kimberly halkett with the latest from the white house and over your view really of the political aspect of all of this thank you so much. well protests are now getting underway once again in new york chris salumi joins us live now from times square in new york and the city has of course seen its share of violence over the past couple of days tell us what's happening there now and crucially what are officials doing to try to content. yes we're going now into the protests here in new york and you can see behind me they have no signs of abating just a moment ago demonstrators were lying. on the ground chanting george what are you trying. to do violence that you have to take in florida chanting that i can't prove chanting his name chanting no justice no peace the same scene that we've seen over recent days. after these days of violent incidents now the governor and the mare have said that they are considering implementing the curfew here in new york and the governor said that he does have national guard troops on standby new york has avoided taking those steps to guard the governor and the

and i sincerely hope we all can learn from it let's go live to our white house correspondent kimberly halkett kimberly you were actually live as those events where unfolding when the crowds outside were being cleared with tear gas among other things and the president walked towards the church it felt like quite an orchestrated event like the timing wasn't that wasn't a coincidence so the so what reaction then to the statement now by the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff saying that effectively he made a mistake. yeah we were both live that day it's one that will never forget and many americans feel that way also in terms of the specific reaction the president has not commented thus far but it is important to note that this is the latest in a string of divisions between the white house and the pentagon not only this instance where we now have the chair of the joint chiefs of staff apologizing for wearing his army fatigues as he crossed lafayette park after the use of the tear gas but also we've had the defense secretary not backing up this white house and specifically this president when h

military bases let's go live to our white house correspondent kimberly halkett and kimberly we've just had the press briefing from the white house a lot of issues that came up including a lot of questions about the president's tweet about a 75 year old the protester who'd been pushed down by police what they come out of the briefing. yeah that briefing still under way but it certainly was the top talking point when reporters ask questions the president has to take you back tweeted on just 24 hours ago that there were some questions he had even sort of intimated that one of the protesters a 75 year old man in buffalo new york who there's widespread video was pushed by police fell down his head now recovering in hospital the u.s. president has really struck a controversy when he tweeted in the middle of george floyd's funeral that perhaps this was a stage fall that the man could even be a member of n t 5 well the white house press secretary kelly machinating responding to this saying that the president does not apologize for putting out that tweet that he's just raising legitimate questi

let's go live to our white house correspondent kimberly halkett for more on this kimberly paul whelan's family is also appealed to president trump for help in president trying to myself often almost boasts about the great relationship he has with president putin so if we heard anything from donald trump. not yet in fact there was a white house press briefing it has been canceled or postponed we're not sure when it's going to happen today reporters are looking to ask that very question the u.s. president has also had an event where it does appear he has spoken about this issue just yet but you're right the family is appealing to the president personally they do not hold out much hope for an appeal in fact the statement from his brother david said that really although it is his brother paul that has been convicted it is the russian legal system that has been found guilty of injustice they say that this was essentially nothing more than a trap meant to and that the russian judges are political not legal so they really feel that this is going to have to be resolved no longer in the justice

vowing to keep up the message that black lives matter cross over to our white house correspondent kimberly halkett and we've been hearing from the attorney general what does he have to say. well he has been defending the trumpet ministrations response specifically when it comes to what the mayor of d.c. is called a militarize ation of washington d.c. streets of well you're right he's tweeted that he's now telling the national guard or citizen soldiers that they can go there is still push back to the action that was taken outside lafayette park on monday protesters say they were peaceful but they were had tear gas used on the something the administration is disputing also disputing that there was a show of force in fact the attorney general saying that the protesters were warned 3 times and only then did the horseback mounted police then move in but he was also asked about systemic racism in policing he denied that it's a problem. i think it's racism in the united states still but i don't think that the law enforcement system is systemically waist high in the stands or the distrust however if you f

al-jazeera washington let's go straight to the white house now speak to our correspondent there kimberly halkett kimberly the trumpet ministration continues to defend police in the wake of the continuing protests what are we hearing today in response to that testimony on capitol hill. yeah the white house press secretary kelly mcenaney was addressing reporters questions at the briefing earlier and she really pushed back on the notion that the president's tweet in some way had been in accurate offensive the president tweeted about 24 hours ago a little longer that he suggested that a protester up in buffalo new york last week that fell down when a police officer pushed him he's in recovering from hospital as the president suggested that that may have been a stage fall that the protesters even could be a member of n t well reporters asked the press secretary about this and she said that sensually what she was doing was defending the police officers saying that they have the right to tell their side of the story and that the president does not want to see their lives destroyed in the court of publi

the community of civilized nations well let's get more now from our white house correspondent kimberly halkett kimberly democrats have now been briefed to say what's the white house saying about these allegations at this stage. well i think you covered the headlines there allow me to expand on them further because that's really the news in all of this that essentially that the perspective of democrats is that they didn't get the briefing from the people they wanted the briefing they got a white house perspective they already know that perspective they wanted to hear from the intelligence officials and so they've raco there are sort of requests that this come from this information come from the director of national intelligence and also the director of the cia jeanne the house bill they also are concerned that the u.s. president has once again in their view centrally put forward his infatuation with lattimer putin someone they believe should be held to account and so you heard there from the house intelligence chair adam schiff stating that he believes it's time for sanctions against russia tha

the governors the secret review should and makes weeping arrests a white house correspondent kimberly halkett has more now on the response from the u.s. president. we've not heard from the president since saturday and many people feel that can as this has continued to swell across the country that he needs to come back out and the press secretary kelly mcinerney spoke to that in fact she said that a national address will not quell this violence what the view is of this president is that in order to quell this violence there needs to be more of an overwhelming presence of the national guard on america's streets and there was frustrate that was put forward in terms of the president's as she represents his view that so far only 2 states have called for more than a 1000 troops so in that press briefing there was it appears a pending announcement that the u.s. president seems to be indicating that he will put his joint chiefs of staff general milley in charge of seeing that more national guard troops get out on the street the press secretary saying that in fact this is a deterrence that has been s

i sincerely hope we all can learn from it let's go live now to our white house correspondent kimberly halkett so trump has been reacting to some of the criticism what's he have to say yeah the u.s. president is down in dallas texas right now where he has been talking at a round table eastern meeting with faith and african-american leaders in that city and really sort of trying to digest what has happened in the country in the last few weeks with respect to the social unrest and of course the video that spawned that movement of calling for change within america's police forces now the u.s. president for his part has repeatedly said that he does not believe that george floyd the victim in that video that that his death will be in vain so this is an effort to try and take things to the next step talking about how to change policing and change communities so that they help and benefit all americans the u.s. president though at the same time defending his heavy handed approach to clearing some of the rioting and looting that occurred not just in front of the white house but also suggesting that in

criticized for comments he made over george floyd who was killed in police custody last month kimberly halkett is in washington with more well he was talking in the rose garden about the economy he also transition to the social unrest in the united states the cynically say that he's done more for the black community when it comes to jobs and other programs than any other president but it was this comment that really touched off a nerve take a listen hopefully george is looking down right now and saying this is a great thing that's happening for a country there's a great day for him it's a great day for everybody this is a great day for everybody this is a great great day. in terms of equality now the problem with this 1st of all is that it's a way he was speaking on behalf of a black man a black man who is now no longer with us given the fact that he had a white policeman kneeling on his neck and that was the cause of death according to the family's autopsy so this is not sitting well with the millions of african-americans and others who are protesting on the streets for him to try and bring a

this is a rocket ship let's get the latest from our white house correspondent kelly halkett so this was a surprise kimberly yeah it was expected we'd be talking about a 20 percent unemployment rate instead it fell to 13 percent because some of those jobs that disappeared came back when businesses reopened and the president is calling this the great american comeback promising that things are going to get better in subsequent months and that if you will relax him in november things will get even better next year but his opponent in the presidential election the presumptive democratic presidential nominee joe biden has said that it is not an act of god that made these jobs disappear referencing coronavirus but the steady calls that incompetence mismanagement and he also criticized the u.s. president for essentially hanging a mission accomplished sign over the u.s. economy when there are still millions of americans out of work and struggling to put food back on the table now house speaker nancy pelosi has also been criticizing the president's comments saying that it was the president's but it was congress tha