let's bring in our white house correspondents, kaitlan collins and boris sanchez. they are live for us on the scene. good evening to both. kaitlan, reporters were told to leave the white house grounds earlier tonight. what happened? >> yeah, don. it's something that has not happened, ever, since i have been covering the white house. but reporters were told to leave the white house grounds earlier, by secret service officers, immediately at that time. now, that typically doesn't happen when there is a protest. when there is some kind of security threat, even. if someone's jumped over a barricade. typically, they just have the reporters go into the briefing room. they'll lock the door until they figure out what's going on. and then, everything goes on as normal. but tonight, they were asked to leave the white house, to clear out of the white house. and that came, of course, as you saw those protestors, inside lafayette square, trying to pull down that statue with those ropes. and now, these protestors have been pushed past out of the park where they were earlier. and

kaitlan collin, appreciate it. we'll come back as the situation warrants. >>> now the racist name that the president used for the virus said on saturday in tulsa, was supposed to be a packed arena. it wasn't quite. >> by the way, it is a disease without question. has more names than any disease in history. i can name kung flu. i can name -- 19 different versions of name. >> today when asked about it by several reporters the press secretary tried to say the president doesn't say what you just saw and heard him say and then pressed on it by a correspondent for cbs news and then kaitlan collins. >> kung flu is extremely offensive to many people in the asian american community. to be clear, are you saying the white house disease not believe it is racist? >> to be clear i think the media is trying to play games with the terminology of this virus and the focus should be on the fact that china let this out of the country. the same phrase that the media roundly now condemns is used by the media. >> the media never called i

and let me bring kaitlan collins back. not just even have the conversation about this if military leaders were trying to do so in a bipartisan way? what's the politics here? >> reporter: well, the white house is using the same defense that they did in 2017 when the president came out against pulling down those confederate statues or removing them, which is basically where does it end? they were implying that if you start renaming bases like this or taking down certain statues, then people will start calling for statues like george washington to be pulled down. of course, that is not an argument that many people have made or anyone really. but the question is the president often makes arguments like these. they feed well with his base. the question is does it still? because we've seen a lot of public opinion change over the last two weeks as you've seen the unrest across the nation. and the president has maintained his position on kneeling in the nfl and not renaming these bases or moving confederate statues. >> it just see

. >> cnn's kaitlan collins is at the white house. she joins me now. kaitlan, i wonder what the reaction is to esper said. i suspect the white house didn't necessarily know he was going to say this? >> reporter: no, they did not. and so far, the reaction inside the west wing has not been great to those comments. they were not aware that he was going to go and contradict the president on, of course, whether or not active-duty u.s. military troops should be deployed throughout the nation, something that the president had just said days ago in the rose garden before they went over to st. john's church that he believed that they should. and now esper is saying that he doesn't agree with that. of course, there had been a lot of discussion behind the scenes as the president was going to make that announcement over whether or not they should threaten to invoke the insurrection act, which the president did. you saw attorney general bill barr privately had disagreed with that. and esper is now saying he doesn't agree with it either, even though we know that abo

and that's really the only thing that they've ever pointed to. >> all right, kaitlan collins, thank you so much. joining me now to discuss the president's executive orders and policing reforms, former federal prosecutor la prosecutor laura coates. this federal tracking system for so-called bad cops that the president is in favor of, this does frankly seem like a big win for people who want reform to keep bad officers from getting fired by one department and then hired by another as happened notoriously with the officer who killed tamir rice. reddit, did you not hear my question? let me go to you, laura, if you can hear me. this does seem like a legitimately big step. >> it is. and that respect it is one of the aspects that people have been calling for in terms of people being able to track not only those officers who are problematic but also termination. but on the other side of that particular win is essentially the sword and the shield. there is the idea here that although they will have that national database to track, it has to rely on only those officers who perhaps have been termi

kaitlan collins joins us. is going on. >> reporter: anderson, we were inside the whoit houite house. the secret service asked us to leave. i don't think that's ever happened. often they say you can't go outside, the white house is on lockdown. press is instructed to actually leave the white house grounds and out here, you can see there is a swarm of protesters out in front of the white house. there are reports that they were trying to take down the statute of andrew jackson that is in the square right in front of the white house and as we were walking back through here, we saw several protesters who said they had fired some substance at them. they aren't sure if it was tear gas, pepper spray, that was a big debate. they cleared the protesters. i'll step out of the way. the police moved this barrier to we wiare right now. earlier today this is not where the barrier was. there are several protesters standing around and police officers forming a bit of a happen hazard line in front of the white house as we wait t

kaitlan collins, just outside, joins us now. kaitlan, what's going on? >> yeah, anderson.nside the white house. the secret service came around, and asked for us to leave. that is something that i don't think has ever happened since i've been inside the white house. often, they say you can't go outside. the white house is on lockdown. press is instructed to actual whetheractually leave the white house grounds. and you can see there are a swarm of protestors out in front of the white house. there were reports that they were trying to take down the statue of andrew jackson that, of course, is in lafayette square, right in front of the white house. and as we were walking back through here, we saw several protestors who said that they had fired some kind of substance at them. they weren't sure if it was tear gas, pepper spray. of course, that was a big debate last time they cleared the protestors. i'm going to step out of the way. but you can see, here, the police have moved this barrier to where we are right now. earlier today, this has not been where the barrier was. and ther

cnn's kaitlan collins. you have some reporting about why president trump pulled this stunt. >> reporter: yeah, we're learning more about what was behind this last-minute photo op. so last minute, we should note, that secret service rushed up here on this balcony where i'm standing right now where cnn has been broadcasting without any heads up they were coming up here. of course, they wanted to have eyes on the president and now sources are telling my colleague kevin, in part, the reason the president made the trip outside the gates of the white house, a really rare trip where you do not often see the president walk out of the door of the white house, walk across lafayette square and come over here to saint john's was driven in part, that he was upset by coverage of the fact that he had been rushed to the underground bunker on friday night during the protest that you saw breaking out here. >> wow. >> reporter: in front of the white house. that is what sources are saying, anderson. what part of the decision.

kaitlan collins at the white house. thank you so much. >>> i want to bring in abby phillips and dana bash. >> dana, i think tim stunned by what we are hearing comiing off of this call. i know a lot of people say you can't be stunned anymore. i see this as a new mission creek for the president when it comes to the military and talking about how they should be used in this situation. this is not the role, right? this to me smacks what you would hear addict ta dictator looking military as his to use. >> right, luckily this is a democracy that has laws to protect that democracy from statements like that. it is a law that we have to see how and what the president is talking about and frankly whether he was going off or actually he actually means he's going to try to find a way. again, i am not a lawyer but cover covering these kinds of things and understanding basic laws, i don't know there is a thing that allows to president to do that. that's one thing of the gross misuse of the military. most importantly is the question o

kaitlan collins, cnn, washington. >>> rarely does the former u.s. president george w.h make any public comment. so it is notable he's speaking out about the killing of george floyd, and he is calling for the nation to examine its tragic failures. america's greatest challenge has long been to unite people of very different backgrounds, into a single nation of justice and opportunity. the doctrine inhabits of racial superiority, which once nearly split our country, still threaten our union. the answers to america's problems are found by living up to american ideals. so the fundamental truth that all human beings are created equal and endowed by god with certain rights. former president barack obama has also spoken out against bigotry and racism in the u.s. in the days after floyd's death. natalie. >> politicians back here in the united states want you to think that there are a lot of extremists stirring up protests like this. we'll tell you what our cnn investigation found, though, just ahead. we have a saying at us foods: we help you make it. you, the independent restau

kaitlan collins is looifr wiher. what more do we know about this call?he says minnesota turned to a laughing stock of the world. this is a remarkable call. the call government had with governors and national security officials and he was on this call and he chose to start it by lashing out at these governors, and most of them had been weak. they need to start cracking down on protesters who were turning violent in the streets of their city. it is making united states the laughingstock of the world. listen to this audio that cnn obtained. >> they took over the police department. police were running down with sirens and they -- i have never seen anything like it and the whole world was laughing. all of a sudden and i said you got to use the national guard and they did. i don't know what it was, it was last night -- once you dominate them -- i live in manhattan, what's going on in manhattan? i have finest, whayork's finest happening is terrible. new york got to have to tough it up and the national guard? we have the largest force of the country. what's goin

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kaitlan collins, cnn, washington. >>> ron brownstein joins me this hour from los angeles.e you. >> another busy day, john. good to see you. >> they're all busy days. the president seemed to frame the way he wants to run for re-election during that national address on monday. here's part of it. >> i am your president of law and order and an ally of all peaceful protesters. but in recent days our nation has been gripped by professional anarchists, violent mobs, arsonists, looters, criminals, rioters, antifa, and others. >> an ally of peaceful protesters unless they get in the way of a photo op. but nonetheless, nixon, he ran and won on a law and order agenda. that was in 1968, a period of unrest. nixon was not the incumbent. trump is. and after a disastrous response to the pandemic, economic collapse, we have a country now that is more vulnerable than at any time in living memory. has trump got anything else to run on apart from this imaginary american carnage out there? >> well, you know, i was thinking last night that there isn't a lot of nixon nostalgia in america but cer

as cnn's kaitlan collins reports, it's not the only comment on coronavirus that the white house is today trying to clean up. >> by the way, it's a disease, without question. has more names than any disease in history. >> reporter: after the president used that term saturday night, the white house defended it today, despite citism that it's racist and anti-chinese. terms like that can inspire racism against asian-americans. instead, the press secretary claimed it's just like when the media referred to it as the chinese coronavirus, though no major outlet has referred to it as the kung flu. >> the media has never called it the kung flu. calling it a chinese coronavirus and kung flu are very different. >> the media and your network specifically have repeatedly used the term china virus and wuhan virus and then gone on to deride the president as somehow using a term that they themselves have never used. so we can go through cnn's history. >> reporter: it wasn't the president's only comment from saturday night's rally that has drawn scrutiny. today the white house faced questions after trump

as cnn's kaitlan collins reports, he also told governors it was their responsibility, not his, to crash down harshly on the unrest while at least one governor told the president his inflammatory rhetoric was only making matters worse. >> reporter: in an extraordinary phone call today, president trump berated the nation's governors and urged them to crack down on unruly protesters or risk looking like jerks. >> you have to dominate. if you don't dominate, you're wasting your time, they're going to run over you and you'll look like a bunch of jerks. >> reporter: trump vented that not enough governors were using military force although 70,000 national guardsmen have been sent out to deal with the unrest across the nation. >> in the state of minnesota, they were a laughingstock all over the world. they took over the police department. the police were running down the street, sirens blazing, the rest of them running. it was on camera and they wiped out -- they'll probably have to build a new one. i've never seen anything like it and the whole world was laughing. >> reporter: the president ca

i' i've gone down two or three times, all for inspection. >> kaitlan collins, cnn, the white house. >president is okay with peaceful protestors being teargassed to clear the way for a photo op, then how far would he go to hold on to power come november's election? for many current and former cia analysts, display of who's in charge by donald trump is the kind of autocrat bravado often seen in countries before collapse. former intelligence official said the unrest and the nation's militaristic response, among many measures they would flag if writing assessments about the united states for another country's intelligence service. a cnn intelligence and security analyst and former cia operative. he is with us from ojai in california. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> i want to go back on monday. the beginning of donald trump's national address, before he had the church photo op scandal. listen to this. >> as we speak, i am dispatching thousands and thousands of heavily armed soldiers, military personnel, and law enforcement officers, to stop the rioting, looting, vandalism, assaults

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straight to cnn and the white house and the correspondent kaitlan collins. the press secretary says all is fine. >> reporter: yeah. she said this morning she spoke with the president and he was not angry and not what multiple people talking to the president since saturday night said and they described the president seething over the fact of so many empty rows in that arena on saturday night after expectations had been high. the president told that nearly a million people requested tickets, expecting it to be a full arena and then it wasn't and we know this is a president who pays very close attention to crowd size and mocks others when they do not have substantial ones so this is not gone over well. of course this has raised questions whether or not the president will fire someone over this. he fired people in the past over crowd sizes and people look at the campaign manager and other officials i'm told that could be under fire, the campaign's official that organizes the rallies and white house officials potentially because yesterday we were told that the pr

kaitlan collins at the white house for us. thank you very much. >>> today and senate democrats introduced a sweeping police reform bill which includes a ban on choke holds nationwide. it limits military-style equipment given to officers, and it requires all federal uniformed police officers such as border patrol agents or park police to wear body cameras. the bill does not, quote, unquote, defund the police which protesters and activists and some members of congress have been calling for, potential fissure in the democratic party. kamala harris and cory booker and in the house of representatives and karen bass, hakeem jefferies and others introduced the legislation after kneeling for 8:46. that, of course, the amount of time that police officer had his knee on george floyd's neck ultimately killing him. cnn's manu raju is live on capitol hill for us. the bill would also create a national registry to track police misconduct, why? >> the reason for that is if one police officer were to engage in any misconduct if he or she were

>>that was kaitlan collins reporting for us tonight from washington meanwhile, just the past couple hours. we learned that former under secretary of defense james miller submitted his resignation to the defense secretary esper telling him that quote law abiding protesters just outside the white house were dispersed using tear gas and rubber bullets, not for the sake of safety. but clear path for a presidential photo-op. end quote. miller resigned from his current role on the defense advisory board. miller served as the pentagon's undersecretary of defense during the obama administration. other news tonight governor newsome along with other democratic governors is pushing back against president trump's threat to deploy the military in the areas hard hit by looting and rioting newsome has sent thousands of national guard troops into los angeles and other cities. but he says he opposes the president's plan. he calls trump's comments quote noise and avoided addressing them directly but says the nation is desperate for presidential leadership. other governors like illinois jp pritzker were mor

kaitlan collins joins me now.e intelligence today and what the president was going to do about it. >> reporter: yeah, jake. what has been clear as the white house is saying that the president was not briefed on this in person about what was going on. but the question, of course, is now the president is aware of this intelligence as most of us are now and several outlets have confirmed this. so the question is what is his response going to be. the white house today said they don't believe there is an agreement among the intelligence community about what actually is in that intelligence assessment. >> so intelligence is verified before it reaches the president of the united states. and in this case it was not verified. i won't speculate on whether this intelligence is verified or not verified. i have no further notifications for you other to tell you there is no consensus and there are dissenting opinions -- >> you don't think this report is true. >> i'm telling you this, there is no consensus in the intelligence co

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kaitlan collins joins us. >> reporter: i don't think there is wide spread calls to bring down statutesf jesus christ. i can think of one person that said that that's a prominent figure but he addressed it in the rose garden next to the polish leader. he believes democrats don't care and people tearing down these monuments don't even know why they are tearing them down. >> i think many of the people that are knocking down these statutes don't even have any idea what the statute is, what it means, who it is. when they knocked down grant, when they want to knock down grant, but when they look at certain ones, they are looking at jesus christ. they are looking at george washington. they're looking at abraham lincoln. thomas jefferson. not going to happen. not going to happen. not as long as i'm here. >> and anderson, what is interesting about that, this evolved from where the president was initially saying we shouldn't rename military bases named after confederate leaders, generals, military members and now the president is changing it to basically saying that if you start to take down tho

thanks so much kaitlan collins. david, trump in hess polls is trailing biden in a lot of key battleground states, michigan, wisconsin, florida, arizona, north carolina. what does that tell you? >> well, it tells me something about the mood of the electorate and the map. first, the mood. the president is just losing on the major two issues facing the country, the coronavirus pandemic and, of course, the battles for social justice in the aftermath of george floyd's killing, jake. overwhelmingly voters in these battleground states, you name them, six critical states that determine the outcome of the election, when it comes to the virus, they want to see whatever needs to be put in place to combat the virus, even if that harms the economy. not just open the economy at any cost. so that's one place donald trump is out of step. on these protests, there's overwhelming support for the protest we've seen across the country. they are not interested in just hearing his law and order message. demographically he's clearly losing

voiced concerns about how they are losing support among some christian conservatives as cnn's kaitlan collins reports, including evangelicals and catholics. >> reporter: president trump visited another iconic church in d.c. today while still facing fierce backlash for his historic trip to a church near the white house yesterday, after peaceful protesters were cleared from the streets using smoke, flashbangs and child. the president and first lady melania trump stood at the shrine of pope john paul ii. the washington archbishop said he would not condone the use of tear gas to silence, scatter or intimidate protesters. trump has faced heavy criticism for his trip to st. john's church. trump, who rarely attends church services, did not go inside to tour the damage to the church or stop to pray. instead he took photos outside and used a bible as a prop. >> reporter: is that your bible? >> it's a bible. >> reporter: sources told cnn the president wanted to be seen outside the white house grounds because he was angered by reports that he had been rushed to an underground bunker during friday's prot

joining me kaitlan collins and rear admiral john kirby. kate, i want to start with you. the president was out at the john paul ii shrine today, calling governors weak and promising to get tougher, but his definition of tough includes having protesters who were peacefully exercising their first amendment right across the street from his house forcibly removed. >> reporter: yeah, you couldn't ignore that. the president came out to the rose garden yesterday and said he's an ally of peaceful protesters when just moments, minutes before, we watched these protesters in front of the white house being cleared out with smoke, with flash bangs, with several lines of officers who had their shields, batons, and some of them were on foot, some were on horse back. they cleared the protesters after giving three abrupt warnings within minutes of each other. and of course then you saw the president in a large security detail and several aides including his son-in-law, jared kushner and ivanka trump as well joining him to walk over to the church for the photo opportunity which he's now be

>>again that was kaitlan collins reporting former defense secretary leon panetta is also among those opposing the deployment of active duty military personnel to control protesters. i talked to panetta today about the president's use of the protests and got his reactions to madison's recent statements. >>well i i think it's very important military leaders to make clear what role of the united states military is all about that turned their trade but to find foreign adversaries and enemies overseas. mother not trained to law enforcement they're not trained on riot control and the walls are pretty clear that the united states military what not to replace law enforcement in this country. sore military leaders, including jim mattis jill very strongly that the role of the united states military want to be protected and that the president ought to respect that rule and not try to use or the u.s. military for any domestic political purposes. the role of the u.s. military. i should not be abused by this president or any president. we have from now when i was secretary of defense. we really tr

i want to get to cnn's kaitlan collins now who joins us now from washington. kaitlan, new reporting tonight as to why peaceful protests near the white house -- protesters, i should say. why they were forcibly cleared out so the president could have a photo-op in front of a nearby church. what do you know about that? >> reporter: yeah, don, it was about half an hour before the president came out to the rose garden, and we started seeing them -- they issued three really quick warnings to these protesters who were here in lafayette park. lafayette square. standing here. no acts of violence or anything that we had seen from the eight hours or so that we'd been up here. then very quickly they moved them out of the way with tear gas, flash bangs, batons, shields, the whole thing. and then the president spoke in in the rose garden. to it seemed like those two were connected. then at the end of those remarks, don, he said he's going to go visit a special place. walked to the st. john's church, something i've never seen him do, walk out of the front doors of the white h

kaitlan collins, appreciate it. retired general pittard, two-star commander who commanded troops in iraq. i want to start with your reaction from what we heard from general mark milley today coming out and saying it was a mistake in being part of coming out and clearing the park. i've never seen anything like it. what are your thoughts on that? >> i applaud general mark milley. in fact, i've known him for years. that's the mark milley i know. he has admitted a mistake, taken ownership of it, responsibility, and he's moving forward. in fact, it's refreshing. >> interesting. general, another issue that we might hear president trump discuss today, we're in the sure, is the debate over removing the names of confederate generals from military bases named after them. you said you've known for decades it's an insult for african-american soldiers for bases to carry these names -- let's face it. these were traitors. what is your response when you hear president trump's response that under no circumstances will he consider re

i want to go to kaitlan collins. she is at the white house. this is where politics at the white house clearly winning out over -- pardon me. you're at the department of health and human services where the task force has just briefed the media. there really is this political message that the vice president is pushing that comes right up against the reality that comes up against the science of what is happening on the ground. but he's really trying to paint a positive picture about where the country is. >> yeah. it's not just a political message. it's the message overall. the vice president saying he didn't want the american people to slip into this place where they tend to think we are where we were two months ago. saying we're in a much better situation now. but you look at the numbers yesterday. we surpass the single day of highest recorded cases in the u.s. yesterday. you know on that last day was? in april. that was also around the last time the white house held a coronavirus task force briefing. of course, they did it today eight weeks lat

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kaitlan collins, thank you so much, appreciate it. >>> i want to bring in cnn's chief medical correspondenty gupta. take a look at these numbers for the president's rally in tulsa. the facility can hold little more than 19,000 people. the president's campaign manager tweeted that more than a million people have requested tickets to attend. and i want to point out that rally attendees are being told to register for the event early. they must agree to not sue the campaign if they contract coronavirus. how dangerous could an overpacked rally be in the middle of this pandemic? >> well, i mean, this is the worst-case scenario, jake. we put this together from the cdc. we can talk about the different levels of risk. this might sort of give people an idea. when you're talking about gatherings of any sort, obviously the lowest risk possible thing would be some sort of virtual gathering where people could stay at home and meet virtually. after that the risk increases each step of the way. more risk is going to be small outdoor in-person gatherings. people still coming from different places. they may

kaitlan collins from the white house. thank you. >>> with me now, activist and co-author of the young adult book "i'm not dying with you tonight" kimberly jones. a pleasure to have you on. thank you so much for joining me. >> oh, thank you so much for having me. >> i got a lot to get to with you but first let me get your quick reaction to the president saying he's not even considering renaming some of the military bases named after confederate leaders. your thoughts? >> i think that that is extremely unfortunate and that is one of the things that continues to show that america is not prepared for the atonement ma is necessary for atr atrocities that black americans have experienced in this country and i think those kinds of loud declarations of it is not even a thought of something that i would consider is extremely sad and unfortunate for the black americans in this country. >> we led the show with the tearful words from george floyd's brother up on capitol hill today and i want to play a little bit more from his brother

kaitlan collins reporting their doctor fauci says the task force is considering. >>pull testing it involves assessing numerous people in a single batch and only conducting individual assessments if that batch result is positive. it is a way to significantly increase the number of people who know whether or not they're infected with covid. the new mexico department of health says that 3 people have died from drinking hand sanitizer. >>that contain methanol 3 others are in critical condition. one person is permanently blind. the department says all of the cases were reported to the states poison control center in may with the first case being reported on may 7th. the other 6 cases of happened since may 29th, using hand sanitizers that contain methanol for any other purpose may result in poisoning. 16 nba players have tested positive for covid that was discovered in the first wave of mandatory testing. >>before they try to resume the season. the nba commissioner says the numbers roughly what they expected and no one is seriously ill. any player who tested positive wi

>>that was kaitlan collins reporting for us tonight. the marine corps is banning all public displays of the confederate flag, the usmc twitter account posted. >>these guidelines tonight it states that depictions of the confederate battle flag or unauthorized in public and work spaces aboard an installation that includes bumper stickers coffee, mugs clothing posters and actual confederate flags. the post states that the confederate flag has all too often been co-opted by violent extremists and racist groups. >>today would have been briana taylor's 27th birthday but 2 months ago, she was killed when police broke down the door to where louisville apartment in an attempted drug staying and shot her 8 times they had the wrong house. taylor's family has. >>since filed a wrongful death lawsuit claiming charges of battery wrongful death excessive force in gross negligence. the no knock warrant as it's called issued by police included taylor's home because according to officers. authorities suspect a man involved in a drug ring was receiving pac

cnn's kaitlan collins reports. >>president trump visited another iconic church in dc today while still facing fierce backlash for his trip to historical church near the white house yesterday after peaceful protesters were aggressively cleared from the streets using smoke flash bangs and shield. the president and first lady melania trump stood before a shrine honoring pope john paul the second in a trip that the catholic archbishop of washington called back and reprehensible. wilton gregory said the facility was being misused and manipulated and asserted that the late pope would not condone the use of tear gas or other deterrents to silence scatter or intimidate protesters. trump has faced heavy criticism for his visit to saint john's church, which police say protesters partially set on fire sunday. but trump who really attend church services did not go inside to tour the damage or stopped to pray instead he took photos outside and used a bible as a prop. sources told cnn the president wanted to be seen outside the

he is now adding jes kaitlan collins joins us at the white house. what did he have to say, kaitlan? think there have been any widespread calls to bring down statues of jesus christ. i can really only think of one person that addressed that that is a prominent figure. but the president addressed it today as he was standing next to the polish leader there. he was talking about this and saying democrats don't even care that the people tearing down these monuments don't even know why they're tearing them down. >> i think many of the people that are knocking down these statues don't even have any idea what the statue is, what it means, who it is. when they knock down grant -- when they want to knock down grant. but when they -- now, they're looking at jesus christ. they're looking at george washington. they're looking at abraham lincoln, thomas jefferson. not going to happen. not gonna happen. not as long as i'm here. >> anderson, what's so interesting about that is this evolved from where the president was initially saying we shouldn't rename military bases, named after confederate lead

church, pinning the decision to clear lafayette park on attorney general bill barr, as cnn's kaitlan collinsts. >> reporter: defense secretary mark esper was already on thin ice with the white house when he broke with president trump take on whether active duty military should be deployed to american cities to curb protests. >> i do not support invoking the insurrection act. >> reporter: in a remarkable press conference, he contradicted president trump, who wants to invoke the law to put troops on streets. >> it should only be used as a matter of last resort and in the most dire of situations. we are not in that situation now. >> reporter: as the military takes a larger role in confronting protesters in the nation's capital, around 1,600 active duty troops have been placed on standby in the washington area. after telling nbc news "i don't know where i was going," esper conceded today he knew president trump was headed to st. john's church. >> i knew we were headed for the church. i was not aware that a photo op was happening. >> reporter: protesters were cleared with tear gas and pepper ball

but first as cnn's kaitlan collins reports for us now, president trump is digging in his heels about how he is handling the current unrest even after he was politely confronted on the divisive language he used. >> reporter: as public opinion shifts and calls for police reform grow, president trump has remained an outlier in the national conversation following george floyd's death. >> you always have a bad apple no matter where you go. you have bad apples. and they're not too many of them and i can tell you there are not too many of them in the police department. >> reporter: a number of his advisers have encouraged him to change his tone to meet the moment. but trump has instead relied on old instincts as the rest of the country seems to move in another direction. this week nascar banned the confederate flag. it's a symbol of hate and it brings back signs of oppression from way back when. >> reporter: the nfl apologized to its players. >> we were wrong for not listening to nfl players earlier. >> reporter: and even trump's republican allies recognized that the country is demanding ac

. >> straight to cnn's kaitlan collins at the department of health and human services where the task force meeting will play out. you hear the president there once again dismissive. but the fact that they are having this briefing today, the first time publicly in two months, it means at least some members of the tafrfof the task the idea that they better show the american people they're taking this serious. >> reporter: yeah, and they're seeing the same numbers that we are. and they had a task force briefing on wednesday. so it's notable that now two days after they had a second meeting here today, and they're going to have a briefing. and of course it's incredibly remarkable that they have not had a briefing in two months now. the last one was april 27th, in the rose garden, at the white house. and since then, these members of the task force have not appeared to brief reporters. they've done a few interviews here and there, but they have not appeared altogether with the vice president, with other members of the administration like we're going to see them today, john. the other thing

cnn's kaitlan collins is in the rose garden for us. the president -- actually i'm going to go to abby phillips first. an interesting moment when the president was asked about his position on both this executive order having to do with monuments and also the democrats blocking the republican effort at policing reform. he really started railing at democrats in general saying that they wanted to de-fund or abolish police. i mean, a very, not unusual for president trump, i suppose, but unusual for a president holding a joint-press conference with a world leader, continuing to try to draw very strong partisan contrasts. >> reporter: it really showed the degree to which he is very much focused on making clear what he is against, which is saying democrats want to de-fund the police, he is against that. but the question was actually about what he thought about the proposal being put forward by republicans, which would have put forward some police reforms that the democrats called modest. but police reforms nonetheless. and it's just been inter

so let's go to kaitlan collins. and kaitlan, in this whole call, i know that the president told the governors that most of them are weak. tell me what else he said and how they responded. >> reporter: i mean, he opened up this call, brooke, by berating these governors. he said most of them are weak. they need to do more. he implored them to use the national guard. he said enough of them are not using military force to confront the protests that are breaking out and he went after them in several different ways talking about what was going on. . he believes a lot of protesters need to be jailed, imprisoned and he said five years, ten years for protesters turning violent as you're seeing this happen throughout the nation. and really he was just spent most of the call lashing out at them, brooke. and you saw some of the governors push back including the governor of illinois j.b. pritzker who told the president he didn't like the language he was using. listen to how the president responded to that. >> i can't let it pass.

. >> let's bring in cnn white house correspondent kaitlan collins to join us here. kaitlan, explain how the white house anticipates that these federal guidelines and these incentive programs are actually going to change local and state departments. >> reporter: well, they're really going to be relying on those local departments to carry these measures out. and they're also counting on congress to fund the new programs that the president was talking about, talking about having those co-responders, people like mental health experts who are going to situations with police officers and de-escalating it. a lot of this sen couragement for police officers to do this. the way they're doing that basically saying you can get credentialed by the attorney general, by the justice department, by meeting certain standards when it comes to training, about uses of force. that reference the president made to banning choke holds. basically they will not meet that certification by the justice department unless they only use choke holds in what he said is a life and death situation. thou

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kaitlan collins at the white house this evening. kaitlan, thank you very much. i want to discuss a lot of what's going on with congressman colin allred, who represents the texas district that includes northeastern dallas. colin -- i should say, representative, thank you so much. i appreciate you joining us. you doing okay? >> yeah, i'm doing okay, don. thanks for having me on again. i'm sorry it's under these circumstances. >> yeah. of course, i agree with that. so the president is showing more compassion for police than protestors and black americans. what do you make of his comments in dallas today? >> you know, dallas is a city that's hurting. we're now a top-five hotspot in the country for covid-19 new cases. and those cases and covid-19, in general, have hit the african-american community hardest. and of course, we're still grieving what happened. the murder of george floyd. and we are a city that needed to have a president, if you are going to come in town, come in town and try and heal some of our divisions, bring us back together. that's not what we saw

i want to bring in cnn white house correspondent kaitlan collins and chief washington correspondent for "politico," ryan lizza. i am happy to see both you on a friday night. kaitlan, i will start with you here. the u.s. is averaging more cases per day than, frankly, at any point during the pandemic. but you did hear vice president pence saying we're making incredible progress. now, you were in the room, kaitlan. what was that briefing like? >> well, it was so notable for, not only the reasons you talked about. you know, how pence was really able to square the idea of them inviting and encouraging thousands of supporters to come indoors at these rallies they are having. but also, the different messages you heard from the different people speaking. i mean, you saw the vice president saying where we are now is better than where we were two months ago. even though, yesterday, we hit the daily high of recorded cases. but also, the differences in the message from the health experts. dr. birx, she has not been one who wants to contradict the president of course during this pandemic and as we h

. >> with me now cnn white house correspondent kaitlan collins and political correspondent abby phillip. so kaitlan, first to you, any response on john kelly's comments today? >> reporter: not publicly at least. there are a few officials talking about it behind the scenes. but it is just so stunning, brooke, to see and i'm not sure this is ever happened where you've seen the former chief of staff and former defense secretary come out while the president is still in office and offer such a staging assessment of his leadership. and if you cover the white house and talk to white house sources these are things that general mattis and john kelly have been saying behind the scenes for sometime since they left the white house. neither of them left on good terms. mattis resigned in protest over the president's decision. kelly was pushed out of the job for someone else to take over because he and the president were on such bad terms when he was leaving that they were barely speaking to one another. but to see them come out publicly and say this and for kelly to say he agrees with mattis, questio

kaitlan collins is "out front" near the white house. kaitlan, what are you learning about the important meeting the president had today where there are some loved ones to police brutality. >> reporter: this is the meeting before he came out to the rose garden. the white house said it was a mutual decision that the families didn't want to come out in front of the cameras. you heard him name several of the names of loved ones he met with. one of them was antione rose. we've now heard from antione rose's mother who says she was not present, she did not go to that meeting with president trump, and she said she wouldn't go if she had been invited. we did hear from ahmaud arbery's family. they said they found the president very compassionate as he met with them behind closed doors later today. of course he came out to the rose gordon, gave the full-throated endorsement, and the executive order just encouraging the reforms. it doesn't mandate any kind of immediate action, and it is leaving the heavy lifting to congress here not only for some of