7488000. If you live in the mountain or pacific time zones, it is 202 7488001. A special line this morning for minneapolis and st. Paul residents. That number is 202 7488002. You can also send us a text. That number is 202 7488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from. Otherwise, catch up with us on social media. On twitter it is cspanwj. On facebook it is facebook. Com cspan. You can start calling and now as we show this headline from the Minneapolis Tribune overnight. Many as Police Station set on fire, protesters marched downtown. Thousands gathered downtown yesterday to express anger with restraint at a peaceful gathering but later, the third precinct station became a target. You can see many of those pictures this morning of the violence in minnesota and protest overnight. We want to show you tweets from Governor Tim Walz of minnesota when he announced the National Guard was being deployed to handle some of the violence. A series of tweets saying it is time to rebuild the city, the Justice System, and the relationship between Law Enforcement and those they are charged to protect. George floyds death should lead to justice and systemic change, not more death and destruction. The governor goes on to say, as George Floyds family said, he would not want people to get hurt. Come together to rebuild, remember, and seek justice for george floyd. As governor, i will defend the right to protest, but it is how we express pain, process tragedy, and create change. Answering theam request to protect Peaceful Demonstrations answering our local leaders request for minnesota National Guard assistance. This was late last night before 1 00 a. M. Eastern that the president weighed in on the situation amid some of the pictures on cable news throughout the night last night about the violence in the streets of minneapolis. The president says on twitter, i cant stand back and watch this happen to a Great American city, minneapolis. A total lack of leadership. Either the very weak radical mayor get his act together and bring the city under control or i will send in the National Guard and get the job done. And a second tweet, twitter flagged it for violating their speech. Es on violence the president saying these thugs are dishonoring the memory of george floyd, and i wont let that happen. Just spoke to the governor and told him the military is with him all of the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control. The president says when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Ending the tweet by saying thank you. The mayor of minneapolis, responding specifically to the president s tweets and comments about him and his city in a latenight News Conference. This is jacob fry. I want to say this. Weaknesses refusing to take responsibility for your own actions. Weakness is pointing your finger at someone else during crisis. Donald trump knows nothing about the crisis of minneapolis. This is a difficult time period but you better be damp sure damn sure we will get through this. Host here is the front page of the star tribune, the newspaper, minneapolis, state of agony. Hear es are open to to talk about what you are feeling this morning. 202 7488000 if youre in the eastern or central time zones. 202 7488001 if you are in the mountain or pacific time zones. The special line for minneapolis and st. Paul residents, 202 7488002. Gabe is up first out of beverly hills, california. Good morning. Student ater indiana university, and im shocked by what has taken place in minneapolis. Rhetoric and social movement course, we talked about what took place in ferguson, we talked a lot about what has taken place with regard to police fatality. Being from los angeles, this rings back memories growing up or we talked a lot about the rodney king incident brings back memories growing up where we talked about the rodney king incident. Taking thist position to teach for indianapolis, we as the next generation have an obligation to remember the past, lest we forget about it. It is something we need to incorporate into our curriculum. I think there is a lot more to be done with regard to how we perceive race and society. Host what is something that could be done today amid the images we see, the anger and violence . Caller hmm. I think the most important thing i would say is come together as a nation. I feel there has been a great deal of divisiveness, particularly with regard to the current epidemic. I know there are a lot of Different Police about that. Ofs just fans the flames partisan politics. I think the best thing we can do right now is come together as a population, understand that each of us are fighting for a fair democracy. We are all fighting for the opportunity to be heard. Room toto allow more speak up because it has been too long. Host herbert is next out of george or out of georgia. Good morning. Caller good morning. It could have been condemned a long time ago. Violence, when those marchers protested the capital with their assault weapons, that was a active violence. They should have been condemned instead appraised. The president says the government needs to sit down with those people. Now, you have the black and white who is protesting violence. If you are going to condemn violence, the active violence, you have to condemn the act as well. When they went to the capital with their assault weapons, they called the state police immediately. That is what you should have done from the beginning. If people come to you right now with a military weapon, the active violence. Now, youre going to sit there and prays that . You need to condemn it. You need to do what President Trump should have did, condemn it from the beginning. When the people get an understanding that it is prohibited, the active violence or violence, is not allowed in the United States of america. You cant praise and call them find people. Herbert out of georgia. This morning, processed and violence protests and violence spreading to st. Paul as well. The mayor of st. Paul saying the situation in our city is heartbreaking and rapidly devolving. This was the mayor yesterday afternoon on twitter. The mayor saying im angry and sad for anyone angry and as sad as anyone and pushing for the officers who killed george floyd to be arrested asap. The mayor saying please stay home, dont come here to protest. Please keep the focus on george floyd and advancing our movements and preventing this from ever happening again. We can all be in that fight together. The mayor of st. Paul yesterday afternoon on twitter before some of the scenes we saw that broke out overnight, including the precinct, a police the third precinct in minneapolis. You have likely seen those pictures overnight in this morning. We will continue to show you them from some of the reporters from the Minneapolis Star Tribune who have been on the scene at some of the other scene and some of the other loca reporters who have shared. From gainesville florida, good morning. Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call. The first thing i want to say is that donald trump is not the solution. He is the problem. It, who tookan fix credit for the economy, and demonize president obama is not the solution but the problem. Book i according to a found out through cspan by dr. , the crisis of the black intellectual, he says is seeing someone as a nonhuman or a subhuman. That is the reason this is happening. Instead of talking about the thugs, President Trump should be talking about the nazilike behavior. The Deplorables Hillary clinton spoke about was a small percentage of Trump Supporters. The smallest percentage of Trump Supporters that would condone this kind of behavior. My relativeom marched with, he said what you sow is what you reap. Today, i think he would be saying, not God Bless America but god help america. Thank you. Host in gainesville, florida, talking about President Trump. President trump yesterday at his press conference in the white house in which he was announcing his new effort on social media policies when it comes to websites like twitter and facebook was asked if he had been in contact with George Floyds family. This is what the president had to say. Have you spoken to the family of george floyd yet . Pres. Trump i havent, but i feel very badly. It is a very shocking site. Bill and i were talking about it. Its one of the reasons bill is here right now, because we are very much involved. Andked the attorney general the fbi to take a strong look and see what went on, because that was a very bad thing i saw. I saw it last night and did not like it. Do you think the Police Officers should be prosecuted . Pres. Trump im not going to make any comments right now. What i saw was not good, very bad. Host that was President Trump yesterday. President trump weighing in overnight in a series of tweets. The second of which was flagged by twitter for violation of twitter rules about glorifying violence. Twitter allowed viewers to click link that allowed viewers to eventually see the president s tweet, but you had to take that two step process to see the tweet. This was the second tweet twitter flagged for its users. The president saying these thugs are dishonoring the memory of george floyd and i will not let that happen. Just spoke to the governor and told him the military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume the control. Thewhen the looting starts, shooting starts, the president saidore twitter on before on twitter. Twitter mark another one of his tweets talking about mailin ballots and efforts to apply for mailin ballots as misleading. Tweet up minutes ago, twitter is doing nothing about the lies put out by china or the radical left party. They have targeted conservatives and the president of the United States. Section 230 should be revoked by congress. Until then, it will be regulated. President trump is talking about his executive order when it comes to social media. This is the story on the front page of the Washington Times about that effort. That was the press conference he was holding yesterday at the white house when he was asked about reaching out to George Floyds family. The Washington Times noting the executive order requires the federal Communications Commission to craft a regulation that could exempt social Media Companies from protections under section two 30s of the decency act which shields companies from legal liability from material posted by their users if they censor or edit content. The president was long criticizing the social media giants for the anticonservative bias and his order will ensure any platforms that engage in censoring or political conduct will lose their liability protections. More on that later in our program today. For this first hour of the washington journal, asking you to weigh in after another night of protests and violence in minneapolis. We have the special line for minneapolis and saint paul residence, 202 7488002. Jeff is an devils like, north dakota. You are next devils like lake, north dakota. You are next. Caller we are supposed to trust in our Police Officers. To see a video like that, and purposely put a knee on his neck , i mean how much more wrong is that . I just dont get it. Town to loot the whole get a message across . I think that is overdoing it for the peoples concerned for the peoples concerned. Every life does matter. There is no doubt about it. No matter what color it is. Get you know, President Trump, what he says and does sometimes could be taken one way or the other. It is hard to take him because personore or less a like me and a politician, so he has a way of putting things in a different perspective. Host that was jeff in north dakota. Caller please bear with me. This is my second time calling. My comments concerning the violence in the city of minnesota. This is what we need to do as americans from all races, from all denominational backgrounds, because it brings a sadness to my heart to cim a 57yearold ing allnd i am see these racial tensions. A has not to see 57yearold woman and the National Guard cannot solve the problem. I am a born again christian. We need to pray, perform for these Police Departments. In second chronicles 714, it states if my people, we say this is a Christian Country from all racial backgrounds and denominations. If my people would call on my name and humble themselves. You need to pray and get a plan from god for these reforms to be laws in thee fraternal order of the police. Those officers need to be locked up. We are human beings of africanamerican dissent. My great nieces and nephews are from different central and south american countries, the islands, the african countries, and my mother told us racism brings the violence going on. I made the statement yesterday so please bear with me. Martin luther king jr. , susan b anthony, and the other civil rights activists and socialists all over this world. If god would resurrect them, they would be ashamed. Aboutthis conversation race relation in this country, we had it yesterday on this program. We will be talking about it again today to discuss on the house floor this week in the wake of the death of george floyd. Another member took to the house floor yesterday to talk about it. A democrat out of new york and this is what he had to say. Madame speaker, i respect those Police Officers in every community that are there to protect and serve. And those who have fallen in the line of duty. But, we cannot tolerate police violence, and we cannot tolerate Police Brutality. By an floyd was murdered outofcontrol Police Officer. When will it end . 42 shots, Police Officers found not guilty. Sean bell, 50 shots, Police Officers found not guilty. Choked to death, Police Officers let go by the grand jury. Decades after decades. When will it end . This time must be different. Those perpetrators must be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, and Congress Must do everything in its power to stop this type of tragedy from ever happening again. I yield back. Hakeem jeffries yesterday. He was immediately followed by hank johnson, a democrat from georgia. This is what the congressman had to say. Is somethingeathe i delivered when eric garner got choked out by the police. Today, im here for george , who, another black man begged for his life for eight minutes. Black people are caught between suffocated to death by the coronavirus or being choked to death by unconcerned Police Officers. Like folks in america are caught up in three pandemics when you add the reality our is this is our getting choked out of ppp. When just 12 of black and Latino Business owners who apply for ppp report receiving what they asked for, something is wrong. When we make up 13 of the population but 60 of covid deaths, something is wrong. When we have armed vigilantes and rogue Police Officers killing us on the streets, something is terribly wrong. The American Dream should not be a nightmare for any of her people. It is time to bring an end to open season on black people in america. We cant breathe. Host that was hank johnson on the floor of the house yesterday. Taking your phone calls and looking for your tweets, your facebook posts, your text so well as well. Here are a few of those. From harry in pennsylvania with regard to minneapolis. Protesting the wanton distraction of human life by the wanton distraction of property. How child this and pointless childish and pointless. Why i dont understand the officer had control and should put him in the car. There was no need for this. This is from jane out of michigan. What does targeting the target or autozone have to do with this tragedy . Shame on those riders. This is what democraticsocialist think is a way to make change. They also dont do things like watch cspan, right congress, or vote. That is how we make write congress or vote. That is how we change, not violence. This is mark out of massachusetts. Good morning. Caller good morning. Can you hear me . Host yes, sir. Think the minneapolis situation and the race situation is unprecedented. College inuated from 2000 one, originally from massachusetts, i got a job in new orleans, marketing manager, pre9 11. I was a minority down there. I didnt grow up on a white town or anything like that, so i was lucky enough, growing up, to have diversity. I was working on a quarterly in idaho in the panhandle and i did not know much about the place. To make a long story short, is unearthed has unearthed and given all of these races Carte Blanche to go out and do what they want. I retweeted that. Five hours ago, the president of the United States is about 2 00 in the morning, telling people to shoot people . This is absolutely i cant believe no republicans can say anything against this guy. Thank you guys at cspan, john, honestly. This is absolutely nonsense. Host this is the Editorial Board of the wall street journal today. This is the point they make about what is happening and what has happened the last three days as the protests get more violence. They say there people have the right