never heard a president talk like that at least the president of united states of america and that some banana republic. even his defense secretary. tried to walk away from those comments and indicated that they weren't considering putting troops in our cities against our people who were constitutional right to protest. and i thought as i said it was unbelievable it was it was actually quite scary. morning i mean make of the reaction we've had in america protests riots all of them it doesn't seem to calm down well it doesn't seem to calm down and i think when yesterday for a good part of the day i saw. demonstrations and marches all across the country in

fact it is filled me with emotion it did me with emotion that so many people of every race and creed from city across the nation protesting the murder. african-american man at the hands of law enforcement in minneapolis. you know it it actually brought a lot of emotion to me. on the other hand some of what i saw in los angeles and other cities the looting the rioting absolutely unacceptable you know people have said. that we have to understand that people are angry yes we're angry and that's why we march that's why we need to vote that's why we need to be about i've been involved since i was 15 years old larry since i was a kid taking you know started with the black student union united mexican american

students and i school with the farmer boycott standing up for immigrants i understand the fight for. economic and racial justice the fight against racial oppression but the people that were rioting were marching. peacefully and importantly they were marching against racial oppression they were taking advantage of the situation and we need to stand up and say no no to that kind of behavior and yes to peaceful protest all across the country yes to fighting racial oppression and racial discrimination discrimination and bigotry whether is against jews or mexicans or blacks or asians or whites. but we know that too often. black men die at the hands of police too often they're incarcerated. at levels disproportionate to their offense

and disparate to whites are often. jailed for and we have to do something about it we absolutely do. ok. when the l.a. riots occurred president then president george h.w. bush. delivered an awful an oval office address to the nation a trump is not known for his empathy but do you think he should deliver an oval office address to the nation. you know i wouldn't trust that if he delivered an oval office address that it would be one with empathy and compassion one that understood. why people are still so angry and hurt. with what's happened in minneapolis and it and in cities across the country let's be clear it happens again and again and again and it's happened you know

for a very very long time now we have cell phones and people can take pictures and videos we didn't have that before but we know it happened you know i grew up on the east side of los angeles and i can tell you as a young boy we were often as terrified of law enforcement as we were of the gangs now a lot is changed and the vast majority of our law enforcement officers understand nobody is above the law not a politician not a priest or a police officer and i think what we all have to say coming out of what's happened in minneapolis and in cities across the country that we're not going to tolerate this anymore that we're going to hold people accountable that every one of us have to be accountable for our actions no matter who we are joe biden said that a trump is more interested in serving the passions of his base than the needs of

the people biden also said he would try to heal racial wounds what do you make of his remarks. well i agree with those remarks except i think they weren't strong enough. you know donald trump has been the pied piper of white nationalism he's condone. white nationalism in our country he's divided our people on the head of a pin in a way that i've never seen a modern us president do. i think he was a strong enough in challenging donald trump donald trump needs to be called on the carpet for the way he talks for the way he divides for the way he pits one person against another one community against another one race against another look we need right now it is healing we need the peacemakers i tweeted on

sunday morning we need we need to replicate what i saw in louisville were group of protesters all of whom were african-american with you know their mask on defending and insert green a white police officer who was about to be mopped we need the peacemakers who understand that we have to challenge racism and racial oppression and injustice in our country well at the same time bringing people together every race if there was something positive about the marches that gave me some emotion larry is that it wasn't just like the 1960 s. you know a black march or like you know the 1990 s. a black and latino march this was everyone it was beautiful to see

people understand we have we want to be the cut the country that we've always held it's up out to be a country where you could start at the bottom and go to the top no matter what you look like no matter if your parents came from russia. or mexico or africa or asia and that's what we want in our country we want to be that beacon of liberty and hope and opportunity and we're not that country right now and so i think we need to work across party lines across racial lines across you know religious lines together to fight for that country larry on the political and biden has pledged to pick a woman for running mate do you have any one in mind any one you'd prefer well i've already gone on record of saying that i think california senator comolli harris

would be great when asked that also said that karen bass congresswoman the chair of the congressional black caucus is another great candidate i'd like to see. you know a woman as he has said he is going to pick but also somebody. from california who really understands that the golden state is the most diverse place in america a place where we revel in the fact that we come from every nation of the earth somebody who has experience with the vast diversity of california. your current mayor who era ghar said he holding the post you once held he took a knee this week during a protest over the death of the killing of floyd but he's also facing a backlash for deploying the magical guard how well has he handled this. well look

i'm not a monday morning quarterback i had my years larry not afraid to criticize someone criticism. is necessary but frankly. i've been in that job i know the heat that comes with that job and i think. merit our saturday has conducted himself well during the code 19 crisis and now but i'll let the monday morning quarterbacks assess him more deeply. and more broadly. but where do you think all 'd of this is going we're going to have are we going to have conventions are we going to have a well run national election well i agree with president obama when he said you know look we need to march we need to demonstrate we need to fight and we need to

vote we need to vote i guarantee you. there are many people who march i've been marching my whole life i was one of the people organizing immigrant rights marches marches against racism in the seventy's eighty's and early ninety's and i can tell you i spent my whole life doing that but i also know that you got a vote to change. the circumstances in which you live and so it's important to me and i think important to all of us that all of those people who have been marching march to the polls in november vote for change vote for a president who is going unite us i think that. president you know i think that the democratic nominee or soon to be joe biden. mayer's always great seeing you

thanks so much. you know it's always great to see you i can tell you that every time i do i think you know i want to be like you when i grow up i really do know you're great at what you do. and you're somebody you have a great deal of respect for so thank you and by me back to you we thank former mayor of los angeles antonio via girls will have more public picking after this break. in 2008 there was the global financial crisis and the solution was not to reform the banking system to stop the crisis from repeating again the solution was here's a bigger credit line to the worst banks in america to do the same thing but much worse and we said we predicted within 10 to 12 years there would be a repeat of the 2008 crisis but much bigger a much bigger scale something backley what's happening now.

seems wrong. just don't. let me. get to stamp out the attic. and indeed from an equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. we go to work soon straight home.

welcome back to politicking amid the federal response to nationwide protests and talk of deploying the u.s. military and the ongoing covert 19 pandemic donald trump has opened a war against twitter basing that he the vision like their fact checking thinks it's wrong well at war go from here let's talk about that with joe pollack senior editor at large an in-house counsel abroad part news author of the upcoming book red november well the country broke red for trump or red for socialism he joins us from los angeles we'll talk about the book in a minute joe my previous guest the former mayor of e.l.o. grosser said the thought of sending in active duty troops is a terrible idea what do you think. i think the president had to show the nation that he was prepared to restore law and order and certainly what we saw here

in l.a. over the last couple of days is with the national guard on the streets the police were able to focus on what they do best which is on the one hand mopping up protesters who refuse to obey the rules and on the other hand talking reasonably meeting with members of the community sometimes actually joining in the protest and conducting a dialogue with people who genuinely want to have a dialogue so i think having the national guard deployed to guard some of the roads and to keep a perimeter around some of these protests was very helpful in allowing the police to focus similarly with the military if there are places like new york city where the governor and the mayor don't want to call in the national guard you can't have mobs of hooligans running around then allies ing stores looting the macy's at its flagship location if they refuse for whatever reason that seems political to bring in the national guard the president is still the leader of the country and has

responsibility to care for it and he could invoke the interaction act and move in with the military the military is highly respected it's not as if he's declaring war on the country he's actually trying to rescue people who have no other recourse we're talking about shop owners residents people who are being terrorized by a mob essentially that has broken away from our grown out of a legitimate protest and is doing whatever they want we can't allow that how do you rate how trump has handled this thing so far. i think it's been excellent he called for the f.b.i. to get involved in the george floyd investigation right away he condemned the murder right away he got the d.o.j. involved he did just about everything you need the president to do and most of the controversy has been the media attempting to find things to complain about but he's basically done everything right i don't think he's done anything wrong and i think

he's actually taking a few actions that i don't think anyone else would have done but were totally necessary we saw here in l.a. eric garcetti delayed and delayed before he brought in the national guard now he says it was the right thing to do i think trump in a sense gave cover to the mayors and governors who didn't want to make that call and by trump making that call in the way he did forcefully saying that there had to be disproportionate force in the streets so that people didn't even try to loot i think it was the right thing joe but joe biden said that the gov the president trump is more interested in serving the passions of his base than the needs of the people how they react to that. you know we had 2 situations in a row now where joe biden has had the opportunity to lead and to unify the country the theme of his campaign has been unity but in both of the situations with the national emergency on the coronavirus back in march and now here with the riots across the country he's used both occasions to attack trump's leadership and

obviously he's running for president he has to distinguish himself from trump so he's got to say something about how he would have done things differently with the moment to do that is not in the middle of the crisis in the middle of a crisis you bring people together you wait a few days and then you give this speech talking about how you do things to. do you think the president to strive to bring people together drawl. i think he has i also think that he's under constant attack from the opposition and from the media so when he pushes back that becomes an issue look he has a very combative personality and that's going to rub some people the wrong way but in terms of what you want your government to do at a moment like this i think he's done the right thing. what's your read on his attack on twitter and that whole twitter controversy well these social media companies control so much of our lives online and what's interesting of course this all happened before the curfews for the rioting and so forth but what's interesting

is that most of us are stuck at home a lot of the stay home orders are still in place for the coronavirus so we can't really express our 1st amendment rights except online you and i are speaking online because you can't apply the 1st amendment in person we normally are so these social media companies control the public space and trump is saying you have to abide by the rules that public space you know in a public park everybody has the same 1st amendment rights you can regulate what people do but you can't discriminate based on content and he's saying we're going to treat these social media platforms as if they're public spaces and if twitter wants to regulate they want to decide who's right who's wrong and which opinions to promote which ones to silence then we're going to treat them like a publisher they're editorializing and if they're editorializing they have to play by the same rules as newspapers they can say whatever they want but if you have a libel people are going to be they're going to be legally held responsible if they allow misinformation at that point what if they correct misstatements.

they can do that but you have to do it in an even handed way so the problem twitter faces is that they began by correcting the president their correction had to be corrected because they got some information wrong they said that nebraska had mail in voting and it actually doesn't so they had to fix their own correction but the bigger issue is once you start correcting one side you have to correct all sides evenly i wouldn't want to do that you know in the journalistic world we do fact checks of debates and that's a lot of work it's a lot of work to correct statements or misstatements you have to do the research and come up with what the right answer is and sometimes you're familiar with an issue sometimes have to start from scratch i jokingly estimated that twitter probably have to divert a 3rd of their employees to fact checking if that's what they decided to do a tell me about your book in its title read november will the country vote bread for trump or red for socialism you know are you do you think joe biden is

a socialist. i don't think he's a socialist but he's definitely the most left wing nominee any party has fielded in the history of the united states and actually today i want more no george our whole more left wing than george mcgovern. yes yes george mcgovern came out if you go for secret balloting and union elections i don't think joe biden would support that today joe biden's moved so far to the left that the washington post today said he's running what they call the revolutionary platform he started out saying he's a moderate he's not like bernie sanders although biden didn't actually embrace the label moderate but he cast himself as the alternative to sanders now he's talking about revolution he actually used that word himself a few days ago revolutionary policies that's right out of bernie sanders so he's not putting the socialist label on himself but he's adopting the rhetoric he's adopting the policies and that's because he's not sure of his own base you know even with all this unrest which i think some democrats hope to use in the election

against donald trump a lot of the protesters are saying they want to hear more from biden he hasn't made the sale to them they don't feel like he's on their side enough so he's under a lot of pressure from the left and so as obama said about biden he's the most progressive candidate or he's running the most progressive platform in american history so you know obama thinks biden's to the left of mcgovern maybe you probably have a better sense of perspective and then obama does but certainly it's something that people feel to be the case and that's how biden's trying to sell it himself but will the pandemic play a part in this election will laura nordo be a part of this is such a troublesome year yeah you know i was joking yesterday and said if you told me the coronavirus was going to be off the front page by next week i wouldn't you know here we are you know so who knows what we're going to be talking about next week this is really a year of dramatic changes and. i remember back in 2008 talking to

a pollster who quietly whispered to me that what everybody was missing in the election with all the change that was going on with the markets in turmoil a financial crisis what the voters were looking for were stability and john mccain didn't really get that and so when it came to the financial crisis he suspended his campaign you ran back to washington and he looked like more instability whereas obama really stood up straight told people things were going to be ok and he just projected stability even though he didn't really have experience at running anything he looked the part and i think that was comforting to people with biden and trump i think they're both trying to do that in different ways biden for a long time was talking about bringing the country back to normal again not talking about that so much anymore because he's under this pressure from the left but biden was trying to say we are where we were under obama course conservatives remember

obama has a very change worthier president very interested in change and breaking boundaries trump is saying i want to get back to the principles of america that was the purpose behind his walk across the park and holding the bible in front of the church restoring the basics that's that's the stability he's talking what it what did you make of that that the bible holding i think people will remember and draw i think it was i think it was great i can i i look at it as almost a great great fantastic i thought it was a reminder to the country that there's right and wrong that's what that's symbolized to me that really have a base for right and wrong yeah boy standing in front of a burned out or country what bible do you it's not the bible you who are shipped. it isn't but i don't think you have to worship that particular faith i mean i don't think compass is. no saying that he's not saying you have to be christian i mean we have a judeo christian tradition and we're

a people of let me say rather than people of the book we are people of many books and our country is based on principles it's based on words on a covenant that we've made with each other and trump says the basis for that is right and wrong right and wrong comes from somewhere and what happened to that church was wrong and i think it was comforting to people on the conservative side to know that trump was not going to be afraid of the crowd in lafayette park it must be didn't like it the church didn't like it they were usually propped role come on at mit something not prop it with respect and of course not be at what was that. the church i believe respectfully reacted wrongly and these h i. yeah but if i'm not i'm not christian so i can't really be an interpreter of christian principles but my understanding is that even if the worst person in the world were to come to the door of the church the role of the church is to embrace

that person the prodigal brought it all sign that the sinner who repents someone who wants to do something good is to be rewarded or at least welcomed and you don't agree with everything that person stands for or that they've done but i think that church became a transcendent symbol it's not just about that congregation in that building but when it was burning on sunday night you know it wasn't the only religious building that was attacked here in l.a. we had 2 synagogues that were vandalized by people in that protest march on saturday it was a jewish holiday and they vandalized 2 synagogues in the fairfax area so it resonated with me i didn't think you had to stand in front of a synagogue or market but i thought i saw it as more of a universal symbol of we're not going to thank you for your time today thank you joe always good coming book always good seeing you his upcoming book is red november well the country vote red for trump or red for socialism it's available for preorder right now and it's out everywhere in july and thank you for joining me

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hello there i'm an illinois man you're watching in question broadcasting from our to america's national news headquarters in washington d.c. we want to welcome our viewers from across the nation and all around the world here are tonight's top stories 1st thousands of mourners gathered to remember george floyd at a memorial service in minneapolis this as 3 officers accused of taking part in boy's death appear in court a full report on that coming up plus peaceful protests continue here in the nation's capital and today we are asking who are those heavily armed officers with no insignias and refusing to identify themselves well it's.