of becoming the governor of minnesota, i entered that with keith ellison becoming the attorney general of minnesota. he is my lawyer if you will for the state of minnesota and i watched his vision and passion when i say my lawyer for the state of minnesota, that's the people's lawyer. he's done that with the command of the law and a command of what the law means to people and what it means to stand in front of justice and give back. so this decision is one that i feel takes us in that direction and step to start getting to justice for george floyd, when i spoke with the floyd family, they were very clear they wanted the system to work for them. they wanted to believe there was trust and they wanted to believe that the facts would be heard and justice would be served. i can tell you in minnesota, having keith ellison as a lead on this case, that will happen. >> thank you governor. my name is keith ellison, i am the attorney general for the state of california. it's with a large degree...

for the senate from michigan. first, your thoughts overall where we stand tonight as a nation. >> what we have seen on camera or have heard in a book or seen on television shocked us. what has been going on with racism in this country is not necessarily getting worse. , it is just getting caught on film. social racism, social economic disadvantage, right now we have a nation's attention that has been captured. we have people focus on george floyd taking this conversation and taking it away. the blessings that i have, the blessing of others and using my experience as a black man in this country in an officer. so desperately and badly need to move our entire nation forward. >> there are a lot of democrats who have spoken up about the president's tweets and what he said. speaker pelosi was out saying he should be a unifying force at this time. he is not. what is your message for the president. >> my messages, you for coming t to listen to communities that were...

people said we can't do that, we can't get them done, keith ellison was the person there to get that. he understood the systemic issues that were holding us back, and as a member one of 435 in the u.s. congress, his voice was loud. it's also my privilege in 2018 when i was given the privilege of becoming the governor of minnesota, i entered that with keith ellison becoming the attorney general of minnesota. he is my lawyer if you will for the state of minnesota and i watched his vision and passion when i say my lawyer for the state of minnesota, that's the people's lawyer. he's done that with the command of the law and a command of what the law means to people and what it means to stand in front of justice and give back. so this decision is one that i feel takes us in that direction and step to start getting to justice for george floyd, when i spoke with the floyd family, they were very

phone is tim scott. you have curfews now. in many states we haven't seen this across the country since really 1968 after the death of martin luther king jr. >> the violent protesters really just distract from george floyd's death and the activities of a non- violent protesters who want to raise attention versus the violent protesters who are looking for anarchy in this country and we just have to make sure that line of separation is clear. in south carolina the governor mobilized the national guard as well so that we could be in a pit position of anticipation expectancy to resolve and respond from the issues we've seen around the country. we want to make sure we are able to tamp down that as quickly as possible. >> we have seen some really sad situations you would think. [inaudible] >> i spoke with the governor today and part of what i learned in the briefing is that folks that were the agitators were from outside the area, outside a state even, we are starting to see a trend where...

>> today he tweeted the united states of america will be designating it as it terrorist organization but the aclu said the president does not have the right to make such a declaration. they say there is no legal authority for designating a domestic group. any such designation would raise significant due process. attorney general bill barr says the justice department views it as cases of domestic terrorism. >> the fbi and joint terrorism tax for force are working to identify the organizers in this weekends violence. their preventing reconciliation in the wake of george floyd's death. >> mark, thank you. let's get some law enforcement perspective. mick mikael is the president of the national association of police organizations. thank you for being with us. i want to get your thoughts as you look at this, and obviously curfews extend all across our country tonight. >> i appreciate the opportunity to participate. as we are seeing many of our groups and associations throughout the country...

there are three levels. i think you can't ignore what the country is going through with the virus and so many people pent up, told to shelter in place especially for poor working-class people in this country and lots of young people frustrated with what's been going on, and finally those incredible waves of abuse by the police. you think about what happened here with george floyd and minneapolis and of course the shooting death of ahmed in georgia and i think lots of people say this is a system that has yet to deal with the idea of black people as citizens not just those to be feared or the other and so there's lots of anger and frustration. what happened in the rodney king case, it's a thin blue line that there people that see the police as justified in doing whatever they want because they protect law-abiding citizens from the chaos and those people over there. think that leads to a lot of injustice and reason for people to be out there protesting, as we saw...

however, how men and women of our association and all law enforcement are still compelled to be a line of defense to protect the innocent and it's a tragedy what's taken place. many elected officials and professionals have clearly identified that the agitators in this nation are undermining the message that the peaceful protesters are attempting to deliver. >> can you talk a little bit, let's go back to the beginning of the george floyd incident. how does this happen? looking at this video, what is your reaction and how does it happen. >> my personal response is, i'm a member of law enforcement for 40 years. the actions that were taken in the videos that i observe were not what i have been trained to do in my 30 plus years in law enforcement. the process has taken place, it's not an excuse, it's an explanation but the legal process has taken place, the investigation has taken place and an arrest has been made, it's an ongoing investigation, but on the initial viewing of the videotape,...

>> this is a fox news alert. good evening. america is bracing for another night at war with itself. protests, rioting, looting, sparks by the death of george floyd, a minneapolis african-american man in police custody. all of that caught on camera. so far one officer has been charged with murder but for several nights it's been much larger than minneapolis unrest. the protest, looting, confrontations continue to spread this evening in cities across the u.s. as the sun sets, authorities in several cities fear the worst may be yet to come. a short time ago go, a semi truck drove through a closed section of interstate 35 were a large group of people were protesting. the driver was pulled from the cab by the crowd. we will have more on that momentarily. the riots, obviously also being fueled by decades and generations of resentment over how the black community is treated by law enforcement in general. dozens of locations have ordered curfews and bolstered police presence. some have even...

over folks on 35w. at the end of last night, we checked in to see how things had gone with our overnight approach to keeping the peace in minneapolis and st. paul and we noted that we have made about 143 arrests. we also noted some other trends that we mentioned earlier today, the organizations of these riots, and i really do once again call them riots and i differentiate them from the peaceful protest that we been seen today. people coming to express their first moment rights, coming to express their remorse of george floyd, coming to talk about racism and police brutality. part of the trendline that we been tracking is that we been noticing that as we had talked about our desire to reduce fires, we are now finding caches of incendiaries all over the metro area and in greater minnesota, adjacent to spots where fires had been set where where we had large riot confrontation. bottles a gasoline, bottle of oil and gasoline mixed, and preset into grassy areas or hidden in boxes...

was trust and they wanted to believe that the facts would be heard and justice would be served. i can tell you in minnesota, having keith ellison as a lead on this case, that will happen. >> thank you governor. my name is keith ellison, i am the attorney general for the state of california. it's with a large degree of humility and a great seriousness that my office, except for my office the responsibility for leadership on this critical case involving the killing of george floyd. i want to thank the good friend of many years, mike freeman for the hard work he has done, we expect to work together, there is a lot of resources and talent and ability in his office on cases like this and i want to let everyone know we will bring to bear all the resources necessary to achieve justice in this case, and that means we won't leave any resources on the sideline as we pursue justice. i've had an excellent conversation with mr. freedman and we will be working together. this case is unusual...

which is a justice system that works for everybody, not this complete anarchy like behavior from violent protesters that are really doing, stating this entire process for people of good conscience that want to have a serious conversation. >> for viewers on the right side there's washington d.c., on the left side minnesota. you can see police standing on the street. what you say to people who are following all of this in some of these african-american communities and less about george floyd and more about an explosive resentment of how the black community has been treated for years, generations, a lot of similar sounding messages. >> i talked about being stopped seven times as an elective official because i was driving while black. the issue of race and justice is a real issue. however, we have really strong examples of how to make progress in this nation. john lewis is a classic example of nonviolent protest leading to a thousand year leap in this nation. we need to learn from...

of the department of transportation, also the world war ii monument and more additional police forces being added, again and 11:00 p.m. curfew in washington d.c. right now, on the right side of your screen it seems fairly innocuous but it has been very dangerous in recent nights. in the midst of this weekends urban warfare, president trump is declaring the far left protest group. the president is blaming them for much of the rioting taking place in the wake of the george floyd death. details now. >> short for anti- fascists is not a new movement. the congressional research service say origins date back to germany. there's no membership or organizational hierarchy. it's not even clear how many members it has but the president's national security advisor said there members support one common goal, anarchy. >> this destructive force of radical, i don't even know if we want to call them leftist. >> the acting chair, senator marco rubio writes many of these professional agitators don't fit...

station and allowing more than 200 businesses to burn, police in minneapolis confronted protesters with tear gas and rubber bullets. >> we work with communities to identify where those high-value targets would be and we pre-position staff so they would be immediately adjacent. >> the new tactics worked here last night with other cities coming under siege. in new york, police cars were set on fire as patrolman battle with civilians who hurled projectiles. new york governor said the anger has been a long time coming. >> george floyd, rihanna taylor all in just three months, it's 30 years of rodney king. >> the l.a. national guard was called in after widespread looting with more than a dozen states activating during the protest. the violence has brought a steady stream of cities issuing curfews and even came within a few hundred yards of the white house. president trump targeting one of the groups he said is behind the violence, tweeting the united states of america will be designated as...