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these curfews mean nothing to people who want to riot and loot. jillian: the peaceful protests we see across the country, the message is getting drowned out by the radicals and agitators. "fox & friend"fox & friends" hag coverage. >> black lives, black lives matter! >> go home, now. good morning, it's monday, the first day of june, 2020. this morning, dozens of city are under curfew nationwide at this hour as violent clashes and mass protests continue to rage over the death of george floyd. at least 60 secret service agents injured over the weekend in d.c., the clashes outside the white house, as flames erupt in the streets of the district. ainsley. >> something that was so sad, the historic saint john's church
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in washington, d.c. set on fire overnight. the church was built in 1850. every president since james madison has attended at least one service there. 62,000 national guard troops deployed or on standby across 27 states and d.c., brian. >> unbelievable. looters storming stores in new york city. we watched this all night. smashing glass, leaving nothing behind. we did not see much police presence. we have live team coverage, matt fin is on the ground where this is all -- it all began in minneapolis. we begin with aishah hasnie, live in new york, where those looters have left some major damage behind. aishah, you live around there. what are you seeing? >> reporter: good morning to you guys. yeah, it is chaos out here. now, most of the looters have left so things are a lot more calm than they were just about an hour ago and what we're seeing right now is that the nypd are sort of moving to different sections of this
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neighborhood. it's called soho, it's a shopping area, a lot of big brand stores like chanel, gucci, they were looted this evening. now, they're doing this, they're moving around because there are still groups, smaller groups of people walking around, picking up whatever's left behind on the ground. you're looking at a diesel store right here, completed gutted and still left wide open. so there is still that fear that people could come back and try to grab whatever is really left. in fact, i just saw a couple minutes ago a couple of girls walking past me with shopping bags and rolling a carry-on, looked like they had brought that to put all the stuff that they had stolen. so this has been pretty brazen here. this all started a couple hours ago, over in brooklyn. thousands of protesters swarmed barclays center last night, they shut down the manhattan bridge, they were marching from brooklyn over here to manhattan.
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amid the chaos, dozens were art, including mayor de blasio's daughter. she has been charged with unlawful assembly. she's already been released. the nypd has been responding to videos of protesters attacking police. they tweeted earlier they will not tolerate this type of behavior from agitators who are ruining a meaningful protest. this happens as some officers took a knee next to protesters on sunday in a moment of solidarity, protesters saying this is what they need to see from police officers and you've got to say -- you've got to think that the protesters wee see in those peaceful protests are not the same people that were out looting tonight and in fact my colleague, brian, was here all night. he said he saw multiple license plates that were from out-of-state, connecticut, new jersey, people were grabbing things from stores and then jump into these cars. they were getting on bicycles, they were getting on mopeds and they were getting out of here with all the loot that they
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could and it's really sad because a lot of these businesses, i saw earlier on sunday, were trying to board up their storefronts. they knew this was going to happen and the protesters -- whatever you want to call them, the looters, they actually ripped through the pieces of plywood to still be able to get into the sores. guys. >> yeah. aishah, i've got a question for you. i've been -- okay. go ahead. >> reporter: what you're seeing right now -- what you're seeing right now is what we keep seeing every couple minutes. somebody starts looting again and then you see the police move -- i'm going to start running. you see police move to try to go tackle that person. we've already seen one person arrested right in front of us. i think that's what's happening right now is somebody probably waited until police walked away and tried to loot another store and that's what we keep seeing happening. so most of the looters are gone but there are still groups of people, we keep seeing, that are sort of like waiting, playing this cat and mouse game, waiting
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for these police officers to sort of turn the corner, move away. and then they go in and try to pick up whatever's left. >> right. aishah, i've been reading that it sounds like what is happening is a lot of this looting is very well-organized. one group will break in and then they will get out and then a second wave of people will come in and do the looting and then they, like you just said, some people have shopping bags, a lot of them get on bikes and those little scooters and they get the heck out because they know for the most part there are more of them than there are police. >> reporter: yeah. steve, it's a numbers game. there's just not enough police officers here because they're stretched thin. they're all over the city. they're responding to protests that are breaking out all over the city. so the looters know how to play the game and it's really a cat and mouse game. so they wait until they know the officers have gone to a different section of soho, again, the shopping district,
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and then they hit up a store that they've had their eyes on. and i guess we're seeing somebody get arrested here. again, i didn't personally witness what he was doing but it probably is what we've seen already in the past hour, is folks just sort of walking around, waiting to see -- waiting for that opportunity to jump into a store and that's probably what happened here. >> aishah, it's just so sad because after corona these stores closed down, they weren't making any money, people were out of work and now we're seeing this. thank you so much, aishah. more than 300 people arrested in the minneapolis area, ground zero for the nationwide anger many look at this video, a truck driver recklessly barrels into a crowd as people run for their lives. matt fin is live in minneapolis as the city is under a mandatory curfew. matt. >> reporter: now a full week of unrest here in minneapolis and last night was yet another
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chaotic night. police say they arrested at least 150 people alone last night who blatantly violated the curfew here. minneapolis police tweeted a short while ago they're finding water bottles filled with gasoline hidden in bushes and they're asking people to call 911 if they find anything like this. officers responded to reports of a habitat for humanity house being looted overnight. the governor and law enforcement have become much more revealing about how stunningly violent minneapolis rye yotsz hav riots. law enforcement have switched their tactics and are going on the offense and have discovered cars without license plates driving around with rocks and weapons. >> we took ar-15s off of people. we took guns off of people. we noted that once again their tactics had also changed. we noted that we were seeing cars drive through our neighborhoods and through our communities without any license
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plates on them, with their lights out, and their windows blacked out. >> reporter: also, that shocking scene yesterday, really hard to watch, a driver barrels his tanker truck through a crowd of peaceful protesters on i-35 here. fortunately, no deaths. the driver was arrested. it's not certain yet whether his act was intentional. the governor here of minnesota has had to walk back some of his original statements that he said, the majority of rioters were coming from out-of-state as arrest records show the majority of rioters were in fact living here. he said he didn't want to believe that minnesotans were causing these riots. back to you guys. >> so matt, overall, out of all the cities and all the unrest, minneapolis was actually slightly better and here we are in day six, they're actually more prepared. do you get the sense this is about tactics or is it about
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numbers? >> reporter: you know, originally police said that they were simply outnumbered here and we watched day by day as law enforcement and national guard beefed up their presence, that they specifically said that they started to go on the offense and we watched as that tactic paid off. there is now a greater sense of calm in this city because law enforcement stepped up their game. the governor said their original approach was a failure. >> all right. >> matt, i've got a question for you. >> appreciate it. >> let me ask you just one quick question, matt. and that is regarding the guy who was driving the big tanker truck down i-35 and everybody scattered. i had read that he eventually stopped, some people reportedly were injured although that has not -- none serious. here's the video right here. did the crowd pull him out of the truck and was he hurt by the crowd? i know he was arrested.
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>> reporter: i wasn't there personally. but i saw the video and reports that the crowd did allegedly pull him out of the truck and apparently begin to beat him but then some people tried to defend that trucker, saying we can't hurt him. that defeats the purpose. and law enforcement says it appears that driver did bypass some type of barriers because a lot of the highways and roads were beginning to shut down as part of the curfew. so it's still not clear whether he intentionally drove into that crowd or if it was some type of major misunderstanding or accident. >> right. thank you so much. well, the attorney general, bill barr, he said the doj will use a network of 56 regional fbi joint terrorism task force to identify the criminal organizers and instigators. he released a statement, saying with the rioting occurring in many cities around the country, the voices of peaceful and
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legitimate protests have been hijacked by violent radical elements of. the continued violence and destruction of property endangers the lives and lively hoods of others, and interferes with the rights of citizens and undercuts the work that needs to be done through constructive engagement between communities and law enforcement leaders to address legitimate grievances, the violence carried out by antifa and other similar groups is domestic terrorism and will be treated accordingly and the president yesterday, guys, tweeted out that the united states will be designating antifa as a terrorist organization. >> so think about this, ainsley. we are now 10 minutes into this show. and i watched the whole previous show. we're barely talking about george floyd. the 46-year-old who lost his life because of a horrific, inexplicable police behavior that derek chauvin's probably going to pay with the rest of
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his life in jail. and maybe others. we're not talking about that. and the protests during the day seem dramatically different than the protests and the looting and the violence we see at night. it seems well-coordinated. these seem like they're very well-orchestrated and makes people wonder what's really going on here. there's no head. there's no martin luther king. there's no malcolm x. there's no al sharpton. there's just a bunch of people wearing masks, maybe for other reasons and then perpetrating violence and destruction in over -- almost three dozen cities. senator tim scott weighed in on what he's seeing. >> thank god for this conversation that we're having today and thank god we're having it in america because if you were not in america you probably couldn't have this conversation. it is not a binary choice, progress or regression. you can actually have both at the same time. we're seeing a lot of goodwill, we're seeing diversity in the
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protests we did not see in the '60s. any violence in the midst of these protests simply takes away from the actual issue which is that george floyd lost his life. it looked like murder to me. let's get the investigation started and finished so that we will have more confidence in a legal system. >> well, there you go. and the senator hit the nail on the head. many of the -- they all start as protests but then ultimately -- and we've heard from a number of authorities about how they turn into riots because they appear to be very well-orchestrated behind the scenes, using floyd as an excuse for criminality which is what we have seen over the last six nights and it's just heart-breaking. >> all right. we're up early, one hour early, to bring you all the news regarding this this morning including miami, just one of the many cities rocked by these
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riots. the mayor there says the violence and destruction is inexcusable and the mayor's going to join us live from south florida, next.
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♪ ♪ it's amazing to see them in the wild like th-- shhh. for those who were born to ride, there's progressive. >> fox news alert, violence erupting overnight with rioters ignoring curfews, looting businesses including in miami florida. here with an update is the mayor of miami, francis suarez. mr. mayor, i understand there's been about 56 arrests is the number i got. what are you seeing on the ground? what can you tell the country. >> what we saw was on saturday in particular, there was basically two sets of protests. the first was a very peaceful protest during the day, started about 3:00 p.m. at about 6:45, that protest dissipated and we saw another band of people that was about 20% of the people that were on
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the street, and they were definitely there to create division, to create destruction, they came with backpacks, with items in the backpacks to destroy vehicles, to spray paint things, to set cars on fire. we arrested about 57 people. only 13 of those 57 were from the city of miami. the remainder came from other parts of the county or other parts of the country. and last night thankfully we upped our curfew to 8:00 p.m., just before sundown. we brought -- we had a press conference in the morning, pleading for people to be calm. we had no incidents. we had three arrests, no vandalism so last night was extremely successful. the protests went on for longer than saturday but it was extremely peaceful. >> so you only have 13 who lived in miami who came in.
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and you have people on the outside. from what zi police have told y, did these men seem organized, did they seem to have tactics? in atlanta, the mayor said they seemed to be lost in the streets which led them to believe they clearly were outsiders. what about the people you saw? >> we've seen the exact same pattern which we've been seeing across the country, which is two sets of people, the first group, very focused on the message of trying to cure racial inequality in this country, particularly with respect to policing. the second set of people were very calculating, as you said, didn't really understand or know the lay of the land and then were hell-bent on confrontation. they wanted to confront our police, they wanted to destroy our property.
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thankfully, our police did a magnificent job on saturday. there were almost no confrontations. and last night was just professional. last night we had three arrests, i think only one store was damaged in the entire city and the police acted with incredible restraint and we had perfect order. >> yeah, mr. mayor, thanks so much. we'll check in with you again. this is not over. here we are in day six, for you guys about day three. i would love to see some cross-examination, interrogation of the people coming from out of town and coming in and find out how they are communicating because twitter has taken down the antifa site. let's see what else we can do. thank you, mr. mayor. coronavirus shut them down, now rioters and looters have destroyed them, next we'll hear from owners of a historic diner in minneapolis who are struggling to deal with the
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devastation.
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first it was shut down by the coronavirus, and now an historic restaurant in minneapolis burned to the ground by the rioting. its owners who were part of a peaceful protest now left picking up the pieces. joining me now is charles stock and casey white, the owners of town talk diner in minneapolis. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> good morning. ainsley: i'm so sorry to hear about your restaurant. tell us what happened. >> well, we first got a call on thursday morning that one of our employees had biked down to see if everything was okay and she called us to let us know that the windows were broken out and the fire suppression system was
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on and it was a mess. so we went down and we saw it and called the emergency restoration company to come and try to clean up what we could. later on that day, they put some lumber over the windows because they were blown out and then, sadly, friday morning at around 4:30 in the morning we got a phone call telling us to tune into the tv real quick, so we tuned into the tv and you could see that it was our building that was set on fire. ainsley: i mean, kaye circumstance this is your livelihood. you all are married and you own the restaurant together. it's a historic restaurant so there's that element of it, you know, sadness but also all of the blood, sweat and tears you guys have put into that. when you were watching on tell television, what's going through your mind? >> absolutely. it was -- you know, we had watched it. our restaurant was located, gosh, we were just barely a block from the third precinct
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where all the protesting and rioting started. so we had watched the liquor store across the street from there go up in flames and their historic sign go up in flames from tv so we kind of knew it was coming. we expected in the next few hours after we saw that, that it was going to happen. but when you find out that it actually happens and then going down there a few hours later once the area was secure and safe and actually see the historic sign and the rubble, it's really emotional. ainsley: yeah, i'm sure. charles, how about the neighborhood? i was watching over the weekend i've been glued to the coverage and i'm seeing folks, good people coming to the rescue of these individuals like yourself who have lost businesses and helping with -- you know, to clean up the mess. have you had that support? and what about your insurance company, are they going to help you with this? >> well, i've been -- i was born and raised in minneapolis. i spent most of my life here.
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the fact that our community came together and helped pick up the pieces doesn't surprise me or casey in the least. >> not one bit. you know, minneapolis for being a big city, it's a small town. it's a tight community. >> and as for the insurance aspect, -- >> it will cover -- it will cover part of -- to rebuild and -- but that's just a drop in the bucket for everything that's lost. we've been shut down now for months because of covid and now how much longer are we out of work and, you know, the insurance doesn't cover the blood, the sweat, the tears, doesn't cover the place where -- i mean, we were a neighborhood joint. it doesn't cover the bond that the neighbors keep going to day after day and, you know, we have a team that was looking and
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excited to be back at work on monday, you know, we could have opened for patio service. that team doesn't have jobs anymore. and that location will never get back. so insurance doesn't cover all of that. ainsley: just a week ago we were all excited about that jun, deadline. i know many cities around the country were looking forward to that. how do we go from meaningful rioting or meaningful protests, peaceful protests as mlk junior would have wanted, to where we are now? charles? >> i don't think either one of us have an answer for that. >> yeah, that's the grand question or i shouldn't say grand but the million dollar question is the disconnect between a peaceful, meaningful protest that keeps george floyd's name in everybody's mind and the reason that we're all talking about this, to
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destruction of a community, its brick and mortars, its businesses, that will be the disconnect that will have me confused for days. ainsley: i hope you are able to reopen and when you do i hope everyone watches that lives in the area goes to your restaurant and thank you so much. god bless you when you rebuild. cops targeted by rioter as they struggle to keep the peace. our police panel looks at the help officers are going to need to stay safe and restore order, that's next. give me your hand! i can save you... lots of money with liberty mutual! we customize your car insurance so you only pay for what you need!
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to california, up and down the coastline. streets littered with glass and stolen clothing after widespread looting leading to hundreds of arrests out west. also in san diego, a bank is completely engulfed in flames and burned to the ground. that's it right there. also, in the city, a police officer is forced to drive through a crowd of protesters to get to safety. and in oakland, california, rioters driving cars out of control on empty streets, mayors throughout the state have begun placing curfews with some as early as 4:00 p.m. let's bring in our police panel to talk about what happened overnight. former new york city police department lieutenant, dr. darren porcher. new jersey police chief, lisa
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parker and blue live matter new york city founder, joseph peritrise. dr. porcher, we mentioned out west they're instituting some of the curfews to start at 4:00 p.m. i know in washington, d.c. right now there's a curfew in place for another 25 minutes. but why have a curfew if it doesn't appear that it's really being enforced? >> i mean, that's a good question. we do have to set forth some level of provisions in terms of the containment of the people that are in the street and this is something i piggy back on the covid-19 pandemic, oftentimes we've been shuttered as homes as a result but moving forward how law enforcement needs to deal with this is we need to understand we need to approach this from a three-legged stool perspective, so-to-speak. the first leg of the stool is the organizational component where the chain of command comes into play. the second leg of the stool is
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resources. police departments have an immense level of resources to combat these types of disturbances. the last component would be the communications. police department have exceptional communications that allow them to radio from one member to the next. when we coalesce those three points of the three-legged stool, i think that's probably the most effective way in dealing with these outrageous protests or riots, so-to-speak. >> sure. chief parker, let me ask you this. i know that over the last couple days when people have been watching what has happened all across the country, for instance, they see the target store and there's a helicopter overhead and it just shows people walking in and walking out with arms full of stuff. question -- and reportedly the police were one block away. why would the police be one block away? >> well, you know, it's very easy for us to monday morning
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quarterback a situation like that. police can be on other calls doing other things. i can't speak to why officers are placed strategically in certain locations, that really comes from their commanding officers and based on the facts and circumstances that are presented at that time. but keep in mind, steve, that there are hundreds and many times thousands of people and we have limited resources at times, we have limited manpower on the streets and the officers' lives are on the line, they're on the front lines. they are doing a tremendous job and we need to recognize that right now. across america they have had unwavering courage to be on the front lines. to say why are you not here and why aren't you there, that's not a position i want to take right now. i a want to say i support where the commanding officers are putting them there and i don't know the intelligence behind those decisions. >> sure. exactly. it's frustrating to see, like hey, why isn't anybody stopping those people? joe, my sources in midtown tell
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me one of the big fears with the new york city police department is that during some of these violent riots, somebody's going to kill a cop. >> steve, it's out-of-stand for the last couple days. back in 2014, it was the culmination of the riots and just the nonstop bashing of police officers, which led to the deaths of detectives ramos and lou. being so close last night and being so active, seeing the carnage that went on in try be , it looked like we went back 40, 50 years. the supervisors, the chiefs were out there every step of the way, fighting, putting people under arrest and being the leaders the police department needed to try to keep the nation safe. on top of that, i heard brian saying there's got to be a strategy. there was. it was methodical.
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people would pull up in cars, shatter windows, grab merchandise, and run into vehicles and disappear. officers were out there every step of the way. one officer was struck by a vehicle early this morning. thank god they'll be okay. it was dangerous man. they're doing a hell of a job out there. >> for the most part police officers that are being taunted and tested in so many ways, when you look at what they've done, they're showing great discipline in the face of this danger. >> absolutely. they are showing great resolve. but the truth of the matter is, the people closest to the problem are closest to the solution. the officers that are on the ground don't have the ability to connect with the politicians such as mayor de blasio and assess what the temper meant is and the necessary introduction of services and that's where we're having the problem as a result. >> chief parker, the worry is that during one of these confrontations a cop loses their
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cool and it could just lead to another cycle. >> that's a great point, steve. we need our community leaders, we need our community activists, we need them to come together right now, come to the table. we need peaceful resolution and peaceful protests have such a profound impact on america. it's been used throughout our entire -- since the beginning of time and that is -- that's plausible. but anything further than that creates more victims and puts police lives in danger. >> sure. and joe, i'll give you the final word. one bit of news from overnight is apparently the mayor's daughter in new york city, de blasio's daughter was arrested on saturday night in a very large group, told to get out of an intersection, didn't, was arrested for unlawful assembly. >> now, everybody, no matter if you're the mayor's daughter or not, have you a right to protest. that's one of your rights of being an american citizen.
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the thing is, though, you have to obey the rules. we're seeing all over the nation that people aren't doing that and the cops are going to go out there, they're going to show there are rules and laws and you're not going to be able to get over with it. it's new york city, the greatest city in the world and we have to keep it safe. >> thank you very much, panel, for a great conversation. all right. it is 20 minutes before the top of the hour. let's go back to our world headquarters and jillian joins us on this first day of june with the headlines. jillian: we start with this fox news alert. the fired police officer facing murder charges in the death of george floyd is moved to one of the nation's most secure prisonsoves overnight. derek chauvin was on suicide watch at the county detention center. his court date is moved to next monday. a federal protective service officer is killed during protests in california. it is now identified. police say dave patrick
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underwood was patrolling a federal building in oakland when he was shot in a drive-by shooting. the department of homeland security believes it was related to demonstrations over the death of george floyd. a second officer was injured in the shooting and remains in critical condition. call it a sign of solidarity, a michigan sheriff marchs with protesters rallying against police brutality. watch this. >> we want to be with you all for real. so i took the helmet out and laid the batons down. i want to make this a parade, not a protest. >> walk with us, walk with us, walk with us, walk with us. jillian: that's genesee county's sheriff, chris swanson, telling protesters the officers connected to george floyded death do not represent all cops, saying, quote, we go out there to help people. i tweeted this video and i said this is the unity we need to see. guys. >> you know what, jillian, i got that same video from
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somebody who lives in michigan and said look at this guy. really something. all right. thank you very much. meanwhile, let's move on to philadelphia. philadelphia rocked overnight. rioters ransacking a police vehicle there, then torching it. coming up, a live report on the aftermath from the city of brotherly love. you're watching "fox & friends," it's monday, june 1st. if you are new to medicare, listen up.
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bottles and setting fires, just steps from the white house. >> todd piro has some of the scenes. hey, todd. >> reporter: hey, steve, ainsley and brian. good morning. another tumultuous night in washington d.c., rioting, looting, destruction and fires outside 1600 pennsylvania avenue. this fire in lafayette square so close to the president's home. >> black lives matter! black lives matter! black lives matter! >> reporter: in addition to the rioting, traditional protests went on. this intense moment between angry protesters and police and look at this scene. looters caught on camera at a home depot. there you see it right there. also, one of the most historic churches in the country set on fire, saint john's, also known as the church of presidents. every commander in chief has visited that parish. at least 60 secret service
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agents injured this weekend, rioters throwing molotov cocktails, bottles at them. the situation so dire that u.s. marshals and dea agents are being deployed in washington. the d.c. national guard called up as well. take a look at this, on the national mall saturday night, the lincoln memorial vandalized with spray paint, the words y'all not yet tired scrawled right there. the world war ii memorial vandalized as well. the fbi is working to find the organizers of the violence following suggestions antifa could be involved. >> we've seen this pattern before. where outsiders come in. some of the mayors talked about the fact they've had people travel from outside the communities, doing destruction, destroying small businesses, live savings of owners of the small businesses. it's truly a tragedy. >> reporter: the president tweeting out the united states of america will be designating antifa as a terrorist organization. the president expected to meet with the attorney general, bill
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barr, this morning. guys, back to you. >> thanks, todd. could not be more disturbing. meanwhile, rioting, looting, destruction, scenes like this play out all across the country. next, we're going to be joined by reverend michael faulkner, he'll discuss what communities and their leaders need to do so they can start to rebuild. you doing okay?
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ransacking businesses. philadelphia is under a city-wide curfew which expires at about 6:00 a.m. as rye riots escalate, how are community leaders responding. joining us now is reverend of outreach ministry in philadelphia, michael faulkner. reverend, thanks for joining us. i know we were talking in the break, they told you, a police officer said do me a favor, don't go out tonight and the destruction we can just watch on film. where are these people coming from that are doing this? are they from philadelphia? what is their message? >> well, i don't hear a message. i don't hear a -- i just hear -- i hear and see pain and destruction. but you know, once it spills over to this level, it's beyond the pain that can be healed. we're getting into a whole new
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cycle of dysfunction and pain. it has to stop. that's the first thing we've got to do. we've got to stop the violence. and clergy are gathering together, we're praying constantly and we're going to hit the streets. we have to hit the streets and begin to try to stop the violence because we are killing ourselves and it's not we, meaning from the black community, i'll be honest with you. i don't as an african-american, i don't identify with the violence. i don't identify with the carnage and the setting police cars on fire. i don't identify with that as a proper expression for the pain and suffering that my people have dealt with in this country from the beginning. i don't identify that with the george floyd murder. it's horrible. and these people have got it wrong. they've got it twisted. protests are absolutely necessary.
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the outrage, i felt the same outrage that everybody else felt. i just weep every time i see this picture. but now i'm weeping because i'm seeing the destruction of property that has nothing to do with george floyd, nothing to do with the suffering that the african-american community has had and other communities of color have gone through in america. >> so we're trying to figure this out. we've got unrest in 41 states, 27 separate states have called up the national guard. six days in, it seems to be getting worse. minneapolis got a little better. michael, in the past we would go to martin luther king, malcolm x, jesse jackson, reverend al sharpton of late. there doesn't seem to be you someone to talk to. leaders out there telling us their message, i don't care how right or wrong you think it is, i don't know how we deal with this when there's no one stepping forward. >> you know, it's eeriely
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silent. i would love to see -- to be honest with you, i would love to see a message from michelle obama. i'd love to see a message from some notable athletes, you know, maybe lebron james who has a great reputation, a great community activist. there are many voices out there, african-american voices that people would listen to, to say simply go home. if you believe in peace, if you want to see the restoration and healing of america, you need to go home now. and let us begin to continue this dialogue. >> i agree with you. real quick, do you think they would listen to that? >> i think that -- >> this is a diverse crowd. >> what we have to do, brian, we have to separate the people who are following from the people who are leading. if these leaders, so-called
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these agitators don't have an army or don't have a people out there with them to express their angst then they will be identified and be able to be arrested. they're law-breakers. they're criminals. and now they're criminalizing the entire protest, the entire movement. it is being derailed. >> reverend michael faulkner, thanks so much. we'll check in with you again and good luck today in philadelphia. >> god bless you. thank you. >> still ahead -- you got it, sir. still ahead, we're going to break this down the best we can, amongst our many guests will be dan brewer and jack. don't move. so you only pay for what you need. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ .
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♪ go home, now. >> no peace. [explosion] >> oh my god. that was a flash bang right in my face. ainsley: dozens of our cities are under curfew nationwide as violent crashes and mass protest continue to rage over the death of george floyd. clashes outside of the white house as flames erupt in the streets, brian. brian: the historic st. john's church in washington, d.c. set on fire from the basement. it was built from 1815. by the way that's every president since james madison at

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