>> well, that's going to wrap it up for today. emily, thanks for wrapping it up for us today and brian, have a good weekend. we will see you all back on the virtual couch on monday. >> sandra: riots in minneapolis overnight, protesters setting fire to a police station there on the third night of violent demonstrations sparked by the death of an unarmed black man in police custody. good evening everyone, i'm sandra smith. >> and i'm jon scott in for ed henry who has a day off. minneapolis activating 500 national guard troops. all of this coming after disturbing video shows george floyd pinned down by a police officer as he repeatedly cried out that he couldn't breathe. floyd lost consciousness and was

pronounced dead afterwards. >> sandra: the officers involved have been fired but prosecutors say they are not ready to press charges. >> we understand the severity of the situation unfolding. it breaks my heart to see what is going on in our streets in minneapolis, and in st. paul and in some of our suburbs. i am pleading with individuals. i am pleading to remain calm and let us conduct the investigation. >> please, give me and give the united states attorney at the time to do this right and we will bring you justice. >> sandra: fox team coverage on this friday morning. kristin fisher standing by with reaction to the white house. we begin with matt finn who is live on the ground in minneapolis for us this morning. matt, goodman. >> sandra, st. paul police now same more than 120 businesses have been looted or destroyed

and some of those businesses are right here. this is a shopping plaza that's been on fire for hours now and throughout the shopping plaza there are businesses that have had their windows busted out, we have seen looters and rioters under the stores, take things, destroy the furniture. you know, spray paint on the walls and the windows and police also say there has been dozens of fires throughout the city and we have seen them throughout the night. we saw cars on fire, as you drive around you would see random structures on fire and that there was so much thick black smoke throughout the city as fire crews are rushing around to put out some of the fires. we also heard the sounds of gunshots both near and far and throughout this area there are countless destroyed businesses with windows smashed in, stores looted and spray-painted. the national guard is here and is apparently assisting fire crews as they go around to try to distinguish some of the

fires, trying to keep those crews safe from some of the rioters and the looters. this morning there are still people roaming around, they are screaming at us, screaming out law enforcement so it's not clear exactly when the danger or the threat might end. the full tally of all the damage has yet to be seen but unfortunately there are probably countless business owners in that area that will have to come back to situations like that, something they did not ask for. >> sandra: that is unbelievable. there is not a police presence or fire crews, not far from that third precinct building that was burned. there was a team of the national guard in basically s.w.a.t. gear protecting the

fire crew, and they are on their own. they said to blank the police, don't abuse her power. that is our message and you can see that spray-painted in this area. >> matt finn live on the ground. that's military support to the governor if needed. the president also making it clear that what happened to george floyd is unacceptable. >> president trump: i feel very, very badly. it's a very shocking site, and that's a very bad thing that i saw last night and i didn't like it.

>> jon: kristin fisher is live from the white house tomorrow. >> he has asked the department of justice and the fbi to expedite an investigation. all of those looters that can be shot, it's a tweet that's firing off controversy. he wrote "these thugs are dishonoring the memory of george floyd and i won't let that happen. just spoke to governor tim walz and told him that the military is with him all the way. any difficulty and we will assume control. but when the looting starts the shooting starts. thank you. shortly after, twitter added a warning label to that tweet. they didn't take it down but in order to view it you had to read the warning first. it reads this tweet violated the twitter rules about glorifying

violence. however twitter has determined that media and public's interest for the tweet to remain accessible. this comes just one day after president trump signed an executive order in an effort to limit the legal protections that shield social media companies like twitter from liability for the content that is posted on their platform. >> president trump: if it were legal, if it were able to be legally shut down i would do it. and i'm not just talking about twitter. look at facebook, look at the tribunal they set up at facebook. >> so this feud was already hot but this morning with that tweet and everything that's going on in minneapolis, it just got much hotter. in fact about an hour ago the president's director of social media dance giving all put out a tweet about twitter that is simply too hot for tv. john? >> jon: kristin fisher at the white house. kristin, thank you. >> sandra: for more on all of this let's bring in lawrence jones, a fox news analyst and fox nation host. thank you for being here this

evening. i saw your reaction immediately when that video started to read the marriage of george floyd pinned it down by the police there in minneapolis. so many are waking up this morning after days of interest in that city and wondering why charges have not been filed yet against the police officers. >> yes, sandra. and thanks so much for having me. i think that's a big question that most americans are asking especially in the community. last night i was cohosting "the five and you know there was a press conference that was supposed to happen and i said, you know, they have to announce charges. this took place monday. yesterday was thursday. you would think that they would finally announce charges but they didn't. people are upset because you only need probable cause and what we heard from that office is them trying to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, that is the standard within courts. but to make an arrest all you

need is probable cause and we all saw the footage. so the public is upset because this is a track record in minneapolis. this did not just start with this case. they have huge complaints, of excessive force. the current police chief that is there right now is one of the complainants and of now he is the police chief and now he was supposed to come in there and enact reform. but he has accused the police department of racism in the past. the union rep which is also a lieutenant in the police department was seen with a white power sign. so when you see this unrest, and let me be clear, i do not support looting or rioting. i support constitutional peaceful protest, because that is protected by the constitution. but there are businesses that

will have to rebuild after this. as we go back to some of my experience in covering that these protests, most of these looters, and without this and ferguson and baltimore. and when the reports come out, these people are not from the community. they are bused in, they are antifa or in our crests and they have their own agenda. the people on the ground are crying out for help and i don't think that's too much to ask f for. >> sandra: i know that is the point that you make in a piece that you've published on foxnews.com this morning lawrence, titled "this could have been me" in your response to george floyd's death. you have penned this piece making the voice that you could have found yourself in floyd's place. explain >> i don't get into the media game, i don't get into the left game, but i know what i know. i grew up wanting to be a cop.

i was a criminal justice major. my first job was in a juvenile court. i love our law enforcement, the good ones that do their job. but they are the certain reality for someone like me and i could have been him. it's not just me, it's the first black senator. republicans in reconstruction, tim scott explaining his stance on capitol hill. there is an ongoing theme in the black community of this happening, and this is not all cops. but you never know when you are going to get that bad apple. for me, i've had personal experiences of being accused of being a suspect and i haven't done anything wrong. you see people that die from this instances, you see one their liberty is stripped away.

when the state abuses their power, we've seen it and we seen them take people's liberty away and i stood with you because i'm consistent on the matter. this has been going on and communities of color for a long time and we are saying, look, we are americans, to. mr. floyd complied it, he was in handcuffs and he still lost his life. there was such a cavalier approach to him as they sat there and watched him die, that shouldn't happen in america. earlier today, i've been quite critical of cnn, but a reporter that was reporting on the looting was arrested today on live television doing his job as a reporter. i've been there reporting on these types of cases. you asked the cops, you say,

where do i stand? he did that and he was still arrested on live television with his camera crew. that should not happen, this is not china, this is america. >> sandra: lawrence jones, and you can read more about your reaction, and i urge people to read it. we are going to see and hear more from you today lawrence jones, you will be joining the "outnumbered" crew. we appreciate you coming on lawrence jones. >> jon: seven people shot in kentucky as protesters in downtown louisville demand justice for a black woman fatally shot by police in her own home back in march. details on controversy straight ahead. plus surveillance powers set to expire, house democrats scrapping a vote on a bill to reauthorize phis. this after president trump threatened to veto it.

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>> sandra: at least seven people were shot in louisville, kentucky, as protests demanding justice for breanna taylor's death turned violent. video shows protesters scrambling to safety after gunshots rang out. a police spokesperson is now saying no officers fired their weapons during that incident. taylor, 26-year-old emt was shot and killed by police inside of her apartment during a narcotics investigation read it back in march. the fbi is currently investigating her death. >> jon: at this and senate homeland security committee voted on new subpoenas in its effort to investigate the origins of the russia probe and actions taken to unmask associates of president trump. chairman ron johnson releasing a list of targets including several obama administration

officials. senator johnson joins us this morning. senator, i want to take a look at some of the agencies and then the individuals that the committee would like to subpoena. you are talking about issuing subpoenas of the fbi, the department of justice inspector general, the state department and the director of national intelligence office. now is that to imply the subpoenas that these agencies are not cooperating with the investigation? >> good morning john, no it's not. what i want to do, we have such a limited amount of time here, i sat down last week with chairman graham, and the agencies under his community's jurisdiction but in my community's jurisdiction things like civil service law and that type of thing, there's going to be overlap. what i'm hoping to do is get the authority for the subpoenas and hopefully everybody will cooperate with us. >> what about some of the individuals on this list, and let me read some of the names

for you. john brennan. james clapper. james comey, obviously the former head of the fbi. lisa page who worked with the fbi, samantha power, the u.n. ambassador. susan rice, peter strzok also at the fbi. you expect to be subpoenaing those individuals? >> again hopefully they will cooperate that my main emphasis, and set up a peaceful transition and cooperative transition, we saw a corruption. these are individuals that unmask michael flynn, we don't know who other individuals might have been unmasked, that's part of the equation. we will be looking at what happened before, the election in terms of potential corruption transition, burrowing people and come up putting people in departments that might have different than yours.

then during the transition, of course with the unmasking, the misuse of defensive briefings is something we will probably take a look at and then afterwards, what about the media leaks? 125 media leaks in the first 126 days, it's pretty amazing. you see two of these going to the obama definition of a leak that could affect national security and that appears with almost seven times the type of leaks that will affect your national security. john, one point i have to make outcome of the media was either duped or complicit in this entire hoax. there are a couple of members of the press that are looking at those leaks but where's the rest of the press? 18 different outlets receive those leaks and they were either again duped or complicit. when will they start investigating and revealing people that completely and utterly misled them?

when a source gives you true information, and that lasted almost the first three years of the trump administration. >> jon: christopher steele, could he also be on your subpoena list? we have a limited amount of time, nobody knows what the 2,020 election, what the results of that may be. so right now as long as we are in the majority of the senate, chairman grab will continue with hours and working cooperatively with senator grassley and ranking member jordan nunez over on the outside, we will utilize what knowledge is already existing.

when i talked about burrowing in, one article that wasn't given much notice is it real clear investigations and this came out during the impeachment. but let me just quote from this article because they had and all members briefing two weeks into the administration with the national security council and after flynn briefed about what the america first policy means, the whistle-blower turned to the adam schiff staff and commented, we need to take him out. this happened inside of the administration two weeks after the president trump gained pow power. we need to find out exactly what happened >> that's going to be frightening for a lot of americans as you dive deeper into that. let me ask you about another frightening situation going on in the state next to your home

state. those rights in minneapolis and of the death of george floyd. your thoughts this morning? a lot of it is very legitimate. if you look at the video, tour effect. from my standpoint the solution isn't burning down buildings and businesses in your own neighborhood and hurting other innocent people but i sure wish in this case, hopefully the writing wilrioting will stop. >> chair of the homeland security committee, we look forward to those hearings next week. thank you. >> have a good day. it >> sandra: the protests over george floyd's death not meant limited to minnesota, violent demonstrations spread

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not tolerate it. >> jon: that is minneapolis mayor jacob frey reacting to violent protests in his city after the death of george floyd. the black man died in police custody after auto white officer was seen on video kneeling on his neck, pinning him to the ground. these protests are spreading to other cities across the country. william la jeunesse is live from los angeles. >> jon cohen columbus, memphis, louisville and more protests peaceful and violent. so watch here in denver moments after shots were fired. that is the state capital where protesters had sprayed "what black lives matter" on the steps. demonstrators smashed vehicles in the parking lot and block traffic. one man who dropped, the driver

hits the horn and levels of protester before speeding away. in columbus, crowd surrounded the state capital breaking windows and police used pepper spray after protesters pelted cops with smoke bombs and water bottles. now to phoenix where they lobbed rocks and bottles at police while holding signs saying silence is violence and being black should not be a death sentence. demonstrators marched around the state capital chanting "hands up, don't shoot, i can't breathe." >> if they can kill someone like george floyd and get away with it, they've proven that civil rights are nothing but panacea and scribble on a piece of pap paper. >> charges from disorderly conduct to assault and police arrested one woman with a knife and a man for hitting an officer in the head with a garbage can.

police had faced off with a large crowd blocking the 101 101 freeway. in minneapolis people want to see those cops arrested, jailed and discharged and that's their way of keeping up the pressure. >> jon: those protests and riots are grown. william la jeunesse, thank you. >> sandra: on wall street this morning, markets are opening to the downside, but i was up 337 points as the market is on the final trading day of the week. investors are waiting to hear from the president who said yesterday afternoon that he would be holding a news conference on china today. we don't yet know when that will be happening that markets are anticipating that. let's bring in maria bartiromo, post of "mornings with maria." i know many analysts are downgrading their guidance this morning or issuing caution as we

await to see the president, and the white house next move with china wondering what the economic consequences would be of a clash with that economy. >> yes, and that clash is continuing because it is clear that you are looking at two different visions that are clashing. you got president trump's america first and you got the belt and roads strategy in china. both economies want to be number one. the chinese government and the chinese communist party has made no secret of their goals to be the number one superpower economically. the president's press conference today i understand will be vague, i will be an important change in terms of policy. i would say we may see sanctions on individuals from the communist party and we could see something about the phase one trade deal. when i interviewed the president two weeks ago, the president said we hear that the chinese

communist party wants to renegotiate the phase one trade deal, i'm telling you right now i'm not renegotiating the trade deal. we will not see the ccp live up to its commitments and we will see if we get the word on that but let's not forget the power grab that chinese economists are doing right now. if they are trying to overreach in hong kong. there are forces right now on the ground, face to face and india as china is pushing that they have an area of that region right on the border which is china. then of course you have what's happening in the south china sea. china is getting more aggressive, the taiwanese must be shaking in their boots and i suspect that the administration is going to say something powerful about the rule of law later today. >> jon: it's markets do seem

to be anticipating that exactly. mike pompeo on fox news last night with our own laura ingraham. while he didn't get ahead of the president's announcement, he did indicate that the administration is considering taking hard measures against china. his mike pompeo. >> the chinese communist party is crushing on what was so special about hong kong and what made it different from the rest of china and the financial center that was there, all of those things are now tragically going to be gone. as a result the president no longer believes it was justified to treat hong kong differently them we treat the rest and what takes place over the tierney of the chinese communist party. >> jon: very clearly leaving the door open to u.s. action against china. >> we will see that action announced today and like i said our sources say that it's going to be a big announcement. but if you are going to see a change in terms of the cot autonomy that hong kong was supposed to have to china, you are not going to see the same treatment that the u.s. was

giving hong kong before hand. if hong kong is another arm of china than they are a different scenario in terms of the way the u.s. and the world will treat hong kong versus china. we will see what plays out there. in the middle of all this we have our own situation in terms of the reopening of the united states happening this weekend once again. >> jon: i wanted to ask you about this because there's the debate against the jobless benefits, and possibly extending them. it's becoming obviously a bipartisan discussion and the debate is fuming. democrats have discussed keeping the $300 per week payment through january and the $3 trillion release package, and among party line senate republicans opposed that measure. they have expressed concerns that the federal payments which come on top of whatever federal unemployment aid would discourage people from jobs that paid less than their unemployment aid now does. so while there was a bipartisan

agreement initially, that you have senate republicans saying we can't this incentivize people to get back to work. >> that is right. and that's key because there are some people right now with that $600 that are making more money staying home then they would on the job. so the president is staying on the economy but would like things open fully by july 4th, but this program goes into place july 31st and now the democrats wanted to be in place until january. why would anyone work at a restaurant or work at a hospital to make less money than they were actually making staying at home? we've already seen changes to the so-called paycheck protection plan and that is as you and i have spoken about in the past, they've extended the amount of time the company can have and a little liberalism in terms of how much goes to employees and how much can be

used for the overhead. the $600 issue will be a problem if they keep it all the way until january because people won't come back to work? you are making more money staying home so i get the argument that you are hearing from the senate republicans. >> dana: at that debate will continue and we await the news on the market. maria, great to see you. have a wonderful weekend. >> jon: new york city may finally be seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. mayor bill de blasio saying he expects up to 400,000 residents to go back to work in the first half of june. the empire state has been the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in america since the start of the pandemic. new york city has reported nearly 200,000 cases of covid-19 and at least 16,000 deaths. >> sandra: senate judiciary chairman lindsey graham urging the country's senior judges to

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>> jon: that is the chairman of the judiciary committee lindsey graham urging older judges to step aside by election day so they can be replaced by younger conservative judges. joining us now with the reaction is chris coons of delaware. when the chairman made that proposal, what did you think? >> i think in the wake of the death of george floyd, the committee ought to be in an oversight hearing will be looking to a whole string of tragic killings, incidents that are deeply wounding to our country of police violence and then a response by communities. but when chairman lindsey graham says something like that it's a reminder that this has become a very politicized judiciary committee and judicial confirmation process. president trump has nominated and the republican majority

senate has confirmed more than 200 judges. chairman graham is continuing to advance that agenda and there are other things i wish we would focus on that we should focus on. the pandemic response and recovery and the ways that's impacted federal law enforcement and federal prisons and a lot of other issues that are under the purview of his committee for this tragic recent killing in minneapolis. >> jon: we will talk about that killing in just a moment but staying on the senator graham proposal for just a moment, there is nothing illegal about it, it might be unsavory if you are in the democratic minority in the senate right now. you might not like it but that's kind of the way the pendulum swings, isn't it? >> i agree, there's nothing illegal about it. senator graham is entitled to his opinion and he often shares it in memorable quotes and quips. he's been a very active judiciary committee chairman and he and i have managed to work

well together a number of issues of areas. he and i recently introduced a bill together that would combat the so-called wet markets, the wildlife track trafficking markets that many have argued lead to the emergence of the pandemic in china. but i have strenuously and forcibly disagreed with him both on the substance of many of the circuit court nominees and the process he has followed to get them confirmed. let's talk now about minneapolis and the situation there. the police officers most directly involved in this terrible incident caught on video have been fired. what else in your view should transpire? >> well first, the family of george floyd has been calling

for peaceful demonstrations for a calm and respect for his memory. there needs to be a prompt and thorough investigation and by all accounts the u.s. attorney and county attorney are conducting that investigation. my hope is that that will reach a conclusion promptly so that the community has some confidence that this won't be an endless investigation without a resolution. certainly from the video evidence that's been seen over and over by millions of americans and around the world, the police officer who is responsible for the killing of george floyd was engaging in a brutal and unrelenting effort to snuff out his life and this has reawakened and torn open the wounds of dozens of similar incidences in recent years. i think distance to be addressed forcefully and swiftly. >> jon: that's a question, people are saying look. the video evidence is right there, why are charges not being filed yesterday?

>> my expectation and hope would be that charges are filed very soon. it's been three days and i think that's plenty of time for quick interviews and reviews of the tape and the evidence. if there are other unknown to the public company and factors, i think they haven't yet surfaced. so there is a great question given that the mayor is calling for the arrest of a member of his own police department. it is a real question, why is this taking so long? >> jon: senator chris coons, democrat of delaware, busy times and we appreciate you taking some time out of your day to talk with us this morning. >> sandra: former vice president joe biden reacting to the death of george floyd and protests parking in minneapolis. and the center for disease can out with new guidelines on how

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>> sandra: as more and more states are planned to reopen for business the cdc gives new guidelines on how to reopen safely, especially office buildings. here to give us that update is dr. marty makary, fox news contributor and professor of public health at johns hopkins university and also author of the book "the price we pay." set a straight hair, what do we need to know? so many involved in the reopening of those offices and so many are going to be returning to those offices. so what are the new guidelines? >> good morning, sandra. the cdc issued guidelines to

basically densify offices, to set standards on how many people can be in a certain area and to limit places where people aggregate, places like coffee areas and switch to prepackaged food. cases will go up and hospitalizations will go up, but the question is how can we manage this? we were hoping to have a lower level of background cases but several states are still seeing an increase in hospitalizations which i think is a best metric of how we are doing. >> sandra: very interesting. i know the cdc says one of the biggest things as we can lay out the guidelines but you have to communicate those two employees and drop to enforce them. we put together a full screen so you can have a look for yourself, by conducting daily health checks is one of the guidelines. conducting a hazard assessment of the workplace, specifically areas where you can't social distance whether it's meeting rooms or the kitchen facility. encourage employees to wear cloth face coverings, and

implement policies and practices for social distance thes distand improve the building ventilation. what's really interesting is the world health organization has really come out and issued a statement on wearing masks. it is now saying that masks alone can give you a false feeling of protection and can even being a source of infection when not used correctly. masks should only be used by health care workers, caretakers or by people who are sick with symptoms like fever and cough. that goes against a lot of what we are being told here at home. my doctor? >> i would think most experts would say that this is not good guidance right now, or at least incomplete. we seen the benefit of mass in countries throughout the world. if you look at timeline and even china, they had a tremendous ability to manage the infection

and they argued that that is because of masks. that's what doctors on the ground and so they are more effective when you can't maintain the distance. >> sandra: it's important to remind everybody that it doesn't necessarily protect you from getting the virus, but it stops the spread of it, right doctor? >> it stops the spread and also remind you not to touch your nose and your mouth and it removes the stigma of wearing a mask when everyone needs to wear a mask. >> sandra: we appreciate your insight. >> jon: the governor of minnesota sought to hold a news conference about an hour from now as anger and violence escalate in minneapolis and it now many other cities. the president threatening to take action after a third night of chaos in minneapolis. chris wallace joins us on this at the top of the hour.

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demonstrators stormed the minneapolis police station setting it on fire. arson and looting across the city. his arrest captured on video and floyd pleading with the officer pressing his knee into his neck saying, he can't breathe. federal officials are calling for calm and patience. the destruction of property and harmed individuals have got to stop. >> please, give me and get the united states attorney the time to do this right and we will bring you justice. >> sandra: chris, good morning to you. your thoughts of we've seen

three straight nights of this? >> the police to a great job 99% of the time, they protect us from violence and protect us from crime by, unfortunately every once in a while we see one of these videos of police violence against individuals and too often against african-american individuals and this particular video, i think we would all agree, may be the ugliest we have ever seen because george floyd is so defenseless, no fight, no resistance, no need for any force. he's on the ground, handcuffed, behind his back. this officer presses his full weight on his knee into the man's neck minute after minute after minute. now that doesn't excuse the violence or the looting but it does certainly explain why you are seeing these protests not just in minneapolis but others across the country. we seen these rare but shocking

cases locationally of police going over the line. >> sandra: chris, put this in historical context for us. >> i do think back, and you've got the coronavirus and you have the tremendous economic hardship and it wasn't just minneapolis. the women in centra central pars case is so much worse of a police officer and a law enforcement officer was savagely and brutally hurting this man and, the vietnam war in

full force, the americans being killed and protesters being shot and killed in college campuses, and then the democratic convention in chicago with the antiwar protesters and police hitting them in the streets, a lot of those protesters were breaking the law themselves were being violent. and i were going to stay together as a society? but there are tough times of the country goes through and you just hope that wiser heads prevail and order trams over disorder. >> sandra: at the president has been actively tweeting about the situation there, obviously condemning the violence that he has seen and he also issued this week.

i can't stand back and watch this happen to a great american city, minneapolis. a total lack of leadership. either the very weak radical left mirror jacob frey gets his act together and brings the city under control or i will send in the national guard and get the job done right. jacob frey reacting earlier this morning, obviously very critical of the president's tweet there. >> weakness is refusing to take responsibly for your own actions. weakness is pointing her finger at somebody else during a time of crisis. we are strong, and is this a difficult time period? yes. but you can be sure we are going to get through this. >> sandra: no charges have been filed yet again sells for police officers, and it would

turn to leadership, that's engaged back and forth with the leadership over the situation not improving and in fact getting worse for the third night in a row. >> i don't know that any of that helps the situation. i don't know that the president attacking the mayor helps, i don't know that the mayor attacking the president helps. it seems to me that -- you are asking my opinion so i will give it, it doesn't necessarily mean railroading to justice, you have the hennepin county attorney yesterday saying, they are the last line of defense against crime. i think it's hard to make the case that that police office

wasn't the first line of defense and crime in this case, but we had a case if you remember in minneapolis not so long ago, a couple of years ago where this fellow was stopped at a police stop. he was shot, and the police officer who killed him was brought up and he was acquitted. so you can understand where police prosecutors want to bring a strong case that can result in a conviction but i'm not sure that political people taking pot shots at each other helps the process. i think anything that persuades people that justice is going to get done even if it takes a little longer than they want seems to me to be the only thing that you can do at this point. >> sandra: i want to get this in there because another element to the story has been the executive order on social media companies. when it comes to twitter actively flagging some of his

tweets, these thugs are dishonoring the memory of george floyd and i won't let that happen. i just spoke to governor walz i told him the military is up with him all the way. any difficulty and we will assume control. but when the looting starts, the shooting starts. thank you wrote the president, the communications team decided to flag that tweet saying we take an action for others, but have kept the tweet on twitter because it is important that the public still be able to see the tweet given its relevance to ongoing members of public importance. what do you make of all of this? the president obviously with the executive order but the social media accounts going forward with the monitoring and flagging of those tweets? >> this is a very slippery slope that twitter is on. if you are going to start fact-checking and if you are going to start saying this is

over the line and violates guidelines, you know, you can't just do it for one person, you have to do it for a lot of people. if you are going to do it for president trump then you have to do it for joe biden. we have one party and one political philosophy, you need to do it for the other and the danger is obviously, you can't. if that be a full-time job just policing all the false things or questionable things, and at mark zuckerberg in an interview with daniel dana perino said we don't want to be the arbiter of truth. and of twitter headed down that path. it's a dangerous road to go, and it turns out it was a russian box. and when we start policing the president, it's a very slippery slope. and it gets very, very

complicated. >> sandra: who do you have coming up this sunday? >> well frankly as i'm sure you have today we are blowing up the show. we already had booked because as you know it's not just minneapolis. we have that woman in central park calling the police and saying she was attacked by an african-american, we had already booked republican senator tim scott, and now we are talking to officials in minneapolis and trying to get some law enforcement people and some wise people. we've collected a black president, and we see how close to the service. we will be addressing all of that on fox news sunday.

>> sandra: absolutely, we will be turning in for that. >> shifting gears to the economic fallout, the house overwhelmingly passes the bills to loosen the rules on loans for small businesses. it now goes to the senate where it's fate is uncertain. there is agreement on tweaking existing programs. dean phillips was one of the main backers of the bill and he says the key was they wanted to make this easier for small businesses. >> we wanted to provide more flexibility to small business owners, some of whom have

already received ppp funds and others who haven't because of all submitted prohibited. >> the essence to the program is giving incentive to small businesses to take on debt to stay afloat for the traditional, initially the program was too restrictive. that's now down to 60%. the small business administration has now exhausted $511 billion of its grand total of 66 660 billion which is a tol of 4.4 million loans. the other main backer of the bill g.o.p. senator tapped chris roy says it's out this week. then we can get to work with some of these things. >> last week there was an effort in the senate to pass a similar

bill and they couldn't get a last-minute deal. mitch mcconnell the senate majority leader says they may try to move another piece of legislation where the end of june. could this bill be part of that package? that, john, is unclear. back to you. >> and chad pergram from capitol hill, back to you. >> sandra: president trump set a short time from now to outline measures he plans to take against china as political fallout from coronavirus spurs a broader power struggle between washington and beijing. rich edson is live at the state department with the latest. >> good morning, sandra. officials say we can expect the president to talk about this around 2:00 this afternoon. secretary of state mike pompeo says one item in the administration is focused on, chinese university students with suspected links to china's military and studying in the

united states. >> this is a communist tyrannical regime that poses a real risk to the united states and we have an opportunity to do these to make sure the students who are coming here decided to take the benefit of coming to america to learn and to benefit from what we could provide to them aren't acting on behalf of the chinese communist party. >> the chinese government passed this week what it calls a new national security law to exert more control over hong kong. u.s. officials say the administration will offer a series of responses to that and what officials say is a long history of aggressive behavior. one option presented to president trump limited visas for chinese government officials which have been involved in china's crackdown on hong kong. state department officials say the president has a long list of options to penalize china and say they are reviewing hong kong special economic benefits. china's government is threatening to take what it calls and necessary countermeasures in response to u.s. penalties. chinese government officials say

internal and external hostile forces are trying to use hong kong to subvert the government there. they say they are only citing external forces because they understand with the chinese government is doing in hong kong is not supported by the people of hong kong. sandra? >> sandra: rich edson at the state of arm for us. thank you. >> jon: the death of george floyd sparking a third night of rioting in minneapolis, this as we await a decision on whether the officers involved will face criminal charges. we will break down the political reaction. plus, a bipartisan group of former government employees backing the doj's decision to drop michael flynn. where that case goes from here. newday's va streamline refi lets you refinance

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>> sandra: police in minneapolis arresting a cnn reporter and his crew as the reporter was covering the protests there earlier this morning. they were all released a couple of hours later and are back on the air. police are saying the crew was asked to move and they refused, cnn is denying that. the governor of minnesota issued an apology calling the arrest unacceptable, and we will hear from the governor at the top of the next hour.

speak one the death of george floyd at the hands of police sparking widespread outrage and violent protests as we await decision on charges against the four officers involved. joining us now, lisa boothe, a fox news contributor and jason nichols, university professor of african-american studies. jason, i'm going to start with you. a lot of people have watched that video, it's everywhere now. they are saying okay, the officers have been fired but what's taking so long to bring court charges? do you have an answer? >> i wish i had an answer. the public wants to see what's going on, show it to the public and let us see what it is that you are seeing in terms of know, the district attorney, the hennepin county attorney. they say that there might be something that shows a different perspective that maybe doesn't warrant criminal charges. i don't see how that's possible

but if it is show it to the public. and then have that ridiculous press conference that just inflames things, then we wouldn't have the things we are seeing right now in minneapolis. >> jon: we are waiting lisa for a press conference with the governor of minnesota in an hour, that's the expected time. but in the meantime when it be wise for authorities to say we need to dot the i, and cross the t? action is coming, remain calm? >> of course and everyone is entitled to fair investigation and due process, but i have to agree with jason in the fact that, transparency is key. there is distrust right now in the community considering the fact that we all saw what happened to george floyd at the hands of someone who was tasked and entrusted with keeping minneapolis safe and protecting

its citizens. so there is clear and understandable distrust, alternatively burning down buildings or eluding a target and stealing tvs and trying to break into a safe has nothing to do with justice. the criminals that are doing those acts have no intention to bring justice to what happened to george floyd. they are just there to create criminal acts so that needs to be condemned. officials in minneapolis also have a duty to protect its citizens of all races, right now who are probably understandably terrified with watching this to be burned down. i think it's disheartening for everyone at home watching and all of us watching to both see a family railing at the loss of someone they love so much, and to see so much destruction being brought to a community. >> on that score jason, it is reported that some of these looters and arsonists aren't even minneapolis residents, they are anti-for types that have been bused in from other areas or traveled there on their own.

how do you prevent that kind of thing from happening and how do you assess to what degree these are homegrown protests versus outside agitators? >> well i don't know that there is a way to prevent it. these are provided by provocateurs. what you witnessed last night, i am an academic and i think that work matters. what you mentioned last night was an insurrection. and there were lots of people who were standing around. so i think until we have a real reckoning in this country, and ethical reckoning, a political reckoning and a social

reckoning, we will see those things happen every five years and communities will pay the price. >> but that is the question. the communities and small business owners, this is something that they didn't do. how do you -- i don't know if justify is the word but how do you explain that? >> well when the law of runs afoul of people, people run afoul of the law. if there was anyone i would throw this out at the feet of it would be former officer shall been, a former officer dowell, and if they hadn't had that and

they hadn't had the situation that you had now with the unre unrest, and inviting in people who are or may be just causing problems or the criminal element, but when police act like criminals, all of a sudden the public does not trust the law. >> jon: we expect to be hearing from the governor in about a half an hour from now and perhaps we will get some answers on all of this. jason nichols and lisa boothe, we think you both very much. >> sandra: thank you, john. and eugene scalia talking about what's been done to help all those folks in need. larry kudlow was on fox news earlier today. >> i think the next phase has to go back to old fashioned trumpet

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>> jon: we are awaiting a news conference from them governor of minnesota scheduled for the top of the hour, hours after the writer is set up police precinct building in minneapolis on fire. the violence there is escalating after a third straight night

after the death of an unarmed black man who was in police custody. derek showed income at the police officer who was seen with his knee on the neck of george floyd, the man under arrest, ultimately died of. he has been fired along with the other officer who is featured prominently on the citizen video shot of the arrest. two other officers fired as well so, for minneapolis police officers have been fired as a result of all this but no criminal charges as of yet and that's what this community is waiting for. sandra? >> sandra: thank you, john. the number of people losing their jobs continues to rise during the pandemic. the labor department says people filed for unemployment benefits last week pushing jobless claims near 40 1 million since the pandemic began. that's about 25% of the u.s. workforce. that said, the number of new jobless filing has been dropping

for eight straight weeks. here to break it all down is labor secretary eugene scalia. the numbers you are mentioning are still troubling numbers. as you said, more than 40 since the pandemic resulted in the shutdowns. that said, we are turning the corner last week for the first time since february. the number of people on unemployment has declined and, that declined as much as 3.9 million. so that's a very good sign, and what we want to see as we reopen the businesses and our economies. and as we go about that safely which is so important, too. >> sandra: so much is changing

in the workforce, so many businesses have had to shudder for good and some businesses are learning quite frankly they can get along with less employees. so as we climb their way out of this, how do you get people back to work? how do you get people roaring again as to where it was when this pandemic set in? >> we just had an incredibly dynamic economy up until the very start of march. there were reasons for that. policies of tax cuts, eliminating unnecessary regulatory burdens which the president had put in place which resulted in a much stronger economy than anyone had projected before he came into office. those principles are going to be important, they have had to step in and big ways but we do need to remember that a vibrant private sector is what creates jobs and it too much government doesn't get us there.

we've had some valuable measure is the president put in place with the carriers act to help with unemployment and help keep people on payroll. that has been helpful in tiding us over and i think now people are eager to get back to work and to do that in the at safew safeway. >> there are so many details that will help these small businesses recover and make their way through this, one of which is, the bill passed yesterday by the house that eases some of those restrictions and the burden on small businesses that did receive those emergency ppp loans. now they must spend a minimum of six to present on payroll and that's down from 75. they must use the funds in six months which is up from two months, which was a big complaint we heard from small businesses. extend the time to repay the loan if that is necessary.

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much has changed, but there is so much uncertainty next year in some of those harder hit areas like new york, if you do get an illness in that school the superintendent is already saying they will shut down for two weeks or whatever may happen, that greatly affects the parents ability to go to work to every day. so what are we doing and what are we thinking about to try to help people get back to work and stay at work especially with so much uncertainty around school? >> a few thoughts on that. one is the situation as we reopen and as we learn more about the virus is still so fluid, changing so rapidly, you know. this past week we passed a sad milestone as we had 100,000 deaths. we were also seeing states now

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response is through that lens. the mayor of minneapolis is on the right track. i don't think that's that enou enough. >> we expect to hear a lot more from joe biden this weekend when he's going to address the minnesota democratic party's virtual convention john? >> sandra: and violent demonstrations flaring up across the country as a result of the death of george floyd. how can police help the

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>> and so we are working with our officers right now. and we are working of course working with resources provided by the state. we were clear as of last night that we needed additional help. and we got that additional help, some from the state, and we are expecting more as well. >> sandra: that was minneapolis mayor jacob frey are looking to resume calm in his city as protests continue over the death of george floyd. prosecutors are not rushing to charge the officers involved. dan, we were really looking forward to talking to you this morning as we watch the situation continue to unfold

what are your thoughts this morning and what's your message? >> my thoughts are as a police officer, there have been very few times that i watch the video play out and i was ashamed to wear a badge and this is one of those times. the evidence -- i don't know what happened before the tape started running, but from the time the tape started running, it's clear that the actions by the officer were not only out of policy and training but were criminal in nature. clear probable cause for the officer that was on mr. floyd's neck. relative to the rest of the officers gathering all the information to what they saw and it did in these other videos showing a couple of others on his body, i'm that's my first

thought, probable cause is the there, and an arrest should be made as soon as possible. my second thought is the city is lost. they also lost in the attack on the city. we need the community and community leaders to come together and step up, no matter how fractured the system is, we can always and it need to move forward. we need to do that together. this can't be the police that go in and get rid of the disorder and it's done, that can only happen if the community cooperates. unfortunately we will have to bring in law enforcement from the region and to establish a safe and secure zone. there are many citizens in that

city who are having the safety and security violated by criminals who are taking over righteous out protests over this action by the officers and they are hijacking that righteous protest and using it for criminal activity. we need to stop that and figure out how we heal going forward. >> sandra: dan, the mayor that we heard from this morning, mayor frey, was asked about the police bring precinct that burned overnight. and what do you tell the public that doesn't have a police precinct working for them anymore? >> these two people of the third precinct will continue. the building is just bricks and mortar, it's a building. >> these leaders have an enormous task restoring order in the city. without a reporter on the ground

there, standing at the base of a building that is burning this morning. you work together in a unifying to command and they work together to put out the fires and addressing the violent hot spots. they will still go out and do their jobs to protect the citizens whether they have a building, a garage or a tent. but we need the community to help them feel safe by engaging them positively. if individuals try to hijack to protest, we need to make sure that people can protest but police officers can keep people safe at the same time. this will take a long time to heal from and it's a threat to the safety and security of the entire city and we need to get

all of the citizens involved in helping to reestablish that with law enforcement and with outside aid from outside the city. >> sandra: we are expecting to hear from the governor of the state of minnesota, what do you expect? >> he may put some special effects as to curfews, there may need to be an additional deployment of national guard offices and so they can go in and keep the people safe and secure who want to engage in peaceful protest of what is an outrage. >> sandra: thank you for being here and sharing all your thoughts this morning. >> there are no guarantees but if mother nature cooperates, nasa hopes the second time will be a charm for america's first manned space launch and nearly a

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>> jon: spacex and a nasa taking a second crack at a historic launch tomorrow. it will be the first manned up launch from u.s. soil since 2011 when the space shuttle stopped flying. tom jones is a former astronaut, nasa astronaut. top jones is a pretty good name

for you, too. america won the space race and then sat on the sidelines for the last decade or so, what does it take to get america back in the air? >> it's largely built and paid for, we have our thriving commercials say space sector, nasa has a short access that way because they will have two competitors, spacex and boeing both providing separate ways. and eventually will getting to mars. >> jon: and the technological innovation that has come with this privatization of space, and

onto a barge that is 5 miles off the course and bring them back for refurbishment. that's pretty amazing stuff. >> right, and we recovered 2 of 3 parts of the space shuttle when it was flying. i think the greatest thing about the spacex recovery of their first stage boosters, the innovative thing here is that it lowers the overall cost of the transportation system. it is going to be on the plus side of the economics for a spacex and for nasa and the taxpayer. >> and what about the safety aspect? just the fact that they were willing to scrub the launch the other day with the president in attendance, they say that everybody is making safety a priority here. >> that's a very good sign, certainly should not have that launch pressure which was seen in decades past. i think nasa has learned its lesson on that score given its history and a couple of shuttle

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>> sandra: fox news alert, minnesota governor tim also sent to hold a news conference at the bottom of the sour after another night of chaos in minneapolis sparked by the death of george floyd. violence parked across the city overnight, a police precinct set on fire and the national guard has been called out. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom," and sandra smith. >> jon: and i'm jon scott, in for ed henry, the national guard has arrived on the scene and they are in minneapolis and fully prepared to. george floyd will not have died in vain, respect his memory.

>> sandra: this after the arrest of a white police officer seen in a video kneeling on george floyd's neck as the unarmed african-american man cried out that he could not breathe. the four police officers involved have been fired. prosecutors are saying they will not be rushing to make any arrests or press charges he had in this case. here is a minneapolis mayor jacob frey. >> for several hours in the past couple of nights in terms of looting is unacceptable. our communities cannot and will not tolerate it. these are businesses, these are community institutions that we need to. it's not just enough to do the right thing yourself, we need to be making sure that all of us are held accountable to make sure that we are holding up the highest ideals that we stand by. >> jon: at matt finn's on the ground alive in minneapolis now.

matt? >> john, we are not far from that police precinct building that was burned by rioters in this entire business district was hit hard by looters. you can see this morning, the state police now demonstrating a show of force here trying to protect the fire crews not far behind them down the road, who you can see are still extinguishing the flames this morning. to my right, the u.s. bank property here, and they try to get back inside and do damage to the atm machines, a very violent scene. the light is allowing us to see the full extent of the damage and within walking and driving in this area and there are countless businesses that had their windows smashed and diluted.

you can see this line of police blocking of the area around the usaa bank, and there is smoldering buildings, a cloud of black smoke across the city for hours, if not days. these crews are doing their best to remain safe from people who could potentially return violence against them. if right now, this line of state patrol officers, people are approaching them. they are obviously getting in their faces and in the past couple of minutes, a few mothers approached these officers and asked them to protect their sons come not kill them, because they feel like, they say, they worry for their sons in this city. john and sandra? >> jon: matt finn reporting live. matt, thank you. >> sandra: for more on all this let's bring in fox news political analyst janelle caldwell who is the author of the book "taken for granted."

thanks for being here this morning. >> for many african-americans, the pressure cooker hasn't just spilled over, the top is shattered in a thousand pieces. i got to be honest. for a lot of african-americans in this country, they feel that being black is a curse. it's a curse because before you know my name, before you know the content of my character, before you know my moral compass, i'm already considered a threat to you, to so many americans. i'm telling you, the threat when i'm jogging, a threat when you have my knehave your knee on myd i'm screaming i can't breathe, a threat when you are in the park

walking her dog, this reality that has gone on for decades must come to an end. when the amendment was ratified and the slavery was abolished and a lot of the confederate soldiers became police officers and judges, thereby disenfranchised, that reminds a lot of us with the same trauma back then. i had an opportunity to speak to my grandfather today, james williams, it's a 76th birthday. he grew up in and come arkansas and got into many altercations with the clan there. i think it's important for good people who are watching right now, to know that, it's not enough for you just to be a good

person. i want to tell you, you have to use your platform. you have to speak out against these injustices. none of us can be quiet while this is going on. we have to bring justice in the situation and it must be swift. >> sandra: the officers involved in the death have been fired and taken off the job but charges against him have not been pressed. we are about to hear the governor from minnesota at the bottom of the hour, what does the message need to be from leadership in this moment? >> there has to be consistency across the board.

all too often when these situations happen, in a short period of time, what did the individual do? did he break in someone's house? was he a felon? there is always an excuse why it was okay to take someone's life. i'm pro-life, i believe in life, the sanctity of life. and if we all, or most of us believe, we should all be outraged. mutually exclusively outraged by what has happened. i'm pro police, i have supported the police had actually spoken on behalf of a large police, national police organization but every voice needs to come to fruition, they need to unite to change the dynamic in play because it's been going on for far too long.

and what i talked about is the community where you don't necessarily get the media attention but now it is. whatever religious affiliation and political affiliation, we almost come together for the common good of all people. but in this case especially, african-americans. >> sandra: i know it's not easy for you to talk about, and on national television at that. and all of us have seen that video, and jana conwell,

thank you. >> jon: and twitter is upping the ante and its feud with president trump attaching a warning to the president's tweet about minneapolis looting saying his tweet glorifies violence. this comes a day after he signed an executive order targeting social media sites. >> the white house has escalated this feud with twitter after twitter popped on that warning label onto one of president trump's tweets that he posted overnight which said to come up when the looting starts, the shooting starts. twitter said it "this rules about horrifying violence." however twitter has determined that it may be in the public's interest to allow the tweet to remain accessible. since then the white house twitter account also posted that same tweet from president trump and again, twitter slapped another warning label on it. now the white house is pointing to tweets from iran's supreme leader and which he called for

violence against israel. and pointing to that as an example of twitter applying different rules for different people. the white house said, this tweet violated twitter rules about what glorifying violence, however twitter will determine it it will allow terrorists, dictators and foreign propagandists to abuse this platform. now this back and forth, they will try to limit the legal protections that shield social media companies write content that is posted on the platform. >> president trump: that's why we are able to be legally shut down, and look at facebook, look at the tribunal they set up a facebook. >> this is a big story that they are watching today and another big story, we are tracking a news conference from president trump around 2:00 p.m. this afternoon and china.

we don't know exactly what the president will announce but it will likely include something about china's latest crackdown on hong kong and the protest that follows. the administration is cracking down on chinese university students with suspected links to china's military coup china, and this is already in a relationship between beijing and washington. >> kristin fisher keeping an eye on it at the white house. >> sandra: minneapolis erupting in violence overnight. protesters there take to the streets demanding justice for george floyd. an update for that city straight

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>> jon: fox news alert come up minneapolis seeing another night of violence as protests there over the death of george floyd. the officers involved were fired but protesters are calling for them to be arrested and charged, the police precinct in minneapolis was set on fire overnight and there are riots and looting throughout the area. >> we have gone through the liquidity phase and now we are in the reopening phase. i think the next phase has to go back to old-fashioned trump-economics. deep regulating, fair trade deals, things that were the economy rapidly in the first three years plus. >> sandra: that's larry kudlow who was on fox news earlier this morning talking about the economy. the commerce department reported thursday that the u.s. economy did shrink at an annual rate of 5%, that was at the first quarter faster than analysts had

expected with many thinking the second quarter could be even worse. this is mohammed al arian, and former chair of president obama's global development council. thanks so much for being here. if the big question is how do we get ourselves out of this? and as the economy has reopened and businesses reopen across the country, how strongly will we see this economy recover? >> thank you for having me, sondra. the good news is we are reopening and we are reopening in a relatively healthy manner. so if we can sustain that we are looking at a check mark recovery. that means a slow and rather long recovery. the second quarter will be hard to come but thereafter we can start getting better numbers. policy can accelerate that and that's really important but it has to be the right sort of policies. >> what is it going to take them

because obviously there's a lot of looking back at the economy that we had before the shutdown happened. at the trump administration takes a lot of credit for the rolling back of regulations and the cutting of taxes that led to robust economic growth. but this is going to look different. a lot of companies aren't even going to emerge from this or even survived this, so how do you get out of this economic shutdown? >> so we passed the purely relief stage and now we are looking at reducing fear of living with covid, and subsequently a strong recovery. so in this phase it's about reducing fear, for businesses to engage and the consumer to engage. the next stage is understanding that our destination is different. it is one that is going to have more concentration and less productivity and that's what we do. it's about the safety nets,

whatever we can do to reduce economic insecurity and increase productivity which will help us a great deal. >> sandra: very interesting. we have eugene scalia and we ask how he plans to see this econo economy. >> we get the economy growing again in part by remembering that it was roaring and why. we do need to remember that a vibrant private sector is what creates jobs and too much government doesn't get us there. >> sandra: meanwhile i want to turn here and say the white house usually has economic projections and they are breaking that president. as "the washington post" headline this morning.

that forecast would be the extent of the downturn. the sub headline as a presidents aide had not published economic forecast citing volatility in the u.s. economy. so as senior administration officials responding to all of the headlines that that is grabbing on that decision saying this. given the unprecedented state of play, the data is extremely fluid and would produce a lesson obstructive forecast. that's just president when compared to our economic situation is dismissible. is it come mohammed or do we need to see those projections from the white house over just how bad the economy got hit out of this? >> i think it's understandable and also companies have done the same thing. those companies have suspended guidance and no longer tell you what to expect because the future is so uncertain.

that's the gdp target for a long time and is not issuing one. we are on this uncertain journey to an uncertain destination, even in this quarter. the gdp estimate went from minus 30%, two minus 40%. i think what the white house has done is actually very sensible. it's yet another signal that, it's great to have you on. thank you. meanwhile in washington, we are awaiting a news conference where president trump is expected to announce new measures for china as contention continues to rise between the u.s. and japan.

that's a foundation for the defense of democracies. when you look at china's crackdown on hong kong, what comes to mind in terms of how the u.s. should respond? >> thanks for having me. secretary pompeo had to certify under statute that hong kong is no longer autonomous, the entire system of one country, two different systems has been snuffed out now in hong kong. as a result of that, the president now has a menu of possible punishments and sanctions that he can choose from that range from on the lower side of the scale, sanctioning individual chinese and hong kong officials that are involved in this new crackdown on hong kong all the way up to kind of the nuclear option,

eliminating hong kong's special economic and custom status under u.s. law. which is a source of billions and billions of dollars for the chinese economy and would really be a painful blow to them. and yet it carries a great risk obviously in terms of further escalating tensions between the united states and china, the second largest economy in the world. >> jon: it's secretary of state mike pompeo was on the ingraham angle last night and pointed out the tough approach that this administration has taken towards china. listen. >> make no mistake about it, president trump is the first president, and this isn't political. president bush and president obama all refused to recognize the threat that the communist party presented to america. presidents wouldn't do it.

>> do you agree that this administration is taking a much tougher line when compared to previous administrations? >> there is no question. this has one of the fastest paradigm shifts in american foreign policy in history. i think from viewing china in several generations of american government saying china has the potential in an american-led international order to aid chinese communist party that is determined to replace the american order with a chinese led system based on eliminating the rule of law. that's an amazing shift and it's a confrontation that has been brewing for some time in the trump administration deserves a lot of credit for it. i think today's news conference is going to be another important inflection point in this, let's

face it, another budding cold war, and it's no less serious and significant and threatening to long term american diplomatic and economic interests. >> jon: very quickly before you get away, the u.s. is going after north korean elements, and this is despite the warm personal relationship that president trump confesses to have with kim jong un. >> i think despite love letters and despite the summit, north korea remains as determined as ever to expand its nuclear program. the threat today is large, not smaller, then poked when president trump first met kim jong un in singapore almost two years ago.

and that's an actual scheme to expand. that underscores what a malignant actor and threat china is now to american interests and in fact to the interest of the world unfortunately. >> john hannah from the foundation, it's good to have you. >> just moments from now, minnesota governor ken watts will be holding a news conference sparked by the death of an unarmed black man in police custody. and outrage over the video of a white officer pinning george floyd to the pavement by kneeling on his neck. we will talk to judge andrew napolitano about the investigation into that case. >> this investigation is to investigate allegations of

willful violations of federal civil rights.

>> sandra: of minnesota governor tim walz's now speaking. >> the ashes are symbolic of decades of generations of pain, of anguish, unheard. much like we failed to hear george floyd as he pleaded for his life as the world watched. by people sworn to protect him,

his community, our state. so many other brothers, sisters, and now generations of pain are manifesting itself in front of the world and the world is watching. one of the first people i called after seeing the video wasn't valerie castille, we've become friends since the killing. and for those watching today who aren't familiar, he died in front of his loved ones and his child. and left them behind and left behind a grieving mother who has become an advocate for justice, and advocate for reform. that's an advocate for kindness and decency. seek justice, seek fairness, and

show justice and show kindness. what the world saw last night was not that. it's been a visceral pain, a community trying to understand who we are and go from there. i joined today by attorney general ellison, and kernel languor of the minnesota state patrol and commissioner john harrington. i spoke this morning, set a prayer up for those grieving, and also said something very important. this is where we start, but every time we get to this place we never start the process to make sure it never happens again

and that commitment against leaders in our community, watching it happen across the united states, watching another name be added and mike brown, and unfortunately now we've added george floyd. the situation on the ground doesn't allow us at this time to tackle those issues. the african-american community, our libraries and businesses, those nonprofits and government entities, we have to restore order. making sure that justice is served, justice is served swiftly and we have learned

something. i will talk to the team about what transition last night when the state assumed responsibili responsibility, and then the plan going forward to ensure tonight that our buildings do not burn and our citizens are secure and that space that we are going to create allows us to get back to the conversation of serving justice and making sure that we are not adding to that list of unheard names. i want to be very clear and speak to that community. the very tools that we need to use to get control to make sure that buildings aren't burned on the rule of law collapses are those of very institutional tools that have led to that grief and pain. i understand clearly there is no trust in many of our communities

and our differentiation between the minneapolis police department that we lose the trust of those that are there to serve is very difficult for people to make for those standing up there with me. i will not patronize you as a white man without those lived experiences of how difficult that is. i'm asking you to help us come help us to use a humane way to get the streets to get to a place where we can restore that justice so those who are expressing rage and anger and demanding justice are heard of. not those who throw firebombs into businesses that our community colors have worked so hard to build back up areas that were blighted at one time and are thriving because of their entrepreneurship and their hard work. a library and an area where our children, as we know, are institutionally put behind and the achievement gap for our

community of color is a shame for the state, we continue to talk about and don't repair it. and that burned last night. so i want to just call out very, very clearly, as we put a presence on the street to restore order, to open that space to seek justice and hear what happened. my first responsibility for the state of minnesota's safety and security of all citizens. we cannot have the looting and recklessness that went on. we cannot function as society, and i would refuse to have it take away attention and it allows a man to be held in broad daylight and thank god a young

person had a camera to video it. because there's not a person here that is listening today that wonders how many time the camera is not there. we have people out there putting themselves on the line to put out fires and our firefighters that are under attack. those are the things i'm asking you to help restore that order. we had that decision made around 12:15 p.m. last night and that first mission was executed around 3:45 p.m. at the third precinct, we will see a difference. so i'm asking you and you will hear from them to talk about this. i also want you to think about what happens when we don't have that. people who are concerned about that police presence, of an overly armed camp and their

neighborhoods that is not seen in communities, and they have others that have run from. last night i got a call from a dedicated public servants, senator torres ray called in her district and it was on fire. there was no social control, and that is an abject failure that cannot happen. we must restore that order to that. senator torres ray is hot her whole life on these issues of inequities and making sure that people's voices are lifted up.

we resecure the third precinct and do so in a manner of which i am proud of how it was executed by the steam, no injuries and no loss of life. a reestablishment of putting the fire is out for those businesses. a cnn reporter, a crew was arrested by the state patrol. a few minutes after hearing that i was on a call with cnn president jeff zucker who demanded to know what happened. i take full responsibility, there is no reason something like this should happen. calls were made immediately. this is a very public apology to that team, it should not happen. and i want to be clear to those of you listening. and i think are minnesota reporters know this. i'm a teacher by trade and i've spent my time as governor highlighting the need to be as transparent as possible to the press and i failed you last night and that. it does not escape me that we are here on the catalyst that with the spark, by what happened with the police detainment of

george floyd and the idea that a reporter would have been taken while another police action was an player is inexcusable. so to the cnn team and the journalists here, this is about having a plan and this is what these folks are going to talk about. this is about having an aggressive approach to understanding with the community needs, to not coming in heavy-handed but to create space in which the story can be told. in a situation like this even if you are clearing an area, we have got to ensure that there is a safe spot for journalism to tell the story. the issue here is trust. the community that is down there that is terrorized by this, if they see a reporter being arrested their assumption is, something is going to happen that they don't want to be seen. and so that is unacceptable. we will continue to strive to make sure that that accessibility is maintained, not

only that but the protection and security and safety of the journalists covering this is a top priority not because it's the nice thing to do but because it is a key component of how we fix this. sunshine, disinfectant and seeing what is happening has to be done. i appreciate president zucker's call in his understanding in a situation where he was rightfully incredibly angry, and that falls squarely on. that apology has been issued and i think going forward, to make sure it doesn't happen again. it's time for us to clean our streets and time for us to execute today and a way that shows respect and dignity to communities. i'm going to ask for a lot of help today for those folks who want to see it, it's my expectation that justice for the officers involved in this will be swift. it will come in a timely manner and it will be fair. that is what we have asked for.

i have been in contact with the hennepin county attorney, and i'm competent that those very things i just said will happen. to do a fair, full and swift gathering of all of the evidence involved, but i would reiterate again for so many of us, not all that is done in every case where all of that evidence is gathered before and i would ask that the swift justice be carried out. so minnesotans, your pain is real. the chapter that has been written this week is one of our darkest chapters and we can choose a few things. we can choose to try to get past

of this, we can choose to try to put a force out there and stop things from happening. we can hope that in the midst of covid-19 or something that it passes by and we don't have to turn that mirror to look at the harsh reality, whether it be health disparities or disparities in our communities of color, police disparities in communities of color, and these are all very real. we pride ourselves on a state of openness, and we talked a lot about one minnesota, that wasn't on display last night. i don't naively think everything heals and they say it will be better. this is a community that should expect more than words they should expect results.

lieutenant flenniken and i have tried to make equity of everything that's been done, there was a lot of equity for george floyd. his family is probably wondering where the one minnesota is for them and that's on us. us as minnesotans. us as governors and the team that works with me to establish order in our streets and establish and rebuild trust in our communities. they left those voices up to be heard, not pleading for their lives but demanding the changes necessary so no one else is put in that position. that's it's time to turn things over to allison.

we dismis it can't just dismissd ignore it and relegated to criminal and bad behavior, actually ask yourself what's going on and we absolutely must pay attention to it. i like everyone to recognize the fact that the national guard just a week ago was administering covid-19 tests to help people, and don't react to them the way you might react to the minneapolis police

department. it's not the same group. and that could be unfair conduct, and they try to thrive and live because we are still in the middle of a pandemic. >> it is that sense of service they have to restore order on the streets, and the community was protesting peacefully but not see this as another occupation by end of their military force. it really is -- make sure that there is calm and peace in it and everybody can operate

peacefully. so please accept it of that and i'm asking that of our community. it is essential, and it's a perfectly legitimate question. it's important to know that under minnesota's statutes, the prosecution's with the county attorney in which the offense occurred. and i believe that the message has been sent and received that the wheels of justice must turn swiftly. not unjustly, expeditiously, thoroughly, fairly, but swiftly. it's important that people have confidence no matter who you may be, that's how we live in minnesota. let me also say that, the

prosecution, this criminal process is as important, they cannot solve the problem. as the governor so eloquently said, events like this start when they come to the conclusion but they never start the process of real reform. i will submit to you that myself and commissioner harrington under the leadership of the governor have already starting a process on the working group on preventing and producing deadly force encounters with the police. we have a report that we want attention from the legislature and the entire community on, to focus on that, so we can really get to the bottom of this when it comes to issues of use of forest and it when it comes to officer wellness and comes to community healing, it's just all kinds of things that bear on

this issue. and it's not just those things. that really begins in earnest now and is a more important now than ever. i want to say, we have to have a situation where lake street, a a precious jewel of our state is a place where minnesotans can walk again and businesses can be safe again. but the message was, this situation with mr. floyd is intolerable, absolutely unacceptable and must change. that message must be received as well. the governor kemp myself and the lieutenant governor, all of us

are committed to that long-term change and i can tell you i spoke with many legislatures that feel the exact same way. people in the philanthropic community feel the exact same way. so i think we feel some real changes. we are not just going to fix the windows and sweep up the grou gt will be and now fraught with disparities to housing two wages to everything else. with that i want to hand it over to general jensen, major general jensen who will further elaborate.

>> good morning, i am major general john jensen, i'm the adjunct general for the national guard and i've been the object of since november of 2017. what i will describe quickly as the actions of the minnesota national guard since we were under governor walz's executive order. like many minnesotans i woke up yesterday morning to the news that the minneapolis mayor had requested national guard support. the only difference was i opened up my phone and there was a text from commissioner harrington and it wasn't the newspaper or the morning news that notified me of that. so immediately yesterday morning i made contact with the commissioner and we began planning on the deployment of the national guard in support of minneapolis. for those of you who may not understand how emergency management works in minnesota i will just take a quick moment to explain that. in minnesota, coordinators were

the merits of minneapolis, st. paul, rochester and duluth and they requested national guard support through the state even seen. so in accordance with that, minneapolis mayor frey made that request of the minnesota national guard which additionally comes with the request of the layout of capability needed. and sometimes it lags. when it lags what we do is we begin preparing for an unknown mission and we sort of knew what we might be doing as it related to civil disturbance in minneapolis. but it's very important that we know exactly what we are being asked to do so we make sure that we have the right equipment and we mobilize the right number of soldiers and the right number of soldiers and airmen to support those soldiers that are there to

conduct the mission that element was lacking but with the governor's decision to allow me to continue to plan, we began notifying soldiers early yesterday morning of a pending mission. once we notify our soldiers, and most likely the probability of employment was for minneapolis. as we met, and that's the lack of the mission and the description of what exactly the minnesota national guard needed to do. my concern to the governor was twofold. one, i wanted to know what special equipment i might need to encompass the mission, and

number two, i was very concerned about a move to an unfamiliar area of minneapolis under the cover of darkness. i wanted to get get out where my soldiers and my airmen could be familiar with their campaign. we never got such a mission assignments, we never got such a mission description. yesterday we performed for missions, and that came when we were notified of an immediate and pending threat of the state capital. my immediate advice to the governor is to assign that mission to the minnesota national guard and he agreed. with one caveat, that is the state patrol also wanted to support that mission. so in cooperation with the state patrol we began that mission.

the second and third mission came together and came from st. paul, specifically it was to provide security for the ramsey county law enforcement center and the minnesota bureau of criminal app apprehension. the key part of that security was to ensure that st. paul st.l police officers were therefore relieved of that duty and able to respond throughout the city of st. paul throughout the day. and about the last mission we did receive yesterday it was an escort mission for the minneapolis fire department, the concept of the operation was that we would move and we would secure the area so we could perform their life-saving and property saving missions. and that we continue to do those missions through the evening. as the governor indicated, about a quarter after midnight this

morning, the governor authorized a law and order mission into the third mission, and under the leadership of the state patrol, and the department of public safety, the minnesota national guard was assigned a task and a mission, we would follow the state patrol and we would help secure the area that we cleared. our soldiers remain in our soldiers remain in that ar area. people and me mndot can come in. one other mission, i won't cover the exact details but it's ongoing right now, with the minneapolis police department. i'm very proud of the relationship between the minnesota national guard in the minneapolis police department

goes back to super bowl lii. chief rondo and i worked together then. we had opportunities to serve together and they have a lot of respect for him. we will continue to operate in minneapolis until such time that the governor relieves us of that mission. we will do so in support of the department of public safety and minnesota state patrol. that's just a little bit of background with minnesota national guard since yesterday morning and we first notified -- were notified of a possible deployment. through the deployment and mission set last night and really this morning. my recommendation to the governor was that i continue to do the state capital mission and that i continue to do the mission in support of the minneapolis fire department. i believe both of those are the critical mission, to the state and minneapolis.

we will conduct follow-on missions again in support of the minnesota state patrol in the department of public safety. at this time, i would like to introduce the commissioner of public safety, commissioner john harrington. >> good morning. i am the commissioner of public safety, john harrington. governor walz tasked me to prepare options and capacities and capabilities to respond to the civil unrest protests and more importantly and really more directly to the unlawful behavior of the arsonists, the thieves and burglars, the vandals who were tearing apart the city of minneapolis. i want that to be clear, i think it's a clear line of demarcation that we were operating under.

in the fundamentals of the department of public safety, fundamental to the state patrol that we take an oath to support the constitution and that we believe that our work is absolutely essential to allow everyone's first amendment right to have their voices heard. we were not deployed and we have not been deployed and we will not be deployed to stifle free speech. but we will not and cannot allow unlawful, dangerous behavior to continue. i am particularly proud of our relationship with both the minnesota national guard, the department of national resources and colonel langan. we called and they came. it doesn't make it much more comp gated than that. i said i'm going to ndou