place. what i see here is the treatment of all people based on the behavior of just a few people. i don't agree with that. but i understand this is an experiment from a security standpoint. we've never had this happen before. so they're trying to adjust it so it will fit the situation. i give deference to that is. >> anthony gray, we appreciate it. i'm jake tapper in ferguson, missouri. i now turn you over to brianna keilar filling in for wolf blitzer in "the situation room." >> happening now, a "situation room" special report, breaking news. bracing for trouble after some of the worst clashes yet in ferguson, missouri. city officials plead for quiet. but the are we about to see more of this? shooting near ferguson, is st. louis police shoot and kill a young african-american who they will say approached them with a knife. and the feds step in after scenes like this. the u.s. attorney general heading to ferguson where dozens of fbi agents are already on

ground. wolf blitzer is off. i'm brianna keilar. you're in "the situation room." breaking news. city leaders in ferguson, missouri, issue an urgent plea for quiet and reconciliation follow another night of violence, gunshots, firebombs and clouds of tear gas. hear the latest developments. the city of ferguson is urging people to stay home tonight and allow peace to settle in and let the justice process run its course. 78 people were arrested last night and jail records show many of them came from out of state. authorities and protest organizers are blaming the violence on a small number of agitator. there's also been another police shooting near ferguson. st. louis authorities say officers shot and killed a young african-american man who allegedly advanced on them with a knife. the police are now moving the media out of our broadcast location there in ferguson.

but our correspondents are analysts and guests are standing by with complete coverage. we start with cnn national correspondent jason carroll. he's in ferguson. tell us the latest there, jason. >> brianna just to give this more perspective, when we were out here last week we heard from officers about these people coming out from out of town. they were here last week, they are here this week. and police are still strugglinging with how to keep the peace at night. what began as peaceful protests quickly deteriorated into chaos with tear gas and gunfire injuries to authorities and protesters. >> take a deep breath. >> and more than 70 arrests. four officers were injured and at least two people were shot. but not by police. this morning, michael brown's mother called for calm. >> we have to remain focused and

we have to remain strong and the violence needs to stop. when justice is prevailed, then maybe they'll regain their trust in the locals. but right now, it's really out of control. >> attorney general eric holder is expected in ferguson tomorrow as the justice department opens a civil rights investigation into brown's death. and a local grand jury could begin hearing evidence in the case this week. there are a bunch of stun grenades. that's tear gas. >> police and protesters blame outside agitators for much of the violence here. the state highway patrol captain in charge is urging the community to protest during the day going forward, not at night. >> we expect peace. and that's the way that we're going to approach it. thursday we had a positive outlook. some dynamics changed and so

hopefully we can get back to that. but the people want peace. >> meantime an support is growing for the police officer who shot michael brown. a facebook page called i support officer wilson is up, and has more than 35,000 likes. and the page on a crowd funding site go fund me has has raised more than $25,000 to help with darren wilson's finances and legal fees. and brianna, captain johnson who you heard from there in the piece also said he is not going to let criminals define this community. they are going to be going after that element tonight which is why, again, he urging demonstrators to protest during the day and not tonight. brianna? >> jason carroll for us in ferguson, thank you. there's been another police shooting not far from ferguson. officers in st. louis have killed a young african-american man who allegedly came at them with a knife. chris cuomo is tracking that for

us. chris, you were at the scene, weren't you, of this officer-involved shooting. what happened? >> yes, we made it there to the scene. this morning on "new day," leaders from the community were saying hopefully there's no more violence. exactly what they didn't need to happen happened. officers were called to the scene of a local market where there were allegations a shoplifter wasn't cooperating with the story owners. two officer showed up, a 23-year-old man came at them. they say he charged them with a knife daring them to kill him and the officers did just that. when news came out that there was another body outside a store in the locality here, people came out. 50, 100, 150, 200 people. most of them african-americans, many of them young males all of them very, very angry. now, unlike the michael brown situation, this is time the scene was tidied up quickly, even the story owners came out literally hosing down the

sidewalk. but the stains were already in place for the crowd and the idea of there being quiet tonight was greatly compromised because in this crowd, brianna, it's not just that there was another shooting but it does matter to them it was white police officers shooting a black man and while they're aware -- the crowd was aware there was a knife involved, that he supposed by charged, there are allegations from those who knew him maybe he had instability issues. and yet, they say but why was the only option for police to shoot this man? why couldn't they tase him or detain him a different way? the crowd got very angry quickly, chanting and promising that they will not let this situation rest because they're afraid it will happen again. >> yeah, it reveals, as well so much distrust there of the police in that area. you've been speaking, as well with local leaders. how is this affecting their plans there in ferguson just a few miles from this latest shooting? >> a big concern. they tried to get traffic going in the situation of this latest

shooting again, trying to get normalcy back. this entire community has been frozen by the shooting. now there's been another one. the chief addressed these protesters directly. but they were not satisfied with his answers. so then we circled back with the local leaders who were saying this morning if they want what they were calling a moratorium or a ceasing to any protesting to allow some quiet, allow some calm in and for authorities to isolate these agitators that jason was reporting on earlier, that they would cooperate. now, that doesn't seem to be the situation. local leaders are getting a lot of appeals from the people in this area to protest. they're hoping they can keep it peaceful. that's what they want is the message to come out again tonight. i would be surprised if everyone stays home. >> definitely, thank you so much. we know you'll keep an eye on things in ferguson. there are dozens of fbi agents on the ground in that city. attorney general eric hold ser heading there tomorrow as federal authorities investigate the michael brown shooting.

let's turn to justice reporter evan perez. what are you learning about this visit? this it is very significant that the attorney general is heading there in a way almost filling -- he's sort of the face of the obama administration there. >> right. this is very unusual. the attorney general heading to the keen in the middle of an ongoing investigation. it's very hands on. i was told in the last hour that the attorney general got himself a briefing from the investigators on the federal autopsy which was done yesterday. they're not releasing details of this autopsy obviously till after the federal investigation is over. this is a civil rights investigation which is separate from the criminal investigation being done by the st. louis keep the police. now, he is going to be there tomorrow meeting with the investigators doing the investigation, the fbi agents. the prosecutors in the u.s. attorney's office. we also expect he's going to meet with the brown family in the last hour on jake tapper's show, you heard from the brown attorney they've arranged for a visit with the attorney general and also with some local

leaders. but the focus here is really on the investigation and to make sure they can reassure the people there that this is going to be done properly. >> if these federal occupies results come out because at this point, there have been three autopsies done. we know the results of the autopsy that the brown family commissioned. >> right. >> we don't know the federal occupies results. when might the investigation wrap up so we can figure out what that autopsy says? that this is probably not going to happen for frankly for months because they first want to wait to see what the st. louis county police department does because they present evidence to a grand jury tomorrow. so that process is now on going, but the fbi is already ahead of the game here. they have done interviews that even the st. louis county detectives haven't been able to do because they're stretched thin. >> i want to bring in tom fuentes it, law enforcement analyst. what does this do having the attorney general go to the area? what does this signify, what does it achieve aside from

something symbolic? >> that's enough. he wants to convince the local leaders there that the federal government is performing as diligent and meticulous and proper investigation as it possibly can to assure them that's going to be the case. the fbi had dozens of agents there almost from the beginning when the request went of having a ibl rights investigation, that was an additional 40. that was a surge of more fbi agents on top of the dozens already there. so you have a very meticulous investigation going on, about you in order to have justice served in a case like this, the investigation has to be done exactly as properly as possible to meet federal investigative guidelines. it's very unforgiving if the fbi comes out there and they don't investigate this absolutely the way it's supposed to be, it jeopardizes the case, it could jeopardize a prosecution. so they're not going to be able to rush that. it's also on these autopsies,

the family possibly did itself a disservice because three aupszs. >> this is an interesting point you brought up yesterday. three autopsies. >> three autopsies. >> some doubt perhaps. >> exactly. if there's doubt, that gives. >> if there's doubt a case against the officer. >> hypothetically, if officer wilson is prosecuted and there's a discrepancy among the three autopsies, ha plays into the defense trying to raise the reasonable doubt issue. so far on top of that, that autopsy that was done by the family was real incomplete. they didn't have the clothing this he didn't. >> they didn't have the important facts. tom fuentes, evan, thank you so much. next, push comes to shove in ferguson as police respond to violence with tear gas. stun grenades and arrests. is the crackdown the right way to handle things? and we'll go back live to ferguson, which is a community now bracing for more trouble are even as we get new details on another police shooting in

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over the place from military style crackdowns to bringing the hammer down again. it has led to criticism that this police response has been too inconsistent. punctuated by. poor communication and leadership problems. police in ferguson fire tear gas and stun grenades. they say they were responding to being targeted by rocks, molotov could cocktails and gunfire. the central question in ferguson is as persist" as the violence itself. >> were those police tactics appropriate for what was happening at that moment? >> needed a show of force by police officers. the fact that they're wearing military style uniforms was very provocative. had they been wearing police blues i think there would have been a different feeling >> here they come. we've been pushed out of the way. >> some say the police perform innocence in ferguson has been disjointed and say it starred

with a confused leadership picture. thomas jackson handing it off to captain ron johnson of the missouri highway patrol. >> tells me they're not certain who's in control and how to control this civil strife. they are experimenting, they're making things up as they go along. >> heavy handed tactics at the beginning -- then stepping back and allowing protesters to roam. then clamping down again as the threat changed. to some, that's disastrous indecision. to others, that's adaptability. >> they went too heavy handed in the beginning but they have to keep changing and assessing tactics. that's what good policing does. it's a constant assessment of threat and trying different things to find the right mix. >> communication with the public and the media has also been too inconsistent analysts say. police haven't articulated the rules on street clearly and seem to be i think changing the rules

on the fly sometimes on live tv. >> i think we're about to be arrested because we're standing on the sidewalk into move out of the way, sir. >> some law enforcement veterans say an ongoing civil disturbance in a glaring public spotlight is unlike anything else. >> this is such a big dynamic situation. >> we relayed some of these criticisms to the missouri highway patrol and ferguson police. we have not heard back from them. what about the missouri national guard? they're not involved in the specific policing of the crowd just just to protect the command center. some analysts say the police are exhausted, that the national guard should relieve them and maintain order but then you get into those images of militarirization on the streets of ferguson yet again. that's been a problem. >> this other point of point of criticism of the ferguson police department was that release of the video that showed michael brown in the convenience store. >> that's right. some analysts say they waited way too long to release that

video. critics say before it was released there was one narrative of michael brown. when they released, another different narrative was created on the same day they revealed the name of the policeman who shot him. that was a public reeses disaster. >> let's go in-depth with senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin as well as law enforcement analyst and former fbi assistant director tom fuentes. to you first -- tom. as the former assistant director of the fbi, if you were on the ground there, if this is a law enforcement situation for you to deal with, what would you be doing? >> first of all you have to have a plan of how you want your people deployed, what the first plan is, and then how you're going to respond to different possibilities of potential violence as the night progresses. but as importantly, you have to communicate to the public where they can march, where they can stand to the media, where they can position themselves. and if you're going to change

that, that has to be announced and there's been changes in that policy that people didn't understand or weren't told of in advance, and you know, and you have to have some judgment here. if you're a police officer and i was a police officer in front of crowds cud as a young cop, when that happens, if you've got an individual, a reporter on international television broadcasting to 2 billion people on a live camera, you can wait two minutes before you ask them to back up till the interview is over. >> it seemed the officer might not have known that that don was indeed live yesterday. jeff, as you watch all of this, you watched the response here. you're watching these pictures. are police responding appropriately here? >> i don't think so. i think this it is wildly excessive. just look at the simple matter of pointing rifles. do you know what a provocative and dangerous act it is to point a rifle at someone? all of these police officers with these very powerful rifles.

i don't know what that accomplishes except to inflame people who are already highly emotionally charged. i think it's important that we realize, there are people in these crowds who are intentionally provoking the police. there are people from outside st. louis who have come in with the intention of stirring things up and making the police look bad. but you know what? it's part of the job for cops to know how to deal with that. and the excessive shows of force seem to play right into the worst of what the protesters are doing. >> tom brought up an interesting point i want to get your feedback on, jeffrey. he said that the brown family while they have commissioned an autopsy, you have the local autopsy, you have the brown family commissioning this autopsy, you have the federal autopsies. three autopsies. and one without for instance access to clothing. is there a chance this is creates doubt in a way that

actually benefits officer wilson should he go to trial? >> well, i suppose that's possible. but if you are part of law enforcement, your job is to seek out the truth and get the best and most information. and if there is something that your pathologist misses in his or her autopsy, then it's good that you have another one there that can call attention to your error. so i don't think -- when is you're in law enforcement, you shouldn't be strategizing that way. your goal should be getting the facts. if another autopsy can bring something to your attention all the better here. especially when you have highly competent people like baden who was retained by the family who are doing work that may explain what happened here. >> we'll have to see if that's the case or if maybe there are disparate conclusions reached in those autopsies. tom, jeffrey, thanks to both of you.

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now pleading for actually took hold for a while last night. cnn's jake tapper captured the tense mood shortly before things erupted. here's some of what he saw and what residents have been experiencing on a nightly basis. >> i just want to show you this. this give you an idea what's going on. the protesters, here's the main intersection. the protesters are about half a block down here. they're all the way down there. okay? nobody's threatening anything. nobody's doing anything. none of the stores here that i can see are being looted. there's no violence. i want to you look at what is going on in ferguson, missouri,s in downtown america. okay? these are armed police with semi-automatic rifles with batons, with shields. many of them dressed for combat. you now, why they're doing this

i don't know because there is no threat going on. >> and jake tapper joining us now live from ferguson. jake, we showed that not to interject you into the story here but really to show an honest reaction to something going on last night. that's really one of the best views if not the best view that we got of what it is like to be in the middle of what many of these protesters have been experiencing every night. tell us a little bit as you're there today about the mood. last night and also now today. >> first of all, when it came to last night, these things aren't black and white. they're complicated. what i was referring to was the intersection down there where there were 200 or 300 police with rifles drawn aiming at the crowd, gas macks on and very little in terms of any provocation coming from the

crowd which largely had dispersed. just after that, my crew and producer and i went down about two blocks away. that was an intense scene where about two dozen protesters were facing off and were definitely provoking the police. and that's where the stun grenades and the smoke bombs and the tear gas came into effect last night two blocks away and that was clearly the protesters were throwing bottles at police. i have no criticism for the police response when it came to that. my criticism was about whether 200 or 300 military police in full regalal with rifles aimed at the crowd whether that was inflaming or calming the crowd. from what i saw, it was inflaming more than anything. there are a lot of concerns what's going to happen today. there are a lot of contradictory things we're hearing from

community leader. there's no unwith leader here. that's one of the issues here. a lot of different groups with different competing agendas. local elected officials have said they would like tonight to be basically a night off. protest. but when it becomes dark, go home. that's what the mayor of ferguson and others community leaders have called for. we also spoke with religious leaders, pastor mike and malik shabazz who are -- have played a more active role with the actual protesters and they say that's not happen package there are going to be protests. what they are asking for from police is that the path be longer than the two-mile or so path that happened yesterday but they want five miles to walk. so what happens tonight is going to be anyone's guess i would expect passions especially with the other death of an african-american man, this one armed with a knife in st. louis, i would expect the passions will be even more inflamed than they

were last night. we've already seen people referring to that other death earlier today, brianna. >> real quick before i let you go, there have been some issues with the areas where you and other colleagues have been broadcasting from. when we go to cover these stories, we work with local officials in law enforcement so we know obviously where we're setting up so much equipment is okay. that we basically having permission to be there. what's going on as they are trying to move you? is that what's happening? >> well, they came and my show's on from 4:00 to 5:00 eastern time. they came at roughly 4:15 and said we had half an hour to leave which even if we had shut down and gone to dead air on cnn we would not have been able to move all of our equipment to here. but the police worked with us. we made our case. thank thrill they said they understood and let us continue to broadcast till the end of the hour. we are now moving about a block away.

this is about the third different media staging area that i'm aware of since this crisis in ferguson began. at one point we were all set up -- we were all set up down there by the convenience store that had been burned out the night mike brown was killed. then we were moved to the liquor store where mike brown allegedly stole cigars the day he was killed and now we're here at had this public storage area. we do what the police tell us to do in terms of this. we try to work with them. but it's kind of confusing as to why we keep getting moved around. i suppose they have their security reasons. >> and some of the complaints from protesters, as well. it's a bit confusing why they're being moved to different places. jack tapper, tand by for us. let's dig deeper. joining us john gaskin, the chair of the national youth corps committee of the naacp. thanks for being with us. just now that we're learning of

this other officer involved shooting just a few miles from where michael brown was killed, keeping in mind that this suspect allegedly was wielding a knife at officers and coming toward them, that's what we're hearing from authorities but still i imagine there's a tremendous amount of distrust even in terms of this shooting from folks there in the community. how do you think it's going to affect things tonight there on streets of ferguson? >> well, we hope that people will remain calm, obviously, as captain johnson mentioned earlier today, he's hoping that as people are protesting that they will do it during the day so we can make a very zing distinction between the individuals trying to cause some problems versus those that want to peacefully protest and make their voices heard. as you mentioned, there's a lot of distrust, there's a lot of questions. with the shooting that took place today, we don't know the a lot. we know small details but as information becoming forthcoming

we want people to certainly be aware. we want people to be very vigilant of what's taking place. we certainly don't want anyone to jump to any conclusions. >> you don't want them to jump to those conclusions. we're hearing from many people. they say it's outside agitators just a small fraction of the crowd there at night in ferguson causing the big problems that are being violent. who are these outside agitators? do you know, and are most of the folks causing problems from out of town? >> well, it's our understanding from our communication with folks is that many of these people that are causing these issues don't live in the ferguson neighborhood. and that's a problem. many of these individuals are from out of town or from a pretty good distance away. but to reinforce the point that captain johnson made this morning, we strongly encourage people to protest during the day. it's safer. and you're able to put a real distinction in between those

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president obama is resuming his vacation a day after addressing the unrest in ferguson. he has no current plans to visit the missouri town. let's get more now from cnn's senior white house correspondent jim acosta. jim? >> hi, can that's right. you just saw a few moments ago the president leaving to resume his vacation up on martha's vineyard leaving the white house with his daughter malia about an hour and a half ago. we'll have to see who how long this vacation lasts especially with everything happening on the ground in ferguson. as for those calls for the president to head out to ferguson to see what's happening on the ground there, i've been talking to white house officials throughout the day. they're saying right now there are no plans for such a trip but they're not ruling it out in the future. it's possible we may see this down the road. there's not a plan for it at this time. in response to the calls for a big speech on race relations i

talked to one senior white house official today who was cool to the idea saying it could really pour gasoline on the fire. they feel like this cautious approach the president is taking is the right one. after talking with civil rights leaders, big city mayors, members of the congressional back caucus, we can expect to see more of that from the president. they're waiting to see how this trip with the attorney general eric holder who is scheduled to arrive in ferguson tomorrow, how that will go. just in the last several minutes, the white house tweeted out an op-ed that will appear in the st. louis post dispatch tomorrow, brianna. to read you an i couple of lines from eric holder. it says basically in order to begin the healing process, we must see an end to the acts of violence in the streets of ferguson. he says we understand the need for an independent investigation. and we hope that the independence and thoroughness of our investigation will bring some measure of calm to the tensions in ferguson. but clearly, what the white

house wants to see first is for the protesters who are clashing with the police for that violence to stop. i'm also being pointed to another visit from an administration official, ronald davis who heads the justice department's cops program or community oriented policing program. he is arriving in ferguson sometime today to start meeting with police officials to start working on a smarter policing strategy to deal with all the protesters to try to calm things down. the white house is hopeful that will help, as well. >> those were live pictures that we were seeing there not too far from martha's vineyard near cape cod where air force one is landing before the president makes a helicopter raid over to the island of martha's vineyard and continues what has been very much a working vacation. we're also following the situation in ferguson, missouri. first this important breaking news from the middle east. rockets are flying again between israel and gaza as a u.s. official confirms the cease-fire

has broken down. let's go guarait straight to the frederik pleitgen in gaza city. what's happening, fred? >> it seemed as though negotiations were at a dead end end for the better part of a day, set to expire poor about 44 minutes ago anyway. what happened is in the early evening hours, there was a mirage of rockets fired from gaza towards israel. it only took about 20 minutes for the israeli air force to respond. there were some air strikes all across the gaza strip. what happened was there it was one massive strike in central gaza city, not very far from our location here. we've heard at least four major explosions. those apparently took out a house in central gaza. after that, what we've seen is a barrage of rocket fire going from gaza towards israeli territory. the ca sam brigades, armed week of hamas say they fired about 70 rockets.

the israeli defense forces are confirming at least 50 can the ros have been fired toward israeli territory including tel aviv, jerusalem, bear shev va and others, as well. some of those rockets have been shot down by the iron dome missile defense system. at this point in time, we're still hearing jets overhead. so a cease-fire that the two parties were aiming for is something that seems a very remote possibility at this point in time. i just heard rockets go off a couple minutes before we went to air just now. >> things changing very quickly. fred pleitgen, thank you. we're actually watching a lot of breaking news. we're about to see something you don't see very often, a governor, texas governor rick perry has been indicted by a grand jury in travis, county, texas. we're expecting him to do something sthng you don't see very often when you're talking about an elected official at

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but it is a very busy news day and we want to bring you some other important news. texas governor rick perry is about to be booked on two felony charges. potential 2016 president bl contender will be finger-printed and have his mug shot taken. extraordinary measures far governor. perry, of course, is accused of coercing a public servant and abusing his veto power. peter ham by is here with us, we also have senior washington correspondent joe johns. there is sort of the law here and the politics of it. let's start with the legal side of things. how serious is this? what is he facing? >> it's serious. a real charge. he was indicted on friday. the charge is essentially abuse of power. there are two counts there. all of this has to do with his threat to veto the funding for an office inside the prosecutor's office there in travis county, texas. he eventually went on to vietnam

why that funding about $7.5 million. and now, governor perry is indicted on charges of trying to coerce the prosecutor into leaving her job. why? because she in fact got arrested on charges of drunk driving and served time. basically did her penance and said she wouldn't do it. the one thing that gets lost in this story, again and again, i think, is that there is actually a special prosecutor who brought this case before a grand jury there in travis county. >> who came from outside travis county. >> was named by a judge and thought the charges serious enough to go before a grand jury. >> and so part of it is, he threatened a veto the funding. he made good on that as well. >> it is very unusual. this is not your typical public corruption case. this is not money under the table. the governor said he lost confidence in this prosecutor. but the truth is, that public

integrity office inside the prosecutor's office has been a thorn in the side republicans for years and years and years. >> and to that point, peter, so this is travis county. this is a republican governor, travis county is a liberal enclave. this is a democratic d.a. talk about some of the politics that are playing out here and that we've seen before, too. >> joe is right, the legal alitys are very serious. they think they are winning this in a court of public opinion and they think they are winning this politically. if you look at some of the commentary out there today, the "new york times" editorial page for example, not a friend of rick perry, said this case was totally ridiculous. out of the gate, david axelrod tweeted that case was flimsy. other republicans, including some like ted cruz and chris christie, not best buddies with rick perry by any stretch of the word, have come to his side, republicans all over the place rallying to his defense.

red state, conservative blog, so look they are going to this courthouse. i would be shocked if rick perry didn't come out of here with the mug shot. smiling. they think they are winning this case. but again, it does come down to legal issues. >> he will try for a pr win today. we'll see about that. joe, peter, thank you so much. coming up, we are going live back to ferguson as the city prepares for another night of protests. stay with us. you're in "the situation room." did you know, your eyes can lose vital nutrients as you age?

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ferguson, missouri are pleading with protesters to stay home tonight just hours after ferocious street battles and dozens of arrest. in ferguson right now, there's an army of police, state troopers and national guardsmen. we are taking a hard look at their tactics and whether the massive show of force is necessary. and a photographer on the scene hit by tear gas. he will explain what happened and share the painful and paralyzing experience that sent him fall together ground. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off. you're in "the situation room." >> in ferguson, missouri, a desperate appeal to stay off the streets and end violence. police are armed with tear goods and stun grenades that they used frequently overnight in attacks with bottles and molotov

cocktails. police and peaceful protesters are blaming the violence on what they call agitators from outside the area. funeral plans are set for michael brown, the unarmed teenager killed by a ferguson police officer. services, we're learning, will be held on monday. we are watching a new police shooting incident not far from ferguson. st. louis police killed a young african-american man today after authorities say that he pulled out a knife. we have correspondents and anchors standing by in ferguson. they are covering all of this breaking news. including jake tapper who will be joining me throughout this hour. first, though, more breaking news we are following out of texas. texas governor rick perry, is about to be charged. the 2016 president did not bl contender will be fingerprinted and mug shot taken. perry, accused of coercing a public servant and abusing his veto power. let's bring in peter hamby. he is here with us as a senior

washington correspondent, joe johns. peter, as we await the governor and we expect that he may be coming out in just the next few minutes, he is planning on speaking before he goes in to be finger-printed, to be booked, to take his mug shot. he is speaking after he comes out, we have learned. so what does that say about what he is trying to get out of this? >> this is the opposite of how chris christie reacted to the scandal, which is go into bunker mode for about a week. rick perry is rather embracing this head-on. we were just talking about this before. >> i'm sorry to interrupt you, peter. he is arriving right now. we will turn our attention there to the travis county courthouse and watch him walk up an speak to the crowd. >> reporter: he is nearing the podium where he expect him to make several public comments, then go inside and be booked. rs here is the governor. >> so that is governor rick perry. you hear local reporters give their reports.

this is certainly not the normal arrival of someone at the courthouse there in travis county texas. >> i'm here today because i believe in the rule of law. [ cheers and applause ] >> i'm here today because i did the right thing. i'm going to enter this courthouse with my head held high, and not only were the actions that i took not only lawful and legal, but right.

and if i had to do so, i would veto funding for the integrity unit again. you think any governor, democrat or republican, would expect this important unit with jurisdiction over state officials, be led by someone who lives up to the high standard of conduct and personal integrity. and this issue is far bigger than me. it is about the rule of law, about the constitution that allows not just a governor but every citizen to speak their mind free of political interference or legal

intimidation. [ cheers and applause ] this indictment is nothing but an attack on the constitutional powers of the governor. there are important fundamental issues at stake, and i will not allow this attack on our system of government to stand. i'm going to fight this injustice with every fiber of my being. and we will prevail. and we'll prevail because we're standing for the rule of law. [ cheers and applause ]

>> all right, governor rick perry there at travis county texas courthouse saying that he would have vetoed the funding for the public integrity unit again. this is really what is at issue in this indictment that a grand jury handed down. he vetoed about $7 million or so in funding for the public integrity unit which many texas republicans feel is sort of on a witch hunt for them. he did that after the democratic rosemary lindhburg refused to resign after her arrest. this is the situation in a nutshell. and peter, forgive me, if i mistook that for a campaign rally. >> again, the politics of this are so interesting. in part because they think they are winning this fight and the court of public opinion, as i was just saying. but also, think about the state of politics in this very moment right now in the news. congress is out of session. the president is on vacation.

hillary clinton is on vacation. rick perry's potential republican rivals are not doing any campaign events. so look, perry has the political lane to himself at the moment and he is taking this fight head on because he thinks he is winning this fight in the media. he thinks he is winning this fight in the republican party. that's why you saw him go at this so defiantly so far. >> we are watching. we have a live shot here of him inside of this criminal justice center. where what's going to happen here? >> okay, just walk you through it. okay, a pretty simple procedure. a booking. he walks in, the sheriff's department essentially fingerprints him, photographs him, they walk him through something called an order of commitment and they present him with the personal recognisance bond that a judge already signed off on. all that information eeventually goes up to the travis county circuit court clerk office and

the process begins. rick perry fighting this indictment in the state of texas. >> so the other thing to lend contacts, if you will, for us here, joe, travis county is a liberal enclave in a very red state. but we have seen politics really play out in the courts there in travis county before. this is the very courthouse where tom delay, former white house majority leader, stepped down. >> texas hard ball politics. tom delay, as a lot of people will remember, was house majority with the republican indicted by the very same office that travis county d.a.'s office. of course at that time, it was a district attorney ronnie earl who did this. >> a different one. spz right. >> delay was indicted, convicted. he won out on appeal. but to this day, prosecutors in that state are trying to reinstate that conviction. so a long battle -- >> conviction overturned. >> out of office --

>> it did take him for sure. gentlemen, we will hear more from governor perry as he does leave the courthouse. let's go back to breaking news in ferguson, missouri as this town prepares for another night of protests. that's where jake tapper is on the ground with the latest. jake? >> reporter: police are trying to secure parts of ferguson right now. we had to move our cnn reporting location a while ago because of that. police presence here is massive. and it looked like a combat zone overnight when some of the most violent clashes broke out. people were tear gassed all around me. and i got a whiff of it myself. just about everybody in the city is afraid this could happen again tonight. this afternoon, people of ferguson be cleaning up after one of the most dramatic and confrontational nights so far. nine days after the death of michael brown, protests started out peacefully but that would not last long. >> we have tried to set up a

strategic peace plan so that the people could freely march and their voices be heard. >> demonstrators and law enforcement agreed to respect one another despite their tensions in the past. it's a two-way street. it's not just the police holding back. it's a very organized protest. earlier, missouri state highway patrol captain ron johnson had been shaking hand while local law enforcement secured area stores and protected the marchers and citizens. but we were there as the movement stopped. and crowds gathered, contrary to the plan. somewhere in the last 10, 15 minutes, the crowd stopped marching. >> that friendly police presence grew intimidatingly large with guns drawn and gas masks secured. and the biggest show of force we've seen. seemingly doing more at that

moment to antagonize the crowd. a small handful of protesters trying to provoke police, their numbers few at this intersection. even after the crowd dispersed, that show of force remained. there is nothing going on on this street right now that merits this scene. it was a completely different story two blocks away where several dozen demonstrators defiantly set up roadblocks and were chiding police. law enforcement told the group to clear the block. but some protesters threw bottles and were clearly trying to insight police who responded with this. >> throwing more tear gas. >> involving pro vocational tours, and members of the media. this freelance photographer was knocked from his feet with a canister of tear gas that

entered his hungs. this was to be the first night without curfew, but those who remained were told to leave. including members of the media. >> not safe to be here any more, okay? >> as we head into the tenth night, hopes for calm remains. >> this has to stop. it has to stop. i don't want anybody to get hurt. >> we don't need no national guard. we don't need that. we need community volunteers to come out here and keep the peace. >> now some local office holders have asked that tonight is a night of quiet that no protesting after dark but already people organizing the protest say that is not going to happen. people are going to exercise their first amendment rights and with that killing, completely separate and distinct from what happened with mike brown, that killing earlier today, of an african-american man, 23, with a knife, by st. louis police,

tensions are building up even more. >> jake tapper, thank you so much. let's bring in anderson cooper. he is also in ferguson, tonight. anderson, you spoke to captain ron johnson about those agitators, they are called, on the ground. what did he have to say? >> i did. as more as 70 people were arrested last night, several journalist, more than 70 people in total, and the police are blaming what they say outside agitators. i talked to captain ron johnson a short time ago, here is what he said. how much, in your opinion, is this from outside the community and coming in, as you said, agitated. >> i think a lot of it is. i'm not just talking about people outside this state. there are people from other communities within this area that are coming in and providing a lot of this damage and behavior. >> now only a small number of people arrested last night were from outside this state.

as you heard captain johnson saying, they are defining agitators as people who are not from ferguson who don't live in this community. >> i think 1 in 4 people arrested are not. at least as of last night. what are they telling you and what are they expecting to see tonight? >> i think people aren't really sure what to expect. obviously, the shooting of other african-american men, under very different circumstances, from all of the st. louis police released so far, added to the tension here today as jake was reporting, a heavy police presence here in the main areas where there have been problems over the last several nights. a couple blocks away down in that direction, where mike brown was shot to death. this is the epicenter where many protests have taken place. we are about three hours from nightfall. and it remains to be seen. captain johnson can't predict what will happen. i think a lot of people here are hopeful that what protests there are and there have been fewer

protests throughout the area and protests will be peaceful. but that remains to be seen. >> thanks, anderson. we will be checking back in with you. still ahead, jake tapper speaking with ferguson's mayor. he tells people to come out and protest if they want, but not at night. will that make a difference? and handling the tension in ferguson, properly. is it time for federal officials to take action? we have a panel standing by. from 2000 to 2011, on average 17 manufacturers a day shut down in america.

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welcome back to "the situation room." police, politicians and some protesters say the violence is triggered by small numbers of

what they call outside agitators who've they accuse of mixing in of crowds of demonstrators even in an effort to quell the violence, the city is asking protesters to kgo home when nightfalls. what about first amendment rights? i put that question to james knowles. >> we want you to come out and protest if that's what you feel. if you feel there an injustice, i support every part of the constitution and that's why we've said come out. come out and find a safe place to do it. but please disperse by nightfall. i know that makes people feel like we aren't letting them fully exercise their rights. but we made this call a week ago and it fell on deaf ears. now others have joined in and so we've made it again today. i know we're being joined in by captain johnson and other african-american leaders. so let's have a night to cool off and a night that becan

completely separate those good people exercising their first amendment rights from those who are trying to take this horrible situation into something to meet their own needs. >> of course a few minutes after the mayor told me two local rep lijous leaders, one from washington, d.c. and a local religious leader, told me they had every intention of marching this evening. and the idea of a night of quiet was just not going to happen. >> all right, jake tapper. we will check back in with you in ferguson. let's dig deeper. donna brazile, you heard the interview that jake tapper had with the mayor. what do you think of that? >> he is trying to reestablish order. trying to inform his residents to come down, essentially stay home. but look, there's so much uncertainty still in the

investigation. people are still angry and thy they haven't heard much of a police officer about who shot and murdered mike brown. so they want answered. that's why they are protesting. i think the overwhelming majority of people who were protesting were out there because they have a real bone to pick with the mayor. on the other hand, i understand the need to have peace, order, and to have a transition so that the family. mike brown can put their loved one to trerest. but at the same time, they want justice served as well. >> do you think they are handling this correctly and that the city is handling this correctly? they have done an autopsy, we haven't heard the results. >> no. i don't think that they are handling this correctly. this has not been -- you know, one of the things when you're dealing with -- you know, protests, is you have to have clear rules for people. you have to know what's

permitted and know what's not permitted. and you know, you have had at least three different law enforcement agencies in charge of these -- keeping control of these protests. it is not a situation that lend itself to order. now, there are also people out there intentionally trying to make the police look as bad as possible. who are provoking them. throwing rocks. throwing molotov cocktails. i have no sympathy for them. but it's the job of police to deal with bad people. and that's what they are not doing well. >> they are supposed to be far better than obviously some of these agitators as they are called. donna, let's talk about -- >> that's why they call them police. because they are supposed to be the good guys and they are supposed to deal with bad guys. >> let's talk about politics here. president obama spoke out about this first last week. thursday. we saw calm in ferguson.

some people wanted to draw a cause and effect there. but then we saw him speak yesterday. there was no calm last night. can he have an affect here and is this his problem to solve? ? he is the president of the united states of america, so he is the president of all of us. and clearly his words matter. i believe his words have been very measured. he tried to speak not just as commander-in-chief but try to encourage us to wait for the investigation, to insure that we are, you know, saying to the family of mike brown, that he is sending eric holder that an investigation will continue. the fbi is there. i think that president is trying to do as much as possible, given the limitations of what anyone could do under these circumstances. >> and you're familiar with the thinking of the white house. what do they think that his role is, that administration's role is in all of this? >> clearly, the president is just trying to help local

officials, state officials, trying to do their job as well. at the same time, trying to ensure the public that there will be justice. that we will get the full story of what happened to mike brown. i think the president is doing the right thing. he isn't doing too much because then he is the story and we are back to politics and polarization. >> one of the things that mystifies me is that we have this idea that if the president just goes there, things will get better. remember a few weeks ago, people were saying, why doesn't he go to the border and see for himself or why doesn't he good to ferguson? people need to grow up. >> maybe he is not supposed to do anything. but the attorney general is going, eric holder is going and he said in a st. louis dispatch, we understand the need for independent investigation and we hope independence and thoroughness will ring some measure of calm to tensions in

ferguson. i'm not saying that president obama needs to go to ferguson, but certainly the attorney general is going to ferguson. the administration obviously sees a role for the justice department and for eric holder to be there. >> this is a -- i'm sorry, good ahead, donna. >> i agree. i think that this is a distraction. >> yeah. >> because the president of the united states -- >> yeah. >> we need to get to the bottom of this. the investigation. a child has been murdered. a family is grieving. a community is hurting. we don't need any more distraction in politics. the last thing we need is to politicize this as if someone is trying to get votes out of it. this is about a country hurting and wants clearances. >> you know, i think we need to draw a distinction here. crowd control has been appalling, i think. this has been a big law enforcement failure. the investigation of this death, we know it is a tragedy.

we don't yet know whether it is a crime. that may be successful, we may know what happened. the attorney general, in charge of the federal side of the investigation, it is good he is showing how much the administration cares about that. that can still be salvaged as a success, this investigation. the crowd control we can only hope to limit the damage. >> there'some different elements to this and at the heart of it, a young man is dead and we're trying to learn the facts of it. we don't have all of them yet. donna brazile, jeffrey toobin, thank you so much. more ahead when we come back. ♪

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officer in the rodney king case. you're using that experience -- what's going on here? what's being done wrong? >> i think as i mentioned aerlgier, what's going wrong is that early on in setting up this operation, there's too many jurisdictional operations that are inconsistent. there's been messages that have confused the community. there's mixed messages confusing the officers. and so, you cannot run an operation as dynamic as this with a change in command midstream, ignoring the local police department. dictating issues from the state as far as a curfew. then no curfew. military type vehicles one day and none the next day. and then bring them back the third day. these are all the kind of things that create basically misinformation and lack of

understanding from the officers that you are asking to perform and certainly sends mixed messages from the public that you want them to comply. >> there's inconsistency, confusion. we see that play out. nightly really there on the street of ferguson. when you see this kind of response, especially the very materialistic response from police, do you feel like that fuels the aggressions of some of the crowd or do you think that some of the crowd are there to make trouble no matter what? >> i think that every up usual occurrence i've been on that is major, there's always people that are not a part of the equation that show up to create havoc. so you have to deal with that and understand and look at it in the sense of trying to separate them out to allow the legitimate protests to go forward. the other issue that is clear, when you see the number of officers assigned and they are all wearing different uniforms,

it becomes apparent that they've not trained together so they cannot work as a cohesive unit. they are usingtive rent tactics, different equipment, different command. those are all the kind of things you try to eliminate when you're assigning personnel. >> i think the real confusion are the criminal creating the havoc. police are responding to it and sometimes as we say in police work, things may not look pretty pause you're dealing with dynamics and responding. >> thank you so much for your time. councilman bernard parks, former l.a. police chief. just ahead, we take you live to the city streets of ferguson as the city braces for another night of protests. ♪

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breaking news tonight. we want to welcome our viewers from around the world. an american journalist has been beheaded by isis terrorists. a video showing the horrific killing and its gruesome aftermath was released on the internet a short while ago along with a pressage to the united states to end its intervention in iraq. the victim, was freelance journalist james fully, who was kidnapped in 2012 while covering the war in syria. in the video, he is seen kneeling next to a man dressed in black. fully reads a message resumably scripted in detail by his captors that his real killer america. the video, obviously too gruesome for us to show you,

then shows fully's beheading. after that showing another american journalist also dressed in orange and kneeling. that man is believed to be a contributor to "time" magazine who was kidnapped at syrian turkish border in 2013. the terrorist says his life is hanging in the balance depending on what president obama does next. >> let's bring in nick paton walsh. he is in northern iraq. nick? >>. >> reporter: james foley was kidnapped in november 2012, compared a long time ago when the -- was coming out of an internet cafe. it is unclear who had taken him. then, isis didn't really exist inside syria in its current form in iraq.

clearly the 636, if you count the days, which he was held in captivity, changed hands within the underground functions as sort syria's kidnap business. it seems they have been held at some point or other foreigners by various different groups that make up syria's rebels at times. some more criminal. some moderate. as time has gone by, isis, it seems, has moved into that particular market. i have spoken to one american who escaped kidnap by syrian rebels. more extreme variety and he described how long periods were spent locked under ground. he managed to escape from that and also describe the for tour he suffered. in these circumstances for james foley's family, horrific time. better correspondent in conflict areas, briefly detained, in 2011 in libya by gadhafi's forces.

then, detained and subsequently not clear what exactly his path was, who held him until we had seen this horrifying video today. the orange jump suit, reminding many people of past videos people have seen, emerging from iraq during the times of insurgency against american presence there and equally troubling for the other american journalist, also seeing him in an orange jump suit. a deeply troubling moment for many journalist covering this conflict for quite sometime, to have known that our friends and colleagues have been held by isis and released, some of them. some of them still held now and many were worried that if u.s. intervention began in isis, and likely long-term threat to the united states and that if u.s. military campaigns against them, those americans held by isis may meet the kind of gruesome fate.

>> nick, nick, i'm sorry to interrupt you. we have to go to the white house where senior white house correspondent jim acosta is standing by. are we getting reaction, jim, from the white house? >> reporter: yes, it is brief. but intelligence kmishl officials are trying to confirm this is the killing of james foley. we have seen a video that purports to be the murder of u.s. citizen james foley by isil. the intelligence community is working as quickly as possible to determine its authenticity. we send our if general quinn, we are appalled by the brutal

murder of an innocent american. we send condolences to the family. the president has been forced to come out and talk in front of the camera, not just in ferguson but in iraq as well. >> james foley is a journalist and also an american. more importantly, jim acosta, thank you so much. stand by as we continue our breaking news coverage of this. i also want it bring in senior international correspondent nic robertson as well as peter bergen. are you surprise bid this, peter? >> not really. >> why? >> there have been so many americans taken by isis. they are not open to negotiation by the conventional kind. we saw one conducted as prisoner of war level.

but this is a different ne -- negotiating with al qaeda. i can't think of an example offhand where as official matter, where u.s. officials said we would do a negotiation. maybe they turn a blind eye but it is policy not to negotiate, particularly with a group like al qaeda. >> does it speak to the brutality of isis here? >> it speaks to their strategic view. james isn't the only one. two british and one new zealand, not just american. we don't know why the french journalist were released. we do know that the american government and the british government don't negotiate and don't pay ransom. we don't know what is going on behind the scenes about you this speaks to isis using these people as bargaining chips to try to get what it wants. and right now, it want the

united states off its back. the united states is showing itself around hitting isis targets to free up that key strategic dam and isis -- with their strikes and isis is feeling the heat. and this is the way they fire back. and if we continue in this thing, which we will, we can expect isis to continue to parade before us, this brazened horrific -- there's no word to describe it, brutal -- pick your word. it's horrible. but this is an unrelenting so far -- >> nick and peter, stand by. we will be right back as we continue to cover this. i want to bring in cnn security analyst, as well as former homeland security to president bush and cnn national security analyst. joining us on the phone is former cia director james

woolzy. as you look at this, the timing, why do you think isis chose now for this. >> i think the previous speaker was right. they are somewhat squeezed by an unexpected decision, unexpected on their part by president obama to use force. he has backed down so many times on using force in syria and elsewhere, i think they may have been surprised and are doing the best they can to retaliate. i think it is really important that we are dealing here with totalitarian imperialists. they are of the view that we are the devil, that they should control all aspects and they want an empire. and in the mideast. and it is a different qualitatively different thing than dealing even with al qaeda

and certainly dealing with some of the other groups. it is much worse than terrorism. we are at war. >> and fran, when you look at how this has been revealed and the fact that we know that james foley has been missing for some time. he went missing in syria in november of 2012. there was thought he might have been held by the syrian government. now isis, obviously, had him at some point. we've been talking about this. that in a way on sort of a black market, some of these journalists, captives, are traded almost as bargaining chips, right? >> that's right. fundamentally, the terrorists is on the screen. i watch this horrific video. and he claims that they are a legitimate government. they've declared in the la haven't and claims they are a legitimate government but he is using what is out of the al

qaeda play book. we have seen videos of beheadings before. and i think this is an indication that the strategy of military support and military action against isis is because now they're reacting and they're trying to push back and they want it to stop. i think it is absolutely right that you can expect more of this. they will -- however many individuals they have in captivity, they will one by one bring them out because they're feeling the pressure of military action. >> bob, what are you expecting the u.s. government to do here? >> the u.s. government's not going to give up in iraq. it cannot afford to allow the islamic state to establish itself. i think these strikes will continue, as the president said. the u.s. government will try to help take back mosul with the iraqis. it's clear that we're going to do something about iraq. and i think, as my previous speakers have said, isis is going to hit back at us.

the question is are they capable of hitting outside of syria and iraq, for instance, in europe or even the united states? sources tell me that they believe that isis is here in this country, and they're unsure whether they can -- they actually have plans to do something, but it's a fear in the u.s. government, which in their right now. >> stand by for us. ambassador woolsey as well. we want to find out more about james foley. you may not be familiar with him or with his family. and cnn's brian todd is here with more on that. tell us, brian, tell us about him and his family. >> brianna, he had been missing, as we'd been reporting, since thanksgiving day of 2012 when according to an fbi notice at the time on the internet, he was taken by an organized gang in syria. according to the fbi he was kidnapped after leaving an internet cafe there. he had a translator at the time but the translator was later released. james foley's family made a

televised appeal, a couple to his captors. they talked about the precautions he had taken and the kind of journalist he was. >> he is an objective reporter who has been working as a freelance journalist in syria for over a year. he's passionate about giving life to stories of people within conflict areas. >> he's taken every precaution, you know, possible, you know, traveling -- trying to travel with the rye folks. he's been through risk training. he had a locator devices, you know, everything you can imagine. >> those, of course, televised appeals from james foley's family in january of 2013. that last one was from his brother michael foley. various reports say that he was from rochester, new hampshire. also while in libya in 2011 he'd been shot at and taken captive by forces loyal to then-dictator

moammar gadhafi. he was held by them for more than a month. according to his family's website, james foley was the oldest of five children. according to that fbi notice we saw on the internet, he would have turned 41 later this year. >> that's horrific and it's so terrible, this breaks news that we're covering here. just ahead, stay with us for this breaking news. an american journalist beheaded by isis as the group makes new threats to america. we're bracing for another set of protests in ferguson. >> there's one thing, one provocation. ♪ (train horn) vo: wherever our trains go, the economy comes to life.

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we're following two major breaking news stories. we've just learned the horrific news that an american journalist has been beheaded by terrorists with the group isis. stay with cnn for all the latest dalts and more coverage of that. first, we're bracing for month protests in ferguson, missouri. city officials make a desperate plea to residents to stay off the streets and, of course, to stop the violence that has consumed the city for ten brutal day and nights. right now what we're waiting to hear is what exactly is going the happen with this evening's protests. city officials had asked for no protests this evening. community protest leaders have said that's not going to happen, but they would like the stretch of land on which the protest takes place five miles, extend it to five miles. they want that. they say that will help prevent the kind of showdown we saw last night between police and protesters. we've been watching right now behind my back captain ron johnson meeting with some of these protest leaders talking

for quite some time. presumably we'll have news to report later on that. back to you, brianna. >> all right, jake. i imagine that you're expecting -- what are you expecting this evening? i know local leaders are certainly urging people for calm, but they must be concerned, especially with that unrelated killing of another african-american young man nearby that there is going to be more violence. >> that's right. tensions are high. we've already seen at least some protesters connect even if there is not a connection between what happened in st. louis today with an armed young african-american man with a knife shot deadly st. louis police. we've already seen some protesters connect the two to the mike brown murders -- mike brown shooting, and expecting tensions to continue and boil over although perhaps that will not happen. >> hopefully it will not. we know you'll be there watching

and we'll be back with you tomorrow. you can follow us on twitter. tweet the show @cnnsitroom. you can dvr the show so you don't miss a moment. i'm brianne in keanna keilar. "outfront" next, breaking news. a city under siege as another police officer shoots and kills a black man just miles away. the prosecutor in the michael brown case under fire. his father a police officer was killed by a black man. can he be fair? and an american beheaded by isis on videotape. terrorists tonight vowing to kill more americans, a special report "outfront." let's go "outfront." good evening, everyone. i'm erin burnett. "outfront" tonight the breaking news. crowds in