utsohern district of new york. and the coronavirus pandemic. our special continues right now with boris sanchez in the cnn newsroom. thanks for watching. hello, and welcome to our viewers in the united states and all over the world. thanks for joining us. i'm boris sanchez and you are in the cnn newsroom. the scene tonight, president trump addressing a much smaller than expected crowd of supporters at his rally in tulle sar a, oklahoma tonight. the president eager for a return to the campaign trail instead facing a series of embarrassments. first, a standoff between the administration and a federal prosecutor who's been investigating members of trump's inner circle. attorney general bill barr's attempt to fire u.s. attorney geoffrey berman backfiring. barr claiming trump wanted him gone only for trump to later say, and i quote, i was not

involved. then, just hours before the rally, six of president trump's campaign staffers doing advanced work on the event, stetesting positive for coronavirus. and then the crowd size at the rally. president trump failing to fill the arena after bragging that 1 million people were trying to attend his rally. entire sections had empty seats. almost no one was in the overflow area. we haven't even mentioned some of the content of his speech. there's lots to get to this hour. let's begin with ryan nobles. he's at the b.o.k. center. a shocking headline. president trump telling the crowd he wants to slow down on coronavirus testing in the middle of a pandemic. >> reporter: yeah, boris, the president touched on a lot of topics here tonight. he made a little bit of news on many fronts. we'll get to that point you made on testing in just a second, but we should also point out tonight the president went after vice president joe biden. he also accused the news media and protesters for depressing

the crowd size here today. and he also even called for a one-year prison sentence for americans that are caught burning the american flag. but you're right, it is that suggestion that he made about testing that testing is the reason that covid numbers are spiking across the country. and the president even went to suggest that perhaps testing should be rolled back in the united states. take a listen. >> you know, testing is a double-edged sword. we've tested now 25 million people. is it's probably 20 million people more than anybody else. germany's done a lot. south korea's done a lot. they called me, said the job you're doing -- here's the bad part. when you do testing to that extent you're going to find more people, you're going find more cases some i said to my people, slow the testing down, please.

>> reporter: now, we should point out that the administration and a senior administration official telling cnn the president was joking when he said that they should reign in the number of tests of coronavirus across the country. we should also point out that public health officials would argue against that point exactly, that the more you test, the more you are able to locate the virus, and that ultimately allows the number of cases to drop. we have seen that across the world, countries that increase their testing. we're able to locate it, contact trace it and ultimately reduce the number of cases. so a peculiar claim by the president, but there were many of those tonight. >> no shortage of those. notable with 120,000 americans dead because of the coronavirus, the president is making jokes about testing during the pandemic. he address the fact that there were protester outside his rally. what was his message about that?

>> reporter: yeah, again, boris, this is something that has us scratching our heads. part of this is an expectations game, right? this was a very big crowd here tonight. i don't think anybody can deny that. if you've covered campaign rallies it's difficult to bring as many people to an arena like this as the president did. but it's also worth noting he expected a lot more people to show up. he said they didn't expect empty seat. they also expected huge crowds outside the arena, saying as many as 40,000 people could jam the streets outside the arena. it was nothing like that. they didn't fill the arena, there was no one outside and they cancels the event outside the arena. the president saying it was because protesters prevented people from getting into the arena. now, there were some protesters outside. there were scuffles, but they

were very minor and as far as we can tell -- we've reached out to police. we have had reporters spanned out outside the b.o.k. center all day today. it did not prevent any of the entrances into that arena being closed for any significant amount of time and it certainly did not prevent some 50,000 people from not getting into this arena and into the streets outside the arena, as what the original expectations were. boris, i want to emphasize. we're only going by what the campaign told us. they expected that many people to show up here tonight and the simple fact of the matter is it just did not happen. >> the president blaming protesters and the medias the well. interesting the president thinks that his supporters are listening to warnings from the media to stay away from gatherings like this even though he is encouraging them. ryan nobles reporting from tulsa. thank you. here now to discuss the president's rally, a star studded panel. dana bash, gloria gorger, abby

phillip in tulsa, and dr. women shafner. doctor, i have to start with you. the president said he told his people to slow down testing. he says testing is a double-edged sword, because it counts in cases where young people have to sniffles. doctor, i am not an expert, but it seems like the worst thing to do during a pandemic is to scale back testing. >> boris, i think it surprised and displayed every doctor and every public health person who was listening this evening because they couldn't figure it out. as ryan said, when you test more, you find more cases, surely. the testing doesn't cause the cases. and the importance thing is, when you find someone who's positive, you can provide them good medical care and you can do the contact tracing. and from a public health point of view also, you get a better sense of where this virus is in

your community. so for all those good reasons, testing is very important. you know, we test people for diabetes and for high blood pressure so we can provide them good care and also find out how common this problem is in our communities, and that informs our public health policy. so for all those good reasons, testing is important. >> gloria, to you. there was a lot of anticipation for this event. president trump back on the campaign trail after three months off. this was amid multiple national crises. more than 120,000 americans dead because of coronavirus. no question, many of his supporter haves friends and family that have been affected and this was almost just like any other trump rally. he spent a long time talk about himself, attacked the media, the radical left. according to his campaign he was joking about slowing down testing. the president is making jokes

about the pandemic. >> well, it is as if he is back in 2016 and he's kind of clearing the deck. the pandemic is not the problem that it is, with 120,000 people and counting dead, that the questions about race relations in this country are not there, and that -- he sort of -- it's the same old, same old. and i think this is a president who could probably use a new act right now. because you cover the president. you know. this is the same act that we heard in 2016, and of course it worked really well in 2016. i think the question is whether it's going to work given where we are. this is a president who looks backwards. he looks to the '60s and '70s, law and order, as if that's a way to handle race relations. jokes about covid. used racial epithets to talk

about covid, as he did do not. the moment in the country demands a seriousness, a seriousness of purpose. it doesn't demand a 20-minute riff on what he looks like walking down a ramp at west point or how he held a glass of water. that's what he spent his time doing tonight. >> this rally was intended to kick off the 2020 campaign, to restart the president's 2020 campaign, but it raises the question, what exactly is his campaign message? >> it really does, and i think in some ways this did not go as planned. not just because of what the crowd looks like, but also because of the message that came out of all of this. earlier this afternoon, you know, our own david axelrod was saying that in some ways what has happened is trump has highlighted two of his greatest weaknesses. one is the inable to address the deep concerns in this country about racial divisions as evidenced by the protests. and secondly, his handling of

the coronavirus pandemic. this rally has epitomized the problem with the president not following his administration's own messaging on the greatest public health crisis this country has faced in many, many decades. the fact that there weren't that many people here at this rally seems to suggest some of the president's own supporters believed that they didn't want to risk it, they didn't want to risk coming into this environment where they would be shoulder to shoulder with people so. instead of restarting his campaign on a message that is perhaps forward looking or on a message that is about his accomplishments or hopes for the country it highlighted a lot of things that are some of his greatest weaknesses right at this particular moment. and his attempts to attack joe biden, which there was a whole section of the speech where he riffed a lot of new lines or tried out some licennes on bide

when he was reading on that speech. it seemed to fall short. it was a laundry list of items. the crowd didn't respond particularly well. at a time the country is struggling and they're looking for leadership, attack lines -- people are looking for the president to give them something that elevates himself. he is right now the president of the united states, and this is an opportunity to rise above it and i don't think, necessarily, that we saw that tonight. zbl >> dana, it's really not been the day that trump hoped for. sources toll us trump spent most of the day upset with tonight's event overshadowed by the fact that six of his campaign staffers tested positive for coronavirus. you spoke to sources that said he was kind of upset over the issue with attorney general william barr firing the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. hard to call this a transition to greatness. >> right.

and also just on that note, if you just kind of go back in time to earlier today before the rally, which he was still hoping at the time, you know, this morning and into the early afternoon, would be the arena full, outside overflow situation that they had predicted inside the campaign. but even before that, we were in a situation that until the pandemic, we and especially someone like you, boris, who covers the white house every day has seen so many times, which was the president was embroil in the a crisis of his own making, and that is the really shocking -- and we can't let this go -- really shocking move that the administration made, that the attorney general/president made to fire the attorney general -- excuse me, fire the u.s. attorney who is in one of the most prominent districts, the southern district of new york, but more

importantly, has been investigating the president's allies and has been -- had a lot of tension with the administration and the president in particular because of that. it is his prerogative and that is why i'm told he was saying to allies that he didn't understand why he was getting such bad press for it, but just because it is his prerogative it doesn't make it right, it doesn't make it palatable. it just feeds into the notion he just does what he wants especially when it can be perceived as blatantly corrupt. >> dr. shafner, this probably isn't on the top of the lift of things we're examining that the president said that was controversial, but nevertheless it does raise eyebrows. listen to what the president said about re-opening schools. >> the kids are much stronger than us. when you see a little kid running around, say, boy, oh, boy, do you have a great immune

system. how about a piece of your immune system? they don't even know about this. let's open the schools, please. open the schools. open the schools. we got to get them open. in the fall, we got to get them open. >> doctor, what would be your professional advice to educators, teachers, parents? >> well, boris, everyone would like schools to open. we'd like colleges to open also. and everyone responsible for those institutions is figuring out how to do that in the most reduced risk way possible. they're thinking about everything from how children are arranged in class, how they can go to the cafeteria and eat, how

you can use the gym safely, athletic events. all of that is being thought of very, very carefully by school administrators across the country. and my hat's off to them, because the way we open up is carefully and very, very thoughtfully. and if we do that, then i think we'll be in good shape. but we can't be frivolous. we have to be very thoughtful and careful. >> abbie, i want to get your thoughts on something that you noted earlier, and that's the unrest we have seen nationally over relations between police and the african-american community. tonight, the president said, quote, they want to demolish our heritage. he's talking about the push to remove confederate memorials and symbols. you spent the week in tulsa. we cannot ignore the history, the context for this rally, what happened in tulsa 99 years ago, this racist massacre, one of the darkest chapters in american history. the president choosing to hold this rally on juneteenth,

ultimately deciding to postpone it by one day. i'm wondering what the people who you have been speaking to in tulsa this week think, perhaps, about what the president said? how do you think his message was received? >> yeah, i talked to a lot of people in tulsa about this very issue over the last week. just to give you one example of how resonant this issue of removing the names or the images of these figures from the past associated with the confederacy or other bad parts of this american history, there was a big debate here in tulsa about removing the name of the founder of this city that was on a street sign, and that person was also a kkk member. he was also believed to be one of the people involved in that 1921 massacre. so for black residents here it's extremely important to think about whose heritage the president is talking about.

if he's only talking about the heritage of white americans that ignores the needs of people like some of those here in tulsa who say the names the images that represent slave owners, that represent people who were racists or segregationists, they need to come down from places of prominence and i think that every person that i spoke to here from tulsa, many of them have -- are descendents of people who survived that massacre. they say these issues are not just theoretical. it's about who do we venerate, and who do we hold up 100 years or more after they committed really atrocious acts? and the president ignored all of that. i thought it was really stunning to be in this place where that issue is so deeply felt for the president to simply ignore the feelings of so many people here who have been fighting over issues like that for so very long. >> all right.

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this crisis is going to be over know exactly when and we don't know exactly when the stock market will reach its bottom, we've got to be prepared for this to last a long time. if you assume that you're out of work for nine months but you end up only being out of work for three, well that's great. but if you think you're going to be furloughed for three months and it lasts for nine, well that'll be emotionally devastating. so, we've got to prepare ourselves. tangibly and practically, as well as psychologically and emotionally. welcome back to the cnn newsroom. dana bash and gloria borger still with me and we're joined by douglas brinkley. douglas, starting with you, i'm hoping you can put tonight's

rally into perspective with us. crowded arena, middle of the a pandemic. president is joking supposedly about the seriousness of the pandemic. >> i think it was smart people in tulsa just didn't show up. it's going to be remembered as a yawn of a launch for a presidential campaign, bleachers empty on the second deck. they had a big stage with bullet proof glass for vice president pence and trump to speak outside. nobody came. part of the misunderstanding is tulsa has been coping with its african-american history and heritage long before this rally. they have the great oklahoma jazz hall of fame in tulsa. they just built the most fabulous park along the river with the help of the kaiser association. woody guthrie is on a mural with a guitar saying this machine kills fascists.

we don't want to stereotype tulsa as a red country. it's a progressive community going on in tulsa right now. here, they just didn't have to turnout. didn't have the violence. it was a pretty smooth rally and donald trump was at ace utter worst. he called himself average tonight. there wasn't cheers. there was some laughter here and there. there was some good humor. but i think the big takeaway for me is you can see the game plan for trump's campaign against biden. he's going to call biden the puppet of the far left that burns churches, rips down statues. he's going to be in really a george walls candidaace candida and he's stealinged whys from nixon by painting mcgovern for being for as cid, abortion and amnesty for vietnam war draft

dodger ♪ he's trying to be william jennings bryant. but he doesn't video the -- i think the idea of holding this rally in the middle of a covid pandemic was a horrific idea without social distancing, and it's just been a sand castle -- one problem after the other this week just being washed away. in the end it was a very tepid rally, particularly one that was supposed to be launching your big presidential campaign. >> great history lesson, douglas. gloria, your thoughts on the comparisons to wallace and nixon? >> well, obviously he's really channelling richard nixon because of the constant talk about law and order. instead of looking forward and about how policing can be improved in this country and race relations can be improved in this country he's just parroting what worked for richard nixon. and i think the issue is that

the country is different from the country in the '60s. you mentioned wallace. wow tonight use racial epithets to talk about the coronavirus? you want to talk about the serious protesters in the streets as a mob or as thugs? that is out of sync with where the american public is. you look at the polling, and the american public, over 50%, over 60% in some polls, have some sympathy with the protesters in the street. now, among did tonald trump's b that number goes down considerably. but i watched someone standing there who wanted to get up on the stage and wanted to be rocky. we wanted to climb the steps and be the guy everybody was cheering. instead, he just was rocky. he was just rocky. he meandered. he spoke for, what almost two hours? with no particular theme, it seemed to me, to his campaign.

and all he could do was just kind of bat joe biden over the head, saying that he was old and someone who was a captive of the left. but the problem is that there is no message, and he is portraying joe biden as somebody that in fact, if you look at the polling, the american people don't agree with him. and they've known joe biden for quite some time. and it seems to me that as a start of a campaign, it was a flop. >> dana, final thoughts? >> yeah, i mean, i think one of the big things that i heard from a lot of republicans, both in and out of and around the trump campaign going into this, was that because of the coronavirus, because of all of the other issues that the president and his campaign have not taken the opportunity or haven't had the opportunity to define joe biden. because he's been the presumptive nominee at this point for several months.

and although the president started to go there, associating hy him with the radical left and hitting on the notion that, you know, he's weak and so on and so forth, he didn't do it in the most aggressive way, certainly not in the way that people around him want him to. because at this point it is a referendum on this president. and that's always the way it is when there's an incumbent president. but when we have seen incumbents win in a second term in recent history, that has happened because they have quickly and harshly defined their opponent as worse than what you see now. the devil you know is better than the devil you don't. he was much more into trump the entertainer today and trump the story teller. and using incredibly insensitive racially charged comments like

the kung flu in a way that really was all about his base and making it clear that they believe -- or at least he believes -- the notion that because his campaign has been working so hard with so much money to identify tens of millions of potential trump voters, that is the way he can win and uniting the country or even reaching out beyond his base is not what he's interested in. >> i wish we had more time. unfortunately, we are all out of it. dana bash, gloria borger, douglas brinkley, thank you for sharing your saturday night with us. >> thanks, boris. you heard us mention joe biden. president trump takes a swing at his foe. we dig deep we are said rick richardson, he joins us with a counterpunch from the biden camp. we'll be right back.

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right. you have all those people inside for the president coming out. while they were in the, the crowds of demonstrators on the streets of downtown tulsa have increased significantly. there are hundreds if not thousands of people now that are protesting a number of different causes that are filling the streetless they are moving so they've become a huge moving crowd that blocks traffic, stops everything, but at the same time they get intermixed with those who support the president. arguments do break out. we don't see tear gas. there has not been a heavy police presence. for the time big it seems the police are willing to let the conversations and moments play out. they may feel their presence would only accelerate the temperance of the crowd. they're staying at the periphery. we assume they can move in. they're not doing so. so in the meantime, the streets of downtown are blocked, traffic

is a mess, and you've got a diverse crowd of different ideas that are now melding as one. and it remains to be seen if they can continue to be peaceful. it has been throughout the day. it continues to be boisterous, but again, we haven't seen any sign of tear gas or any sign of the police about to move in. >> let's hope that continues. martin savage, please stay safe and close by. we'll check in with you again as things develop. in a preview of what's to come as the we barrel towards election day, the president took ton presumptivetive democratic nominee joe biden tonight using his often-used nickname for the former vice president and criticizing his record on race relations. listen. >> america should not take lectures on racial justice from joe biden, sleepy joe. a man who praised and partners with segregationists, shipped

millions of american jobs overseas. virtually every policy that hurt black americans for half a century, joe biden has supported or enacted. i've done more for the black community in four years than joe biden has done in 47 years. >> i would imagine that the national cochair for the biden 2020 campaign might have a reaction to that. congressman said ricedric richm. what do you think is this. >> this is donald trump in his best form -- he'll never let facts get in his way. it's easy to point at other people, but you the truth of the matter is he had a chance to do something big tonight. he could have talked about juneteenth, he could have talked about race relations in america,

he could have talked about how he'd reform policing and enact racial equity, which is what this moment calls for in this country. instead of healing this country, he did what he does best, and that is try to divide the country over and over again. i'll just tell you, at some point, this country has to go tired of a president you can watch on tv without him slinging curse words at the audience. this is just, i think, a bridge too far for a great america, and we strive to be better every day. but there was nothing in his speech that was calling people to come together and make this country a more perfect union. this was about donald trump, like everything he's done since he's been president. >> and tonight's rally in tulsa was billed by the campaign as a re-election kickoff celebration. the president's campaign set expectations very high. they obviously took shots at the former vice president before, during, likely we'll see some

tweets pretty soon. they joked about the contrast and excitement for the candidates on twitter, specifically. as we know, the president is sort of obsessed with crowd size. it fell short of expectations tonight. there's still a lot of support for this president. they were still enthusiastic for him. do you feel your candidate is doing enough to court those voters, the ones that were in that arena in tulsa tonight? >> he absolutely is. and i think that this is the clearest difference, and i want people to understand, for the president of the united states, donald trump, it's all about donald trump. it's about his crowd size, it's about the people waiting in line to see him. which by the way was a failure according to their standards. and i'm sure we'll get storied tomorrow about how he's upset tonight at his staff for promising so many people in the overflow area that never came to pass. but here's the difference i want

people to go home with. for joe biden it's about us, it's about the country, it's about bringing people together. for donald trump it's about donald trump. and i think for the future of this country we want a president who will make it about america, who will make it about making sure that people who aspire to be in the middle class can make it. making sure when we rebuild this economy everybody comes along. making sure we have a just society. and so i think the contrast is very clear. look, i want trump out there every day talking and rambling and doing what he does best, because it was a disaster tonight, and i think that objective people watching that speech, they do not see a commander in chief. they see a guy having a temper tantrum who, it's all about him. i welcome that contrast any day of the week. >> now, your candidate has a sizable polling lead, and we just learned that biden and the

dnc outraised the trump campaign and the rnc by about $7 million in maim many out there in your party are still urging caution, though. trump maintains a strong campaigning apparatus. he saw him beat expect tagues in 2016. where do you see room for improvement to not see a repeat of the upset we saw in 2016? >> first, this is not 2016. trump was a nonelected official who could promise with the best of them and lie with the best of them, and we've seen that since he's been president so. so, remember, he was going to hire the best people. not true. he was going to do all these great things. not true. so i think there's a completely different race. you have someone who tells the truth, someone who lice. we are in a great position to be in. our lead is going to continue to

grow. we are going continue to raise money and build more and more support. everything we're doing is ascending. everything donald trump is doing is descending and. sooner or later he's going find himself in the basement or cellar he deserves to be in. >> we know biden has a short list of candidates. i'd love it if you broke some news about who he may nominate as vice president. you may choose not to, but i want to know what kind of conversations about the characterist characteristics, qualities, his vp pick must have. >> i'll tell you this -- nobody knows what they want in a vice president better than joe biden. he served as vice president for eight years and he was a great vice president. i think he knows what it takes to be one. the characteristics is someone who believes in what he believes in, someone who will always put the country first and people first.

someone who of course will help him win because you can't govern if you don't win. and so -- and someone who brings something to the table. the good news is we have a whole bunch of people in the democratic party that can do that. and so he's doing his due diligence. the other thing i'll say about the vice president, he's very deliberate about what he does, so i think he's doing his normal due diligence he always does, and we should hear something, you know, before the convention. >> can you give us a hint? >> the only thing i can tell you is it won't be me, and it won't be a male. >> all right, we appreciate that. congressman cedric richmond, thank you so much. >> thank you for having me, and happy father's day. >> i appreciate it. up next, opponents are calling it obstruction of justice after the president fires a -- stay with us.

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you may not have known his name, but geoffrey berman was one of the most powerful prosecutors. he was investigating rudy giuliani and some of his associates. what we saw over the last 24 hours was a remarkable sequence. last night, attorney general bill barr announced that berman was resigning. shortly after berman said, no, he's not resigning and would be staying put. but today barr sent berman a

letter that president trump fired him. just a short time ago president trump said on camera, quote, i was not involved. this evening berman announced he'd be leaving his field position in the sdny. joining me now is evan perez. help us make sense of what transpired. what led berman to announce he was actually leaving the post? >> well, i think the fact that he was now being fired by the president made berman essentially have no choice, boris. i think the idea here was that geoffrey berman was taking the position that he can not be fired by the attorney general simply because of a quirk of the law and because of just, frankly, incompetence by this administration. he never actually got senate confirmed. he was never even nominated by the president, officially nominated by the president to serve in that job, and yet he was able to serve in that job for three years. and so in the end, he was really

there because the judges in the southern district of new york appointed him to serve in that role. again, this is something that's very unusual. as you pointed out, it's one of the most important prosecutor jobs in this country and it's someone that was picked by the president, and yet never actually got the job officially by senate confirmation. so as a result of that, berman decided to play his hand and he decided that he was going to wait out out and see until the president actually did the firing. and that is what bill barr, in a letter officially today, said happened. he said officially the president was firing berman. >> now, a notable thing about this is accord source, the attorney general offered berman a job at the justice department and berman declined. that doesn't quite play into barr's argument about why he wanted to fire berman. >> right. we've never gotten an official

reason from the justice department as to why the attorney general wanted to make this change. now, behind the scenes we are told by sources that there's been a long series of clashes. this has been a power struggle. bill barr wants to take firm control of the department, and geoffrey berman was simply not going along, was simply not, essentially, following the chain of command in the view of the justice department. there was a lot of frustration that the attorney general didn't trust that, you know, geoffrey berman wouldn't pull anymore surprises. you'll remember during the investigation into michael cohen, the white house and the justice department was surprised to find out that this u.s. attorney's office named the president as individual one, essentially called him an unindicted coconspirator in the crimes of michael cohen. they didn't want anymore surprises and they didn't trust

that geoffrey berman would not be able to do anymore of those surprises. that's really the root of conflick that has been going on now for some time. they have been looking for a way to get rid of him for some time. this was as messy an exit i've ever seen in a job like this. imagine you having your bass come and tell you, you're out, you're fired, and you say, no, i'm not. and then, you know, you have 24 hours of drama. that's what we saw today. >> yeah. all right, evan perez, thank you so much for helping us sort that out. coming up, we'll bring you an update of a fatal shooting that happened in seattle's autonomous zone. police say they were unable to get access to the victims because of protesters. when you think of a bank, you think of people in a place. but when you have the chase mobile app, your bank can be virtually any place. so, when you get a check... you can deposit it from here. and you can see your transactions and check your balance from here. you can detect suspicious activity on your account from here. and you can pay your friends back from here. so when someone asks you, "where's your bank?"

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were responding to calls of shots fired at 2:45 this morning and they headed toward that autonomous zone. it's also known as the capitol hill organized protest zone and this is exactly what they were responding to, shots fired. so police say they were met by a violent crowd that kept them from getting to the victims. the video shows at least eight officers some are carrying shields, and you can hear one of the officers asking the demonstrators to let them through.

so police say before they could get to those victims they were both transported to a local hospital. one a 19-year-old male has died. another is in critical condition in intensive care. and a suspect in all of this still on the loose. now, this capitol hill zone, this autonomous zone is where police boarded up the east precinct in seattle because protests reached a boiling point. that was during the demonstrations after the death of george floyd in minneapolis. but for now they are still searching for a suspect in all of this. boris? >> yeah, and paul, we're also seeing protests under way in los angeles where you are. what can you tell us about those? >> reporter: boris, not very far from here the refused fascism group held a protest right near donald trump's star. and they said they were galled by the fact trump had a protest in tulsa which had been scene of

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hello and welcome to our viewers in the united states and all over the world. thanks for joining us. i'm boris sanchez and you are in the cnn newsroom. the scene tonight president trump addressing a much smaller than expected crowd of supporters at his rally in tulsa, oklahoma. the president eager for a triumphant return to the campaign trail instead facing a series of embarrassments. first there was a standoff between the administration and a federal prosecutor who's been investigating members of trump's inner circle. attorney general bill barr's attempt to fire u.s. attorney jeffrey berman backfiring, barr claiming trump wanted him gone only for trump to later say and i quote, i was not involved. then just hours before the rally in tulsa six of president trump's campaign staffers doing advance work on the event