family. may she rest in peace and may her memory be a blessing. thanks very much for watching. erin burne"erin burnett outfron erin burne"erin burnett outfron right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com "outfront" next, protests growing after not a single officer was charged with the death of breonna taylor. armed militia groups are now taking to the streets. the president refusing to commit to a peaceful transfer of power after election day in this stunning development tonight. and senator chuck schumer will respond right here. also dr. deborah birx, once a staple of coronavirus task force, now distressed, questioning how much longer she can stay. she's been replaced by the controversial doctor scott atlas. let's go "outfront." good evening. i'm erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, the breaking news, tensions rising on the

streets across this nation tonight after a grand jury in louisville, kentucky, charged just one officer in the breonna taylor case. that officer though not charged with the actual killing of the 26-year-old, nor were the other officers present. you are looking at pictures of a tense stand off in louisville, police as you can see in riot gear facing off against a crowd. that is what you see now still in daylight. the crowd growing in size tonight, curfew going into effect in less than two hours as we are watching this right now. to add to the tension on the ground, this is video of a militia group. that is a militia group marching through the streets with long guns. earlier today in louisville. now, taylor was shot 6 times in her apartment in the middle of the night last march. lawyers for taylor's family calling the decision outrageous and defensive. earlier today kentucky's attorney general defended the

grand jury's decision. >> breonna taylor's death has become a part of a national story and conversation. but we must also remember the facts and the collection of evidence in this case are different than cases elsewhere in the country. if we simply act on emotion or outrage, there is no justice. mob justice is not justice. >> as the attorney general's referencing, taylor became one of the faces of nationwide protests against police shootings. just moments ago, president trump was asked about today's decision. here's his response. >> i thought it was really brilliant kentucky attorney general is doing a fantastic job. he's handling it very well. >> all right. there's a lot to get to tonight and the nation of course on edge. i want to start with shimon

prokupecz life "outfront" in louisville. shimon, we showed pictures of what's happening moments ago with the altercation with riot, protests and police. what are you seeing and hearing now? >> reporter: yeah, erin, we are here at jefferson square park. you can see behind me several hundred protesters have gathered. they're trying to decide whether or not they're going to march. they gave indications they are going to march. as i've seen through the night here, police here are moving in quickly when they feel things are escalating. this, as tension remains high here. outrage in the streets after a controversial grand jury decision in the police killing of 26-year-old breonna taylor in march. three louisville officers were involved in a gun battle with taylor's boyfriend where she was shot multiple times, and only

one was indicted. >> the fatal shot was fired by detective cosgrove. >> detective myles cosgrove not indicted. >> sergeant mattingly was the first and only officer to enter the residence. >> sergeant john mattingly not indicted ether. >> according to kentucky law, the use of force was justified to protect themselves. >> reporter: only former detective brett hankison was charged with three counts of wanton endangerment to the apartment next door. back in june, hankison was fired and reprimanded by the interim police chief in a letter accusing him of wantonly and blindly firing into taylor's apartment through a curtain. several of the shots went through the neighbor's house. the officers were executing a no knock search warrant. the attorney general says a witness heard police knocking

before they broke down the door. >> evidence shows that officers both knocked and announced their presence at the apartment. >> taylor's boyfriend, kenneth walker, says he never heard police announce themselves. >> all of a sudden someone started beating on the door. they refused to answer when we yelled, who is it. >> walker fired the first shot, hitting mattingly in the leg. in a matter of seconds, three officers r returned fire. >> 15 minutes later, breonna was dead. >> breonna taylor's family and supporter were expecting stronger charges against the officer, manslaughter. the attorney ben crump calling it outrageous. the attorney general urged the public fiat had to politicize the decision. >> there will be celebrities, influencers and activists who have never lived in kentucky who will try to tell us how we feel, suggesting they understand the facts, but they don't. >> reporter: but on the streets

of louisville, the national guard has been called in to prepare for the protests, as the mayor announcing a three-night long curfew, beginning at 9:00 p.m. >> we must plan for the potential for large gatherings. i urge everyone to commit once again to a peaceful lawful response. >> and erin, as you said, the curfew, two hours away now, less than two hours, and police here, as i said earlier, have given indications that they're going to move in and strictly enforce this curfew. this is something that is certainly on the minds of many of the people you see here who have given indications they're going to march. the issue is there's a curfew here starting at 9:00. we'll be here. we'll see what happens. tension here remains high and the big thing is going to be whether or not the police move in to try and enforce the curfew. >> shimon, thank you very much. and we're going to continue to watch here what happens over the next few moments. "outfront" now, the president

and ceo of the louisville urban league, criminal defense general joey jackson. i want to start with you. you have been speaking out about breonna taylor for months, and today no officers charged directly in her deadly shooting. were you shocked? how disappointed are you? >> i am -- i am profoundly disappointed. unfortunately, i cannot say that i am shocked because i am a black woman in america and i know that our lives have not had much value in this country. i did expect more from my city, and i am mad at myself for building my hopes up and keeping this community hopeful. but it is what it is, and these people marching in the streets, my god, they have a right to their rage. we all do. this is very, very disappointing

day for all of us in louisville, kentucky, and across this country. >> so, joey, the charges th, th ones that there were, were for only one officer, former officer, brett hankison, charged with wanton endangerment for putting the lives of other neighbors at risk when he opened fire, not in relation to shooting breonna taylor or her boyfriend. when you look at the evidence in the case, as the attorney general is telling everybody to do, do you think the charges and lack thereof make sense? >> so, erin, i'm troubled and i'm concerned. and with respect to the attorney general who says that there will be people outside of kentucky who have opinions, yes, people outside of kentucky do have opinions. we have a country that has opinions, and that opinion focuses on accountability. so, let's talk about that briefly. we're talking about a grand jury. what's the significance of that? a grand jury, erin, doesn't determine proof of guilt beyond

a reasonable doubt. a grand jury assesses the evidence and establishes whether there's reasonable cause to believe there was a crime and that the officers in question committed it. that gives you a lot of leeway with respect as a grand jury to what you ultimately conclude, and you don't have to, by the way, be unanimous. why is all this relevant? we have often said that a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich. it depends what information they have. and there's contradictory evidence and information. what i'm concerned about is how the case was presented. what did they hear? what information were they given such that they drew the conclusion? so, yes, it's very concerning. i don't live in kentucky, right, the attorney general, but the person outside having evaluated, followed and viewed the evidence, i am concerned with respect to the conclusions the grand jury reached and i want to know what information they were given such that they reach the conclusion rendered we all heard today. >> i think it's really crucial you lay that out because i think a lot of people may not always

realize what information they had, right? she kept going in and a lot to do what what you're going to conclude going out. we know taylor's boyfriend fired first and he says he and breonna were both afraid and the police never identified themselves, which is core to the reason for the limited charges. here's the kentucky attorney general on this specific issue of a no-knock warrant again. >> they did knock and announce. the important point here is that information was corroborated by another witness, who was in close proximity to apartment four, who corroborated that information, and said there was a knocking and announcing by the officers. >> [ inaudible question ] >> the witness was a civilian. >> okay. drew, this is crucial to the whole thing. and you spoke to multiple witness, including a woman who was just inches away who backed up taylor's boyfriend saying

police did not identify themselves. when you heard this today from the attorney general, were you surprised? >> no, but it goes to joey's point, which is what was presented to the grand jury? we know that there was somebody in that apartment complex -- it's a very tight corridor with four apartments up, four apartments down. the doors are very close to each other. we know that one person did poke his head out to see what was happening. if that person was up at 12:40, heard something outside, poked his head out and then heard it was the police, that's a different set of facts than if you're inside an apartment like kenneth walker and breonna taylor lying in bed dozing off to sleep and you don't hear anything. the witnesses i talked to, none of them heard police. two of them were woken up by gunfire. one teenage girl says she woke up and thought it was a domestic

fight. all she heard was shouting. none of them heard the words, "police, open up." >> this is crucial to the issue of charges. joey, when i mentioned this shot from taylor's boyfriend, it was one shot and he says he aimed low, which by the way this appears to be true because the officer she shot was shot in the leg. so, he has one shot at the leg. the three officers in return fire a total of 32 shots, 22 from the officers who did not get charged. the attorney general today says the use of oforce was justified by those two officers not charged, and the former police commissioner for philadelphia, charles ramsey just weighed. in. he said it's a tragedy plain and simple but they were justified in returning fire in my opinion. nobody had any of this information that we're discussing now. what do you think? >> respect mr. ramsey greatly. he has done a great service to our country and his community. here's what i think. what i think, there comes a

point in time where force is excessive. what i think is in order to get to the issue of criminality you don't have to reach a conclusion of grand jury that someone acted intentionally. at what point does my conduct become so unreasonable that it transcends the training of what could be deemed criminality. was there any negligence at all in what the officers with r doing with firing 30 shots? was there recklessness with response to their conduct? these are things that have to be measured. final point, we could debate justification all day and all night. at the end of the day, that's a injury determination, not a grand jury determination. a jury determination. i think people are upset because of the short circuiting of the process. if you feel something happened, you can guide them accordingly, if you don't feel something happened, you can guide them

accordingly. grand jury indict and a trial jury makes the ultimate conclusion. and the fact a jury will not make that decision is very troubling. >> drew, was there anything that stood out that surprised you by what the attorney general said today in his defense of this decision? >> not in defense of his decision. based on the facts he presented, i can see how he reasonably believes the grand jury was correct in its decision making. but the big, big hole in all of this is why those officers were at that door in the first place. it was completely shotty police work, terrible intelligence. copy and pasted search warrants. and let's go back all the way to the beginning. the actual target of this whole operation was a petty street drug dealer under surveillance that could have been arrested at any time for the months they had him being surveilled in advance, and none of the surveillance

implicated directly breonna taylor. so, why did they go to this single woman they thought was in that apartment alone at 12:40 at night with a battering ram. that part of it makes no sense. the officers who were there were ordered to do that, okay? so, you have to take them away from the decision making, which i think is really the criminal aspect of this. >> and that is why, i believe, you see all these people out on the streets because of exactly what you point out and what you're nodding to. thank you so much. >> can i say something else? this is frustrating. >> go ahead quickly. >> i just want to tell you the grand jury process did not work for kenneth walker in the same way it worked for the police officers and that's not another reason people are in the street. they recognize the difference in justice, who you are, where you are, and what you have access to. there are so many places along

the way in this case where black people, where breonna taylor, kenneth walker did not get justice and we still don't have it. >> all right. thank you. i appreciate your time, all of you. and next our breaking news coverage of breonna taylor continues. these are live pictures -- this is brooklyn that you're looking at right now. civil rights leader warning protesters that any violence, though, will only help trump. congresswoman sheila jackson lee is here. plus dr. anthony fauci takes on senator rand paul's wild claims about coronavirus. >> this happens with senator rand all the time. you are not listening to what the director of the cdc said. plus the president not committing to providing a peaceful transition of power if he loses the election. ...do your sneezes turn heads? try zyrtec... ...it starts working hard at hour one... and works twice as hard when you take it again the next day.

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officers related to bothering others, endangering others in the apartment complex. what is your reaction? >> thank you for having me. my plea is to have peaceful protests, non-violent protests. i understand what the protesters are crying out for, and that's simple justice. what happened today is a great injustice. we understand the scales of justice. we understand the right to be innocent until proven guilty. in the instance of this meager zie indictment, if you will, this reckless endangerment, the facts were not put before the grand jury as extensive as they were. there are too many unanswered questions. and in actuality, this should have had the opportunity for a jury, for a trial to occur so that all these witnesses who have not been heard from or have a different story from what has been represented, they need to be heard.

they needed to be heard. so, my point with this is that i think the attorney general did not put a full presentation before the grand jury. where are the witnesses who said they did not hear any announcement that it was police? what about the individuals that were in the upstairs apartment? were they heard? what about the fact that she was shot eight times or she was laying wounded in her apartment and no one was seen rendering her aid? yes, someone shot inside the window, but the question of self-defense is whether or not breonna taylor was the one that was providing any threat. she was not. and of course the final point, i would say, is enough is enough with no-knock drug warrants. they is are to cease. they should cease locally. we're trying to end them with the george floyd justice and policing act. but i am empathetic to what is going on. i want justice.

i want everybody to be heard. i want a trial to be had. and if it is not going to be had in the state of kentucky, then i argue that the right kind of justice department would intervene right now to begin a civil rights investigation of breonna's life, whether or not her civil rights were violated. and i hope the fbi can do an extensive ballistics investigation to find out where those shots went and whether or not these shots were warranted. >> so, the president was just asked about the announcement, and instead of giving his own answer, congresswoman, he read from the kentucky attorney general daniel cameron's statement. and earlier he did respond in this way. let me play it for you. >> i love the black community, and i've done more for the black community than any other president. and i say with a possible exception of abraham lincoln, and i mean that, with opportunity zones and with criminal justice reform, with prison reform, with what we've

done for historically black universities, colleges, schools, what we've done -- nobody's done more. abraham lincoln, let's give him the nod, but beyond that, nobody's done more. >> so, you hear that. do you think that message will resonate with black voters? >> well, black voters are enormously astute and they're also respectful, they're energized and nthey're energeti. and they understand they have to vote in this election because it is life or death. it is interesting to recognize that all presidents are human with all kinds of frailties. so, president lincoln had his. but whenever you see a modern day president begin to compare himself or herself to abraham lincoln, you begin to start seeing insincerity and of course lack of truth.

so, we don't hear anything that moves us to believing that he has done more for black people. and when you call us black people in america, it almost reminds us of the moment of bondage that we are his people and he's done something for us. when you do something for african-americans, the descendants of enslaved americans, you do something for america. his efforts on criminal justice reform have gone flat because they have not funded the federal bureau of prisons to be able to see it implemented. members of congress wrote that legislation. they did an excellent job. they had excellent good intentions. but we don't see the impact of it under this administration. and then i would say for the historically black colleges, i happen to have a number of them in the state of texas. i can say to you that some of them are still financially suffering. they're suffering with covid-19. he is not seen fit to pass the

h.e.r.o.e.s. act which has a lot of money for colleges and primary/secondary schools. i think that falls short. what we want to know is how sincere are you in the criminal justice arena which is the pain african-americans are feeling. they're feeling it because they can have a role call. you know, erin, you've been reporting about tamir rice or walter scott or eric garner or mr. rashad in atlanta who wanted to go home to see his daughter's birthd birthday party, my constituent, george floyd, and of course elijah in colorado and jacob blake. these are just recent individua individuals, and there are many others. i think our community is a fair community. and really there's everyone -- there are suburban moms protesting. there are people of all backgrounds protesting. we want simple justice. this was not, and this should have gone to a trial with the indictment of all three.

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breaking news, president trump accusing the fda of playing politics, saying he may overrule the fda when it comes to their stricter guidelines for a coronavirus vaccine approval. >> it sounded extremely political. why would they do this when we come back with these great

results. and i think you'll have those great results. why would we be delaying it. but we're going to look at it. we're going to take a look at it. ultimately the white house has to approve it. >> as the president was speaking, you can see the original members of his task force were not there. dr. anthony fauci, not there. dr. deborah birx, nought there. the person that was there was dr. scott atlas, the president's new task force member. and atlas' growing influence in the white house is why one of the nation's top experts has just about had enough. a source telling cnn that dr. debra birk has been telling friends and colleagues she's not sure how long she can keep serving on the task force. it is a big deal this is happening now because birx has tolerated a lot from the president. she stayed on even after this now infamous moment.

>> then i see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute, and is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning. >> birx was visible awkward and upset in that moment. she had to watch all of us replay it again and again and again. she said nothing to trump publicly and faced criticism for it. she did later talk to him about it. >> i made it clear and he understood that it was not as a treatment. >> but she was quiet at that crucial moment and didn't humiliate him. and there were other times though she did go out and publicly correct trump. >> we've had tremendous response to the hydroxy -- what do you have to lose? take it. >> there's not evidence it

improves those patients' outcomes. >> she took him on then, then trump tried to humiliate trump, calling her pathetic. birx tells friends she feels sidelines thanks to the addition of scott atlas to the task force. to be telling people he is a bad influence on the president and that the president found somebody who matches what he wants to believe, which is a pretty scary thing. for example, like when it comes to the importance of masks. atlas defends the president for holding rally, where very few people wear masks and they don't socially distance. here he is explaining that as a 15-year stanford medical professional and a radiologist on this program. >> the president sets the policy, and i have agreed with his policy, which is wear masks when you cannot socially distance. >> but they're not doing that

there. >> but we don't put them in prison for not wearing a mask. i'm sorry. i don't think he's going to be willing to do that. >> but he shouldn't be holding a rally with them there. the bottom line is you do not think he needs to lead by example or stop holding these rallies, which go against his own policy? you think that is okay? >> i think the president does lead by example. i think he articulates the policy. i think he treats people like adults. i think he uses common sense. and i'm completely comfortable with the president's policy. >> clearly birx not comfortable with exchanges like that. i mean, just to remind everybody, it's this policy that we are talking about. this is a tweet from the president last night, late in the wee hours of the morning, thousands of people packed together, obviously not socially distanced and very few wearing masks. it appears that all of this is perhaps the bridge too far for dr. deborah birx.

i want to start with the latest news that the president is threatening to overrule the fda coming out with what they say could be much stronger and stringent guidelines for a vaccine approval. he's saying he can overrule them. can he? >> reporter: that's a great question. we reached out to the fda asking whether or not he does have the authority over that. they said they were going to decline to comment, pass it back to the white house. so, it's not clear where that's going to go. what the president is saying is this could interfere with the timeline of getting a vaccine by election day, something he has been teasing time and time again at these rallies. what the fda is considering is making it tougherer to get a vaccine approved. what they're making tougher would be the timeline of the approval, which based on what we're hearing so far from the discussions happening inside the campaign, it would not happen

close to election day, closer to thanksgiving or something further than that. what they're considering is after some of these drug companies give the second dose of the vaccine trial to these candidates they would have to wait until two months to get an emergency use authorization. another consideration is only making them wait until they've given half the vaccine for the trial participants, then they have to wait two months before they can get the emergency use authorization. that means there would not be a vaccine by election day. the president is claiming he would have to approve any changes like that. he doesn't understand why they would want to make it longer. we should note this comes as the fda commissioner was on capitol hill today saying he would promise there would be tough vetting procedures when it comes to a vaccine, erin. >> kaitlan, thank you from the white house tonight. "outfront" now, dana bash and dr. jonathan reiner, advised the white house medical team under president george w. bush. dr. reiner, what do you make of the president saying that

basically a threat, essentially, that he has to approve any new fda rules that would push the -- if the fda has tough rules, that's going to push vaccine approval beyond election day, he has the ability to overrule them? >> shocking. when have you ever heard a president declare that he knows about vaccine science or vaccine safety than the professionals, the career professionals at the fda, absolutely shocking. if the white house were to do that, physicians all over the country would advise their patients not to take the vaccine for fear of safety. look, from the very outset, the president decided to manage the message rather than manage the pandemic. and as we move closer to the election, he is betting the farm on a vaccine. he's betting that a vaccine will save his presidency. whether it's ready or not, he needs a vaccine. what we need more than ever are

the professionals. we need to tee tony fauci. we need to see dr. birx. we need to see dr. redfield. we need all of the professionals. we need stephen hahn. we need everyone standing up in front of the press, assuring the public that the vaccine will only be released when it is safe. >> and dana tonight, when we saw the president speaking about these issues, we did not see dr. fauci or dr. birx or dr. redfield. we only saw dr. atlas. i played a clip of his point of view on this. it seems hugely significant that dr. birx is at this moment questioning whether she can keep doing this, right? and i don't say this in any pejorative way, but she handled bleach privately. she took him on hydroxychloroquine publicly but graciously. but dr. scott atlas and how he's speaking is something that could be a bridge too far. >> yeah, and it seems from our

colleague jim acosta's reporting and from my experience, i interviewed dr. birx a month ago, and it was during that interview that she said that covid-19 is now widespread and it was that remark that triggered a very public rebuke from the president, rebuking her for gaining to tell the truth. >> calling her pathetic. >> called her pathetic, exactly. so, it seems as though, from jim's reporting, that since then her influence is waning. you kind of saw her pained at so many of those press conferences, but, you know, forgive me, but sucking it up because she felt like she was having influence behind the scenes, despite what the president was saying in public. and that seems to have changed dramatically now that dr. atlas is there, not just in public but in private and doesn't seem to be somebody who she has a lot of respect for or others do too. >> obviously he's the subject of

a letter from stanford for calling him out for points of view he has expressed. dr. reiner, dr. fauci was not there tonight as well, and he appeared to be at his wit's end at a hearing on capitol hill. i want to play part of that exchange for you. >> you've been a been fan of cuomo and the shutdown in new york, you've lauded new york for their policy. new york had the highest death rate in the world. how could we possibly be jumping up and down saying governor cuomo did a great job. he had the worst rate in the world. >> you misconstrued that and did that repetitively in the past. they got hit very badly. they made some mistakes. right now, if you look at the things that are going on right now, the things that are going on in new york to get their test positivity 1% or less is because they are looking at the gui guidelines that we have put together from the task force of the four or five things of

masks, social distancing, outdoors more than indoors, avoiding crowds and washing hands. >> or they've developed enough community immunity that they're no longer having the pandemic because they have enough immunity in new york city to stop -- >> i challenge that senator because -- >> i'm afraid -- >> please, sir, i would like to do this because this happens with senator rand all the time. you are not listening to what the director of the cdc said that in new york it's about 22 kt approximate. if you believe 22% is herd immunity, i believe you're alone in that. >> that went on, dr. reiner. rand paul is an eye doctor and he had coronavirus. going after dr. fauci. dr. fauci, i mean, he laid that down. he was not taking it. >> right. and this is why you don't have the administration put him forward because he's from my hometown. he's from brooklyn, and he tells

it like it is. there was only one person in that conversation who knows anything about virology or immunology, and that sadly, was not senator paul. we need to hear more from dr. fauci. we need to hear the good and we need to hear the bad. and i don't think the public will accept a vaccine unless our scientists tell us that it's safe. i think the president is barking up the wrong tree. >> all right. thank you both very much. i appreciate it. and next, president trump refusing to commit to providing a peaceful transition of power if he loses the election. >> we're going to have to see what happens. you know that. i've been complaining very strongly about the ballots and the ballots are a disaster. plus amy coney barrett, trump's top choice to replace ruth bader ginsburg said this in 2016. >> we're talking about justice scalia, the staunchest conservative on the court, and we're talking about him being

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breaking news, president trump not committing to a peaceful transition of power after the election if he loses. let me play for you what he just said. >> there's been rioting in many cities across this country. your so-called red and blue states. will you commit to making sure there is a peaceful transferal of power after the election? >> we're going to have to see what happens. you know that. i've been complaining very strongly about the ballots and the balance lots are a disaster. there won't be a transfer. there will be a continuation. >> the president is referring to are apparently mail-in ballots, which are going to be a big part of this election. that's just the fact, right? they are going to be a part of it. they're not going to go away and of course there has been no evidence that they have had any vulnerability to fraud. "outfront" now, chuck schumer. i appreciate your time senator.

the question from the reporter was will you commit to making sure there's a peaceful transferal of power after the election. trump answers we're going to have to see what happens, then continues to raise his unfounded fears on ballots. your response. >> erin, president trump is not a dictator, and the american people will not allow him to be one. this man has no, no honesty, honor, values or faith in the american system. he doesn't deserve to be president. and hopefully he will learn his lesson. >> chairman of the joint chiefs, general mark milley said in september he doesn't see the military playing a role if there is a dispute of the election outcome. we're talking about scenarios none of us can envision. this is all stuff we thought happened in distant american history. >> yeah, of course. >> how do you see this playing out? >> well, the way i see it playing out is the american people are wedded to democracy.

we believe in democracy. and the kind of thing trump is talking about just will not happen. one way or another, there will be a peaceful transition of power, and president trump will not get his wish. one thing i say to the american people vote, vote early, and the best way to is defeat him in a landslide and that's what i hope will happen. it certainly should given the kinds of things he said. >> of course, this is happening around the context of a supreme court nomination, the most important in a generation. an unearthed video we found senator from 2016 shows professor amy coney barrett at the time, now an appeals court judge obviously and current favorite to be the president supreme court pick. she is one of the appointments for the supreme court that could flip the balance of power. president obama was poised to choose a replacement for scalia.

here is what she said. >> we're talking about justice school l scalia and replaced by someone who can dramatically flip the balance of power in the court. it not a lateral move. >> so senator, she's talking about a flag, raising a flag it seems on making an appointment like this in an election year. so you know, that's what would happen with her appointment. what do you say to that? >> i'm not going to comment on any perspective nominee for judge before they are nominated. let me say this about the issue. mitch mcconnell defiled the senate. he's about to destroy the senate because it was he who within a few hours after justice scalia's death in february before election year said we ought to wade for an election. and now all of a sudden with only 40 days, 45 days before an election with people already casting their ballots he does 180 degree bout face?

the american people are wise to it. this is going to hurt him. it going to hurt his party. it going to hurt the people who defend this total, total hypocrisy, which is the only word you can use to describe it. the bottom line is very simple. this court contest, erin, means a huge thing to average americans. it can determine their future health care. whether the 130 million americans who have protections from insurance companies knocking them off for preexisting conditions will continue that protection by the tens of millions of senior citizens will get medicaid will get their prices increased. whether millions of people will lose their insurance and in that case is before the supreme court two weeks after the election but there are other shieissues too. there are women's rights, the right to choose.

roe v wade could be undone. the american people know this. the american people know what mcconnell and his hard right friends are doing. they are trying to take over a court and have it do things that the american people apour. >> i'm not going to ask you to opine on her possible selection because i know you won't do that but about the content of what she says here. here she's talking about whether a president should be able to nominate a justice in an election year and here is what he said. >> shouldn't be a surprise that the senate is willing to push a president's nominees through in an election year when they share the same political affiliation. the president has to power to nominate and the senate has the power to act or not and i don't think either one of them can claim there is a rule governing one way or the other. >> again, i'm not going to comment an amy, erin. >> i know you're not going to comment on her but what about the point she makes? the president has the power to nominate and the senate has the

power to act or not? >> it's the opposite of what was done in 2016 and it will mean that the republicans have not stolen one but two supreme court justices using abject power, no morality, no honor, no honesty. the american people won't stand for it. all the polling data shows the american people are wise to this and i believe this is going to make the stature of mitch mcconnell lower and i believe anyone that supports this kind of philosophy is not going to be well-regarded by the american people. >> one final question, have you talked to senator romney about his feelings on this and what he would do in a lame duck personally at all? >> no, i have not. >> all right. senator, appreciate your time as always. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. great to be on your show, as usual. >> next, more on breaking news and live pictures out of washington and more people taking to the streets after the breonna taylor grand jury decision. nts,... ...this one's for you.

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we're back with breaking news. a large protest in washington d.c. and other cities across the

country after no officers were charged directly with the shooting death of breonna taylor in kentucky. alex marquardt is in washington. so alex, as we're starting to see crowds gather here, a darkness descending. what are you seeing where you are? >> reporter: that's right, erin. the nation's capital now joining this growing list of american cities where we're seeing marchs in response to the news about the lack of direct charges in the killing of breonna taylor. this march, this peaceful march, i should emphasize has just arrived in front of the white house. they started, they made a number of symbolic stops starting at the department of justice and then heading, stopping again -- i'm going to lower my voice in respect for the crowd here and then making their way here to what is black lives matter plaza. erin, our viewers so many people watching will remember that this was the site of so many protests over the summer in the wake of the killing of george floyd. that also of course was --

>> shut up. it's a moment of silence. >> reporter: this is black lives matter plaza. this is, erin, you remember the site that was cleared out so violently on june 1st as the president made his way across lafayette square for that photo op at st. john's church. this is now once again the site of black lives matter protests in the wake of this news that there will be no charges against those three police officers in the killing of breonna taylor. erin? >> and, you know, alex, is there a curfew or what is the neck st next step for the crowd as you understand? >> reporter: well, as i mentioned, it is a peaceful and very quiet march right now. i spoke with the mayor's offi r officoffice office earlier. there was no expectation for large crowds tonight. this street, eighth street has been closed off but there is no

curfew. so it remains to be seen where this march will go from here but it is peaceful and as the woman up there said, they will likely stay in the streets until they get justice. erin? >> thank you very much. alex, appreciate it as we watch this across the country tonight. thank you for joining us. anderson starts now. good evening. we're seeing calls for justice and relatively peaceful demonstrations at this moment in louisville where the curfew goes into effect one hour from now as thou authorities prepare for the possibility of fallout after a grand jury's decision to charge no one directly for the death of breonna taylor, the 26-year-old emt killed by police in march. the one officer was charged for wanton endangerment has posted bond and been released from jail. as we look at these pictures of protests through the streets, we'll keep them up and go to jason carroll in lisll