call for change. thousands of peaceful protesters take to the streets and demand to be heard. is their message reaching our leaders. i'll speak to dr. ben carson in moments. and law and order. president trump threatens to dominate u.s. cities with military force. >> stop the violence. >> his response prompts stunning

condemnation from former generals. is the nation's moral role in the world at risk? former secretary of state and joint chiefs chairman general colin powell joins me exclusively next. plus, turning point. more videos surface showing brutal attacks by police officers and raising questions about what is not caught on tape. >> it is very difficult policy-wise, legally-wise to hold police officers accountable. >> but what can be done? chairwoman of the congressional black caucus karen bass joins me next. hello. i'm jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is reckoning. tens of thousands of americans taking to the streets saturday protesting peacefully for racial justice, filling cities and towns across the country and, frankly, citizens filling the streets around the world.

in washington, d.c., thousands of protesters gathered around the white house where the mayor of washington, d.c., had the street painted with the words black lives matter. this weekend, the images were mostly people showing people gathering, holding signs, kneeling, not the chaos and violence. president trump is in town this weekend in a newly fortified white house. the president kept his response focussed on his own message, declaring, quote, law and order and claiming that d.c.'s peaceful protest over the brutal murder of george floyd by police officers was, quote, much smaller than anticipated. this after the president's tweets drew condemnation from military leaders, including his former secretary of defense, general james mattis. joining me now in a state of the union exclusive, former

secretary of state, general colin powell. thank you so much for joining us. we really appreciate it. let's start right now with the extraordinary comments from several top military officials, including former secretary and general mattis condemning president trump's actions against protesters, his desire to have 10,000 active u.s. military in the streets of this nation. the president's former chief of staff general kelly said he agreed with mattis. john allen says the president's threat to deploy the u.s. military against the american citizens may well signal the beginning of the end of the american experiment. take a listen to what allen told me thursday. >> i never believed that the constitution was under threat until recently, and i have concerns about that. we should all be attentive right now to how the rule of law is being administered in this country. >> what is your response to what's been going on the last

week, general? >> well, first, thanks very much, jake. i'm very happy with what general allen said and diplomats are saying. we have a constitution, and we have to follow that constitution, and the president has drifted away from it. i am so proud of what these generals and admirals have done and what others have done. i didn't write a letter because i made my point with respect to trump's performance four years ago when he was running for office. when i heard some of the things he was saying, he made it clear that i could not possibly vote for this individual. the first thing that troubled me was the birthers movement. it had to do with the fact of the president of the united states, president obama, was a black man. i was deeply troubled by the way he was insulting everyone. insulting anybody who dared to speak against him. and that is dangerous for our democracy. it is dangerous for our country. i think what we're seeing now,

those massive protests movement i have ever seen in my life, i think this suggests that the country is getting wise to this and we're not going to put up with it anymore. >> and former defense secretary general mattis said, quote, donald trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the american people, does not even pretend to try, instead he tries to divide us. it sounds like you have to agree with that. >> you have to agree with it. look at what he has done to divide us. forget immigrants. let's put up a fence in mexico. he is insulting us throughout the world. he is being offensive so our allies. he is not taking into account what our foreign policy is and how it's being affected by his actions. so, yes, i agree with general allen. i agree with all of my former colleagues. and, remember, i have been out of the military now for 25 years, and so i'm watching them closely because they all were

junior officers when i left. i'm proud they were willing to take the risk of speaking honestly and speaking truth to those who were not speaking truth. >> we have seen tens of thousands of protesters taking to the streets this week in opposition to racial injustice and police brutality. what's been your personal reaction to this moment? do you think that the country is in something of a turning point? >> we are at turning points. i mean, the republican party, the president, thought they were immune. they could go say anything they wantedment and even more troubling, the congress would sit there and not in any way resist what the president is doing. one word i would have to use is the word i would never have used before. i never would have used with any of the four presidents i have worked for. he lies. he lies about things, and he gets away with it because people will not hold him accountable. so while we're watching him, we need to watch our congress. i watched the senators heading

into the chamber the other day after all this broke with the reporters saying, what do you have to say? what do you have to say? they had nothing to say. they would not react. so we're not a country of just the president. we have a congress. we have a supreme court. but most of all, we have the people of the united states, the ones who vote, the ones who vote him in and the ones who vote him out. i couldn't vote for him in '96, and i certainly cannot in any way support president trump this year. >> so, yeah, i know you didn't vote for him in 2016. i assume based on the fact you approved joe biden when then senator obama picked him to be his running mate in 2008, i assume you will be endorsing joe biden. >> i have worked with him for 35, 40 years, and he is now the candidate, and i will be voting for him. >> let me ask you. during the rodney king riots in

1992, you counciled then president george h.w. bush on a speech he was about to give. you wrote about this very movingly in your book. you wrote, quote, i thought the tone was all wrong. yes, the rioting was criminal and law and order has to be restored. but the violence had not incubated in iceation. the speech as it stood recognized only the former and ignored the latter. do the law and order bit, you said, but there is language here that is going to fan the flames. turn down the heat, i suggested. get some reconciliation into the message. he talked about how he was disappointed that the cops who beat rodney king had been acquitted and on and on. president trump has been emphasizing law and order. do you think that he is talking enough about reconciliation and

empathy and what the people in the streets are calling for in his message in any way? >> no, he is not in any way that i recognize. he always is shooting towards his base. i remember the bush conversation very, very vividly because at the same time we had to bring law and order back in the streets. we worked with the state of california where it happened in los angeles, the riots. the president called me and said, we may have to do something. i said, mr. president, go to the governor. the governor has a national guard f. the national guard can't do it, than you come back to me with a decision and we will send in federal troops and we did and we brought things under control rather quickly. but the president always followed the law, followed the constitution, worked with the community and we brought stability finally. it was a bad scene, but we got over it rather quickly. >> are you going -- are you willing to campaign for joe biden for president? >> well, i haven't been asked,

and i don't think i will be. campaigning is not my strong suit. and i will be speaking for him, but i don't plan to make campaign trips. >> we should note that in addition to the role that you have assumed in american society, you also came in third in the electoral college in 2016 because some rogue electors voted for you. so you're actually the third place finisher in 2016, even though you didn't even campaign in any way then. >> that's true. i had to read a newspaper. i called my wife, can this be so? and with three electors in the state of washington, and it was amusing, and i have clipped out the article and i have clipped out the instructions that the house of representatives put on there in their census, and it's now in my library at the national war college. so it was charming. the president kind of misrepresents what the final count was.

i got three. i beat everybody else behind me. and it was amusing, but that's all there was to it. but three electors felt that they had the authority to change what they were planning to do. i think they have been fined for it, but it is a symbol of the kind of system we have, a democratic system. and now we'll see how it works this year. i think this year is going to be a different kind of year. we have done things that have offended just about everybody in the world. our friends are distraught with us. we are down on nato. we are cutting more troops out of germany. we have done away with our contributions to the world health organization. we're not that happy with the united nations and just about everywhere you go you will find this disdain for american foreign policy that is not in our interest. and we have to get on top of this, and we have to start. how can you say we're going to take troops out of germany, but

we're also thinking about putting more in and create a new headquarters in germany? we've got to make up our mind on what we're doing, but it seems to all come out of the white house without consultation and joint chiefs of staff. this is not how the system works. until the president can understand the constitution, understand the restraints on him and his authority and talk openly with his military authorities about what is the right thing to do and not fire them when he doesn't get the answer he likes. >> i want to ask you about foreign policy as a former secretary of state. the chinese government is under a lot of scrutiny for how it handled the coronavirus pandemic early on as well as its recent antidemocratic crackdown in how long con. two years ago you said we shouldn't create a cold war situation with the chinese. are we in one, do you think? >> we're in a bad situation

right now because we're fighting over things that i don't think we need to fight over. the chinese did not do well at the very beginning of this virus crisis. but at the same time, it was our intelligence community that was telling the administration, telling the president beginning in december through january, february and march that we had this, and the president wouldn't respond to it. he kept trying to see if there is somebody else to blame. in order to get out of this, we're now blaming the chinese for everything. our relationship with the chinese was a healthy one. when they did things we didn't like, we told them about it. but more often, we were speaking to them as fellow individuals and a government that we could speak to. i did a lot with the chinese. disagreed with them when they had to be disagreed with, but at the same time respected them and listened to what their point of view was then. right now we ought to be listening carefully to what they're doing in hong kong and

not take action that makes the situation worse. >> let's talk more -- continue to talk more broadly about the role ott united states in the world. a leading newspaper in the u.k. wrote an editorial titled "america's battered moral standing." and they wrote, donald trump is handing the world's autocrats a propaganda coup. never before has a u.s. demon rised those protesting against injustice. if china were to send its tanks into hong kong, would the world listen to what the u.s. senate thought? not only to our allies but to citizens protesting peacefully. >> a moral standing has been demonized. they're just looking at us. they're looking at these demonstrations. they see that these are demonstrations that are justified and not to be

criticized. they see that george, as the president calls him, was murdered and the president comes out and says, george is looking down from heaven and blessing what i'm doing. how can you expect anybody to believe things like that? that is the kind of language we see coming from overseas. the overseas clients we have, friends and adversaries, looking at how we're taking care of our people. are we insulting people? are we going after immigrants? they don't understand this. i'm the son of immigrants. i wouldn't be here if my parents couldn't come here in banana boats in the 1920s. this is america. this is who we are. and the world doesn't understand. >> president trump said this week that it's common sense for russia to be allowed to rejoin the g7 after russia was expelled after it annexed crimea in 2014. what do you think of that? should russia be allowed to rejoin the g7? >> let me answer it this way.

why is he making this decision all by himself at the same time that russia has been listed as one of our four enemies we have to be dealing with? in reality not. they're not one of our four enemies as one israeli prime minister said to me in a simple way. we have problems. so we have a situation where the pentagon has identified four enemies: china, russia, iran and north korea. not one of them is going to attack us right now. we need to get to those problems elsewhere and help to start solve those. so the world is listening. what are they hearing? they're hearing that, we don't like immigrants. we don't want them in. let's kick them out. we're hearing we don't like so many of our ethnic people, the ethnic slices that america represents. they don't like that, and they speak out against it. it's our strength.

it's been our strength for 200 years. we ought to stick up for immigration policies, minorities. we have to put more money into lower classes of americans, get our kids educated white and black, all of them, get educated like i was educated in the public school system of new york and i'm now a graduate of a public college in new york. i've been rather successful with this public school education. that's the kind of education all of our young people should have, and it is a major priority in my lifetime and among any friends. >> last question for you, sir, and we really do appreciate your time today. there are a lot of independent voters out there or moderates, democrats and republicans, who might be concerned that the democratic party is drifting too far to the left and they hear your comments about president trump. why is it so important to you that president trump not be re-elected? >> because i think he has been

not an effective president. he lies all the time. he began lying the day of inauguration when we got into an argument about the size of the crowd that was there. people are writing books about his favorite thing of lying, and i don't think that's in our interest. i didn't vote for him in 2006. the situation for 2020 in my life has gotten worse. every american citizen has to sit down, think it through and make a decision on their own. don't listen to everybody out there. don't read every newspaper. think it through. use your common sense and say, is this good for my country before you say, this is good for me. we have a lot of people earning great wealth. when i talk to some of them, they say, the economy is doing great. i'm doing great. the economy exists for all the american people, not just you doing great or me doing better. we have to reach out to the whole people. watch these demonstrations, watch these protests and rather than curse them, embrace them to

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this get into demonizing other people. i would much rather talk about policies and about solutions. so, you know, i admire general powell and he certainly is entitled to his opinion and the way that he wants to conduct himself, but i generally don't find it particularly useful to demonize other people. >> this has been a really tough two weeks in this country. we saw tens of thousands of americans on the streets yesterday, protesting almost entirely peacefully yesterday, racial injustice. what has been your reaction to the murder of george floyd and to the protests we have seen in his name? >> i think just like everyone else i was horrified to see the videos of that blatant and callous murder taking place. and almost as horrified to see the other officers just standing there and not stopping this. as far as the protests are

concerned, i'm very proud of the people who engage in peaceful protests, that's one of the pillars, one of the foundations of our nation. and we should always protect that. it is those who have taken advantage of that, hidden behind it, destroyed the livelihoods of the very people that they claim to be in favor of, those are the things that are particularly bothersome. and you know, as far as, you know, black lives matters is concerned, i hope that maybe this is the beginning of being concerned about the many young black men who will be killed in the streets of chicago this weekend. we need to be just as concerned about them as we are about anybody else. and until we begin to manifest that kind of concern, i don't think we are quite where we need to be yet. >> this week you called for everyone to just take a step

back on both sides, i'm quoting you now, don't use every opportunity to criticize someone else and to try to make them into the demon and just hurl insults at each other, that's not helpful. you talked about how you don't like to demonize people. three days after you said that, though, the president retweeted a video clip that featured conservative personalities, talking about george floyd's past drug use, arrest record, one of them said, quote, the fact that george floyd has been held up as a martyr sickens me. i know you didn't retweet this, but the president did. does that help the nation heal? >> what will help the nation heal is if we will engage in dialogue together. let's not make the solution be a democrat solution or a republican solution. let's make it be an american solution. and recognize that our country is extraordinary. this is the destination country for other people.

people form caravans trying to get in here, other places trying to get out of. there is a reason for that. we need to make sure that we preserve that. no one from the outside can bring us down. not china, not russia, not iran, no one can. but we can destroy ourselves internally. there is no question about that. a house divided against itself cannot stand. we the american people are not each other's enemies, we must be smart enough to recognize that and not allow ourselves to be manipulated into thinking that we hate each other and destroying ourselves. >> i guess, i mean, i understand what you're saying, i don't disagree with anything, but you're calling for healing, you're calling for understanding, you're calling for people to listen to each other, and president trump is retweeting a video in which people are attacking the character of a man, an unarmed black man who was murdered in the streets by a white police officer while three other

officers stood there, which you said horrified you, horrified me, horrified probably everyone who saw it, within reason, and doesn't it hurt the country and this idea we need to have dialogues and conversations and respect each other when the president is sharing and in some cases offering incendiary statements? >> i believe you're going to be hearing from the president this week on this topic in some detail. and i would ask you to reserve judgment until after that time. >> let's talk about policy, do you think systemic racism is a problem in law enforcement agencies in the united states? >> let's say this, i grew up at a time when there was real systemic racism. i remember as an eighth grade student i was the only black student, i got the highest academic achievement and the teacher got up and berated the other students they weren't trying hard enough because a

black kid was number one. and that kind of thing was not uncommon when i was growing up. that kind of thing is very uncommon now. are there still racists around? absolutely. there were yesterday, there are today, and there will be tomorrow. but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't fight it and this is an opportune time, right now, people are concentrating on this, we can't let this moment slip away. we need to deal with some of the issues in the police departments, but it is this -- it is an easy time to do it. we have policemen who are rogue, the vast majority of policemen are wonderful. but you have some who are rogue, and they can go from one jurisdiction to another jurisdiction. and nobody does anything about it. they can be wearing body

cameras, there are things that can be done, but we need to come to mutual solutions about this and now is the time to do it. everybody is concentrating on it, let's not let this moment slip away. at the same time, we must be very vigilant about these groups of anarchists who destroy the livelihoods of the very people they claim to be trying to help. let's not be fooled. let's not be seduced into accepting silly things that make absolutely no sense because we want to honor somebody. let's just make sure that we think this thing through. think about the consequences. you want to abolish police departments? are you kidding me? what happens if you do that? everybody goes out and arms themselves. they start hiring vigilante groups to protect them. we have total chaos going on. you know, that makes absolutely no sense. >> the country talked a lot about this week about the proper way to protest.

you talked about it too. the nfl admitted on friday that they, quote, were wrong for not listening to nfl players earlier and encourage all to speak out and peacefully protest, unquote, take a listen to what president trump had to say about nfl players peacefully protesting. this is at a 2017 rally in alabama. >> wouldn't you love to see one of these nfl owners? when somebody disrespects our flag to say get that [ bleep ] off the field right now. out. he's fired. he's fired! >> the president reiterated friday that he still opposes those who protest police brutality by kneeling during the national anthem. you said you support peaceful protests. do you support nfl players exercising that right to peacefully protest by kneeling during the anthem? >> have you ever seen two people in a vehement argument and

they're talking about completely different things and they're talking past each other and they're not able to come to a solution? that's what this is all about. there are some people talking about the flag, talking about our veterans, talking about people who sacrificed their lives, talking about police officers, and there are others who are talking about injustice in the system and they're arguing past each other. that's the problem. >> i don't disagree with what you're saying. and i don't particularly personally have a policy point on this, but what do you think about the right of nfl players to do this? the president called them sons of -- you heard the clip for taking a knee and peacefully protesting police brutality. that's what they were trying to do and in fact colin kaepernick originally would sit during the national anthem and then a veteran who was upset about it and colin kaepernick had a dialogue about this, a former green beret, and they came up with the idea of kaepernick taking a knee because that was respectful, that's a way that people pray. yet the president called kaepernick and anyone else who

engages in that kind of protest a son of a [ bleep ]. >> my personal feeling is if those players were to come out and say we love our nation, we are patriots, we love our flag, we honor the memory of those who died to give us our freedom, but we are protesting some of the brutality that has occurred and that's why we're doing this, i think it would solve the problem and i suggested they do that. >> secretary of the department of housing and urban development, dr. ben carson, always a pleasure to have you on. hope we can have you on again sometime soon. thank you for joining us. >> thank you, jake. protesters across the country are demanding change. a look at what can be done to fight inequities in policing. the head of the congressional black caucus congresswoman karen bass joins me next. ♪

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you witnessed the rodney king riots firsthand. how does this moment compare to what you experienced and saw 28 years ago? >> well, first of all, this moment is incredibly inspiring to see people all across the country saying enough is enough, and also to see the multiracial character in many cities you look at the protesters and there are very few african-americans, so the solidarity with what is happening in our community and have been happening for a very long time is very inspiring and i am hopeful that it helps us get the legislation passed that we need to do. >> we have seen other disturbing videos from the last few days, including one showing police violence in buffalo when two officers shoved a 75-year-old man to the ground, which resulted in a serious injury for him.

in tacoma, a man died after being forcibly restrained by police. in march, in atlanta, a woman broke her clavicle. i understand you're going to present legislation of potential ways of trying to stop these kinds of problems. can you give us an idea of what you're talking about? >> yeah, absolutely. tomorrow we will introduce a bill that covers several areas, one is police accountability. it was shameful what happened to that man. not only did they push him down, but they walked right past him. and then wouldn't even let an officer render aid. our bill that we're going to be introducing tomorrow would cover those. those officers shouldn't -- when they saw him push the officer down -- push the protester down, they should have rendered aid. the other officers should have intervened and said that shouldn't happen. those are the type of practices that we want to see ended and with the legislation, with the accountability and with the

transparency and the emphasis on training, we believe that we'll be able to address those type of situations. it is time for police culture in many departments to change and we believe that the legislation will make a major step forward in that direction. >> you'll have to get it through the senate in order to -- for it to become law. do you have any republican allies in the senate on board with the legislation? >> let me tell you we are introducing the bills together. so senator harris, senator booker, are taking the lead over in the senate, they have been working on that side. we have work in the house as well. but i think we're in a real moment in our country, the passion that the people are displaying, i'm so glad now that the protesting is peaceful, it has been every day, it has been across the country, i think that it is going to lay the basis for the momentum for us to bring about the change we need to do. let me give you an example. right now there is no way to track officers that are problematic. so the officer that killed

george floyd, if he was not arrested, he could have simply gone to another jurisdiction and been hired. we need to look at the training that is done with law enforcement, we need to do things in accountability, transparency and training that we believe would make a big difference. that officer that killed tamir rice, that was 12 years old, actually had been fired from another department. >> that's right. he was fired from the independence, ohio, police department and lied about it on his record when he applied for the cuyahoga -- or cleveland police department. >> exactly. which is why we need a registry. >> it sounds like you don't have any republican allies in the senate as of now. it is early yet. that sounds like that's what you're saying. >> well, i believe that there would be senate allies. i'm not over there, so i'm not sure. rand paul is what had been an ally before. once he gets past the lynching issue, hopefully he'll be an ally again.

but i will tell you that in the house, i had a meeting the other day with the problem solvers caucus and that's a bipartisan caucus. that was before we had the bill, we're going to go back and talk to them now, but i found there was a lot of interest, a lot of support. i found one of my republican colleagues was a former police officer and another one's son is a police officer. they were appalled by what happened to george floyd. and they believed that no profession wants to have bad apples. and there also needs to be standards, national standards for policing. we need to look at the best practices. i think there is a lot of things that we can do, but this bill, i believe, is a bold piece of legislation, it is transformative. i've been in congress ten years, never seen anything like it. >> so, congresswoman, you're talking about reforming police, but as you know, a lot of people on the left, including ilhan omar are talking about defunding police department, disbanding police departments. what do you make of those calls?

>> so, you know what i think is really needed? and i think that part of the movement around defunding is really about how we spend resources in our country, and i think far more resources need to be spent in communities to address a number of problems. i don't believe that you should disband police departments. but i do think that in cities and states we need to look at how we are spending the resources and invest more in our communities. so one of the things that we have in the bill is a way to provide grants to community-based organizations around the country so people can begin to say what is public safety in our community? what do we want to see? maybe this is an opportunity to reenvision public safety. >> congresswoman karen bass, chair of the congressional black caucus, thanks so much for coming on the show today. we really appreciate it. coming up, police departments respond to brutal incidents caught on tape, but are some of their answers making

things worse? we'll talk about that next.

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the american people have been doing a lot of soul searching after the shocking cell phone video of a white minneapolis police officer killing an unarmed black man, george floyd, prompted protests about racial inequities in american society, including police brutality. amid this dialogue, it is shocking to see images of police abusing their power against peaceful citizens, exercising their constitutional rights.

and then to hear officials deny the violence that we saw with our own eyes. on monday u.s. park police cleared lafayette park in front of the white house where mostly peaceful protesters and news media had gathered. if you look here, you see an officer attacking unprovoked an australian news crew that was broadcasting live, doing its job peacefully. you see an officer hitting the cameraman twice with his shield. and then as the crew begins to run, another officer hits them with a baton. the park police union responded to the shocking video by claiming the crew, quote, may have fallen, and they blamed a, quote, lack of readily identifiable journalist markings. but we can see what happened with our own eyes. that's clearly not true. outraged, the australian government called for an investigation into the incident. the two officers have now been placed on administrative duties.

in buffalo, new york on thursday a 75-year-old man was violently knocked over by an officer and left bleeding on the sidewalk as officers stormed by. again, this police department's first instinct was to lie. they claimed the man, quote, tripped and fell. but with video evidence outraging the public, the department admitted the facts. and two officers were suspended without pay and now have been charged with assault in the second degree. the prosecutor saying that most police are honorable and professional, but he's just doing his job. noting that he's also prosecuting 39 protesters. in philadelphia a college student was arrested for allegedly pushing an officer off a bicycle, according to the student's attorney. but here's the video. the college kid is the young man with the long ponytail and the eagles jersey. he seems to be trying to separate a policeman and protester, and then he tries to

get away, and then he's viciously beaten. he needed ten staples and ten sutures in his head. the officer now faces charges of aggravated assault and more. now, of course, there are anarchists and criminals committing horrific acts of violence. we have reported on them and we will continue to. but their crimes do not excuse other crimes. and, frankly, the american people have a higher standard of behavior for police officers who work for us to keep us safe, and are essentially given a license to kill. what are the american people to make of these images of officers brutally beating peaceful journalists and protesters and then lying about it? it makes people wonder, where would we be if that brave 17-year-old girl in minneapolis had not filmed the murder of george floyd. would minneapolis police be denying it?

one might expect the incidents we witnessed would have drawn condemnation from fellow officers. but instead in buffalo, 57 officers resigned from that tactical team in solidarity with the buffalo cops who were criminally charged. those cops were even applauded as they left the courthouse. in philadelphia, cops are is said to be contemplating calling in sick tomorrow with the blue flu. it's inexplicable. many americans want to believe these images of a police force. officers who are honest and part of the community, that these images are representative. but because of the prevalence of cell phone cameras, we are now all able to see the abuse with our own eyes. and just these three cases this week, we know the claims from

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hello and welcome to "cnn newsroom." i'm michael holmes. welcome, everyone. as protests against racism and police brutality entered their 13th day across the united states, the focus has shifted to the changes that need to come next. demonstrations were largely peaceful over the weekend in major cities like new york, chicago, philadelphia, atlanta, all lifting curfews. and now the many protesters chanting "black lives matter" also have a new rallying cry, "defund the police." meanwhile, presidentru