--t will depend on joiningg me in the studio is our international affairs commentator. you are absolutely condititionalhat some forces and d it is conditional l dependnding on do, dot, dot. the trumpet ministration could spin this however they want. sending federal agents without the consent or without the request of local and state officials including the mayor and governor of that state has been a pr disaster but beyond that has been a catastrophe, a debacle in the way donald trump has been managing -- mismanaging the protest in the wake of george floyd's killing. it was not not just in portland but beyond. what has basically happened is these protests were taking place and federal agents were deployed in a tiny pocket of downtown portland around the federal courthouse. the images generated weren't made of images. there were definitely protests which in some cases in a fringe minority did escalate. there were pretty graphic images of that. what happened next is where the handling went wrong. trump could deny or spin it. he has used these images in manufacturing images