live from msnbc headquarters in new york city. thanks for being with us on a sunday. it was a night of unrest. a deadly shooting at duelling protests in portland, oregon. new clashes on the streets of kenosha as well and more demonstrations are expected. we'll hear from the portland mayor live right here. we'll go straight to that when it happens. president trump says he will go to kenosha but his critics say his presence might make things worse. plus. >> wefr had a pandemic of information being leaked out of the intelligence community. >> the director of national intelligence speaking out against leakers but congress is pushing back on his decision to stop in-person briefings on election interference. storm ravaged louisiana.

some people are without power food or water. struggle to start the recovery on the gulf coast and the u.s. open is scheduled to start tomorrow but already one player has tested positive. how that affects the nation's tennissh tennis championship in new york city. for the second time this week, a deadly shooting happened amid protests in america. we're waiting the mayor of portland, oregon who is set to speak after president trump, his supporters and protesters clashed. man was killed in a shooting there. it's unclear in the shooting is connected to to protest. the victim has not been identified. he was wearing a hat with a far right group's low go on it. president trump put out tweets praising the pro-trump activists. white house chief of staff echoed that on nbc "meet the press." >> after 94 days, perhaps now we're going to act because

someone was shot last night. to suggest that somehow it's been peaceful in portland is just not looking at facts. we've had over 200 anarchists and they're not peaceful protesters. >> an exclusive statement just minutes ago, vice president joe biden responded by condemning the violence saying president trump is quote, recklessly encouraging violence. he may believe tweeting about law and order makes him strong but his failure to call on his supporters, to stop seeking conflict shows how weak he is. you were just showing a little bit of what you got a hold of. what have you got? >> reporter: please interrupt me if we see the mayor or police

chief approach that podium. we're waiting for some crucial details from those officials. the situation in portland, we know there were violent clashes between a group of trump supporters, a protest group that formed caravan of some 600 vehicles that drove downtown and interacting with some counter demonstrators. police are not saying the shooting was connected. we expectr more information from the officials. that was captured on video. it was a white male wearing a hat with insignia of a far right group on it. the reason we note that is because we know that group has clashed with black lives matter protesters before. we don't know and that's something we are asking police and we'll hear from police in just a couple of minutes whether or not those two are connected

but we know those are the facts as things stand right now. in portland, you have seen those protests. we heard about those going on for well over 90 days at this point. still waiting on officials hoping we can connect more dots and get a fuller picture of what happened in portland last night. >> fang thathanks for that. we are watching that camera in portland. when it does happen, we'll jump straight to it. you are now on the grounds in wisconsin in kenosha. we have also heard, talking about national politics, that president trump will be heading there. what do we expect and how are people reacting on the ground? >> reporter: that's right. we talked about president trump with portland and comments he made asking the national guard be sent in. the national guard is here in kenosha. what you have seen the past couple of nighs ats of calm.

tlp w there was a huge rally. over 1,000 people marched with jacob blake. things remain peaceful for the most part yesterday. we know he will meet with members of the law enforcement community. he will survey some of the damage we saw early on. we also saw the mayor do something similar. he went around to the uptown area with we saw most of the damage in terms of burning buildings earlier in this week. he made an announcement. listen to what the mayor said. >> stand by. we're just seeing the mayor coming to the microphone as you were telling us about. let's listen in. >> hearing from mayor ted wheeler and then portland police bureau chief chuck lavelle. he will be followed by the district attorney mike schmitz. let's get right to it.

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

plan to come to portland to secret see secret ri busee seseek retribution. you have a right but we're asked you the stay away. i'm asking all of us to do our part too. one death is one death too many. join me is denouncing all violence. let's pull together in the name of peace and humanity. we don't always have to agree but we have long done so without violence. that's part of what makes this nation strong. let's end this long hard summer and come together and work to support and lift each other, not tear each other apart. i'm going to continue to work with the community on the historic changes that we have

already made and have committed to making as we are reimagine what public safety and racial justice can look like in our community and will continue to do that work in the weeks and the months ahead. there's so much work to do. we proceed to engage in that hard work together. yesterday's event began with hundreds of cars filled with supporters of the president rallying and driving through downtown portland. they were supported and energized by the president himself. president trump, for four years, we have had to live with you and your racist attacks on black people. we learned early about your sexist attitudes towards women. we've had to endure clips of you mocking a disabled man. we've had to listen to your

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

enforcement have. it's you who claimed that white iss supreme assiists are good peopl. your campaign of fear is anti-democratic of anything you have done to do to create hate and tried to di vid us than an other figure in history. now you want me to stop the violence ta you helped to create. what america needs is for you to be stopped so we can come back together as one america while recognizing that we must demand that all people, black, brown, white, every color from every political persuasion pull together and hold all people accountable in stopping racism and violence and we, together, are peaceful again under new leadership that reflects who we

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

not move us forward. it sets us back. i know the values of this community. i was born and raised here. i found my living here. i raised my family here. this is where i want to be. i know the values of this community. we want to protest powerfulfully and peacefully. we believe that black lives matter. we believe that it's a responsibility of our leaders to ensure that the systems that we have in place, to protect and serve, do so equitiablely. let's engage with each over in thoughtful dialogue about reform and use the power of our shared values to move forward together. we must recommit our energy and resources to advancing the work of reform and the transformation of our systems. we have seen the positive power of collective and focused and

non-violent action. we have seen the change. our responsibility to each other is to keep moving forward. portland is counting on its leaders. the city, the county, the state, our federal partners to partner and use the collective power of our offices to create a better future for all of us. thank you. >> let's stay with this and listen in. >> we will have portland bureau chief chuck lavelle. >> thank you, tim. last night portland witnessed another homicide. this time in downtown portland. there are mr. who are sharing information on social media or jumping to conclusions that are not based in fact. a human being lost their life last night. it's critical that every one

refrain from conjecture and allow us to gather the evidence and statements needed to hold the person who did this responsible for this heinous act. we ask that anyone with information or video or eyewitness accounts please come forward and share that information with our investigators so we can quickly resolve this case. prior to the shooting there was a political rally involving a vehicle caravan that traveled through portland for several hours. there were some squirmishes between rally goers and demonstrators and police made several arrests. the caravan covered miles of area and offeicers responded to different locations as provided a presence and even made arrests when warranted. the vehicle caravan had already cleared the area when the shooting occurred near southwest third and alder. this is an active investigation and detectives are gathering

information to determine what happened and wa lhat led up to s death. criminal activity, especially violence is out of bounds. this event is gaining extreme media attention. on thursday a 16-year-old african-american teenager was gunned down in a city park. three others were injured. we have witnessed an increase in more and more uncivilized activity in our streets and nation. it's incumbent upon us to do

better. portland needs calm. we're living in an extremely divided era and it's time to start focusing on what we have in common and not what divides us. lives are at stake. >> thank you, mayor. my heart is also heavy today. any time a human being loses their life, it's a huge tragedy and my condolences go out to the family. martin luther king said we must learn to live together as brothers or parish together as

foo fools. those words were as true today when dr. king spoke them 56 years ago in stc.louis. i know a lot of my neighbors are fearful and hurting. i understand that. we're stunned and saddened, angry and frustrated that this happened in our community. that the right or the duty to peacefully protest and speak out for an end to systemic racism that has plagued our country for generations could be undermined by this terrible act of violence. my message today to my neighbors is we can never allowed hatred or racism or division and violence to win. when we allow that, democracy loses. when we allow violence and division to triumph, hope dies. the violence that is occurring in our city needs to stop.

far too many people have been injured and now somebody has died. our kplunts is being terrorized by people coming into portland for the explicit purpose of committing violence. that's not acceptable. we're seeing too much tragedy across our city. as the chief said on thursday, a teenager died in a shooting in northeast portland. a neighbor did what neighbors do. she tried to apply a tourniquet but was unsuccessful. we have too much violence going on in our community. hate, division, hopelessness, too many guns in the wrong hands is fueling this round of violence and it will take all of us together to stop the bleeding in our community and in our country. my office is working closely to investigate last night's shooting.

it's vital that we find answers. i know and expect that the cases of violence act will be investigated and then submitted to my office for review. we do not prosecute individuals based on ideologies and affiliations with organizations. we will initiate a criminal case following a review of all the evidence and when ever legally and ethically appropriate, pursuant to state and constitutional law. we support freedom of speech. we support non-violent protests. we support speaking out to improve our communities. we support standing up for each other but we do not support violence. we cannot allow the calls for social justice to end systemic

racism to be overshadowed by the continued violence. we cannot allow this critical moment in our history to be hijacked. this is our community. we are strong. we reject violence when it occurs. my office is ready to hold offenders accountable. together in dr. king's words, let's clooz to live together as breers and sisters and not perish together as fools. thank you. >> we're going to open up the floor for questions. identify which outlet you're with. your name and who it's directed at. let's begin. who has a question? >> i'd like to hear from the mayor and the chief what kind of planning you had ahead of last night's demonstrations since it

seemed there was a likelihood for others to come. >> last night we had information that a vehicle caravan was going to come up to portland from clacamus county. we didn't have a good idea of the number. once the caravan started, we had a sense of how many were in that caravan. we tried to take precautionary measures during the route the keep them out of the out door area. the goal was to keep them on i-5. a group of those vehicles were able to come into the downtown ai area. we didn't have any specific information of a gathering where folks would be outside of vehicles. most of our information surrounded the vehicle caravan that would be coming up. >> i don't have much to say beyond that.

we were monitoring the situation on social media and we chose not to publicize it. we didn't think that would help to deescalate the situation or any potential flash points. >> this has been building for a long time. what do to keep the same thing from happening last night? >> thank you for the question. obviously i've stood at this podium or a number of occasions and expressed what my greatest fear would be. i've said my greatest fear is somebody will die. now somebody has. we as a community are mourning and i am, as the mayor, is accountable to the public and will continue to be accountable. here is the specific steps we're taking.

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

lou frederick and state representative janelle bynum on reforms. many have been passed in the legislative session. we have agreed to continue to work with others in the community. at the community level to listen, to hear to understand and pass fundamental reforms. i'm now engaging with our citizen review commission as well as the portland community engaged policing around reimagining what local policing can look like. what precinct policing can look like. there's many other opportunities to work with the community directly and as we proceed with this, i'm going to continue to ask the community to work with me. i will continue to ask our colleagues to work with me. i'm going to continue to ask the governor and our state legislature to work with me. this is a long road ahead of us. we know that the dead end is

violence. that's a dead end street. we don't want to be in that cul-de-sac. we need to focus our energy. focus our passion. focus our attention on the hard work of fundamental reform. it starts with policing and criminal justice but then we have a lot of work to do around education, around housing access, around health access. around shared economic prosperity opportunities. we have so much work yet to do and i don't want the public to be sidetracked by engaging in violence. that's never the right answer. i'm asking the public to work with us, to continue to do the work that we already engaged in around historic reforms and let's work together moving forward. yes, sir. >> josh from cnn. this morning the president had some harsh words for you. he didn't condemn the violence

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

attacking democratic mayors and those who are trying to bring resolution to the violence in their local communities, he has an opportunity to uplift us and bring us together and help us move through this difficult situation in our nation's history, and instead, he chooses to play pel tpetty politics and devied divide us. i'm going to do the work i need to do with my local officials to take accountable for what's happening on our streets and i appreciate the president support us or stay the hell out of the way. >> because of the violence, he's not surprised there would be this other group coming in. what's your response? >> of course he is not surprised. he encouraged them to come in. previously, he encouraged or at least approved of violence. i'm not sprieds surprised in th slightest. i'm surprised if he would be

surprised. there's an o live branch opportunity for all of us. we need to reset. the president needs to reset. i need to reset. this community needs to reset and america needs to reset. it will take his leadership in the white house and my leadership here in city hall to get it done. the president initially seemed to be ignoring the covid crisis and the economic crisis which is now resulting causing so many americans economic stress and strain and now the work that we have to do in our communities across this nation in the wake of the murder of george floyd, i'm up to that challenge. i hope the president is too. i'm ready to reach across any aisles i need to reach across,

any political divides i need to cross in order to bring us back together. somebody has got to do it. i'm committed to it. i know my colleagues are. i'd like to hear the president of the united states say he is all in. let's bring in great nation back together. >> a number of civil rights groups -- what's your response? >> no. >> i have a question. har heard you talk about accountability. do you have plan for keeping groups apart? you didn't see much of it yesterday in terms of keeping them apart. you didn't see it last week. is there any strategy going forward as this escalates that we can somehow keep them apart? >> we were very successful back on august 17th a year ago of

keeping parties separated who made it clear on social media they intended to get into it with each other. what we did is built a coalition both of law enforcement, local state and federal law enforcement to come together to keep the parties, those who might engage in violence apart. what we also had was the community unified. several days prior we had 120 different community organizations, organizations that don't all have the same politics. they don't have the same representation but we came together on that day and we said, we as a city do not stand for violence. we do not tolerate violence. that's the kind of coalition we're missing. we don't have elected officials denouncing violence. we don't have community organizations coming together with that kind of single minded

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

office and the state police, we have been successfully throughout this in terms of operations when we're combined and collaborating and i'm told by our law enforcement profes l professionals that is sufficient but i'll defer to the chief. did you want to say something on that? >> no. >> you mentioned you feel something like this could happen. how could the city not take action over the weekend to prevent something like this? >> i'm not sure how you can prevent this. keep in mind, it's no secret to anybody that i personally am not a trump supporter. i will defend to the death the right of a trump supporter to stand outside my apartment and non-violently demonstrate in support of their candidate. that's core to american democracy is the right to demonstrate freely without the

fear of retribution. when people say they want to come into city supporting their presidential candidate, we cannot tell them no. they have constitutional rights to be here. rights which i embrace and support. the violence, however, is the problem. what i'm asking people right i now, knowing what happened last night is you're thinking you're coming back into our city from somewhere else to secret retribution, aisle telling you to stay away. we don't want other people to die. that's what i'm asking people from outside to do. what i'm asking all of us as portlanders to do is do our part, too. let's not take the bait. let's not engage and if you see people doing things that look lie vent or destruktsive, say something. do something. don't just be passive. ultimately when we see examples of violence, that undermines our

democracy. this democracy is depenpents upon us having differences of opinion and have uncomfortable conversations without resorting to violence. i've asked the president to do his part. ly do my part too. we both have an important role to play. we will both be held accountable. >> why have you not spoken to the president? why are we seeing a lot more. this weekend an last weekend? >> we had a strong presence yesterday. most of this activity was vehicle born covering several miles on the highways. we did have officers in vehicles. we had trafgs divisific divisio. it's difficult when you have

small groups spread throughout the city engage in violent acts with each other. we only have limited resources. we can't be everywhere at the same time. the prior saturday we had about 30 officers working. we had an event the night before that required our crowd control resources. we had to staff for an event saturday night, later that night and still answer calls for service. we were only able to bring together that limited amount of resources for the saturday afternoon portion. it's just not always operationally feasible to insert that small number of officers in between two crowds who are hostile toward one another and ed edge gau engage. it's not always safe to get in between. >> the rally yesterday said on a

video posted on social media which meant did they have a permit? did they have a permit? >> to my knowledge, we had spoken to folks to try to get a sense of what the route would be and edge courage the route to not be through the downtown. >> did you have a commitment? >> i don't know if we had a commitment but we had conversations around it. >> officers were there as well. why were they not used yesterday? >> it depend on the circumstances. i think vehicles and protesters on foot are a bad mix in general. if we feel a vehicle poses a threat to officers or community ple members, disabling it by disabling the tires is an

option. that's not always feasible depending where the officers are positioned. >> what is the plan for tonight? this has the potential to be violent if there are people coming to secrek retribution? >> i know we're reaching out to try to resource properly for fie tonight. it's possible what happened last night could play a factor in what happens tonight. we want to make sure we have reached out to every one we can to get the proper resources in place. >> we have protests that were right versus left. in 2020 you have the black lives matter and the systemic racism violence. was last night one of those and not the other or the venn diagram gotten such a blur? was that a brawl in the park like we saw in 2019. was that a black lives matter?

have you been able to isolate what happened last night as far as the nature of it? >> i don't think i can classify the nature of that interaction. it would have been a squirmish between two small groups or a problem that erupted between individuals. it's hard to classify as more of black lives matter thing or a political ideology case. i think with ae get further into the investigation we might learn more. >> some of folks in the caravan had paint ball guns, pepper spray. cars were driving through crosswalks and almost running over people. are you going to be seeking, building cases on those? >> potentially. it would depend what information comes forward for us. we're able to make about ten arrests on individual squirmishes or things that happened that we could identify and take action on. with caravan that big covering

that much area, we use our resources to really keep people safe. if we do get information that leads to a prosecutable case, we'll follow up on that. >> you mentioned concerns about misinformation. can you give us any information on the victim and create some clarity here? >> i don't have any specific information on the victim that i can release at this time. as these kind of transpire, social media becomes rampant with information that isn't factual. be careful what you believe on social media. we're investigating. we'll be releasing information, different steps an we'll keep you posted. >> do you know if the shooting was politically motivated? >> i do not know that. >> mike from the new york times. we have seen gunshots fired from both sides, if you want to call it two sides here, in the last few weeks. if you're saying it's

operationally not feasible to keep those two sides apart, what's going to stop this from escalating to an open fire fight in the streets? >> i hope it doesn't come to that. we have a finite resource of officers. we have this taking place all throughout the city. we can't be everywhere at once. people do have a constitutional right to carry firearms. some of the instances that take place, you're talking split second, a couple seconds. a lot of times we're not right there to see things happen. i think the best we can do is message to people we want a safe city and we ask them not to come downtown or to these other places with firearms. not engage in violent acts of crime and i think where we can, we have our resources stationed

and we take action when we can. we have made several hundred arrests throughout these protests. we have been out there 90 plus nights straight doing our best to keep the city safe and to keep these interactions from happening. it's hard to be in absolute and say we can be here and prevent these squirmishes from happening. >> are you close to bringing in the national guard? >> i think we need additional resources. i think oregon state police have been a great partner for us. it may get to that point but it's determined wa we have available as resources and violent crowd activity. >> what would be the reason not to call them? what's the hesitancy there? >> i don't have a hesitancy one way or the other.

i'm not sure. i probably would know more after atalk to my instant management team folks. we had a curfew early on and it wasn't very successful. we still had very large crowds at that time. >> last night there was loss of life to violence. were you trying to insert yourself or were you saying the officers will stay away. >> we had our resources foe ks k -- focused on the vehicular part of the event yesterday. there were some squirmishes that took place on the street, to my understanding.

when we have those resources, we had resources nearby. they just weren't right there when it happened. >> police officers visible. there were no police officers visible. this could go on for a while. are you thinking about how th they -- >> that's possible. for us it's like where can we deploy officers where they are safe. it doesn't help to have one officer in place where they are in the middle of something and can't respond and don't have cover to keep themselves safe. we never know where these are going to take place. we have an idea of where this caravan of vehicles is going. we focus there throughout the downtown core. there's a lot of street corners, parking structures where things can happen. it's hard to have officers at these at all times.

>> a number of groups within that coalition -- i'm curious just your thoughts on how you can reach the members so they can have your back. >> that's fantastic question. i appreciate you asking it. the question is how do i create the same coalition i created last august when some of the members of the coalition are calling for my resignation. the answer is because it's not all about me. it's about the community. it's about who are. it's about who we want to be and taking a stand against violence. even last year, a number of those coalition groups spoke out

against me at the press conference, which i had organized. i was okay with it because it's okay to have differences of opinion when it comes to politics. what isn't okay and where we should have no difference of opinion is when it comes to violence. we should all stand together and it doesn't matter what our political affiliations, whether we like each other. we should stand together because we denounce violence. we know that it's not the right way to solve our political differences. i will continue to reach out to whoever will work with me to denounce violence and bring this to a peaceful conclusion. i will reach out to whoever wants to work with me and my colleagues as we move forward on re-imagining what policing could be so it's equitiable for everybody. for those who don't want to work with me, maybe they will work with one of my colleagues or mike or the chief.

this is an all hands on deck call. in the days ahead, that's what we're doing. this morning, i spoke to a number of leaders in the black community and talked about the importance of not only their engagement but the importance of their leadership as we move forward. ultimately the community will listen to them, i believe, at a time we're having this national reckoning around racial justice, equity and police reform. we'll continue to work to build the coalitions to stand in opposition to the violence. >> he's talking about you has a negative things but said he would like to blame me and the federal government for going in but he hasn't seen anything yet. do you take that as a threat to send in more federal forces? >> it's classic trump.

mr. president how can you think a comment like that, if you're watching this, is in any way helpful? it's an aggress ifr stance. it's not ccollaborative. i reached out. earlier you need to do your part and i need to do my part and we both need to be held accountable. i think it would be helpful not for me to tell you how to do your job because i don't appreciate it when you tell me how to do mine. this would be a really good time for all of us to stand together, lock arms and denounce the violence, to make a commitment to the kind of changes and ri forms that the people in this country are demanding and leets work together. wouldn't that be a message? donald trump and ted wheeler working together to help move this country forward. why don't we try that for change? >> have you spoken to the president? >> no. i've never met the president.

sgr she and i had many conversations about bureaus. she knows that we will be making a bureau shift in the near term as commissioner elect ryan joins us in about a week and a half. i have no plan to transfer the police bureau when we know what the constitution of the council is in january. >> i go to bed with that question. when i wake up in the morning, that's the first question i asked myself. am i doing everything that i can to end the violence in this community? am i doing everything i can to hear and understand different perspectives about what people wab want our community to be and how they want to envision it going forward?

am i doing everything i can to meaningfully engage the community as we go through this time of crisis together? make no mistake about it, this is a very challenging time for every one. there's a lot of anxiety. there's a lot of fear. this is a time when this generation is being called to rise up. sometimes honestly, i found myself coming up short. when i come up short, i acknowledge it, i admit it and move on. i fix what needed to be fixed and work with whoever i need to work with to make things right. that's the path we're on. >> there was this sense of something wrong. i think it's fairly predictable outcome. would you say the city did everything in its power to avoid this? >> it's hard for me to stand

here today with a human being dead and say we did everything we possibly could. either myself, individually, as the mayor of this city or people in the community at large, it's it's hard for me to sit here and make that proclamation over somebody who has lost their lives. and i think about that family and what they're going through today. so i can't make that statement today and i think it would be preposterous for me to do so, but i am certainly being intro speculative. i'm working with my team and others, and we're talking about how do we make sure that that is the only time somebody dies on the streets of our city that way. it was one too many. thank you. >> all right. any other questions for either

chuck la velle or mike schmidt, the district attorney? okay. >> you said you're looking at [ inaudible ] prosecuting. could you respond to that? >> the question is in reference to a policy i put out on august 11. that policy specifically allows my office to work with ppb to focus our effort on violent crime, and that's what we're doing. we're putting all our resources toward that. i had a deputy at the crime scene with detectives working this case. we've had gun violence, homicides happening across our community. domestic violence is up. we are prioritizing the resources daft resources of the district attorney's office to continue to work on violent crime. >> i have a question that's not directly related to last night but just in general.

[ inaudible question ] are there any instances where you feel like a police officer [ inaudible ]? >> you know, like many people, i wake up most mornings and i get the update from the police. i look at media coverage. i go onto twitter like everybody else, see clips. of course, i've seen things that i think are -- do not look appropriate. but the question you're asking really requires us to gather evidence and do more than just see a video clip online. there is a process for that. the independent police review takes reports. i recommend any member of the community that has those types of allegations to reach out to the ipr. the bureau has the internal affairs division. they look at those things. we work with both of those organizations. once we have enough evidence together to see -- >> all right. 1:52 local time, portland,

oregon, pacific time. 45 minutes into the press briefing, i want to bring in shaquille brewster, nbc political reporter, josh levinson political news. shaq, i guess to take a look at what we've heard so far, is the mayor and his team very much on their heels after they've had a death overnight. >> reporter: that's exactly right. let's start with the investigation and what we learned from the police chief there. they're still not connecting that big rally of trump supporters, that caravan that went downtown to the shooting of men last night. they're saying they're still researching. they're still investigating to see exactly what happened there. but what you heard from the mayor and the police chief is a flat condemnation of the violence. they said they condemn all the violence in all forms. they said that anyone should be able to go out and exercise their political believes and talk about their political

believes witho beliefs without fear of violence. you heard retribution, possible retribution they said was popping up on twitter and social media. you see a mayor and a police chief definitely on their heels, also taking a very tough stance against the tone from president donald trump, suggesting that it's president trump and his divisive nature that has led to the violence and this tension that you're seeing in american cities. president trump, of course, as that press conference was going on, retweeting and tweeting back at the mayor directly, continuing to launch insults at the mayor saying that he's not handling the situation correctly. but what you see is a mayor and police chief, as you said, definitely on their heels and definitely saying right now in terms of that investigation, they understand there was a shooting last night. a man was killed. they are taking responsibility for that. but not making the connection to the skirmishes and those were violent skirmishes you saw between the group of trump supporting caravan and the

counter demonstrators last night, richard. >> paraphrasing, we need help is what they were saying collectively. josh letterman, you heard what shaq said. you heard what the mayor said. mr. president, stay away. you are racist, you are sexist. you have made fun of disabled individuals. this was clearly, all they we didn't have any information on the killing overnight, this is clearly aimed at the white house. >> that's right. the president -- the mayor, i should say, of portland clearly laying the blame for this violence directly at the feet of president trump. i was making a list of some of the names he called the president. you mentioned a few of them. racist, sexist, called him antidemocratic. said the president should either support portland or stay the hell out. let's watch a little of what he had to say to mr. trump. >> do you seriously wonder,

mr. president, why this is the first time in decades america has seen this level of violence? it's you who have created the hate and the division. it's you who have not found a way to say the names of black people killed by police officers, even as people in law enforcement have. and it's you who claimed that white supremacists are good people. >> reporter: oftentimes when the president is attacked, he punches back twice as hard. we are already seeing the president, richard, responding to the mayor on twitter in real time, saying that he's a fool and saying that the only way to stop this violence is through strength, richard. >> josh letterman, thank you so much there at the white house. we also have shaq brewster reporting for us there in kenosha, wisconsin. that wraps it up for me. we'll have more on this story in the next hour with the reverend al sharpton. he takes it over there. you can see his interview as well with former california governor and international movie

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