michelle macaluso is live on capitol hill with more details about senator jeff session's confirmation hearing to be the next attorney general. >> reporter: michelle, lawmakers have been grilling senator jeff sessions for nearly five hours and actually, they are sitting before the senate judiciary committee behind me. protestors have been trying to disrupt the hearings. jeff session has "not" been shaken. senator jeff sessions made his case in front of the senate panel will he will be the next u.s. attorney general. >> i come before you today as a colleague who has worked with you for years and some of you 20 years. you know who i am. >> reporter: but not all of his colleagues will be friendly. senator cory booking and congressman john lewis will testify against him. sessions was denied a federal judgeship in 1986 when the committee rejected his nomination because witnesses alleged he used racially offensive language. >> these are damnably false charges. >> reporter: democrats also questioned his commitment to the voting rights act which protects minority access to the polls. >> i deep

michelle macaluso for cbs news, the supreme court. >>> it's a big letdown for middle class families withtudents in california's two public university systems. kpix 5's jackie ward joins us live from san francisco to explain why some scholarships will soon disappear. jackie. >> reporter: michelle, if approved this would be the first tuition hike in seven years. tuition rates have been frozen for the last six years. both workers unions and students look at this as yet another hit to the middle class. its day one of a two-day meeting with the university of california's governing board. on the table is a proposed tuition hike and negotiation talks with teamsters local 2010. jason represents the workers union and says some employees at ucla have been working without a contract for four years. >> we have seen real wages go down by 24% over the last two decades. wages are still low, about 70% of workers are either suffering hunger or food insecurity. >> reporter: this is happening while the uc system is seeing a significant increase in enrollment and decrease in state funding. the proposed tuit

michelle macaluso reports from washington, dc. michelle, two big developments. >> reporter: president trump just wrapped up a speech in philadelphia before congressional republicans for their annual retreat. tensions are high between president trump and mexico over who should pay for the border wall along the u.s./mexico border. mr. trump told gop lawmakers today that the decision to cancel that scheduled meeting between the two countries was mutual. mexico's president enrique pena nieto canceled a scheduled meeting at the white house next week following president trump's tweets there is morning. mr. trump wrote: if mexico is unwilling to pay for the badly needed wall, then it would be better to cancel the upcoming meeting. in a tweet. >> reporter: last night the mexican president repeat his country's position it won't pay for the wall along the u.s./mexico border. he went on to say, mexico is willing to work with the u.s. to reach agreements that benefit both nations. the president says mexico unfairly benefits from the u.s. with