expand the electret. joe biden has done that and will reach out to independents, to reasonable republicans to motivate the democrats. he is expanding the base of this upcoming election. >> all right. governor, i appreciate your time. thank you very much, sir. >> thanks, erin, you bet. >> let's hand it off now to anderson. good evening. for a second time in a few days, the president held a large indoor gathering in the middle of a coronavirus hot zone. this time at a mega church in phoenix, which enticed people to come by promising a new air purifier think installed would kill the virus and keep people safe. that actually happened. it's called the dream city church. doctors and scientists called b.s. on the miracle purr fifiep. the virus killed 120,000 americans and it's not even

july. the alternative reality the president wishes he was inhabiting, in the real world arizona is experiencing the steep growth in cases you once saw in new york at the beginning of the outbreak. look at that chart. here is the growth in the number of people sick enough to be hospitalized. again, not a good sign. arizona is hardly alone. look at texas. new cases rising there just as sharply and again, not just from more testing. so many people are getting sick that in houston, texas children's hospital tells cnn it's providing additional icu and acute care beds now for adults. the governor greg abbott a strong supporter of the president is telling texans the safest place to be right now is at home and on a global scale, the european union is now weighing the possibility of banning travel from the u.s. just think about that. because of the way america has handled, this administration has handled the coronavirus pandemic, americans may not be allowed to fly to europe by the

europeans. going by the data, it's hard not to see why. look at the comparison between the e.u. and the u.s. since the pandemic began. the united states, we're the green line. the united states not only has not got the virus under control, it's backsliding towards 30,000 new case as day. in the fantasy world, in the meantime, the president goes straight into the middle of one of the hardest hit states not to visit patients or doctors or nurses or emts. he first visits the border wall and gets a dose of self-gratification, his own favorite medicine other than hydroxychloroquine at a mega church where the pastors promise a miracle device will keep folks safe and in this house of god he uses a racist slur to deb scrsc the virus. >> so many names, i could give you 19 or 20 names for that, right? it's got all different names. wuhan. wuhan was catching on.

coronavirus, right? kung flu, yeah. kung flu. [ cheers ] covid-19. covid. what's the 19? some people can't explain the 19. covid-19. i said that's an odd name. >> in the meantime, back in the real world dr. fauci and members of the once visible coronavirus task force that has now become invisible, much like the coronavirus. they are invisible told lawmakers it's been weeks since they've spoken to the president. >> dr. fauci, when is the last time you spoke to the president? >> about two and a half weeks ago. >> when is the last time you spoke to the president? >> it was about two and a half weeks ago, as well, maybe three weeks ago. >> honorable haun, when is the last time you spoke to the president about the pandemic and response? >> it's been sometime since i spoke about the pandemic

response. >> director robert redfield you saw there not saying anything, he declined to answer that question. when was the last time you saw the president? it really does make you wonder, though, it was clear trump didn't like him when the task force was having daily briefings. he didn't get a lot of chances to talk but redfield won't say when he last spoke to the president. the others had no problem, two, two and a half weeks, which isn't good. redfield has got to be then much longer than that. now, remember, the coronavirus task force which the vice president always used to make sure to point out did everything quote unquote at the direction of the president. the coronavirus task force which is now as invisible as the virus itself, the task force still recommends mask wearing, more testing for the disease, social distancing, staying away from enclosed spaces and big crowds. you see them testifying. they had the masks on. sometimes they took them off to speak and put them right back on. the president is doing

everything he can to subvert those people you say, the nation's top scientists. he shut down the daily briefings on experimenting with people with disinfectant. he shut it down so people won't hear about the virus. the president believes if you don't hear about it as much, you'll forget about it and about the federal government's incompetent response. sure, your dad may die or your grandmother might get sick, she might die, you might get sick, you might die, so be it. the president is actively working to turn people against all the other recommendations of the task force he once claimed to lead. wearing masks, social distancing, not congregating in giant indoor stadiums with thousands of others or mega churches. of course, behind the scenes, the president has gotten more tests for the virus than probably anyone else in this country, if not in the world. and everyone in the white house who makes contact with the president is tested and has their temperature checked.

publicly, he's pretend thing virus is passed. privately, he's living in a biological bunker. he visited the under ground bunker, he was taken there friday, rushed there by the secret service. he denies that but he lives every day in a biological bunker. people being tested around him. everyone is wearing masks having their temperature checked. he's a sanitized and protected from the virus as anyone can be and in the midst of that epicenter of sanitation, he is encouraging everyone else, don't follow the guidelines. publicly, he's floating all of those guidelines except hand washing. he's hand washing his hands of all of it. he's creating a string of december tracti distractions and boasting of course that he ordered a slowdown in testing. >> so i said to my people, slow the testing down, please.

they test and we test. we have test and people don't know what's going on. we have tests. we have another one over here. >> he said that on saturday. yesterday, his spokesperson said look, he was only joking, of course. >> there was a comment he made in passing specifically with regard to the media coverage and pointing out the fact that the media never acknowledges that we have more cases because when you test more people, you find more cases. >> is it appropriate to joke about coronavirus when 120,000 people have died. >> he was not joking about coronavirus. >> ms. kaley mcelderis learningl cut it off. the president suggest he wasn't joking and made it completely clear to a cbs news correspondent today. >> mr. president, at that rally when you said you asked your

people to slow down testing, were you just kidding or do you have a plan to slow down testing? >> i don't kid. let me just tell you. let me make it clear. we have got the greatest testing program anywhere in the world. we test better than anybody in the world, our tests are the best in the world and we have the most of them. >> so okay, he wasn't joking. never mind what his spokesperson said. wasn't joking when he said that he asked to slow the testing. task force members were asked about this claim today and they said they didn't know anything about it. >> to my knowledge, none of us have ever been told to slow down on testing. that just is a fact. in fact, we will be doing more testing. >> as dr. fauci said, all of us have been and continue to be committed to increasing readily, timely access to testing. we've made a marked improvement. >> let me go straight to the question my colleague asked. i'll ask each of you for a yes

or no answer. has president trump ever directed you to slow down testing for covid-19 in the united states? dr. redfield? >> no. no, sir. in congressman. >> dr. redfield seems unfamiliar with the mask there. maybe he said it to someone else. he does after all tend to repeat himself frequently and maybe he made it up and now he's sticking by the lie he thinks it makes him look tough and they loved it. so likely by tomorrow he's going to contradict himself. so who really cares? who jokes about slowing testing for a deadly virus. the president is doing some standup to do bits at the laugh shack on tuesday at 1:00 a.m. testing new material. there is nothing funny when the guy joking about slowing down testing is the guy that has the power to slow down testing and the same guy that does not like a lot of testing because then you know how far the virus actually spread and he believes it makes him look bad.

i doesn't make any less sick and any less dead but makes him look bad and he's said so openly time and time again. >> we have so much testing, i don't think you need that kind of testing or that much testing. >> we've done more testing than any other country combined. in a way by doing all of this testing, we make ourselves look bad. i've always said testing is somewhat over rated. something can happen between a test where it's good and then something happens and all of a sudden, this is why the whole concept of tests aren't necessarily great. >> again, it seems normal, i guess, after awhile but just we got a pandemic, global pandemic going on more than 100,000 americans dead. not even beginning of july. and this is what we got. so this is where we begin the program, testing and the state of the virus and the president complaining about how badly he's being treated. after trying to draft off the popularity of dr. anthony fauci

glimmering glow of the scientists he no longer wants you to hear from. the tweet today, dr. anthony fauci who is with us a very high 72% approval rating. we know why? what he is doing. who else is popular. got to get rid of that person. the tweet continues. if he, dr. fauci is in charge with us doing all these really good things, they treat us as they should. joining us is dr. richard, acting director of the cdc and also with us, cnn chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. we were warned the cases are going go goi going up. we need to wear masks, avoid big gatherings and increase testing.

as somebody who has run the cdc and knows how difficult it is to run a public health campaign and get a population to abide by guidelines which are restrictive and difficult and wearing a mask is unpleasant, it's got to be -- i mean, could you ever imagine a situation where there would be a pandemic and the leader of the country would be subverting the guidelines the top scientists are pleading with people to do? >> anderson, theis is a really trub troubling situation. when i think back to where we were several months ago, there was some unity of messaging about how serious the pandemic was and that we needed to take action. but right now, we're in a situation where we have such incredible mixed messaging. we have every public health leader in the nation. the majority of political leaders in the nation saying that this is a serious situation and we need to take action.

but at the top, and other quarters in some states we're hearing people say go back to work, go back to your social life, don't worry about this, the virus is under control. and without that unity of purpose, without everyone aligning behind doing the right thing, we are in real danger of slipping back in many places to a worse situation than we were in several months ago. >> sanjay, when you look at images, you know, inside that church tonight, again, hardly any masks. no essential dsocial distancing. it's indoors. there could be outdoor church service. could have figured how to do that. what do you do? i mean, as somebody who cares about public health. >> people ask the question, how do you do this safely? the answer is you really can't. i mean, when the middle of a pandemic, where you -- where we know we account for 25% of the world's infections at a time the european union is thinking about

possibly banning travel of passengers from the united states to that country, that situation you're looking at is sort of the worst-case scenario. it's indoors as you mentioned. people can't physically distance. their not weari they're not wearing masks. the rates of infections are increasing significantly in arizona. from tulsa as you remember, there were eight staff members that tested positive before that event in tulsa. >> from the president -- >> advance people and secret service agents. we don't even know. there is definitely a certain percentage of the population you look at in that church that have the virus. you can say that with confidence because of what is going on there. people who arrived early in arizona may have become infected. also in that particular rally, you just couldn't possibly recommend it. i don't think any public health official would say this is a good idea. this is now safe based on what we've done. no masks and physical distancing is a problem. >> is the -- we should point out

in phoenix, there is an ordinance masks should be worn inside within six feet of somebody. that's not happening here. we're obviously still -- tell me. where do you see us in the course of this pandemic? of you obviously a lot of hope on vaccines but the timing of that, nobody knows really. and history is any guide, it will take longer than it seems like administration seems to be indicating. where do you think we are? >> well, you know, i think we're still early days. when you look at any state that has done some testing to see what is taking place in the population, not that high a percentage of people have been infected and so it's early. and we're in a transition phase. so you have a number of states who have been able to really drive down cases, drive down the curve so new york, new jersey, massachusetts and they are switching to slowly opening based on the best public health science with testing, tracking,

isolation and quarantine. and it's going to be a test case to see can this be done in a safe way so that we don't see large increases. have they the systems in place so that everyone who needs to isolate can. this is taking place at a time when unemployment benefits, the supplemental from the federal government is going away and protection against eviction and mortgage foreclosures are going away. what does it mean to someone going back to work that's been told they were exposed to someone who has coronavirus and has to decide, do i quarantine for 14 days and not be able to put food on the table and risk eviction or do i go to work and take my chances that well maybe i was exposed but i'm not going to get sick? we're letting the systems fall apart we need to have in place to make sure everyone can protect themselves, their families and communities. >> dr. richard, sanjay, thank you.

appreciate it. still to come, breaking news on the investigation to what nascar said was a noose found in the nascar garage of bubba wallace. the justice department announces findings. kamala harris joins us to see if congress can reach a deal on police reform and talk of her as a potential vice presidential nominee knee for joe biden. we'll be right back. and it's definitely not "close enough or nothing." mercedes-benz suvs were engineered with only one mission in mind. to be the best. in the category, in the industry, in the world. now, get 0% apr financing up to 36 months on most models and 90-day first-payment deferral on any model. mercedes-benz. the best or nothing.

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breaking news in the investigate to the noose left in bubba wallace's garage. on sunday, a member of his team found the object, brought it to the attention of unless car that alerted authorities. wallace never saw it. on monday nascar showed support for wall laace with every drive morning behind him. emotional scene for wallace but randi kaye has new information about the investigation.

>> anderson, the fbi and u.s. attorney's office said that after conducting numerous interviews and a thorough review, they determined that there was no federal crime committed. the fbi assigned 15 agents to this case, which sounded like a lot to me so i asked my fbi contact why so many and he said they simply wanted to get to the bottom of this quickly. they knew it was an important issue and case. in the end, they determined that the rope found in bubba wallace's garage had been there long before that garage was assigned to bubba wallace. here is the joint statements. the investigation revealed evidence including authentic video confirmed by nascar that the noose found in the garage number four was in that garage as early as october 2019 although the noose is now known to have been in garage number four in 2019, nobody could have known mr. wallace would be assigned to garage number four. >> in the statement, they are still calling it a noose. >> i noticed that, too. i said why call it a noose still

if based on your investigation determined and my contact again said it was his understanding that the rope was fashioned in a noose knot used as a door pull as he put it. also, nascar today anderson releasing a statement saying that the fbi concluded based on photograph evidence the garage door pull rope fashioned like a noose had been there since last fall and this is interesting about a question like that at a press conference yesterday with the president of nascar. listen to this. >> can you confirm was the rope from the rope that normally you would pull down the garage door? >> i am not sure, bob. i have no information on that. >> well, he didn't know yesterday but apparently, that is exactly what it seems to be and in a teleconference late today, anderson, nascar's president said this was the best result they could have asked for. they were thrilled bubba wallace was not the target of a hate crime and not the target of a

noose in that garage. >> and then, apparently, there are since at least last fall, did anyone else recall seeing it? >> yes. wood brothers racing released a statement on twitter today saying that of course, they were very thankful this wasn't what it seemed to be initially so they were very pleased about that but also said some new information. they said one of their em pploys without knowing information of the investigation ordeal tails of the case told them yesterday he recalled seeing what he refers to as a tied handle in the garage pull down rope from last fall. so he said it was there last fall. apparently, wood brothers racing then took this information to unless car and they say that they've been cooperating with this investigation ever since. so lots of folks here anderson tonight pointing to that rope being in that garage back in october last year. >> randi kaye, thanks very much. joining us is laura coats, cnn legal analyst. because of this moment we're in as a country, it's obviously

this has become a major story right away. certainly for nascar and bubba wallace this is the best possible outcome. >> well, it is. we're in a time where sensitivity is obviously heightened and we know the climate we're in and we have the backdrop of nascar being requested by bubba wallace, the only african american racer to request for confederate flags to be taken down and there is backlash with that. even in this climate, i look at this and first, i have more questions about the placement of this rope, how is it that people were able to come to a conclusion that led them to investigate it as a noose and possible hate crimes and then it could be dispelled so quickly. i wonder about the facts and circumstances but i also know that hate crimes in the way they are investigated by the fbi and department justice is they trust their own credibility by saying we are calling balls and

strikes. we're thorough in our investigation and so i hope that any time someone wants to look at this case and say this is pure coincidence or a hate crime in general are anomalies and somehow are one offs, that all of the reported increase in hate crimes up until now can't be disregarded because we know the fbi will call the balls and call the strikes when they see it or not. >> certainly, if they assign 15 agents to it, it certainly would be an indication of the seriousness to which they took this. >> well, they would. because we know bubba watson the word they use, he was the target of a hate crime. there is nothing to suggest they don't recognize nooses as emb m emblems of an ethnic form of intimidation and the hate crime legislation looks at the circumstances, as well. the things meant to target someone with specificity and those that target a general

population hoping to intimidate. the idea of taking it seriously is what you should do when you talk about the h is ryhistory os in america and lynching and the way it's used particularly with african americans and knot just african americans in this country. it began with burning and discussions about what happened for freedom writers including jewish americans down south and it includes anyone as a goal of justice who is targeted by mobs, as well. >> and i mean, this comes at a time obviously in the wake of nascar banning the confederate flags and nascar involved in, there is reports he received threats and demonstrations, people showing the confederate flag outside nascar the other day. there is this moment of unity yesterday when the drivers rallied around bubba wallace and regardless of the outcome of the investigation, you know, it is actually, you know, an example where we see real changes taking place in a sport. >> absolutely. i think you can't disregard simply because you have this

outcome where if he was not the target of a hate crime and then there was the request he had to make in 2020 at 26 years old i believe he is having to make the request that a confederate flag not be prevalent at the nascar racing track. that shows there is some support around the notion that thinks that may be dismissed as not problematic are having a fresh look at it. the reasons why, it's odd they were coming up with something like a noose and hung for so long and nobody questioned it until now. >> laura coats, appreciate it. potential biden running mate kamala harris joins us next. what makes you, you? your cells. trillions of them. that's why centrum contains 24 key nutrients to support your energy. so you can take care of what matters most.

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is there a way for a middle ground here? you have republicans saying if this doesn't pass, there may be nothing this year. >> certainly there's a way for something to be done if everyone approaches it with an earnest desire to actually meet this moment and implement the reforms that we know, we actually have available to us. part of the frustration that we have had is that the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is putting this republican bill up for a vote tomorrow without any meaningful process. i serve on the judiciary committee, so does cory booker and we're the two senate authors. we've not had any hearings on the senate judiciary committee. a week after we proposed, the bill, it took them over a week to come up with a bill that talks about basically process and having reviews and studying issues. ours is a bill that talks about the need for accountability and immediate accountability so we

talk about things like the need for pattern and practice investigations when a department, an entire department is accused of having a culture that may lead to discrimination. we're talking about the need for independent investigations that prosecutors should not be investigating misconduct of police officers from a department they work with every day. we are talking about the need for a new national standard for use of force so that instead of asking when there is excessive force, was that force reasonable, we should ask was it necessary? these are the concrete things we're proposing in the bill. what they have offered really there is nothing salvageable about it and i intend to vote against the motion to proceed and follow the recommendation of vast number of civil rights groups that are urging us to vote against the motion to proceed. >> one of the things you hear a lot from black lives matter protesters is defund police. it means i think different things to different people. but i'm wondering what you believe in that, believe about that, about the idea of

defunding police. >> well, here is what i believe. that we need to reimagine public safety anderson. understand that healthy communities are safe communities. so what does that mean? look, when you go to upper middle class suburbs in america, you don't see that kind of police presence that you see in other neighborhoods, but what you do see are well-funded schools. you see families that have jobs that allow them to have an income they don't have to worry about feeding their kids by the end of the month. what you do see are families that have access to public health, mental health without worrying about the cost of it. what you do see are communities that have small businesses that have access to capital. these are the things that make for a healthy community. if we want safe communities, we have to invest in the health and well being and they will be safe. instead in many cities in our country, one-third of the budget is spent policing.

that's not a good return on investment for taxpayers. we don't want to get rid of police. i'm not saying get rid of police but we have to invest in the health and well being of our communities. >> you're being considered as a potential vice president pick for vice president biden, during the primary some people attacked you for your time as a prosecutor, a law professor and former director of the law school project for the innocent. there was a quote saying kamala is a cop and this law school prong je project for the innocent wrote in the "new york times" saying kamala harris was not a progressive prosecutor. when progressives urged her to change reforms as the state's attorney general, ms. harris stayed silent. for black lives matter protesters and many people in the streets, this is a huge issue and i'm wondering how do

you -- what do you say to protesters who might not view you as an agent of change in a system that you used to work in? >> well, first of all, as it relates to the person that you have referred to in terms of those close, that's simply wrong. it absolutely wrong. when i was attorney general of california, i instituted one of the first requirements that law enforcement officers received training on racial bias and procedural justice. i was i think the first state agency that required that law enforcement agents in that state agency wear body cameras and keep them on full-time. i'm the first that created the vision and approach on the national model for the initiatives for the formal incarcerated and getting them jobs and support. it's incorrect. what we need right now is leaders who are prepared that these are long-term grievances

and rooted in fact that there is generations of people who have been abused, the subject of racial profiling and murder and that we need to reform police and accountability. when police officers engage in misconduct and so i'm very proud of the work that we've been doing in the senate. i urge everyone to support the bill that cory booker and i have proposed on the senate side together with our congressional black colleagues, black caucus colleagues and other members of the house and senate, this is a time to reform and a time for leaders to step up and be in a position where they can actually lead. >> senator camilla ha r ris, apre thank you. >> thank you. protesters demanding the removal of confederate statutes. we'll talk with it former mayor of new orleans that removed four confederate statutes while the mayor. can i find an investment firm with a truly long-term view that's been through multiple market cycles

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earlier tonight president trump left unmentioned by the president the fact many of the statutes protesters are wanting to remove our confederate leaders like robert e. lee. joining me to discuss it cnn contributor and mayor of new orleans three years ago led the effort to remove three statutes

in his city and joining us is our other guest. mayor landrieu, you were front and center of this. you and professor were in a piece i did for "60 minutes" on this subject. talk about your thought process on the removal and how you see it now? >> a couple of things. when we bebegugan, we were focu on the confederate monuments. there were over 1700 of them put up between 1890 and 1920 and jumped forward and put a bunch of them up in the 1950s. these statutes were put up to revere people who fought against the united states of america in the civil war for the purpose of preserving slavery. opposition was that was inappropriate. they were put up to send a message. they were put up in places of reveren reverence. as soon as we started doing that, the folks said context

lize them and don't take them down, put a blaplaque up and do start because we don't know where we'll stop and it's always that argument that they use that it will come to take down lincoln and jefferson and not stay focused on white supremacy as it relates to confederate monuments. that's what we're going through as we speak. >> professor, contextizing is one thing discussed a lot but i think what a lot of people don't realize and we're seeing the roosevelt statute outside the museum of natural history in new york, this is talk of removing that given its monuments, can you talk about the history of why they were built. it's not like they were done in the heat of the civil war, it was done afterward to rewrite history. >> right, these monuments, it takes several decades for these monuments to emerge and has mr.

landrieu stated, it's a propaganda campaign to rewrite the history of the civil war and slavery and racialize the racial apartheid and jim crow segregation in many ways to clean the southeast image up in the court of up many lipublic o say slavely was a benign institution and african americans were happy slaves unprepared for freedom and the confederacy was a noble cause. in many instances, in most if not all of them, these statutes are a reclamation of public space in the name of white supremacy. >> so professor, where do you think -- i'm wondering what you make of -- it seems like the debate has moved, a lot of people are saying forget about, you know, putting into context, let's put them somewhere else. >> i think if these statutes are warehoused, it's a wasted opportunity to deal with the narrative of the lost cause. i think people are formulating political solutions to the problem of confederate revision.

the path forward, however, i think will require educational tools. you can't have reckonciliation without recognition. for many people they represent institutional problems and tearing them down won't make the history go away. we'll have to deal with the story of lost cause but what was the result of what these statutes entrenched like jim crow segregation. they paved the road for how we got to now. >> mayor landrieu, what do you make of that? >> i love the professor but disagree a little bit. i don't think taking them down erases history. >> i don't, either. >> i agree the most important thing is what we do going forward. if we take them down and don't deal with what they represent and the idea of them and that we don't have a moment of acknowledgement, we can't move towards reconciliation. he's exactly right about that

part because there has to be a reckoning in the country but everybody will notice that as soon as we start getting locked in on the confederate monuments, everybody wants to take your eye off the ball and take you to washington, jefferson and grant and don't want to stay focused on this very important time in our history when people try to rewrite it and tell a historical lie. so what i said to the people of new orleans and, you know, with their blessing and help, i said let's deal with this issue now. let's four square look at where it is we came from, where we want to go and let's begin to deal with institutional bias that you nosey mknow see manife itself and the consequences of covi did and et cetera. the stories go on and on. you need to get to the root of it. the professor is exactly right. unless you get underneath it, then if you just take the monuments down and that's all that we do, we will have missed a great opportunity for our country. >> i've been looking at videos in south africa in the days leading up to the election of

mandela and the years leading up to it, the truth and reconciliation and it's an extraordinary thing and criticism and faults it had. it's incredible to see a society which, you know, there's plenty of reasons to have animosity toward, you know, by people who were oppressed for generations and that society has been able to move forward and kind of reinvent themselves in extraordinary way. do you -- i mean, i don't know that something like that would work here but interesting to look how south africa did it. >> the south africans were willing to put themselves on the proverbial sofa and deal with the country's tortured racial history. by the way, i think the memory isn't that dissimilar to the memory of confederate. it much grounded in mythology as history. the fact they were willing to come to the proverbial table and have a discussion what chance

py chance pyred during the apartheid characterized that country's ability to move forward after the dem miise of t terrible regime. >> great to talk to you. thank you so much. appreciate it. >> my pleasure. atlanta gathers to remember rayshard brooks shot by police. we'll be right back. at mercedes-benz, nothing less than world-class

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obstacles are. we're going to take on the mayor of uma, arizona. how do you decide masks work but you vote against mandating them for your city? that argument is spreading through the fringe right as fast as the virus. and also i have ken burns on tonight. he is an "ac360" worthy guest. he's going to talk about the statutes, what do the symbols mean? is there a too far? is is the is there too much emifphasis on it? >> coming up now, rayshard brooks laid to rest. for over 85 years? with capital group, i can.

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