Today, another day of a nation on edge. In los angeles, protesters are under way as curfews are set to begin shortly. And right now protesters are already gathering outside the white house, at times chanting i cant breathe, George Floyds last words. This comes as President Trump once again is encouraging Law Enforcement to use aggressive tactics and calling for military action, saying new york city was lost to looters last night. The president insisting he has no issue with peaceful protests. But that was assuredly not the case, at least in fact if not rhetoric, hours ago in the Nations Capital when peacef ff protesters last night, gathering in Lafayette Park across from the white house, were tear gassed and brutally pushed back by Law Enforcement officers deploying flashbangs and tear gas, Peaceful Protesters, all of which so the president could walk across the street and pose in front of st. Johns Church Holding a bible, a book he did not open or read from. First lets go to cnns Miguel Marquez live for us in st. Paul, minnesota. Miguel, youre at a protest at the state capital building. Tell us more. Reporter we were here last night. There are about 2 or 300 protesters. And ive got to tell you, were in five minutes of silence right now. Im going to show you ill take this off and show you how big this crowd is. It is absolutely massive. Thousands and thousands of people have showed up. If the president fought his photo op yesterday was going to have an effect, this is the result. Now eight days after the brutal killing of george floyd, still no word on the fates of the other three officers involved in his death, who either helped hold him down or stood by watching him die. I want to assure everybody that we are looking very carefully at holding everybody accountable who failed to do their duty. Reporter as the country grapples with the searing pain of another innocent life ended by police action, protests turned violent in many places around the country monday, some against police. In las vegas, a Police Officer is on lifesupport after being shot in the head during protests on the strip. At least four Police Officers were shot in st. Louis, their injuries are believed to be nonlifethreatening. Some coward fired shots at officers and now we have four in the hospital. Thankfully, thank god, theyre alive. Theyre alive. [ crying ] can we make some sense out of this . Reporter and a graphic video coming out of the bronx. An nypd sergeant suffered serious injuries after looters in the black car hit him and took off. That officer survived. An attack on a Police Officer is an attack on all of us, pure and simple. Reporter that attack amid absolute chaos in the heart of manhattan. The historic macys, site of the thanksgiving day parade, ransacked by opportunistic looters, sparking this reaction from the governor. It was a disgrace. Reporter an 11 00 p. M. Curfew in the city that never sleeps considered too late by many. Today the mayor changed it to 8 00 p. M. You saw stuff last night that we will not accept. We can fight back and we will fight back. Reporter but this afternoon, a different scene. Peaceful demonstrators marching in the big apple toward nypd headquarters. Also today, celebrities and activists using social media by posting blank black images to their profiles. But some advocates say it downstairs out critical updates from people on the ground. This young protester telling us after decades of empty talk on change, this feels different. For once everybody is ready for change. White people, black people. If you look, this is not just black people in this movement. We have white, black, asian, hispanic, native. Everyone is sick of the racism in this system. Miguel marquez brought us that piece. Right now where he is in st. Paul, theyre having a moment of silence. Were going to respect that. Thank you so much for that report, Miguel Marquez. Lets go to new york city. The curfew in new york city is going to start earlier, at 8 00 p. M. Tonight, than last night which was 11 00 p. M. Looters smashed storefronts across manhattan last night. Governor cuomo put the blame on his fellow democrat, new york city mayor bill de blasio and the nypd, cuomo saying they failed to do their jobs. I am disappointed and outraged at what happened in new york city last night. The nypd and the mayor did not do their job. The mayor underestimates the scope of the problem. And the police in new york city were not effective at doing their job last night, period. It was a disgrace. Harsh words from governor cuomo. Cnns Shimon Prokupecz is in new york. Shimon, youve been walking with protesters since this afternoon. Tell us about what youre seeing, what the experience is like. [ inaudible ] we lost shimon. Okay. Were having difficulty hearing from shimon. Its the perils of live television. Well go back to him when we get his audio back up. This morning President Trump was back at church, a Catholic Church this time after condemnation and criticism after peacefully protesting american citizens were tear gassed by Law Enforcement yesterday so that the president could hold a photo op in front of st. Johns Episcopal Church. Trump and his team have voiced concerns about how they are losing support among some christian conservatives as Cnns Kaitlan Collins reports, including evangelicals and catholics. Reporter President Trump visited another Iconic Church in d. C. Today while still facing fierce backlash for his historic trip to a church near the white house yesterday, after Peaceful Protesters were cleared from the streets using smoke, flashbangs and child. The president and First Lady Melania Trump stood at the shrine of Pope John Paul ii. The washington archbishop said he would not condone the use of tear gas to silence, scatter or intimidate protesters. Trump has faced heavy criticism for his trip to st. Johns church. Trump, who rarely attends church services, did not go inside to tour the damage to the church or stop to pray. Instead he took photos outside and used a bible as a prop. Reporter is that your bible . Its a bible. Reporter sources told cnn the president wanted to be seen outside the white house grounds because he was angered by reports that he had been rushed to an underground bunker during fridays protest. Today a Justice Department official confirmed attorney general bill barr personally asked for the protesters to be shush pushed back on monday. Washingtons mayor called the use of force shameful. I didnt see any provocation that would warrant the deployment of munitions. Reporter most republicans have either defended the president or remained quiet. One exception is senator ben sasse of nebraska who said in a statement that while there is no right to riot or throw rocks at police, im against clearing out a peaceful protest for a photo op that treats the word of god as a political prop. Joe biden accused the president of fanning the flames of hate and criticized him for posing with the bible. The president held up the bible at st. Johns church yesterday. I just wish he opened it once in a while. Reporter ignoring the criticism, President Trump congratulated himself on twitter today, saying d. C. Had no problems last night, many arrests, overwhelming force, domination, likewise minneapolis was great, thank you President Trump. Now, jake, after the president sent out that tweet, the attorney general, bill barr, put out a statement saying it was much more calm in washington last night and he said, quote, there will be an even greater Law Enforcement resources and support in the region tonight and this comes as were already seeing protesters gather as close as they can get to the white house given that new barrier that they put up overnight. All right, Kaitlan Collins at the white house for us, thank you so much. Lets go back to cnns Shimon Prokupecz in new york city, we have his audio fixed. Shimon, protests are under way right now but theres been a lot of criticism of mayor de blasio and even the nypd, most notably by governor cuomo, about the lawlessness yesterday. Reporter yeah, there have been. As you can see here, very different from what we saw last night, across manhattan, across new york city, when looters just took over the city. At one point there were, jake, more looters on the street than anything else. There was looters, Police Officers, and journalists. The curfew did not seem to work. Now of course the governor is not happy about what we saw. Around us here today, as you can see, jake, diverse crowd, people just marching. And its become a march of people chanting, different names of people who have died at the hands of police. You hear black lives matter and people saying no justice, no peace. One thing i want to point out is, when you look around, there are no Police Officers around. And the police have allowed them to just march, a big difference from what we saw last night. Its important to distinguish the groups we saw, and there were groups, hundreds of them in groups that were running around manhattan, overwhelming the police. And the police just seemed surprised at what happened. And so they were running free all across the city, breaking into stores. And theyre criminals. Here today what were seeing are peaceful demonstrators, marchers who are expressing their feelings. And if you look around, there are no police around us, jake. Okay, Shimon Prokupecz in new york, and a new yorker expressing himself, as a new york is wont to do. Coming up, they turned holy ground by a battleground. Those words from a priest tear gassed moments about President Trumps photo op yesterday, ill talk to her. Plus the new investigation into the Minneapolis Police department and protests happening across the United States. Stay with us. N ] give me your hand i can save you. Lots of money with Liberty Mutual we customize your Car Insurance so you only pay for what you need only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Lets be honest. Quitting smoking is hard. Like, quitting every monday hard. Quitting feels so big. So try making it smaller, and youll be surprised at how easily starting small can lead to something big. Start stopping with nicorette. 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Alex, this seems a much more peaceful scene than yesterday in front of the white house when Law Enforcement, using gas and flashbangs and more, cleared out that crowd. Reporter its a much more peaceful scene than yesterday evening, jake. It was peaceful at that time as well. If the president hoped that crackdown on Peaceful Protesters would get them to stop protesting, he very simply was wrong. Clearly he is anticipating more unrest because weve seen this new fence going up, about eight feet high steel fencing around Lafayette Park. You can see the Law Enforcement forces are a bit more at ease because of the fencing that they have just put up but really the only effect appears to be spreading the protesters out rather than having them gathered right here in the middle. And if anything, it has poured a bit of fuel on the fire. There is definitely a high theres a lot of tension out here. Weve already seen a lot of people shaking these fences to express that anger. But it is very peaceful for now, jake. Those chants that weve heard throughout these protests, black lives matter and the name of george floyd. And jake, it was right here that that crackdown started yesterday evening in order for the president to then be able to walk across Lafayette Park and go right there to st. Johns church for that photo op, jake. All right, alex marquardt, thanks so much. As alex note, yesterday we saw Peaceful Protesters pushed back to President Trump could have that photo op in front of st. Johns Episcopal Church. Joining us now, the rector at st. Johns Episcopal Church in georgetown but was in Lafayette Park yesterday to support protesters. Reverend, thank you for joining us. What did you see on the ground, i guess you were on the patio of st. Johns, because the armored Law Enforcement officers showed up with gas and flashbangs and the like. So what i saw was a peaceful protest. And what i had seen all day was people using that space as really a respite, a place for prayer or to sit. There was some shade at one point. And as we got around 6 15 or 6 30, what i began to see was the police that had previously been deep into Lafayette Park beginning to move toward h street. And out of the corner of my eye, because i was like helping wash peoples eyes out from having gotten gas or pepper spray or something in them, i literally saw out of the corner of my eye Police Beginning to come up h street on horseback. And i at that point had gotten began to work with the black lives matter sort of medical support volunteers. And we were, you know, handing out water and paper towels with eye wash on it and that sort of thing. And increasingly we began to see those little tracers of smoke and the sounds of explosions which i guess are those flash grenade things. And what was your reaction when Law Enforcement started to push in and people had to flee . I know some people complained about being hit with rubber bullets and the like. You had to flee too, right . Because of whether it was tear gas or some sort of gas with an irritant was bothering you as well. So i was in complete completely stunned, really, because i never would have imagined that i would look up and literally see an entire line of Police Officers all in this heavy military gear, all black, and these shields, literally pushing and shoving and driving people off of the church patio. Like, i looked up and there they were. And i was literally helping wipe away tears in peoples eyes and tried to tend to them and help them on the grounds and suddenly the police were pushing us back. And the people were dropping to the ground, afraid. And they were when they hear those flash sounds, they thought they were being shot. And people were running at us. And literally at some point when i looked up and the police were so close, i had to just grab some things and run. And you said that holy ground was turned into a battleground yesterday, and ultimately it was because President Trump wanted to stand in front of st. Johns and hold up a bible. He didnt read from it, he didnt go in and pray as many president s have, and he has in the past. It was just for a photo op. The white house put out a video minutes later, essentially. What was your response, that thats what this was all about, was so President Trump could stand in front of st. Johns and hold a bible . So i was already stunned and shocked and deeply, deeply offended that they had taken what had become holy ground and had been holy ground for 200 years and literally did he say desecrated it, turned it into a literal battleground with those officers and heavily armed and ju