thanks for being with us this week. i'm poppy harlow. >> and i'm jim sciutto. "newsroom" with john king starts right now. >> hello to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. a lot of ground to cover today including the president. he's at the rose garden right now. we expect him to take questions from reporters shortly. we'll take you there live if and when that happens. just moments ago the president touting new job numbers, as the crew chief says it will be short-lived. analysts are predicting more bleeding in the jobs market. >> they thought the number would be a loss of 9 million jobs and it was a gain of almost 3 million jobs. i think you're going to have a very good august, a very good july, but maybe a spectacular sunday but a spectacular october, november, december, and next year will be one of the

best years we've ever had economically. >> the president also saying moments ago he believes george floyd is looking down from heaven and will love this moment. protestors around the country keeping up the pressure. marc marches coast to coast as people remember george floyd in minneapolis. a police officer sent an elderly man tumbling and bleeding on the sidewalk. the police essentially lied and said that man tripped and fell. that man was suspended because a local news crew was there to capture the truth. in washington, the mayor voicing her displeasure to the president. marian bowser asking that all federal troops, all federal forces, as she calls them, be removed from the d.c. area. a massive two-block-long painting says "black lives matter" being painted on the

street just by the white house. first, though, you just heard the president on the latest jobs numbers. here to break it down, cnn business correspondent, christine romans. christine, a surprise, to say the least. >> a shocker on the economy, but a good shocker, right? the country adding 2.5 million jobs and that unemployment rate fell to 13.3%. the limited reopening of the shut-down economy means there was hiring on jobs, on construction sites. 8 million jobs lost, that was what the economists predicted. that did not happen. the president took the opportunity to congratulate himself, of course, here, but a report is the deep, deep hole in the ground isn't getting any deeper, but that hole is still very deep. this still represents the worst since the great recession, and

african-american unemployment rose to a devastating 16.8%. 42 million people have been laid off and furloughed in the past 11 weeks, and those payments of 1600 bucks a week, those expire end of july. still a painful situation, but it's fair to say the jobs market has stopped crashing, now there's this long road ahead. >> christine romans, thanks so much. in minneapolis the city council preparing for an emergency session to address what happens next for the city police department. one of the four officers arrested in george floyd's killing now trying to explain his side of the story. the president talked about george floyd in the rose garden. >> hopefully george floyd is looking down right now and saying this is a great thing that's happening for our country. it's a great day for him, a great day for everybody. this is a great day for everybody. this is a great, great day in terms of equality.

it's really what our constitution requires and it's what our country is all about. >> cnn's omar jimenez and josh campbell are on the ground for us in minneapolis. omar, let us start with you. very moving ceremony yesterday, the city council trying to address issues today. what is the scene this morning? >> reporter: well, this morning the scene at the makeshift memorial here is much like it's been over the course of the past week and a half or so. the difference is it's fresh off a visit from the family here. they came right in the immediate aftermath of their emotional memorial that played out over the course of yesterday, the first of which will be a series of goodbyes to george floyd over the next few days. they paused standing in silence for eight minutes and 47 seconds to represent the time that derek chauvin had his knee on george floyd's neck. in passing, you might think that's a pretty short amount of

time, but standing there for that exact every single second while someone in your head, you imagine, was struggling to breathe was just incredibly powerful there. again, almost two weeks after, we are still learning more about the moments leading up to what we saw play out on that cell phone video. we're hearing from a man who was in the car with george floyd in the moments beforehand and described the interaction with police that floyd was having in that moment. take a listen. >> what i believe, the energy was set wrong by the police when they approached him because they approached with, like, an energy where it startled mr. floyd. that's what i believe. he was just trying to defuse the situation as best he could. the man asked him, what do you want me to do? the cops said, put your hands up, show me your hands. floyd showed his hands, put his hands in the air as a sign of here go my hands, i'm not moving in the vehicle.

>> reporter: of course there is an investigative side of things that will play out, but over the course of the next few days, much of the world knows george floyd simply through that 10-minute video that was posted on social media. this will be part of a process of understanding who he was to the people who loved him and what his legacy is going to be, the legacy he now leaves behind. tomorrow there will be a memorial in his birthplace of north carolina before, of course, culminating in a funeral set to be in his hometown of houston on tuesday. john? >> omar jimenez on the ground for us. let's move to josh campbell. josh, a preliminary hearing for the three officers that were charged. derek chauvin had already been charged, three officers additionally charged. there was a political hearing for one of the officers trying to explain his side of the story here. >> reporter: that's right, john. we got our first look inside the courtroom behind me at the three officers that were charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder.

as you mentioned, we're also getting an idea of just what the defense strategy is going to be for at least two of those officers. behind me in court, the defendants were brought in in three separate hearings. they were in orange jumpsuits, their families in the audience. the assistant attorney general started out by saying this is a very serious matter involving a very tragic death, and these are very serious charges. he was asking for a high bail amount. that, of course, countered by the defense counsel. and in their attack of the government's case, the defense attorneys seemed to be signalling that the strategy for them will be to point to derek chauvin's seniority as compared to some of these other clients. we know two of these officers were very new, a junior in rank, and so they're trying to distinguish between that difference in experience. in fact, one of the attorneys for officer king said that at one point during this encounter with george floyd, his client turned to chauvin and said, we can't do this. we're also hearing from the other attorney, former officer lane, who pointed out his client tried to turn george floyd over

but that chauvin did not comply. now, we heard from him outside of court as well, and this is going to be controversial, john, because what the attorney is saying is that, what was my client to do, physically restrain chauvin to pull him off? let's listen here to what he said. >> it would be unreasonable for my client to go up and try and drag chauvin off of the deceased. you've got a 20-year cop in the front and my guy is back there with four days. should we roll him over? he said, no, we'll wait for the ambulance twice. then he says, he's suffering from a delirium? i don't know what you're supposed to do as a cop. >> the judge in this case not buying any of that for purposes of bail. he agreed with the jail to set it for $750,000 with conditions.

on monday derek chauvin will have his day in court. we'll see what his strategy will be. >> josh campbell, thank you very much. two police officers suspended after shoving this 75-year-old man -- you see the contact right there -- to the ground. you can then see the man bleeding on the sidewalk. that local news crew on the scene to capture it, and that video forced the department to admit to a lie. police initially said that man tripped and fell. we saw something quite different happening. alexandra field is with us. he was not tripped, he was pushed and shoved. >> reporter: everybody saw that man approach police before he was knocked to the ground, and yet the police put out a statement saying this is a man who hurt himself after he tripped and fell. a spokesman said that was based

on one initial video, and then other videos became available and the statement was amended. you had the mayor of buffalo byron brown adding this. he said, i was deeply disturbed by the video, as was buffalo police commissioner byron lockwood. he directed an immediate investigation into the matter, and the two officers have been suspended without pay. a number of people weighing in here, that as the district attorney's office also opens an investigation. they, however, say they have not been able to speak to the 75-year-old man who was knocked down. that's because he is in serious but stable condition at erie county medical center. >> we wish him a healthy and speedy recovery. alexandra field, thank you. at the root of all of this is trust between the community and the police. when the police department lies, that does not help the situation, to say the least. cnn and "sesame street" joining forces again, this time to talk to your kids about racism and diversity. parents can submit questions to

cnn.com/sesamestreet. that's tomorrow morning, 10:00 eastern, only here on cnn. trump's morning tweets focus on republicans. is this a sign of growing cracks in his base? but when we first got these, we were like whoa! [laughing] my three-year-old, when we get a box delivered, screams "mommy's work!" mommy's work. with this pandemic, safety is even more important to make sure we go home safe every single day. take you straight to the rose garden, the president answering questions. >> we had the strongest economy anywhere in the world, and now we're going to have an economy that's even stronger. >> reporter: sir, how would a

better economy -- just to follow up, how would a better economy have protected george floyd? >> will you take questions after, sir? >> black unemployment went up by .1%, asian americans' unemployment went up by 1.5%. how is that a victory? >> you are something. >> how is that a victory? >> thank you very much. i have to say, though, it's been an honor. this is such a great achievement. i feel so good about it. this is just the beginning. the best is yet to come. mike, would you say a few words, please? >> well, thank you, mr. president, and today is a great day for america. >> answering one question from reporters, refusing to answer follow-ups as he went on in the rose garden. the president was there to tout the strong jobs numbers from this morning. the jobs numbers, surprisingly

growth in jobs, but as reporters asked questions, the president waved them off, at one point saying to a reporter, you're a piece of work. we have correspondent dana bash. it's a critical moment for the p. he has to be careful. if he hypes the job numbers too much and we get a turn next month or the month after. he did have good news to talk about. he talked about it, but then ram bera rra rambled off about the coronavirus. his tenor not new. >> not new, and we hope the reporters get to ask follow-up questions, because he did have a very rambling statement. there are good numbers relatively so. we're still talking double-digit unemployment, but it's much lower unemployment than even his own economists were predicting

to us for this month. but taking those still double-digit numbers and turning it into an incredibly lengthy victory lap, which is what he was trying to do, is something that was texting with a source close to the president which they think is just fine, because he needs to project on economy of strength. but i was also thinking about a campaign that we covered, 2004, the bush reelection campaign, and i remember he tried to say we've turned the corner and we're not turning back on the economy, and it didn't work. they had to pull back on that because people weren't buying what he was selling. and that is a potential danger for this president. but he didn't just stick to the economy, because it was a very lengthy statement. he went on and on. he had a teleprompter there. he clearly used it very sparingly. tried to talk about all the things that they did right on the coronavirus. it was a classic trump moment, trying to rewrite history, which

we will obviously get our colleague daniel dale who does the fact checking of what history really is versus what the president says. we'll see if he takes questions, but it's very clear that this is a president after a really tough couple of weeks where he was told internally that his poll numbers were bad. he saw that with public polling, that he is desperate to get out there and try to convince everybody that things are getting better as he is just months away from being on the ballot. >> and we're going to continue that part of the conversation in just a moment. dana, stand by, because as she notes, the president likes to get out of the white house. he's been eager to get out of the white house. today he's off to maine, and making clear before he goes, that to him politics is a friend orfoe business, making it clear that there are vulnerable

republica republicans. collins is very close to lisa murkowski who today is on the other end of that friend or foe trump divide, although she is not on the ballot until 2022. the president said he will challenge murkowski and anybody who has a pulse. she is struggling over whether to support the president's reelection. phil mattingly joins us now. phil, this is your life when you are on capitol hill. most republicans stay in line with the president, but the few who dare to speak out or even voice a little bit, i wish he would have said it this way, end up on the end of his twitter wrath. >> reporter: he's not subtle. he's up front about what his intentions are and how he views republican dissent in any way, shape or form. there are a couple things to keep in mind here.

the jim mattis article, what jim mattis wrote, i think had a lot of people when they first saw it, take a step back and say, huh. jim mattis is extremely respected in the house and senate for his military service, for his relationships with people, including majority leader mitch mcconnell, whether or not that would have a huge effect. and you wonder why it doesn't, outside lisa murkowski and senator romney had words of support format adverti mattis a. and people think, how can a tweet be enough to make a republican politician not want to mess around or say something against donald trump? you have to understand the wave of these tweets. these tweets come and then constituents pick up the phone and start calling. the constituents in support of president trump far outnumber those who are against him in these particular states in a lot of these house districts, and a lot of members just don't want to deal with that. you talk to democrats and they can't understand it, you talk to democrats who have had private conversations with republicans where they say something

different than what they're saying to the public. but when you think about it, a president with a 90% approval rate within his party, when these constituents are in that 90%, you get a sense of why they don't want to go against him. if you're in a swing state or a republican state, you're not going to win against the president. you've seen cory gardner, martha mcsally, but it's not one that anyone wants to mess around with, particularly when they see what happens with the tweets surrounding lisa murkowski. >> let's go to the text of collins. she cannot win in a state like maine with the trump base, but she can't win without the trump base. so she made a decision not to go. when you saw seuher, susan coll saying, i'll take the risk?

>> susan collins has walked the line at the best effort between being in full support of the president and not being in support of the president. you see susan collins knowing there is not another option. susan collins understands maine better than anybody and is probably a better politician to come out of that state which is why she's won up to this point. i think the reality is the president's approval in that state is not where it is in perhaps other places. she understands she can't go against him torques yo, to your. but she has done something no one else has been able to do, in part with how the president reacts to her and how others react to her. you don't see her go on twitter when she's disappointed with a comment. i'll note another thing about susan collins. she hasn't said she's going to vote for the president yet. she and her team always try to keep a little bit of an arm's length, and for whatever reason she's able to unlike other

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president trump in the rose garden this morning touting today's surprisingly strong job numbers as a turning point, he says, and his team is certainly hoping this will be the beginning of a new trend line in the economy, but also for the president's poll numbers who are suffering because of the coronavirus, recession and now social unrest because of the death of george floyd. let's look at some of the numbers here. this, several polls combined, joe biden and the president, 51%

and 42% over the incumbent president. when you look at the battleground, you see the depth of the president's problems, if you will. biden on top in all of them. ahead in arizona. president trump won arizona in 2016. biden higher in wisconsin. a nine-point lead there. president trump won ohio quite handily four years ago. this is essentially a statistical tie but joe biden on top of the numbers in the state of ohio. that alone tells you the president has a problem when you go state-by-state, through the electoral college. but when you look deeper in these state polls, that's when you see some of the president's weaknesses. let's start in arizona, this how people voted on election day. this within demographics of the fox news poll. this is in arizona among men. he got 53% in 2016, only 44%

among men. among i understand penndependei, 33% today. let's move to the state of ohio. white men. look at this drop. on election day, white men in ohio, the president got nearly 7 out of 10 of their votes. he's down now to just about half. white men with college degrees, the president got 59%, now down to 45%. and under age 45, 47% in ohio on 2016, down to 34%. the president reports softer now than it was when he won the election. and look at the state of wisconsin, one of the key states to his victory. among white evangelicals, the president got 73%, down now to

57%. in union households, blue collar workers, 43% on election day, down below 30% in wisconsin right now, and among independents, the center fortuna fortunate electorate, the president got 50%, now down to 28%. the president saying he believes finally some good economic numbers will help move this more toward this. >> we're going to be back and we're opening our country. i think we're actually going to be back higher next year than ever before. the only thing that can stop us is bad policy, frankly, left wing bad policy of raising taxes and green new deals. >> back with us now cnn political correspondent dana bash, also amy walter of the cook political report. amy, i was reading your column

and we always say, are we at a tipping point or some big moment in time? the fact is we don't know. there's always something out there, whether it's the social unrest of george floyd, whether it's a virus, and apt tt the he of this, president trump is president of the united states. he's down in key pieces of his base. the white evangelicals in wisconsin jumped out at me. >> john, we've talked about this so many times, i know you've talked about this so many times, the fact the president has these narrow ranges between his approval ratings where he goes between 38 and 48%. for this last week, he's been down on the lower end of this range, and at other points in his presidency he's been on the higher range of this. that's not going to change. his base isn't going to abandon him, but he has never shown any ability, even when the economy was good and we didn't have all these other headwinds to get

over 50%. so the challenge for this president today is the same challenge that the president has always had, which is, can you win reelection when you don't expand your base, when it is really still about getting that core group of people encouraged, engaged to turn out and hope that by going after your democratic opponent, making that person seem unable to do the job, you can depress enough of the opposition to win a narrow reelection. it's what he's been banking on all along, and what we've seen is when the focus is on the challenges in front of him, when it's directly on his roll as a decision maker and an executive, his own numbers start to drop. he wants to put that onus back on joe biden, and that's hard to do when you go from crisis to crisis. >> it's incredibly hard to do, especially when you look at the

crises before us at the moment. again, the trump team hoping these economic numbers continue. if they do, then we will have a different political dynamic in the country. if you look right now, one of the biggest issues in the country, the coronavirus and race relations in the wake of the george floyd killing, dana, on those issues, joe biden outpolls the president and usually by a pretty significant margin. if those are the issues before the country come election day -- and you can take the names out of it if you don't like what you have, right? if you don't like you're in the middle of a pandemic, you don't like the social unrest, you want to change things. and donald trump is the incumbent president. >> right, it's historically what we've all based on who will win or who won't win on, are you happy with who you are? it goes back to ronald reagan, are you better off now than you were four years ago? that's the question for the incumbent president. if you think about t it, up unt the coronavirus, all the crises that kept this president out of

the ceiling, as amy said, were of his own making. it was because the churning and chaos in the white house, his tweets and staff turnover and many other things. these are real crises and they are coming to a head all together. so it is a question of whether or not people are just ready for change which is a big leap. incumbents tend to do well because that's just the kind of nature of the electoral system, right? we all know, we've all watched incumbents looking like things are really bad and the american people are going to kick them out and then they don't end up doing that. it is a very open question, and we don't know what it's going to look like in five months when people are on the ballot, but i can tell you in this meeting he had at the white house yesterday with his campaign team, it was a regular meeting, but they delivered some honest news about the polling, much of which you just showed. they were telling him this can be turned around if the economy goes up, which is why we heard a very rambling speech, saw a

rambling speech at the white house today talking up the economy like his political life depended on it. >> we live in a very different world than the last time the american people kicked out a president. that was 1992. we have had three successive two-term presidents which is an anomaly in our history if you go back. i remember the 1992 campaign. i remember going to los angeles with then governor bill clinton after the rodney king riots. so you had racial unrest before the country, and you also had a very mild recession, but a recession nonetheless, and i always remember writing things like people's legs were tired. people got tired because they felt like they were treading water in this recession. and as it got closer to the election, president bush could not convince people it was getting better. that's why i'm liable to apply the lessons to 1992 where we are now, but in that situation, the american people, despite the best efforts of president bush and his campaign, they just

wanted something different. >> yeah, and i think the point you made, john, about being tired is still relevant today, and that's what joe biden is counting on. president trump made a big bet that americans wanted a disruptor in office and that paid off in 2016. but it doesn't seem like that's where americans want to be now. in this time of incredible chaos, do they really want disruption, or do they want to get back to a safer, calmer place. that's the message joe biden has to put forward. that's the message he's trying to address by every time he gets in front of the camera, usually from his basement in wilmington is to make the case he's going to come and steady the ship and steady the plays. we'll see how well he does that. the other thing, john, is that -- and for dana, too -- look, all of his advisers, every republican knows exactly what this president needs to do.

the economy comes back to make that the centerpiece of his campaign. but we all know he doesn't like doing that. he didn't do that in 2018 when economists running for reelection were desperate for him to turn the attention on the economy. instead he wanted to talk about immigration and the care vavan headed to the mexican border, so keeping his focused on that is add challenging as trying to bring the economy back before reelection. >> we had another example of that today. he could have talked about the great economic news at the rose garden and he was all over the place. listen here, john kelly, another retired general who was the president's chief of staff, they ended on a sour note, just moments ago talking to -- this is a bizarre thing -- but talking to anthony scaramucci who for about ten minutes was the white house communications

director, another person pushed out of the trump administration. but listen to john kelly here, the president's former chief of staff, urging the american people to be careful in november. >> he's quite a man, general jim malt advertise, and for him to do that tells you where he is relative to the concern he has for our country. >> do you agree with him, john? >> i agree with him. i think we need to step back from the politics. i think we need to look harder at who we elect. i think we should start, all of us, regardless of what our views are in politics. i think we should look at people that are running for office and put them through the filter. what is their character like? what are their ethics? >> what is their character like, what are their ethics? wow. >> wow invits right. listen, this is a big deal. it really is. we know that the president has run through chiefs of staff, we know that, you know, he's had several of them.

we know that john kelly, as you said, did not leave on the best of terms. but he is still a good soldier, and he is still somebody who, you know, respects authority, and he is careful. and the fact that he said this and wanted to do it, ironically, with scaramucci who obviously has done a complete 180 on the president who he supported wholeheartedly and now he wants throw out, is very, very telling. it's incredibly telling. the word he chose dai-- i pickep on this, too -- character. this is a man who knows the president from the inside of the building out, who was his top aide, chief of staff. and the fact that he is questioning donald trump's character and using that in the same sentence as, be careful who you elect in november, is really remarkab remarkable. >> and the question, amy, is who listens to whom, if you will.

the president's advisers to your earlier point will say, mr. president, don't respond. don't respond to lisa murkowski, don't respond to john kelly. but we know this president can't do that. what about around the country? what about the president's base? he counts on the support of people who respect -- i'm sorry, i need to go to the governor of new york, andrew cuomo. ladies, thank you. >> melissa de rosa, secretary to the governor to her left, robert mecum, budget director. it was another long and ugly night in the united states of america last night. as it was in new york state. day 97 of the coronavirus crisis, day 12 of the civil unrest dealing with the aftermath of mr. floyd's murder. and this, my friends, is a dangerous combination.

colliding crises compounding each other. but our job is to address what is presented, and this is the reality that is presented, and this is what we will deal with. on the coronavirus situation, there is a lot to learn from what we just went through, and i believe it's a transformative situation in society and something we can learn from going forward. it was a public issue, it was a medical issue, but more than anything it was a social issue. it was about how people behave, right? to address coronavirus, what we really had to do was change society. it was not a government operation. it was not something i could do governmentally. people had to do it. government could provide leadership, and we had an operational component, but it was about people making the changes that had to be made.

they had to accept it, they had to understand it, they had to change their behavior. that is a monumental undertaking. always. social change. when does social change happen? social change happens when people are presented with the facts, they understand the facts, they believe the facts, there is a plan forward based on the facts. and people care enough to make a difference. with coronavirus, i sat up here every day and i said, here are the facts. here are the number of deaths, here are the hospitalizations, this is what we're looking for, here is a plan that i think can take us forward bas. based on those facts, people were motivated because it was about life and death and people were motivated about life and death and their family's life and death, and we went forward. compare the coronavirus situation to the situation we're

in with the social unrest we see. people have seen mr. floyd's murder. they're watching what's going on on the streets every day, and they're saying enough is enough. and it's what they are seeing and what they know that is disturbing. and we're going to show you again for those of you who haven't seen, a scene from buffalo and a scene from new york city, because this is a story all across the state. >> he's bleeding from the ear! >> this is buffalo, new york yesterday. i just spoke with mr. gugino on

the phone, who is that gentleman, who, thankfully, is alive. but you see that video, and it disturbs your basic sense of decency and humanity. why? why? why was that necessary? where was the threat? an older gentleman, where was the threat? then you just walk by the person when you see blood coming from his head. and police officers walked by. it's just fundamentally offensive and frightening. it's just frightening. you say, who are we? how did we get to this place? incidents of pushing the press. you have incidents of police getting hit with bricks in the head. you say, where are we?

who are we? and these are undeniable situations. buffalo's situation, i want to applaud mayor byron brown. the mayor of buffalo suspended the police officers yesterday immediately, and i believe the district attorney is looking into it from a possible criminal liability point of view, and i applaud the district attorney for moving quickly, but people see this. they see the facts. now, when you have all this emotion, you have to focus on the facts and the intelligence of the matter, right? it can't be about emotion. of course, police must protect the public safety and police must protect themselves. that's a fact. of course, there are also cases

of police abuse and the abuse of power. that's a fact. you can have two coincident facts. mr. floyd's murder was the breaking point of a long list of deaths that were unnecessary and which were abusive. that is a fact. and people are saying enough is enough. that is a fact. what people are saying is we must change and we must stop the abuse. and that is a fact. and new york should be at the forefront of that. that has always been new york's legacy as the progressive capital. we are the ones who hold the standard of what is the right progressive reform.

and new york should pass next week what we call the say their name reform agenda. say their name reform agenda comes from the long list of names of people we have seen who have been abused by police officers, by the criminal justice system, and mr. floyd is just the last name on a very long list. fine. enough is enough. change the law, take the moment, reform. there are four cornerstones for our say their name agenda. one, the disciplinary records of a police officer. if they're being charged and investigated for abuse, their prior disciplinary record is relevant. and, by the way, it's relevant one way or the other. if there were no other disciplinary proceedings, that

can exonerate the person who was charged. if there are prior disciplinary proceedings for this type of behavior, then yes, it is evidentiary. but people should know. chokeholds. we went through this with eric garner. again, you saw it with mr. floyd's death, but we learned it first with eric garner and many, many other cases, by the way. why? we've seen 9/11 calls, which ar fake based. a false 911 call based on race should be classified as a hate crime in the state of new york. we know that it's wrong for the local district attorney to investigate the police force from that county. by executive order, i did the attorney general as an independent prosecutor.

that should be caudified in law. i did it five years ago. but these are the cornerstones of a real reform agenda that can address what is going on on the street. reform works for everyone's interest here. stopping police abuse vindicates the overwhelming majority, 99.9% of police, who are there to do the right thing and do do the right thing every day. it restores the confidence, the respect and the trust that you need to make this relationship work. you have to heal the police community relationship. that has to happen. for the sake of the police and for the sake of the community. you look at this looting that's been going on in new york city, this hurts poor communities and distressed communities. you saw many businesses destroyed that are relied upon by that community.

you can't have the relationship that works one way or the other. and even in this politically partisan, racially charged environment, there is still truth and there is still facts, and that's what we have to focus on. that was the truth with the coronavirus. even though it was all political and everything was partisan and democrat/republican and red and blue, it was never they offer us false choices. covid, coronavirus, well, do you want to save people's lives or reopen the economy? and you should reopen the economy and forget public health. or you should take care of people's health but not reopen the economy. it was never either/or. it can't be either/or.

i know from a hyperbolic, rhetorical partisan, it's one or the other. liberate new york. worry about health. close new york. it was never one or the other. that was unintelligent. it was always both. it's the same situation here. il it's not a question of public safety or civil rights. whose side are you on, public safety or civil rights? it can't be either/or. it can't be police safety or prosecutor safety. pick a side. which are you on? red or blue? democrat or republican? who are you with? you have to be with both. yes, you need public safety, and yes, you need civil rights. yes, you need police to be safe, and yes, you need the protestors to be safe. these are false choices. we need both. even in this hysterical moment,

you need to be able to hold two truths in your hands at the same time. how do we change society to make these reforms happen? how do you have a new societal awareness? can you do that? can you change behavior to respect one another? you're darn right you can. we know we can because we we know we can because we did it through this coronavirus. you changed people's behavior. they change themselves. remarkably fast and and effective. we have the lowest number of deaths from coronavirus that we have had since the start. . 42 deaths. the lowest number since we started.

8 weeks ago we had 800. eight weeks, 800 people died to 42 people died. how did you do that? i did nothing. the people of the state radically changed how they behave. look at your hospitalizations, lowest number in a matter of weeks. we know we can change and we know we can change dramatically. people are focused and we have a plan and that's when social reform happens when people are motivated and focused. that was the civil rights act

nationali nationali nation nationally. that was the revolution of the lgbtq. that's what we saw in coronavirus which will go down in history as one of the great transformation moments of society. and this is is a moment to lead in terms of social change. we'll do it because we are new york tough, smart, united and disciplined and loving. questions? >> yesterday we saw peaceful protesters all be arrested and assaulted by police officers. do we think the curfew serves its initial purpose and should it protect the public? >> listening to andrew cuomo of his daily briefings.

the governor is using his platform, he calls it day 97 of the coronavirus. the governor of new york makes the case that the country needs to come together. we saw in buffalo of a city in his state. the governor clearly understands it is a national profile because corona present himself as a national voice on the issue of police reform. it is interesting alexander, he's so often contrast what he was doing and what he wanted to do with national action specifically president trump in my cases, here the president of the united states has said bring in the economy back is the best health for the african-american community. he has talked about a tougher approach from police, law enforcement and the military, governor cuomo says i want the legislation to pass police reforms that essentially telling

police to step back, deescalate. >> yes, stop and address what's happening on the streets and address the abuse of police powers and talking of the need for people to come together to push for and force this kind of social change that he's really talking about, society needs to demand it and looking at his legislative plan to do it. this comes after you have these jarring images out of new york state from just last night in buffalo, this 75 years old man who's knocked to the ground by police. the governor addressed this head on, he talked about it on twitter saying it is is disgraceful and he talked about it today again in this press conference. we were not certain of his condition. this man was pushed to the ground and bleeding from his

ears. governor cuomo expressing outrage saying this protester was clearly not a threat to the police. the police did not respond by helping the man out after he was knocked to the ground. so many of them as you saw in the video just continued to walk by. it is stunning. >> the governor suggested of an investigation. the president is about to hit the hoeroad. the president is getting stiff criticisms from his former chief of staff. many of their stories remain untold. find and honor the veterans in your family. their stories live on at ancestry. for an everyday item to become dangerous. tide pods child-guard pack helps keep your laundry pacs in a safe place and your child safer. to close, twist until it clicks. tide pods child-guard packaging.

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