welcome to thursday. it is "meet the press" daily. i'm chuck todd. we're continuing msnbc's breaking news coverage. we are standing by for fbi officials to make some sort of announcement outside of

minneapolis about their investigation into the death of george floyd. this comes as the community braces for another night of potential unrest after today police released body cam foot taj. it was heavily redacted. we'll bring you the press conference when it gets underway. we'll have more on this story in a bit. we'll begin tonight with the pandemic. a crisis that has been marked by grim and grimmer milestones. yesterday that milestone was marking the 100,000 dead mark, and now we've passed the 40 million jobs lost mark. today we learned more than 2 million more workers have filed for unemployment benefits in the last week so it brings the number of people who have sought assistance to 20 million since mid march. that is roughly the population of california or roughly one out of every four workers in america.

this is great depression levels of joblessness right now. while some of those jobs might be coming back, a lot of them are not. a round of layoffs planned at american airlines was yet another reminder of that reality today. politically there are more signs that this crisis has begun to hurt the president's standing with key elements of his base. he's responded to largely false and inflated claims. he served up a near daily dose of outrage resulting in a web of distractions. some of them distracting the distracter. it reverberates strongest only among the core followers. moments ago he announced an executive order targeting social media companies. they are censoring him in his report. it's a fight he has both tried to create and quickly embraced after he spread a series of baseless and vicious claims on social media not about just mail

in voting but about my msnbc colleague joe scarborough. we are left by uncomfortable actions by the president. some of them are distractions. again, it's all happening amid these two great milestones. 100,000 dead, 40 million jobs lost. joining me now is my nbc news colleague shannon pettypiece and tony rahm, the senior tech policy coordinator and msnbc contributor. tony, i want to start with you. i want to start with the executive order to see if you understand it. i say this because is he -- is it fully repealing section 230? and does this mean, and if i were to go down this logic hole that trump says, okay, twitter's now a publisher, which means -- doesn't that put twitter in the decision of deciding whether or

not to publish the donald trump twitter feed? >> right. let's start with the basics. no, this is not a full repeal of section 230. for those who don't know, section 230 is a part of federal law that does two things. first, it allows tech companies to skirt liability for the things that their users post and second it emboldens them to take steps to moderate their platforms. that's really at issue here. president trump gets to this because he doesn't like the kinds of things that twitter and other social media sites have done with respect to boneration. he sees that as censorship. the order that was signed puts in process a motion that could see more regulation and enforcement. this is complicated. it relies on federal agencies to pick up slack but is a huge threat to the industry which is already pledging to fight back. >> tony, it sounds like you're describing a floor ri fied pounding his fist on the table

executive order? >> not exactly. the federal trade commission and federal communications commission do hold the reins here on how this is going to play out. the president and attorney general said they are working on legislation to address 230. there are other tools in the tool chest so you can't just write the entire thing off. it is not the case that by a stroke of the pen the president has undone years of regulation or that he's punished a company like twitter. it's a threat but it will be a slow burn over months or maybe years. >> shannon, let's go big picture here. you had a piece earlier this week sort of trying to help explain where all of this is coming from. >> well, i mean, it's starting at the president's base. mail in ballots, social media, as you mentioned, has been a

longs standing area that conservatives have been very frustrated about and felt they were treated unfairly there. last week there was so much talk about michael flynn, the muller investigation, unmasking. the president is directly messaging to his base because he has a real base problem going into the crucial summer months of his re-election. you know, the president's numbers have obviously been down in polling consistently for a while, but that's not just being driven by areas where he was traditionally unpopular like suburban women or hispanic voters, it's also being driven by the key groups that helped deliver him that victory. white noncollege-educated working class men. evangelicals. seniors in florida. and so the more he can shift the message from the coronavirus pandemic to these issues that he knows he has been strong on in the past, immigration is another one he brought up in the oval office, his advisers believe

that's what he needs to do to shore up the base. they are clearly on the deep end. they are not making messaging to reach out to any broader audience to shore up outside of that base at this point. >> you know, peter baker, we were trying to brainstorm today. it's like, okay, what under sort of a normal set of circumstances, what would -- let's take all of the grievances the president has, but how would it be a different way to respond to him? he's not happy with congress. he hasn't had one single meeting during this pandemic of the four congressional leaders at the white house. he has issues at north carolina. how about inviting the governor and mayor to the white house, talk them over. he seems to be more interested in searching for wedge issues and not searching for solutions. >> look, this is a president who prefers conflict. we've known this. we've covered this for 3 1/2 years plus the election. he's not a conciliator,

consensus builder. he is a divider. it has been successful for him. he divides the country, the political class. he forces them to bend to his will as much as he can. sometimes he's successful, sometimes he's not. that's the modus operandi. he hasn't brought in congress. certainly not a bipartisan leadership of congress or try to knit the country together in a time as you point out when we've just lost 100,000 people. no memorial service at the whites house. no personalized statement in which he dwells on the cost of so many people. defensive lashing out of people who criticized handling of it. rather than trying to channel the nation's grief and finding a way to make sense of this moment in a unified way. >> tony, i want to go back to the twitter argument here because i have to say, you know, i woke up this morning and you look at all of this coverage of

twitterverses the president. you're going, wait a minute, he issues a vile character assassinating set of tweets about a dead woman, torturing this widow, these false accusations against joe scarborough, and twitter decides to fact check the mail in voting? i just sort of -- it is -- and somehow trump's the victim? >> yeah. you sort of speak to the fundamental conflict here which is twitter and its enforcement. we've had these conversations in the contexts. hate speech, election falsehoods. often we are talking about social media companies that have a policy and don't enforce it. we saw twitter make the decision to take the unprecedented step of labeling one of the president's tweets on the same day we were getting the controversy around things that were said about joe scarborough.

people saw that as another example of twitter being inconsistent. we should double back for a second. this issue of conservative bias, it's important we look to what experts are saying here. there is no empirical evidence that facebook, twitter try to put down conservatives. this is something the president has said, even at some points suggesting the tech industry is undermining his re-election campaign. there's no evidence for that. as a result, what you have here is this big debate over section 230 which is what the democrats and republicans would like to see happen on capitol hill. it's driven apart by the fact that we're coming to it through the lens of political censorship. they see this as a huge assault on free speech. >> wow. political partisans are not experts on what's biased and what isn't. i think pretty much the conservative case against any media company's, the only evidence is a spiro ago knew

quote. at this point they've been dining out on this. shannon pettypiece, i want to put up this facebook ad because it gets at both the point you made here, which is he is obsessed with the base, but it feels like the metaphor of cutting off your nose despite the face. it's president trump maskless. trump versus sleepy joe, 2020. he's got the american flag, they do a china flag, and they have biden in a mask here. shannon, the mask debate is only divisive inside the republican tent. it seems to be a weird thing to do this when you have a major gender gap problem. again, are they solely only concerned about their base? >> well, we don't know who this ad was actually targeted at and who saw it so if you took that ad and targeted it at white working class men, noncollege

educated or whoever the democrat that they believe of their base is not into wearing masks, you know, going out in public, i see certainly many people wearing masks. i hear about it all the time. the -- if it's targeted at that group, which a lot of these facebook ads are, then maybe that goofy ad is effective. yes, it does go back to the strategy that while they would like to try and be appealing to a broader demographic of people, it's so hard for them to do that while appeasing their base because what appeals to their base turns off the other demographic so strongly. so an ad like that attacking a dead woman, having her widower having her plea to stop doesn't do well. that's the pickle the president has been in this entire time. his advisers haven't found a way to get him out of this. here we are five months from the

election. >> peter baker, he's literally on reruns. he did the -- he's done voter fraud. that was a 2016 and he's back at it. he's attacked scarborough before. in some ways he's on reruns but they're extreme versions of them. is this a reminder that maybe it takes more for him to get that same whatever he's looking for out of his trolling moments on twitter and, therefore, it's almost forcing him to get more radical sounding? >> yeah. that's a great point, chuck. back when he first came into office we would just go, you know, bananas over any tweet he put out basically. it was, oh, my gosh, this is a big story. get it out. he tweets as many as 100, 120 times a day and only every so often do we react to it because we have seen it before. in fact, i remember we had this conversation earlier this week, we were talking about the joe

scarborough tweet. he's done it before. that doesn't mean it's not still important when the president of the united states makes unfounded murder allegations against somebody who is perceived to be a critic. he's am ping up. he kept a reality television show going 14 years. you find ways to bring viewers back and he told his staff when he took over the white house three and a half years ago, think of every day like a half hour tv show. how are we going to keep people interested? keep people coming back for more. >> and, you know, the dirty little secret about the apprentice, it's a slow erosion on television but it continually did it. it is another important point you just put there, peter baker. none of this is normal human interaction or presidential behavior when you think about some of the attacks on a dead woman. shannon pettypiece, peter baker,

tony rahm, thank you for getting us started. the grief and outrage grows. president trump was briefed on this. stephen jackson spoke to my colleague craig melvin today. jackson said seeing the video simply destroyed him. >> it's just tough to see. his kids had to see that. i was talking to the daughter's mother the other day. the daughter is screaming. she has to see this. the whole world has to see this. she has to deal with this for the rest of her life. it's jot not right, man. learn more at libertymutual.com/covid-19. [ piano playing ]

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let's turn now to minneapolis where we're waiting for the fbi to begin a press conference with updates on their investigation into the death of george floyd, the black man who died monday after a white police officer pinned him to the ground holding his knee on his neck for

minutes. they're calling for calm after protests turned pretty violent in response to floyd's death. >> i want to remind all of the people that are in the streets protesting, you have every absolute right to be angry, to be upset, to be mad, to express your anger, however, you have no right to perpetrate violence and harm on the very communities that you say that you are standing up for. we need peace and calm in our stree streets. >> what began as peaceful protests escalated as the night went on with protesters setting fires and looting nearby businesses. one person was shot and died. police body camera footage of george's video was heavily

edited. it does not show the moments before his death. four officers involved in his death were fired and are under investigation by both the fbi and the minnesota bureau of criminal apprehension. none of them have been charged. our own shaquille bruiewster isn minneapolis. shaq, is it no longer the county attorney we're waiting on here? >> reporter: it's the county attorney still has the ability to bring charges, chuck. as you mentioned, the investigation is in the hands of two separate bodies. either of them can take action. that's the fbi through the federal government, they can take action, or the state investigative body, they can take action as well. what you have right now in a couple minutes we're still waiting for this press conference at the fbi headquarters here. that includes both leaders from the fbi and the state. we don't know what they're going to say, we don't know what to

expect. things are fluid. that's what many people have their eyes on. the demands for protesters continue. the protests here in minneapolis continue. not only in min kneeminneapolis was active protests in l.a. all over the country you have protests going on. yes, by evening we've seen patterns that have happened and looting. the message from protesters outside staying away from the direct clashes is they want to see charges. they want to see the officers involved in the death of mr. george floyd. they want to see him arrested. >> and, shaq, we just got word the associated press is reporting that the governor has essentially granted the request from the mayor for the national guard. we know the minneapolis naacp was adamant the national guard

is not needed. is there concern this is going to escalate things, not de-escalate. >> reporter: chuck, let's pull up the tweet. that was in direct response to calls from the mayor for the national guard to come in. they said the national guard is not needed. they need resources to support mental health, community and charge the officers and work to de-escalate the situation. that goes to what you keep hearing from the family of mr. floyd, what you hear from even the minneapolis mayor. they want to see the officers charged. the national guard you can tell in minneapolis as things are happening, even in st. paul, there's still ongoing looting that we are seeing even in the afternoon. there needs to be order in place. the minneapolis police department do need more resources and help to control what's going on. you heard that from andrea jenkins from the city council there. there is a need for more officers, but you hear what the naacp is saying there.

the biggest solution to this problem is charging the officers based on the evidence already there. chuck? >> they probably have. they probably are right about that one. we will find out if we hear about charges in a few minutes. shaq brewster getting us started. joining me is houston police chief art acevedo. chief acevedo, i'm going to ask you a question i've asked other chiefs today. is this a culture issue? is this a vetting issue? is this a training issue? if it's all of it, how much work do we really have to do? >> well, i think that it's an issue of heart and mind of the officers involved and quite frankly i don't know of any agency that trains to put weight on the back of an individual's neck. i don't know any agency that

trains to not roll a person over, bring them up when they're telling you they can't breathe and instead continue to put the weight of their knee on the back of their neck. and so i think that the work never ends, but i think we need to do two things. one, we need to recognize that the police chief in minneapolis, one of our colleagues and friends moved very quickly to hold the officers accountable. i think what gives me hope and what i hope will give the community hope, there hasn't only been a public outcry, police chiefs across the country and i'm happy to say police labor is condemning the actions of those four officers in minneapolis. so that's half the battle. if we don't recognize it as being egregious, then there's little hope. when we see police departments moving quickly, police labor is recognizing it, i think there's hope for the future. >> look, i actually pointed this out to my staff. i think the biggest difference

between now and five years ago is what you said. more people in your positions willing to speak more bluntly and honestly about the situation. previous times, previous eras there's always an appearance of a veil of protection, right? and i think that that is -- you're absolutely right. you've seen more vocal outrage coming from police chiefs. let me ask you this. what has to change? do you think police officers that commit crimes like this should be charged? and did he commit a crime in your mind? >> absolutely. based on what we've seen, based on what i've seen, based on my conversations with colleagues, we don't see how they cannot be facing charges that can range anywhere from murder to manslaughter. the officers that stood there and watched, you know, they can be an accessory to murder, accessory to manslaughter. look, you're never going to have absolute perfection because we know we have a lot of problems

in society, law enforcement is no different. you have problems in houston, problems all over the country. the key is that when problems do arise, we have got to acknowledge them and we have to take them head on and i'm glad to see that that's what's happening here in minneapolis. i think that's cause for some hope as we move forward as a nation and as a profession. >> you know, for a lot of african-americans i would like you to speak to the community and answer this question. ferguson was six years ago at this point, right? trevon martin i think we're closing in on six, seven years ago. they see what happened to ahmaud arbery, this. african-americans can say things have changed, chiefs speak out, okay, but the reality hasn't changed. what do you say to the african-american community? >> i say the only way we're going to continue to make it

better and to address this situation is for everyone to come together. for the community when they feel they weren't treated right to report it. most importantly, for all of us to demand accountability when we see these egregious criminal act. in this case an act that i believe is going to end up leading to criminal charges and convictions. at the end of the day we also have to provide some context. we have 800,000 police officers in this country. we cannot lose sight of the fact that the vast majority will serve anywhere from 25 to 40 years without ever using deadly force or without ever killing anyone. one is one death too many but we have to lose sight of the fact, where we are today, we're not where we need to be. lord, i've been in this profession 34 years. if someone would have told me you would see the reaction from law enforcement and the

commendation from law enforcement, we've got a ways to go. we've come a long way. the only way we'll get the rest of the way is together. not through looting, not through rioting, not through casting aspersions people based on their race, looking through the prism of the law and the facts and holding people accountable for their individual actions and not condemning a race or a profession based on the individual actions of some. and i think that that's the only way we're going to get through this. i'm very hopeful as, again, when i've seen police labor speaking out, i've never seen that before. i called the president of the fop today and actually commended him for stepping up. the national association of police associations, that's progress. >> right. >> please don't give up on us. we're not going to give up on our community. let's work on getting things

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at some moment sadly george floyd will be laid to rest. at some moment the process, the criminal and civil rights process will be concluded, but will we have made any real substantive changes or will we just be setting ourselves up for it to happen all over again? >> that was minnesota attorney general keith ellison speaking to the pattern of racism suffered by african-americans. the video of floyd's death is horrific but not surprising. terrible but not unusual. depicting a kind of incident that is period particularically reenacted in the united states. it's both necessary and pedestrian to observe that policing in this country is mediated by race. reading your piece today, it reminded me of a quote i just

saw circulating over the last few weeks that was attributed to will smith where he said a few years ago, this was after the killing of castille, it doesn't feel like that. racism isn't getting worse, it's getting filmed. >> right. >> is that where we are? more awareness, that's about it? >> i think that's about it. and so what happens is that it's a kind of irrefutable record that something transpired and what we had before is decades, decades, decades in which people were making these accusations, saying they had these concerns. it would be met by official skepticism, certainly skepticism by any other bureaucratic channels that would enact change or justice. now we have a media record of it. but at best it presents a spotty

set of outcomes. when you look at going all the way back to the first instance of this, rodney king, all the way back in 1992 when those four officers were acquitted, then we saw officer pantaleo who placed the chokehold on eric garner, he was not charged. or in many of these instances you've just got through, castille, the officer in minnesota, the officer who shot him was acquitted. so you can prove that something ee graej gous happened but actually achieving some sort of legal consequence for it is still far from assured. >> i don't know if you heard my previo previous. >> it's an observation that i thought too. that is something we didn't see six, seven, ten years ago.

but, again, it seems to me it's basically the response to an awareness issue. >> i probably saw the same statement that chief acevedo was talking about. i have to admit, i was surprised by it. put out a statement today that referred to mr. floyd's death as a tragedy and said that they had faith in the criminal justice system to handle the situation, which is a far different tone from what you would anticipate or what you would have heard previously in this kind of situation and i think that maybe it marks some of the work that people have been doing over years and years and years. unfortunately, having many chances to make this point again and again and again and if the past is any predictor, you and i will be having a conversation like this again at some point in the next year or two if not

less. so it's heartening to hear this was a different tenor in the statement that we saw but i don't know that i'm ready to say that we're at a watershed moment on this issue just yet. >> i want to talk about the issue of the videos themselves. you wrote something very poignant here. there's something to be said of the burgeoning genre and revulsion and compulsion that goes with their viewing. the question remains whether they do more to humanize or objectify the people at their centers. death is too intimate a phenomenon not to be distorted. i'm sure you're of two minds. i don't know if you saw the stephen jackson interview on the "today" show this morning. we played a quote from it. i can't believe that george floyd's daughter has to see this video. on the other hand, how important do you think it is for white america to see videos like this?

>> i mean, it's a conundrum. i don't know how you resolve this. a person's death is something -- we think of it as, you know, a blessing if this is something that can transpire while you are surrounded by friends and family. it is the culmination, the ending point of your life, and to have that blasted through the world via mass media, social media, from cell phone to cell phone, inherently distorts what that is is almost impossible with an audience that big to respect what has just transpired with this individual. at the same time, but for this horrific video record, nothing would have happened. we saw the police statement that was the initial version of the record of what happened mentioned nothing about an officer kneeling on mr. floyd's

neck. it seems to be compressing his airway until he's dead. there's a mention that they think he's on a substance or perhaps it leaves a -- it seems to imply that he might have suffered an overdose but they don't know what happened. in the video record we see something far different. i don't know how you respect the humanity of people while also guaranteeing that people can't get away with murder. >> we have a lot more to talk about and say but i don't have anymore time for that. if you haven't read the entire new yorker piece, go check it out. always a pleasure to have you on. thank you. >> thank you. we are still waiting on the fbi news conference in minnesota. we will bring that to you the second it happens. we will be right back.

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welcome back. as we've been discussing systemic racism in this country, there's another disparate. the number of african-americans dying of covid-19. they experience 22% of the deaths despite making up 13% of the overall population. i believe you represent big parts of pg county. >> prince george's county, maryland. >> one of the wealthiest african-american communities in america. congressman, when you see the totality here, being african-american in america right now, this has got -- there have been plenty of painful moments in our history. this has got to be one of the more painful. >> yeah, chuck, i mean, this is

a sad moment in the history of this country where a disproportionate number of african-american men are dying at the hands of the police and african-americans more broadly are dying by the harm of a virus, both of which have to be addressed and have to be addressed now. you mentioned prince george's county. we are 65% african-american, 75% of color when you include our latino communities. 15% of the state of maryland yet we account for about 25% of the cases, the coronavirus covid-19 cases. i've called for our governor to step up testing, deliver more resources to prince george's county to address it, address it now. they've been very slow to respond. notwithstanding that congress has appropriated $25 billion for

states around the country to address the hot spots and the hot spots right now seem to be in communities of color. >> it struck me that what we're seeing right now, particularly in communities of color, is if you're a democratic politician, i think, you know, if you're joe biden, let's talk about it in these terms, lip service isn't going to be enough. what is it that joe biden and, frankly, many democrats have to deliver to communities of color that is more than just rhetoric, right? there is generation i think of african-americans who would say, things aren't better. things -- in some ways things haven't gotten better in certain aspects of when it comes to inequality and things like that. what do you think this moment -- what kind of challenge do you think this moment presents to joe biden and how should he

address it? >> sure. i think the challenge is you have to be willing to stand up as vice president biden has and you see it in his blueprint for black america and you have to be willing to say that the racial disparities that we see, whether in the classroom, whether in health care, whether in the criminal justice system cannot be met with race neutral policies. you have to be very intentional. you have to measure the disparities. have you to hold people accountable and you have to deliver targeted resources whether it's in classrooms, whether it's in the programs that are necessary in communities so that folks are not taking the path that leads them to jail. you've got to be very intentional. data's important. you've got to have the data, establish the criteria, resource it, measure it, hold yourself accountable. that's what joe biden does in his blueprint for black america. he lays out a strategy, a very

action oriented strategy to address these disparities. >> you used an interesting phrase though, race neutral. do you think that's been the mistake of some of the leaders over the last 25 years, that everything was seen as neutral and lift all boats as a way to sort of accommodate pushback from the other side? >> sure. and i've always said that a rising tide does not lift every boat unless you can ensure that every boat is sea worthy. and that there aren't holes in the boat or that the boat's not taking on water, right now the african-american community seems to be taking on a lot of water when it comes to health outcomes, when it comes to our classrooms. so, yes, you want to lift the tide, rise the tide in america because there's certainly enough to go around, but you have to be very intentional to make sure that the benefit inured to every

community. >> congressman anthony brown, i'm going to leave it there. you are winning the pandemic beard contest these days. you're topping a lot of us. a strong showing there, congressman. anyway, thanks for coming on the show. thanks for staying safe and healthy. >> you stay safe. >> you got it. up next, commuting in the coronavirus age and we are still expecting an fbi news conference. it was scheduled for 4 p.m. eastern. we do think when it happens we will bring it to you or our friends in the next hour will bring it to you. we'll be right back.

welcome back. as we wait for the fbi news conference in minnesota, which may start in a few minutes, let's turn to some new developments in the fight against the coronavirus and good news out of japan, where experts did not find widespread transmission on japan's crowded subways. it's possible, because. that's because despite the crowds, travelers are often traveling alone, not interacting with each other and wearing masks. joining us with how this information could impact the reopening at home, dr. scott gottlieb. good to talk with you. i want to start with that. that is huge potential news, particularly for chicago, new york, d.c. have you seen that study? and how optimistic should we feel about it? >> the news out of japan? >> yes, sir. >> in terms of them -- yeah,

it's good news. and japan successfully was able to target the root causes of the infection. they looked at places where the infection was spreading, venues the infection was propagating and were able to go and effectively target those. i think the lesson for the united states here is we have to effectively target our resources into places that of spread here. it's mostly vulnerable populations, places like nursing homes, people who work in conditions where they're in crowded conditions where they can't naturally social distance at work. they don't have proper protective equipment. we need to try to get screening in those locations and good case interventions. the ability to track and trace into those locations. that's the lesson i think from japan for the united states. it's a different set of challenges that we face here, but the key is trying to target the resources into the places where you know the virus is spreading. >> i'm just curious knowing if you're advising cuomo or de

blasio in new york city, does this tell you now that we could have safe subway systems if people practice their own personal safety precautions too, that a mask-wearing public that commutes, you know, is going to help keep this spread from getting out of hand. >> yeah, look, there was data out recently that showing 60% of the population wore masks, that it was 60% effective. you could essentially end the epidemic. there is much more use of masks in japan than here in the united states, and people had access to higher quality masks there. now we know shared services is a source of spread, but it appears to be less of a source of spread than we first suspected. so cities with mass transit systems aren't quite as vulnerable as we thought at the outset. so cities can continue to run their mass transit systems. they still need to do cleaning, though. >> dr. gottlieb, have i so many more questions, but this fbi

briefing has just begun, two hours late. my apologies to you, and we are going to go to this briefing right now. >> first and foremost -- first and foremost, i apologize profusely for the wait that you all had to have. we thought we would have another development that i could tell you about. unfortunately, we don't at this point, but i am here to talk to you about the federal investigation. county attorney mr. freeman standing to my right is here to talk to you about the state investigation. with me is reiner drolshagen. he is the fbi agent in charge. he too will talk about the investigation, and superintendent drew evans from bca will also make a few comments before we open it up for question and answer.

i'm the united states attorney here for the district of minnesota. on may 25th of 2020, george floyd was arrested and detained by minneapolis police officers. i'm here to talk about and make sure the community and the media is aware that we are conducting a robust and meticulous investigation into the circumstances surrounding the events of may 25th, 2020 and the police officers' actions on that evening. really probably don't need to say this to all of you, but minneapolis, our nation, really the world has witnessed this incredibly and disturbing loss of life.

my heart goes out to george floyd. my heart guess out to his family. my heart goes out to his friends, and my heart goes out to the community. we are grieving, and we will continue to grieve. to be clear, the department of justice has made the investigation in this case a top priority. we have assigned highest of the high in my office to investigate and look at the case. fbi likewise has assigned their experienced law enforcement officers to conduct the investigation. and to be clear, president trump as well as attorney general william barr are directly and actively monitoring the

investigation in this case. i have had direct communications with attorney general barr and his staff and will continue to do so. the federal investigation in this case will determine whether the actions of the former minneapolis police officers took violated any federal criminal laws to include any civil rights violations. federal civil rights criminal cases have categories, and one is called under color of law. in other words, if an officer, whether it be federal, state, local or tribal is acting under their authority and asserts or invokes the power bestowed upon them to deprive any person of any right or privilege protected by the constitution or the laws

of the united states, that is a violation of federal criminal law. it must be proven that the subject took action or did not take action when he or she knew that was wrong and chose to do it anyway. as with all matters, the investigation in this case will be comprehensive and will be conducted with the highest integrity as the community would expect. for those that aren't aware of my background, prior to being the united states attorney for the district of minnesota, i was a judge in dakota county for over eight plus years. having sat on that side of the bench, and having presided over a multitude of trials, i can tell you, i can tell the community, i can tell everybody interested that it is critical,

it is essential, it is imperative that the investigation is done right and done right the first time, and that is what we are going to do. this has been a rapidly evolving situation. we first learned of it in the early morning hours of tuesday. the fbi reached out directly to me, and we have been working on this case nonstop since we were notified. we understand the severity of the situation unfolding. it breaks my heart to see what is going on in our streets in minneapolis and in st. paul and in some of our suburbs. and i am pleading, i am pleading with individuals to remain calm and to let us conduct this investigation.