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arthel: people across the globe joining over 1 million americans in mostly peaceful protests this weekend, demanding change and equality, nearly two weeks after an unarmed african-american, mre custody in minneapolis. these scenes play out as mr. floyd was memorialized by family, friends and total strangers in his home state of north carolina ahead of final tributes planned for the next few days in houston where he grew up. hello, everyone. welcome to america's news headquarters. i'm arthel neville. hi, eric. eric: hello, hi, arrest arthel.
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thank you for joining us. i'm air sean. we are learn dark dark ara -- e. president trump's plan was to deployed 10,000 u.s. troops to stop those riots. that was not done. now the president is pushing back on calls from some to disband and defund municipal police departments, not just reform police procedures like banning choke holds. it is a new controversial issue. we have team fox news coverage on all of this and the latest developments. mark meredith is live at the white house for us. but let's first start with lucas tomlinson who is live in washington. lucas. >> reporter: that's right, eric. it was a heated meeting in the oval office last monday, not far from where i'm standing here in lafayette square. president trump wanted 10,000 active duties soldiers on city streets as rioting and looting was taking place. attorney general bill barr and mark esper and the top general
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are in the room. they advised the president not to invoke the insurrection act. esper didn't think it was necessary but ordered pai paratrooper as a precaution. in the end, they were not needed. esper, mille and barr convinced the president national guard troops can handle the protests. a former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff said using active duty troops would have been a dangerous move. >> we have a military to fight our enemies, not our own people. and our military should never be called to fight our own people as enemies of the state. >> reporter: it looks like the president's advisors were right, the protests have been peaceful and the national guard has been able to handle the operations. eric. eric: lucas, we hear the
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demonstrators behind you chanting "no justice, no peace" yesterday they say 200,000 demonstrators turned out on the streets and things seemed basically peaceful this time. >> reporter: that's right, eric. we've been all here all weekend. the protests have been peaceful. some protesters have just shown up. it's been very calm, just a little bit vocal. and mayor bowser said she wanted all protests to remain peaceful. earlier today, mayor bowser said there were no arrests last night in the nation's capital. >> what i know is public safety in washington, d.c. and what our needs are in washington, d.c. and we have invested not a penny more and certainly not a penny less than what we need for safe neighborhoods in our communities. >> reporter: as you can see, all the protesters that are gathered here this morning on sunday have remained calm, have remained
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peaceful, and many people hope it stays that way. eric. eric: new york city's curfew has also been lifted. lucas, thanks so much. arthel. arthel: eric, we're going to go to the white house now. mark meredith has more on the political response to the protests and the president's reaction to them. mark. >> reporter: arthel, good afternoon. president trump has repeatedly said he wanted to see law and order and now with the new tweet it seems like he's saying mission accomplished. he tweeted i've just given the order for the national guard to start the process from with of h drawing from washington, d.c. now that everything is under control. far fewer protesters showed up last night than anticipated. it's unclear whether or not the white house will start to remove the new metal barriers installed all around the people's house. the roadblocks that were in place yesterday have been mostly lifted. however, lafayette park where we saw so much action last weekend, that remains shut down.
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the president has been firing off several different tweets this morning when it comes to attacking his rival this november, the president saying he wants to stand behind law enforcement, trying to make an issue of where things stand when it comes to police. arthel. arthel: mark, you know, some of the latest national polls showing that president trump is facing an uphill battle come november and there are also reports that some high profile republicans are ready to snub the president for his re-election efforts. what's your reporting on that? >> reporter: four years ago the president really said he wanted to take on the gop establishment and four years later it appears he still hasn't won the old guard over. there is a new report out from the new york times that says several high profile republicans including former president george w bush do not plan to support president trump's re-election efforts. now, we should mention, we have not heard from president bush directly and the times does not name its source. however, this morning, former secretary of state colin powell who supported democratic
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presidential candidates before says he'll support joe biden over president trump this november. >> i'm very close to joe biden in a social matter and political matter. i worked with him for 35, 40 years and he is now the candidate and i will be voting for him. >> reporter: we did get a statement from the trump campaign this morning, they say president trump has the support of a record number of republicans across the country. he leads a united party and will win in november. of course, the president hasn't been holding his typical campaign rallies because of coronavirus. there's still none on the schedule so we'll be looking to see if the campaign resumes as we get later on into the summer. arthel. arthel: mark meredith, thank you very much. eric. eric: well, arthel, how will these protests play out in the presidential campaign and what about the increasing calls to defund some city police departments, or cut their budgets like mayor eric garcetti proposed in los angeles to slash 15$150 million from the lapd or
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calls in new york city for the mayor to cut $1 billion from the nypd budget over the next four years. president trump is pushing back on all this this morning. he tweeted, sleep owe joe biden and the radical left democrats want to defund the police. i want great and well paid law enforcement. i want law and order. a startling new poll out this morning says l 0% -- 80% of americans feel things are out of control in our country. john becker is here, white house correspondent for fox newsradio. first, defunding the police, it's an explosive new issue, no police department, no cops on the beat, no 911. it seems like it's a hot-wired campaign issue that the president has jumped on this morning. >> this could develop into a national issue. right now it's essentially a local issue because the budgets are determined for police at the local and state level, not at the federal level. the president calling those advocating that approach the
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radical left but it is the far left that is calling for this. we've seen this in los angeles. we've also seen this in sort of the hot spot where all of this started and that's minneapolis and the mayor of minneapolis has thus far refused to heed those calls to defund the minneapolis police force, eric. eric: the mayor yesterday was booed when he was at a rally. he had to walk away out of that i mean, minneapolis, the call is to replace the police, with like social workers, i mean, how would that work. let's say you have a home invasion and a shotgun, what do you -- they'll have a 311, you call a social worker, a psychologist? i mean, how would this even work? although obviously police reforms are needed. what are they talking about? >> well, to your point, police reforms clearly are needed. that's what the protesters in all of these protests all across the country are calling for. but in the remarks, for instance, that former president barack obama made last week he did not go down this road of
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defunding the police. instead he spoke about police reforms that his administration had put forward to cities all across america and urging those cities to take on some of those reforms that he had been advocating. to your question, i don't know the answer to how you respond to violence or protests or fires, if you're defunding a critical part of city's infrastructure and that is the police force. eric: there is a sense that we are at a turning point in this country, that this has resonated deeply among millions of americans that there could be a deeper reflection and appreciation in dealing with race relations. let me read you what former vice president joe biden tweeted out today, saying, quote, we need to stand up as a nation with the black community and all minority communities and come together as one america. because the pain is too immense for one community to bear alone. it is the duty of every american
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to grapple with it and grapple with it now. what do you see changing? how does the white house respond? what does the president do? >> well, the president's message, we heard from him last week, from the beginning of last week until friday, saying that he is the law and order president. he mentioned that in his rose garden remarks in touting those new economic numbers coming from the labor department, the increase in 2.5 million jobs in the month of may. the president's going to continue to do that and continue to make that key difference that he feels between his approach, which is a law and order approach, and the approach that is being advocated by those that he sees on the far left, the defund the police movement. that he sees as a winning campaign issue in many parts of the country. obviously, this is a campaign issue. it's not going to be the deciding factor for voter as they go to the polls in november for the most part. for some voters, though, it will be a big difference maker for
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them as they decide between joe biden and donald trump. eric: and finally, john, in terms of police reforms and this sort of thing, do you see proposals coming out of the white house on of that. >> i see proposals coming out of the white house in terms of figuring out ways in which communities and the police can come together but i don't see certainly an approach in which there's an idea in which the president or anybody else affiliated with the west wing will advocate this approach of defunding or reducing the budgeting for police forces across the country. that, eric, is very much unlikely to happen. eric: all right, john. good to see you. >> good to see you. take care. eric: of course. arthel. arthel: and eric, more now on minneapolis mayor jacob frey who was booed and shouted out of a protest for mr. george floyd, this took place near the mayor's home last night, because he won't commit to dismantling the city's police force. as you and john just discussed,
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it's a demand that has become a rallying call for some demonstrators across the country. let's go live to minneapolis where we find our matt finn. matt. >> reporter: arthel, right now we're standing in this beautiful, peaceful park but in just a few hours this place is likely going to be much more electric. some of the minneapolis city council members that are in favor of dismantling police are hosting a public forum here to discuss the death of george floyd and what happens next and this open forum today comes after that moment yesterday where minneapolis mayor jacob frey showed up to a very large demonstration in downtown. the same group that's participating in today's forum in the park also hosted a massive demonstration yesterday, thousands of people showed up and so did the mayor. he walked through the crowd of thousands of demonstrators, by himself, to the base of the stage. when he got to the stage, the host with the mic told the mayor he's responsible for the death of george floyd because they
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allege he invested in the police department and did not listen to the community. the host then asked the mayor, point blank, if he would vow to defund police. the mayor said he will not. and with that answer, the mayor was booed out of the downtown crowd, people chanted go home, jacob. here is some of that exchange and then the mayor afterward. >> yes or no, right now, will you defund the minneapolis police department? [crowd yelling] >> you're asking whether i'm for massive structural reform to revise a structurally racist system, the answer is yes. >> reporter: that crowd said the mayor is up for re-election next year and that they will win. arthel. arthel: matt finn, thank you very much. eric. eric: arthel, we just heard about the president's opposition to defunding the police. what about what they're talking
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arthel: tropical storm cristobal headed for the gulf coast, set to make landfall hours from now. it is currently packing 50-mile-an-hour winds but while it's not expected to get stronger, flooding is a real concern with warnings posted. we have team fox coverage with alex hogan live in new orleans. first to meteorologist adam klotz. hey, adam. >> hey, arthel. as you said, the storm likely not going to get any stronger in the next couple hours but we're already seeing very heavy rain and flooding is going to be a major issue with this one. we're getting very close to where this system is going to be making landfall. let me show you where the storm is at as we speak, really running up very tightly along the louisiana coast. there's the center of
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circulation. this isn't a story that's going to really change once this hits landfall. instead, it's all about the rain that's spinning all around the system and the wind that is spinning around it. currently you're looking at wind gusts largely in the 20 to 30-mile-an-hour range, currently in new orleans you see 36-mile-an-hour winds. this is a very large system and it's dropping rain across a big area, currently we're seeing very heavy downpours, florida, stretching up into southern georgia and running all the way across the gulf states, heavy rain lifting into portions of southern louisiana. this whole system has a track that's going to run it right up the center of the country. if you live along the mississippi river, flooding is going to be a concern over the next couple days. so we go from where this storm currently sits, it's moving north at 12 miles an hour and you're going to see it running right up the center of the country, eventually making its way up towards the great lakes into lake michigan. that rain still yet to come along some of those coastal areas, from 4 to 6 inches.
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as i said, you see 4 to 6 inches of rain, sometimes 8 inches of rain lifting up towards arkansas, eventually illinois, wisconsin this system will be a problem for the next couple days for folks well away from where tropical storms usually happen. so no surprise there. as this system spins and makes that very slow move, we eventually see landfall in the next couple hours. overnight beginning to make that move northward and then you start to talk about flooding and arthel, you said it, flooding may be the biggest concern. you see flood watches and warnings from florida, running all the way north along the mississippi river. arthel, back to you. this is going to make lance land-- landfall shortly. it's something to watch the next couple days. arthel: adam, thank you. eric, over to you because flooding is definitely a concern in new orleans. eric. eric: that's true. absolutely, arthel, in terms of flooding, that will come from the mississippi river and that exactly is where alex hogan is
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right now, she's in new orleans on the banks of the mighty river, she's downtown if you know the scene right by the french quarter. alex, certainly prepared. >> reporter: hi, eric. that's right. ilouisiana we've seen some effects, power outages. mexico, we've seen mud slides, tornado in florida. in new orleans it feels like a lot of rain. one thing to keep an eye on is the storm surge as the waters rise as the eye of the storm really approaches mainland and makes its way here. the governor did tweet this morning, announcing -- asking people to stay weather aware today as tropical storm cristobal is expected to make landfall in louisiana later this evening, monitor local media outlets and update them throughout the day and the president did issue an emergency declaration for louisiana. there were no businesses completely boarded up just because of this but we did find a lot of them who were using sandbags ahead of the storm. people are using this to protect
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their homes and, again, this isn't just because of the storm, because of covid-19 and some of these protests and possible looting, a lot of these business do that preemptively. people i talked with say they know that they can't trust mother nature, especially when it comes to flooding in this area. >> if we can prevent it from coming in off the streets then we're ahead of the game. but it's just all preparation more than anything. >> reporter: this is the third named storm of the hurricane season and that's the earliest on record. keep in mind, we're only seven days into hurricane season so far. so right now we're seeing a lot of rain, flights from southwest, all of them have been canceled out of new orleans. we are still seeing some people walking around but of course all of them bundled up and just reminded to keep those precautions in mind when there's a storm like this. eric. eric: yeah, can you really hear the raindrops, even in your mic
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picking that up, alex. >> reporter: yeah and we're feeling it too. eric: that's for sure. arthel: yeah, can see she's feeling it. and also, eric, friday mayor cantrell, the mayor of new orleans, gave the approval for residents to park their cars on the neutral ground which is higher ground, the median to other folks in the world, so they're definitely prepared and let's hope it doesn't get any worse. meanwhile, a very unfortunate story to report, about a california deputy sheriff, shot and killed i and another critically injured in a shootout during an apparent ambush in santa cruz yesterday. investigators say they have a suspect in custody and there could be others at large. christina coleman is live in santa monica with more. >> reporter: well, arthel, deputies say that this suspect had guns and explosives on him and attacked them, resulting in the tragic loss of this sergeant who has been described as a loving father and husband. deputies identified the suspect
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as steven korio, he was arrested yesterday for the murder of 38-year-old sheriff's sergeant damon gutzwiller. he was described as courageous and sensitive and leaving behind an expecting wife and a young child. >> in my 32-year career, this is the worst day that i've ever experienced. today we lost one of our own and he was a true hero, his name was sergeant damon gutzwiller. >> reporter: so what happened yesterday? well, saturday afternoon a 911 call reported seeing a suspicious van with guns and bomb making materials. this happened in a small town in the santa cruz mountains in northern california. deputies found the van at a home and were then ambushed with gunfire and explosive devices. sergeant gutzwiller was shot and pronounced dead at the hospital. another deputy was either shot or hit by scrap fell and hit by the suspect's get-away vehicle.
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the suspect was found nearby after a carjacking was reported. he was shot and an officer was reportedly shot in the hand. korieo was treated at the hospital. in addition to murder charges, the santa cruz county sheriff says he will also face many felony charges. the da's office is investigating and the governor also released a statement today calling the sergeant a hero and he says that flags will be flown at half staff today in the state capital in the sergeant's honor. arthel. arthel: absolutely horrible. christina coleman, thank you. eric. eric: arthel, as millions are protesting around the globe calling for action over the death of george floyd, coming up we'll speak with the president's of a prestigious historically black university about what can be done to unite our nation and the struggles african-americans still face. is that net carbs or total?...
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discover all the ways we're helping members at usaa.com/coronavirus eric: well, in response to the nationwide protests over george floyd's death in police custody, democratic lawmakers from both houses of congress, they're working on a sweeping police reform bill to address the racial profiling and excessive use of force by some officers and they say they plan to introduce that measure tomorrow. congressional correspondent chad pilgrim live in virginia with what they plan to do. >> reporter: it's only natural that the protests would eventually echo in the halls of congress. this bill is being written by democrats. we don't have the bill text just yet. it's designed to curve police abuse. here's some of what's going to be in the piece of legislation. this is what it does. it makes is easier to hold
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officers atable in civil and criminal court, it lowers the bar for what's called qualified immunity which often shields police from lawsuits. the doj would also have more power to investigate alleged misconduct and while the legislation doesn't defund the police, it offers some alternatives according to the chair, congressional black caucus, karen bass. >> one of the things that we have in the bill is a way to provide grants to community-based organizations around the country so people can begin to say what is public safety in our community, what do we want to see, maybe this is an opportunity to reenvision public safety. >> reporter: the rollout is tomorrow and on wednesday the house judiciary committee holds the first hearing on police violence since the death of george floyd. now floyd's brother, philonise floyd, will testify and lawmakers are probing the role of the military protecting the streets. vice president mike pence defended the administration's tactics.
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>> this president, what he has done in recent days, is what every american expects a president to do in times of crisis and that is put the lives and property and liberty of every american first. >> reporter: now, the democrats on capitol hill, they want mark mille and the defense secretary, mark esper, to testify. the next flash point in all of this will be the annual defense bill. democrats want to use that as a vehicle to try to curb the militaryization of police forces around the country. eric. eric: all right, chad. thanks so much. arthel. arthel: eric, thank you. after another week that saw hundreds of thousands across the country protesting the death of mr. george floyd, the president of one of the nation's most renowned historically black universities is urging his students to be catalysts for change, saying, quote, it's okay to be angry, it's okay to be sad. it's okay to feel numb.
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stay there as long as you need to. i encourage you to take those feelings and channel them into something durable. write about it. sing about it. participate in the electoral process and vote about it. joining me now, dr. wayne frederick, president of howard university. it is my pleasure to have you, sir and i want to jump right in. you wrote the letter to the students a week ago, just as we began to grapple with the array of emotions brought on by the killing of mr. george floyd. if i may, which emotion is currently at the forefront of your heart and your head? >> you know, i still think i have quite a range of emotions, including disappointment, anger, sadness, worry and also hope. and i think that it's okay to have that wide range because this is a complex issue that has affected so many of us in so many different ways and as a father of a 15-year-old
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african-american male and a 13-year-old african-american female, i have to have hope for them, hope for the future, but that hope can only come about with real tangible change. while there is despair, worry and concern, i have to look into their eyes and see they will live in a better america as long as there's change that takes place. arthel: absolutely. and i want to share another excerpt from your letter right now, pop it on the screen, it says, quote, no pandemic, no declining economy, no period of prosperity and no cure for every medical ailment will undo or hide the realities of the black experience. we must bring consistency to that struggle and focus our intellect and passion daily to prepare for the hard work that must be done to confront evil and systemic oppression. as students remain vigilant about your studies, you are met
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ricgoing through howard universy for a purpose that is greater than yourself. as you letter to the students calls on them to be a catalyst for change, what do you think the role in reformation is for college students and the younger generation? >> they have inherited a significant problem that they did not ask for. they inherited a system that is prejudice against people of color, against those who are disadvantaged, and so they must by their studies and by their careers make sure that there are policies on the books, that there are lawmakers at the table at the time of the discussion to change those things. in thig my own circumstance, hod university gave me that. the bas disparity in cancer care terrible in this country. i operated on of an
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african-american male today who had esophageal cancer. i'm able to have an impact in my community. they must do those same things on a broader level than the generations before them have done it. arthel: and you also write that in response to the coverage of the killing of mr. george floyd, your teenage son asked, quote, dad, should i just fall to the ground if a cop approaches me? first, what did you tell him? and how did it make you feel that in 2020 you had to address it in the first place? >> i got to tell you, it was difficult. i couldn't make eye contact with him. we were both looking at the television when that came up and i never looked him in his eye when i said to him, no, you should stand your ground, you should firmly and address the officer respectfully but let him know who you are, what you are about and what you're going to do. and i have to be honest with you. that's not a conversation i felt comfortable with and i did not
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feel comfortable that even that would save his life and that means that real change that's to be brought about. there is something wrong with our system if young black males cannot feel comfortable that the people who are there to protect and serve them may actually be there harming them and we have enough evidence of that. so we must have some type of difference in terms of how we police, how we see policing and i think when people talk about how we approach that, i think it's important we have to retrain that system, we have to stand up our community organizations so there's more support and we must invest in the communities that are currently now under-invested in and as a result are some of the systemic problems that exist will continue to exist unless we do that. arthel: i want to let everyone know that if you would like to read dr. frederick's letter in its entireity, go to newsroom.howard.edu. president of howard university,
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dr. wayne frederick, thank you very much for joining us. >> thanks for having me, ms. neville. arthel: thank you. eric. eric: arthel, there is now some new information on the killing of retired missouri police captain, david dorn. he was shot by looters last week. he was killed while protecting a friending pawn shop during the night of rioting and looting in st. louis. tim image of his lifeless body lying on the sidewalk on of social media was horrifying. investigators released surveillance video of what they call seven people of interest. you can see these potential people, potential suspects, people of interest entering the store and walking around that store you can see there and at least two apparently are shown carrying a firearm. the captain's son gave this heart-breaking statement. >> my dad, he's a forgiving south. he would have forgiven that person and tried to talk to him because he's real big on trying
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to talk to you and mentor young people as well. so he tried to get them on the straight and narrow. eric: dorn's murder prompted a columnist to write, quote, is anyone taking a knee for david dorn? he was an african-american, he was unjustly killed, his life mattered too, didn't it? but there aren't any protests for dorn. no public kneeling in his memory, says cass. dorn was 77 years old. his funeral is on wednesday. even with economies in all 50 states now reopening because of coronavirus, the nation's job market is still in rough shape. coming up, what more is being done to help the 21 million americans who have lost their jobs in the last two months and those who still are without work. >> we have a problem of income and wealth inequality. most importantly, we have a
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arthel: the u.s. marines now banning public displays of the confederate flag on all bases worldwide and barring the image from appearing on bumper stickerrers clothing, mugs, posters and flags, coming 15 years after the end of the civil war. the maureens tweeting in a statement, saying, quote, the confederate battle flag has all too often been co-opting by violent extremists and racist groups whose belief have no place in our corps. the events in our nation highlight the divisiveness the use of the consisten the confede flag has had on our society.
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eric. eric: arthel, three months into the coronavirus pandemic, the economy, well, its fuse churr remains unclear -- future remains unclear. the unemployment rate remains well above 10%. we are awaiting the exact number. this after the labor department admitted there were errors in calculating friday's surprisingly positive jobs report. still more than 21 million americans who lost jobs since march, they are still out of work. the president on friday signed a bill into law, giving small business owners more leeway on how they can spend their emergency loans. the government approving more than 4 million loans spending $500 billion for that, so what can we expect for the months ahead? johjon hilsenrath is with us, global economics editor for the wall street journal. first, a quote over the number, 13.3%, but because of that, quote, miscalculation error, they say it is really 16.3% unemployment rate. no doubt, jobs were added, more than they expected and that
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really is encouraging. it seems that we are on our way up. >> right. so let me put these numbers into some perspective. you know, because of the coronavirus and the shutdowns that we saw, the surveys that the government uses to put together these reports were incomplete in may. for instance, when they do surveys of households they usually get something like 82% response rate from the surveyed people. they got a 67% response rate. so it's going to take some time to figure out exactly where we are. what i think we can say is that the worst of the economic hit from this crisis happened sometime in late april, early may and we started to climb out of this by a lot of indicators by the middle of may. how robust is that rebound? we still have to see. in february, there were 152 million jobs in the country, that went down to 130, a loss of
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22 million. according to the latest reports, it went up to 133 million in may. so we have a long way to go. the unemployment rate n went from 3.5% to 14.7%. it came back down to 13.3%. we have a long way to go but it looks like the good news here is that it looks like the worst of the economic toll of these shutdowns is behind us. eric: that really -- man, i mean, it really would be great to see that. and it kind of makes sense that as more states open, businesses get back up and running, as the stores open and the like, more jobs will come back online but there are also concerns that some jobs may disappear forever. low income jobs especially those affecting some minorities, african-americans, latinos, that sort of thing. what is the prediction and the forecast for restaurant workers, for example and others who could really be hit?
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>> well, eric, i think that that's absolutely right. when we first started seeing layoffs and furloughs in march, the vast, vast majority of the companies announcing these moves described them as temporary measures. i think a lot of people were surprised at how long this all dragged on and whether these temporary job losses become permanent job losses and i think in terms of the outlook, there's good news and bad news. so here's the good news. it does look like there's pent-up demand, that there are a lot of american households out there who say you know what, i want to get out of this, i want to get out of my house, i want to go and eat a nice meal with my family at a restaurant. you know, i want to maybe go do a little shopping for my garden or for whatever the case may be and so i think we can look forward to more consumer spending this summer which is going to help bringing -- which is going to help bring some of those jobs back online. the bad news is that there probably was collateral damage
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and i think the next really big debate on this is the collateral damage at the state and local government fronts. state and local governments, and i should say, red states, blue states and swing states, this doesn't have a political affiliation. we're all hit by this because they depend on sales taxes. as they try to balance their budgets, because they have to balance budgets unlike the federal government, they're going to be trying to figure out how they do that. it might lead to new job cuts of police officers, teachers, firefighters, and i think the big debate in washington is going to be should the federal government do anything to help the state and local governments. it's going to be a political debate and i think that's where we're going to see a altogether of political heat over the next few months. eric: all right. we'll be watching that, john. and at least getting optimistic as summer approaches. jon hilsenrath of thewall. thank you for joining us.
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arthel: across the atlantic, protesters in london came out for another day of peaceful marchers near the u.s. embassy as the entire world reacts to the death of mr. george floyd. greg greg palkot is live on the ground in london now with more. hi, greg. >> reporter: hey, arthel. this is the fourth day of black lives matter protests here in london. the focus of today's protest, the u.s. embassy. i'm going to let my cameraman show you the scene, aside from the black van you can see the police behind them, vans and vans of police, a big police presence here and as he pans back across the street, you can see that billion dollar u.s. embassy and a small grouping, but very loud and enthusiastic grouping of black lives protesters, matter protesters, they're shouting out to the cars as they go by, the cars beeping
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in unison, thousands have come out today, marching for the death of george floyd, solidarity with american protesters and point to instances of police brutality here. we've been tracking today's protests. a large people have moved into the central government area of london, that includes the parliament and number 10 downing street as the office and residence of prime minister johnson. they so far have been peaceful. again, noisy. yesterday, that scene was a lot of clashes, we had 14 police arrested as well as -- 14 police injured, about 30 arrested, excuse me. here's what a few folks had to say to us today. >> you just have to support people who need the support right now, you know. i would hope that if i was in this position that someone would be out there marching for my rights. >> we make a difference by coming together in numbers, in
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unity in numbers. >> exercise your freedom to protest, we have to do this. >> reporter: of course, all of this in def defiance of bans on social gatherings. there are priorities among these folks and other folks in the states and elsewhere. back to you. arthel: greg palkot, thank you very much. that does it for this hour. eric and i will be back at 3:00 eastern. right now, stay right here, more news from washington is straight ahead. thanks for joining us. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪
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