breaking news, an armed attack on the home of a federal judge. this is very rare and cause for serious concern. the son and husband of this federal judge, esther salas, in new jersey, they were shot. the son is dead, the husband critically injured. the judge was not hurt. a source tells cnn that the gunman appeared to be wearing a fedex uniform and opened fire at the front door. this judge has presided over several high-profile cases. we'll bring you the very latest details. >>> also breaking overnight, tear gas fired at protests in portland, oregon. protesters and local officials want answers about the presence of hard-to-identify federal officers. we have a live report from both scenes, ahead. >> also, john, overnight, 61,000 new cases of coronavirus in the united states. the death toll is now more than 140,000 americans. cases in florida are still spiking, where dozens of hospital icus are beyond capacity. arizona is reporting a record death toll, as well. and president trump is reportedly bored with all of this. that's the quote in "the new y

agents at federal troops. and intimating if you will that portland was peaceable until federal civilian agents arrived on the scene. essentially, it's kind of analogous to blaming a fire department for showing up to put out a fire and then being blamed for starting the fire. attorney general barr, was there violence and attempts to burn down, vandalize the building and attack civilian employees of the federal government prior to any other federal agents or reinforcements sent in? >> yeah. our main effort to reinforce around the fourth of july period and had been going on for quite a while before that. >> talk about lafayette square for a second. leading up to june 1st, violent mobs disobeying the curfew. burned american flags and set fire to the church near the square. secret service and park police appropriate use of safe restoretive force actually cleared that up. in total, however, 51 u.s. park police were injured during the weekend leading to the perimeter expansion. >> right. >> do you want to talk about

i think we need the federal government. fighting this pandemic 50 states at a time has been a challenge for our nation. >> what's the chance gohmert's mask made him sick? >> it didn't make him sick. the testing causes infections, now the mask causes infections. this is silliness, in the middle of a pandemic, things are hard enough. these kinds of distractions make things so much harder. people need to wear masks. we know our way through this, we just have to focus on what's important. >> before i tell the audience to believe what you've said, you haven't fooled around with any aliens lately? >> no, not in the last few weeks. >> anything after 10 days, we don't have to worry about. >> what's ridiculous is, the president is listening to her more than he's listening to us right now. more than he's listening to tony fauci. thank you very much. appreciate you giving us this straight deal. the more people know, the more they can demand. house speaker pelosi just announced a new mandatory testing on the hill. why isn't she loud an

that federal property. which are felonies, of course. or the attack on officers is. they're all related to that basic -- that base mission. we are not patrolling the city. we are not taking on portland police bureau responsibilities. and we are n95. >> but what happened with chris david? chris david goes up there -- >> we are not going into crowds and grabbing people. >> chris david asks them about their constitutional duty. you can say that's a little bit of a provocative thing to talk about in the middle of a protest, but hi wasn't making a move on the building. he you got lucky he was go big. he would have been knock down on the ground and beaten badly. he's disadvantaged by size, that man. what is that about? >> so, the -- there are four agencies there. >> right. >> there are the u.s. marshalls, which is who you saw interacting with chris david. >> that's not dhs. that's doj. >> right. so i can get every ounce of detail out of dhs officers. >> right. >> i don't have the ability to do that with the marsh

and other nearby federal property. the rioters have come equipped for fight armed with powerful slingshots, tasers, sledgehammers, saws, knives, rifles and explosive devices. inside the courthouse are a relatively mall number of law enforcement personnel charged with the defensive mission, to protect the courthouse. what unfolds nightly around the courthouse cannot reasonably be called protests. it is by any objective measure an assault on the government of the united states. as elected officials of the federal government, every member of this committee regardless of your political views or your feelings about the trump administration should condemn violence against federal officers and the disruption of federal property. thank you, mr. chairman, and i appreciate your listing for me the areas of concern within your opening statement, and i'm looking forward to addressing them all. >> thank you. thank you for your testimony. we will now proceed under the five-minute rule with questions, and i will recognize myself for f

like, it just requires a concerted effort on the part of the federal government and the federal purse, but we're not doing it. and so, it is -- these tests are not coming into the market fast enough. they're getting there, but they're going way too slow. and they will not be available in time for schools this fall. >> i want to show you a graphic here, the covid-19 timeline. days it took to reach each threshold. 1 million cases, 99 days. 2 million cases, 43 days. 3 million, 28 days. 4 million, 15 days. is just the way it goes or is this some type of scary sci-fi exponential growth going on? >> this is the way it goes if you don't know how to control the virus and if you don't have a national pandemic plan that you're executing on. this is not what has happened in every other country. this is just what's happening here. and what i'm worried about is, you know, like, how long will it take us to get to 5 million or 6 million? and wait to slow that down. but that will require really controlling the outbreaks across the southern and western states. >> president says, hey, if you take them

federal judge ordered in portland. we want to make sure what is happening in portland doesn't happen here. that we don't escalate the violence. >> the president says cities like seattle, lawless, and the area that is out of control. she can't control it. the chief can't. the mayor can't. and the governor f they just ask for this help, i could clear it up for them. what is your response? >> i trust my chief of police to know more about what we need for public safety in seattle than i trust don't trump. she is a national leader. we talk regularly and the president also said he is targeting cities led by democratic mayors. and i think that is absolutely true. he is leveraging his power just as you said before. for his own purposes. cities do need his help and we needed his help. we needed his help for covid. we needed him to leverage the power of the federal government to get him testing to fight this disease. instead, we are going the wrong way in america. instead of giving the help he needs, he wants to send in federal

they have the right to protect federal monuments. they have the right to protect federal buildings. that is certainly true. the question that is raised by all this is, is the federal government through these actions just protecting their interests, their buildings, their property, or are they being more aggressive than that, seeking out conflict with protesters where the local authorities could do a better job or even in a more sinister way, are the federal authorities provoking more violence and more outrage than if they had simply not shown up in the first place. those are the questions that are raised. that's why the local government, state of oregon, the city of portland, the two democratic senators from oregon are so outraged because they think that these federal authorities are actually just -- even if they have the technical right to be in portland, are doing more harm than good. >> jeffrey toobin helping us appreciate what's going on in portland. thank you very much, jeffrey, for that. once again we'll look forward to your new book coming out in a few weeks. appreciate it ve

troops or federal officers to rough up peaceful protestors. move 'em out so the president could walk and wave a bible in front of a church. that was a signal event, in his political decline. that -- that was an event that damaged the president. nevertheless, he has a fantasy, in his mind, that this kind of old-school political formula is going to work for him. and there is no evidence, in the polling, to suggest that it will. >> john, i'm so glad that you bring up the caravan. remember that whole thing? the caravans are coming to get you. that was the promise of 2016 or whatever. that was a tactic in 2016. and then -- and then, the wall. hardly any of the wall has been built. it's just been dilapidated wall that they are replacing. but i'm glad you reminded our viewers of the caravan and the wall. thank you. that mexico was supposed to pay for, by the way. thank you, john. i appreciate it. i'll see you soon. >> exactly. >> i want to bring in now andy slavitt. he is the former acting administrator at the centers for medicare and medicaid servic

federal courts are under attack. since when is it okay to try to burn down a federal court? if someone went down the street to the prettyman court here that we have at the bottom of the hill and started to firing industrial grade fireworks in to start a fire, threw kerosene balloons in and start fires in the court, is that okay? is that okay now? no. the u.s. marshals have a duty to stop that and defend the courthouse and what we are doing in portland. we are at the courthouse defending the courthouse. we are not out looking for trouble. >> thank you, general. as far as weapons and devices that were utilized by the group of people -- you mentioned trying to destroy the courthouse. they were literally trying to burn it down. apparently didn't give a hoot about the people that were occupied in the building, as well. people were in danger. >> that is absolutely right. >> as far as the weapons that you mentioned, let me get this straight. my understanding is that the people attacking the building had among other things rifles, explosives, knives, saws, sledgehammers, tasers, sli

we're going to tell 3/4 of all federal agents stop what you're doing, stop investigating real federal crimes, cyber crime, corruption, terrorism and hit the streets. the feds cannot arrest for state crimes. we need to keep a close eye on portland. yes, the feds have the right to enforce federal law, but portland we've seen it go well beyond. you have unidentified federal agencies in some cases using excessive force, in some cases making arrests without probable cause. that's against the law. much depends on how the agents are deployed, but portland is showing us, i think a really dangerous use of federal power. >> it is hard to see how more agents deployed there will do anything to de-escalate the tensions we're seeing which is obviously the ultimate goal. let me get to the next question because it involves the president's former personal attorney. this viewer asks how common or uncommon is it for a person being released from prison, like michael cohen, to have to agree not to speak to the media? >> well, bee yan no, not only is it uncommon, i've never seen this before in 14 years as

the federal government doesn't run our police. cities run their police forces. >> but, as you know, the administration, their legal arguments are that they have the right to protect federal property anywhere in the united states. would you object, mayor, to federal officers coming to new york if they were deployed with a very narrow mission to protect federal property in new york city? >> first of all, wolf, they already have federal officers here who do that effectively. >> what if they need more? >> and we would do that because we do it all the time. our police do it all the time right now. but, look, if they come to us with a proposal and we agree to it, that's a different matter. but it is the fact that the president started reeling off cities that he was just going to force federal officers into against the will of those jurisdictions. that's what's dangerous. also these officers doing something far outside their mandate. if they're trying to stop protests, none of these federal agencies are supposed to be doing that. that's

you have this huge federal complex there, right? and certainly the feds have the legal right and the responsibility, frankly, to defend it, right? them defending the courthouse, and those offices, that wasn't wrong, what was wrong? >> well, what was wrong was the tactics they used. they were abhor end, over bearing, in terms of proportionality, in terms of what people were doing, and they're unconstitutional, to come into a city, and predictably every single night start indiscriminately and broadly tear gassing people to come out and start taking people off the streets, shoving them into unmarked vehicles, failing to identify themselves. this is not how things are done in america. this is more like the police state in terms of the tactics, they weren't wanted here, we didn't invite them here, and this is a time for cooler heads to prevail, and that starts with the federal government withdrawing its officers. we need to de-escalate this situation, not do what they've done, which is escalate it. >> what a terrible position to put thos

those charges include assaulting federal officers. but, you know, the message that you are hearing from black leaders here in the city, as well as a lot of the protestors, is they are worried about this becoming into something of a spectacle because of these federal policing actions. these federal use-of-force actions because they really want the message here to remain on black lives matter. they are demanding racial equality. they want police reform. and they don't want these new clashes with the federal officers to dilute that message, michael. >> good to have you there on the spot. lucy cavanaugh there live in portland, oregon. we'll check in with you in the hours ahead. appreciate that. >>> all right. we're going to take a beat now and get some deeper perspective. joining me now is reverend ed mondane. i wanted to get -- i read your op-ed in "the washington post." you know, what we are seeing in places like seattle and portland, all started following the death of george floyd in minneapolis. of course, a global concentration on do

>> yeah, you know, the federal officials tell us they're there to protect federal property. you to have a small subset that come out at night, that set fires. again, they launch fireworks. we have seen in the past federal officials be heavily criticized for their actions both on the ground at the federal building and also in as around the community. officials there outside the build having come in conflict with the wall of moms, launching tear gas, trying to move them back. we know that customs and border protection, they were heavily criticized for arresting people and that's a theme from the protesters. they want that to stop. i will mention one thing. last night we saw a different shift from the federal agents while in previous nights they have gone out and actually set up a line and actually pushed protesters back. last night, they didn't leave the building. they came out, they would push protesters back, they would tear gas us, but not pushing them blocks and blocks away. whether that's a pattern we'll see, we have to wait and see. overexcessive use of force, perhaps we

but we have really no help on leadership from the state or federal level. and that's what i really would implore the governor and the president to do. >> you need leadership and you need it quickly because the numbers greti numbers getting worse and worse. thank you so much for joining us. good luck. >> thanks. thanks wolf. >> let's widen our view from just florida right now. take a look at the coronavirus epidemic nationally. jeremy diamond is joining us from the white house right now. there's new investigative reporting out today that illuminates how the president and his close aides made important decisions about this clearly spreading virus and public safety. tell our viewers first of all what you're learning. >> well, wolf, so much of what we are seeing today across the country in terms of the surging numbers of cases, the delays in people getting test results back, so much goes back to key decisions made at the white house by the white house chief of staff and other aides in mid april. that was around the time when president trump was already growing

federal agents investigate and charged with federal prosecutors charged with federal crimes, public corruption, bribery, organized crime, terrorism, you'll take three-quarters of those agents, say stop what you're doing, stop those cases. we'll put you out on the streets and by the way, they can't charge state crimes like vandalism, assault. it's a mismatch and a misuse of federal resources. >> glad we have your brain on this this morning. thanks. >> thanks. >> have a good weekend. >>> the senate gop relief plan hits a roadblock. the holdup reportedly over the enhanced $600 per week benefits. those end this week and many people need them. need them to pay for their rent, their mortgage. food for their families. former presidential candidate andrew yang is here to discuss. and absorb wet messes, all in one disposable pad. just vacuum, spray mop, and toss. the shark vacmop, a complete clean all in one pad. among my patisensitivity as well tas gum issues. does it worry me? absolutely. new sensodyne sensitivity & gum gives us the dual action effect that really takes care of both our teeth sensitiv

there was also protests again last night down near the federal courthouse. authorities had erected a fence to try to keep protester back. that was quickly dismandled, police coming out and dispersing that crowd, uses batons, chemical dispersants. we were tear gassed along with so many of our colleagues who have been on the ground hard at work covering this story. talking to the local journalists, we hear about an apparent shift in the protests. what occurred after the trump administration ordered that the caval federal presence. protesters say it's the very presence fueling some of these protests. they were not alone. some of the city officials are also calling for the federal golf to leave. this morning or college jake tapper talked to the portland mayor who had harsh words for president trump. take a listen. >> what is happening here we have dozens, if not hundreds of federal troops descending upon our city. they are sharply escalating the situation. their presence here is actually leading to more violence and more vandalism, and it's not helping the situa

code that allows for federal officers to help with the protection of federal property. so they're sort of effectively being dep pew advertised to help protect the courthouse in oregon that is the center of these protests. that doesn't necessarily mean the officers' actions once they are in portland are legal, that there are -- that there's reason to believe they are violating the spirit of the law at the very least in terms of using this courthouse as a pretexts to enforce other laws in the city, but the deployment of the officers which is controversial is apparently legal. >> so if this is legal, what does it leave or where does it leave local authorities who don't want these federal agents there? how do they push back? what is the legal argument for doing such thing? >> one of the things that's important to understand about the american model of policing is that policing and law enforcement is always supposed to be handled at the lowest local level possible. it is largely left up to the local police, the state police come in when the local police can't and as a last r

president donald trump sent federal agents into the city, as he put it, to protect federal property. that's not how the protesters feel. cnn's lucy kafanov is in portland right now. she joins us now live. good to see you, lucy. talk to us about the situation there as -- as you're standing there. >> reporter: well, i want to apologize to our viewers, your viewers for my voice. we actually just got -- were standing very close to where a round of tear gas was fired off by the federal agents. who are barricaded behind the fence at the federal courthouse billing. this evening playing out like so many others, you know, in the early hours, you see large groups of people coming out to really further the message of racial justice and racial equality here in the united states. nearly two months after the death of george floyd at the hands of minneapolis police officers. families coming out, the so-called wall of moms in their orange t-shirts, pardon me, yellow t-shirts, linking hands, using their bodies to put themselves in between the federal officers and the demonstrators. later on in the ev

i feel badly for these federal officials and agents. the tactical team sent to portland work for i.c.e. and customs and border protection, they should be doing their jobs where it matters. not here doing the bidding for trump. in other words, they were pulled away from securing the border. i thought that matters, mr. president. a place where this president's practice of claiming credit for a mess he started is still playing out. the humanitarian crisis on the southern border, we've shown you on this program, and shame on me, shame on you, we don't give a damn, do we? even as crossings are up the last two months. for all the b.s. about the wall being a panacea, we're a wall away. crossings are still higher than they were in trump's first year. again, every politician plays to advantage, but no president is as grotesque in doing it as this. this man creates conflict just to claim credit for solving it by finishing and letting things get back to norm am, where it was before he created the trouble. kids in cages. stoking tension in north ko

and the other way is when we act on our own under federal authority to fulfill federal legal obligations, and that's it. so you don't have to partnership element. does it work at well? >> no, doesn't work as well when the president sets it up this wait a minute i'm afraid he's going to make the good men and women -- that's not what wolf is echoing. i'm afraid the good men and women of the dhs and you too, ken, are going to be painted and used as thugs by the president to show might makes right in cities where there are protests he doesn't like, especially where it's about black lives matter. >> are you worried about that at all? >> first of all, we -- if you heard the secretary today in his press conference, he said, and we have said repeatedly over and over and over, we are determined to protect peaceful protesters. month night, last night, there were peaceful protests outside the courthouse in portland. there were 75 to 100 people there conducting a peaceful protest until about 7:00 p.m. they then left. a few minutes later, 1,000 people showed up, surrounded the courthouse and started

i was a federal prosecutor. i know how important it is for federal law enforcement to work with local law enforcement. as the chief federal law enforcement officer, as a u.s. attorney i know that's an important relationship. i've never seen anything like this in my career where federal agents are sent in not even not with a cooperation of local law enforcement but over their objection. it's unprecedented, and it's the wrong way to go. the fabric of america is being shredded before our eyes, chris, and it worries me greatly. >> this is the stuff of autographs and we're going to have see if the institution of society and the will of jurisdictions is enough to fight it back. we'll see. mayor dirkan, thank you for going on the show. >> thank you. >> time to take a breath and remember there are good people doing good things, super heroes, in fact. guess who we have tonight? captain america, actor chris avenuean evans wading into a world of politics. he's running from a system that doesn't give us enough information.

isn't dictated by the federal government. though, the federal government can and, obviously does, make rec m recommendations and exert pressure, as we've seen. but states and counties are the ones that, ultimately, make the decision. so they have to consider their own local case counts and trends. nick watt has more on the school dilemma and the state of the nation, during this pandemic. >> reporter: the president, backed by new cdc guidelines, pushing hard for schools to reopen, brick and mortar. >> being at the school, being on the campus is very, very important. >> but is it safe? the cdc says scientific studies suggest that covid-19 transmission, among children in schools, may be low. emphasis on suggest and may. >> we, certainly, know, from other studies, that children under 10 do get infected. it's just unclear how rapidly they spread the virus. >> i think we still need to learn a lot about children, you know, elementary school children getting infected. and whether they either spread, or not, efficiently to adults. >>

they drove him to the federal courthouse. he actually didn't know where he was going but was taken to the federal courthouse where he was searched, photographed. he was put in a u.s. marshal's holding cell there. he was asked if he wanted to give away his miranda rights and was asked if he wanted to kind of give up those rights and answer in questions. he said no, he asked for an attorney, and federal law enforcement said this is -- you know, this interview is terminated. he spent about an 90 minutes or so in the cell there before he was released. and as far as we know he hasn't been charged with anything. >> but so then for what? why are they doing this? offering no explanation? what is going on? to you at least -- we have a statement from them. what are they saying to people who were actually there? >> well, at npr today, dhs, deputy secretary acknowledged that this is something that they are -- they're doing. i mean, they basically said this is something that is happening. they haven't really spokenen about petibone specif

did your state ask for help from the federal government with crime? >> the city of albuquerque, the mayor, the governor, none of them asked for this assistance. in part because there is simply no trust at a time when you see the kind of chaos that gets in places like portland or even downtown d.c. >> the sheriff asked. is that enough? what is your response? >> i'm sorry. >> a local sheriff asked for help and he was -- he is a big advocate for the feds coming in. is that enough? >> they're not sending the support to the county. they're sending that to the city. and they haven't even engaged with the city to talk about what that is going to look like. what we want to make clear is what is going on in portland, what went on in downtown washington, d.c. that is not the kind of help we want. if we're going to have help we need a written agreement about what that looks like and it should prohibit the kind of actions we've seen in portland. >> what do you think this is about for the president? >> re-election pure and simple. he wants to make albuquerque, he

it just requires a concerted effort on the part of the federal government and the federal purse. but we're not doing it, and so these tests are not coming into the market fast enough. they're getting there, but they're going way too slow and they will not be available in time for schools this fall. >> i want to show you a graphic here, the covid-19 time line. days it took to reach each threshold. 1 million cases, 99 days. 2 million, 43 days. 3 million, 2 day8 days. 4 million, 15 days. is this a scary sci-fi exponential growth going on? >> this is the way it goes if you don't know how to control the virus and if you don't have a national pandemic plan that you're executing on. this is not what has happened in every other country. this is just what's happening here. what i'm worried about is, how long will it take us to get to 5 million or 6 million? i want to slow that down. but that will require really controlling the outbreaks across the southern and western states. >> the president says if you take them out of the equation, we're doing great. what does that comment miss? >> wel

over the weekend, federal agents used tear gas and flash grenades to push them back. now there are growing calls for an investigation after heavily armed really unmarked federal agents were captured on video patrolling the streets and arresting protesters. josh campbell is live in portland, oregon. good morning to you, josh. these have gone on for 50-plus nights, tensions flaring in recent days. explain what happened and what the federal response has been. >> reporter: yes, another night of protests here in downtown portland, poppy. this is the epicenter, this federal building and last night in what has been so common since this infusion of federal resources, protesters come out, most peaceful but a subset of rioters throwing projectiles at this building. authorities erected a metal fencing outside this facility, trying to push people back. you can see what happened to that, here on the ground, pieces of that were taken down and really a tit-for-tat, police put the fencing back up and protesters tear it down. you can see the defacing and graffiti, the federal building

protesters have clashed with federal, state and local authorities. in that city. >> and now there's a video that's getting a lot of attention of some men in camo here with masks. and now filing a lawsuit against a few agencies that she says were involved. oregon's governor, oregon's mayor. they've condemned the arrests. let's bring in andrew mccabe, former director of the fbi and cnn law enforcement analyst. andrew, good morning to you. first, let's start here, based on what we know, who is being arrested and who is doing the arresting? is this legal? >> well, that's a great question, victor, so based on what we know, or at least what i know from the reporting i've seen and from that video that you referenced, and statements made by dhs officials, yesterday, i believe those individuals who grabbed a few protesters, or at least one protester and put him in an unmarked vans. it's incredibly disturbing for me a law enforcement official to see that. i know federal agents are authorized to make arrests only when probably cause has been committed. it's not

armed federal agents. we already know they're willing to come out and use crowd dispersants. they were using dispersants, they're trying to push people back and i can tell you one thing it did do in the short term, they achieved their goal in getting everyone away from the building but it also really agitated this group. so they were frustrated before. they're now very angry. protesters out here continue to build. this has been going on for over 50 days. people who are here demanding racial justice, demanding in their view that excessive use of force by police stop and in portland there continues to be a showdown between federal agents, president trump ordered a number of federal officers here into the city, agents from the homeland -- department of homeland security, local officials want the feds to leave. protesters want the feds to leave. president trump says they are staying. as long as there is this type of vandalism we see, they're going to have federal agents here. it is a cycle where the more offic

they have the right to protect federal monuments. they have the right to protect federal buildings. that is certainly true. the question that is raised by all this is, is the federal government, through these actions just protecting their interests, their buildings, their property, or are they being more aggressive than that, seeking out conflict with protesters, where the local authorities could do a better job or even more, in a more sin ser w sinster way, are the federal authorities provoking more violence and more outrage than if they had simply not shown up in the first place. those are the questions that are raised. that's why the local government, state of oregon, city of portland, the two democratic senators from oregon are so outraged, because they think these, these federal authorities are actually just, even if they have the technical right to be in portland are doing more harm than good. >> jeffrey toobin helping us appreciate what's going on in portland, thank you for that and we look forward to your new book coming out in a few weeks. >>> despite new cases surging acro

. >> why don't you think you're getting that at the federal level? >> you know, i don't know. i really don't know and obviously, this is a pandemic that is -- that one as your prior guests said, it's a once in a generation pandemic, but really, there's no excuse. that is what they're created for. if there's an outbreak, if there's a pandemic, if there's an epidemic, the cdc should be the organization that is stepping up and guiding us throughout this. so, you know, look, as a mayor, you don't have an option. we have to make difficult decisions, we have to get the guidance that we need. we can't make excuses. the buck stops with us and this has been pushed down to our level, so we're the once that will have to make those tough choices. >> do you feel like a scapegoat? do you feel like the federal government is trying to push off the responsibility and the blame on you? >> i'm not sure that's the objective, but that's what's happening, in effect, we're being left without guidance. there was guidance in terms of reopening, in terms of the gating criteria, but there wasn't any gui

i have since the first suggestion he would send in federal troops or federal law enforcement. we could use help with gun violence. new legislation, wouldn't that be great? i don't know anything the president supports but there are other things to help us. community policing, resources needed in the hardest hit communities when it comes to violence in chicago. if you ever considered this? isn't it interesting, wolf, we have a national pandemic that this president is running away from like a scalded cat saying it's up to the governors and mayors to find solutions but which it comes to local law enforcement he wants to send in federal troops. mr. president, take care of the pandemic, on your watch, and what you should be doing as president. >> putting up the numbers on the screen again. i suspect you can't see them. the numbers on the screen, 48% increase in homicides in the city of chicago. a 46% increase in shootings in the city of chicago. compare it to last year. exactly at the same period. what's needs to be done to address this situation, which is so awful? as you probably

you have this huge federal complex there, right? and certainly the feds have the legal right and, frankly, the responsibility, frankly, to depend it, right? them defending the courthouse and those offices, that wasn't wrong. what was wrong? >> well, what was wrong was the tactics they used. they were abhorrent. they were overbearing in terms of proportionality in terms of what people were doing, and quite frankly, they're unconstitutional. to come into a city and predictably every single night start indiscriminately and broadly tieargassing people, shoving them into vehicles, failing to identify themselves, this is not how things are done in america. this is more like a police state in terms of the tactics. they weren't wanted here. we didn't invite them here. this is a time for cooler heads to prevail, and that starts with the federal government withdrawing its officers. we need to de-escalate the situation, not do what they've done, which is escalate it. >> what a terrible position to put those men and probably women, the federal

he says portland was in shambles before federal officers arrived. >> they are operating under legal federal authority protecting federal facilities and the people at those facilities as best they can. they've been there for about two weeks. you've seen the violence every night from portland but it was there every single night. they had viles for 35 or 40 nights before we had expanded our presence there. so the idea that somehow the federal gome caused this which mayor wheeler there has occasionally asserted is just belied by the facts. >> well a group of women in portland formed a so-called wall of moms to protect protesters. take a look. standing arm in arm forming a human barricade the mothers say they are trying to protect protesters from federal agents. the organizers said around 200 women were involve. they say some even got caught in the crossfire and teargassed by police. earlier i spoke to julian jackson, a mother who helped lead the wall of moms march last night. talk to us about what happened last night. what you have been witnessing, because we heard there that there's all this v

the presence of federal troops on the streets. want to brain better? unlike ordinary memory supplements- neuriva has clinically proven ingredients that fuel 5 indicators of brain performance. memory, focus, accuracy, learning, and concentration. try our new gummies for 30 days and see the difference. >>> as you can see right there from the video, demonstrations are going strong in portland, oregon. a federal judge on friday, ruled the state cannot force homeland security officers to identify themselves when arresting protesters. and 18 demonstrators appeared in court on federal charges related to the protest. it adds up to a tense situation on the streets. and lucy kavanaugh is there for us. >> reporter: he explained the reasoning in a 14-page decision. this does involve allegations of harm done to protesters by law enforcement, the plaintiff in this case is not a protester. he said that the state wasn't seek i seeking past harm done, but trying to prevent future action of the federal agencies, that he called, basicallbasically, some that the state doe

federal agents released tear gas and threw flashbangs in the past hours outside of the federal building. that's been at the center of the protests. 18 demonstrators appeared in court earlier on federal charges. and in another court, a judge ruled homeland security officers do not have identify themselves when arresting protesters. lucy kafanov is in portland and has more on the scene and the judge's ruling. >> reporter: he complained the reasoning in a 14-page decision saying while this case does involve allegations of harms done to protesters by law enforcement, the plaintiff in this case is not a protester. he also said that the state wasn't seeking redress for past harm done, but, rather, trying to prevent future actions of these federal agencies which he called basically something that the state does not have any grounds to require. but he denied that request. reaction to that, i will say, that the focus here on the ground at the moment is not on this legal move. it's been a very large crowd. this is one of the largest crowds to date as far as people gathered here. people have gathe

in the later hours of the evening, the focus becomes, frankly, on this federal courthouse here and federal agents, many unidentified, who are often lined up behind there. what we see in the later hours of the evening is a much smaller group, demonstrators rattling the cams, lobbying off fireworks over the fence. the federal officers come out in response, they use flash bangs, tear gas, rubber bullets to disperse the crowd. so the cat-and-mouse game ensued. that is something that happened this morning. we got teargassed trying to cover all of this. and we see this play out day after day after day. so without the removal of the federal agents, it's hard to see how this is going to de-escalate. >> goodness, looks like military on the streets. the president demanded it from the pentagon. pentagon didn't deliver. the bottom line, maybe that's what we are seeing. lucy c lucy, thank you very much. >>> football is on for the fall but they are taking precautions. dr. sanjay gupta has an exclusive look coming up next. just like the leading brand, kraft real mayo is made with high quality ingredients

did your state ask for help from the federal government with crime? >> the city of albuquerque, the mayor, the governor, none of them asked for this assistance. in part because there is simply no trust at a time when you see the kind of chaos that gets in sewn in places like portland or even in downtown washington, d.c.,. >> the sheriff asked. is that enough? what is your response? >> i'm sorry. ask again? >> a local sheriff asked for help and he was -- he is a big advocate for the feds coming in. is that enough? >> they're not sending the support to the county. they're sending that to the city. and they haven't even engaged with the city to talk about what that is going to look like. what we want to make clear is what is going on in portland, what went on in downtown washington, d.c. that is not the kind of help we want. if we're going to have help we need a written agreement about what that looks like and it should prohibit the kind of actions we've seen in portland. >> what do you think this is about for the president? >> re-election pure and simpl

. >>> plus, federal forces, president trump deploys federal officers to american cities. >> we are not going to have a bunch of secret federal agents without any coordination, cooperation. >> are the feds helping or inflaming tensions? chicago mayor laurie lightfoot joins me to discuss next of. >>> hello, i'm jake tapper in washington where the state of our union sick and tired and facing a consequential choice. today marks exactly 100 days until the next presidential election and the nation is deeply mired in crisis. there are currently more than 4.1 million coronavirus cases in the u.s. and more than 146,000 americans dead. more than a dozen states hit daily records this week and the nation's daily death toll topped 1,000 multiple times. all this as millions of americans are facing an increasingly urgent economic emergency as the extra $600 in unemployment benefits runs out this week. and the senate majority leader mcconnell said more relief is two to three weeks away, quote, hopefully. this morning we get fresh insight of cnn as to how voters think about the election in three key ba

it was put up to keep people back from the federal facility. but this was taken down last night, in short order by prot t protesters. causing police to come out in full force, launch tear gas into the crowd. we were teargassed with our local media colleagues, who have been covering the story. they tell us there's a noticeable shift in protests since infusion of the federal resources at behest of the trump administration. now the protesters not only want racial justice and end of police violence but want the federal officers to leave the area. point of contention. they're backed by city officials. mayor telling jake tapper he also wants them to leave. that debate continues. three powerful chairpersons at department and the department of homeland security to investigate the activities of federal officers in this city. >> we'll see what happens. thank you very much. as the nation finds itself in the grip of a racial crisis, w. kamau bell is kicking off his fifth season of united shades of america with a look at institution aal racism in ameri. >>

we need our federal government to partner with us. i am taking any city resources we can and putting them towards testing. we have librarians and parks workers who are helping with testing, but their force and efficacy could be magnified if we had specialized medical experts who know about testing. >> sure. >> mayor, i'd like your reaction to something we just heard from a former harvard medical school professor, dr. william hazeltine, listen to what he's telling us about what me hears is happening right now. >> there's something called crisis standards of care that is already implemented in arizona and it may be in a number of these other states. what does that actually mean? it means that if you're old you get sent home without care and you die. that's what it means. >> is that happening in phoenix? >> unfortunately, our medical professionals don't have the resources they need and so they are being asked to make difficult decisions. i want to stress, if you are having a heart attack, if you think you may be having a stroke, please g

this is the federal building, federal courthouse, earlier today there were metal fences that were set up here to try to keep these protesters back. you can see what the -- what is left of the fences. they were dismantled in the span of about 20 minutes. and pushed up against this building. on the other side of the doors are heavily armed, heavily trained, highly trained federal agents who have already made their presence out here known tonight. earlier this evening they came out and dispersed this crowd using tear gas, and other crowd dispersant tools to try to push this crowd back. we ourselves were teargassed as we experienced that and we're told that is something that will routinely happen here. but, again, you can see the crowd is back, they continue to protest, they want their issues to be heard here. one thing that has really fueled a lot of the anger in the crowd recently is a social media post that showed a man being arrested by two highly armed, heavily armed officers that approached this man, took him to an unmashed van where he was driven away. we learned those agents were

when it's an attack on a federal judge or the home of a federal judge, that raises to it a whole new level, because it comes across as an attack on the justice system. you said, it is very rare, but it has happened before. in your experience, what types of things can it end up being? >> john, there's an enormous spectrum of possible players here and people who could have been motivated by the judge -- current cases that are before the judge, past cases that she had been involved in or decided or influenced sentencing, things of that nature. appeals that come to the judge from people from past cases or from other judges that she might be -- that she might have decided in a way that could have provoked some you know anger and response. but that's just the judge. you have to then think about her husband, who is a criminal defense attorney, who unfortunately in that respectable line of work, you run across, often, some dangerous people, some people who are unsatisfied or unhappy with the way their own criminal situations have concluded. so there's the same broad, broad scope of individua

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another incident shows federal officers dragging a protestor into an unmarked police van. this is under investigation by two inspectors general. >>> portland's mayor told crowds of protesters that federal troops sent there by the president are taking part in an unconstitutional occupation and then he was tear gassed. you may have seen this video. it's incredible. you see mayor ted wheeler there wearing a mask and goggles coughing in a cloud of tear gas. this was early thumorning. mayor wheeler later told cnn's chris cuomo why he's urging president trump to withdraw his troops from the city. >> the fact of the matter is, before the feds arrived the situation was contained. the nightly violence had dissipated. we were seeing smaller crowds. the energy had gone out of those crowds, and then when they showed up the entire thing blew up. they kicked a hornet's nest and i saw firsthand last night the indiscriminate use of tear gas and other mu fishions. it had no effect other than angering people and frustrating people. now they're outraged. this chaos. this unrest that we are n

we must protect federal property and our people. president trump has been pushing the law and order messaging for weeks as his poll numbers have slipped. >> americans want law and order. they demand law and order. >> reporter: this morning he defended the employment of federal agents tweeting, federal forces are little involved in ee satle other than we have a long stand by team. seattle police arrested 47 people in saturday during what they called a riot that left 59 officers injured. a peaceful march turned violent with police headquarters being knocked over in oakland, california. the mayor warning the community they may be playing into the president's hands saying, quote, vandalizing our downtown gives donald trump the image he wants and the justification he seeks to send federal troops into american cities. many demonstrators believe the presence of those agents in their cities are like an occupying force. the protests and violence not limited to the west coast. in austin, texas, a man shot and killed during a black lives matte