good evening and welcome to "politic "politicsnation." tonight's lead: as america shifts on racism, will the president follow? we continue to see froprotests across the country 19 days after the death of george floyd. americans are anxious to see what changes are happening in police departments across the country and what assistance we can expect from the federal government to aid those reforms.

for his part president trump tweeting in the dead of night yesterday he will back off his plan to hold his first rally in over three months on june 19th, also known as juneteenth, a date marking the end of slavery in the united states. the president claims he's moving the event to the 20th at the suggestion of his, quote, african-american friends. of course the raucous political event will still be taking place in tulsa, oklahoma, the site of one of the worst massacres of black americans in u.s. history 99 years ago. the president today delivering a commencement address to more than 1,100 west point cadets, who had to travel back to campus from all over the country in the middle of a pandemic to hear his speech. the spectacle coming the same week trump's own joint chiefs

chairman, general mark milley, apologized for appearing with the president wearing battle fatigues after lafayette square outside the white house was cleared of protesters for a photo-op. the secret service hours ago confirming what many of us saw with our own eyes, that pepper spray was used to disperse those demonstrators. numerous former military leaders have criticized president trump for trying to politicize the military in response to the widespread mostly peaceful demonstrations over the death of george floyd and the pandemic of police brutality and racism in this country. lots of news to cover today so let's get started. joining me now is congressman

jim clyburn, contract from south carolina. thank you for being with us this evening, congressman. before i get to the police matters and the problem of racism, something that we've dealt with a long time and you and i have worked together on. i want to ask you, you're the head of the task force around the coronavirus. how do you read where we are? we're seeing some cities and states saying there's a spike going up. where are we in this pandemic from where you sit? and how do you react to the president saying that we're in a non-emergency? >> thank you very much for having me, reverend. you know, this president is out of touch with almost everything. the fact of the matter is we are not in any kind of area of comfort. we are in an emergency.

we need to remain vigilant. the fact of the matter is in about 21 states, my home state of south carolina included, we see increases in hospitalizations and in deaths and the fact of the matter is we need to work together as one coordinated effort to bring this under control. i can't seem to gather what my colleagues are talking about. we had our meeting on thursday, and all they could talk about is what's going on in this state of new york and michigan and new jersey where we have a democratic governor. well, the fact of the matter is the same problems are in texas, in utah, in arkansas where we

have republican governors. we need to look at this issue as it is, and that is a pandemic that those of us in this country need to stay on top of. and so i don't know where we are. i do know what my committee's job is. my committee's job is to watch where the expenditures are being made. we've got around $2 trillion out here and what we're trying to do now is make sure that those $2 trillion are spent efficiently, effectively and equitably. we want to make sure that everybody, every community is getting the attention that it needs. now, when it comes to whether or not the state is opened up to do business and that sort of thing, that's not in my committee's

purview. my committee's job is to make sure that when we have testing done, it's done efficiently, effectively and equitably, that when we have sickness, that everybody is treated equitably. that's the job of this committee. it's after the old truman committee that was put up in 1941 to make sure that we did not allow fraudulent activities to overtake the process. so that's what we are trying to do. >> now, do you think the president saying it's a non-emergency and urging people to go back to business as usual is politically motivated, as many of us, including me, feel and that it's risky to play politics with the health of people? >> that's exactly what i feel. this is an emergency, and we need to treat it as an emergency. we need to conduct ourselves accordingly. just saying it ain't so does not

make it not so. the fact of the matter is this is something that this country has not seen in more than a hundred years. when we had the spanish flu back in 1918, the same year that the war war i came to a close, 1918, we had a double whammy back then. we got a double whammy today. we got this virus, and we have a lot of racial animus taking place in this country. we have a double whammy like we had in 1918. we ought to conduct ourselves that way. >> let's talk about the racial animus. you and i worked in this area for a long time and many people should know you started your political career as a civil rights activist, going to jail in the deep south protesting. you and your dear wife, your dear late wife were activists to the core and still your heart beats the heart of an activist.

we're seeing some cities, some states make some real laws and changes in policing, and many of us are saying we need federal laws so that we do not have to deal with this state by state. in fact, we've called for a march the end of august assuming that everything is well in terms of health, in terms of people traveling, the anniversary to march on washington to push for federal legislation. are you confident in this climate? because i know that the democrats have put forward a bill in the house that is being proposed and will probably pass that many of us are hoping will move somewhere. but are you confident that it can get through the senate? can we see federal legislation around the justice and policing

act that's in the house right now? >> i think so. justice and policing act put together by the chair of progressive black caucus, karen bass, she did a masterful job in working on this piece of legislation. nancy pelosi turned it over to her, and i am very pleased with the product that she has produced. and we are going to pass that bill next week. the fact of the matter is we had 220 co-sponsor. all you need is 218 if everybody is present and voting. so we're going to pass the bill in the house. the bill will then go to it the senate, and my colleague, tim scott, has been given the responsibility of pulling the legislation together in the senate. i am confident that he will use his experiences, his political

know how to get the senate to respond in a positive way. that is not to say there will not be differences in the legislation, but i really strongly believe that we're going to outlaw choke holds in this country, that we are going to put back in place patterns and practices, the kind of stuff that this administration has gotten rid of, that we are going to do some things that will really make the restructuring of policing in this country a reality. yes, i'm very confident we'll get that done. >> well, i hope that all of what we're doing will make that a reality. thank you for being with us this evening, congressman jim clyburn. joining me now is senator tammy duckworth, democrat of illinois. she is a u.s. military veteran. senator, the president spoke today, did the commencement at west point and you said earlier

today that he missed an opportunity to deal with systemic racism. explain that to me, what you raised in your written piece. >> well, you know, reverend sharpton, the president -- number one, he should never have brought those cadets back to west point just to hear him give a speech. he could have done it via video. by the way, some of those cadets ended up testing positive for covid-19. he spent most of his speech talking about football and sports teams. this is one of the most diverse classes to ever graduate from west point. well over a hundred black cadets, over a hundred female cadets and a big chunk of asian cadets and he did not take this time when our nation is wounded and hurting and talk to these cadets about their role in the

future leadership of our country and there is systemic racism and it is their role to take leadership and fight against that systemic racism. he didn't even mention it at all and i think this was very much a missed opportunity. i think he probably did it on purpose. he wanted to talk about football scores more than he did want to talk about racism in america when it neelds to be talked about. >> you wrote an op-ed for "time" magazine, "our military bases deserve better than being named after confederate officers." as a veteran, did it really bother you in alabama served as a base named after a confederate who not only supported the confederacy, supported the sustaining and continuation of slavery, but they were traitors

to the united states. >> yes. that is a real problem. we need to change all of those names. and there are very good folks that we could actually rename these bases for. name it for william kecarney, t first slave american to receive the medal of honor. and we have a first nation soldier, red cloud mitchell. mitchell red cloud, who fought in korea, was also a medal of honor recipient. there are much more deserving folks to name our military installations after than people who declared war against the united states and were traitors to our nation and who did that because they wanted to own and kill other people, black americans. >> and they were traitors. i don't know how someone would want to serve as ben district

arnold faceboair force base or base. you have new legislation coming out, explain it to me about your legislation on policing. >> well, it's actually unfortunately old legislation that leader mcconnell keeps refusing to move. it's something that i worked on following the laquan mcdonald killing in chicago. in fact, it was then lore lore before she became mayor who advised me on it and i worked on this legislation and improved on some legislation that already existed. it provides for money to the states. you said earlier what do we need to do at the federal government to help states fight systemic racism if our criminal justice system? we can provide funding. my bill would provide funding to police forces for training. if you want this money for training, you must conduct training about systemic racism, especially among black americans that exist in our justice system

and there would be independent review for police shootings and killings. you shouldn't have the same prosecutor investigate the police department they work with on a regular basis. they have an inherent piu bias. they should have an independent party come in. that's my legislation. it goes nowhere because the republicans will not let it. lamar alexander came and opposed on the floor the unanimous consent i asked. and they opposed kamala harris and cory booker's legislation against lynching. how can you not support legislation opposing lynching in this day and age? >> in the middle of all of this they would not reform lynching and vote on your case.

>> exactly. this is systematic. it's also inequality when it comes to the environment. we put our most toxic substance and industry into black neighborhoods so our black kids grow up with higher rates of asthma, they don't have access to health care, which makes them more susceptible to covid-19. if we want to move on and be a leader of the free world, which we should be, then we need to address this and make our nation stronger. >> if you're black or people of color, i can't breathe happens in many dimensions of american life. thank you, senator, for being with us. joining me now is the mayor of chicago, lori lightfoot. she will lead a task reform as part of the u.s. conference of

mayors. madam mayor, thank you for being with me this evening. tell me what you hope to establish and get done as the chair of this new task force for the u.s. conference of mayors? >> well, thank you, reverend al, for inviting me on the program. really what we want to do is make sure that mayors' voices are in this discussion, a unique opportunity that's presented around police reform and accountability. mayors are on the front lines. anything that gets passed federally we're going to be responsible for implementing. i think there's a number of really good best practices across the country that we want to bring to light and the u.s. conference of mayors really wants to be a resource for the country as we have this very important conversation around policing. >> now, you are a new mayor. it shows the respect you have that your colleagues in the u.s. conference of mayors have asked you to head this task force. people around the country need to know, i know everyone in

chicago knows, that you had a background in dealing with some of these police matters so you bring particular skill and insight into this area that you could share with some mayors that are not as up to speed as they should be on why there is even the kind of groundswell that we are seeing and experiencing around the country in terms of people demanding things like defund the police or moving funds other places, to mental health and other activities. you bring that experience. >> yes. >> and do you hope by bringing that experience you can guide towards solutions? because we're going to keep the demonstrations going but demonstration without legislation and policy will peter out and we'll have nothing achieved. >> i think that's exactly right. we've got to be moving towards very specific, concrete solutions. this is really a once in a generation opportunity, and the heightened awareness is not just

one city, not one state, this is all across the country. i think we've got an opportunity to really do some very good work. one of the things that i have my team working on here in chicago is standing up a licensing regime for policemen in our state. if you go and get your hair cut or you get your nails done, those technicians, those barbers, they're licensed by the state, yet police officers, we talk about this being a noble profession but there are no standards across a state, across jurisdictions to make sure that they've got continuing education, that there's an opportunity for them to grow and learn professionally, but also a level of accountability so that you can't lose your job one place and just drive down the road to the next place. so we need a bundle of regulatory licencensure to help

stand up for policing in our country. we also have to focus on what we need to do to break up these police union contracts that for way too long have been an impediment to any kind of reform. we are very focused on that here in chicago. we're going to be talking about this as part of our task force work, and we also have to think about one of the things we're discussing in our working group is what is the proper role of police? you know this, reverend al. where we've abandoned the social safety net, we've forced the police into doing work they will never be qualified to do. they're not social workers. they're not drug addiction counselors and yet in many instances they're thrust into these roles and we're setting them up for failure. >> they're not prepared for the role. and then we've got to reimagine what policing looks like. i have to ask you this, and i

know you -- we had a long conversation at washington reagan airport before you were mayor so i know these beliefs you've always had. i have to ask you, one of the most i must say annoying, appalling things i saw was when it came out a tape of some chicago policemen in the middle of people burning and looting in chicago went into congressman bobby rush's office and were taking naps and eating and playing on the cell phones. >> yes. >> and you had a press conference where you were outraged and was really, really enraged about this. what happened to these policemen? what can be said about their unions, what can be said to justify while burnings are going on they're laying up in a congressman's office taking naps and eating popcorn. >> you know bobby rush well.

he's the former head of the black panther party here in illinois. these police officers are now saying that bobby rush invited them into his office. it's the most ludicrous thing in the world. and even if that were so, which of course it's absolutely false, he didn't invite you in for five hours to sleep while everything around you is up in flames. i mean, it's just ludicrous. so luckily we've now identified all these officers. internal investigations is being pushed by our police superintendent to conduct a thorough but expeditious investigation, and they will be held accountable. i got to tell you, the most discouraging thing is there were supervisors, a lieutenant and two sergeants that were part of this disgraceful conduct. >> well, mayor lori lightfoot

and they may know what the lightfoot part means when you light them up. thank you for being here this evening. >> thank you, reverend al. >> coming up, i'm calling a bluff on colin kaepernick. but first, my colleague richard lui with today's top news stories. >> thanks, rev. at this hour there are more than 2 million confirmed coronavirus cases throughout the united states. we're also closing in on a death toll right now nearing 116,000. the spread of the virus is forcing some local governments now to rethink reopening. houston officials, for instance, are considering reimposing stay-at-home orders after reporting the largest one-day spike in new cases since the pandemic emerged. and pro sports continues to make a return, despite the ongoing pandemic. the pga touriti teed off this w.

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in the next few weeks. congress must act now to fund such voting and states need to do whatever they need to make it happen. make it happen athletes of color across major sports leagues are mobilizing to push, shoot and drive for change in this moment of protest. i myself opened up this week challenging the nfl to rehire former super quarterback colin cappkaepernick after a nearly four-year absence from the league that began after his pregame protest over police brutality, and president trump responded by calling players who knelt on their knees showing their protests, calling them sons of female dogs and i'm sanitizing what the president

said. in so many words by mid week mega star lebron james in concert with some of his biggest stars announced he's forming an organization devoted to protecting black voting rights after weeks of tweets in solidarity with protesters over the killing of george floyd. and as confederate symbols continue to topple in public spaces throughout the south, nascar announced this week that it would no longer tolerate the brandishing of confederate flag at its races, a promove promptey the league's so african-american driver, bubba wallace, who took to a west virginia track wednesday in a t-shirt reading "i can't believe," his stock car emblazened with "black lives

matter." let me go to you first, jamille. it seems it's taken on a broader form in the light of george floyd. how do you read this and will it be effective? >> i think it will be effective. sports is one of the few things who brings people together. maybe if you watch lebron james and don't understand the intra ka -- inttri intricacy of police violence. i think for a lot of african-americans in position of leverage and power, this is an important moment for them where they want to push this conversation forward and make it uncomfortable for some people and some leagues and particularly the nfl that finally has to admit that they were wrong, not only in not

listening to the players, but they are going to at some point admit what they did to colin kaepernick was an absolute disgrace. >> carrie when i made my point that they have to admit what they did wrong and repair it, there were different reactions, but the fact of the matter is they were trying to separate people's life, people's race from what they do in professional sports. are we seeing a new wave now where there are athletes in all fields, including nascar drivers that are saying, no, i'm not an athlete and i happen to be black, whatever, i'm the same person and i understand what people are saying? >> no, you're saying athletes actually take the time to use their leverage to change what they feel has been wrong for so long. and earlier you hear we need to

have the league apologize to colin kaepernick. i agree wholeheartedly. they apologized under pressure. some of them have given donald trump support, financial support. these players field bold, they feel entitled or they are correct, they will kneel and they will have the support of so many people, what will really happen? i think this nfl season will be very interesting to see how in fact the pushback in terms of leverage will actually work in their benefit because right now it looks like the players have all the leverage. that's a first in the nfl. not so much in the nba but most definitely in the nfl. the nba has always led in the forefront when it comes to that. >> when we hear of lebron and

others forming an organization to deal with voting rights and work with others in the organization to work in that space full time, can they work in a field that unites of americans, can they drive a lot in terms of voting, in terms of getting people interested that may not have been voting and dealing with the obstacles and impediments we've seen in voting as late as this week in georgia? could they use their platforms and celebrity to really get americans to understand these impediments and to push past them? >> i mean, that's the hope. lebron has been very politically active, particularly in the last six or seven years of his career. this is just an extension of some of the things he's already been doing. the fact he is highlighting and targeting voter suppression in particular i think is a very big statement and shows he's not in this in some shallow, surface

way, he understands these are very complicated issues and one of the biggest issues is voter rights and voter suppression. i'm hoping by people seeing lebron be so active in this area that those who do face voting challenges, that this is something that will enspiinspirm to stick with it, even though we no us activating our right to vote is an entirely different thing. in georgia it just so happened in all the voting booths with are there's a large concentration of black voters suddenly don't seem to work well. i think people outside of just black people need to understand that our right to vote is still very vulnerable in this country. >> part of it also is ownership. we still have leagues in professional sports that don't have any black ownership. and i think as we see people moving in the spirit of dealing with racial exclusion, this is

an open area. we've even had michael jordan come out talking about michael racism, something that he has not often done in his career in pledging money. will this be translated when the leagues start opening up opportunity for ownership? we certainly have blacks that have the money to purchase some of these teams. >> no, they have to. 2020 is demanding so much more. you know this better than i do. 2020 says no more. people are out of it, they're tired of it, they don't want to deal with it any longer. these teams can't continue to have a good ol' boys club where they say let's not include everybody. colin kaepernick is saying this isn't fair for black americans, name live police brutality. it was as if he was speaking in this moment clearly to the leagues colin kaepernick didn't want to kneel. we know he was told to kneel by

a former soldier. so this whole no kneeling thing really is embarrassing and it's an indication of how people haven't educated themselves. it is time we make sure we hold these leagues accountable. i had a chance to speak to lebron today for a brief moment. he simply said to me the reason he put this together is because he wants to put real resources on the ground in terms of voting and teaching people how to vote, who to vote for and how important their voice is. it's reeducating the entire voting process, especially for blacks. >> car carrie champion and jame hill, you know what i'm going to say, give my regards to your mother. >> i will, i will. she loves you. >> that's what i tell you. >> the self-proclaimed neighborhood watchman who shot

and killed then 17-year-old trayvon martin, on the front lines of those protests was martin's mother sabrina fulton. she joins me now. she's a candidate for the miami dade county board of commissioners. sabrina, i want to start by saying i remember like it was yesterday when you and tracy came with ben crump came and told me the story of your son and you wanted to make it a national issue and in a week we had the big rally and it blew up nationally. you never thought that trayvon would be a worldwide name. you just wanted your son to get justice. when george zimmermann was acquitted, three brilliant young ladies that became a hash tag

that became known black lives matter and developed into a movement that they've organized and been loyal around. as you look at where we are now, you came to houston and was at the funeral of george floyd you as one who personified the start of this moment and start of this movement, how do you view it now? >> i think it's still a movement and i think it's absolutely gaining momentum. with each case it seems like we're getting closer to justice, but i'm wondering just like everybody else why is it taking so long? why do people not value the african-american and the black and brown lives? why is it taking so long? why did it have to be a video? why did george floyd have to lose his life? i this i abonk about those thin. it's awful and ugly. america is facing the awful truth about what's going on with

the african-american movement. >> you and the mothers who have suffered the loss of a child, one of the things that always strikes me by knowing most of y'all and have worked with most of y'all, none of you wanted to be activists or wanted to be in politics, but this was your child and it changed your lives and you ended up being something you didn't ask for but rose to the occasion. is that why you had to be at the funeral of george floyd, because you could identify with his family? only you, as close as i've been to all of y'all and i've been out there, only you understand the pain of a mother or sister or brother to losing a loved one personally in this kind of situation? >> well, one of the things, rev, is i was thinking to myself that i didn't want to go. i said it was going to be too emotional for me, but i was thinking about myself. and then when i thought about the family and thought about what we had gone through with

trayvon martin, it just hurt so bad that i felt like i had to be there to support them, to stand with them, to let them know they're not alone and that means a lot to family. so they were very appreciative that i was there and that representatives from the trayvon martin foundation was there. i'm glad that i went. it opened my eyes to a lot of things and it absolutely connected me to their family. >> now, we're out of time but you're running for county commissioner in miami dade. and like lucy mcbath who lost her son to racial violence, you're talking your pain into power. why have you decided to do that? >> because i feel like as i travel across the united states and some other parts of the country, i feel like i'm learning so much, i'm experiencing so much and some of the same things that are happening right here in my own

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state brian kemp won one of the most narrow gubernatorial victories in memory over stacey abrams after allegedly purging black voters around the state. joining me is sarah longwell, director of republican voters against trump and dean, radio host and columnist for "the daily beast." dean, it looks as though if we take georgia as a forecast that the act as one of the guests just said that in the black areas, all of a sudden by some magic, the machines didn't work, there are voters being purged, is voter suppression in your judgment the play book we're going to see again that we've

seen in the last several years of elections, not only in georgia but in other states? >> there's no doubt, reverend. first i want to say you did a phenomenal job on the eulogy of mr. floyd earlier this week. and you talked about wickedness in high places this is wickedness in low places as well. and in georgia and states across this country controlled by republicans, the play book is voter i.d., get rid of early voting days, closing places do you where people of color tend to vote and making it harder to vote because they can't win on ideas. despite their efforts to suppress the vote, the turnout is about a million democrats came out. that is far eyer than even in even '18. also quickly, look at iowa. they had a great turn out because they have northern ballots. republicans days after primary are trying to make it harder to

do male- do mail-in ballots to suppress the turnout. he said it's bad for republicans. when democrats come out big, we win big. they know that and they're afraid. expect this state after state where republicans control it. >> sara, does this mean if there's big turnout, if there's what george indicated with this huge turnout even bigger than for stacey abrams, if this is duplicated like iowa and other places around the country, is this bad news not only for president trump but for senate republicans? >> yeah, it's terrible news. i mean, the polling right now for donald trump is ugly. he is down even -- albeit slightly, in places like texas, georgia. he is down in florida. he has a 20 to 25 deficit against joe biden with women.

obviously if voter turnout is huge among consistent democratic voters and then you couple that with all of these voters, these right-leaning independents in the suburbs who look like they are breaking hard against trump, especially in these last three months as they watch how incapable he is of handling a crisis. i mean, i talk to trump voters all the time in focus groups. i just did one on thursday. there was only one woman in the group of eight trump voters who was even leaning toward voting for trump again. so unless something really changes for donald trump, he's in big trouble come november. >> now, dean can biden blow it? if right now the polls are right, he wins. can he blow it? his running mate if he chooses will that matter one or another to tilt it for or against him? what would you do to advise mr. biden to hold this lead?

>> one thing i would recommend is for him to come on my radio show. we tried to get him. i don't think it's about joe biden blowing it. this is a man who has been a public servant for decades. spo. who he picks as a vp i think will be very important. when you have a president on the ballot, it's a referendum. that's essentially what it is. and what does trump have to run on? and i'm being objective. the economy is in shambles. he failed the test of president during the covid-19 crisis. polls back me up on this. this is a man who just gassed his own people to take a photo op in front of a church. this week he attacks former u.s. generals while defending confederate generals. look, trump is horrific. i think joe biden is a really good, decent human being who is compassion, is empathetic, and we need that now. joe biden who he is such a contrast. day and night, yin and yang to what donald trump is. >> we have to leave it there.

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