c citiese says are spiraling out of control in the face of rising crime. general his attorney and his homeland security secretary insisted that this operation would be completely different from what we have seen in portland. were officially sent to protect federal buildings. theyey were accused of snatching protesters off the street and throwing them in unmarked vans without probable cause. both bill barr and chad wolf insisted that these federal agents which will be coming from agencies like the fbi and the department of homeland security will be focused on partnering with local pololice to help deal with violent crime. for now, the trump admiministration is focucusing n albuquerque and chicago. the mayor of chicago initially blasted the idea said that she was now ready to accept the they areelp as long as not trying to police the streets. she would remainin extremely cacautious a and vigigilant.t. report anyresidents to suspicious behavior from those agents, adding that she would not let what happened in portland happened to her city. anchor: the country

ver, in order to break this, most of what we are talking about is happening in cities and in inner citiesesas, majority, minority areas. can we call this bigotry? >> i don't think it's so much ideological. some ofde the officials who tryo block and have succeeded in blocking charter schools for using vacant buildings that have been vacant for years, i havee said we can't be helping our competition so you put the people in charge of the existing system in charge of making rules for charter schools, they set rules to represent certain and prevent the students from getting into the charter schools. the old argument, if it's not broke, don't fix it, the model for charter schools, if the date broke, then break it. otherwise the students will go. mark: you think it would be tolerated and otherwise communities? many cap leave, they are immobile because of financial reasons and other reasons. in other parts of the country, people leave or pick their home based on the schoolve system. the left wing white woman, i watched joe biden, he's become left-wing. i see nancy pelosi and schumer and all these

as cases surge in texas, hospitals in some large citieser nearing capacity. the mayor of austin, texas on the desire situation in his city, and is he -- i'll ask one. stay with us. ♪ come on in, we're open. ♪ all we do is hand you the bag. simple. done. ♪ this smells so good. ♪ big thanks to you guys at home. we're here right now. ♪ we adapt and we change. i mean you just figure it out and we'll do like we do as safely as we can. ♪ i got a new job. ♪ we've just been finding a way to keep on pushing. we're lookin' for a day at a time baby. ♪ a book that you're ready to share with the world? get published now, call for your free publisher kit today! >>> welcome back to "state of the union." texas was one of the first states to lift guidelines, but now they're heading in the other direction. the governor mandated masks in all counties, and local officials are adding back more restrictions as hospitals in hughes everyone and austin are nearing capacity. joining me is the mayor of austin, steve adler. president trump said this week that the virus is going to, quot

that strike took place in more than 25 citieses around the country -- cities around the country, protesting call systemic racism and economic inequality. among the unions taking part, the seiu, the service employs union, the teamsters, the american federation of teachers, the united farm workers and the fight for $15. well, joining us tonight is larry elder, host of the larry elder show on the salem radio network, executive producer of the number one documentary in, are you ready? the entire world. its title, uncle tom: an oral history of the american black conservative. harry, i know you've got to be -- larry, i know you've got to be proud of all those unions supporting black lives matter -- [laughter] a marxist-inspired organization that seems to be having its way in radical dem-run cities all over the country. >> yeah, it's pretty sad. you know, i watched the interview that donald trump had last night with chris wallace on fox business and, of course, "the washington post," new york e times in overtime fact-checking everything the president said. what they don't fact check is this big li

for more, we are joined by two guests in citieses where federal troooops could be sent after they'veeady been deployed in portland. in chicago, jitu brown is the national director of the journey fofor justice alliance and a a racial equity fellow with the atlantic institute. and in seattle, jesse hagopian is a high school teacher of ethnic studies, and co-editor of teteaching for black livives and editor of rethinking schools magazine. he serves on the national steering committee of black lives matter at school. we're going to talk about trump's push for schools to reopen in a minute, but f first, juan, yourur longtime leader inn chicago. as you hear lori lightfoot saying we are not allowing tyranny to come to the city, your response to whahat presidet trumump saying he willll do? >> first of all, , thank you for haviving me on and same i am a longtime organizizer instead o f justst sayining i am old. that's ok. i can deal with that. i would just say that mayor lightfoot's statements are the right statements, but it is to late. when you look at chicago during -- when the covid outbre

we have e citieses that have n d unrest, have not had an uprising for weeks. the only thing that has been happening in philly for weeks has been a moderate amount of peaceful protests. the president is announcing to the nation that philadelplphia s out of f control. no, it is not. i live here. we all see what is going on. there is no problem. there is no crisis that would in any way require fedederal intetervention. ononce again, if he sends troops of some s sort in here to stir things up, to r requisition people, , to beat t people up, s going to cause unresest. what i i am saying is he is actg as an agent provocatuer by using his authority dissent people in. what is the real purpose of this from his perspective? probably not a second civil war, much more shortsighted than that. his real purpose is to distract from his dismal record, the fact his campaigngn is dropping likea stone. in t terms of family history, we have a lot of people -- almost all passed nowow, we have a lotf people in the family who were of an a age that they volunteered d they served in wo

strange year and that also extends to crime stats now, we've reported that murders have spiked in many citieserry but, oddly, some other types of crime are down for months, the images have been striking unrest in minneapolis, new york, and now portland shootings in cities like chicago have spiked. this past week, 15 people were wounded during a gun battle outside a funeral. >> this bloodshed must end, this bloodshed will end. >> reporter: now the trump administration is sending hundreds of federal agents to chicago and albuquerque, expanding operation legend, already in place in kansas city, named after 4-year-old legend taliaferro who was killed by a stray bullet while he slept. >> he had a lot of confidence at 4. he was so fun. he -- he meant a lot to us >> this past week, his mother sharon powell visited the whit house as attorney general william barr stressed that the newly sent federal agents would not be tactical teams like those deployed to portland instead, he said, they'll focus on investigating murders and taking down violent gangs, an initiative powell supports >> just give it a try.