the fbi, local police. these four cops have been fired really in record time and we expect that this justice will happen. our prayers to the family, prayers to the people of minneapolis but my heart is troubled. laura ingraham? >> i'm ashley strohmeyer in new york. minneapolis burns in anger, people confront police over the death of george floyd, a black handcuffed a man who died while in police custody. that city is now under a state of emergency. this picture explains why. you are watching a police station burn. set on fire a few hours ago by a mob of demonstrators and flame, smoke, tear gas continues to cover parts of minneapolis but this is the third consecutive night of unrest in the city and now the violence has spread to neighboring st. paul prompting the mayor and the governor of minnesota to ask for help from the national guard. but it's not just minnesota feeling the heat.

throughout thursday, scenes of outrage in new york, phoenix, denver, los angeles, and chicago, all of this triggered by the killing monday of george floyd. four minneapolis police officers who were involved in his arrest have been fired. numerous videos from bystanders show floyd lying on the brown saying he would not breathe. kept his knee for several minutes after the man stopped moving. minneapolis mayor says the firings were the right call. meanwhile the fbi, state law-enforcement authorities, federal prosecutors are investigating the matter but the leaders of many black communities across the country would like to see the arresting officers charged immediately. many are comparing george floyd's death to the case of eric gardner who was an unarmed black man who died in new york city after being placed in a police choke hold. of course, will continue to monitor the situation in minneapolis throughout the morning.

also about an hour ago, the city of minneapolis' twitter page, their official page, says there's unconfirmed reports of a gas line being cut as well as other explosives in the third precinct and asking if you or anyone you know is in the area to please leave just in case the building does explode. and following that tweet, the mayor, mayor frey tweeted saying they are working with the departments to deliver resources to the city and he said, "we need to work together to ensure the safety of our friends, family, minneapolis residents, and working together means clearing the area." i'm ashley strohmeyer in new york. we will send you back to regular programming, which is "the ingraham angle." w >> i'm asking the attorney general, fbi, and attorney general to take a very strong look.we that was a very bad thing that i

saw. >> let me be really clear here. no one in america should feel like he h or she is being treatd unfairly by law enforcement because of skin color or any other characteristic for that matter. tolerating anything but equal justice under the law and the due process is simply an expectablunacceptable. >> you have every absolute right to be angry, to be upset, to be mad, to express your anger. however, you have no right to perpetrate violence and harm on the very community that you say that you are standing up for. >> laura: in the year 2020, it's fairly obvious that we need to ensure there is more protection for civil liberties across the board. foror criminal suspects held by authorities and four protesters whether they are in minnesota or in michigan.

our communities, or cause additional rights, and frankly our national soul are all at stakeie here. yet as we've seen time and again what began as peaceful protesting ended up in a very counterproductive and even criminal place. bad actor threw gasoline on the fire figuratively and literally and suddenly the message of "justice for all" is not only lost, it's obliterated. >> peaceful protesting advocates all rights and calls for the witnesses the united states wants to come forward. violence does not. violence hampers our case. c it takes viable police resources away from our investigation.

it also arms innocent people who had nothing to do with that. it gets in the way of our work. >> laura: trying to quell people's concerns today and answer them. but excusing criminal behavior as somehow justified when it's carried out in response to police brutality or any other abuse only ends up making a bad situationin worse. because it lowers the bar for everybody. it's frankly patronizin patronid demeaning and it hurts more innocent people in the community in the process. have we forgotten what happened during the obama years in baltimore? >> while we tried to make sure that they were protected from the cars and the other things that were going on, we also give those who wish to destroy space to do that as well. >> the violence and looting sparked by the death of a man in

police custody. >> things didn't take ath turn n baltimore and there's many hours today of writing and looting and burning cars and tonight the fires continue in baltimore. >> laura: but they had to give space to the writers. and did we forget what happened in ferguson? >> disappointment, frustration, anger, demonstrators hitting the streets again with protests corrupting for a second time in ferguson. >> police asking that all protest occur in daylight hours after two new shootings overnight, one involving police. >> laura: the national media swooped in the before all of the facts were known. entire city blocks were torched, people's lives ruined, and race relations and crime got worse, got better. in those cases them a the police were cleared of wrongdoing, in the case of the officer who shot michael brown. in the death of george floyd, we

have faith that our system will proceed carefully and smartly. >> we have to do this right. we have to prove it in the court of law. i i will point to you the comparison tot what happened in baltimore in the gray case. it was a rush to justice and all those people were not found guilty. i will not rush justice because justice will not be rushed. >> laura: i'm not going to pretend for a millisecond to know what it is like to be a black person in america. i don't. whatng we need to do is do bett. we need to love more, respect more, do better. while the wheels of justice turn in this case, it's important we also push back against the notion that all police officers or america and its core, some

cauldron boiling over with puree racism and inequality. america isn't hopeless. she's not a redeemable. the overwhelming majority of americans just want to be in peace, they want to live in harmony with their neighbors in all races and all ethnicities but most americans are good people and most police officers want to help, not hurt. time and again, those in their communities and build them up, not burn them down. rosa parks is a beloved global symbol of justice because of the determination and dignity with which she carried out her civil disobedience. wood-burning a store have been more powerful engines formative? i don't thinkre so. and to our african-american fellow citizens, i say this. given his own experience with an out-of-control fbi and unfair investigation, given all his work now on criminal justice reform, president trump knows

how poisonous the out-of-control law enforcement process can be. we should spend more time trying to work together to ensure that we have a fair and just society. all human beings have inherent worth. all of them are in down by god with certain inalienable rights. from the evidence available thus far, it looks like george floyd was denied his. and that's the angle. joining me now is pastor darrell scott, cofounder of the new spirit revival center and cofounder of the national diversity coalition for trump. also with me is angela's denton king, god daughter of alvina king, founder of the american king foundation who was in f minneapolis today. great to have you on tonight. >> thank you for having me. av>> let's start with you. we have skype, try not to talk over each other and i will do the same.

your reaction to what we've been seeing over the past week or so in two different cases were afghan american man was shot, and the reactions on the ground? >> i believe especially in the george floyd case, these were disconnected, isolated events. i really don't believe -- especially in the case of floyd, i don't want to make a blanket indictment across police departments across america. believe this is one officer and a number of officers not in agreement, i think it was as disgusting and deplorable as we found it, i think the racial tension they are trying, that the left is trying to convey, i don't think it's there. in the peaceful protest, i saw as many whites outraged as i saw a black spirit across social media, icy just as many whites and hispanics as outraged over this as blacks. we look at this as a human issue. that man was denied his human rights, civil rights.

he died a horrible death. it's absolutely tragic what happened to him. >> laura: it's a heartbreak.ra angela, the media, they have a role in fanning the flames as well.ol over at cnn, van jones had this to say. >> if you're white and watching this, look in your own life. how are you choking off black dignity? choking off black opportunity? choking off black people from having an opportunity to thrive because it's not just that officer. this is a much deeper problem. how are all of us complicit in this? >> laura: angela, language like that, of course, using the word "choking," i believe heok believes to some great effect, does that help bring people together, or passionate question makes people absolutely not. i am right here all right now. boots on the ground here in minneapolis and i'll tell you something, i see more white people on the scene then black.

it's not about race. i think when i had my speech today in calling for peace, everyone understands that this is not a fight against black or white or police officer or civilian. this is good versus evil. this community has risen above and they have come together. i tell you something. i've seen hundreds of people out here today standing in solidarity on the same page, wanting unity, ready to heal and cleaning their immunity up and putting it back together. what he said was absently false whites important to use my platform to show. america is ready to move past racism and move forward, but we have a media that constantly wants to divide and they are telling lies. >> laura: al sharpton showed up today in minneapolis. not surprising, i think. not to solve anything, of

course, to blame president trump. >> we should be at least seeing in the halls of power a recognition that it's time to move. the president belatedly made a statement, but he's not made any statements ine the three and a half years, let alone the years he's been a public figure. he should know people are going to look at his words and say, are they empty words? >> laura: pastor scott, before covid, major criminal justice reform, opportunity zones. listen to al sharpton, president trump might as well have had his knee on the victim's neck. >> al sharpton is not going down there to bring any peas, he's there to inflame the tension that's already there but he's therefore the photo op. never know a situation that made the situation better. it actually makes the situation worse. the president doesn't have to get worse from his actions arehi screaming louder than words. criminal justice in the firm, prison reform, opportunity zone

from historical levels of unemployment. unprecedented funding to hcb yous. he's been proactive towards the black community. i didn't see them trying to blame obama when blacks were killed on his watch. you can't blame the president. took swift action must send the doj in, he made a statement condemning, made a statement about a model ahmad aburry's >> laura: angela, 15 seconds. our faith leaders going to make a difference on the ground the calming things down so we don't have so much unrest and bring people together? will that happen? >> i i believe that the faith leaders should have been the first ones on the scene. that's what this community needs within the leadership it reminds me when i was younger getting in and out of trouble and i was just a kid that was hurting and

acting out emotionally. that's what we see here. a lot of the emotionally charged people that don't know how or where to divert their energy. the proper leadership is needed and i'm excited today i was able to be here with faith leaders from around the country to call for peace. >> laura: pastor scott, angela, thank you so much. and the shocking video of those who are not peacefully protesting but taking the opportunity to loot, and theth virus violence that erupted in minneapolis only seem to escalate during the day. check itay out. >> [bleep] the police! >> to all my white brothers and sisters, we appreciate y'all being here in supporting us. this is not your space. this is not your space. >> laura: "this is not your space?" joining me is a journalist who shot those videos, julio rosa. riding for townhall.com.

presumably a local who his was andirected at antifa. do you get the sense of the looting is happening from people inside or outside minneapolis, or is it a mix at this point? >> are basically there are three different types of groups of peoplet here. there are people who are part oo black lives matter who simply wanted to peacefully protested there are people who were part of the protest but the target and the other grocery store nearby decided to take part in looting. and the third group is people who are just mainly interested in looting and writing. it's kind of a silver lining with what's been happening. i have seen some black lives protesters trying to diffuse the situation. but up until 20 minutes ago, things have completely devolved as those protesters have left and the rioters have come and they have increased in numbers and have taken down the fence outside of the third precinct

building. police had to respond with tear gas and flash bangs. >> laura: we are looking at another building not too far from where you are right now, julio. i don't think you can see it from where you are, but another building has been set on fire tonight again. are we to believe that these are people "protesting?" other networks want use the word "rioting" but i don't know what you would call lighting buildings on fire destroying contents or stealing contents, don't know what you call that. that seems to drown out any positive methods just coming out of the situation. >> that's one of the importunate things that have come out of this tragic situation. as i mentioned before, there were people here who just simply wanted to protest. but as i've been documented throughout the day, people have been taking advantage of the absence of police because at least here at the third precinct

pulled up inside the building. the only time i've seen cops outside is when they went out of the convoy as an suv convoy, they went up her hand somebody. as a police race street, they were being attacked essentially with bottles, with rocks, with anything that the rioters can throw at and can handle it. >> laura: julio, it doesn't seem that george's family is supporting this violence, obviously. they want justice. there are some who were saying that this is to be expected. you have to let people have their space. and that's what some are saying. you are being drowned out what's happening behind you. but you can see that this could get a lot worse really quickly when police officers are not able to get to victims in other

parts of the city because of what'sit happening. you have an explosion.i be careful behind you. but police officers aren't coming out to calm things down, i guess we'll see what anarchy looks like. >> i mean that's basically what we are seeing right now.ic right now, the city has asked for the minnesota national gua national guard, that request was revealed to come late last night. i have been around this area since around noon and i get to see any national guardsmen let alone -- as you said before it's pretty unfortunate that all of this is being done in george floyd's name because it is a very tragic situation. unfortunately it's starting to hurt other minorities because there were a few somalian americans who had to stand outside their cafe because people were trying to break in along with some other minority

owned businesses being attacked. there is one right down the street fromm me that had graffii saying, we are a minority owned business to say that, please don't loot us. that apparently has worked because i haven't seen anybody mess with that restaurant. >> laura: that's what you have to do to get your restaurant not to get destroyed, i guess? or store? julio, thank you for your great on the ground reporting. every body, stay safe. be careful. and we are going to keep our eyes on minneapolis throughout the hour but it looks like things are devolving there, as you said. thank you, julio. we will talk to you soon. yesterday moving on to a different topic, secretary of state mike pompeo released the most significant statement ever as it relates to u.s.-china relationships. he joins us exclusively in a few moments to tell us what this will mean for all of us next.

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>> laura:♪ seemingly overnight, thee city of hong kong went from being a beacon of liberty to a communist controlled police state for the china covenant party is imposing national security laws on hong kong that'll effectively end the city's 23 years of self-rule. secretary of state mike pompeo released a jaw-dropping statement declaring the united states can no longer recognize hong kong as autonomous, writing that while united states a free andg prosperous hong kong will provide a role model for china, it seems china is modeling hong kong after itself. joining me now is secretary of state mike pompeo. mr. secretary, thank you for joining us tonight. your statement seemed to

signaled the beginning of a new era in u.s. china relations. what can you tell us night without getting ahead of the president that this is a serious turn away from our engagement with china to a much tougher approach to what they've done with hong kong? >> laura, it's great to be with you. the statement i made it something that the president and i had been working on. crushing what made them from hong kong, all of those things are now tragically going to be gone and as a result of that the president no longer believes that it's justified o to treat hong kong differently than we treat the rest of what happens underes the tyranny of the chine communist party. in the coming of days the president makes a series of announcements with the rest of this, the recognize the threat of united states of america, the american people as a security that emanatesre from this term d

tyrannical regime. president bush, president obama, theyid all refused to recognize the threat that the chinese communist party presented to the united states of america. they were stealing intellectual property from us. while the things that you know. the president, they wouldn't do it. >> laura: has some unkind things to say about yourgs administration's dealings with china saying president trump is tough on china, that's why it's no surprise, china's leaders hope for four more years for president trump. biden himself said you've all been weak on china because the president has an affinity for authoritarians, noting that he praises president xi. your response to the biden camp tonight?

>> nonsense. looks like they are to contain the threat of america from the chinese communist party. >> laura: do you think the chinese would prefer all things considered biden to win in november? speak of the president is going to make sure we protect the american people from the threats in the united states, i saw none of that during the obama-biden years. >> laura: the u.s. planning to expel chinese grad students with ties to china's military schools. and saying that the universities are wary of a new red scare that target students of up potential background that could contribute to antiaging racism. number one, are you worried about anti-chinese racism. and number at jericho, aren't all chinese nationals who come here, aren'tt they all vetted in some way, shape, form, by the ccp? why not expel all of them, at

least temporarily until china somehow changes its tune? >> i'm not surprised to hear that from "the new york times" but we are taking seriously the threat of deeply the chinese state, they shouldn't be here in the school spying. i take seriously the threat of espionage inside our country. we know we have this challenge. president trump, i'm confident, i don't want to get in front of what he wants to say tomorrow. the chinese commonest party has had enormous influence here in the united states.e this isn't red scare, not racist, chinese people are great. people. this t is a tyrannical regime tt poses a real risk to united states and we have a real risk to dutyy coming here, comig to america to learn and benefit we can provide to them aren't acting on behalf of the chinese communist party. >> laura: i don't see how you prevent anyone coming in here from china under the current circumstances not being

connected to the chinese government but i will move on. the firing of the department inspector general. this was speaker pelosi's reaction. watch. >> will when they come close to looking at behavior that might cause them to someone ease, fire them. and secretary pompeo said he should have been fired a long time ago because he wasn't acting in a manner to what he wants to ask, whether that means turn a blind eye, the turn to long doing, what is it that they are afraid of? >> laura: secretary pompeo, was the idea fired for him for castigating you, the staff running errands, can you go into any detail what he was let go tonight? >> i can't. i said earlier i regret that i didn't recommend to the president earlier he be terminated. he acted in a way with what the state department was trying to do, state department was leaking

information, part of a teamar protecting his own officers from covid-19, refused to be an active participant. he was investigating policies he simply didn't like thatt that's not the role of the inspector general. didn't have anything to do with retaliation. this was about an ig who was attempting to undermine the mission of the united states department of state. that's unacceptable so i recommended the president he >> laura: the first terror attack on american soil after 9/11 plan the broad took place in pensacola. with three of our sailors being killed by saudi nationals linked to al qaeda last december. why are any salaries training with our troops who have any ties to any organization anything terror related after what happened after 9/11? i don't understand anyone training on american soil given that they can go off and in the

killing american sailors. >> i will leave the details of the program to the department of defense. your viewers should know that the united states take seriously any time we have anyone coming in to train alongside our soldiers for whatever country they are coming in from. we have the responsibility to do haour best, clearly this is howh got in, the bad actor and because of numerous harm and pain to the united states of america. i know the department is doing that progress, making sure we get it right. we do conduct important training program so young american kids don't have to fly airplanes all across the world to keep americans safe. we want to sell american armaments. we want to train foreign military actors to operate that equipmentat so we don't have to put young american lives ate risk. i knowo that's why the training programs exist. we have to execute them in a way that very rescue identified, must be 29. >> laura: was that an intel failure? that we didn't pick up the chatter planning a special

operation? >> unfolded that the b fbi did s work. a was a member of al qaeda and we didn't identify it in a timely fashion. >> laura: thank you for joining us tonight. we look forward to seeing thear president's remarks with the nextes move from china. in moments, i'm going to show you how the medical and media establishment are invoking the science now as a way to keep you from asking questions about things like restrictive lockdowns.ut you got it. next. are you sick and tired of looking and feeling heavy? probioslim promotes healthy digestion and helps you lose weight. patented probiotics ease constipation, gas, and bloating, while powerful egcg burns fat and calories. unleash your potential with probioslim, the #1 probiotic fat burner at walmart.

>> president trump, listen to dr. fauci. followdr science, not your ego. >> we are acting based on science. >> is important to listen to science but listen to experts. do what they tell you. >> if we don't follow science, theon economic woes will be wor, they'll be more in depth. >> we follow the science, follow the facts, follow the data. >> laura: these expert never tell us to follow the science if it means advocating anything less than really restrictive shutdowns? i want you to walk through four examples we are getting at tonight. number one, the idea that the second wave isht inevitable. >> w we will have coronavirus in the fall. i am convinced of that because of the degree of transmissibility that we had. we often talk about the possibility of a second wave ora

an outbreak when reopening. we do not have to accept that as an inevitability. >> laura: does the science really change? of course not. the second wave scenario was never settled science. you only need to look at sars, that burned out in the united states around the world frankly for six months. it was gone. number two. social distancing. >> every day that we follow social distancing protocols, we save lives. do the right thing for your community, for your friends, and for your family. >> beaches will open up for exercise and active o recreation only. in the wet sand, hanging out and handing in the dry sand. >> here's the truth. social distancing as a governmental response plan was adopted under bush in the early to thousands' to combat influenza, not coronavirus. also those planners never imagine that it'd be practical evon a national scale, certainly among children. based on the results so far,

they are probably right. >> i think it's fair to say it didn't work as well as we expected it. we expected we'd see more significant declines in new cases and deaths around the nation at this point and we are just not seeing that. >> laura: now they are telling us that -- get this, standing 6 feet apart isn't enough. could be as much as 18 apart. then you are going to have to be in another zip code to really be safe. number three. keep people indoors. >> we are going to do a hard close and that part of the sta state, specific issues on some of those beaches have raised alarm bells. we will have a temporary pause on the beaches down there. >> laura: the science tells us that fresh air and sunshine keep the virus at bay. a recent study on viral outbreaks in 320 chinese cities found only one occurredci outd outdoors. it only involved two people.

and finally, number four, mask shaming. >> i think it's disrespectful of people not to wear masks. you could literally kill someone because he didn't want to wear a mask. i don't walk out in my yard to talk to the secret service without a mask on. it's critical. we have an obligation to be responsible. >> laura: even w.h.o. guide and says, "there is not enough evidence for or against the use of masks and little evidence that nonsick people gain any benefit." my next gas says that science is being hollowed out and being used as a smoke screen to push clinical agenda. joining me is todd myers, the center for the environment at the washington policy center. first tell us what we are seeing within the covid debate and then explain how the co-opting of

science has now even moved beyond covid? >> it's very clear that we don't fully understand the science which is understandable because it's very new. but what you hear though is politicians claiming that they know very clearly what the science is and it's safe to say that you see states doing very different things. in washington state, we didn't allow fishing. only state in the nation not to allow recreational fishing while everyone else did, yet that was done in the name of science. the problem of using science in that way when people clearly recognize that it's not the science you are noticing and they have become cynical, it's like they stop trusting science when we really need good science. >> laura: you get the sense that the science, the very same that scientists rode recently, there is rarely a scientific consensus. sometimes it takes centuries for there to be a scientific consensus on fundamental

concepts. and sometimes the evidence is right underneath the noses. really obvious answers to difficult problems, but the science isn't settled. right? >> and it evolves over time. this is why it's important for science to be located closest to the people it impacts. in my area, the environment, the science most important for farmers, hunters, who care about wildlife, taking care of the planet because if they don't on their farm, they pay the price. politicians on the other hand can use the word science to attack a political opponent but if they get it wrong they don't pay the price. d it's very important that when we use science, we locate it based on the people who are going too use it and impact, they can see it for their own eyes and they are going to make sure to get it right and make sure you are not using it against a weapon against people they don't like.t >> laura: that's a great point great letting people make decisions that they are ultimately going to be

accountable. a restaurant, you don't have good sanitation conditions, you get sued, go out of business. let's still make the science demands... montgomery county, they wereen doing this character with the commissioner there, they say -- you wouldn't know the science if it bit you in the you know what. we've got to go. let's have you back as a fantastic report tonight. and speaking of twisting science, there is new reviews of studies that vindicate the use of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin as a treatment, early treatment, patient treatment for covid. this paper comes out from one of the most renowned epidemiologists in the world, dr. harvey riche in the yale school of medicine per he concludes five studies, including two controlled clinical trials that speed 17 said we need that significant

thesemedications need to be widy available and promoted immediately for physicians to prescribe it. here to respond, dr. william grace, oncologist and hematologist. you've been with us from the original medicine cabinet onhe "the ingraham angle" from the very beginning. what do you make of this obsession with trying to malign the use of an age-old antimalarial that has had clear antiviral properties? what's going on? >> what's going on is people are playing politics and that's been made by the mainstream media and many epidemics. you've got to keep the politics out of this and the scientists working hard. basically we have to fight this war, to date we fought the war in the hospitals which is both expensive, more embedded, and mortal. so we have remdesivir, one drug

which can reduce the death rate from 11% to maybe 8%. butt where we should be fighting this war is in the outpatient, and all the outpatient clinics were closed in the initial fighting of the war. we have to get it out to the clinic so people out in the country, out in many areas of the united states developed symptoms, we know that these agents, hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin with or without zinc, that these agents massively reduce the risk of hospitalization and death. perhaps by orders of magnitude, maybe perhaps by 50 fold. >> laura: you had dr. fauci on cnn i think it was the morning before with all the data coming in. it's pretty evident that these have no effects, that they can be dangerous. that's what he said on national tv. and down that when we may have lost 180,000 people byy then. i don't think you

that 180,000, we are losing ten, 12,000 people per week right now. if we wait, that'll be 180,000. that is not acceptable to me and many physicians. >> laura: i wanted to ask about masks but we'll have to wait for another night. great to see you. >> good to see you, laura. >> laura: despite his approval taking a slight dip, one political scientist whose model has been right, check it out the last 100 of years, still says that president trump has a 90% chance of winning this november. he's going to tell us why next. i got an oriole here.

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♪ >> laura: that same pollster is predicting president trump's imminent demise, do they have it

wrong? they find trump trailing significantly in head-to-head matchups. who is the one who is right and who was wrong?an a political scientist who called trump's 2016 white house win eight months before it happened is forecasting another victory for the president. political science professor at stony brook university joins me now. professor, thank you for being with us tonight. you say trump's chances are over 90%? what data are you looking at to make that call? >> that's right. the key to the november elections are the primaries. and the early primaries are really giving us a lot of information. based on that, donald trump won them very easily in his party. joe biden, the likely nominee for the democrats in a great deal of trouble holding it together. but on balance, the stronger performance in primaries that gives donald trump the edge in november. >> laura: your model doesn't

take into account a global pandemic, i would imagine. although 100 years old, i guess, it must have been, must've missed it in the 1918 pandemic. does that have any impact in your view? >> it could. i can't rule that out. what i see at the moment is where i would expect the pandemic to have an effect on the approval rating of the president, i don't see any dent in trump's approval rating. the early goings, he got a little uptick. and unless his approval rating collapses, i don't think that this would have much bearing on my forecasts. >> laura: professor, what you think that it would be well worth the president's focus to stay on the liberty, rebirth, revival, recovery, and send of getting on these tangents of side squabbles and just focus on

the renewal and recovery of the country? >> absolutely. i think you have some strong points that gave them the big win in the primaries and he has to take advantage of that and i think anything that distracts from that would not be good for him. >> laura: professor, we are going to have you back because i know a lot of people in 2016 were laughing you off but they are not laughing at yousi anymo. we want to continue to go through with this at a later date. thank you so much for sharing your insights. >> thank you very much for having me. you are welcome. >> laura: and justice for femalear athletes in connecticu. tonight's last bite next.

>> laura: an update to a story we covered on the >> update to a story recovered on this show, the us department of education ruled connecticut's policy allowing biological males to compete as girls in high school sports violates civil rights of athletes who are biologically female, something i spoke with william barr on not long ago. watch it now. >> it is fundamentally unfair to allow biological males to come in, young women become spectators. >> the other side will say it is discriminating against transgender americans. >> it is not discriminated. we reasonably have separate sports, men and women sports,

the distinction has been based on biological different so the distinction between male -- men and women for sports reasons should be based on biological reality, not someone's subjective feelings for what they are. >> that is the news on that. >> an american city in chaos, protesting the death of george floyd, a black man who died in police custody. that city is under a state of emergency, burning, destroying and looting, even this police station was not safe, gas lines were reportedly cut at this precinct. after that, via facebook, officers were in the building when that precinct was breached but he cannot say