Otherwise damage national monuments. The president yesterday suggesting as he was going out the door of the white house that there was something that he could do under the Veterans Memorial preservation act. But the president also suggesting in this executive order that he might go beyond that. The president taking action after several high profile cases of monuments that have been damaged. You see there this happened monday night in Lafayette Square across the street from the white house. You can see the people sprayed graffiti on the statue of Andrew Jackson and threw some ropes over it trying to pull the whole thing down. Andrew jackson, of course, seventh president of the United States. After the protesters got the ropes on, metropolitan police, secret service moved in and stopped them from pulling down the statue. Its unclear exactly what the executive order is going to do. But the president saying yesterday it will reinforce whats already there. But in a more uniform way. Listen
His reporting live from Lafayette Square in washington d. C. Lucas . Good afternoon, trace. All is calm in front of the white house. 400 National Guardsmen from washington d. C. Are on standby just in case. So far they have not been deployed to the monuments in the nations capitol. D. C. s mayor called for peace and says she doesnt want to see anymore monuments torn down. This is what i think we all need to do with statues. Have a reasonable conversation on statues and other references to historical figures. Not have a mob decide that they want to pull it down and certainly not destroy anything in the district or set anything on fire. All was calm last night in the recently named black lives matter plaza next to the white house. Because d. C. Is not a state, the defense secretary can call up the National Guard. Unlike those mobilized earlier this month, the new soldiers will not be armed. Protesters at the white house. D. C. Arrested nine people after smoke grenades were deployed near
Its genuinely sinister. Were worried about it, weve said that, we mean it. But in the process of saying that we may have missed Something Else that is also true as well as highly amusing. These people are idiots. For real. The angry children you watched set fire to wendys and topple statues and scream at you on television there day after day are truly and t utterly stupid. This probably never been a dumber group gathered in onero place that all of american history. Their mouth breathers. They know nothing. They couldnt tell you who George Washington was. They dont know when the civil war was fought. Probably not even to the centu century. They say they oppose racism and they worked on monuments toey abolitionists. They dont see the contradiction and that because they have no idea the abolitionists were. They think its a band from the 80s. A lot of the very stupidest people, by the way, are welleducated. They have all the worthless credentials that we are told we should want our childre
On, punching and kicking him. He got hit in the head, got hit in the neck. Kicked in the ribs. And more unrest in our Nations Capital as protesters burned American Flag. The group cheering as old glory goes up in flames. Steve look at that man o man. Good morning. And thats whats going on across the country right now. There is just a feeling in this country that things are a little off the rails, right . Well, we have heard from the president of the United States. He has made it very clear this kind of stuff will not be allowed. Then you see that this state lawmaker in wisconsin, Tim Carpenter was attacked protesters. Protesters one thing but then for them to attack the guy and where were the police in the g. O. P. Assembly speaker in wisconsin robin advisors said this is absolutely despicable. Im saddened the officials to deal with these thugs. Where is the and the question goes on. Where is the democratic Governor Tony Evers . Why didnt he stop the destruction of the statue . There w
Garage at talladega was not a hate crime. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. This is early start. Im Laura Jarrett. Christine romans has the morning off. We begin with the u. S. Entearing critical phase in the fight to slow coronavirus. There are now 26 states headed in the wrong direction. We say it every morning but this is a count that keeps ticking up daybyday including new case records in california and texas. The most populace states in the nation. The governments leading voice on the pandemic dr. Anthony fauci telling a House Committee hes worried about complacency. The curve that americans once flattened is rising sharply again. Were now seeing a disturbing surge of infections that looks like its a combination but one of the things is an increase in community spread. We were going down from 30,000 to 25 to 20 and now we sort of stayed about flat and now going up. A couple of days ago there were 30,000 new infections. The next couple of weeks is cr