what had government done for people in kenosha county? jobs leaving, the quality of wereis integrating, there previous things with the police. they looked around and said this is not what we want. we want the change agent. the issue president trump bases is he has been in power for four years, have things changed? it will be interesting for one of the candidates, probably bided, to ask the question reagan asked jimmy carter, are you better now than you were four years ago. another issue with wisconsin in kenosha county, there were fewer voters in 2016 than there had been in previous elections. simply because of the ways they ran the polling places and he was eligible to vote. part of that was minority communities stayed home. i do not think minority communities will stay home in this election. taylor: voter turnout ever more important. thank you was always to jim moore with pacific university. stay with us. ons is "balance of power" bloomberg television and radio. ♪ kevin: this is "balance of power" on bloomberg television and radio. from

he kenosha county. zach, thank you very much, goodjob. he had kenosha county.d a rough three days. but then it got well brought into back in where you wanted it. just where you wanted it. aaron decker, supervisor for kenosha. erin, thank you erin, goodjob, thank you very much. don kappler president of wisconsin fraternal order of police. don, thank you very much. jerryjohnson national trustee of the wisconsin fraternal order of the police. jerry, thank you. you people have done a fantasticjob. really, you have to be proud of them. james and sharon ward. pastors. well, it was great speaking to you yesterday. and you're really a very respected man and i really enjoyed our conversation. thank you very much for being here. appreciate it. we also have major general paul knapp who is around here someplace, he was really right on the, thank you very much paul, thank you. he has been fantastic. paul and scott and linda carpenter, owners of bnl office furniture. thank you very much. you got hit pretty hard, right? you got hit pretty hard. that's all right. it's going to

we're all kenosha county citizens.u know -- and it just -- it really disturbs me that they don't take that time, they just say, it doesn't affect me so it doesn't exist. >> thank you. what can you say to people who come in good faith to have a conversation, who say, i haven't seen this, i haven't felt it? what's in your heart that you want to say to people who don't have your lived experience and for whatever reason, don't see it? >> i first want to say, believe me when i tell you it exists. you can't know what somebody else has experienced or what they've lived through. and it's not just race. if you're a woman, you can't know what a woman experiences and a woman can't know what a man experiences when it comes to misogyny. the first thing i say if someone comes to me, i say come with an open mind and take what i say at face value. the minute you decide what i'm saying is not correct or not true or not honest, that closes the door for whoever is approaching me to truly understand. when it comes to racism, yes, we have

time that has happened in more than four presidential cycles, where a republican was able to win kenosha countya swing county and the battleground state of wisconsin. the second point i would make is that absolutely this race is tightening, and in terms of the increase in mail-in voting as a result of the pandemic and the public discourse surrounding the issue, could mean that we might not have a result on november 3, and that we might have to wait a couple of days or even weeks after the election. we won't know until november 3. but the expectation now is that this could not be a result decided -- i don't want to see a result decided, a result counted on election night. lisa: kenosha is the fourth biggest city in wisconsin. walkie, madison -- behind milwaukee, madison, and green bay. how do we get a sense of how those swing voters are moving, and where they are going to befall? kevin: it is taking everything in me to not make a joke about the packers, so i am going to move on. [laughter] lisa: it's ok, i can take it. carry-on. kevin: i think southwestern pennsylvania, conor lamb country, as we

this comes as calls are growing for the kenosha police chief and county sheriff to resign after kenoshaolice allowed rittenhouse to leave the scene after gunning down the protesters. video shows police officers offering members of the armed white mob water earlier in the night. rittenhouse faces up to life in prison and was charged last week with first-degree intentional homicide and first-degree reckless homicide. well, jacob blake's shooting and ththe subsequent police behavior in the streets of kenosha have brought renewed scrutiny to another case from 2018, that of black teenager chrystul kizer, who faces charges of killing her alleged sex trafficker, a 34-year-old white man, when she was just 17 years old. court records show the man, randall volar, had a history of sexually abusing underage black girls as young as 12 that was known to the kenosha police, but he remained free for months. in june, 2018, kizer says she shot and killed volar in self-defense after he drugged her and tried to rape her. chrystul kizer was freed from jail on $400,000 bail in june, but is still fighting her

wray will review the state department of justice's findings before a report is sent to kenosha countyistrict attorney michael graveley, who will ultimately decide whether charges s should be filed agagat the police officers. well, for more, we go to milwaukee where we are joined by jacob blake, sr., the father of jake blake, jr. he has been fighting for justice for his son alongside the parents of breonna taylor, george floyd, and others. jacob blake sr., welcome to democracy now! we are so sorry about what happened to your son. if you can respond to the decision that has just come down in louisville and then talk about how is your son jake in the hospital now? >> well, what happened in louisville shows the two systems of justice in the united states, clear and cut. if a young lady is murdered by the police, someone is responsible for that death. if the police were involved. but when it is a brown person, we don't find the quick or swift end of justice. jacob is doing much better. his spirits are better. it is hard for him because of the pain, but we stand in support of my son as well

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candidate donald trump was able to beat nominee hillary clinton for the first time in kenosha county decades. democrats are viewing that is a key potential stronghold. it's why democratic presidential nominee joe biden went to earlier this week and touted his ability that he says he would be able to heal the issue of racial inequality in the united states. in while, however, much more political fodder in terms of contention between centrists and democratic liberals on the issue of this race. last night in a battleground, in a democratic battleground state of massachusetts, senator ed markey, a 70 something progressive democrat beat of the centrist 39-year-old joe kennedy a sign of the tea leaves in terms of the democratic wins heading into this election. alix: it makes it harder for vice president joe biden to distance himself from the left too. for more on how the protests could factor into the election, omar wasow, princeton university professor, joins us now. theublished a paper on results of protests on the election between 1969 and 1972. professor, great to talk to you. walk me

why you've got biden headed to kenosha county today, and the president there earlier this week.onathan: this is the conversation the president wants everybody to be having right now, not on the pandemic because this is where he polls terribly, but on this situation, this question on who can secure the cities because for the president , he's got a message to sell, and he is selling it. but the people rioting are the people aligned with former vp joe biden. how does joe biden separate himself from that? kevin: he's trying. biden was in southwestern pennsylvania this week, saying he is not a socialist who wants to add the type of recklessness in the cities. what is fascinating about the kenosha story is it is not a major trouble us. this is really a relatable type of community in terms of suburban america, its diversity and where it stands on a host of different other indicators. what is really remarkable here, i would also note the president needs to come out and make sure that suburban voters don't feel like he is fanning the flames of division in the country. that is really what

also zach rodriguez supervising kenosha county. thank you very much, good job. days but then got well bought into back in where you wanted it, just where you wanted it. aaron decker, supervisor for kenosha, thank you, good job. thank you very much. president of wisconsin order of police, thank you very much. jerry johnson, national trustee of the fraternal order of police, thank you. have been a fantastic job, really have to be proud of them. it was great speaking to you yesterday and really a very respected man and i really enjoyed our conversation, thank you both very much for being here, appreciate it. we also have major general paul map who is around here someplace, but was really right on them -- thank you very much, thank you. he's been fantastic, paul and scott and linda carpenter, back there someplace, thank you very much. and got hit hard, right? you got hit pretty hard. that's all right. it's going to get rebuilt. kimberly warner, owner of the authentic gifts and report candle factory, very fancy name you have there, that's a fancy name but i bet it wa

. >> president trump when he was candidate trump became the first candidate to win kenosha, county for at least four years ago he had reservoir of support in wisconsin. that's the state that helped him win the presidency. you don't think that will happen this time around? >> well, john, i think that was a big upset. it was a serious feather in the cap for the trump campaign in 2016, that they upset hillary clinton. but a couple of things have happened in the last four years. president trump's disastrous trade war with china in terms of its impact on the farming communities of wisconsin have left thousands of farming families either facing depressed commodity prices or depended on government pay-outs. what i hear from soy bean farmers and those involved in delaware would be rather selling than getting payments from the federal government. the economy has turned around dramatically. as you know, donald trump inherited an economy with low unemployment, solid growth. today we have high unemployment and very weak growth. it's only because in the most recent relief package congress has pushe

kenosha is a great city. i have a number of my family members who live there. they're really struggling right now. what you haven't heard reported in the news are seven members of the county board standing up and saying yes, president trump, please come to kenosha, we appreciate your leadership and we want you here. the media is only talking about the democrat naysayers and not those who support the president and this trip to kenosha. >> sandra: i can tell you that the seven kenosha county board members are saying we're hurting and looking for leadership. the kenosha county sheriff david best, the president will be quite safe here, please come. that's our goal. also the kenosha county executive, there are a number of officials on the ground who are encouraging the president to visit. the governor and mayor are not. this is in the wake of joe biden now taking his message on the campaign trail to condemning the violence on the city streets but pointing fingers at donald trump for it. here is joe biden on him stoking violence. listen. >> the incumbent president is incapable of telling us the truth and facing the facts and incapable of healing. he doesn't want to shed light,

that is what we found in kenosha county, wisconsin. thompson has been growing berries on his wisconsin farm for decades but until this queer year hadn't planted a single flower. now it is a sea of yellow. >> we started planting with one small field then two more fields then ten more fields and the fields got bigger and that is how we ended up with over 2 million sun flowers. >> o'donnell: his family had talked about growing sunflowers for years but the coronavirus convinced them the timing was right. >> people are going to be looking for a way to naturally social distance and why not be happy in a field of sunflowers. >> o'donnell: pictures have blossomed on social media. after all it is hard to take a bad shot osis came to pick their own, $25 for a dozen. >> it's gorgeous, absolutely beautiful. >> it's really relaxing. >> i take it for granted because i live here. i get to look out my back window and see these flowers. but for people who don't get that, it almost takes them back to what normal used to be like. >> o'donnell: we will be

kenosha is both a city and a county. that urban/rural divide is clear in the city of kenosha. went for hillary clinton 20 2016 by 15%, but the county went to mr. trump by less than 1%. we have mr. trump and mr. biden both visiting the city, both spinning different narratives of what is going on. this is a new narrative for mr. trump. he took advantage of increasingly tense social and political conditions driven by ining economic inequality the country, but really insert locations. certain locations. obviously he wanted 2016. he seems to be going back to that this year. mr. biden is pitching a different strategy, and it seems to be working, but the future seems unclear to me. david: i want to focus specifically on the supper. you mentioned urban and rural. a lot of people are saying the suburbs, particularly women in the suburbs, will be key voters. talk about wisconsin as you look at kenosha and milwaukee. is it possible some of those women might be over to president trump if they feel he will keep them safer? jerry: that is a possibility. that is the clear strategy his campaig

also zach rodriguez, supervisor of kenosha county, thank you very much. good job. a rough three day, but then it got well brought back in where you wanted it. erin decker, supervisor for kenosha. thank you very much. don capler, president of wisconsin fraternal order of police. thank you very much. jerry johnson, national truss at the of the wisconsin fraternal order of police. jerry, thank you. people have done a fantastic job. really. you have to be proud of them. james and sharon ward, pastors, it was great speaking to you yesterday. you are a very respected man and i really enjoyed our conversation. thank you both very much for being here. appreciate it. we also have major general paul knapp who is around here someplace, but he was really right on the -- thank you very much, paul. thank you. he has been fantastic. paul and scott and linda carpenter, owners of b and l office furniture. thank you so much. you got hit pretty hard. that's all right. it will get rebuilt. kimberly warner, owner of the authentic gifts anddle factory. i'll bet it was beautiful. will yo

we talked about kenosha county. this is the precise moment.hink what you are going to see from the left is, harris -- kamala harris will got to try to rally the base. she met with the family and legal team of jacob blake. to target theg same voters. see atrast, you will also similar strategy on behalf of republicans. the vice president will try to rally the evangelical base. the president is going to try to go into the working class communities and get them back to reform that coalition. jonathan: what a weekend as far as china is concerned. administration coming out swinging. what was your take? kevin: i talked to sources who said the president is considering banning cotton imports in retaliation for the oppression of the minority group in that particular region. china, 80% of china's cotton exports come from that region. 30% of u.s. apparel comes from china. the supply chain will really have an interesting effect, particularly for high-end fashion brands in the united states. beyond that, this is part of a broader strategy we talked about. a

investigation completed within 30 days at which point they will then turn their findings over to the kenosha countydistrict attorney's office as to whether, again, any of the officers involved will face charges. laura, allison. >>> the mayor of rochester, new york, announcing a plan to keep protesters and police from insighting each other. they're forming a barrier between them. the idea is for protesters to move without fearing they are doing something unlawful. protests over daniel prude's death began peacefully but ended with clashes with police. video from march showed officers pinning prude to the ground with a hood over his head. his family said he was in the midst of a mental health episode. prude stopped breathing and was later declared brain dead. no federer, no nadal. now novak djokovic is booted. we'll tell you what he did. a breathable formula for fresh skin hour after hour. defies transfer, no excess. infallible up to 24hr fresh wear. by l'oreal paris. ♪ ♪ i buy my own rocks and i flaunt it ♪ ♪ rolling through the streets so stunning ♪ ♪ you know i'm a diamond honey ♪ ♪ i'm a celebrate

joining me now is kenosha county sheriff david beth. hey the former vice president showed up, too. what's the difference? >> well, the difference is trump, when we made a phone call tour congressman brian style we asked for i had help that the president and the federal government could give. and the relay came back that whatever help you need, you got it. and within the next 24 hours, a lot of federal resources came and within 48 hours the president himself came and stood in the area that was damaged. he met with the people here of damaged businesses and he came and talked to the chief of police and myself and did a round table. there was a huge difference in the two candidates running for president here in kenosha. brian: joe biden went totten of visited the family of jacob blake did not visit with you guys. >> i was not invited to meet with joe biden. trump did. trump right away got a phone call out to us and said we want to meet. we want to see what else you need. and what other resources can we help you with there in kenosha. and we

rodrigues, supervisor in kenosha county you very much. that has been well brought into the back end where you wanted it. aaron, good job. president of the fraternal order of approved -- of police, thank you very much. jerry johnson, thank you. people who have done a fantastic job. he really have to be proud of them. great speaking to you yesterday and you are really a respected man and i enjoyed our conversation. thank you for being here. i appreciate it we also have major general paul knapp, who is around here someplace. he was really -- thank you. he has been fantastic. carpenter, and linda you are back there someplace, thank you very much. he got hit pretty hard. you got hit pretty hard. that's all right. it's going to get rebuilt. kimberly, owner of authentic gifts and report candle factory. a fancy name, i bet was beautiful. will you be rebuilding? >> we were not destroyed, very fortunately. but i'm here presenting smaller women's offices downtown. we are doing important, great things. >> we will be giving you some help. john rode th

i think the president hopes we don't talk about it anymore, but in kenosha county we've had 3,000 people that have tested positive. 60 have died, one yesterday. and he held this round table where he invited everybody to take off their mask if they had one. most of them didn't have one. and that just continues to be a problem. how can you hope to help people heal in kenosha and then go there and say, you know, don't care about the virus, you figure it out, folks. that is hardly empathy, jim. >> and governor evers, i understand you would have preferred if neither presidential candidate visited kenosha at this time. in a letter to president trump before his visit on tuesday you wrote you were concerned his presence would hinder community healing. why were you reluctant about both of these visits? and do you feel that vice president joe biden's visit was helpful? >> yes, absolutely. what my concern was around the issue of healing i had a chance to be there last week and a lot of pain, a lot of angst, you name it. a lot of feelings, but what impressed me most was their ability to be resilient

in kenosha county like 250 votes that that county gave it to trump by in 2016, razor thin majority and this is just pure poll it ca politics playing out and the needle to thread to joe empathy and talk about what's right and express that what happened to jacob blake is not appropriate, at the same time without alien yating some of those swing voters and it is a complicated dance. >> it is. threading a needle as you put it. we thought some progressives and they did go after joe biden saying you were part of the tough on crime approaches in the '90s and didn't have the sensitivity that you need today on these issues. it was viewed as a liability potentially in the primaries and could be an asset to biden now but only if he can thread the needle as margaret put it. he'll say i'm for good, tough cops and mj asked him about the officer that shot jacob blake and burst boo the home of breonna taylor. >> senator harris said that the officer that shot jacob blake should be charged and do you believe that and the same for those involved in the death of breonna taylor? >> i think we should let th

it was a short briefing that was held before a judge, here, in kenosha county. that case was adjourned, and he is due back in court in september. this is all, as we await more information from investigators here. state investigators are still looking into the shooting and the circumstances surrounding the decision. the state investigators have up to 30 days to reach their conclusions. and then, those findings are given to the district attorney, who will ultimately decide if any of the officers will face charges. shimon prokupecz, cnn, kenosha, wisconsin. >> and in rochester, new york, on friday, another face off between protestors and police. this, after video was released this week showing the arrest there, in march, of daniel prude. a black man, who later died in police custody. protestors could be heard shouting "black lives matter." police ordering them to disperse and saying they were involved in an unlawful assembly. cnn's paulo sandoval with more on this case. and a warning, his report does contain graphic video. >> reporter: we now know a little bit more

>> i can tell you we're driving right now out of the city of kenosha, going through kenosha county and the support is overwhelmingly the number of people standing on the side of the road thanking the president for coming to the city of kenosha. thanking him for the federal resources that were brought to bear to restore public safety to the city of kenosha. i don't think it is political as much as it shows the leadership of making sure we're getting resources to the local law enforcement so they can provide public safety here in the community of kenosha. connell: feel like the worst is behind you now, congressman? >> i feel confident that we have restored public safety as really getting into wednesday when federal resources came to the city. they -- commitment. the criminal element i think has left the city. now we're focused on maintaining that public safety in the days, weeks, months and years ahead. the president committed resources to the local law enforcement here in kenosha for the long term to maintain that public safety. and now i think it is really the opportunity for the city

seven kenosha county board supervisors sent a letter to the president begging him not to cancel his trip to the besieged city. and then a meeting with the president today, kenosha sheriff said this. >> i said i didn't care who i got help from. i wanted resources here. after it was approved and i got the word that the president said whatever you need it's coming. i probably shouldn't share this but some people that were in portland that weren't treated as good as they were treated here and they said we can't believe what a different place this is because of how we all worked together rather than not wanting to work together at all. >> pete: that's right. they don't want him there. for his part, the president made clear that his administration will not leave this city, its businesses, its citizens. >> helping with law enforcement. we're going to be helping you with some economic development. get it back in shape. get kenosha back in shape and we will get it back and i think very quickly. i really think so. >> pete: let's break it down. it's easy to see what's going on. president trump camp

also, zach rodriguez, supervisor, kenosha county. zach, thank you very much, zach. good job. days but then it got well brought into -- back in where you wanted it, just where you wanted it. aaron decker, supervisor for kenosha. thank you. good job. thank you very much. don capler, president wisconsin fraternal order of police. don, thank you very much. jerry johnson, national trustee of the wisconsin fraternal order of police. thank you. people have done a fantastic job. really you need to be proud of him. james and sharon ward, pastors. well, it was great speaking to you yesterday. you really are a very respected man and i really enjoyed our conversation. thank you very much for being here. appreciate it. we also have major general paul mapp who was around here some place but he was really right on -- thank you very much, paul. thank you. he's been fantastic. paul and scott and linda carpenter, owners of b & l office furniture. scott, you're back there some place. thank you. thank you very much. you got hit pretty hard, right? you got hit pretty hard. that's all right. it's

but it is also important to remember that right here in kenosha, kenosha county, went to donald trump by 255 votes in 2016. so the idea that people may have a variety of opinions and be closely split is probably remains relevant today. >> i appreciate the diversity in views many democrats have carried until donald trump on the recent map. i always appreciate your nuance. and jason, i'll get more from you this hour. we turn to ben crump, the representative of the blake family in the room with what we showed you earlier today with the biden meeting. thank you for making time. what did you see or experience that we and our viewers may not have fully known from just what we saw in the footage in what was going on in room? >> thank you for having me. jacob blake's family and jacob blake himself with vice president biden, was leadership. the meeting was hopeful and at times substantive. jacob's mother prayed for everybody. his father talked with systematic reform and the fact we have to do something about this epidemic of systematic racism that continues to see black people killed by the pe

it was a short briefing that was held before a judge here in kenosha county.at case was adjourned. he's due back in court in september. this is all as we await more information from investigators here, stay investigators who are still looking into the shooting and the circumstances surrounding the decision. the state investigators have up to 30 days to reach their conclusions, and then those findings are given to the district attorney who will ultimately decide if any of the officers will face charges. cnn, kenosha, wisconsin. >>> now an update after shimon filed that report. the next court date was changed to october. and his trial is set to begin in november.>>> well, these here a coming to us from portland, oregon, where police clashed with protesters in an area of downtown after declaring an unlawful assembly and warning them to leave. >>> meanwhile, police confirm they were trying to arrest micha michael michael rhinoeol in washington state. he was wanted in the shooting death of right-wing supporter aaron j. danielson during a protest in portland last we

also zach rodriquez, supervisor kenosha county. zack, thank you very much. good job. you had a rough three days but then it got well brought into back in what you wanted it, just what you wanted it. erin decker, supervisor for kenosha. thank you. good job. thank you very much. don, president of wisconsin fraternal order of police. thank you very much. jerry johnson national trustee of the wisconsin fraternal order of police. thank you. people have done a fantastic job will you be proud. james and darren ward, pastors, where is -- it was great speaking to you yesterday and you are really a very respected man and a really enjoyed our conversation to thank you both very much for being here. appreciate it. we also have major general paul knapp who is a a rancher somepe but he was really right on, right on the -- thank you very much, paul. thank you. he's been fantastic, paul and scott and linda carpenter owners of d and out office furniture. scott, you are back there someplace. thank you. thank you very much. you got hit pretty hard, right? you got hit pretty hard. that's

if i were that officer, i would be in the kenosha county jail right now. all of these officers who commit these crimes, if a medical saysner does their job and -- rules it's a homicide, that is murder. -- rules it a homicide, that is murder. why are there more police officers in the black neighborhoods? why are we more targeted than anybody else? we walk somewhere, and automatically, you fit the description. i am only 31. enough within these last two years to say, i'm tired. i am a mother. my oldest is 13 and my twins are nine. i do this because i want their future to be better than what i have right now. my present is not good. i want the truth heard and i speak for the people in the city because all of us are here with these people. i am telling the truth. it is not what a lot of people think it is for us. we want the same exact rights as others. we want to be treated just like everyone else. get denied jobs because we mark that box as black or african-american. houses inr down our our neighborhoods instead of fixing them up and making a better. we are p

but if you look at kenosha county, in 2016, the president just barely beat hillary clinton in that countyng about literally hundreds of votes. and when you're in race with those sort of polling and those sort of numbers, those margins, a few hundred votes here, a couple thousand votes there, can absolutely make the difference in the electoral college, which is still how presidents are elected. >> astead, i want your sense of how this has played out. because you cover this and i think you often also take a 30,000 foot view of not just the information coming out, but how it is being perceived here. so how do you see this? >> i want to offer a kind of different suggestion, that maybe the president isn't doing something for a particular strategy or a kind of political gain here. this is someone who is oftentimes just responding to the news in which he read that he wants to believe that he feels that he has an incentive to believe, because it insulates him from the kind of questions here. i think it's not an accident that the white house can't produce a shred of evidence here, because we do no

kenosha, a battleground county in a battleground state. so evenly split, president trump took it by only 255 votes in 2016. abc's alex perez is there tonight to lead us off. >> reporter: despite local officials telling him to postpone his trip, president trump in kenosha, wisconsin, today, touring a building destroyed in protests after the police shooting of jacob blake. met by supporters and protesters, he pushed his law and order message. >> we have to condemn the ng mos very unfair. you have some bad apples, we all know that, and those will be taken care of through the system and nobody's going to be easy on them either and you have people that choke. >> reporter: repeating his suggestion that the police officer who shot blake seven times in the back "choked," after comparing him to a golfer missing a putt. >> shooting the guy in the back many times. i mean, couldn't you have done something different? they choke just like in a golf tournament, they miss a three-foot -- >> you're not comparing it to golf, because that's of course what th

let's go to kenosha, wisconsin, because the county sheriff says more than 200 arrests have been madeing protests that followed the police shooting of jacob blake. 1,500 national guard members have been deployed to keep the peace as the city now braces for this presidential visit. here's cbs' mola lenghi. >> reporter: as protests in kenosha enter their second week, the city braces for a controversial presidential visit. the white house says there are currently no plans to meet with jacob blake's family. instead the president will meet with local law enforcement and business owners and tour damage from the protests. meanwhile oregon state police returned to portland following clashes between trump supporters and counter protestors over the weekend. 39 year old aaron danielson was killed on saturday night. he appears to have been a member of a far right group. a man is reportedly under investigation for the shooting. back in kenosha. >> seven shots changed life instantaneously. >> reporter: pastor david montgomery's church barely survived as fires from protests tore through this mostly

pete: here to react is chair of the kenosha county republican party erin decker. good morning.morning. thank you for having me. pete: absolutely. you have heard how folks are trying to characterize the president's visit today. what do you hope to hear? what i hope to hear from the president is how is he help kenoshaens. help the business and property owners and even the homeowners and renters. after the devastation of the riots and arson that happened in cory booker, we can use all the help we can get. that's what i'm hoping for is that trump comes and, you know, lends a helping hand. >> erin, obviously it's a challenge for the president to go considering that the governor and the mayor have essentially made him feel unwelcomed, not the easiest of tasks, how do you think the president will be received by law enforcement, for example, when he arrives? >> i think law enforcement supports him. him sending in the troops as we say really helps them. they have been working 18-hour days since sunday. and they are exhausted. they need the help. and i think they are grateful that they g

it's a state that president trump narrowly won back in 2016, but kenosha itself, a county that has generallyoted for democrats in presidential election cycles, went to president trump last time but only by 300 votes. this county, these people dealing with this tragedy are going to play an important role in the 2020 election. >> worth pointing that out. thank you so much. >>> "outfront" now, anthony davis the president of the kenosha naacp chapter. and motley was representing gauge gross kroits. president trump said he believed his visit could increase love, respect and enthusiasm for the country. do you think he accomplished that today? >> i'm going to say that with his visit here and his comments, he did talk about love. he talked about law enforcement and supporting law enforcement. that's not talking about love in our community. if he wanted to talk about love, he should have mentioned jacob blake's name and the two young men that died and the gentleman that got shot in the arm. that would have been talking about love, showing concern for those families that have lost their children and f

few days, perhaps into next week because the resources are stretched so thin here, the county executive here in kenosha yesterday pushing that cart as well with regards to the tweet the president put out yesterday, it was insistence that the national guard come here, that that was the reason for the relative calm in kenosha, without that national guard kenosha would be no more. the county executive pushing back hard and saying that is a false statement and, again, a lot of controversy here with regards to this trip. we did speak with some of president trump's supporters, however, who do say they do want the president here, they see this as strong leadership coming from the white house, but, again, many others here including the president of the naacp say they do not want kenosha to be used as a campaign tool. in a few hours, a community gathering expected here, in the neighborhood, where jacob blake was shot, we expect to hear from the blake family even as the president is here not too far away touring the damage and meeting with law enforcement. >> also some concern about the possibility of clashes be

where kenosha is based is in a county that voted for president obama twice but barely voted for president trump in 2016. so that tells you that that particular area is very purple, if anything. and it can be had by either candidate. so the question is, whose message resonates more or energizes more, the visuals of seeing buildings burning, bloodshed, that certainly seems to line up with what president trump is talking about. the challenge for joe biden isn't simply to show empathy but also to have a plan. african-americans, particularly those who are very progressive, they're not satisfied with you simply recognizing that there's racism in the country. they want to know what you're going to do about did. >> thank you, appreciate your time. bye guys. >> thank you. >>> coming up, fighting the economic impact of covid by finding hope online. you're not welcome here! get out of my face! hpv can cause certain cancers when your child grows up. get in its way. hpv can affect males and females... and there's no way to predict who will or won't clear the virus. but you can help protect your child

he did not meet with blake's family, but he did speak alongside the kenosha police chief and county sheriffas the ap zeke miller andon that lemire note, trump stood at the epicenter of the latest eruption over racial injustice and came down squarely on the side of law enforcement. he dodged questions about systemic racism and took credit for quelling the violence in the blake shooting when the governor used his own authority to call in the national guard in additional to federal reinforcement. the president made clear even before he afliefd wisconsrrived the purpose of his visit. >> i'm speaking there today, i'm there for law enforcement and the national guard because they've done a great job in kenosha. then put out the flame immediately. soon as they came in, boom, the flame was gone. now maybe it will start up again, in which case they'll put it out very powerfully. >> mr. president, can you speak at all, you spoke a lot about the anarchy that you're referring to. what about racial divisions? would you like to bridge some of those gaps and use it for anything -- >> i would. >> -- that yo

kenosha is rebuilding and will be stronger than ever before. [applause] many law enforcement here today [indiscernible] departmentlle police , rock county sheriff's deputies. when neighboring communities need assistance, they answer the call. members of the sheriff's department assisted local law enforcement in kenosha during the recent violence and unrest. when i met with local law enforcement, i heard their stories. i spoke with a rock county sheriff's deputy who showed me a brick that had-- been thrown at one of our rock county sheriff's deputies. i asked the president when i talk to him on the phone to come to kenosha and personally thank the men and women of law enforcement firsthand. as i stood next to the president and kenosha, the look in their eyes as the president said thank you was a sight to see. president trump, vice president pence, and i oppose defunding police and back the badge. [applause] and as a way to say thanks, i ask you to join me in giving around of applause for all of our local law enforcement officers. janesville to kenosha and across our state. [applause] thank you for what you all do. today, i am proud to have the vic

. >> -- meet with jacob blake's family, but did speak alongside the kenosha police chief and county sheriff. jonathan lamire, you and zeke miller note in your write-up for the "associated press," "trump stood at the epicenter of the latest eruption over racial injustice and came down squarely on the side of law enforcement." he dodged questions about systemic racism and took credit for quelling the violence that followed blake's shooting -- >> that's actually a lie. >> -- when the governor of wisconsin used his own authority to call in the national guard, in addition to federal reinforcement. the president made clear, even before he arrived in wisconsin the purpose of his visit. >> i'm speaking, really, today i'm there for law enforcement and for the national guard, because they've done a great job in kenosha. they put out the flame immediately. as soon as they came in, boom, the flame was gone. now maybe it will start up again, in which case they'll put it out very powerfully. >> mr. president, can you speak at all -- you've spoken a lot about the anarchy that you're referring to. what abo

kenosha. this is a place and a county that president obama won twice and president trump won in 2016 by just fewer300 votes. so it is fertile ground for him and for any candidate that decides to come out here. and there's that understanding here. but, chuck, i do want to say, one thing i continue to hear from members of the community, relinguous leous leaders, prote leaders. one reason they're having this rally is because they said -- multiple people have said it to me. they do not want to become the backdrop to a president trump campaign commercial. they want to get away from that. they want to draw people here and keep them away from that downtown scene where the president will be going and meeting with members of law enforcement. so there's that nervousness there and you see efforts among community leaders to do what they can to keep those two separated. keep the politics away from the outrage over the shooting of mr. blake. chuck? >> robert, ali and shaq, if you can stick around. i'm going to sneak in another break. we await the president's arrival in kenosha. we'll go back to wisconsin when t

county keeping salons outdoors. outdoor non-contact dance classes can't resume. >>> joe biden visited kenosha, wisconsin. both politicians promising to help in different ways. the nafl making changes when it comes to racial equality. raj is back with us on what could be a pivotal moment for joe biden today. >> reporter: it certainly, this is emblemmatic of the entire race. joe biden is thoughtful and healing and reflective in his tone. a few days ago president trump was much more firm and all about law and order. you can see both kacandidates laying out clearly what approach will voters go for come november. let's show you what happened today. joe biden arriving in wisconsin, a red state in 2016, he's hoping to flip it this november. unlike president trump, he spoke to jacob blake, blake is no longer in the icu. he was shot last week seven times in the back by a police officer. biden went to a community meeting in kenosha at a lutheran church. >> he talked about nothing is going to defeat him. he's not going to give up. people are figuring who we are as a country. this is not who we are. the first point