facilities and federal properties. mainly the federal courthouse. the department's mission is very clear. we are charged with protecting federal facilities across the country. we have been protecting the courthouse in downtown portland since 1997 when it first opened. we began to see a rise in violent activity targeting federal facilities in late may in portland, coinciding with the death of george floyd. let me reiterate that the department fully supports those who wish to peacefully protest. let me say this again. we support and we will protect those who want to peacefully protest. unfortunately what we are seeing in portland every night, roughly from midnight to 4:30 or 5:00 a.m., is a complete opposite. again, what is occurring in portland in the early hours of every morning is not peaceful protesting. these individuals are organized and they have one mission in mind. to burn down or to cause extreme damage to the federal courthouse and to law enforcement officers. at times we also see them targeting city property.

why is donald trump sending federal troops to confront protesters in u.s. cities the president says violent crime needs to be controlled opponents denounce what they call a political stunt does the deployment set a dangerous precedent for american democracy this is an odd story. hello welcome 'd to the program i'm wrong donald trump often calls himself the lower note a president it's one of the campaign themes in his bid for reelection less than full months from now is a q some city may as a failing to rein in weeks of protests against police brutality. trump sent in federal agents to portland in oregon earlier this month he said the aim was to support local police and protect government buildings from increasingly violent unrest some protesters say they were arrested without cause and taken away in unmarked cause trumps also announced what he called a surge of federal offices to other cities such as chicago to combat violent crime that. extreme politicians have joined this police crusade and relentlessly vilified our law enforcement heroes to. look at it f

the federal bureau of investigation from the d. e. a the drug enforcement administration from the a.t.f. alcohol tobacco and firearms agency and the h s i this is the homeland. the department of homeland security. acronym for this so we will see in those cities according to the president now a significant number off all federal law enforcement officers and as you can imagine the cities he chose are run by democrats as mayors. so they are not that happy about this and it is so far an open question why no. violence in chicago is bad no doubt about this a lot of people die there every day every weekend. and local law enforcement trying to get a whole hand on this and a handle on this for years but why sending in now federal law enforcement personnel that is maybe a political question so just to be clear. this deployment to take chicago the as you mentioned this is completely separate so these days these protests the being dealt with by federal office as they say portland. until racism protests that appear to have got out of hand this

55 days now there has been a seizure on federal courthouse and on monuments on federal property and the people who are trying to guard that courthouse and protect those monuments federal authorities are acting lawfully and are under attack and makes the point that well portland is overwhelmingly why. i don't contest that it's not about attacking black people this is about protecting i think putting rampant violence and protecting federal property and at the moment the other thing that there that he says that i agree with this is part of the responsibility of state police and state authorities worst state laws but earle out of federal laws out there including against firearms and violence and and drop the bombs that are being spent to chicago for instance at the moment local police are diverted to crowd control and federal authorities have all sorts of rights and duties to enforce those laws now are there are things happening on the ground in port that are excessive possibly that this the department of justice is specter general parra which has said that he is going to look in to that an

their job at federal facilities in and around them to exercise federal authority to protect federal lawt as much is. >> ken: i'm not accusing you. i'm just asking you about it. >> dave: my question is whether or not you were prepared to defend it if necessary all the way to the supreme court. >> ken: absolutely. >> dave: or will you just keep going on with what you're doing? >> ken: we certainly are well within the boundaries of the law and the constitution. this is a layup of a win for anybody who would find a to legally challenge us protecting federal facilities under federal law and executing arrests for people who violate that or attack those officers. that is legally easy to defend and i am a legal expert. i don't have any problem saying that. it's just, it's really a policy argument that you hear as opposition. but, let's look at just left wing mayors. surely they will be nice. even that city council started to advance more to take back their own city. >> dave: i only have about 30 seconds. but i want to ask you about antifa and whether a federal statute will be used to try to get

the last thing i will say is along witith the federal agents, the risk of federal agents in unmarked vehicles coming into our city and what that means for people that are protesting, what that means for organizations, i think is also important to note that police have taken the gloves off. just this past week in chicago, young organizer who i worked when i metete boyd her she was fighting to stop the closure of all the high schools in her neighborhood, she was protesting at an event where aey were trying to protest clung to statatue and a chicago police officer,, as she was vigorously protesting, ran up on this 18-year-old girl and's master in the mouth with t this baton and knococked her teeth o. we just had a conference e with mimiracle yesterday. thee brutality is not new. the infrfringement on our righgs is not new.. whether the agent isis donald trump the agent of chchange for this type of infringement onon r righghts -- our rights are alrey being infrfringed upon. , i'mjesse hagopian wondering if you can address -- the activisism in seattle has bn zonese, the autonomous that we

property which is a federal felony and would justify federal agents apprehending them. one of the big problems asi them. one of the big problems as i see it is that apparently most of these people are being released shortly after they arrested, so they are never presented to a magistrate and the government has never required to explain exactly what the legal justification was for their arrest, and that, i think, contributes to the perception that this is really harassment and not necessarily the protection of federal facilities. and the president says he is having to act because he says very liberal democrats, the radical left as he puts it, i'm not acting, he is clearly trying to make a election issue. there are also suspicions he is trying to distract from his handling of the pandemic. i don't think we can avoid that narrative stopping the reality is that traditionally we rely on local and state authorities to maintain order and to protect federal facilities maintain order and to protect federalfacilities in maintain order and to protect federal facilities in their ju

government to enforce federal law and protect federal property. paul: are there any limits on what federal law enforcement can do? let's say, obviously they can protect federal property but let's say you get somebody who they observe looting a private business. can they act as law enforcement and that kind of a case, arrest somebody doing that? >> i think they are regarded as peace officers and could but that's not what they are there for. also, understand the federal government has limited resourc resources. just to give you an idea of the scale, the new york city police department has about 38000 officers. the entire fbi has 12,000 or 13000 special agents worldwide. marshall service has people and dea has people but again, we are talking about a small number compared to the large number of local officials that exist so it's a matter of discretion, you have to be careful how you allocate those resources. paul: is also the issue a lot of these local officials say they don't want any kind of federal presence. they can handle it themselves. apart fr

president trump says the deployment of federal forces that. will be increased to include other cities where he says they're needed to restore order critics say the move is politically motivated and will create even more anger also on the program a german court conflicts a former concentration concentration camp guards for crimes committed during the holocaust the court finds the guilty of being successful. 1000 people. welcome to the program and rest are growing in the united states after president trump's announcement that he'll send federal troops into several democratic controlled cities he says that need to deal with a surge in violent crime but the trump deployment of federal forces already operating in portland oregon has been targeting protesters demanding racial justice with the man himself caught in the crossfire. it's hard to bring the mayor of portland by federal on. fizzes in the middle of his own city. ted wheeler was in a group of protesters outside a federal courthouse he said he saw nothing which provoked this response but. the

federal property. as you mentioned, chicago, kansas city and albuquerque, but we're told the program most certainly will expand. >> the federal government has a sworn duty to uphold the laws of the united states through field offices and federal facilities across the country. these agents protect and serve the american people. yet the rhetoric of the left undermines our justice system, with nancy pelosi calling them stormtroopers. wheeler using the term paramilitary forces. >> jon, using the word paramilitary forces talking about todd wheeler, the mayor of portland, he's saying get out of my city. let the local police run this operation. the district attorney in philadelphia is actually taking it one step further. he said if any of the president's federal officers or agents come into philadelphia and act unlawfully, he will see they are arrested and charged which means, jon, a showdown between local and federal authority. jon? jon: what a country, david spunt, in bridgewater, new jersey, thank you. >>>

they are going left at 75% federal. the cost share going up to 100% may also be required in those jurisdictions that are seeing the impact of covid-19 demand as well as reduction in income. thank you, sir. >> along the same lines, last week, the mayor of mississippi testified that they are still waiting on money after a tornado caused major damage to the city. that was six years ago. can we expect localities to wait this long for fema reimbursements and how can we speed up the process to ensure local governments could receive their reimbursements? >> we were doing reimbursements and are still doing reimbursements for hurricane katrina. we are doing a billion dollar in my last year on wastewater treatment systems. -- that can take a while. more concerned about the immediate cost, which is the response cost. fema should be moving that money out very quickly. congress has provided the funding. this may be something -- sometimes, we get so fearful of making mistakes and slow the process down with bureaucracy instead of focu

not happening in chicago we don't need federal troops we don't need unnamed secret federal agents roaming around the streets of chicago that's not democracy that we saw unfolding in the streets of portland as a result of this federal action that's what we call tyranny dictatorship and we're not having it in chicago residents of chicago say extra police won't solve the issues facing the city saying action on gun control would be more effective in tackling violent crime earlier we spoke to our washington correspondent stephanie months and i asked him about the significance of this announcement by president trump the president wants to send more federal law enforcement personnel into cities his administration now perceived to be hotbeds of increasing violence example chicago president trump sees quote explosion of shootings and quote now what's behind all of this right politics in the eyes of many experts and observers here the president plays the law and order card now because he's convinced that this will benefit him at the presidential elections come november the president and or his reel

i want to acknowledge the federal emergency management agency, which was put in charge of the federal government's response, was asked to testify today. fema is not here today, but i understand there is an administrator to appear before the full committee later this month. i'm pleased to hear this, because it's vital we work together to address this challenge. i look forward to meeting with administrator gaynor soon and hearing what administrators have to say to form the discussion. there's no denying the coronavirus pandemic has presented unparalleled challenges. one of the greatest challenges has been procuring adequate gowns, supplies and ppe, gloves, surgical masks, and n95 respirators. a surgeon global demand for these supplies, most of which are produced overseas, caused severe shortages, especially for those on the front lines. in response, the federal government distributed the andted supply expedited ppe shipments by airlift's, distributors, existing customers, rather than to states directly. it caused states to find their own supplies to distribute with areas with greatest n

namely the federal courthouse. with protecting federal facilities across the country. we have been protecting the courthouse in downtown portland since 1997 when it first opened. we began to see a rise in violent activity targeting federal facilities in late may in portland, coinciding with the death of george floyd. the department fully supports those who wish to peacefully protest. we me say this again, let support and will protect those who protest. unfortunate, but we are seeing in portland every night for midnight to 5:00 a.m. is the complete opposite. again, what is occurring in portland in the early hours of every morning is not peaceful protesting. these individuals are organized and have one mission in mind, to burn down or cause extreme damage to the federal courthouse in law enforcement officers. at times, we see him targeting city property. these individuals congregate in the same area night after night. we see them planning their attacks. and yet the city of portland takes little to no action to stop o

city wants the help or not. >> well, there's a federal courthouse and a federal building in the middle of portland. and so, with that comes federal authority to protect that facility and the people in and around it. so we always prefer to have law enforcement relationships be partnerships with localities and states. and over the vast majority of america, that's what happens, even when there are political differences among the leadership, but that is unfortunately an exception in portland, though there are other cities that we have tenuous political relationships with that have very good law enforcement relationships >> speaking of portland, there are several reports that show over the past week federal agents in camouflage and tactical gear have made targeted arrests, in one case using an unmarked car. why is that action necessary? >> sure, great question. so after 35 or 40 straight days of violence in portland, we obtained intelligence that federal areas were going to be targeted and we'd see directed violence at those facilities. so we advanced other officers in to help the base offi

on wednesday night, federal forces fired tear gas at protesters once again. among those hit was portland mayor ted wheeleler, who also serves as police commissioner. meanwhile, the american civil liberties union has sued the department of homeland security, u.s. mararshals service, as well the city of portland for attacking medics while they care for injnjured protesters. for a second day in a row, the united states reported more than 1000 covid-19 deaths on wednesday. "the new york times" reports nearly 60,000 people are now hospitalized for covid-19 across the country, nearly eclipsing the number of hospitalizations during the peak of the pandemic in april. california set new single-day record on wednesday for cases and hospitalizations. the u.s. death toll has now topped 143,000 with the total number of confirmed cases approaching 4 million. the governors of indiana, minnesota, and ohio all announced new orders requiring residents to wear masks in public. meanwhile, a number of large businesses, including costco walmart, winn-dixie, and whole foods, are no

usehe meantime, we will federal law enforcement to vigorously charge federal crimes and support these besieged communities to the greatest extent possible. this will be hard, painstaking work. it will take time. the tide will not recede overnight, but we will marshal all of the strength and focus and determination that we can possibly do. this is a critical effort. we will continue to call on state and local leaders to do their job and protect their citizens. the operation in chicago will be done as part of operation legend , which was recently launched in kansas city, missouri, and very successfully, i might add. it is named after a four-year-old boy who was shot. think of this. who was shot and killed last month while he lay asleep in his home. legends mother grieves. andhearts, and pains, souls. thank you very much for being here. thank you very much. appreciate it. we are profoundly grateful to be joined --will you please stand? please. father,, legend's raphael, and his grandparents, alfred and pauline. yes? you look so great, so great. thank you very much. i appreciated your nic

and we need to choose widely for our next federal cio, federal i.t. experience will ab huge plus. >> thank you, mr. o'keefe. thank you. >> thank you. >> hang, arnah shank, you are recognized. >> i am managing director of technology group of new america and think and action tank. i spent over 25 years working in technology and both the public and private sectors. i want to start with a story. lisa charles lives outside of charlottesville, virginia. the 42-year-old divorced mother of two typically qualifies for earned income tax credit. she works when she can but spends the bulk of her time attending to her older son's medical problems. his endocrine system doesn't function properly and he spends time in and out of the hospital. because he was below the threshold and had not filed 2018-2019 fax taxes. she had to claim her stimulus check using nonfiler portal. in march sitting beside her son at the hospital, she filled out the form. she really needed the money because she was behind on rent and facing eviction. to date she has not received the stimulus m

not happening in chicago we don't need federal troops we don't need unnamed secret federal agents roaming around the streets of chicago that's not democracy that we saw unfolding in the streets of portland as a result of this federal action that's what we call tyranny and dictatorship and we're not having it in chicago. residents of chicago say extra police won't solve the issues facing the city saying action on gun control would be more effective in tackling violent crime and washington correspondent stefan simons gave us this is testament of president trump's announcement the president wants to send more federal law enforcement personnel into cities his administration now perceives to be hotbeds of increasing violence example chicago president trump sees quote explosion of shootings and quote now what's behind all of this right politics in the eyes of many experts and observers here the president plays the law and order card now because he's convinced that this will benefit him at the presidential elections come november the president and or his reelection advisers believe that now is t

video for let's president trump says the deployment of federal forces that began in portland will be increased to include other cities where he says they're needed to restore law and order critics say the move is politically motivated and looks create even more anger also on the show it sounds well as high gear sophia is due to reopen as a mosque the 1st friday prayers after more than 80 years as a museum. i'm claridge as an welcomes of the anger and unrest are growing in the united states following president trump's announcement that he will send us federal troops into several democrat controlled cities he says they're needed to deal with a surge in violent crime but the trump deployment of federal forces already operating in portland oregon has been targeting protesters demanding racial justice with the mayor himself caught in the crossfire. mary i am a big state and it's hard to bring the mayor of portland tear gassed by federal offices in the middle of his own city. ted wheeler was in a group of protesters outside a federal courthouse he said he saw nothing which provoked this ri

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

many members of your party call this federal overreach, this utilization of federal authorities in the cities. do you agree? >> let me start with what we agree on. i condemn the murder of george floyd and we have real challenges that will take us a while to eliminating we support peaceful protests and i condemn any protest that uses vandalism. i support local police officers and i know the sacrifices they make every day to make a safe and i don't support defunding the police but you have a situation that seems to be out of control. we should have local law enforcement asking for help. i worry that what seems to be happening is the federal prison seems to be escalating tensions. in utah we've seen the governor working with local officials, mayors and law enforcement to d escalate, to restore order and that has worked really well. i have a lot of confidence in my mayor and my governor to de-escalate and restore things. where federal prison seems to be escalating tension that is counterproductive but i want to see officials working, if the need for federal assistance is present let's have

federal agents clashed with protesters in portland oregon president trump says the search of security forces is needed to restore law and order critics say the crackdown is creating even more anger. and america's corona virus outbreak threatens to derail its economic recovery concern is growing after jobless claims rise for the 1st time since the start of the pandemic. i'm sumi so much going to thank you for joining us of course here in germany has given a 2 here suspended sentence to a former nazi concentration camp guard for his role in killing thousands of people touring world war 2 the former guard known as bruno d. is now $93.00 he didn't sisted he wasn't responsible for the killings that took place at the camp the trial is likely to be one of the last of those involved in the holocaust. a 2 year suspended prison sentence from a juvenile court not the outcome one might expect for a role in the murder of over $5000.00 people but bruno di now aged $93.00 was a small cog in the nazis machinery of killing and he was a teenager at the time he was a guard at the form of concentration c

crime we don't need federal troops we don't need unnamed secret federal agents roaming around the streets of chicago i want to be very very clear that we will not allow this to happen in our city we are ready willing and able to go in there with great force and if we see these federal officers on our streets then we will see gratian in court with those people in chicago and other cities where will help is on its way. also on the day i 93 year old former nazi death camp guard receives a 2 year suspended sentence for his role in the murder of thousands of people how is this a measure of justice if he's not punished he goes home happy they go back to their night dramas. the president trump has announced that he will send federal forces into more u.s. cities he says it's to combat a surge in crime in cities like chicago kansas city missouri and albuquerque cities that are all brought in by what the president has described as the radical left but the trump deployment of federal forces already operating in portland oregon has been targeting protesters demanding racial justice and city officials

to protect federal buildings, protect federal courthouses and i've never seen anything like it. actually -- you know it, i said never seen anything like it. yes i have. what these democrats are doing is the same thing we saw democrats do in the 1950s in '60s. it's the same thing democratic politicians bull connor did. it's the same thing that you saw democratic racists who didn't want to segregate schools -- remember eisenhower sent in the army and said you're going to follow, you're going to follow brown versus board of education and you had elected democrats and they were all democrats for enforcing jim crow who said get your federal officers out of fear, well, guess what? you don't have the ability to throw the federal government out, you don't have the ability to throw federal law enforcement officers out and you certainly don't have the ability to say we are going to allow the federal courthouse for the federal building to burn. you know what? if the chicago mayor wants to allow the mob to rampage in city hall and occupy her office, that's her decision. knock yourself out i

what the federal courts retain with cases arising under federal law and that includes the major crimes act and the general crimes act. >> thank you, counsel. justice thomas. >> yes, mr. kanji, a brief question. this is not necessarily dispositive of this case but am interested in your answer. do you think i tried can be effectively divested of title to land, to which land and its sovereignty, and still retain the status of the reservation? >> is a critically interesting question. all this disestablishment cases involve a transformation of title. whether we're talking about trust cases or he ebay cases, congress was getting rid of communal title and transferring title individuals. the question this court resolves in that regard is whether congress also meant to go beyond that and all to reservation boundaries which were so there. and here where we simply are talking about the allotment in the opening of a small town sites not indian summers, that falls squarely into the rubric that this court has designed were reservations having made intact. with respect to sovereignty, if a sovereignt

>>s there ilegal basis for the arrests you have seen in or near federal facilities, like the federal courthouse. t those actual tactics have left me dmayed, disappointed, and disheartened. just because a law enforcement entity hasri aut to investigate and to prosecute crimes, that does not mean it should in all cases. as we have seen, before the white in lafayette federal authorities tear gassed innocent, peaceful protesters exercising their constitutional rights toan assemblfree speech, and in portland, the tactics have bee authoritarian and they have done nothing other than inflame an already volatile and emotional situation. anchor: part of your argument would be that has not been fective? >> it has not been effective. in fact, i would argue that it has made things farse w in washington, d.c. in front of the white house, a more recently in portland. the local officials haveng st condeed the actions of the department of homeland security and its various agents and officers and have indicated that they don't need, nor do they want to the assistance of federal authorities. local auth

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

standoff in portland at times violent between protesters and federal agents protecting the federal courthouse but at the same time i think the president who is failing in the polls and facing both a pandemic and an economic crisis is looking for a new campaign theme and he is seizing on this as something he thinks he can run on do you think that's what this is he's looking for enemy to beat. i think that he is looking to change the headlines and and find some territory on which he thinks he can he can separate himself from biden and gain. an issue where he thinks he will end up looking better. and that's why you heard him in the white house on monday basically saying that the country will quote go to hell biden is elected that he's the strong man who will restore law and order and that if the democrats win we'll see portland and every american city the president has also announced what he called a federal forces into chicago and other cities so this is nowhere near over. that's right and one of the one of the interesting things to observe here has been that. you know homeland security officia

there's also a federal moratorium on evictions coming up to expire, the federal pause of federal student loan payments are set to expire, all before the november election. there's a lot of pressure on both parties to get this done. arthel: you've got the liability protection for small businesses, mentioned by the republican congressman in the open, to provide legal cover for businesses, schools and other organizations from lawsuits arising from e exposure to coronavirus due to reopening. how big of a holdup is this? >> this is going to be the top priority for democrats -- or for republicans, when they enter into negotiations with democrats. mitch mcconnell said the bill is not going to pass without these reforms so businesses and schools cannot be sued if employees or students or customers get coronavirus. but look, democrats say we're worried about employees. we want to ensure that their rights are not being undermined, this is probably going to be one of the biggest sticking points when republicans and democrats finally enter into negotiations together on capitol hill. arthel: you've g

, to help federal agencies prioritize federal i.t. monetization. the modernizing government technology act also coming out of this committee, was passed to enable agencies to establish work in capital funds to help them use savings from my team monetization in order to further invest integrated agile systems and transition away from those legacy systems. legacy systems that are often 30 and 40 years old. the law also created, coming out of this committee again, the technology monetization fund which established a government funding source for agencies to remove and replace those legacy systems and upgrade their own. yet the team f remains chronically underfunded. and outgoing chief information officer, suzanne can't, has identified as underfunding as illustrative of the small board thinking that unfortunately has prevailed when it comes to making key investments. agencies responsible for performing critical government functions operate on legacy systems with components, sometimes dating back even 50 years. the government accountabilit

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they're hoping out with the federal protective service, which isf he police forcee federal government. and we've got two different things here. there's the intervention in portland where they're sending federal law enforcement agents to proct federal property, ght, against these protestors or rioters, whatever. you're seeing them justify -- there's law that spefically allows the federal government to protect prorty agents like these. then they're talking about basic crime and getting control of t streets. that's a different legal situation. re supposed to work with the local authorities. the mayor of chicago has accepted on some level a degree of help. but you hear like the prosecutor, the chief district attorney of philadelphia threatening to f sue teral government if they send troops in there without permission from the local authorities so it's a real legal murky ground because you're talking about a couple different purposes and a couple different missions in effect. robert: rachel, wha does that mean for black and brown communities? these are urban areas that are reeling from the

response to the black lives matter protests testifying before congress he said it was right says send federal agents into cities to quash protests he also said the demonstrations had been hijacked by on a case since a gating by. the u.a.e. backed southern separatists in yemen have announced they're abandoning demands for self rule they say is to give opportunity to end a rift among their allies this follows saudi arabia's place to implement last year's power sharing deal between rival factions in assad. absent would have lines on al-jazeera i have more news for you after the stream. for the 1st time in recent history saudi arabia prohibits overseas visitors from performing the hutch program . as cook at 19 continues to disrupt people's lives we look at this decision and big impact on the saudi economy hides 2020 on al-jazeera. hey they're welcome to the stream home edition i'm josh rushing sitting in for me ok look if you're watching this live on you tube i need your help do you see that box over there over there it's a live chat there you go we have a producer in there right now why don't yo

these are how they're facing off against unmarked federal marshals and federal agents who are doing the bidding of the president of the united states who's become, in so many ways, unhinged. >> in 20 years, david, or 25 years, you are a creature of history, they will ask us what did you do in 2020? what's the right answer? >> think we all have our roles to play. most citizens with their role to play is finally what's available to them is the ballot, despite in many states ballot being suppressed the people have protested. journalists should be doing their jobs with -- with real rigor and honesty and clarity. you are doing your work. i mean, this is -- from the very first day the challenge of the trump presidency has been to be vigilant about creeping authoritarianism. and when i said that and many others said that, people thought this was very alarmist. oh, no, he's just kind of a clown from new york and this isn't going to be very serious and the challenge is not as desperate as all that. i'm sorry it became worse than i ever imagined, worse than so many people had ever imagined and it

standoff in portland at times violent between protesters and federal agents protecting the federal courthouse but at the same time i think the president who is failing in the polls and facing a pandemic in an economic crisis is looking for a new campaign theme and he is seizing on this as something he thinks he can run on do you think that's what this is he's looking for and i'm a debate. i think that he is looking to change the headlines and and find some territory on which he thinks he can he can separate himself from biden and gain. an issue where he thinks he will end up looking better. and that's why you heard him in the white house on monday basically saying that the country will quote you know go to hell that biden is elected that he's the strong man who will restore law and order and that if the democrats win we'll see you know portland and every american city the president has also announced what he called a federal forces into chicago and other cities so this is nowhere near over. that's right and one of the one of the interesting things to observe here has been that. you know homel

they have the authority to protect federal property from violence or assault on federal officers but one of the allegations in the lawsuit filed by the attorney general of oregon is agents are then going out on the streets and arresting people without probable cause, that's a violation of the constitution. where i think it becomes damaging to law enforcement and federal law enforcement is now the conflation we're seeing. we're hearing william barr talk about sending department of justice agents into cities like chicago and now albuquerque, to surge and protect the cities from violence. ordinarily that kind of activity is welcome by cities. it's done in coordination with local law enforcement, i've seen it done in detroit, but it's done with the greatest respect of local law enforcement to say how can we help? can we supplement your resources? what do you need? inste instead, sending people in without insignias, with military fatigues, the way it's been done in portland, most cities are resisting this because it's seen as political theatre in an effort to prop up president trump's re-

crime we don't need federal troops we don't need unnamed secret federal agents roaming around the streets of chicago i want to be very very clear that we will not allow this to happen in our city we are ready willing and able to go in there with great force and if we see these federal officers on our streets then we will see the top administration in court with those people in chicago and other cities where will be help is on its way. also on the day i 93 year old former nazi death camp guard receives a 2 year suspended sentence for his role in the murder of thousands of people how is this a measure of justice that he's not published he goes home happy they go back to their nightmares and dramas. the president trump has announced that he will send federal forces into more u.s. cities he says it's to combat a surge in crime in cities like chicago kansas city missouri and albuquerque cities run by what the president has described as the vatican left but the trump deployment of federal forces already operating in portland oregon has been targeting protesters demanding racial justice and city

invisible context and civil proceeding the federal rules of civil procedure in federal court govern how the process goes forward and federal judges taken to various considerations especially dealing with the president this is a state proceeding initiated by the district attorney against a sitting president of the united states so our concern is the nature of the proceeding itself is why we use you category subpoena targeting the president and his records -- >> how do you deal with statute of limitations issues? >> they are decided under new york state law and there would be procedures that could be utilized if the da were to start a process like that or there would be action but i need to say something. >> thank you, counsel. general francisco? >> mister chief justice and may it please the court. at a minimum a local prosecutor should have to show he needs the president's personal records to subpoena them for two reasons. first as the court suggesting clinton against jones state proceedings can close a greater threat to the presidency. 2300 prosecutors across the country place more emph

it's an example of federal supremacy where the constitution and federal laws generally take precedence over state laws and state constitutions. and definitely precedence over ding bat mayors like wheeler. this operation is totally different from operation ledge end. named after 4-year-old ledge end talafaro, shot while he was sleeping in his own home, in his own bed. this is a surge of law enforcement officers already in american communities plagued by violent crime. in cities like chicago, 400 people were murdered so far this year. a 50% increase over last year. 2,000 people shot so far this year in one city. this operation is nothing new. there are joint task forces between local and federal agencies that have been in operation for decades and commonplace throughout the nation. as d.a., my office coordinated with the fbi, the atf, the dea, the joint terrorism task force to combat gangs, guns, terrorism and gun crimes. we didn't need anyone's permission to fight crime. chicago's mayor lori lightfoot resisted assistance for so long that people died proved that she's more interested in

he is sending additional federal agents to envelope into federal task forces already there to work federal crimes, to that mother of her four-year-old child to do exactly what she said to do. it is to solve violent crime. so hopefully people can walk their baby in a stroller, not fear they're going to die from a stray bullet. that is what the president is doing. elizabeth: commissioner, just one final question. media criticism, there is some crittism that federal officials are wearing camouflage uniforms that makes them look like soldiers. they're not wearing identifying patches to distinguish what agency they're coming from. your reaction to that? >> first of all i can't believe we're talking about the color of a law enforcement uniform, rather than the criminals that are bringing weapons to hurt those law enforcement officers. the last point is, with respect to insignia, that is lie, liz. that is absolute lie. cpb officers at minute pump wear six pieces of separate identification. bright yellow police on front. patches on shoulder show the unit they're assigned to. they're assigned to cp

facility such as a courthouse there in portland, that is a federal crime, attacking federal police officers, law enforcement officers, which they have done for 52 nights in a row is a federal crime. so the department, because we don't have that local support, that local law enforcement support, we are having to go out and proactively arrest individuals. >> did you hear that? proactively arresting individuals. proactively arresting individuals to, quote, hold them accountable. nbc news has been able to identify agents from immigration and customs and enforcement and customs and border protection on the streets of portland based on their uniforms. the department of homeland security confirmed yesterday that it has deplayed cvp officers from three military units. this is not normal. it's not normal. it is not the kind of thing that should happen in america. federal agents should not be dispatched to cities to round up american protesters. there is nothing about that that's right. according to yale historian, quote, this is a classic way that violence happened in author tan regimes. the people

widening crackdown fueling fury in the us a city of portland president trump says the deployment of federal forces that began in portland will be increased to include other cities where he says that needed to restore horn order critics say the most politically motivated will create even. also a program he stumbles highest to figure out if you should be open as a mosque for friday prayers after more than 80 years as a museum. i'm so gail welcome to the program raster growing in the united states following president trump's announcement that he'll send federal troops into several democrat controlled cities he says they're needed to deal with a surge in violent crime but the trump deployment of federal forces already operating in portland oregon has been targeting protesters demanding racial justice but the man himself caught up in the crossfire. it states it's hard to bring the mayor of portland cast by federal offices in the middle of these own city. was in a group of protesters outside a federal courthouse he said he saw nothing which provoked this response. the irony is in protest is. ange

personnel are drawn from different federal agencies. state governors are questioning if the federal government has authority to send in troops without permission. it asks the question, can the president deploy troops? it answers, yes. he can under certain circumstances. the federal government has deployed thousands of troops from the national guard or reserve force of the u.s. army to protests on cities and states themselves. but a u.s. law passed in the 19th century lays out the circumstances when the government in washington d.c. can intervene without state authorization. the insurrection act says the approval of governors isn't required when a president determines a situation in a state makes it impossible to enforce u.s. laws or when citizens' rights are threatened. it was passed in 1807 to call out the militia to protect the hostile incursion of the indyands and extended to allow for the us of -- use of u.s. mulltary to protect civil rights. a hoo news has that piece. starting us off again marla, jonesboro, georgia, disagree line.

reserve chair, or a former federal reserve chair. now i have accepted every other witness my republican colleagues have proposed, and i think it has been five thus far, and i look forward to hearing from this proposed witness at a future date. but to date my goal is to hear from the unique insights from chair bernanke and chair yellen on their efforts to help our nation recover from the 2008 financial crisis as leaders of the fed. for example, dr. bernanke has stated, and i quote, the initial 2009 fiscal program was perhaps not adequately sized given the size of the problem. we must not make that same in mistake again. our witnesses today served honorably under presidents of both parties. i am hopeful that all my colleagues will participate in this hearing in a bipartisan manner and help us search for solutions to benefit the american people. the chair now recognizes the distinguished ranking member for his opening statement. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank our witnesses appearing before the subcommittee as well. they bot

agents as "federal troops." 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, let's just have it on the record. was ther their violence and attt to build on the building, and attacks of federal government government, -- >> my recollection is our main effort to reinforce was around the fourth of july. mack, and it had been going on for quite a while before that. >> let's talk about lafayette square for a second. june 1st, you had violent mobs disobeying the 11:00 p.m. curfew. they set fire to park cars, demolish coffee shops and banks, and sleepily set fire to st. john's episcopal church near lafayette square. secret service and park police appropriate use of safe, restorative force actually cleared that up. in total, however, 15 u.s. park police officers were injured during the weekend leading u

charges including arson, assaulting federal offices, damaging federal buildings. >> if they are going to be violent we have to match that. >> after weeks of protests governor andrew cuomo ordering bill diblasio to remove all graffiti and government buildings calling it another side of dk in the city. >> cleaning up the city is important. you have a lot of negativity in the air now, positive progress, move forward. >> to crackdown on recent violence this week the white house ordering federal agents deployed to detroit, milwaukee, cleveland, albuquerque in chicago where today mayor larry lightfoot remove two christopher columbus stages, protesters say that is a good first move. administrative already a step too far. >> how far do we take this anarchy before we finally say we've had enough in the city? >> this after protesters tried turning themselves down, clashing with police. the city of chicago announced a new process that will come out with that will not only respect the city's history but also elevate minority communities. >> thanks. new video tonight from miami where police are se

canainly, federal officials protect a federal property, but when they moved out into the streets. when they move out to engage in local law enforcement. and when they are objecting private citizens in unmarked cars and taking them away, that is crossing the line. and they are there expressly over the objection of our governor, our mayor. this is not helpful at all. and i think is provocative. i think that this is part of donald trump's strategy and he will do it in other communities around the country. that is what you did in lafayette park, interfering with the rights of peaceful protesters for a photo op. host: walter, what is your response? lot ofi believe a what you said. thevideo was shocking of police going after that military guy. and it was appalling when the video surfaced of the two people being taken into custody in what turned out that same night debbie with no probable cause -- to be with no probable cause. a top federal prosecutors said he wanted to open an investigation, and that is the way things ought to go. and they should be investigating. doesu these things in

not happening in chicago we don't need federal troops we don't need unnamed secret federal agents roaming around the streets of chicago that's not democracy that we saw unfolding in the streets of portland as a result of this federal action it's what we call tyranny and dictatorship and we're not having it in chicago. residents of chicago say extra police won't solve the issues facing the city they say action on gun control would be more effective in tackling violent crime so let's head live now to portland oregon where i am joined by activists and journalists laura laura welcome to the program and we know that you've actually been part of the protests you've but you've been in them this evening tell us what you have been witnessing. well for the last 8 days arlen has been protesting black lives matter and the television and going around the nation tonight and protesting primarily against after about 11 in america not in talk really or but recently there was a right where it so i'm going to give out i do apologize but it's been a lot of traffic or thought here. the president says for his