affected many foot ball conundrum that affected many football fans, the bbc has sold its own little glitch. there was this delay during the world cup matches. i was watching a football club upstairs andl i was watching a football club upstairs and i went to the toilet. i was having a bit of a wee... you said you are going to get some toiletries, i thought. s

did john lewis -- we're derailed.s. >> in 2008 someone who stirs hate. >> what does this have to do with brett kavanaugh. >> this is a pattern of smearing and personal attacks that happened against mitt romney. mitt romney is a boy scout. >> 47% of the country were deadbeats. hold on. we can't have one person talk on eight-person pablo. i need to let you stop. >> carrie is very wrong about all of it. we were in 2008. that moment at the town hall where john mccain was approached by a supporter of his, who tried to say barack obama wasn't born here, a patriot, john mccain said, no, ma'am, we're not going there. >> typest moment. >> as someone on the campaign, we appreciated that. it was a shocking moment because it was so divisive at the time. no one has done that. you have barack obama who gave a eulogy to john mccain. >> he did. >> and talked about how john mccain wanted to go back to regular order. >> yeah. >> fast forward to where we are today. we are not in regular order. >> that's important. i want to get to that

the democrats are losing control of this party, even their gold standards of liberals like john lewis and maxine waters, they can't push someone through in massachusetts and capuano is liberal enough. >> just like joe crowley, the sky was considered to be a shoe in. the party is going far left, so i say, you go girl. take the party further left and for the left. nobody is buying the socialism and nobody wants to see america turn into venezuela. >> laura: it doesn't work. where has socialism worked. mark, weigh in on that. >> i think the party is saying they want a new generation. i think that's what you are seeing. but i think you underestimate the power of moderate democrats if the house is taken over by the democrats. they will have the swing votes, not the left. and you will be surprised. >> laura: and they will be out in the cold. >> throw me another crown. >> they will have more power than you think. >> give me a final prediction for what's going to happen tomorrow. >> i think we will finally hear more from judge kavanaugh, and his record is so exceptional and his approach to the

and so my mom and i were grieving and here's john lewis looking at me saying, "this is why we fought.sworn in and my mom's like, "boy, don't you forget where u came from. don't you forget -- the title doesn't make the man. the man's title."ke the i'm being lectured the entire way to being sworn in. [ laughter and applause ] >> jimmy: as moms do. thanks, mom. [ applause ] >> so -- it is prongundly humbo be there. you know that every day -- and i'm still that guy that was the mayor of newark. i still live in central ward of newark, new jersey. omm the only senator that lives in an inner citynity where folks are rich with character. clove my community. but we're low incomunity. median income about $14,000 per household. so i get up in newark befoge i on the train to go to washington every single day with hard-working americans who are still not participating in u thness of the american promise. because, whether it's the fact a that w an incredible criminal justice system that treats dferent folks differently based upon the zip code they live in or whether i see people who areorking full-

john lewis first half revenue coming in at 5486. some argument that john lewis is getting squeezed by brexit and amazon. it is an employee owned company. the profit number perhaps not as key as with some other countries -- companies. we have other numbers from morrison. 8.8 billion pounds, a slight beat on the estimate of 8.4 billion pounds. a few retail numbers coming through. more from our life after lehman coverage, mervyn king shares his memories of the financial crisis. and an exclusive interview after 9:30 a.m. u.k. time this is bloomberg. ♪ nejra: this week marks the 10th anniversary of the collapse of lehman brothers. we have been speaking with key figures to look back on this historic event. theyn king discussed consequences of the financial crisis. irvin: we could have gone back to the repetition of that great depression of the 1930's. i think we would have taken action as we did take in late 2008 and early 2009 to try to offset the consequences of that but we would not have prevented it all together, it would have been a

struggles for department stores like debenhams, john lewis really make some big changes to try to draw brought in advisers from kmpg. london market generally pretty flat, up london market generally pretty flat, up slightly, supported by the relief from italy's budget preparations being under way, supporting stocks across europe. a year ago, hurricane irma slammed into florida. it was the first category—five storm of the 2017 hurricane season, which was the deadliest and costliest on record so far. hurricanes harvey, irma, jose and maria all brought devastation to the caribbean and parts of the us, but what are the prospects for this year? bbc weather‘s tomasz schafernaker, who was in florida when irma hit, has been taking a look. last year's atlantic hurricane season will never be forgotten in the caribbean and the us. it spawned extreme storms, from record rainfall in houston to entire island nations being devastated. parts of the carribean still have many years of recovery ahead of them. among them anguilla, st martin, puerto rico and dominica. this is a bedroom, that's a bedroom. th

profits at the john lewis partnership fell dramatically to almost nothing in the six months tojuly.group, which includes the department stores and waitrose supermarkets, made a profit ofjust 1.2 million. the company said its price—matching strategy had been severely tested by discounts elsewhere. a tourist has described how he almostjumped into the thames after the westminster terror attack to find his girlfriend who'd been hit by khalid masood's car. the couple from romania had been taking photos on the bridge when the attack happened. andreea cristea was thrown into the air and ended up in the river. she died two weeks later from her injuries. our home affairs correspondent, daniel sandford reports from the old bailey. andrei burnaz was himself injured during the westminster bridge attack last year but today, grim—faced, he had to give evidence in the inquest into the death of his girlfriend, andreea cristea. on holiday from romania, they'd been to visit westminster abbey and were heading over the bridge when khalid masood's 4x4 drove into them at speed. "after the vehicle passed,

a disservice to the nation we want to protect to act as if progress was inevitable tell that to john lewis or rosa parks or elizabeth cady stanton or frederick douglass or harriet tubman or surgeon or truth. tell them that this will work out. we need to remember history to honor those who gave the ultimate price to have something worth defending. so if we act as if history is a myth if everything works out in a land far far away to foreclose the possibility of learning from it. but they are just like us. i write history and biography not because it was more reassuring but imperfect yet they got through it and made progress and with all of their imperfections with her appetite and ambition and racism and sexism that he created a more perfect union and surely all of us driven by those same forces. and then to simplify this it is sometimes sometimes it is absolutely clear but that is the exception not the rule and the nation is defined i think in the august terms that the nation is a multitude of rational beings ignited by the common objects of their love. again. a multitude of rational being

john lewis owns the big department stores, but also the waitrose supermarket.t the same time, lot of its rivals been slashing prices to get three, people through the doors and whatjohn lewis does is match those prices. that has affected their profits. they have also spent a lot of money in new stores and investing in it for its website. that has come at a big cost, meaning that rockets are down 99% on the same time last year. practically wiping out their profit for the year. nonetheless, the firm has said it is now in a position to deal with a challenging retail market. but another blow for the high street in what is already a difficult time for them. the boss saying that times on them. the boss saying that times on the high street are and the stig is there that out. —— these figures bear that out. russia has launched its biggest military exercise since the cold war. around 300,000 personnel are involved in thejoint training with china and mongolia, along with 80 warships and more than one—thousand aircraft. a kremlin spokesman said the drills were justified gi

did, 28 of ousus including me, carson john lewis, and 26 others. there are problems here. you commit tocan completing a formal rulemaking to address these issues before expanding tsa's use of biometric technology? mr. peskoke:. senator, we are simply prototyping the biometrics. we're using cpb's technology. using their testing. and we have an updated privacy impact assessment for that prototype. we don't have any plans for a formal program expansion. we just want to see how it works. commit torkey: do you completing a formal rulemaking to address these issues before expanding tsa's use of biometric technology? mr. peskoke: sir, i will defer to the department of homeland security, which is overseeing the biometric effort of the components. senator markey: i'm very disappointed that you and your agency will not commit to ensuring these fundamental protections are in place through a formal rule making before you move forward. the american people deserve to have a set of guidelines which are put in place in orders protect their privacy. i already personally have had a mistake

congressman john lewis changed our country. and people are saying this isn't okay. it's not normal. we are going to push back. i'm more hopeful on this issue now than i have been in many years. >> host: one of the challenges and i'm with you my only hope is in the younger people but they are also living in a world where just yesterday white nationalists marched on d.c. and we see a resurgence of comfort with the public expression of racist to use and rhetoric. how is this playing out in schools and amongst these young people who are literally our future? >> guest: a couple of things. it's my personal opinion that you have a administration and the president that thrives on this. you have the charlottesville year ago and the all right in the neo-nazis or whatever you might call them. he is sending a very clear message that but there he lies so much you don't nobody actually believed it. it doesn't matter if he believes it or not but that's the message he continues to send on an ongoing basis. so yes there's a level of fear whether its students and young children who are immigrants or

congressman john lewis and 26 others. so there are problems here. can you commit here to completing a formal rule-making to address these issuing. >> we are simply prototyping the biomet ricks in partnership with cvp and using cvp's technology and testing. we have an updated privacy impact assessment for that prototype. we don't have any plans at this point for a formal program suspension. we -- >> will you commit to meeting a formal rule making to address these issues before expanding tad's use of biometric use of technology? >> i will defer to the department of ohmland security which is overseeing the complements. zplp i'm disappointed that you and your agency will not commit that these fundamental protections are in place through a formal rule making. the american people deserve to have a set of guidelines which are put in place nortd to protect their privacy. i personally have had a mistake made with regard to facial recognition. united states senator. now it's one thing for the united states senator, or congressman. we can protect ourselves. bu

king marched, our colleague john lewis was beaten to almost his death, bleeding on the edmund pettus bridge, to restore section 5. section 5 might even help this issue. because section 5 provides preclearance to any voting procedure that any state may have that would be unfair and discriminatory. so if my colleagues want to argue anything, they can argue that really the main bill that they should be putting forward is a restoration of section 5 of the voting rights act. because we have found throughout the states that we do have violations. voter i.d. laws that are discriminatory. we have voter suppression. we have people being purged off of lists. and interestingly enough, they happen to be poor people, african-americans and hispanic citizens. so i am opposed to this legislation. i don't like legislation that is a get-you legislation. i have great respect for my friend from california. i frankly believe it's a state matter. it's really a city matter that could be handled by those who are concerned. but for the national question of voting rights, yes, mr. speaker, i see that for the

those were disproportionately people of color, including civil rights hero john lewis, and included a member of this committee. our law-abiding colleague, senator martin, who sits on my right side. additionally, we don't know if the impact of the technology on privacy of american travelers overseas -- and authoritarian nations such as china, rolling it out on a massive scale to surveil its population. as tsa considers scaling up the technology, i would urge you to halt sole implementation -- full implementation until there is clear transparency into its effects, the effects that technology has on travelers. in february of this year, the government executive published an article titled him a tsa facial recognition pilot program may make travel worse for ethnic minorities. mr. chairman, i would like to enter this into the record for, this article into the record. >> thank you. >> >> this seems to suggest that facial recognition does not work the same for everyone. the article quotes the center for aviation saying face recognition software is not good at identifying ethnic minorities whe

bad news out of john lewis, which wcould weight on the retail sector. matt? netherlands daybook. unturned in stone your preparations. let's get to what is going on in frankfurt. we have the first policy meeting after the summer break. areo draghi and his team said to be ready to lower the forecast for eurozone growth. hit by the trade wars. joining us now is our global head of rates and research at bank of america-merrill lynch. let me ask about mario draghi. he has to lower his growth while saying everything is cool, do not worry. will have quantitative easing and raise rates at the end of summer next year. how hard will that be? the big worry for us is the weakness we have seen in the european numbers started before a want of the trade headlines. draghi haves mario to explain why there was a negative impact on european business, but he will also have to explain why europe is losing momentum already. a wide -- is such wise idea to withdraw stimulus at that point in time. i want to ask you about the italian story. there are reports around would stay or go. we

the other big story was john lewis, where their sales or their profits fell 99%.what do you think mr ashley is playing at, saying his shareholders stabbed him in the back? there have been rumours about him and debenhams which haven‘t happened, and house of fraser which today we heard they won‘t be giving out any refunds for orders that were taken before they took over.” out any refunds for orders that were taken before they took over. i think he's probably playing at trying to get away for the weekend and hope the news dies down. he doesn't like the news dies down. he doesn't like the media much, does he? it was a co nflu e nce the media much, does he? it was a confluence of things this week. the debenhams story was there at the start of the week, maybe they were talking about administration. they owned a part of debenhams sale that became talk about perhaps could they doa became talk about perhaps could they do a merger. perhaps that had been discussed but it turned out it hadn't really. it will like an unfortunate confluence of things and the comment about being

they were willing to be killed, shed blood, you think about john lewis, to change our country and our young people are saying this isn't okay and it's not normal and we're going to push back. so i'm more hopeful on this issue now that i have been in many years. but one of the challenges around this, my only hope is in young people but they are also living in a world where just yesterday, white nationalists march on dc and yet we see a resurgence with public expression of racist views and hate filled rhetoric. how is this playing out in the schools and among the young people who are literally our future? >> a couple things, my personal opinion is that you have a president that thrives on this. and you have charlottesville from a year ago and the albright andneo-nazis, whatever you might call them . he says they're very fine people on both sides of that equation, yet he's sending a very, very clear message that he lies so much, you may believe that. it doesn't matter whether you believe itor not that's the message he continues to send on an ongoing basis . oh yes, there's a level of fea

only to put their bodies online and be killed and shed blood and think about young congressman john lewis to change our country. our young people are saying it's not okay or normal and we will push back. i'm hopeful on this issue now that i have been in many, many years. >> host: one of the challenges around this and i am with you and my only hope is in the other people. they're living in a world where just yesterday white nationalist marched on dc and we see a resurgence of comfort with the public expression of racist views and hate filled rhetoric. how is this playing out in the schools and amongst these are people who are literary our future? >> guest: couple of things. in my personal opinion you have administration that feeds on this and that thrives on this and you have charlottesville from one year ago and the outright and neo-nazis or whatever you call them and he says they are fine people on both sides of the equation. he is sending a very, very clear message that whether he lie so much that he may believe that. as another whether he believes are not but that's the message he send

right, someone who led the fight for our voting rights, the gentleman from georgia, ongressman john lewis. mr. lewis: my beloved friend, congresswoman barbara lee, thank you for holding this special order. ron dellums was a special human being. special leader. one of a kind. in due rn and grew up season. those of us who worked with him, got to know him, we loved him, we admired him. i can see him saying, hi, what's going on? we must continue to stand up and speak up and fight the good fight. ron never gave up. he never gave in. never became bitter. he loved people. he worked so hard for what he believed in. s you have stated so well, congresswoman barbara lee, ron was a founding move the congressional black caucus, but i tell you he was a peaceful warrior. e believed in peace. he struggled to help build what i call a true ghockcy in america. he fought to build what dr. king called a beloved unity he wanted to redeem the soul of america he wanted to bring people together. it didn't matter whether they were black or white, latino, asian american or native american. he saw us as one people,

profits at the john lewis partnership fell dramatically to almost nothing in the six months tojuly.ing strategy had been severely tested by discounts elsewhere. chopin in shopping centres and haydn on the high street — that s what s being heard in leeds this week during the build—up to what s regarded as the uk s most prestigious piano competition. 0ur entertainment correspondent colin paterson has been in the city to speak to members of the public who've been tempted to tinkle the ivories. pianos have been popping up in precincts and places all round leeds. the reason? to celebrate the leeds international piano competition. the steps of the town hall have been turned into a giant keyboard. ifeel like tom hanks in big. the leeds international piano competition has been taking place every three years since the start of the ‘60s. it's a truly global event to find the best young pianist in the world, with finalists this year from as far as china, russia and the usa. and the judges — who are concert pianists themselves — have been giving impromptu performances in the centre of the city,

the company which runs john lewis and waitrose has announced that its profits were virtually wiped outercent, compared with the same period last year, to £1.2 million. the chairman of the partnership, sir charlie mayfield, said the retail industry was facing challenging times and said the ongoing brexit negotiations were in part to blame for uncertainty in the economy. a ten—year—old boy in missouri is recovering after he was attacked by wasps and fell from a tree house face first on to a meat skewer. you mightfind face first on to a meat skewer. you might find these x—ray images disturbing. the thin spike that went through there be a cunning's had miraculously missed his eyes, brain, spinal—cord and major blood vessels. —— xavier cunningham. he fell from the tree house on saturday. the hospital say he should recover fully but his voice could be effective. —— could be affected. more news at 10:30am. thank you. those images we re 10:30am. thank you. those images were incredible. there are warnings that sharing scary childbirth stories could be making fear of childbirth worse. you affect

their choice, knowing it would end up in the mississippi state penitentiary parchment as it did for john lewisthey marched not just for themselves, but for everyone. and now we have injustice in this country. two sets of criminal justice systems depending on your race, your ethnicity, and your color. the prison population is disproportionately comprised of too many unarmed african-american men losing their lives in this country. to peacefully protest that injustice, nonviolently, and to call attention to that to prick the conscience of this country so that those in power will finally do something. standing up not just for your right but everyone's rights in country, there's nothing more american than that. [applause] >> i'm going to have to ask again for the audience to please refrain from reacting and applause, ok? we need to get through a lot of questions here. senator cruz? senator cruz: congressman o'rourke gave a long soliloquy on the civil rights movement. one of the reasons i'm a republican is because civil rights legislation was passed with the overwhelming support of republicans, and

a disservice to the nation we want to protect to act as if progress was inevitable tell that to john lewisor rosa parks or elizabeth cady stanton or frederick douglass or harriet tubman or surgeon or truth. tell them that this will work out. we need to remember history to honor those who gave the ultimate price to have something worth defending. so if we act as if history is a myth if everything works out in a land far far away to foreclose the possibility of learning from it. but they are just like us. i write history and biography not because it was more reassuring but imperfect yet they got through it and made progress and with all of their imperfections with her appetite and ambition and racism and sexism that he created a more perfect union and surely all of us driven by those same forces. and then to simplify this it is sometimes sometimes it is absolutely clear but that is the exception not the rule and the nation is defined i think in the august terms that the nation is a multitude of rational beings ignited by the common objects of their love. again. a multitude of rational beings

democracy a great that allows us to protest, get into good trouble as john lewis would say.live in a great democracy, but what makes it less perfect is the fact we are human. we have to get off of our complaining and realize everything that affects us can be changed through the vote. when you do not feel like voting, that is when you have to vote, when you feel like your vote does not matter, that is when you need to vote. have you do that to young people? my mom, who was a librarian, and i was blessed to have library books in my house growing up, used to say you do not have to be a candidate or a member of congress to make a difference. teachers make differences every day in the lives of people. [applause] >> a lot of teachers are here today. >> members of organized labor differences every day. i challenge you to choose an ,ssue, whatever your issue is galvanize interest among your peers around that issue. that is called advocacy. i gary you to be an advocate -- dare you to be an advocate. you not only invest your time which is valuable, but you give that, and i cannot ask

amazon facial scanning tech and on - - technology identify 20 members of congress including me and john lewis i wrote a letter about those issues. can amazon facial recognition determine if it is taking pictures of children under 13 and how does amazon ensure that recognition if it is compliant with privacy protection act? >> so to be clear technology does not take pictures it is just matching dependent entirely on the days a customer uses in connection with the service. it has a number of uses it just matches and is entirely dependent. >> congressman lewis put me into a suspicious category. have you tested that for any bias to ensure that will not be the end of the day? >> we are constantly improving the product and also replicated the study from the aclu and were not able to replicate those results with a much larger data set. there are flaws in the study we are trying to understand better. >> with a strong national privacy bill. thank you. >> i appreciate the witnesses being here. and to go into effect in 2000. and with a subsidiary of trinity one - - of twitter to raise concerns about com

they remember me as someone as a member of the historic congress of john lewis.t's different and i hope that, you know, i hope that my race will show is that things are so dysfunctional and cynical and chaotic and people are so tired of the reality show that they remember someone like me who came in as a 30-year-old never won a race, never ran a race and won with 85% black vote, 11% white vote in 1986. in 1992, for re-election i had 95% black vote and 40% white vote. so people remember that i did things, i responded to people. wasn't about race. it was about responsiveness. so we did that from '86 to '92. >> as you talk about taking on trump agenda this state went by almost 20 foirnts donald trump in 2016. >> yes. >> what do you say to trump supporters, you're hoping to cross over and win their vote. if you're talking about going in and challenging his agenda they like what he's doing, what do you say >> i'm not running against trump i'm running for u.s. senator. i'm a democrat. i acknowledge that. i caucus with democrats. i'm an independent, small "i." i don't c

john lewis. i wrote to amazon about those issues. i don't think it quite answered all of my questions, but i quickly ask you, can amazon's facial recognition policy determine whether it is taking pictures of children under 13, and how does amazon ensure that recognition in your product is compliant with the children on line of privacy protection act? >> thank you, senator. to be really clear, that technology doesn't take any pictures at all, it's just a matching technology, and it depends entirely on the data set that the customer using the technology uses in connection with a service. it doesn't take pictures. it has a number of uses. it just matches photos and videos and objects entirely dependent on the data set provided. >> the problem is, of course, it matched me and congressman lewis and wound up putting me on a suspicious -- into a suspicious category, and so have you tested it for any biases related to race or gender to ensure that that is not going to be a part of the product at the end of the day? >> senator, we have tested

i've spent some time with congressman john lewis and he would always say, wes, your job is to start goodverybody's job. some people need to be in the back. some people need to be observers, however, now with that disclaimer being said, i believe that there is a great deal of power in confronting these racist acts and these ideologies, not in a physical sense, but being present to let them know that their ideology and your hate is not going to be, one, tolerated, or two normalized. i think when we just allow these individuals to do whatever it is that they want whenever they want freely and think that i can just say whatever i want without any opposition, its dangerous because there are a lot of other people that seem to then think that this is okay, and this is normal. no, this is not normal. its not normal for you to be a white supremacist, a bigot, for you to not like black, jews, latinos or anyone else. that's not normal. its not normal for to you just completely think that you can just hate people for no good reason other than the fact that you think that your race is superior to any

i think partisan politics is on a different plane from what we just saw in the life of john mccain. >> matt lewis, good to have you with us. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> top of the hour. thanks for staying with me in the cnn newsroom. i'm ana cabrera in new york. we have confirmation that the long-time senator and vietnam war hero has been laid to rest on the grounds of the u.s. naval academy. his burial today in annapolis, maryland, was a private affair. family only invited, loved ones. his funeral service and other memorial events were televised by people who stood together out of respect for the senator's family and to honor his lifetime of service. the question, how long can that political goodwill last? a major test comes in a couple of days. that's when this man, brett kavanaugh, begins his supreme court confirmation hearings in the senate. democrats already are pushing back hard about a decision that will leave a large number of documents about kavanaugh out of the confirmation hearings. let's go to our white house correspondent boris sanchez. that decision to withhold about 100,000