nice. way more top brands in sinks and faucets. way more ways to rule your renovation. nice! on any budget, with free shipping. wayfair. way more than furniture. eric: portland, oregon mayor, ted wheeler is set to hold a news conference any moment now. we'll bring it to you live as soon as it starts. this following the violence among protesters and a deadly shooting last night for a young man in downtown, portland, he was wearing a patriot prayer cap we're told after there were counter demonstrations. port land has been the site of daily protests after the death of george floyd in minneapolis. the mayor has rebuffed president trump's offer to send in the national guard. now let us see if he announces he is accepting help. ithis is america's news

headquarters. hello, i'm eric shawn. arthel: i'm arthel neville. police say the violence began when a pro trump caravan, hundreds of vehicles long, arrived in the city just as a counter protest was getting underway. police say some fights broke out throughout the two groups throughout the evening, they say shots were fired, about 15 minutes after the trump caravan left the downtown area. the victim has not been publicly identified and the shooter remains at large. christina coleman is live in los angeles with more on what happened last night as we await the news conference from merited wheeler. christina. >> reporter: this is the third consecutive weekend of tension escalating between competing groups of protesters in portland. a caravan of trump supporters was making its way through downtown portland when protesters attempted to stop them by standing in the street. some trump supporters fired paint ball pellets and protesters and they threw things

at the caravan. the shooting happened after most of the caravaners left the downtown area. police haven't said whether the gunfire was directly related to the protest. a freelance photographer said the victim appeared to be a white man wearing a hat bearing the insignia of patriot prayer, a group that frequently demonstrated in portland, has drawn counter protests. this morning president trump you appeared to excuse or defend the behavior of his supporters while slamming the mayor. he said the backlash cannot be unexpected after 95 days and watching an incompetent mayor admit he has no idea what he's doing. the people of portland won't put up with no safety any longer. the mayor is a fool. bring in the national guard. >> they failed to protect their communities specifically in portland. and we've seen that. we have over 9 of o 90%, 74 dift criminal citations that the fbi

is pursuing against individuals. we need portland to step up, bring this violence to a close and i think you'll see a lot of this go away. >> reporter: mayor wheeler has declined repeated offers to send federal law enforcement to the city of portland, saying portland doesn't need trump's, quote, politics of division and dedennygrati ofon. >> you saw active paint balls being shot at peaceful protesters and the president in my opinion encourages that. he a retweeted the people firing paint guns. so i think he only means to agitate things. >> reporter: there was still some protests, sporadic fighting and vandalism in downtown portland after last night's shooting. at least 10 people were arrested, mostly for disorderly conduct. arthel. arthel: thank you, christina. eric. eric: arthel, it's been one

week since jacob blake, a black man, was shot repeatedly in the back by a white police officer in kenosha, wisconsin. that sparked violent riots there, peaceful demonstrations and peaceful rallies too. president trump is planning to visit the city, he'll be there on tuesday where he'll meet with law enforcement officers and survey the damage from the riots. garrett tenney is live in kenosha, wisconsin on what we can expect. hi, garrett. >> reporter: in addition to surveying the damage and meeting with law enforcement, there are currently no plan as of this morning for him to visit jacob blake in the hospital or to meet with the blake family. an attorney for the family says at this point no one from the white house has reached out to them about it. there are concerns, though, that the president's visit could reignite tensions here and local officials including wisconsin's lieutenant governor are worried it will lead to more riots and destruction as the community is starting to rebuild. >> i don't know how, given any of the previous statements that

the president made, that he intends to come here to be helpful and we absolutely don't need that right now. >> reporter: it has been peaceful for four days now. there are more than 1,000 national guard troops. this morning we saw a few dozen more arriving in front of the kenosha county courthouse. senator ron johnson is touting the impact that the guard has had here. >> the way you stop the violence, the way you stop the rioting, you surge man power and resources, citizen soldiers, national guard and you overwhelm the numbers of rioters, so they can't riot, so you protect people's right to peacefully protest and they don't turn to riots. >> reporter: and a march is scheduled for this next hour. we'll keep you updated on its progress. eric. eric: garrett, thanks so much. let's go to portland mayor, ted wheeler, who is also the police commissioner, holding a news conference after that killing last night. let's listen. >> this afternoon my heart is

heavy. my heart goes out to the family and the friends of the man who was killed last night on the streets of our city. i mourn with you. i'm going to support the police chief and the district attorney in apprehending and holding accountable those who are responsible for the homicide last night. i stand here with the police chief and the district attorney to again denounce the violence. the tragedy of last night cannot be repeated. all of us must take a stance against violence. and it doesn't matter who you are, or what your politics are. we have to all stop the violence. for those of you saying on twitter, this morning, that you plan to come to portland to seek

retribution, i'm calling on you to stay away. you of course have a constitutional right to be here but we're asking you to stay away and work with us to help us deescalate this situation and portlanders, i'm asking all of us to do our part too. one death is one death too many. join me in denouncing all violence. let's pull together in the name of peace and humanity. we don't always have to agree but we've long done so without violence. that's part of what makes this nation strong. let's end this long, hard summer and come together and work to support and lift each other, not tear each other apart. i'm going to continue to work with the community on the historic changes that we've already made and have committed to making as we reimagine what

public safety and racial justice can look like in our community and we'll continue to do that work in the weeks and the months yoahead. there's so much work to do and i'll be intentionally engaging the public as we proceed along these -- proceed to engage in that hard work together. yesterday's events began with hundreds of cars filled with supporters of the president, rallying in klakamas county and driving through downtown portland. they were supported and energized by the president himself. president trump, for four years we've had to live with you and your racist attacks on black people. we learned early about your sexist attitudes towards women. we've had to endure clips of you mocking a disabled man. we've had to listen to your anti-democratic attacks on journalists. we've read your tweets, slamming

private citizens to the point of receiving death threats. and we've listened to your attacks on immigrants. we've listened to you label mexicans rapists. we've heard you say that john mccain wasn't a hero because he was a prisoner of war. and now you're attacking democratic mayors and the very institutions of democracy that have served this nation well since its founding. do you seriously wonder, mr. president, why this is the first time in decades that america has seen this level of violence? it's you who have created the hate and the division. it's you who have not found a way to say the names of black people killed by police officers even as people in law enforcement have. and it's you who claimed that white supremacists are good

people. your campaign of fear is as anti-democratic as anything you've done to create hate and vitriol in our beautiful country. you've tried to divide us more than any other figure in modern history and now you want me to stop the violence that you helped create. what america needs is for you to be stopped so that we can come back together as one america, while recognizing that we must demand that all people, black, brown, white, every color from every political persuasion pull together and hold all people accountable in stopping racism and violence and we together are peaceful again under new leadership that reflects who we really are. we the people of this great nation. president trump, you bring no

peace. you bring no respect to our of democracy. you, mr. president, need to do your job as the leader of this nation. and i, mr. president, will do my job as the mayor of this city. and we will both be held accountable as we should. i'm also calling out every other elected official in oregon to join me, not only in defeating racism, but also in helping me to stop the violence as we are and will continue to be held accountable by all of our residents. today, we need to decide who we are and where we want to go from here. don't let this be the spark that sets off an acceleration of hostilities in our beautiful city. those are not our values. what happened last night does not move us forward. it sets us back. i know the values of this

community. i was born and raised here. i found my living here. i raised my family here. this is where i want to be and i know the values of this community. we want to protest powerfully and peacefully. we believe that black lives matter. and we believe that it's a responsibility of our leaders to ensure that the systems that we have in place to protect and serve do so equitably. let's engage with each other in thoughtful dialogue about reform and use the power of our shared values to move forward together. we must recommit our energy and our resources to advancing the work of reform and the transformation of our systems. we've seen the positive power of collective and focused and nonviolent action. we've seen the change.

our responsibility to each other is to keep moving forward. portland is counting on its leaders. the city, the county, the state, our federal partners, to partner and use the collective power of our offices to create a better you future for all of us. thank you. >> got the bell? thank you, tim. last night portland witnessed another homicide. this time in downtown portland. there are many who are sharing information on social media or jumping to conclusions that are not based in fact. a human being lost their life last night and it's critical that everyone refrain from consistenconjecture and allow uo gather the evidence and

statements needed to hold the person who did this responsible for this heinous act. we ask that anyone with information or video or eyewitness accounts, please come forward and share that information with our investigators so we can quickly resolve this case. prior to the shooting, there was a political rally involving a vehicle caravan that traveled through portland for several hours. there were some skirmishes between rally goers and counter demonstrators and police made several arrests. the caravan covered miles of area and officers responded to different locations as identified problems arose and provided a presence and even made arrests when warranted. the vehicle caravan had already cleared the area when the shooting occurred near southwest third and alder. this is an active investigation and our detectives are gathering information to determine what happened and what led up to this death. in order to protect the integrity of this case, we

cannot release any specific details at this time. our constitution permits freedom of speech and assembly and individuals are free to disagree. but criminal activity, especially violence, is out of bounds. this event is already gaining extreme media attention and i will once again point out this is not the only life lost to gun violence in portland. on thursday, a 16-year-old african-american teenager was gunned down i in a city park. three others were injured. our investigators are seeking information in that case as well. some may not be aware it happened as it hardly generated any headlines. we witnessed an increase in more and more uncivilized activity in our city and in our nation. it's incumbent on all of us to do better. so lives -- no more lives are lost. portland desperately needs calm. we're living in an extremely divided era and it's time for us

to start focusing on what we have in common and not what divides us. lives are at stake. >> last we'll bring up county district attorney, mike schmidt. we ask that you hold the questions until after. when you do ask a question, let us know who you would like the question to be directed to and they will step to the microphone, as necessary. >> thank you, mayor wheeler and chief labell. as the mayor said, my heart is also heavy today. any time a human being loses their life, it's a huge tragedy and my condolences go out to the family. martin luther king said we must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. those words are as true today as they were when dr. king spoke them 56 years ago in st. louis.

i know today a lot of my neighbors are fearful and they're hurting and i understand that. we are stunned and saddened, angry and frustrated that this happened in our community. that the rights or the duty to peacefully protest and speak out for an end to systemic racism that has plagued our country for generations could be undermined by this terrible act of violence. but my message today, to my neighbors, is we can never allow hatred or racism or division and violence to win. when we allow you tha that, demy loses. when we allow division to triumph, hope dies. the violence that is occurring in our city needs to stop. far too many people have been injured and now somebody's died.

our community is being terrorized by people coming into portland for the explicit purpose of committing violence and that is not acceptable. we're seeing too much tragedy across our city. as chief lavell said on thursday, a teenager dade in a shooting in -- died in a shooting in northeast portland and a neighbor did what neighbors do, she tried to apply a tourniquet but was unsuccessful. we have too much violence going on in our community. hate, division, hopelessness, too many guns in the wrong hands is fueling this round of violence and will take all of us together to stop the bleeding in our community and in our country. my office is working closely with the police bureau and the mayor to investigate last night's shooting. as you have heard mentioned earlier in this press conference we need cooperation of the public. it is vital that we find answers. i'm thankful for the officers and the detectives working with

chief lavell to investigate these crimes. the attorneys from my office that were out all night working with them to help us find answers and put together a proper investigation. i know and expect that the cases of violent acts will be investigated and then submitted to my office for review. we do not prosecute individuals based on ideologies or affiliations with political or nonpolitical organizations. we will initiate a criminal case following a review of all of the evidence and whenever legally and ethically appropriate. we support freedom of speech. we support nonviolent protests. we support speaking out to improve our communities. we support standing up for each other. what we do not support is violence. we're in a pivotal time right now. we cannot afford to allow the calls for social justice to end systemic racism, to be overshadowed by the continued

violence. we cannot allow this critical moment in our history to be hijacked. this is our community. we are strong. we reject violence when it occurs. my office is ready to hold offenders accountable. and together, in dr. king's words, let's choose to live together as brothers an and siss and not perish together as fools. thank you. >> thank you, mike. okay, we're going to now open up the floor for questions. and again, identify which outlet you are with, your name, and then your question and who it's directed at or maybe in the other order, who it's directed at and then your question. let's begin. >> i'd like to hear from the mayor -- [ indiscernible ] -- >> chief? >> so last night we had

information that a vehicle caravan was going to come up to portland from klakamas county. early on, we didn't have a good idea of the number. once the caravan started, we had a sense of how many were in the caravan. we tried to take precautionary measures during the route to keep them out of the downtown area. the goal was to keep them on i-5. but later, a group of those vehicles were able to come into the downtown core. we didn't have any specific information of a gathering where folks would be outside of vehicles. so most of our information previous surrounded the vehicle caravan that would be coming up from klakamas. >> i don't have much to say beyond that except that of course we are monitoring the situation on social media and we chose not to publicize it.

we didn't think would help deescalate the situation or any potential flashpoints. >> [ indiscernible ]. this has been growing for a long time. more than one clash now with groups. what are you going to do to keep the same thing that happened last night from escalating further. >> thank you for the question. so obviously i've stood at this podium on a number of occasions and i've expressed what migratest fear would be and i said my greatest fear is somebody will die and now somebody has. and we as a community are mourning and i am, as the mayor, am accountable to the public and will continue to be accountable. so here's the specific steps that we're taking. number one, i along with my colleagues on the city council committed to a number of

fundamental reforms, having listened to and understood what nonviolent demonstrators were asking for in the city of portland. i put forward a 19 point plan that was very specific in terms of actions that we could take including reducing certain programs within the police bureau that were seen as biased by many people in the black community in particular. we made commitments to reinvest in the community, to a significant degree. we made decisions to engage the public more directly around oversight and accountability. and my colleagues and i referred a significant charter reform to the ballot which will be on the november ballot and people have an opportunity to cast a vote. i encourage people to vote for that. we committed to working alongside our colleagues, like lou frederick, senator lou frederick, and state representative janel bynum on

fundamental reforms to criminal justice. many of the reforms have been passed in the legislative session. we agreed to continue to work with others in the community, the community level to listen, to hear, to understand and pass fundamental reforms. i'm now engaging with our citizen review commission as well as the portland committee on community engaged policing around reimagining what local policing can look like, what precinct policing can look like and there are many other opportunities for us to work with the community directly and as we proceed with this, i'm going to continue to ask the community to work with me. i'm going to continue to ask our colleagues to work with me. i'm going to continue to ask the governor and our state legislature to work with me. and so this is a long road ahead of us. but we know that the dead end is violence. that is a dead end street. we don't want to be in that

cul-de-sac. we want to focus our information, focus our passion, focus our attention on the hard work of fundamental reform. and it starts with policing and criminal justice. but then we have a lot of work to do around education, around housing access, around health access, around shared economic prosperity opportunities. we have so much work yet to do and i don't want the public to be sidetracked by engaging in violence. that is never the right answer. and so i'm asking the public to work with us, to continue to do the work that we've already engaged in around historic reforms and let's work together moving forward. yes? >> mr. mayor. this morning the president had harsh words for you, obviously. he didn't condemn the violence. he said in his words it was unexpected because of the weeks

of violence we've seen. what's your response to that? >> my response is, as the president of the united states and someone who has been perpetrating divisive and hateful language for four years, for him to stand here and say it's unexpected and act as though he's shocked is appalling to me. we all saw this coming. i've stood at this podium i don't know how many times and have said that we must denounce the violence, that we must work together, that we must accurately address what's going on around systematic injustices in our community, here in portland and hold ourselves accountable for what's happening in portland but the president has a role to play in this as well, in acknowledging and understanding those systematic injustices nationally. and the tweets that he has been putting of out in the last 48 hours, attacking democratic mayors, attacking those who are trying to bring resolution to

the violence in their local communities, he has an opportunity to uplift us and bring us together and help us move through this difficult situation in our nation's history and instead he chooses to play petty politics and divide us. that's my reaction. so i'm going to do the work that i need to do here in my local community with my local officials to take accountability for what's happening on our streets and i'd appreciate that either the president support us or he stay the hell out of the way. >> what he appears to be saying is because of the violence he's not surprised that there would be this other group coming in. what's your response to that? >> of courses not surprised. he encouraged them to come into our community. previously he encouraged or tacitly approved of violence. i'm not surprised in the slightest. i'm surprised that he would be surprised by this. so there's an olive branch opportunity here for all of us. we need to reset. the president needs to reset.

i need to reset. this community needs to reset and america needs to reset and it's going to take his leadership in the white house and it's going to take my leadership here in city hall to get it done and so i'm saying let's end this summer, let's end the violence, let's commit to that. is that something we can agree on that we are done with the violence and now let's do the hard work of acknowledging, of hearing and understanding the pain and the suffering and the fear and the anxiety that exists in this nation around the covid crisis which the president initially seemed to be ignoring and the economic crisis which is resulting, causing so many americans economic stress and strain and now the work that we have to do in our communities across this nation in the wake of the murder of george floyd. i'm up to that challenge. and i hope the president is too. and i'm ready to reach across any aisles i need to reach across, any political divides that i need to cross, in order to bring us back together. somebody's got to do it.

i'm committed to it. i know my colleagues on the portland city are committed to it. i'd like to hear the president of the united states say he's all in. let's bring this great nation back together. >> [ indiscernible ]. a number of civil rights groups -- [ indiscernible ]. >> no. >> i have another question. you talk about accountability, police reform. do you have a plan for keeping groups a apart if we didn't see much of it yesterday, in terms of keeping -- we didn't see it last week. is there any strategy goes forward as this escalates that we can somehow keep folks apart, especially as you said people are tweeting about coming in. >> we were very successful back on august 17th, you'll recall a year ago, of keeping parties separated who made it very clear on social media that they

intended to get into it with each other. and what we did was we built a coalition both of law enforcement, local, state and federal law enforcement, to come together to keep the parties, those who might engage in violence, apart. but what we also had was the community unified several days prior. we had 120 different community organizations, organization that's don't always agree on -- they don't all have the same politics, don't all have the same representation. we came together on that day and we said we as a city do not stand for violence, we do not tolerate violence. and that's the kind of coalition that we're missing right now. we don't have elected officials on the same page, denouncing violence. we don't have community organizations coming together collectively in that kind of way with that kind of single minded determination and focus to denounce violence and talk about the vision for the future.

but specifically operationally, i'll defer to the chief except to say that we are in conversations with our portland police bureau, our county sheriff's office, the governor and her team about the strategy going forward to do the best we can to number one, create space for people to be able to demonstrate peacefully, like those outside the room right now. and on the other hand, make it crystal clear, we do not tolerate violence, we do not tolerate criminal destruction and we will hold you accountable for those activities. >> have you asked about national guard involvement? >> on two prior occasions i asked the governor for the national guard. she declined in those circumstances. we are in communication now. it is my believe that between ppb, the sheriff's office and the state police, we have been successfully, throughout this in

terms of operations, when we're r combined and when we're collaborating and i'm told by law enforcement officials that that is sufficient. i'll defer to the chief. >> did you want to say something right now? >> sorry. >> [ indiscernible ] >> well, i'm not sure how you specifically operationally can prevent this. keep in mind, it's no secret to anybody that i personally am not a trump supporter. but i will defend to the death the right of a trump supporter to stand outside my apartment and nonviolently demonstrate in support of their candidate. that's core to american democracy is that right to demonstrate freely without the fear of retribution. when people say they want to come into the city in a caravan, supporting their presidential

candidate, we cannot tell them no. they have constitutional rights to be here, rights which i embrace and support. the violence, however, is the problem. and so what i'm asking people right now, knowing what happened last night, is if you're thinking you're going to come back into our city from somewhere else to seek retribution, i'm telling you to stay away. work with us. help us deescalate the situation. one death is too many. we don't want other people to die. that's what i'm asking people from outside to do. what i'm asking all us of as portlanders to do is do our part too. let's not take the bait. let's not engage. if you see people doing things that look violent or destructive, say something. do something. don't just be passive. because ultimately when we see examples of violence, that undermines our democracy. this democracy is dependent upon us having differences of opinion. and being able to vet

differences of opinion. and being able to have uncomfortable conversations without resorting to violence. so i've asked the president to do his part. i will do my part too. we both have an important role to play. we will both be held accountable. hi, brin bridget. >> [ indiscernible ]. >> we had a strong presence yesterday. most of this activity was vehicle-borne, covering several miles on the highways. so we did have officers in vehicles. we had our traffic division. we had folks stationed at different areas. but it's very difficult when you have small groups of people spread throughout the city, who sometimes engage in violent acts with each other. we can't be everywhere at the same time. the prior saturday we had i

think about 30 officers working. so our resources were strained. we had an event the night before that required our crowd control resources. we ha to staff for an event saturday night, later that night and also answer calls for service. we were only able to bring together that limited amount of resources for the saturday afternoon portion. it's not always operationally feasible to insert that small number of officers in between two crowds who are hostile toward one another and engaged. it's not necessarily operationally safe all the time to get in the middle of that. >> [ indiscernible ] >> in which case? >> [ indiscernible ] >> no, not at this time. >> [ indiscernible ] >> i don't know the exact number. i'd have to go back and check. we can get that to you. >> [ indiscernible ] -- did they

have a permit? did they have some kind of permit? how closely did you work -- [ indiscernible ] >> to my knowledge, we had spoken to folks to try to get a sense of what the route would be and encouraged the route to not be through the downtown core. >> [ indiscernible ] >> i don't know if we had a commitment. i know we had conversations around it. >> [ indiscernible ] >> it would depend on the circumstance. i think vehicles and protesters on foot are a bad mix in general. i think given the opportunity, if we feel a vehicle poses a threat to officers or community members, disabling it by disabling the tires is an option. that's not always feasible, depending on where officers are positioned, where the vehicle is

positioned and things of that nature. >> what is the plan for tonight? this has a potential to be very violent if there are people coming to seek retribution. walk us through what the plan is. >> i haven't talked to incident command folks yet. we're reaching out to partners to try to resource properly for tonight. i'm not sure what we have in the way of intelligence. it's possible that what happened last night could play a factor in what happens tonight. we reached out to everyone we can to get the proper resources in place. >> [ indiscernible ] -- protests that were right versus left. in 2010 township we've had the black lives -- in 2020 we've had the black lives matter and systemic racism and violence. has the diagram gotten such that they're blurred? [ indiscernible ]. have you been able to isolate what happened last night as far as the nature of it? >> i don't think i'd be able to classify kind of the nature of

that particular interaction. to me, it could have just been a skirmish between two small groups or a problem that erupted between individuals. so it's hard for me to classify it as more of a black lives matter thing or a kind of political ideology case. i think as we get further into the investigation we might learn more. >> [ indiscernible ] bear spray, people in the crosswalks and cars were driving through, almost driving over them. are you going to be building cases against those? >> potentially. would depend what information comes forward for us. we were able to make i think about 10 arrests on individual skirmishes, things that happened that we could identify and take action on. with a caravan that big, covering that much area, we used our resources to really keep people safe but if we do get

information that leads to a prosecuteable case we'll follow up on that. >> [ indiscernible ]. >> you know, i don't have any specific information on the victim that i can release at this time but i do know, as these kind of transpire, social media becomes very rampant with information which isn't always factual. so i just want to make people mindful, be careful what you believe on social media. we're investigating. we'll be releasing information at different steps of the process and we'll keep you guys posted. >> [ indiscernible ] >> i do not know that, no. >> [ indiscernible ]. we've seen gunshots fired from both sides if you want to call it two sides here in the last few weeks. you're saying it's on of presentationaly not feasible to keep those two sides apart.

what's going to stop this from escalating to an open firefight in the streets? >> you know, i hope it doesn't come to that. we have a finite resource of officers. we have these activities taking place all throughout the city. the downtown core, our police precincts, our union offices and several random places so we can't be everywhere at once. the issue with firearms is very troubling to us. but people do have a constitutional right to carry firearms legally so it's hard to prevent. some of the instances that take place, you're talking split second, a couple seconds. so a lot of times we're not right there to see things happen. i think the best we can do is message to people that we want a safe city and we ask them not to come downtown or to other places with firearms, not engage in violent acts of crime and i think where we can, we have our resources stationed and we take action when we can. we made several hundred arrests

throughout these protests. we've been out there 90 plus nights straight doing our best to keep the city safe and to keep these interactions from happening. but it's hard to be in absolutes and say, you know, we can be here and prevent these skirmishes. >> are you close to needing the national guard? >> i think we need additional resources. i think oregon state police have been a great partner for us, the county's been a great partner for us. as we see these things develop, it may get to that point. i think right now it's determining what we have available as far as resources and what we're facing as far as violent crowd activity. >> [ indiscernible ]. what's the hesitancy there? >> i don't have a hesitancy one way or the other. if it comes the point where we look at the resources and the problem facing us and that's the best option to assist, that's what will need to happen. >> [ indiscernible ]

>> i'm not sure, honestly, i probably will no more after i talk to my incident management team folks. we had a curfew early on in this and it wasn't very successful. we still had very large crowds at that time. i would say it's not something that's totally off the table but it's not something we're looking at at this moment. >> [ indiscernible ]. we didn't see police officers for most of this. i'm asking were you trying to assert yourself in these groups or were you saying -- [ indiscernible ] >> no, we had our resources focused on the vehicular part of the event yesterday. there were some skirmishes that took place on the street, to my understanding. but when we have those resources and even the homicide last night, we had resources nearby. they just weren't right there when it happened.

>> thinking about police officers visible, there were some police officers -- are you thinking about adding police officers just to have a presence? >> you know, that's possible but i think for us, it's like where can we deploy officers where they're safe. it doesn't help to have one officer in a place where they're kind of in the middle of something and can't respond, don't have cover to keep themselves safe. so i think it's really a resource issue in that how do we on of presentation -- operationalize the most effective groups of officers in places. we never know where these are going to take place. we have an idea of where this caravan of vehicles is going so we focus there, throughout the downtown core. there's a lot of street corners, parking structures, where things can happen. it's hard to have officers at all of these at all times. >> [ indiscernible ] a number of

groups within that coalition are groups that are calling for your resignation. while you aren't going to resign, i'm curious your thoughts on how you can reach those members so they can -- [ indiscernible ] >> that's a fantastic question. and i appreciate you asking. the question is how do i create the same coalition i created last august when some of the members of the coalition are calling for my resignation. the answer is, it's not all about me. it's about the community. it's about who we are. it's about who we want to be. and it's about taking a stand against violence. and even last year a number of those coalition groups spoke out against me at the press conference which i had organized. and i was okay with it.

because it's okay to have differences of opinion when it comes to politics. but what isn't okay, and where we should have no difference of opinion, is when it comes to violence. we should all stand together. and it doesn't matter what our political affiliations are, whether we like each other. we should stand together because we denounce violence. and we know that it's not the right way to solve our political differences. and so i will continue to reach out to whoever. will work with me to denounce violence and bring this to a peaceful conclusion. i will reach out to whoever wants to work with me and my colleague as we move forward on reimagining what policing can be so that it's equitable for everybody and for those who don't want to work with me, maybe they'd work with one of my colleagues or maybe they work with mike or maybe they'd work with the chief. this is an all hands on deck call and so in the days ahead,

that's what we're doing. in fact, this morning i spoke to a number of leaders in the black community and talked about the importance of not only their engagement but the importance of their leadership as we move forward. because ultimately, the community will listen to them, i believe, at a time when we're having this national reckoning around racial justice and equity and police reform. and so we'll continue to work to build the coalitions that we can to stand in opposition to violence. >> -- in washington right now, on his favorite medium, he talked about you and he has a number of negative things to say about you. he says they would like to blame aernment for going in but he hasn't seen anything yet. does he take it as a threat to send in more federal forces. >> it's classic trump. mr. dru president, how can you k

a comment like that if you're watching is helpful. it's an aggressive stance. it is not collaborative. i reached out i believe in a collaborative manner by saying earlier that you need to do your part and i need to do my part and we both need be held accountable. i think it would be helpful not for me to tell you how to do your job because i don't appreciate it when you tell me how to do mine but this would be a good time for us to stand together, to lock arms, to denounce the violence, to make a commitment to the kinds of changes and reforms that the people in this country are demanding and let's work together. wouldn't that be a message. donald trump and ted wheeler working together to help move this country forward. why don't we try that for a change? >> [ indiscernible ] >> i've never met the president. >> [ indiscernible ]. >> she and i have had many conversations about bureaus. she knows that we will be making

a bureau shift in the near term as commissioner-elect ryan joins us in just about a week and-a-half. i have had a number of conversations with dan. i have no plans to transfer the police bureau at this point. when we know what the constitution of the council is in january, everything's on the table. >> [ indiscernible ]. >> i ask myself that question every day. i go to bed with that question foremost in my mind and when i wake up in the morning, that's the first question i ask myself. am i doing everything that i possibly can to end the violence in this community and am i doing everything i possibly can to hear and understand different perspectives about what people want our community to be and how they want to envision it going forward. am i doing everything that i can to meanful ian gauge the community -- meaningfully

engage the community as we go through this time of crisis together. make no mistake about it, this is a challenging time for everyone. there's a lot of anxiety. there's a lot of fear. this is a time when this generation is being called to rise up. and i ask myself what more r do i need to do at each and every moment. sometimes honestly, i found myself coming up short and when i come up short, i acknowledge it. i admit it and then i move on. i fix what needs to be fixed and i work to make things right and that's the path that we're on. >>. yes, sir. >> there was a palpable sense of something might go wrong yesterday. i think it's fairly predictable outcome when you have two -- end in. would you say the city did everything to avoid this? >> it's hard for me to stand here today with a human being dead and say we did everything

we possibly could. either myself individually as the mayor of this city or of people in the community at large. it's hard for me to sit here and make that proclamation over somebody who has lost their lives. and i think about that family and what they're going through today. so i can't make that statement today and i think it would be preposterous for me to do so but i'm certainly being introspective. i'm working with my team and others and we're talking about how do we make sure that that is the only time somebody dies on the streets of our city that way. it was one too many. thank you. >> all right. any other questions for either chuck lavell or mike schmidt, the district attorney. eric: we've been watching and listening to the news

conference, the identity of the young man who was shot last night in the streets of medical report land was -- portland was not publicly revealed. there was little concrete information from the news conference, officials not linking the killing to the ongoing protests even as it occurred after some of the pro president trump caravan vehicles drove into downtown and there were reported clashes and fights between some of those members and black lives matter protesters. the president has offered to send in the nation fall guard. the chief saying they're not needed yet. the mayor did not outline stronger steps such as reimposing the cur new or taking other -- curfew or taking other law enforcement measures. the news conference started with strong and blunt words from the mayor, trying to tamp down the tensions. he put the onus for the ongoing violence directly at the feet of the president, blaming him, calling the president racist, saying he's dividing the nation. the president has been blaming democratic run cities and radical lawless radicals and

violence fo. what happened last night is tragic, it's frightening when emotions explode. let me read what the president teated. ted wheeler who watched great death and destruction in the city during his teen you're thinks the lawless situation should go on forever. wrong. portland will never recover with a fool for a mayor. he tried to mix with agitators and they mocked him. he would like to blame me. he hasn't seen anything yet. we have gone in with a strong group to defend the courthouse because he couldn't do it. the people want law and order. the radical left democrat mayors like the dummy running portland or the guy right now in his basement inwilling to lead or speak off against crime will not be able to do it. joe biden we'll read his statement in a moment about the killing last night.

jamie, your reaction. >> i think we're witnessing both on the local and national level a complete dirth of leadership in this country. you see a mayor who seems i'm capable of getting a city under control, not only this mayor, but mayors in cities across the country. and you see a president who is watching tv and tweeting things out. and that is not leadership. great at making an already flammable situation much more potentially fiery. it's sad to he see. i look back and i'm a little bit wistful of a time, remember the 2008 financial crisis, there was a gathering of the white house to try to show unity at a time of national crisis. this is a national crisis. i don't think at this moment you could having similar at the white house. i don't think donald trump would

invite -- be able to stage that ceremony. i'm not sure you would get some mayors willing to come. you know, it's flabbergasting at this moment we're witnessing the city burn, people die and we're seeing no leadership to be found, both in the highest office in the land and also in local mayors' offices. eric: here's what joe biden, part of his statement says, we must not become a country at war with ourselves, a country that accepts the killing of fellow americans who of do not agree with you, a country that vows vengeance towards one another but that is the america president trump wants us to be, the america he believes we are is a country who must condemn the incitement of hate and resentiment that led to this deadly clash. it's not a peaceful protest when you go out spoiling for a fight. what do you want the leaders, jamie, to say? >> well, that was a good statement. and to his credit, joe biden isn

the democratic primary ran away from kind of the twitter fights and what people on twitter wanted him to say and tried to speak as a unifying candidate. you can find many old quotes from joe biden showing that perhaps he wasn't always speaking -- using rhetoric that was something that we should applaud but he seems to have stuck out his campaign in the democratic primary and now in the general election as trying to unite the country. can he do it? i don't know. but it's certainly different than the rhetoric that -- calling people dummies and you have to work with mayors and that way. eric: we're told that -- only 30 of seconds left. we're told that the former vice president will go to pennsylvania tomorrow and give a speech on public safety. you have rieu city giuliani, the mayor of -- rudy giuliani, the mayor of new york, saying he never blamed bill clinton for the crime in the city and he

says this mayor is incompetent and it rests with municipal authorities. >> i'm not seeing much competence with the mayor. i'm not necessarily disayou agreeing. i'm not seeing much confidence with the white house either. i'm seeing a breakdown of leadership on every level here. it's a shame to see american cities burn like this. eric: a troubling turn of events last night in our country. we are americans. we are one. we hope this does not continue. jamie, thank you. arthel. arthel: a string of violence hitting major cities across the country. police are investigating a deadly shooting at a pancake restaurant in chicago today. at least one person was killed and five others hurt. last night, two chicago officers were shot and the suspected shooter was wounded overnight during a traffic stop and in st. louis two police officers were shot while responding to a shooting call. police taking the suspected man, gunman, into custody after he

barricaded himself in a home during a 12-hour standoff. let's go to aishah hasnie now, she has a wrap up in albany hills right now. aishah. >> reporter: hi, arthel. in that chicago shooting police say that victim was targeted. he was dining outdoors underneath a tent when an suv drove by and shots rang out. it has been a very bloody weekend across the nation, especially for police. a lot of violence surrounding police, warning right now, the video we're about to show is pretty graphic. this is out of florida. body cam footage shows that officers shot in the chest by a suspect in daytona beach on saturday. that officer is okay. he was wearing a bulletproof vest. police were serving an arrest warrant. that resulted in a shootout and the gunman is dead. here is the police chief. >> the suspect didn't give us an opportunity to deescalate. the suspect dictated what he got. if you fire a firearm at a police officer, we are going to shoot back at you and we're

going to kill you. >> reporter: in st. louis an officer is critically hurt when he was shot in the head on saturday, a second officer shot in the leg after a 12-hour-long standoff police arrested the gunman. two chicago police officers, as you mentioned, are recovering after a suspect shot them overnight during a traffic stop. and in the nation's capital, five police officers were injured during clashes at the black lives matter plaza overnight. apparently, they were throwing bricks and fireworks at the officers. a couple of protesters were arrested. back here in new york state, a police officer in the hudson valley was also shot and hurtrd saturday or while responding to a domestic dispute. we are still awaiting word on his condition, a very violent weekend. arthel? arthel: aishah hasnie live in new york city and, eric, as we wrap up here this hour with us,

it's, you know, we definitely have to remember all of the police officers who go home to their families. they put their lives in harm's way to protect and to serve, and we want to make sure that we remember that most of the police officers are good police officers doing just that, with that intent every day, every second on the job. and we can't leapt the ones who -- let the ones who don't have have that in mind, who may have other intentions, spoil the whole bunch, as they say. and we also have to keep in mind that the family of jacob blake, the family of george floyd, they -- the mother of breonna taylor, they have all implored everyone to remain peaceful. eric: that is the call not just from those families, but also from mayor ted wheeler that we just heard, concerned that it could be an uneasy night e ahead in portland. authorities certainly hope there's no repeat of the violence that took the life of someone who apparently was a

supporter of president trump last night. we're awaiting more information about that. when they release it, we'll have more information with jon scott on "the fox report" an hour from now. arthel: eric -- eric: now for a presentation of "sunday morning futures."yeah, arthel? maria: welcome, i'm maria bartiromo. straight ahead right here on "sunday morning futures," the director of national intelligence, john ratcliffe, is here for his first exclusive interview since being sworn into office on may 26th. as a congressman, he was on the ground floor of both the trump-russia investigation and the hillary clinton e-mail probe as one of only two gop lawmakers to view all of the redacted documents in each case. he continues his quest for the truth as dnis. made some headlines yesterday with the announcement he will no longer give congress in-person security briefings. but first, look at this video, live video of lake ch