and good evening, once again. day 1,033 of the trump administration, 151 days to go until the next presidential election. as of this difficult and long and emotional week for our country, marches and protests are underway for the 11th straight night since the death of george floyd. today our president said this was a great day for george floyd because of today's economic numbers. more on that comment later. today the city council in minneapolis took a major step toward remaking the police department there, starting with a vote to ban choke holds. in louisville, people remembered breonna taylor, fatally shot as she slept during a police raid on her home back in march. today would have been her 27th birthday. police departments around the country are responding to violent confrontations with protesters. tonight the nypd suspended two

officers seen in protest videos, one pushing a woman to the ground, another seen pulling a person's face mask down and then pepper spraying him. in the nation's capital, huge yellow letters 50-feet tall visible from space now spell out "black lives matter" on 16th street which leads right up to the park where peaceful protesters were pushed aside to allow the president his photo-op in front of the church five days ago now. d.c. mayor muriel bowser has officially renamed that part of the street "black lives matter plaza" and her action didn't go unnoticed and earned her an attack from the president tonight. first tonight, a look at what is happening at this hour, the 11th night of protest in the american streets. to begin let's get the latest from gadi schwartz at city hall.

>> reporter: good evening, brian. this crowd here is about 1,000 people. a little while ago they found out about a press conference happening down there at lapd headquarters, the building over there. the entire crowd started marching down to lapd headquarters where the chief was speaking in front of hq, and they basically started chanting to the point that the chief came over and spoke to the protesters. it was almost like the protesters were able to highjack the press conference with community leaders. the chief met with some protesters, promised some reform, responded to allegations of brutality over the last week or so, some of the videos we have seen of police waving batons here in los angeles. some of the protesters said that they were empty words until they actually see it from the rank and file. brian, i got to tell you, speaking of the rank and file, during that press conference, we were listening very closely and something specific happened where i saw two officers wearing uniforms look at each other when

the chief of police here in los angeles called what happened in minnesota murder. several times he used the word murder. those officers kind of uneasily looking at each other. again, this is the police chief in the second largest city in the country calling what happened in minneapolis murder. it is a case that is still not adjudicated, so we'll see how that plays with the rank and file. brian. >> galdi, thank you. just as impactfully the head of nypd said he stands with the floyd family as down his department. to washington we go. garrett haake on duty there. what has tonight been like so far? >> reporter: brian, another entirely peaceful day of protest here in d.c. a smaller crowd, but it hey have something to do with the torrential rain this afternoon. this entire plaza has been demilitarized. gone are the little green men

with no identification, gone are the park police with helmets and shields. tonight they're doing traditional protest things in d.c. like bringing out the snowplows to safely block off this street and keep it open for protesters to stay out here all night long if they want to. the curfew is gone, and i suspect they will want to. also tonight, the mayor has gone beyond her repainting of the street here and continuing the back and forth with the president. tonight the president tweeted, calling her incompetent. i want to show you some video. also tonight the mayor had installed on some of the building down here these projectors projecting "black lives matter" on to some of the buildings. she wrote in an instagram post she is leaving the night light on so he dreams of black lives matter. no love lost between these two political figures here in washington, brian. >> it is clearly on between the two of them. garrett haake, the snowplows are out on the streets of washington

tonight. >> reporter: yes, it is. >> thank you very much. the economy was reeling before the protests got under way, as we all know. millions of jobs evaporated as the pandemic spread from coast to coast. that's why today's numbers from the labor department were so surprising. the overall unemployment rate declined to 13.3% in may. that's down from just north of 14% in april, still the highest since the second world war. the nation also added 2.5 million jobs, yet the jobless rate higher for black, latino, asian americans. the president celebrated today's numbers as a sign of turn around, and he seemed to suggest the worst of the pandemic was over. as we mentioned, trump also linked the monthly jobs report numbers to the man whose death ignited this nationwide demand for justice.

>> we saved millions of lives and now we're opening and we're opening with a bang, and we've been talking about the "v". this is better than a "v". this is a rocket ship. hopefully george is looking down right now and saying it is a great thing that is happening for our country. it is great day for him. it is great day for everybody. it is a great day for everybody. this is a great, great day in terms of equality. >> and about this being a great day for george floyd, the late george floyd, there was this response from trump's democratic opponent. >> we're speaking of a man who was brutally killed by an act of needless violence. george floyd's last words, "i can't breathe, i can't breathe," have echoed across this nation and, quite frankly, around the world. for the president to try to put any other words in the mouth of

george floyd i think is despicable. >> our washington bureau tells me though the night is young the president set a record for his presidency at 197 tweets and retweets just today, though, again, we have less than an hour to go. as for the president, he spent the rest of his day in the state of maine touring a company that makes equipment, mostly swabs for coronavirus testing. there he continued calling for the reopening of the u.s. economy while taking a broad swipe at the democratic governor, janet mills. >> why isn't your governor opening up your state? >> i don't know. we don't know. >> all of the states are being opened, they're making a lot of money. that's why we have good numbers today. you have a governor that doesn't know what she is doing. >> no. >> and she is like a dictator. >> yes, she is. >> you know, why isn't she opening up your state? the "portland press herald"

made clear how they felt about his visit. they called on donald trump to resign. here for the lead-off discussion on friday night, we're happy to have back with us mara gay, former new york city hall bureau chief at the "wall street journal". these days an editor at "the new york times" editorial board who happens to be a coronavirus s e survivor. >> mara. it is great to see you. i know you have gone back to running, logging your first mile on the road today. we're happy to hear that. speaking of out on the road and the streets of your city, how do you describe this moment and this movement? >> well, first of all, thank you for having me, brian. it is great to see you. yes, you know, the protesters were walking outside my apartment building earlier today

in brooklyn and it is a moment of both great pain for new yorkers and americans, and especially black americans, but also one of great pride. i think that what we're witnessing right now is a movement for justice, not just for black men killed by the police, which is at the heart of the movement, but also a movement for democracy. i just have to say that seeing the diverse crowd, there are so many white americans who are out there putting their bodies on the line in peaceful protest alongside black and brown brothers and sisters, and it is just extremely moving. i think it is going to make it powerful and hard to ignore, and i think that, you know, local police departments and officials across the country are going to have to respond. >> susan, what's washington been

like this week? not every day you have secret police and columns of armored vehicles in the city streets, say nothing of low-hovering military helicopters designed to disperse crowds by using dust and the rotor wash they give off. >> it's been a shocking week. monday was a shocking night when we saw lafayette square, the people's park, cleared of peaceful protesters quite forcibly before the president then would walk across the park and pose in front of st. johns church. the helicopters, i mean it looked -- it seemed like a war zone, not like the u.s. capital. so i think it was -- i think it was -- i think it was shocking. we then saw this battle between the mayor and the president over what law enforcement officials

were going to be on the streets, were the active duty military going to be -- against protests which have been largely peaceful. i think it has been difficult. into the we end of the week looks a little calmer. i have to say the mayor has shown a little bit of moxy by painting "black lives matter" on two blocks leading right up to the front door of the white house. >> moxy is one word for it. it is going to get more and more interesting from here on out. mara, i want to play you something that the president retweeted tonight, this exchange. we will talk about it on the other side. >> this is a guy with a very long record and a very long criminal record. he was said to be cleaning up his life by his family. i hope that was true, but he was

also high on fentanyl and dropped a bag of drugs that he was carrying at the time. is this really the guy that black america -- i mean they were very careful to pick rosa parks. is this is symbol of black america today? >> mara, the president having started the day, "this is a great day for george floyd," what does it say to you that he distributed that? >> well, the president is a racist, and so he is, you know, behaving as a racist, as the white supremacist that he is. but what i think it shows is a certain desperation because i think that his message is not getting across to much of his usual base and his coalition. i think when you see evangelical leaders like joel o'steen and

the nfl commissioner tonight reverse course or speak out more forcefully for justice and for the lives of black americans, president trump knows that he is losing the cultural war and it is only a matter of time before he loses a political one as well. americans are seeing with their own eyes what is happening on the streets, and i think it is different in every city and i want to give a lot of credit to the police chiefs and the police officers out there who are doing a very difficult job with respect for american citizens and their right to protest. but, unfortunately, we are also seeing widespread incidents in which that is not the case and the right to peacefully protest is being abrogated by local police departments including here in new york city, with the use of force against black, known all too well, and other americans are seeing themselves and their children being beaten in the streets for peacefully

protesting, and that is what makes this difference. >> mara, indeed, we have the police chief in detroit, michigan, standing by to talk to us a bit later on in the broadcast. susan, we have talked about the president insisting it was a good day for george floyd. just regarding the politics that you and i havn around longer than we care to admit, when you are limited to your base most politicians would feel in their gut and be counselled to reach out and try to convert suburbanites, moderates. that is not what is happening here, is it? >> no, and that has not been president trump's practice from at all in politics from the time he started to run for president. his appeal has always been to harden his base, not to broaden his base. it is to make sure that the people who are with him are going to be with him, and then

to attack his opponent as unacceptable, to discourage the vote for his opponent. he has had a base strategy from the start, and he is not deviating from it now. this will be a test. you know, we have seen appeals, this kind of appeal to law and order, to cultural -- to the cultural wedge issues work in some elections. it worked in 1968. it worked in 2016. one thing watching the size of the demonstrations, the durability of them. they are getting bigger, not smaller, as bwe head into the second week of demonstrations and the diversity, i think mara mentioned this. the protesters seem to be getting more diverse, not less diverse which is interesting. is there something fundamental going on? a shift in the politics in the last two weeks? i don't think we know the answer to that, but i think it is possible. >> yes, it sure looks like it may be possible. mara gay, susan page, two

friends of this broadcast. great to have you both back on. thank you for spending part of your friday night with us after the week we've all had. coming up, caught on camera. not the protesters this time. tomorr we will ask detroit's chief how to solve this problem, how to begin to solve the problem. later, protesting shoulder-to-shoulder doesn't leave room for social distancing. how worried should we be about what the cdc now calls seeding events for the spread of coronavirus? "the 11th hour" is just getting started on this friday night.

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watch. 75-year-old protester approaches the cops, and then is shoved to the ground. instantly he is left motionless, and we can see blood start to flow from his head as the officers involved walk by him. he is in serious but stable condition. two officers as a result of this suspended without pay, but then all the other officers, 57 of them, have left that unit to show solidarity. it is one of several violent confrontations recently posted on social media. there's another from a protest last saturday in l.a. not clear what led members of the lapd to use their batons against the protesters. tonight philadelphia's da charging a police department staff inspector -- that's a high-ranking police officer -- with aggravated assault after a college student was struck in the head with a baton while protesting on monday. but police departments argue the violence goes both ways.

cameras have also captured images of nypd cops appearing to be struck with bricks and projectiles and then some. with us tonight to talk about all of it, chief of police for the city of detroit, michigan, james craig. chief, thank you very much for coming on. and the chicken/egg question to you, is it happening more or are we seeing it more? >> you know, it is happening more, brian. i can tell you, i've been a practitioner now for 44 years. i was on the front seat of the unrest in rodney king after the acquittal of the officers and the riots, so this is a very different time. i've not seen anything like it, and certainly the video show of the brooklyn officers is just so troubling. it is one thing to push someone. i don't know the circumstances that led up to that. he certainly appeared not to be resistive. he was certainly up in age.

and then once he hits the ground, he is bleeding from his head, just to walk by and not render aid, that's the one thing that, you know, when i think about detroit police officers and there have been armed confrontations with violent suspects that our officers have had to use deadly force, but quickly transition from trying to protect themselves and the community and then rendering aid right away, and then in instances transporting them to the hospital. so to see that, it was troubling. that's not what we're here for. >> so many of the protesters have said some version of, you try living our lives with the threat we feel to our lives every day. friends of mine who are on the job in police departments have contacted me to say, you try

working a 12 -- a 12-hour shift, getting yelled at and being in equal measure fearful and angry on a protest line, and there we have the equation, don't we? >> oh, we absolutely do, brian. i was out on the front lines with our officers, and certainly fortunately over the last several days we've had peaceful protests. there have been no confrontations. day one, two and some of three, we're talking about projectiles being thrown at the officers. in one instance an m-80 fireworks thrown. >> railroad spikes, correct? >> railroad spikes. and i mean have you seen -- i mean this is a weapon that if used in a certain way can cause great bodily harm. so i've got to tell you, those officers that were on that front line were professional, resilient. i mean some of them were being

spat upon, the names they were calling. they maintained. you know, i started in 1977, brian, and it certainly was a different day, so my heart goes out to the vast majority. certainly this is not to say that those who step across the line -- i'm talking about the men and women -- we have to take a higher ground, but also dealing with violent protesters. i'm not talking about the peaceful protesters, because the vast majority of them have been peaceful. they just want their voices heard and we support that here in detroit, and it has worked out well, but there have been a few violent encounters. >> and you've made this point locally in detroit so well, that these peaceful protests and what happens at night are literally like night and day. do you have a percentage on the arrest you have made at night, how many of the percentage of

arrestees are from detroit and how many are not? >> 70%, brian, 70% are from outside of detroit, the metro area, and then we have arrested a few from out of state, three from california. so we've had three from california, several from ohio, kentucky. so the million dollar question is why are you here? why are you in detroit? there are protests going on across the country. you can stay in new york and protest. why come to detroit? i mean i have -- i can speculate, but certainly those are the ones that are really triggering. but here is the magic that's going on in detroit right now, brian, the fact that the african-american community stands with this police department, stands with this police chief. several days ago they said in a resounding way, "go home, we

don't need you here, you're not going to burn our city." i remember as a young man growing up here in detroit, in 1967, i was a boy, and i remember the riot. i remember what it was like. i remember the racism and the beatings, and i said then i would never be a police officer. so now here i sit many years later, so excited to be back home and certainly leading one of the finest police departments in america. >> anyone who has ever counted out detroit, michigan, has lived to regret it. chief james craig of the detroit police department, we greatly appreciate the time you spent with us tonight. thank you very much. stay safe to you, your men and women. >> thank you, brian. i appreciate it. you have a great night. >> thank you, sir. we are keeping an eye on tonight's protests on city streets across our country. there is los angeles in the shadow of city hall. just ahead for us, the choice

between social justice and social distancing. here we are in a pandemic, after all. why the experts tracking the virus are still quite concerned about the virus.

as we continue to check in on cities across the country, let's check in with cal perry in

louisville. cal, how close are we to being able to declare that the mood perhaps has lifted in that very tense place? >> reporter: we're there. the immediate has lifted. a week ago tonight i was introducing you to my favorite bus station that was providing me with cover. the next night it was my favorite tree providing me with cover. tonight there's music, there are kids out here, and it is all really because the police force here in louisville and the national guard have disappeared. they are out of view. that started about 72 hours ago. they lifted the curfew and it made all of the difference in the world. there was basically a birthday celebration for breonna taylor. it could have been her 27th birthday, she was killed in mid-march. there will be more of the same tomorrow. there will be a vigil, we will see balloons going into the air. it is a party-like atmosphere, brian. >> it is nice to see little kids behind you while you talk playing behind the fountain. cal perry, we'll take it. thank you very much. >> reporter: yes, sir. as the protests continue across the country, the cdc is

warning, common sense, the gathering could spark new coronavirus infections. the cdc director told lawmakers this week protesters in areas where the virus isn't controlled right now should highly consider getting tested. good advice. he also said the demonstrations have the potential to be what he called seeding events, this as the ap is reporting there's growing fear in the white house the protests may bring about a resurgence of, of all things, the coronavirus. according to "the new york times", 18 states have now seen an increase in newly-reported cases over the past two weeks. right now over 1.8 million cases have been reported in the u.s. that's entirely testing dependent, with over 109,000 deaths. now, we are still losing about 1,000 people a day in our country. back with us again tonight, dr. michael osterholm, director of the center for infectious

disease, research and policy for the university of minnesota. also co-author of the book "deadly est "dead "deadliest enemy." i have to ask you, what's the chance we don't see spikes in the cities where the big mass gatherings have taken place day and night for days on end? and if we don't see spikes, are you going to declare it safe for all of us to go back outside? >> thank you first of all for having me, brian. we are undergoing right now a very unfortunate experiment. that's what happened this past week with all of the crowds we have seen, the protests and so forth. we don't know what that's going to do. the good news is that it was outdoors largely, and that we've seen typically, the virus just floats into the air, doesn't become a problem. so from that standpoint the risk is lower. on the other hand, we had people

who were experiencing tear gas, smoke and yelling, all things that either cause coughing or projectile of the virus out of one's throat by yelling. so that could enhance transmission. then, of course, we had the people who were detained by law enforcement, were put into buses, booked at local jails and held in jail cells which also could enhance it. so you've got some things that say it could be a problem, some that said it might not be. we will have to find out in 10 to 14 days what really happened. >> and i was actually thinking of you at the height of this. here you are, a disease specialist and a frequent guest on this and other networks, in the middle of the twin cities, in the epicenter of the violence night after night. talk about the tug-of-war between social justice and social distancing because so many of the protesters will tell

you this to them is as existential a threat to them as any covid-19 you can bring on. >> well, i think we all recognize we're in a period of our history right now that will be written in a way just as we read the 1918 pandemic. again, i come back and remind people that 85 days ago covid-19 was not even the top 50 causes of death in this country and many days last month it was the number one cause of death in this country. we haven't seen that since 1918. we also have had economic disruptions to the point where we haven't seen it since the great depression, and now we have the riots associated with race issues we haven't seen since the 1960s. when you put this all together it is a very dangerous mix, and we are very concerned about the social interactions that would enhance the transmission of covid virus and again, as i pointed out, we're in a very

unfortunate experiment right now how all of this mixing after coming off the distancing will play in terms of virus transmission. >> you can look at the chart on a city like new york and see that people really did get the job done. they followed instructions. they flattened the curve and, of course, new york city among the leading places where we have people in the streets as recently as tonight. you have never failed to try to illustrate where you think we are in this virus, which you've pointed out time and time again does not respect boredom, it doesn't care about our plans. it is predatory. so where do you think -- and, of course, i am asking with an eye toward a possible second wave, where do you think we are in this? >> well, thank you for that setup. it was well done. let me just say that, you know, i have said for over a month and a half to two months we are still in the second inning of a

nine-inning game and i'm getting people saying, boy, that's a long inning. what i'm waiting for is to see if we, in fact, have a first wave, meaning about three months worth of cases around the world, and then it starts to tail off regardless of what we do. that would indicate that this is acting much more like an influenza virus pandemic than coronavirus if we don't know -- we've never had one before so we don't know how that acts. if that happens, the virus goes away, i will see many claiming victory that we won, and it is the worst possible situation i could imagine. no one wants anyone to get sick, particularly serious reply ill or die. but if we see a big reduction in cases i can almost promise you we will see a very substantial second wave later in the summer or fall. we don't know that yet. we are still all waiting to see what the virus is going to do, but as i have said on the show before, don't forget for one moment we are not driving this tiger, we are riding it. we have a long ways to go yet. >> that is why we pay very close

attention to when we have you on and you speak to us. along those second inning lines, i hope your twins get to play some baseball this year. everyone is hoping to see something at least. dr. michael osterholm, thank you for joining us from minneapolis again tonight. >> thank you. coming up for us, a review of this consequential week for the presidency and our country when we continue. need better sleep?

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i wasn't down. i went down during the day and i was there for a tiny, little short period of time and it was much more for an inspection. >> reporter: mr. president, do you have a plan -- why haven't you laid out plans to address systemic racism? >> just a snapshot, a sampling of the president's leadership style just this week. with us for more tonight, alvin tillery, professor of political science at northwestern university where he focuses his studies on the intersection of american politics and race and ethnicity. happens to be the author of "between homeland and motherland, africa, u.s. foreign policy and black leadership in america." also with us john delavolpe, director of polling at the har record kennedy school institute of politics. it is a great pleasure to have you both with us. professor tillery, i would like

to begin with you. with your definition of this movement that doesn't have a dr. king, it doesn't have a john lewis, but it has a george floyd. >> yes. well, i mean the black lives matter movement predicates itself and prides insetself on having central figures at the helm. they see themselves as grassroot activists that stimulate change from the bottom up. they do this intentionally. to some extent this is what, you know, has captured the hearts an minds of the millennial generation. >> and that's where our statistician and polling expert comes in. please talk, john, about the demographics of this, and because we live in a political world and this broadcast normally covers politics, the demographics that politicians had better pay attention to at

their own peril. >> exactly. and if you don't believe gen z and millennials matter, you can ask hillary clinton last election. i have been studying this generation now for 20 years, first millennials and now gen z. the way i think of it is it has been this battle between this irresistible force of young people, incredibly active in their communities, making their cities and towns and communities better every single day, and they have been fighting against this immovable force of baby boomers in washington, d.c. i think what we're seeing for the first time is the ground move and the irresistible force is beginning to take hold, that's what we're seeing. there is more of them than us. millennials are the largest generation in the history of america, in the history of the world. there was record turnout in 2018 on the heels of the parkland movement, and we should be prepared for something very similar to happen in a few

months. >> and, professor tillery, i want to play for you something, given your knowledge of history you will enjoy this. here is the white house press secretary from this week. >> through all of time we have seen presidents and leaders across the world who have had leadership moments and very powerful symbols important for a nation to see at any given of time to show a message of resilience and determination. like churchill we saw him inspecting the bombing damage. george w. bush throwing out the ceremonial first pitch after 9/11. >> so, professor, just on my own light reading i know that the brits didn't have to use chemical dispersements on the people in london's east end prior to churchill's arrival. i am guessing the word church

hilli churchillian has not occurred to you? >> no, and i'm saddened by president trump's behavior and his staff's attempt to gas light. we know what leadership looks like and it is not clearing peaceful protesters from lafayette park using military or paramilitary forces that we're not sure which unit this belonged to, with tear gas attacking journalists. it is something that a lot of my colleagues and i -- i'm sure john hears about this at harvard as well. we are worried the country is sliding towards authoritarianism. this was probably one of the most visible displays of this authoritarian potential i have seen ever in the history of the republic, in the modern era so to speak. >> think of -- >> and that's very, very troubling. >> think of what we've seen this week. we have seen in effect secret police, in effect barricades going up around the presidential

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today more than blessed, but to be here, consider changes that have occurred, to live to see a young man, a young friend like president barack obama become president of the united states of america. it's my belief that we cannot give up, cannot give in. >> note the message of hope from

john lewis for the protesters out there fighting racial inequality. he's a man who speaks from experience having stood shoulder to shoulder with dr. king, having been beaten to within an inch of his life when police fractured his skull in selma in 1965. our guests remain with us. alvin tillry, john -- professor tillery. i've had the great fortune in life to get to know john lewis a little bit. when you sit next to him, get -- who bowls you over is the hopefulness of that man who is now, by the way, in the fight of his life against cancer. i hope cancer knows what it got itself into. >> yes. i mean, i think mr. lewis is a symbol of hope and freedom for us all to follow. i hope that the protesters that are in the streets today can borrow the model that he and dr.

king and miss rosa used to translate their activism into change at the polls and in policy. if that can happen, it will truly be a transformation al moment. >> john, with a shoutout to my hoemt county in new jersey, i saw a poll from monmouth asking people if they're more worried today, in effect, about racial inequality than they were five years ago. well, there's your result. over three quarters of us believe discrimination is a problem and john, there's your driver. you were just talking about the generations that came up after us gently opening the door and saying what's your hurry? there's your change driver right there. >> absolutely. it's a different generation. the values -- i call them the values generation, brian. i think covid matters. because i think covid has brought some families together. i think before the last couple

of weeks there was a lot of shared communication and conversations where perhaps for the first time older americans have the same level of stress and anxiety that younger americans have every single day. the concern about inequality. so many younger voters go into the voting booth, representing those without a voice. i think perhaps some of that conversation might be one of the reasons we're seeing these polls tip like they are. >> that is positively lewisian attitude. i've struggled night after night to find the good in this pandemic and what you've settled upon though is fascinating that this might have just had a cross current of understanding about it. >> i think to the degree that there is any silver lining or bright side, when we ask people at the polls, what

had, it's brought people closer to their families and their friends. we saw a little bit of this in 2008 when younger people inspired their grandparents to take a look at barack obama. i think the same thing could be happening today. about the future of the country. resetting where we're headed. >> wow. i know a note to end on when i hear one. with great thanks and a request to do this very same conversation again to professor alvin tillery and to john della voel by. at the end of a long week, this is what we needed. a critique of the president from abroad and one from here at home. when we come back.

last thing before we go tonight, perhaps not the transition to greatness, the

president was hoping for, der spiegel is on the board with a vivid front cover calling our president an arsonist, fire devil is the german phrase they use. it also says a president sets fire to his country. so there's that. indeed the walls have gone up and the people have been pushed further away from the people's house as the threat of violence briefly forced the president, his wife and son into the basement bunker known as the presidential emergency operations center, something the president denied. but that was all mike murphy needed to hear. the republican political strategist and frequent guest of ours and his group called republican voters against trump are out with a blistering new ad. >> where is the president in the time of national emergency? hiding. hiding in a security bunker,

watching his shows. afraid. alone. not a leader. >> supposing brought the light -- >> not a president. just a scared, incompetent -- within a couple of days, it will be down close to zero. >> embarrassment. >> you know that. those who have worked with him know that. >> former defense secretary james mattis accusing president trump of being a threat to the constitution. >> our allies know that. and our enemies know that. everyone knows that. it's time for a competent president. let's elect one. >> defending democracy together is responsible for the content of this advertising. >>let call it unambiguous. republican voters against trump playing us off the air tonight and that is our broadcast for this evening at the end of this long week. please have a good and safe

weekend and thanks for being here with us. on behalf of all my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night from our temporary field headquarters. we continue now with live coverage. daybreak in the nation's capit capital, washington, d.c. the calm before what's expected to be a storm of protests. this is a look at capitol hill and the white house. you can't see it, but the white house perimeter fortified by tall fences. in a matter of hours, huge crowds are expected to fill the streets in the largest demonstrations there since the killing of george floyd. >> one area they plan to fill is just a few feet from the white house. overnight, this area right