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We have White House Reporter for the Associated Press jonathan lemire. Host of msnbcs politics nation and president of the National Action network, reverend al sharpton. We have so much to get to on this friday morning. A lot of breaking news. Well be starting in a moment with the very latest on the violent protests in minneapolis overnight. And the president s racially charged tweets. Also, what is in President Trumps executive order that could open the door for lawsuits against social Media Co...

Throughout thursday, scenes of outrage in new york, phoenix, denver, los angeles, and chicago, all of this triggered by the killing monday of george floyd. Four Minneapolis Police officers who were involved in his arrest have been fired. Numerous videos from bystanders show floyd lying on the brown saying he would not breathe. Kept his knee for several minutes after the man stopped moving. Minneapolis mayor says the firings were the right call. Meanwhile the fbi, state lawenforcement authorities...

A number of democrats say its time to abandon the system as we now know it in the u. S. Breaking tonight while plans to defund law enforcement, california forges ahead to defund prison. Democratic lawmakers from San Francisco expected with a Budget Proposal to begin shedding some of the states prison and they plan to ship to services instead of. Welcome to fox news night, shannon bream, washington and we began with a look at the key voices of the Defund Police movement tonight facing charges of ...

Been charged with floyds death. Derek chauvin facing charges of third degree murder and manslaughter. Protesters are demanding other officers face charges as well. So floyds death was one part of the equation that led to what we are seeing across the country. This has been going on and simmering for quite a while now. And the recent incidents of breonna taylor, her killing, the killing of Ahmaud Arbery have led to this as well. In atlanta we saw just a snapshot of the outrage across the country....

Has undermined local leaders stayathome orders and thats just for starters. Nbc news correspondent bill neely is with us from rio. Bill, did we get that about right . You did, brian. And i should explain where i am, first of all, we are at a cemetery in rio de janeiro, with the permission of the authorities and with the permission of the families, six funerals have taken place in about the last hour and just about to be buried is Oscar Stearns from boston. Hes lived here for 50 years, hes 64 yea...

Police department. Theyre promising to replace it with a new system of public safety. Its a remarkable move there, unclear how broad the support for that kind of change is. Were going to discuss what that means in moments. In the wake of all of this, a brand new cnn poll shows troubling numbers for President Trump on his handling of floyds death as well as the coronavirus pandemic as well as his headtohead matchup with joe biden. Were covering all the angle this is morning. First get to Josh Cam...

They believe they will be able to shut anybody inciting violence down, make the arrests and figure out who is behind the violence. Ana . Miguel marquez live for us. Thank you. It is 7 00 eastern and right now in several cities across the country its shaping up to be another long, tense night of protests. In chicago and in los angeles, in new york and miami, even small cities in the midwest. Crowds of people are large, theyre loud. Some are defiant. Weve seen protesters facing off already against...

Give it just a minute before i blow over. We share with the fbi and we share with our state partners who are conducting parallel but investigation, we have two investigations coming to our office, but we share an unwavering commitment to see that this investigation is done right, that we act with dispatch and that we live up to the standard the community demands. Our highest priority is that justice will be served. With that i am going to turn it over to the special agent in charge from the fbi....

And into the unknown. For all of us. Good evening and welcome to politics nation. Tonights lead should have been 100,000 plus coronavirus deaths and 42 million plus americans unemployed, but instead its one dead black american and an entire nation saying we still cant breathe. Its about the death of george floyd by a Minneapolis Police officer who after a full week of deliberation has finally been charged with third degree murder and Second Degree manslaughter. Of course it goes far beyond minne...

Yeah. Thats a surprising thing. Theyve taken the fact that this man has been good to the community and has been benevolent to the community and has been a great citizen for our town and made it something bad or sinister. Let me take you back to the last part of the attorneys statement, referring to the donations that this man, robert bates, made in the past to the Tulsa Sheriffs Office as well as contributions he made to the sheriffs election campaign. A reserve deputy since 2008, bates left the...