you're not going to like this there are tactical teams from the texas bureau of prisons tactical training for the charge of bureau of prisons ok i think the entire d.c. metro area knows now thankfully good i'm good yeah i understand people are upset because prison riot cops do usually have to deal with the 1st amendment they can use whatever force they want but this makes the local police look pretty good so d.c. is being treated like a prison in the open air prison but don't get so down on d.c. the n.y.p.d. has been covering up their badge numbers illegally with bands they say are a sign of warning for the new york police officers who passed during copa 19 and they still aren't wearing masks when an n.y.p.d. officer was asked about the ban hiding his badge number of the band is legal as long as it's not covering the number he shrugged and said it's old it fell down you see not all elastic is good there are some bad elastics i have that experience with some old bras lee. when these police are on identified it seems clear they intend to brutalize protesters with no accountability and putti

bureau of prisons. a number of them are all of the way from texas and that is h street.essence, erin, the white house is now being guarded by prison guards, many of them from texas. now this is setting up. this patchwork of federal agencies and different law enforcement authorities that have descended on washington is setting up a showdown and a confrontation with the city government of d.c. which it should be controlling these streets through their local police force, and i was speaking with the mayor of washington earlier today. she told me that that is just another reason that d.c. has to be a state, and she said also, that they are looking into the legality of the president being able to call up national guard and the military to come here. she said, erin, that it was unconscionable. >> all right, alex, thank you very much. you need to see the size of those crowds growing night after night. out front, attorney general -- i'm glad to see you again. >> good to see you, erin. >> the curfew in your city now pushed back by four hours. you had less than two dozen arrests m

but garrett, i know of a number of those bureau of prisons guys are from texas. you mentioned the guard in utah. simple question. under whose orders, what's the chain of command here, and what are they doing so far from home defending the ground between peaceful protesters and the white house? >> reporter: brian, i'm still reporting out exactly how the chain of command works here. but our understanding is they're under authorities -- essentially any federal officers here are deputized by u.s. marshals to help protect federal personnel and property. and that at the top of that chain is the attorney general bill barr. but it's unclear to me whether he has sort of micro level operational control. typically in these kind of unified responses d.c. police play more of a role. they have not been happy with the way that the feds have conducted themselves on city streets thus far over the last few days. that's something we are still attempting to run down. and it is, i might add, a uniquely d.c. problem where normally a governor would be at the top of the food chain here.

the bureau of prisons sending corrections officers from federal prisons in texas to walk the streets of washington carrying guns and answering maybe to the attorney general while not wearing uniforms or telling anybody who they are, that is unsettling enough. right? that was not even on my apocalyptic bingo card of where i thought we would be in the trump administration. that i did not get. but the dallas morning news today, notes one other very specific implication of these officers from the specific texas federal prisons where they are turning up police protests in dc without their name badges and that weirdly specific implication, at least in beaumont, they have had a bunch of corrections officers test positive for coronavirus there. and we've all seen huge outbreaks in american prisons and jails just like we've seen them in meat packing facilities and on one particular nuclear powered aircraft carrier, when it comes to federal prisons in texas, they are not exactly testing up a storm, but so far, the bureau of prisons has posted information about corrections officers being diagnos

bureau of prisons. so, you literally had prison guards, many of them from texas.aring a t-shirt from a prison near houston right out there yesterday on that front line and over there on 8th street off lafayette park surrounding the white house. so, that speaks to this incredible patchwork of law enforcement officials who have descended upon washington, d.c. for the sake of law enforcement. you have d.c. national guard called up. more than 4,000 national guard from different states. you also have active duty troops from fort drum in new york and fort bragg in north carolina that were called to d.c. they were never deployed into the street. but of course you saw the back and forth between the president who would like to see military in the streets and his secretary of defense mark esper who's been very uncomfortable with that. so, you've really had this incredible long list of different type of federal agencies. and today we saw speaker of the house nancy pelosi write to president trump saying she's concerned about the increased mi miltization that may increase chao

we think they were representing the bureau of prisons and may have come from as far away as texas. there's an enormous federal law enforcement presence in washington, d.c., the irony of which is the protests since monday have been peaceful. you see a couple hundred protesters who gathered on i street, another large group who gathered outside the u.s. capitol today. probably the most antagonistic thing they did was neil for eight minutes to symbolize the death of george floyd in police custody. very much peaceful protests on the streets of washington. the mayor revised the city curfew, going into effect at 11:00 p.m. tonight. i was out here most of the night last night when the curfew went until 7:00. there was a pervasive attitude among district residents that they were going to stay out on the streets and decide for themselves when they'd go home. lots of people disobeyed the curfew, from the folks i talked to, to prove a point about it and to show that they could peacefully protest in their own city as we saw yesterday and as we're seeing again today. >> garrett, there's been a lo

bureau of prisons forces. essentially, the riot police for prisons who came here to guard the white house. all the way, some of them, from texas. now, right behind this row of -- of national guard, you can see those two trucks. so essentially, it would be very difficult for anyone inside the white house, say, president donald trump, to actually see what is going on out here in the streets. i want to point out one more thing. that, right there, is st. john's episcopal church. it's the church of the presidents. it's gotten a lot of attention over the course of the past few days because that is where, monday night, the president, after the protestors were violently cleared out of the area, walked across the park to go there. not to go inside to pray, as a bishop for the diocese said. he did not mention the name george floyd. but he went out there to hold up a bible. now, i spoke with the recter of that church earlier today. parishioners are not able to go to that church today because of this line you see right here. this is the first time worshippers can't go to the church since 9/11. now, don, we are just after midnight. it is m

bureau of prisons officers. think about that. you've got essentially prison guards who are guarding the white house. a number of them that we've seen today had t-shirts with a texas flag on them. they came from texas. several of them had shirts that said beaumont. that's a prison near houston. what is worrying, don, is as you know, as these protests go into the later hours, they do sometimes have a tendency to get testier, to get more unruly, sometimes violent. what's different about today is there's no barricade. there's no barrier between the protesters and law enforcement, so of course there's the potential for a flash point. so far, don, everything has been quiet. the other notable thing today, don, is that the protest is much farther away from the white house than it has been over the course of the past few days. we have seen protesters right in that park, lafayette park in front of the white house until today. little by little day after day they have been pushing the protesters out of the park. then around the park. now the protesters found they couldn't go farther than this right here. don, it's 11:00. that means there's a curfew now in d.c. that curfew wa

some have texas flags on their shoulders. some have bureau of prisons markings on their shoulders.t speaks to the federalization of the response here in washington, d.c., which to the last 36 hours or so has been peaceful protests, almost entirely since that square was cleared the other day. you can see back behind me here not a great viewpoint. but about 150 protesters gathered here today on 16th street about a block away from lafayette square. . it is hot in washington, d.c., today about 90 degrees. expected to get hotter. but folks are back out again on the streets today. and with the curfew pushed back to 11:00 tonight, frankly not particularly enforced last night, i expect we'll see them on the streets all day and all evening today. katy and chuck? >> looks like the president's words and the rose garden didn't do anything to make those protests get smaller. garret haake, thank you very much. chuck, over to you. >> the live television. the my apologies for anybody offended by language they may have seen written on any poster board there. let's move to sarasota. a police officer