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what that justice is for african-americans sent people in the streets for the last 22 days though. we begin with two incidents. one of them deadly surrounding the protests. and contrary to what the president said, they are not the work of antifah. you hear what sounds like gunshots. >> dude -- [ bleep ], i'm going to [ bleep ] kill you. >> no! >> get back! >> one person was wounded in that incident and two others involves a suspect in california, two members of law enforcement are dead. drew griffin has the latest on that and the shadowy group the alleged killer belonged to. what do we know about the armed people showing up at protests? i think drew's shot is frozen.
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we will try to get contact with him again. i think the two incidents, one in albuquerque. one in california. the president the, what to make of thea he took on police reform today. after meeting families of police violence, and he signed an executive order, calling for a range of incentives, seeking what the order calls independent credentialing to certify the higher force in training. the standards would ban the use of choke holds except if an officer's life is an at risk. >> reducing crime and raising standards are not opposite goals. they are not mutually exclusive. they work together. they all work together. that is why today i'm signing an executive order encouraging police departments nationwide to adopt the highest professional
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standards to serve their communities. the standards will be as high and as strong as this is on earth. >> reaction has run the gamut. joining us now, senior former obama administration advicer, van jones, and cnn commentator corey sellers and retired los angeles police sergeant cheryl dorsey. van, you have been pushing for polices reform for decades. what do you make of the order? >> it's pushing in the right direction. the main action will be in congress. the bill that the house passes hopefully next week. we will see what the senate does with it. all the good stuff there is. the danger if you have a president do nothing or do something small and say we can't have more legislation. what you got today is i think a sign that we are winning.
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donald trump has put himself on record saying we have to reform the police department. we have been asking for a registry of bad cops. the federal government tracks everything on earth except bad cops. we have been asking, can you send people who can talk people down and not shoot people down when they are in a mental health crisis. nobody will be satisfied if we pass a big bill we're going to pass in the house i hope. but whatly say is? . we are winning. trump had no plan a month ago to work on the issue at all. the fact we are now in the direction of moving forward, i think it's good and the fact that law enforcement is with him, i want to say one thing. as hard as we worked in the open years, we never got law enforcement to come to the table and stay there. the fact that they are standing
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by stuff that we have been asking for the by kads is progress. it's not the caboose. it's not the engine but it's on the right track. >> where do you stand on this? is it a step in the right direction? >> we made progress but we have far to go. we have a fair sense of urgency now. i think that is what people are having in the moment. the tolerance of the legislative process is not as high as it "once upon a time "once upon a time once was. we have just buried george floyd and we have another one in atlanta. the way i look at it, i actually agree with van on the point that e we are going in the right direction. but the way i look at the this, the president of the united states, after we have pooh emthe -- people that are beating on the
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bridge, and he went and put his imprint -- johnson put his imprint on the civil the rights act. after nine people were slaughtered in a miami chirnlg, mickey hayley put her imsbrint e we had the flag come down. i'm not sure that everyone can say that donald trump put his imprint on anything. although we remain hopeful. not optistic. today's action, it's a lot of pomp and circumstance. and i know that van has put in decades of work and i think van agrees with me. he says we still have work to do on the front. >> yeah, sergeant dorsey, you spent 20 years in the lapd on the streets. i wonder what your reaction is. and what the president said today, it was to the e effect
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of, the good police officers, they hate bad police officers more than anybody else. the problem may be they may know who the bad police officers are but there is no incentive to actually stand up. if they do, they are the ones that bear the brunt of that. >> i find the entire dog and pony show offensive. listen, every police chief to who wants to have a police officer report they can do that. to jug ses they have a national data base will make things better, they were order listen a data base. he had been involved in 12 prior incidents and chauvin, 18. until they are ready to take affirmative action and hold the officers accountable, get them off the payroll, we will continue to have the issue. and to think that somehow being
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on a national data base is going prevent other departments from picking up a rogue cop is equally disingenuous. huh seven or eight police officers that just jumped ship. they know there is a home for them on the mississippi police department where the police chief said he is didn't have a problem with the chauvin shooting. there is a major who said more black folks need to be shot. is there this are wr they are pleaing to? and there is no real record about why they left. i find it all offensive and it does nothing for day to day what we do on the ground, i know it to be true because i did it for 20 years. >> and so if your opinion, what do you want to hear from the federal government in terms of -- what do you want to see from congress, what do you want to see for actual change? >> what i would like to see, it can happen at the local level.
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how about we hold officers accountable. let e's say this. if you have a license to drive, and you go out every day and you commit vehicular manslaughter, wouldn't you lose your license? you can get more than three reckless driving without dmv removing your license? how about we desertfy officers. with you need a post certificate to remain on the force. yank their certificate. don't put the onus on the police officer to tell. create a whistle blower situation where officers can tell and won't be retaliated. won't will held -- won't get not get when you need, so there is a lot that can be done there with the police chief and they don't
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do it. >> van? >> i agree 100%. if you read the executive order, it's point in the direction of a national certification program so you can't have cops holing all over the place. and the data base is part of that. one crazy thing is beginning to up happen. we are agreement for law enforcement, neem are critical of law enforcement. the trump administration, nancy pelosi is saying get rid of the choke hold. north, there is an emerging continent of common ground and i think we should be relieved it's showing there. >> you have been hearing -- dan, you have listened to police unions? that is really not the message from a lot of police unions out there? >> i sow the fop today next to
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the president. i know he is trying to get in. but i have never seen the fop stand by the president. >> yeah, and anderson f i may, just extremely brief. i don't want to focus on the executive order too much today. i don'tly don't agree that it's enforceable. i don't up believe it said a lot of anything, actually. the push in going in the right direction is one thing. if the president of the united states actually wants to impleme implement some of the changes what he does is he bans many of the things or creates data bases with the necessary funding or he says the police departments and law enforce want agencies will not be able to get funding. be he stopped short of that today. that is the biggest problem that people have. much of what he did is unenforceable and we still have the bad behavior we're trying to root out. we are going the right direction but we have a far way to go.
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>> appreciate it. thank you. atlanta mayor announced her city's use of force and how it will be reported. a police officer has been fired and the decision. the mayor. >> you signed the quote, urgency of now, and driving force behind before president. now you there have see the president put forward do you think it's enough? what are you hoping to change in atlanta? >> you know, anderson, i don't usually hold out a lot of hope for what president trump does. but i actually hope that he would do something sub
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substantial. he doesn't mention race or bias and he will went on some rambling tirade about school choice so it's difficult to take him seriously. i was glad to see the national data base. i do think that is an important step. but there is so much more to be done. and there is so much left undone from the plan that preponderate president obama and vice president biden left on 21st centu century policing. in atlanta and cities across the country, we are trying to figure it out on our own. we thought we had 14 days at least for recommendations for the task force on use of force policies. and not even three days into the convening of the task force, we had the killing of rayshard brooks. so we can't wait any longer. we have to continue to push forward for policies in the same way we have done in atlanta.
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but the reality is it still won't bring this father back. >> you know, some of the things that activists have pointed to is getting rid of immunity for police officers, a controversial issue, and having more community involvement or separate community determination of who the commanders are in a particular community, former police officer who is the president of -- the brooklyn president here, eric adams. he has recommended communities actually being able to vote on the three choices put forward on the city who should be a commanding officer in a district. i won't wither what you make of more community involvement? >> i think community involvement is always helpful the but you have to look at the it city by city and make determinations in that regard. at the end of the day, again, going back to the plan for 21st
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century policing, it was very clear our blifrs are to be guardians and not warriors in the communities. there is suppose to be a partnership and the trust is broken across the country. it's unfortunate, we know that it plays a important role in the communities. they are volunteering with kids at the promise youth centers, athletic leagues had. to so there are positive relationships that happen. but the worst happens like it did on n atlanta on friday. and you look at george floyd and breonna taylor, and ahmaud arbery, and the list is so long. we have to ree marge and transform how we are policing the communities across the country. >> again, i mean, how is -- is there -- is that a training issue? is it a -- a lot of protestors
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are talking about defunding police, calling for defunding the police. we talked about that before. is that something you would even consider? >> well, you know, i think it's much more complicated than simply defunding a police department. and i shared this with you before. i look at pension, salaries, costs a costs and compensation. i don't have a lot of fluff embedded in the police digit but the corrections budget. we have already transferred 60% of the corrections budget to community based programming and personnel and we're closing down the jail in atlanta, turning it in a wellness and health. you have to figure out how on to to get there.
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people are saying we want more money to the communities. we want to make sure that we're -- there's money left over for the community centers and community programming and i think that is an important conversation. but it doesn't necessarily mean it has to come out of a police budget line item. because that may not be the practical way to achieve what we're all trying to achieve. >> mayor bottoms, thank you. we will go next drew griffin. what he is learning about is acts of violence at protests and against members of law enforcement and who actually behind them is interesting. we will go to him in a moment and a look at the protestors that created a police-free zone in seattle. we have a report inside that zone ahead. r me to discover all of these things that i found through ancestry. i discovered my great aunt ruth signed up as a nursing cadet for world war ii. you see this scanned-in, handwritten document. the most striking detail is her age.
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griffin. i want to play again the video of the shooting of the statue in abqu albuquerque, there is a scuffle and it sounds like shots. >> dude, [ bleep ], i'm going to [ bleep ] kill you. >> no! >> one person was wounded mt. president incident. and another the pair of incidents, two members of law enforcement are dead. so a talk to me about the armed people showing up at protests. >> yeah, and we're seeing them all across the country, anderson. self-assigning themselves as a police role and coming very heavily armed. you see some of them with body armor as well,rying to be a protector. he is arguing with some of the protestors. he is chased away.
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he pushes -- >> this is a statue that protestors wanted to take down. >> that is absolutely right. he was going to defend the statue from being dorn done for reasons we have yet to learn. he is chased away. he pushes a woman. that is actually when protestor goes after him. one with a skate board, gets him on the ground. that when the shots ring out. like you said, one of protestors shot, just wounded. but other militia members rush around him, surround him, protect him and quiet the situation until the real police get there. the other militia men, the new mexico civil guard is what they are calling themselves, they say he is not one of them. they were there doing another mission. the governor of new mexico says she wants none of this. there is no room for any people with guns at protests.
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four people had 20 guns on them at the protest. they are just showing up heavily armed, anderson. >> and in california, there was an arrest of an air force service member who is a part of the voogaloo movement? >> that is absolutely right. steven correia is his name. he is a turnt staff sergeant in the u.s. air force. his job is to protect planes in iraq, syria, he has been in kuwait and an afghanistan. the fbi says he gunned down a federal security guard. wounded another security guard with a homedown machine gun, ghost gun, and he shot and killed a sheriff's deputy in california he quho who was out to arrest him. and when they arrested him hoe
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was wearing insignia or patches. and in a car jacked car, he e wrote on the hood of the car in blood, some boogal oorksoo movement, it's a loose knit group. they believe in a love of guns and a civil war or civil unrest approaching they are going to start or protect the rest of country from. very business czar. >> you have done reporting on this group. i have seen some of your reports in the past. >> yeah. that's why you stumble around trying to do study on them. they are a fairy recent group.
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you see them in protests. we see them in indianapolis, minneapolis, louisville, kentucky. they are armed. usually a hawaiian shirt of paraphernalia on. but the political briefs are wide, anderson. have very liberal to very conservative. pro trump to anti-trump. the b only thing that unifies them is the belief there is civil unrest coming and they are going to be prepared for and it they are at the protests believing they are going to protect society from an authority that will come in and try to take over the country. >> well, the line from protecting civil unrest and causing is a thin line. thanks. coming up next truth about how and where the coronavirus is and the city hoets hosting the president's rally this week. the truth and untruth the president and vice president are
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spreading. keeping them honest ahead.
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well, there is no better b.s. detector than covid-19. just wait a few weeks and tells you whether you've been truthful about it or not. it comes in case counts, hospitalization rates and the devastating impact on human lives and at this moment, with the president's rally in tulsa days away, you don't even need a b.s. detector to know administration is not playing it straight. keeping them honest, let's be clear, there was progress to report on a common steroid that shows signs of helping in some of the worst cases and that is great news. and no, it's not the drug the president is pushing, which the
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fda pulled the emergency use approval for. also in the good news category, there are a number of states in the northeast that truly have turned a corner. in new york for example according to data from johns hopkins university, you can see the curve is flattening out. cases are doubling about every 12 months but that's definitely not happening in states like florida and texas and arizona. each of those states hit records for new cases today. and it's not the case in oklahoma, either. cases there are doubling every month. the curve, as you see, is not only climbing but climbing more steeply than it was even a couple weeks ago. yet, just yesterday, the president said this. >> oklahoma is doing very well. i just to the governor about it. govern governor stitt. mike, you have pespeak to this.
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i just talked to him, oklahoma is at a very low number. magnificent arena as you probably have heard, we have a 22,000 seat arena but i think we'll also take the convention hall next door that will hold 40,000. >> so just to remind you, i want to show you that chart again. this is what those 62,000 people from all over the country will be facing in tulsa. this is what the president and vice president are being dishonest about. you see it, the numbers there. today we heard audio obtained of a conference call this week in which the vice president told state governors to spin the figures. >> as we talk about these things, make sure to continue to explain to your citizens the magnitude of increasing testing in most of the cases where we are seeing some marginal rising number, that's more a result of the extraordinary work you're doing expanding testing. >> keeping them honest, in
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suggesting that testing is the main reason that case numbers are growing, the vice president is simply not telling the truth. a senior u.s. centers for disease control and prevention official telling cnn the vice president is selectively choosing data to make his point, cherry picking it being less than truthful. put more bluntly and that quiver in his voice that says mom and apple pie, he is lying and telling authority figures to lie, too, about something that could get people killed. the virus will let us know it in due time. there is no need to come to it because the truth is there. reading from the oklahoma state health department's latest report, which predicts and i quote an increase in the number of cases and hospitalizations due to covid-19. in other words, it is not just more testing as the vice president suggested that governors say, if it was just, you know, more people are being tested, then hospitalizations wouldn't rise, would they? but they are. and that's somebody's dad, that's a close friend from work.
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a lady next door. more people going to the hospital and that report that covers june 5th through the 11th goes on to say the threat of covid still exists and we anticipate it to grow and it has. the numbers have continued rising as testing has gone down. saturday saw the largest number of new cases in a single day with tulsa's top public health official telling the local paper when it comes to the president's rally quote, i wish we could postpone this to a time when the virus isn't as large of a concern as it is today but let's get real here, just watching the president, let alone listening to him and you can tell to him the virus isn't a big concern at all, the concern is people taking the virus seriously and that is scary. no masks again at his white house event today. masks still have the same value of protecting people but for this president, they don't have the same value protecting his reelection chances.
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we wants the economic numbers to grow. and if the cases of covid also grow, he just claims they aren't growing, they are doing so much darn testing because america is number one in testing, seems like it's growing but that's not the truth. the vice president knowing not to contradict the president of course, never does that, showed up at a crowded diner in iowa. there he is. remember, he's heading up the president's coronavirus task force that recommends wearing a mask in public but of course, he wasn't. coronavirus task force hasn't held a white house press conference since the 27th of april. dr. anthony fauci the leading authority on infectious disease in the face of public health in this country since the 1980s tells national public radio he hasn't spoken with the president in two weeks, two weeks. just in case you think today's event in iowa was a one off and role model mike pence, take a look at the recent appearances he made up close, personal with the one item that not only can keep people a lot safer from a
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deadly illness he's supposed to be in charge of eradicating, it's a sign of respect and decency and looking out for your neighbor and maybe spreading the message to americans all over the country, people all over the world there is something you can do to protect yourself and your loved ones and that's wear a mask. that thing the kind of virtues the vice president want you to believe he embodies as he rubs it in their faces and tells elected officials to lie. today he wrote an op ed denying the second wave of the virus coming, praising the president for leadership that immediately came into question. there is, however, one glimmer of truth in this, in the disclaimer people attending the trump rally are required to sign. waiving their right to sue if they catch the virus at the trump rally. so for all administration's happy talk and lying, when it gets down to being responsible, they won't take responsibility.
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they make you sign a legal document that protects them. it sure doesn't protect you. and that speaks the truth about how the president and his people actually see it. joinings now is dr. chris murray and cnn's chief correspondent, dr. sanjay gupta. your model predicted 100,000 deaths by october 1st that projection has grown to more than 200,000 deaths. a rally, you know, not just a trump rally, any large gathering of people, demonstrations out in the streets, how dangerous is that in determines of raising the numbers? i know some protesters will say look, the issue is important they will willing to take the risk. protests are largely outdoors but the rallies are largely outside. upwards of i think 60,000 people. >> i think, anderson, the things
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we learned over the course of the pandemic so far, you mentioned it before, wearing a mask, it's effective, a way to protect you and your family. avoiding large gatherings. we know the role of super spreaders and outbreaks and wedding outbreaks where hundreds of people can get infected in a single event. and i think that is what we need to avoid to create the opportunity for large transmission. >> doctor, when the vice president writes this op ed saying fear of a second wave is over blown and it's the media stirring fear, is it over blown? >> you know, here is the thing, if we look at transmission in the last three months, you know, as the epidemic unfolded and try to look at things that predict transmission by state, the most powerful predictor coming through is this variable about seasonty. pneumonia is the main mechanism
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killing people is seasonal and covid is like pneumonia, very seasonal and makes us sure will there will be a second wave that will start at the end of august and intensify in the fall and unless we wear masks and avoid contact, it's going to lead to the second wave. >> sanjay, the rose garden event today, the vice president stopped at a diner in iowa and not much social distancing, is there any possible justification on a public shouldn't health basis for that behavior? >> no.
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i mean, there's just not. i mean, we don't have, you know, a magic therapeutic or vaccine at this point. we have increasing evidence that masks can help. i mean, you know, i say this often but i think it's important to point out there are countries around the world that measure death counts in the hundreds, not thousands or hundreds of
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thousands and i think the question often comes up, look, if i have the coronavirus and you're within six feet of me, how likely am i to spread this to you generally speaking. 17.4%. this was the data they collected. there is going to be all sorts of stories on this. if you actually wear a mask,
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what is the likelihood of transmission? 3.1%. about a six fold decrease in the likelihood of transmission. it not perfect but why wouldn't you do that given how much the infection rates have grown? >> and sanjay, arizona, florida, texas have marked the largest one-day increase in daily new infections, more than 200,000 people in each state. states that started reopening earlier than others. do you think that's why they're seeing spikes now or is there some other reason unrelated? >> yeah, no, this was predictable. we've known all along that as soon as you start to open things up, there were going to be more people who became infected. it's a contagious virus. more people out there. more people will become infected. there is two questions. one is how much of an increase would there be? we're seeing significant increases for sure, also, what are you willing to tolerate? is there a point at which you say look, that's too much? we're worried we're going into exponential growth and seeing a curve that's spiking upward. what are you going to do at that point? i don't know people have really well thought out plans. i should point out because people say we're testing more. that the how you talked about the program. yes, testing more is going to find more cases but if you're testing enough, it should actually lead to a decrease, not an increase because you find the people, you isolate them, you prevent further spread and oklahoma, they're testing less and the cases are still going up. case in point. >> dr. sanjay gupta and chris murray, thank you. appreciate it. the protests in seattle that carved out a small area where police are not welcome. a police that is a talking point for president trump when we return. on any model. mercedes-benz. the best or nothing.
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during his remarks on police reform, president trump promised swift action against the protestor formed a police free zone in seattle. looting and arson were occurring and the violence would not be tolerated and monday used starker language. >> if they don't do the job, i'll do the job. i've spoken to the attorney general about it. if they don't do the job, we will do the job. >> we should point out it's unconstitutional for the president to send troops without consent from governor. it's always how the president referred to protestors. he's called them domestic terrorists. we spent the day and night in the capitol hill autonomous zone for an up close view what is going on there. >> hey!
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beat his [ bleep ]! >> time to get right with god! >> he has a right to speak and say what he wants. >> deescalate and share the space. >> the idea is this what is society could be without police. >> we're three days deep so forgive us if we're not as organized. we want to show people can police themselves. people can take care of themselves. >> reporter: this is the capitol hill autonomous zone, also known as the chop or the chaz. it a six-block area controlled by protesters after seattle police abandoned the east precinct. now, police don't dare enter and are under orders not to enter any cause in that zone unless there is a mass casualty event. >> once they left, it took a mind of its own like we're finally safe.
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we finally don't have to worry about police brutality. >> reporter: it wasn't always like this. the chaz is born after violent clashes with police. >> the medics gave me this because i got shot in the chest with it. >> we all had our hands up and they shot me and the medics, like, couldn't get a pulse four times. we are unarmed. we are unarmed. why do they feel so threatened against us? >> reporter: the spd says this incident is under investigation and if policy or law violations have occurred, they will take proper steps to address it. >> all the people are here for each other. >> yeah. >> we don't want any violence at all. >> everybody over here, everybody's peaceful, man. >> how do you create the rules for the chaz? >> there is leadership out here. we communicate the best we possibly can, right? and, you know, it's just human decency. >> how are you doing? what's up, family? put your joint out or hand it to
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someone and come and talk to me real quick. try not to curse either. is it going to always work? absolutely not. absolutely not. i think statistically if you look at the amount of people that are here and the amount of violence that is occurring, it's so minimal that it reflects very positively on this experiment. >> chaz is a poor reflection on seattle. this is a result of elected officials that are failing to enforce the rule of law. but if i were to go 50 yards to my west, i wouldn't be allowed in there. in fact, i would be concerned about my safety. >> they say it's quite peaceful, it's kind of like a party in there. >> okay. but the reports we have is that there are armed people inside. but i would love for you to stick around until 2:00 or 3:00 a.m. i'd love to see all your footage and maybe you can document the unreasonable activism that's going on in there. ♪
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>> okay. it's 2:30. what's the scene? >> for the most part people pick where they're going to camp out for the night. >> hold on. >> people winding down, be peaceful and call it a day. >> reporter: there are still a few bursts of confusion and anger when a suspicion person comes through. they're still figuring out how to make their own law and order in a cop-free world. >> slow. slow. >> the long-term strategy is to stay here and protest and be a demonstration. if the pd want their precinct back, if they are keen to return and not suppress our right to protest, and not engage in war tactics to do it, we're more than happy to have them back here. ♪ >> and ellie reeve joins us now from seattle. so, obviously there's a lot of different people and obviously there's more people during the
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day than the night. who are the people you've been seeing in this zone. again, the president is saying domestic terrorists. >> reporter: oh, it's a really interesting mix. there's a lot of local people, some activists, some people who are new to activism. it's a mix of brown people, people of color, white people. there are volunteer medics, volunteer mental health workers, and then there's a very small number of anti-fascist groups like the john brown gun club who are doing security and tracking far-right groups to make sure they don't come in and hurt these people. >> and has there been violence there? i mean, beyond just in the forming of it in the subsequent days? >> reporter: no, it's largely peaceful. occasionally some proud boys have come in and there have been fights outside of the zone, but other than that, it's very chill here. >> ellie reeve, appreciate you being there. thank you very much. still ahead, why the trump administration has gone to court to try to stop former national security adviser john bolton from selling his white house
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the reality is everywhere that the vice president was talking about. we know what he said in the op-ed. let's set it up against the facts and we're going to take a look at this new steroid and see if there is really hope of helping any of the cases in covid. >> yeah. yeah. we'll see you in just a couple of minutes from now. more breaking news on this program. why the trump administration is suing former national security adviser john bolton over his memoir expected to be released next week.
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you ever wish you weren't a motaur? sure. sometimes i wish i had legs like you. yeah, like a regular person. no. still half bike/half man, just the opposite. oh, so the legs on the bottom and motorcycle on the top? yeah. yeah, i could see that. for those who were born to ride, there's progressive.