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flight from america in a decade. think about that. we can get through this trade we can get through a lot. our wish tonight is that you stay safe. thank you for watching. this breaking news report i'm a bret baier, shannon bream is taking over with live coverage right now. shannon. shannon: bretz, thank you. again, so important to remind america about what we thought yesterday because tonight we've got more protests and pain and another night of turmoil throughout much of america. good evening i'm shannon bream in washington. more demonstrations scattered across the united states, all in response to the death of george floyd at the hands of the police. things feel so far a bit calmer over the last three nights and we do continue to see not only protests but violence in the form of looting, fires and flashes between protesters and police. a curfew has been in effect in philadelphia for about four
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hours now after more confrontations and damage they are today. that is one of several major cities now with minor cities as well opposing a curfew in an effort to keep people off the streets. check it out across the country. there is your map. earlier today an ugly scene in minneapolis were a semi tractor trailer reached a highway have been closed to traffic and appeared to head straight for a large group of peaceful protesters. the good news, presently no one has been hurt and the driver has been arrested. nearly half of the states in this country tonight have mobilized the national guard for help in stopping the violence that stemmed from many of these protests. tonight we have live team coverage of the demonstrations, the riots and the response from here in washington to all across the country. jonathan joins us from atlanta where he has been monitoring the situation for several nights now but how are things standing out tonight on this sunday, jonathan? reporter: shannon, for now there
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is an eerie calm and a strong police presence here in downtown atlanta. we are across the street from cnn center where much of the vandalism in the city took place friday night. there is now a fence around the perimeter of cnn center to prevent further incursions and a strong presence, not only from atlanta police but also neighboring agencies, sheriff's departments in the national guard the governor has authorized as many as 3000 members of the national guard to assist in communities throughout georgia maintaining law and order up in the protest started out peaceful today but then about half an hour before curfew protesters started hurling bottles and occasionally launching fireworks into the assembled police officers. they responded with tear gas and moved them out of this area of downtown atlanta. there are significant developments as far as the police go.
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to elise officers were fired today after city officials reviewed video of them forcibly removing two black college students from a car last night but the students, young man and woman were out past curfew but apparently not participating in the demonstrations. the police chief issued an apology not only to the students but also to the african-american community in general and she said quote, i know that we caused further fear to you in a space that is already so fearful for so many african americans and im genuinely sorry. shannon, back to you. shannon: jonathan, in atlanta. two hours of live coverage and we will actually print thank you, jonathan would be going out to new york for brian yunus is at 12 and broadway tonight keep an eye on things there. good evening, ryan. reporter: a few moments ago speaking with bret baier, things were calm but within ten minutes
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fire is down there and this is the first fire we seem tonight. we are a couple blocks from union square and that is the fire over there. they have set a perimeter with the police on this intersection and if you look over there you got protesters over here on the side and their hands are up and they are saying black lives matter but behind the police officers here they are protecting the first responders who are firefighters trying to take out this fire. the firefighters right now are battling that blaze and trying to take it out. we saw this yesterday. they would protect the firefighters as they came in to take out or take care of the blaze we saw last night. you can see that shot right there. this is a tense situation. this is on the other end of the block. on the other end of the block half the protesters charged behind us. we have a situation here with
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the nypd has created a perimeter around this intersection and we have protesters now on our right behind us and also to our left. we are hearing loud bangs from different directions. this is a situation right now in union square. we will keep it right here on the shot. today started peacefully. we had protesters and we had protesters who started off peacefully and they splintered into different groups, in manhattan and in brooklyn. now they've come back to union square where i got bad lesson. we will keep an eye out here but shannon i will toss it back to you. the situation is just getting started unfortunately. shannon: brian, live at 12 and broadway in new york but he had amazing interaction yesterday with a nurse who came out and tried to calm the crowd. it was an incredible scene and if we have more time we will talk about what happened there but we want to take you to kevin corke in washington dc, live
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inside the white house. this is a spot where we've seen in norma's amount of friction between protesters and law enforcement trade kevin, how are you tonight? reporter: hanging in there. we were hit by a pretty significant round of tear gas and pepper balls. obviously the police wanted out of lafayette park so i'm going to step out of the way and let you see what's happening. a lot of people still here, intermittent fires been set and we were literally, shannon, all lined up on the other side of h street to the north end of lafayette park. this was till about five minutes ago and then they started firing tear gas and pepper balls. people started running. the air is thick. this is what we've come to expect unfortunately as it gets darker and later. things tend to, for lack of a better description, he taught. there is a curfew here in washington, 11:00 p.m. until 6:00 a.m. and it will be
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interesting as we listen to more flash bangs go off across the street in the park. it will be interesting to see what they do to try to get folks out of here. you are seeing a crowd rush hour labor i will try to protect the camera here as they make their way across the street. this is what we have seen unfortunately for the last 25 minutes or so. it's intermittent pepper balls fired at the crowd and then they respond by throwing water bottles and smashing windows and breaking things and that is what we are seen once again. we are across the street and feel like we are safe and we will keep as many pictures going for as long as we can throughout the night. back to you. shannon: just the people that have contact, this is across from the white house and in the scene of a number of protests over the ages here in washington. most of the time they are peaceful. nearly every day of the year you will see people there protesting and lafayette park outside the white house but the secret service is made very clear they are protecting the president of the united states.
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if you approach too far, as we have seen, very much volatile on friday night and other nights have been as well but we will keep a close eye on this as we watch now but kevin you mentioned that curfew that is supposed to come in at 11:00 o'clock. cities have put the curfews down and they have not been enforced but is it your sense that is why we are seeing a ramp-up of lawn from an activity at this point in lafayette park? reporter: absolutely spot on. you hit the nail on the head. i can tell you, i've been out here for about six, seven hours now and i'm beginning to feel the squeeze. what i mean by that is, law enforcement is selectively and methodically shutting off access to this area. can't drive in, it's getting more difficult to even walk into this particular area. i'm talking north of lafayette park they are moving the crowd, migrate the crowd to the east. as you seat with this building, small fire here, the crowd seems to be enjoying that but it isn't my sense, shannon, they will
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begin to move this crowd little by little to the east and try to direct them away from this white house complex in lafayette park. shannon. shannon: kevin, we had discussion and we've been able to confirm that on friday night when this was getting heated up for the first night in washington that was our first big night here the secret service did take the president into the bunker at the white house. if you have ever been, kevin, i'm sure that you've seen there's a field there at a protective measure that is like none other for the president goes into that bunker and it's serious business. we understand that happen for a short time on friday night. do you know anything more? reporter: that is what i understand as well but we confirm that, shannon. very interesting you mention going down to the bunker. i'm sure it is not something that the president had in mind when he was watching the coverage but i'm sure he felt very secure in the residence.
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you have to do with the secret service asks of you but he did go down there for a very short time. i can only tell you this as well, having been in and around this complex for many years now, and i know you have as well, anytime they do that these are getting, lest just say, less than secure. that's what they did. shannon: yeah, no joke there. the perimeter at the white house and you and i have both covered a number of people who will throw a backpack or approach the fence and there is no hesitation if you go over that fence and there are dogs and snipers on the roof and the message is clear that if you try to breach it this is not like lutein and office depot. it's handled it differently. we will continue to watch. it could be -- we saw a lot of fireworks on friday night but keep us updated, kevin. stay safe and we will check back shortly. reporter: sounds good, shannon prayed i'll keep an eye on it for you. shannon: rudy giuliani is here to talk about what were seen
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across country and will be seen in new york. we were with brian anis a short time ago, 12 and broadway, protesters fire under way and started out peacefully but worry looking live and new york city tonight and what are your feelings looking at your city tonight? >> i was there about two hours ago, a couple hours going to the places that were attacked last night. they were pretty peaceful during the daytime. my heart is broken for my city. i spent eight years making this sure it did not happen but i know how to stop this. so do my police commissioners who have been on fox with you. this is a lack of leadership on the part of the nonexistent mayor de blasio who is investigating the police. he's angrier about that and about the social distancing then he is people burning down his city. are people beating the hell out of the cops.
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we have cops in the hospital and an inspector bloodied up and kicked in the ribs. in a civilized city you don't allow that. there is no one that is more outraged by the unjustifiable killing of mr. floyd. when i saw that on monday i said to myself, this is a terrible thing and it has to be prosecuted i prosecuted 70 police officers. i love the police but i know how to prosecute bad ones. those cops in minnesota are bad ones. but most cops are not. there are no more bad cops then bad lawyers or bad reporters or bad doctors, bad people. to make this into police brutality is a major problem. it's just wrong. it is a problem. what happened on monday is a real problem. but look at those police officers but i'm looking at new york city right now and those police officers and i talked to
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many today, they know they will get pounded in the head with bricks, they know if they go in all by themselves to make an arrest they will have 15 people trying to beat them up. they know molotov cocktails will be thrown at them. they know they might be well welded to the hospital tonight and a possibility they might not go home. look at them standing there. they're not provoking anyone. they are protecting those people. that is what police officers, 800,000, do. shannon: mayor, like you said, just like in any profession, any community, any neighborhood, there are bad actors. >> you cannot exploit that or ignore the fact that the police presence in african-american neighborhoods is occasioned by the excessive amount of violent crime that victimizes african-americans. police officers are there in excessive numbers. i put them there in excessive
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numbers to save the lives of african americans in the policing i did in new york saves more african american lives than any american history. shannon: mayor, tonight you say there's a failure of leadership in new york. what advice, i'm not that he will be listening or he would take your advice but what is your advice to mayor de blasio about how to better handle this situation? >> lazio is too stupid to be mayor. you can't put jobs and ultimate responsibly in the hands of the incompetent. the mayor of minnesota should resign. when he gave up that precinct he he because this thing throughout america. you don't give up police precinct and leave the hoodlums to burn it down. what do you think will happen? it will empower these smalltime thugs to burn new york, bern philadelphia and did you notice, shannon, they're all progresses, democratic cities that are burning with mayors whose heads
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are in the clouds and who recently released criminals from prison. you have to be able to -- [inaudible conversations] you have to be able to protect the lives of your citizens in your city if you can't do that, find another job. the guy in minnesota, find another job. shannon: it looks like -- mayor, i want to point here, we've got video the looks like it is live from new york city now. police officers, one who appeared to be down, whether he was injured or knocked down or was down there trying to show a sign of conciliation or peace but there's a large crowd there and it appears -- [inaudible conversations] shannon: they are standing outside. >> that's not a police officer but that's an inspector, general
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in the army, shannon. i noticed this last night. new york city, when you see these men in white as opposed to in blue those are high-ranking new york city police officers. shannon: what would he be doing? >> there the equivalent of captains and generals in the army. we don't allow young police officers to be out there to make mistakes like they did in minnesota. we put supervisors out there and that man is probably well over 50 years old but he is not afraid to go out in the crowd. he just showed all the young men he can take what they take. that is why it's the greatest police department in the world. that man is an inspector. that's about as high as you get in the new york city police department and is not sitting behind a desk tonight but right out there where the burning is going on and that's why we control it better than anyone else. shannon: mayor, let me read from the attorney general bill bartok about cracking down.
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the voices of peaceful and legitimate protests have been hijacked by violent radical elements but he's a groups of outside radicals and agitators are exploiting the situation to pursue their own separate, violent and extremist agenda. how worried are you that there are people and we are hearing a number of cities reporting that the people that they are resting are not from there. how worried are you about outside groups coming in capitalizing on this? >> i have seen some of the communiqués of anti-fa. this is organized absolutely. the reality is the attorney general is completely ride. the same of this is, shannon, monday night was a time that if we handled this right and these arsonists did not get in the middle of it this could've been an issue where we could have all come together but there is no one that disagrees, republican, democrat, left or right, black, white, that the killing of george floyd was an outrage and that the man who did it should be prosecuted.
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but there's no one that you disagree that the people are doing this that they should not be allowed to run around like that and they should be arrested. they should be put in prison and should not be let out for coronavirus. how ridiculous was that? to let out criminals -- with a person let out by stupid de blasio to raped and raped a woman four days later. how stupid is that? that is the idiot that you deal with in these democratic cities with progressive mayors. i will exempt the mayor of atlanta who is the only democratic mayor, that i have heard, that has any sense in the last five days. this is a lack of leadership and the fact that our cities have been hijacked for 100 years, first by crooked democratic and now by incompetent at progressive democratic mayors who do not know -. shannon: before we go, clearly you and mr. de blasio will not see i do i and any policy matters that i can imagine but
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is there anything you have seen at this point to reclaim -- could he at this point reclaim control of the city? >> mr. de blasio does not see eye to eye with governor cuomo. they were never together other. mayor de blasio is should not even be talked about but he is so far off what a mayor should be and if andrew cuomo told you the truth he would tell you that he's a complete incompetent and you can't rely on him which is why he was never seen with him and 2.5 months and having to deal with the pandemic where he never had a real mayor in new york city. mayor de blasio is a disgrace and so is the mayor of minnesota. any america gives up a police precinct and lets people burn it down should be required to resign. shannon: that was heartbreaking to see. it is an these have incredible, incredible jobs and very difficult balancing acts right
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now in the middle of this. mayor giuliani, thank you for popping in with us. we will keep an eye on new york city. thank you, sir. we we'll take a quick break and then vacuumed to the white house where things are heating up. recheck and live with kevin corke next. it's best we stay apart for a bit, but that doesn't mean you're in this alone. we're automatically refunding our customers a portion of their personal auto premiums. we're also offering flexible payment options for those who've been financially affected by the crisis. we look forward to returning to something that feels a little closer to life as we knew it, but until then you can see how we're here to help at libertymutual.com/covid-19. [ piano playing ] an herbal stress reliever ashwagandha, that helps you turn the stressed life...
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shannon: we are watching unrest again across the country tonight and moderating hotspots but we have reporters from "coast to coast". we want to check in with kevin corke outside the white house where it started but he it was peaceful earlier today but it is now live and within view of the white house is a totally different story tonight as the looming 11:00 p.m. curfew is coming. kevin let's check in and see what your take is on whether that will happen tonight. reporter: well, unfortunately, shannon, you are seeing a terrible scene. fires burning here along the street and we do small -- oh b boy, we are getting teargas and unfortunately i can add just a moment ago it does appear that st. john's church is on fire. the paris office we went downstairs and it is on firebird i will walk this way and this is
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awful. we saw graffiti and once the door was broken and we saw something similar happened earlier and as you can see there is a fire here but this is a parish office. come on back. come back up. that's good. they are to clear the area, shannon, with the pepper spray. and they are using teargas to clear people. i don't think there's anything we can do to put that out. i don't see and distinguish urban we are back out here. eyes are burning a bit as you can imagine and we try to disperse the crowd and hopefully fire personnel will get over here to put out some of these fires, shannon. it's a sad scene. it's a beautiful church. historic, as you know. we are only in the parish office but st. john's church is a landmark in many ways. it's very difficult to see this building go up in flames.
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hopefully they can get here and put out the fire. that is what we're seeing right now for channon, back to you. shannon: kevin, so people know that is an historic church just across lafayette park from the white house. numerous presidents, dozens of presidents have sat in those pews and have gone there in times of national trouble and gone there for regular sunday services and for generations and generations peered presidents and their families have walked across lafayette park and gone and sat in the pews of st. john. it's summer usually on inauguration day they will go there and have a prayer service welcoming in the new administration. it is something that is been done for a long, long time. it's a landmark, historic across the street from lafayette park and washington. to see it now under attack and in flames that the part of the country's history as so many other places that we've seen across the country. it is heartbreaking and you hate to see the destruction and now
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to worry that up part of history will be lost in washington as well but that is a place that are commanders in chief have gone seeking spiritual guidance and help in some of the worst times of this country. this is feeling like one of those nights, kevin, stay safe there but so that people have more context about the importance of that church and the world and role is played in this country in the decades in that spot. one of the things we saw in minneapolis is that fire crews who wanted to get into locations told us the next day we saw them stage of blocks away from where they were trying to get to and they could not get there because of protesters. we know the streets in this area and dc are closed, kevin. can you give us any sense of whether dc fire may even be able to get to that spot because it is so close in proximity to the white house were so much of the traffic is restricted and so many people?
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reporter: that is the real challenge. even if you were to calm, i'm familiar with the station on u street and they could come right down 16th but you would run into a wall of people literally, a sea of humanity, around k street. to give the folks here and context, h, i, j, these streets there is no j street but long story but as you move away from the white house you go higher up in the alphabet. my point to that story is this, i know there are a fire station not far from here but getting to the crowd and getting to this building would seem to be exceedingly difficult. i don't know how they can do it, shannon, to be honest with you. shannon: yeah, like we said that was the problem the other night that there were places that minnesota or minneapolis firefighters wanted to get to to try to save private businesses and other places that were under attack and on fire and the
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police precincts, the third precinct, there was eventually abandoned and there were a number of spots they could not get to and to see this so close to the white house presents challenges because you have bodies and protesters there and people who are peaceful and many of them or not but it impedes the ability for law enforcement and firefighters to get down somewhere like st. john's again, and historic part of the country now under fire. literally on fire just across lafayette park. as long as you are safe, i want to bring in charles u.s. former secret service agent. welcome, charles. what you make of this scene in washington tonight? >> it is anarchy, nothing short of anarchy. shannon, as you know, both from her time at the white house, the secret service is used to scene organized, peaceful protests and executing the first amendment right to and it is encouraged
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and this is not that. this is far from that. they have extended the perimeter out to h street as you can tell east and west to 15th and 17th street and that is where they have drawn the line this evening. you made the reference very clearly and i thought very well earlier, shannon, this is not the local cvs that the protests are looking at encroaching into. this is the white house. this has the first family. it will be protected. shannon: charles, -- >> it's dangerous and unfortunate situation. shannon: weaning to stand by. we a quick break but bret baier reports of more than 60 secret agent services have been injured and we will try to track that down but they are on the front lines and this is what they do and they are directly in contact there with the protesters and as you said they are not going to give up the white house.
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historic st. john's church which is been there since 1816, every president since james madison has attended services and sat in the pews at this church. often seeking comfort and guidance and wisdom in our country's worst moments. it is often where they gather on inauguration day before they are sworn in as commander and chief made 200 years of history and as kevin showed us a short time ago that church is on fire across from the white house. secret service is out in force as are protesters and you can see, not just protesters, but rioters going to the next step towards violence and instruction. kevin corke is standing by as we are now 25 minutes here at the nation's capital from an 11:00 p.m. curfew. kevin, you have been showing us and telling us about the secret service ramping up efforts as we are now 25 minutes away, any sense this will clear up in 25 minutes or people will be persuaded to leave? reporter: i don't know that they
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will be persuaded to leave but you are right, they are certainly ramping things up. if you look carefully just beyond the flames here as we bring you these pictures, you can see secret service, park police and others, i imagined the national guard is over there -- yes, they are moving us all the way up to age itself. that means what began as a line of humanity over pennsylvania avenue for the last couple of days moves the crowd the last third of lafayette park, north of the white house and now they are literally right appear to h street, my imagination or i imagine they will try to move us in the rest of the crowd off of h street, not sure in what direction but we are ready and mobile. unfortunately, at the moment you see fire in front of me as we go to the left is a fire inside the church office of the st. john's church. as you just mentioned shannon, a
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devastating and sad scene. it looked like it might have been the nursery is still ablaze and smoke is pouring out of the building. you can see some people still milling about but unfortunately i just don't know that there's any way we can get fire department personnel over here. to my right, as we swing back around, the small structure, this use to basically be a restroom for folks here at the park and it's also on fire now. this is -- if you love the city this is america city and this is a devastating and sad day because the fires are just that. they don't represent the memory of a man who was brutally killed paired the fires are just fires. people are taking advantage of the circumstance, if i might tell you what i'm seeing here. there were peaceful protests earlier and people were out here stating their peace, saying what
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they wanted to say about the killing of george floyd. tonight it is a very different scene, shannon. shannon: we saw during the daytime people in the streets with their signs, chanting and raising awareness and asking for justice. as you said. reporter: i'm right behind you -- let's move. shannon: move as you need to, kevin. reporter: they are trying to clear for the fire department. we will back out and toss it back to you, shannon. we will come back when we get a chance. shannon: kevin, please be safe. again, what we are seeing there is a looks like what we are hearing or what kevin is telling us they are trying to law-enforcement is trying to cut a path for the fire department and there are smaller fires there in the park area that i think are less concerned with but the fact that it's st. john's church is now on fi fire. i think that has to be a priority for the fired apartment but they got to be safe and have
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to respect the space that has been set aside by law enforcement to control the situation. we will keep an eye on that. charles, this is in the vicinity of the area you are familiar with, protecting there at the white house. with word tonight from bret baier with more than 60 secret service agents have been hurt, we know we got volatile the other nights and how does the secret service go about making sure the white house is not in any way breached? >> yes, what we are looking at right now is the extent of the injuries, thank god none of them are life-threatening from what i am hearing, they are consistent with objects being thrown. as you can imagine, they are defending the white house there and the secret service is being helped greatly by the u.s. park police and the dc metropolitan police and the national guard which is, called up by the dc government.
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they are really working as a team right now to protect the outer perimeter of the white house, if you will. that area on h street, north of the white house looks directly toward the northport ago of the white house and is in front of st. john's church which is on fire right now on the opposite side of the street. they will look to clear h street, i would imagine here and very soon to remove all of those people off that street. the problem is with these large groups of people while there might be a minority of peaceful protesters as a part of that group we don't know who is in this group right now. these protest groups that started out earlier in the day as peaceful have now fully been infiltrated by these anarchists. that is the way to proceed and i would say you would see some deliberate and significant actions taking place here very soon, on h street, to get that street clear. shannon: we've heard so much
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about the optics of this from law enforcement and when they take to the street in force or in a way that appears to be military in nature but there are those who worry about the optics of it in the message that it sends and whether it further in flames but how the world does law enforcement find the balance between doing their jobs, protecting the white house, protecting private property, protecting human lives without having an appearance that would further inflame those who already are there looking to do harm? >> yeah, that's a great question and very important and is thought about, not just by the secret service in dc and metropolitan police department, but also across the country. as we all know and as these protests become less and less about george floyd, the policing that needs to take place to keep certain areas protected and safe and to protect the lives of the citizens is balanced on a daily
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basis. that is why in some of these circumstances you see private businesses that are gone and not thought to keep people from going in. into the liquor stores and into the pharmacies and these other locations. in this case, talking about the white house, there is no property that will be seated here. as we discussed earlier, nobody and i don't say this as a challenge, shannon. i don't say this to insights. i state this as a matter of fact. the protection of the white house, the symbol that it stands for, the protection of the president and the first family, the vice president and his family is the first and foremost concern of the secret service print they will do everything that they are trained to do to protect both the white house and the first family. shannon: yet, not optional.
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charles, if you will stay with us and kevin as well but so people see this. this is from kevin corke's camera. you are directly at the white house. that building beyond the fence, that is where all of this is taking place. kevin has been showing us they're moving people back and looks like an effort to get fire crews into potentially address the fire at saint johns, the historic church that has been there since 1816 since we we'll take a quick break here and we will be back. draw the line with roundup. the sure shot wand extends with a protective shield to target weeds precisely and kill them right down to the root. roundup brand. trusted for over 40 years. stimulant laxatives forcefully stimulate i switched to miralax for my constipation. the nerves in your colon. miralax works with the water in your body to unblock your system naturally. and it doesn't cause bloating, cramping, gas, or sudden urgency. miralax. look for the pink cap.
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shannon: we will take you lied back to the scene of the number of these protests. this is washington dc. this is a block or so off the white house. there is an historic church visited by every president since made -- james madison been st. john's. the looming 11:00 p.m. curfew is moments away, 13 minutes cure
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the nation's capital is law-enforcement, secret service continued to push protesters back from the area partially to get fire trucks down there. fires have been set within a block of the white house. secret's earliest obviously busy protecting the white house grounds themselves. we will take you to philadelphia in a minute but let's check in with charles moreno who was with us, former secret service agent, still with us watching this play out. charles, it looks like they are now very aggressively moving the protesters back away from lafayette park which we have talked about has been the scene of protests 365 days a year, mostly people right across from the white house there and it seems like they are pressing the perimeter back from where they've loud protesters to be the last couple of nights. >> yeah, that's right, shannon. if you look at the past three days and not just write the right house but across the country we have seen law-enforcement use a great deal of restraint. what we are seeing right now in dc around the white house is the
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restraint has to stop right now and then needs to become more aggressive in their tactics and extend that perimeter and push out even further. that will happen and that is what i was alluding to earlier. h street is very close proximity wise to the north fence line just across lafayette park as you indicated and to get that street cleared is very important. again to the fact that the unknowing regarding how these protest groups are populated and exactly populated with. it's not a good line of sight that we want to allow from h street to the north fence line of the white house. shannon: so much of the downtown dc area around there, very nice hotels, just across from the church and you can see the yellow steeple in the back of that shot there and there was st. john's church, historic place we are talking about. there are office buildings and starbucks and food spots. it seems like there are
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vandalism and a potential fire in one of those buildings as well. it is a difficult night across the country. difficult to watch the nation's capital in this kind of disarr disarray. charles, how does it end? where does this end? at what point do those who are hijacking these protests to turn them into violent riots get weeded out from the crowd where the people who have a message and a call for justice are feeling like they are heard and get to make their points and get to do so peacefully and have constructive conversations whether it is with, you know, law-enforcement or whether whether it is with mayors, governors, the president. where do we get to the point of having conversation and not burning down our city? how do we get there? >> well, leadership is obviously going to be an essential part of how this gets resolved and be had from the president, from the
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individual governors and mayors of the states around the country. they really need to speak to the nation as a whole and to their communities as well. some have done very well while others, not so much. i think they need to come out and remind everybody some of what he saw down in atlanta at that this is not the expectation of what is to take place in this country. that the folks that are doing all this really don't represent the best of this country and how it ends really depends on these protesters and what they ultimately want as their final goal and the important answer to that question is i don't think even they know with the exception of being focused soulless solely on causing chaos and destruction grid that is what anarchy is stupid law-enforcement now has been boxed into the position, shannon, where they now have to make the decision and cause this to end themselves. i don't think this will be peacefully resolved this
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evening. i think the decision now needs to be made for them. what that looks like nationally, if anything differently than the way it is been carried out on a state-by-state in town by town process, may change. that is possible but what i would say here is that i don't thank you will get a very quick answer, especially how far this has come from the initial mechanism of george boyd's death and to the people associated right now with this protest. i can assure you the majority of them could really care less about this initial incident that started all these protests. right now it is to carry forth the anarchy agenda of rising up against government and institutions, including law enforcement. now we need to bring this to an end. it's a time to restore law and order and to do so quickly. shannon: we have heard theorized that a number of these organizations who are not there about george floyd but a different agenda.
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anarchy taking down the u.s. government, that is the theory that many of those groups have been organized and just waiting for the opportunity to throw gasoline on the fire. it is difficult to know what the mix of these groups are tonight as we are watching this violence across the country but we are tracking other cities but we've got a lot of action in dc and we wanted to make sure people can see that. we want to check in with kevin corke on the ground as this has continually be pressed back and back and kevin a moment or so ago we saw a lot of folks running in the direction of your camera and it seemed like another push by law enforcement there. >> yeah, they're trying to clear everyone is one of your guests alluded to away from h street. we have walked all the way to k street and the reason for that is it is gotten very dangerous over there and we are seen not just multiple fires but also multiple rake and along the way.
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we saw, as you mentioned earlier, the st. john's church has been set ablaze in a fire set inside the acl i/o building, a building across the street it's a teachers federation building and that was also being set ablaze. it was a liquor bomb i guess basically some sort of molotov cocktail and the guy was writing a bottle of vodka or who knows what was but it would just explode. we just decided at that point we wanted to get as far away what was happening because it seemed to me, shannon, they were going building by building either breaking in and setting it to fire or vandalizing it along the way. shannon: kevin, it seems like people are what action is being taken by secret service and others down there that it is pushing people back away from the white house perimeter and you can see the teargas other efforts but minutes ago when you were giving a look at this they
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were looking at throwing firecrackers and raising these protectors in the knights of the protest because that scares people. law enforcement is trained to deal with that and to deal appropriately and to stay calm but when people hear that it could create panic. we've got one minute left before we have to take a break so let you finish this out. reporter: no question. obviously in flash bangs going back and forth we have the fireworks and water bottles being hurled at law enforcement and the flash bangs in the teargas. as i can tell now, people are moving our way. shannon, back to you. we are safe but unfortunately for this great american city that has been a very tough night. shannon, back to you. shannon: it is difficult to watch in cities across the country this is our nation's capital, historic buildings on fire within sight of the white house. kevin corke continues to report there but as we are five minutes away from a mandatory curfew here in washington dc we will see a u.s. secret service and others on the scene will
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>> 11:00 on the east coast in washington, this issupposed to be the time that a curfew is in effect. the mayor having declared to stay in washington dc but this is the scene on the streets where kevin court has been reporting a couple blocks away from the white house . there are fires . there are protesters
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