they? the hudson institute's dr. michael pillsbury on what president trump does next with china. please join us. have a great evening. see you tomorrow. good night from sussex. ♪. elizabeth: america heading into a new week to neighborhoods in ruins, urban streets on lockdown and shaken confidence amid unrelenting raw emotion over police killings of black people. president trump getting backlash for unloading on the nation's governors. caught on them weak to dominate the violent rioters. he is promising more federal assets will be deployed. he will move to label antifa a terrorist organization. this after a weekend of historic unrest. people were killed. tens of thousands took to the streets. rioting and looting. protests spread like wildfire from coast to coast. 75 cities saw unrest.

4400 arrested for looting and rioting. at least 25 discalled in the national guard and imposed curfews which were quickly broken. tonight we welcome fox news political analyst, gianno caldwell on a nation in pain, on healing and brother of george floyd, he was killed in police custody. george floyd's brother says looting and rioting has to stop. they are attacking businesses owned by minorities, and it is not the way. george floyd would not accept that. george floyd's family says findings of independent autopsy, determining george floyd died of asphyxiation. we have senator chuck grassley, on who was behind on what senator ron johnson called, leaks to the national media that

threatened the national security. ken starr on reaction pouring, in declassified transcript twine michael flynn and russian ambassador and the fbi and obama administration had no legal basis to interview and go after michael flynn and to continue with the trump russia probe, now taking serious hits to its validity and credibility. also this, attorney general rod rosenstein is preparing for a senate grilling on wednesday. thanks for joining us. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: welcome to the show. you're watching the fox business network. let's get right to hillary vaughn with more from washington with the latest what is going on there. hillary? reporter: hi, liz. we're steps away from the white house and we're under an hour away from curfew here in washington, d.c., but there are

still hundreds of protesters, peacefully demonstrating in front of a line of u.s. park police, decked out in riot gear. these protesters are demanding justice for george floyd, and calling for the arrest of the other three officers involved in floyd's death. one minneapolis police officer who has been arrested so far, derek show chavin has been transferred to a maximum security facility. floyd's family said he suffered from asphyxiation from the his knee on floyd's neck and back. >> all the men and women, that people are not calling them up. you have to dominate. if you don't dominate they're wasting your time. you will look like a bunch of of

jerks. you have to dominate. you have to dominate and you have to arrest people and you have to try people. they have to go to jail for long periods of time. reporter: so far 4400 people around the country have been arrested for being involved in protests that turned violent around the country. when things got dark, the protests got dangerous. buildings peppered with profanity. windows smashed, shops gutted, people poured in, ripping things off shelves and stealing as much as they could carry away. in d.c., we saw cars and police vehicles go up in flames before the curfew tonight. businesses applied plywood to board up windows. one thing notable on the ground. the curfew last night was 11:00 p.m. tonight it is 7:00 p.m. they're clearly trying to clear the streets before things get dark. liz? elizabeth: hillary, thank you so much for your reporting.

we have breaking news. the president will speak at 6:i5 just about 11 minutes time. we will take it live. fox news analyst gianno caldwell. thanks for joining us again. when you saw the shocks scenes from this weekend, what was your reaction? >> this is unbelievely tragic time in our country's history. this is something all people will remember from decades to come and my own city of chicago, the black community is completely being destroyed with the looting, with those who are rioting. this is not in george floyd's honor. this is not in his memory. these are nefarious actors with criminal inten there is a lot to be said about the experiences that the african-americans have had in this country. a lot have been disenfranchised.

there have been racial injustices up and down, whether in the judicial system, criminal justice system. we can go on and on and talk about that. what people are doing now is not the way to handle it. we should be working with our elected officials, drafting legislation for accountability for police officers from the white house on down. people are literally, literally defecating on the memory of george floyd. elizabeth: you know approximately 17,000 national guard soldiers and airmen now activated in 23 states and d.c. police have responded over the weekend with rubber lull bets bullets including in the nation's capital. dozens of police officers injured. police officers, support over protesters and killing of george i want your reaction to this, george floyd's younger brother

terrance is condemning the looting and the rioting. he is basically saying the pain and anguish for his brother's death belongs to goard floyd's family, not to to minnesota and country not the rioters. >> do something positive to make a change another way. we've been down this road already. we've been down this road already. he would want, he would want us to seek justice the way we are, the way we're trying to do but show another way. show another way. the anger, ripping up, damaging your hometown is not the way he want. elizabeth: you know, gianno, hundreds of small businesses, many of them minority-owned, owned by minorities were attacked. they're really upset. like you said, your hometown of chicago had the most violent weekend so far this past

weekend. nearly 82 shot, 27 fatally, gianno. 27 of them are dead. >> he is absolutely correct. the fact individuals take this opportunity. i know what is going on. a lot of people are jobless but that is no excuse for what we're seeing. there needs to be as president trump said, law and order. i understand the page. i understand the frustration. i even posted on social media, if you, if support the rioters and those who are looting, unfollow me. i got tremendous amount of comments on twitter and instagram where people were really divided. it felt like for some african-americans, i want to emphasize, that, some, if you didn't support the looting and rioting, then you didn't support the entire movement which is ridiculous. i couldn't believe what i was seeing from some people, hey, i'm unfollowing you, because you

don't support the memory of george floyd. that made no sense to me. at this particular point i'm so thankful of the family of george floyd is talking sense in this moment and also highlighting the true memory, that george floyd would want, is to peacefully protest and actually see some change and in the form of legislation as we move forward. elizabeth: gianno, i would like, gianno, i would like your reaction, let's listen to state and local leaders including the mayors of atlanta and denver and the former positive h north carolina on what happened this weekend? >> i will say it was clear to me, also hearing from our local community leaders that many of the people that were involved in the criminal conduct last night were not not known minneapolitans the many people involved last night were not recognized from people here in the city. >> what i see happening on the

streets of atlanta is not atlanta. this is not a protest. this is not in the spirit of martin luther king, jr. this is chaos. a protest has purpose. when dr. king was assassinated we didn't do this to our city. if you care about this city, then go home. so when you burn down this city, you are burning down our community. >> what does this mindless destruction achieve? what justice is served by breaking windows at the library or city hall or the state capitol or the state supreme court building or on private businesses in downtown denver just beginning to come back to life? >> you have a small group of violent people, domestic terrorists, who follow the concept of the art of war. they will hit-and-run. they will break windows. they will set fires. then they will run.

elizabeth: okay. let's, want to ask the team in the booth, team, show video of the dallas small businessman who was knock the almost unconscious, nearly killed. also the woman in rochester, new york, beaten about the head by looters with a wooden plank. gianno, an officer in jacksonville, florida, hospitalized after being slashed in the neck. two cops in harrisburg, pennsylvania, hospitalized, hit with bricks. a woman now charged with four counts of murder, attempted murder, attempted murder. she planned to throw a molotov cocktail at cops in brooklyn. this is getting really dangerous. people are getting killed, gianno. >> why the national guard, important for them to step in. i have a short point here. mlk, martin luther king was murdered, there were protests and riots in the city of chicago. buildings were burnt down. 60 years later, those lots where the buildings stood are still say can't in lot of cases.

this is what we have, people that are reckless and criminal intent, not about the memory of george floyd, police brutality, they leave the places vacant and no jobs or for individuals in the community with places to go. elizabeth: riot something happening. 40 million are out of work. u.s. deaths from covid-19 hit nearly 105,000. listen to attorney general barr saying rioters and looters will be brought to justice. watch this. >> in many cases it appears the violence is planned, organized and driven by by anarchists and extremist groups, left-wing extremist groups, using antifa-like tactics many of whom who travel from outside of the state to promote violence of the department of justice including the fbi, the u.s. marshals, the atf, the dea, and our 93 united

states u.s. attorneys offices around the country are supporting these local efforts. we'll continue to support them and take all action necessary to enforce federal law. in that regard, it is a federal crime to cross state lines or to use interstate facilities to be incite or participate in violent rioting and we will enforce those laws. elizabeth: you know, gianno, the doj is also investigating what is going on with the police abuse. we know that there are very, that there is a large number of police officers who don't agree with what's been going on. >> right. elizabeth: they're upset with the killing of george floyd. we know now nbc is reporting hundreds of times that police officers in minneapolis used neck restraints.

44 people were rendered unconscious by that. justice department is looking into this. the mayor of st. paal said this didn't start with the killing of george floyd. it has been going on for years. now with iphone cameras americans are getting video recordings what is happening to african-americans. your final word before we go to break. >> absolutely. why it is important with the police decree with doj puts the police department the under reviews. last point on antifa be as ag barr was mentioning, if you see video, they're going around in different communities handing out bricks to african-americans to do damage in a lot of cases or white counterparts in antifa. they are trying it usurp the memory of george floyd and we can't have that. elizabeth: gianno caldwell, thank you so much for your perspective. we love having you on. we are awaiting on president trump. the breaking news is the president will speak shortly. we're going to come out of the break if he starts to speak. we'll bring it to you live.

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♪. elizabeth: okay. the president is now expected to speak at 6:30. we will bring it to you live. now this, senator ron johnson, chair of homeland security and government affairs told our maria bartiromo that there were dozens of leaks to 18 different media outlets in the early days of the trump administration that did threaten national security.

senator johnson said the leaks were quote, completely out of control. joining us in a fox business exclusive, let's welcome back to the show republican senator from iowa senator chuck grassley. senator grassley, thank you so much for coming back on, sir. who in the obama administration, do you think was doing the leaking? >> well, we don't know for sure but it looks like it was pretty political when you have high caliber people like the president, the vice president, the national security advisor and other people that are close to the president being involved in this and some of those top people also being involved in demasking. you have got to come to the conclusion that there was a political motivation behind it as opposed to just the national security motivation. and besides, the fbi knew then what we now know three years later, that there was no reason

to interview flynn. elizabeth: you know, senator johnson said there were 125 leaks in the first 126 days and 62 of them, about half of them threatened national security. that there were leaks to the media. so, sir, correct me, correct us if we're wrong but they didn't have a case to go after flynn. the trump russia steele dossier all that was falling apart. james comey testified when the obama administration had kicked out dozens of russian diplomats, that the obama administration was surprised that russia did not retaliate, because remember michael flynn on the phone call with the russian ambassador advised don't do at this time for sat escalation -- tilt for at that time escalation, do reciprocal that did when it started to spiral and undo a lot of masking of american citizens

on the trump campaign s that how you see it? >> well i do see it, i don't need to add much to what you said, just make very clear to your set-up, by the agents to corner and entrap flynn based on antitrump bias and they had to do everything they could to stop him and they were committed to doing that. all of this information that they had from the unmasking, they basically knew that anyway because they had access to the, to the transcripts and you know, in february of 2017, just think of this, grassley and feinstein, in a bipartisan way asked for these transcripts. we don't get them until 3 1/2 years later and, just proves that, that, there is too much overclassification and just

simply proves that, that they wanted to cover up everything because they didn't have a case against flynn. he was treated more ill ways than anybody else could have been, and, somebody ought to pay a price for it. i hope that when durham gets done with his investigations, some of these people are charged elizabeth: so, senator, you think there was a three-year coverup of what really happened which critics are saying a whole lot of nothing on the flynn phone call with the russian ambassador. that you were stonewalled for three years. that there was a coverup because there was no there, there, is that what you're saying? >> absolutely. and remember, this started out in a bipartisan way. feinstein and me writing a letter for the transcripts of the flynn call with the russian ambassador, and, and, we were told that, that, it was

classified, national security. when you read it there is nothing national security. it shouldn't be classified but it was all very embarrassing to the fbi and to the justice department and probably people trying to protect the obama administration because of their involvement in it. and, it just, it is just a sin what happened to flynn. it is just a sin that what happened when you have overclassification. it's a sin that they wanted to get trump. they had to have some excuse to go after him. then we have the mueller investigation. you have the impeachment. he is still in office. and, now we're just finding this all out three years later and it is only because there is a patriotic american by the name of ambassador grenell that came in to head the intelligence and he knew that this was all wrong and overclassification, and it is because of his good-faith effort in believing in

transparency and believing in congressional oversight we got this information or we still wouldn't know all of this stuff. elizabeth: now, it is also, why was joe biden asking to unmask? why was joe biden involved there? do you think president obama had a personal vendetta against michael flynn? he fired him in further fourth. told president trump, don't bring on michael flynn your team. do you think president obama had a personal vendetta against michael flynn? >> i would say personal vendetta against him but not because of something flynn did to obama but because flynn knew what was wrong with the cia and and he was in a position to do something about it. and he knew where the bodies were buried and, it was obama's way of protecting the cia from embarrassing things and probably some reforms that flynn was going to be able to make or make

public. actually flynn couldn't make them public at this point because he wasn't in a position to do it but then working for trump he would have been in a position to do it. so it was, to get flynn to keep covering up the things that need to be reformed in the intelligence community. elizabeth: you know, so, then the question is, why did the fbi and james comey continue to investigate flynn in the absence of any crime or evidence of collusion? i mean the bottom line is the phone call was a foreign policy discussion on behalf of an incoming president. it is of zero counterintelligence interest or any legitimate concern for the fbi here, right? i mean what's your reaction to that? >> well, while we know for sure that comey and other fbi agents said that they didn't think flynn lied, and so this set-up

to have this interview with flynn, if you remember, peter strzok said, keep this investigation over a little bit. keep it open a little bit. so he could go about his things of, leading them to the investigation that flynn was set up for. and in other words, just set up and then, what happened to flynn? ruined him, ruined him financially. extreme legal expenses. how did they prosecute him? get him for lying because they said he was going to prosecute his son. so under all that pressure what do you do? that is how ill-treated flynn has been. elizabeth: senator, if you were to explain this to the american people, can you explain to the american people why this

matters? >> yeah, very easy. if it can happen to flynn. if they can do everything they can to get legally elected president out of office, they can do it to you, elizabeth and or to joe blow or mary smith. and that is why it is important for everybody to know that when your, your constitutional protections are violated and they can be violated with the highest people in the fbi, then, nobody is safe. so the flynn situation, his exoneration, is eventually going to be a lesson to the rest of the world that, that finally, right wins out but everybody is ruined in the process and it shouldn't happen to any other american citizen. elizabeth: senator, former deputy attorney general rod rosenstein is set to testify

before senate judiciary on wednesday. what would you like to see him answer to? >> what i would like to see him answer to me is this. he was in my office. i asked for this information. said he couldn't have it because it was national security. and, and, look at it now. there is nothing national security about it. it's, it is an innocent conversation between a russian ambassador and flynn. the next guy that was going to be national security advisor, and you've got to, keep communication with a lot of other countries, and russia was just one of them. he was doing what any national security advisor ought to be doing to get ready to take over when a new president takes over, to make sure that they got their ducks lined up, they can do regular diplomatic business with

other countries. elizabeth: you know, senator, in your long and stellar career you served our country with integrity and honor. have you ever seen the fbi investigate an incoming nsa over policy differences? have you ever seen the fbi step in and investigate an incoming administration because that incoming administration disagrees with policies from the former administration? have you ever seen that? >> in my 40 years in the united states senate, no. and i hope i never see it again and we have seen it now and they just about got away with it, except for a guy like grenell coming in to be director of intelligence and he knew something was wrong and he was going to let the public know what was wrong and he declassified this stuff, so chuck grassley and johnson could do their job of congressional oversight which is our congressional responsibility.

oversight is supposed to make sure that presidents faithfully execute the laws. with this unmasking of things for political reasons -- for national security reasons is not faithfully executing the laws. elizabeth: senator grassley, thank you so much for joining us sir, we appreciate it. thank you for your service our country. chuck grassley there. let's bring in, we welcome to the show, former independent counsel ken starr. we always love to have you on. we were talking to senator chuck grassley. he gave us the insight and the news. he feels there was a three-year coverup to, by officials in washington, d.c. to cover up what really happened with the michael flynn case because chuck grassley, along with bipartisan push with senator dianne feinstein had asked three years ago for the flynn documents and information, didn't get it.

what's your reaction to that? >> i do think it was an unreasonable failure to disclose. i'm not going so far as to say it was a coverup but i have great respect for senator grassley who everyone knows, a person of total, total integrity. and i think, thank goodness we have these transcripts, liz because read the transcripts. there not only was nothing nefarious, but there was suggestion, oh, thank you so much, general flynn, for helping us in all the collusion that we had during -- absolutely nothing. in fact, general flynn was doing his job which is one of the really ironic cruelties of this whole thing. when you bring in, as i think you need to do, the mueller report to understand the context, how did this call happen? the transcript speaks for itself but why was this that general flynn was reaching out to ambassador kislyak?

because he, general flynn, was asked to by senior advisors to the incoming president in light of what the obama administration had done which is apparently without consulting with the incoming administration, out of the blue, on december 28 of 2016, announcing sanctions. pretty serious sanctions against the russians. one might very well ask, why so long? you blew the whistle back during the campaign, obama administration, but you did absolutely nothing? the incoming administration is stuck with the sanctions. maybe they were appropriate. that can be dedicy matter but why didn't the obama administration have at that sy, decency to inform the incoming trump administration this is what we're about to do? apparently that was just not done. so everyone is scrambling with

the trump administration in waiting. they call, that being senior advisors call the general on vacation. it is december 28th. december 29th, 2016, we celebrated christmas. new year's eve is coming up. please call ambassador kissly lack. what was the principle subject in that conversation? the middle east, trying to build a peaceful solution in the middle east. that was general flynn's job. then the issue of sanctions came up with general flynn saying, essentially, let us look at this. we'll talk about this. don't do more than you have to do and so forth. in other words, general flynn was faithfully carrying out directions which were entirely appropriate, having zero to do with russian collusion but having to do with foreign policy of the united states. back to senator grassley this was grievous injustice.

the entire process against general flynn has been a very grievous injustice of the highest order. i would simply call it a profound abuse of power. i think it is also an abuse of power, certainly of the classification, that we're just now finding out what general flynn did had nothing to do with collusion with the russians at anytime whatsoever. general flynn was an innocent victim of the abuse of power. elizabeth: is it the fbi's role to investigate whether a new administration might go in a different policy direction than the out, then the outgrowing administration? shouldn't that be left up to voters to decide? >> absolutely. it's interference with the on going process of government. and if there was, i don't think there was, but let's just assume that there was concern about general flynn. that he had an ongoing

relationship with the russians. again the proper thing to do for jim comey, someone in the intelligence community, to brief the incoming president or those very close to the incoming president. houston, we have a problem. mr. president-elect, you've got a problem and here's the problem we've identified. they didn't do that either. it was hiding the ball but now we know, general flynn was innocent. there was no there there. we know that also from the january 5th meeting that now, infamous meeting in the white house with president obama, asking comey and the acting attorney general, sally yates to stay behind and that conversation, as recorded later, was very revealing. jim comey, we have nothing disparaging on general flynn. let those words sink in. nothing disparaging on general flynn but there have been a number of phone calls between him and kislyak.

he is doing his job, and apparently some of those phone calls there was just -- they didn't make the connection. out of the five phone calls, as i read the transcripts there were only two substantive conversations. that was it. and it all had to do with foreign policy above all, the foreign policy of the middle east. elizabeth: isis and fighting terrorist there is. let's listen to senator ron johnson on this. let's listen to the senator here. watch. >> there was nothing improper about those conversations at all but what we did learn from the michael flynn trial and sidney powell is the fact that the fbi on january 4th, we're ready to close the case on michael flynn. they're investigating his contacts with turkey and other matters. come to the conclusion there was really nothing to continue the investigation or bring charges. so they will close that out but then apparently word came down from on high, the 7th floor,

james comey's office, let's keep this open. elizabeth: okay. on what basis was then the fbi under james comey interviewing and going after flynn in early 2017? what were these fbi officials trying to achieve by continuing an investigation that ran out of crimes to investigate? were they investigating or trying to create crimes here? because james comey sent a couple of guys over to entrap flynn at the white house. i mean the fbi already had the transcripts. they already knew what flynn said to the russian ambassador. they knew he had done nothing wrong in those phone calls. what was he trying to do at this point in time? >> well it is possible that they were in fact trying to encourage him to dissemble, to deceive, to lie. it appears he did not do that but what we do know is that they behaved improperly. they think the fbi at very high levels on the 7th floor, with andrew mccabe, jim comey

panned peter strzok being part of the interviewing process going about this interview on january 24th with now the national security advisor. think about how business he is, lulling him into thinking it was just a conversation. so ostensibly it would be counterintelligence, right, investigation. we wonder what the russians are up to and maybe you can help us, general but now we know in the fullness of time that the investigation, this was on january 24th, the investigation into general flynn was an expanded then into a criminal investigation as to whether he had violated the logan act. and he engaged in improper diplomatic relationship with the russian and of course he had not, back during those december calls. so it's a comedy of tragic errors. too much after tragedy to take

it anything but a cruel comedy. it is a cruel abuse of power. >> ken, how many other people could be charged with the logan act, people charged with the logan act right now for interfering, for interfering with the president's policy for example, on iran? >> yeah. line them up. get ready. the indictments will flow. the good news is that this sweet land of liberty, guess what, the justice department has never in its history prosecuted anyone under the logan act and the logan act has all kinds of things. thou shall not reach out to a foreign government. excuse me is this a free country or is this communist party of china? is this iran? so i think the law is very questionable, even though it is on the books we do know it is a dead letter because if the law is on the books, if the speed limit is never enforced in essence there is no speed limit. the logan act has never been enforced by the justice department ever, not once. you have to go back to the early part of the 19th century for

two prosecutions brought by u.s. attorneys. never in the history of the justice department. elizabeth: all right. ken starr, come back soon. love having you on. great to see you. >> thank you, elizabeth. elizabeth: we're awaiting the president. he is about to speak at any moment. the declassified transcripts of michael flynn's phone call with the russian ambassador, critics say they now strongly support new investigations by both the justice department and by multiple committees in congress, the house and the senate. what really happened with the botched trump-russia probe. let's talk about it with former trump 2016 deputy campaign manager david bossie. great to have you back on, david. it starts this week with testimony from former deputy attorney general rod rosenstein before a senate judiciary. what do you want to hear from rod rosenstein this this week? >> there is so much to learn from him. i think it is important the american people get to finally hear what was underneath all of

the bad actors that were attacking then candidate trump and president-elect trump. so rod rosenstein knows why those fisa warrants were signed. he is going to have to answer for why he signed the third one. we'll be able to find out from him whether there was any exculpatory evidence they knew about? we'll find out why, if he read, if he read the kislyak phone call with michael flynn because we all now have seen this we know there was nothing to it. this is, to classify that document and wait 3 1/2 years to declassify it is in of itself a criminal act this is a coverup at the highest end. that's why president trump two years ago said, he told us, that two years ago, that behind all of this was barack obama. behind all of this, this started and ends as the oval office with

barack obama and joe biden ordering political, political investigations, using the power of the justice department, using the power of our intelligence services to frame up michael flynn. it is now, just as judge starr was just saying, a tragedy of what they did to mike flynn. you know, i know the general. incredibly well. he is a proud man who served his country incredibly well for, to do what they did to him is criminal and i want all of them, everyone of them held accountable. elizabeth: you know, david, adam schiff, house intelligence chair, democrat, is saying michael flynn could have been blackmailed by the russians. legal eagle says the that russians would have to blackmail

information, that the transcripts of the phone call they had it here in the u.s. government, so the russians couldn't blackmail him. take that on? >> no. first of all congressman schiff is a known liar. why would anyone take anything that adam schiff says seriously. this man has lied continuously since the beginning of this investigation and he knows no bounds and no decency. when facts hit him in the face he still rejects them. it is outrageous. it's eming he embarrassing he ia member congress and embarrassing he is a member of the intelligence committee. elizabeth: senate judiciary committee could authorize this week to authorize subpoenas of former obama administration officials. who do you think will be subpoenaed? >> well, look, i'm hoping brennan, clapper, and comey and mccabe and strzok, page,

baker, all these names we no sew well. those are the people that need to come in and come in right away. elizabeth: okay. we're going to leave it right there, the president is know approaching the podium. he is about to speak to the nation. >> thank you very much. my fellow americans, my first and highest duty as president is to defend our great country and the american people. i swore an oath to uphold the laws of our nation and that is exactly what i will do. all americans were rightly sickened and revolted by the brutal death of george floyd. my administration is fully committed that for george and his family, justice will be served. he will not have died in vain but we cannot allow the righteous cries and peaceful protesters to be drowned out by

an angry mob, the biggest victims of the rioting are peace-loving citizens and in our poorest communities and as their president i will fight to keep them safe. i will fight to protect you. i am your president of law and order and an ally of all peaceful protesters. but in recent days our nation has been gripped by professional anarchists, violent mobs, arsonists, looters, criminals, rioters, antifa and others. a number of state and local governments have failed to take necessary action to safeguard their residents. innocent people have been savagely beaten, like the young man in dallas, texas, who was left dying on the street or the woman in upstate new york viciously attacked by dangerous thugs. small business owners have seen

their dreams utterly destroyed. new york's finest have been hit in the face with bricks. brave nurses who have battled the virus are afraid to leave their homes. a police precinct has been overrun here in the nation's capital. the lincoln memorial and the world war ii memorial have been vandalized. one of our most historic churches was set ablaze. a federal officer in california, an african-american enforcement hero, was shot and killed. these are not acts of peaceful protests. these are acts of domestic terror. the destruction of innocent life and spilling of innocent blood is an offense to humanity and a crime against god. america needs creation, not deinstruction.

cooperation, not contempt, security, not anarchy. healing not hatred, justice, not chaos. this is our mission and we will succeed 100%, we will succeed. our country always wins. that is why i am taking immediate presidential action to stop the violence and restore security and safety in america. i am mobilizing all available federal resources, civilian and military, to stop the rioting and looting, to end the destruction and arson and to protect the rights of law abiding americans including your second amendment rights. therefore, the following measures are going into effect immediately. first, we are ending the riots and lawlessness that has spread throughout our country.

we will end it now. today i have strongly recommended to every governor to deploy the national guard in sufficient numbers that we dominate the streets. mayors and governors, must establish an overwhelming law enforcement presence until the violence has been quelled. if a city or state refuses to take the actions that are necessary to defend the life and property of their residents, then i will deploy the united states military and quickly solve the problem for them. i am also taking swift and decisive action to protect our great capitol, washington, d.c. what happened in this city last night was a total disgrace. as we speak, i am dispatching thousands and thousands of heavily-armed soldiers, military personnel, and law enforcement

officers to stop the rioting, looting, vandalism, assaults, and wanton destruction of property. we are putting everybody on warning, our 7:00 curfew will be strictly enforced. those who threaten innocent life and property will be arrested, detained and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. i want the organizers of this terror to be on notice that you will face severe criminal penalties and lengthy sentences in jail. this includes antifa and others who are leading instigators of this violence. one law and order and that is what it is, one law, we have one beautiful law and once that is restored and and fully restored,

we will help you, we will help your business and help your family. america is founded upon the rule of law. it is the foundation of our prosperity, our freedom, and way of life but where there is no law, there is no opportunity. where there is no justice, there is no liberty. where there is no safety, there is no future. we must never give in to anger or hatred. if malice or violence reigns men none ever us is free. i take these actions today with firm resolve and a true and passionate love for our country. by far our greatest days lie ahead. thank you very much and now i'm going to pay my respect toes a very, very special place. thank you very much.

elizabeth: what the president said, blake, the president is saying he will deploy the u.s. military to the streets of our nation. he is talking about a 7:00 curfew in washington. blake, can you wrap this for us? reporter: hi, there, liz, coming to me. we just heard the president of the united states in the rose garden. by the way the white house had been saying today, a speech like this would not happen. that's what the press secretary kayleigh mcenany said today. clearly things have changed, thinking in the white house have changed. they felt they needed to put the president, the president himself felt he needed to go out in the rose garden to give this six to seven minute speech he said i am your president of law and order. what we saw from the president, two things. first oaf, this warning that he gave to governors privately on a phone call earlier today in the situation room. the president expressed that before the entire nation saying

these governors need to call up the national guard within their state. the white house earlier today would not say exactly how many national guard in total, how many national guard in total in members they felt they needed to be activated to be put on the streets. just to suggest it would be by the thousands. the press secretary earlier today, there is roughly 350,000 national guard members and only 17 thou were activated at this point. the president threatened, i should say, a stern warning to those, to those governors, came out flatly here and said, if you don't put the national guard out there to dominate your streets, if you refuse, i will deploy the u.s. military. the power in which the president is able to do through the insurrection act. something signed into law in 1807, 200 years ago, allows for the president if there is, what we've essentially been seeing in certain spots across the country, to deploy active u.s. military personnel on to the streets across this country and

the president is threatening to do just that if governors do not act as he sees fit. so that is number one. number two as well, within washington, d.c., this territory which the president resides and essentially oversees, he threaten toddies patch military personnel saying it is going to be happening tonight. clearly action from the president, liz. there might be some who look at this speech, what about the message for race relations and what many see as racial injustice and necessary reforms needed in this country? that tonight we didn't necessarily mare from the hear from the president. liz. elizabeth: thanks for wrapping. i appreciate it. welcome back to the show syndicated columnist deroy murdoch. you were listening to what the president said. what is your reaction? >> that work out? >> he heard a couple days ago. i am glad he said that. oval office would be more dramatic setting that is okay. he issued a challenge to our

governors if you don't lead i will. to protect the lives and liberty and property of the citizens the president of the united states will send in the u.s. military to do so. the whole thing started off as the president said with our company sickened and revolted by the needless and barbaric killing of poor george floyd. now it you have antifa and terrorists attacking lincoln memorial. the memorial for the man that emancipated slaves, for god's sake. the world war ii memorial. i saw a nypd band set van by bunch vandals, knock the out windows, wrote graffiti own it. watched it on my block. the wine store is boarding up windows with plywood so they are not attacked and looted like so many places have been. we need decisive and clear and tough action.

with any luck that will be the last night of rioting, last night will be the last night of rioting in this country. elizabeth: we're hearing 17,000 national guard about to be deployed. 82nd airborne is standing at the ready if needed. officials say, yes, stop the rioting. george floyd's brother is saying he does not agree with the looting and rioting. the collective anguish and pain over what happened is, is for the george floyd family to deal with, for minnesota to deal with, not for looters and rioters hell-bent on destruction to exploit. the president is saying, i am going to end the riots and lawlessness now. he will deploy the national guard to quote, dominate the streets. he is saying to antifa. you will face severe criminal penalties and jail time. he is moving to declare antifa a terrorist organization. legal experts are saying giving him pushback on that. saying the law does not allow

him to do that. your take on that? >> look, i think this whole thing completely fell apart when that police precinct was third pre-sent was surrendered to the mob on thursday or friday night that sent a green light to all destructive people across the country. it is a free-for-all. knock yourselves out. rip the place to pieces. that is with they have again doing. not these arrests for people to get arrested for ten minutes and released, got street cred. these people need to be left in a long time and lock people up, people crossing state lines to start mayhem. that is federal violation. the department of justice should hammer them for federal law with this kind of thing. i've seen my beautiful city of new york destroyed to pieces. next monday we're supposed to start opening back up. i don't know if that will happen. we dealt with crisis in in

country, and now we deal with this. this mayhem needs to stop. we need to focus on getting all police officers to be respectful as possible and those were not, need to be isolated if they're criminal, behave like criminals. they have also need to be treated like criminals but first and foremost tonight we have to kind of prevent the mayhem and carnage and arson and destruction that have been running rampant for the last four nights. this is actually awful and first responsibility of government to take care of. elizabeth: deroy, the mayor of after the atlanta said martin luther king would not agree with this. the president is saying that the peaceful non-violent protesters, their message is getting drowned out by rioters and looters attacking innocent people, including poor communities. the president is saying he will stand up to protect them. your reaction to that? >> that is absolutely correct. one of the saddest things happened here, we started off a week ago with people across the political spectrum, left,

middle, and right absolutely appalled, disgusted what they saw with the police officer chauvi. we all agreed on that. we can have a national discussion to make sure that sort of thing never happens and policeman do the right thing. this quickly devolved into something else. instead of discussing that positive effort, we're focused on ending looting and destruction and attack on churches. st. patrick's cathedral here in new york city graffitid. the church of the presidents across lafayette park. this has nothing to do with peace or justice or honoring george floyd's family, none of the above. this mayhem has to stop and it has to stop tonight. elizabeth: you know, deroy, the president just moments ago

saying that state and local leaders have failed, have failed their own people, putting innocent lives at risk. american society governor tim walz during a saturday news conference, said, quote, the absolutely chaos this, is not grieving, this is not making a statement about injustice, that we fully acknowledge needs to be fixed. this is about people exploiting what happened for their own ends. your final word tonight. >> yeah, exploiting things for all the wrong ends. as far as failed leadership, here in new york city mayor de blasio told the police to have a light touch. i'm all for a light touch as long as light touch on both sides. light touch by the police and sucker-punch by antifa and terrorists who have been busy tearing my city to pieces. it has to stop tonight. elizabeth: okay. deroy murdoch. thank you so much for joining us. really appreciate it. >> thank you. >> we'll stay on this developing story. i'm elizabeth macdonald. you have been watching "the evening edit." we really appreciate you joining us. we hope you join us tomorrow

night as we stay on developments here. have a good night. "lou dobbs tonight" -- measure. ♪ ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. a sixth night of protests and demonstrations are already underway across much of the country, still in response to the police killing of george floyd in minneapolis. over the weekend protesters and demonstrators became rioters and looters. demonstrators became vandals. some of the country's police departments became simple observers, their leaders obviously telling them to stand down and stand back instead of standing up for law and order, the protection of life, property, citizens or small business and large. in far too many