Without outright defining Police Departments even though some members on that committee were open to the idea. So much we dont know will be sorted out. But this much we do, something is going to be done, but exactly what . Welcome everybody. I am a neil cavuto and this is your world. We do not know what the subject is about. And might have something to do at this or protections and assurances that president has already vowed to make to change things a little bit without going in a push to defund Police Departments. I do want to get the read from mike emanuel of how all this went down. Good afternoon. There was a powerful moment this afternoon between george floyd brother and jackson lee. You believe that race impacted what happened to your brother . I believe, yes, maam. Killed my brother just because he didnt like him and it has to be racist. It has something to do with racism. Lawmakers hearing from patrick underwoods sister. He was killed after George Floyds death. His family is hurting too. My family is in a state of hollow disarray. We all feel the anxiety of wondering what tomorrow may bring or may not bring. Which has struck fear in our hearts. Nevertheless, i wholeheartedly urge us all, all americans not to give into hate and anger about to resolve conflict with kindness and love. Today the president and ceo of the National Urban league urged lawmakers to stay focused on police reform. I am tired of trying to change the issue when we have Police Brutality and Police Misconduct to this rhetoric about bad family situations. It is an insult, and it needs to stop. A leading republican lawmaker notes congress should have been working on this issue long ago and where is a partisan respon response. When this new congress set in, we didnt do anything. And now, we are here again faced with a crisis of the moment. And congress, unfortunately lives by this decree. But it off until he have to have a hearing like this, and we mourn the loss of the things most precious to us. Republicans and democrats in congress and at the white house all seem to agree that some reforms are needed in this election year. We will see if they can get it done. Neil thank you very, very much. The Houston Police chief again, he has thoughts on all of this. You had a chance to address your concerns, chief. Im wonder whether you think this Committee Heard you and hear the concerns of many of your colleagues who worry that for a couple of bad men, all are painted with a brush. Yeah, i hope they are hearing the American People where we really do have to put away our broad brushes and stop judging people through the uniform they wear, the color of their skin and nation of origin. Start judging each other through our own individual actions and that conscious of our hearts. I have to admit that i agree that congress hasnt done enough. I think that both parties, both sides of the aisle are equally guilty of that. It is time to stop talking and start acting, because the American People have reached rock bottom. They will not tolerate any inaction. Neil there has been growing talk among the more liberal members in the house to defund Police Departments, your own included. I am wondering how you feel about that. At a minimum, they seem to be arguing for rechallenging some of that money. Money that would normally go to Law Enforcement might go to Youth Services at things like that. What do you think . I think that is a false equivalence and a false choice. I think those are individuals that quite frankly a lot of them are actors they dont even live in the communities that we ser serve. This is the most diverse city in the United States. My mayor is born and bred here and comes from very humble beginnings. Other mayors are saying absolutely not. Communities of color and poor communities need us more. They need good policing more than affluent communities. What they want is not blessed policing. Or they want good policing and they are demanding that we weed out bad cops. It is not an either or proposition. All the money we printed for covid19 when it impacted the entire nation, we certainly can deal with the socioeconomic issues, Mental Health issues and the other issues. I believe that if we did both, after a generation or so, we should be able to start reducing Police Forces and our expenditures on public safety, because we will see a return on that tax dollar and that investment. Neil one of the ideas is policing the Police Policy on stroke holes and things like that to get rid of them. They dont serve any purpose. It starts like that. How do you feel about those recommendations . You know, that challenge with this country is we have 18,000 Police Departments representing 18,000 sets of policies and training standards. Not every department is built the same. What we need, as we need to pull out and identify the critical policies and procedures and ensure that all 18,000 departments are doing business the same way. You should not be touching the neck or manipulating the neck anywhere in this country as a Police Officer unless you are in a fight for your light. Absent that, every department should strongly consider any type of controlling hold over the neck. Neil when you had a chance to see the videos, do you think that george floyd was providing a fight for his life and the officer involved should have done what he did . No, i think anyone that looks at that video and tries to justify or tries to excuse it or tries to minimize it is probably part of the problem. That man, george floyd, was under control. He was handcuffs. They had plenty of resources. I have to tell you that i think the authorities there if it was in my city, i would be investigating very closely the relationship with mr. Floyd and the officer that had that knee on his neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. I have a feeling that we may find some kind of conflict that may have led to this individual doing what he did with an abandoned heart and with malice in his heart, which i think well have an impact on the typo charges and the impact on the trial moving forward. Neil you have a very diverse board. I will ask you this very bluntly. Ive talked with a number of africanamerican leaders and those involved said there is a difference between george floyd allegedly getting treated like he was. The same exact thing happened to you because of the color of your skin. Is he right . I dont think that you can eliminate race in equivalence of the motivation. That is something that we would have to look deep into his past and motives. At the end of the day, we are very fortunate here in houston, the most diverse city in a country that is a mostly majority department. We have our mistakes and challenges. If people dont believe in diversity, you have to understand that they need to take a minute and close their eyes and living in a community where no one looks like them. Understand human nature. How comfortable would they be . We have to do better and it demand more. I think we all need to speak out against racism and policing over the last 200 years but also the socioeconomic disenfranchisement of a lot of communities of color and a significant number of the white community. The American Dream has not been achieved by everyone. I think we need to do a better job as a nation of spreading the wealth and the opportunities here in this country. Neil that is a very nice having you on. Thank you for taking the time. Some eyeopening comments. We should all step back and think a little bit. We will continue monitoring whats going on in the white house right now. Of the press was called and i think about 15 or 20 minutes a ago. We dont know what all that is a go. 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When they write the history of covid and financial fallout from ed, i think he is going to get his own chapter in the book. He has just just performed amazingly well as one who does not worship at the altar of government, i have real reservations about what we were doing. I voted for it. I thought it was the right thing to do. When youre throwing trillions of dollars against a wall, its going to be glitches. One thing ive said is, look, if you listen to the National News or read in National News, you think that this thing is all full of problems. This has been a tremendous success. Ppp has benefited tens of millions of employees. They have done a great job with it. There are some glitches with it of course. Compared to all the good that it is done. They have done a great job as far as more money. I have to tell you that enthusiasm for spending more is rapidly declining in these chambers when we see what is happening to the economy. If someone wouldve told you two months ago that the market is going to be where it is right now, you would have shook your head and said that is impossib impossible. The places are opening. People are going back to work. Not only that, out of 2. 8 trillion that was appropriated, less than half of it has been put to work. There is a lot more money sitting on the sidelines i can going to the economy. Neil you dont think it would be necessary to add to that from the time being . With the democrats, it is the opposite. We seem to be getting signals that they are open to paying tax cuts and things like that. They want to do more. It sounds like you are saying go slow. I am saying go slow. Im not saying dont do more, im saying lets wait and see. When you put less than half of almost 3 trillion to work, why dont we wait and see look at what that first half has done. Look at where it has gotten us. Things are moving very rapidly today. At the end of the day, it may need more. This is a unique circumstance that we are in. I am open to it. I think everybody is open to it. Things are moving very rapidly now. We ought to be cautious. We ought to put the next foot down slowly as we put it down. Neil senator, a couple of developments as a United States senator, the president wants to pull a lot of troops out of germany. How do you feel about that . Some of your colleagues are anxious about it. I think everybody is anxious about it because we dont know all of the details yet. I havent talked to the president since he has said that. I will be doing that. We are all going to want to hear details about it. That is a longstanding contingent of people that we have there since world war ii. It has really become a hub in the world for movement of troops and equipment particularly in medical care for our troops. We are going to want to hear some more details on it. We will be discussing it with the president. Neil while i have you if you dont mind, Kayleigh Mcenany today was asked a lot of questions of this ugly protester who is showed by police against the treatment of police and that it was a set up. Do you believe that this was a set up . Who knows . You can find just about anything you want. I saw the video just like everybody else does, it is ten seconds longer Something Like that. This is why we have courts. This is why we have investigations. I think all of this will come out. I dont have that gentleman was or what he was doing there. I dont know what he had in his hand. I dont know i hope the officers had body cameras on so that you can see what they were seeing as they approached the individual. There is a long way to go before we make a judgment on that. Im not ready to make a judgment on it. Neil the president did. I dont me to overstate. He was bleeding from the back of his head. You think we really dont know. You ought to give the president a call. He has strong feelings on a lot of things. I enjoy his company. We exchange regularly. We havent talked about this. It may or may not come up as we go down the pike. I have my view on it. He has his view on it. I think most americans have a view. We will see if theres more to come out on this so everybody can reach a conclusion. Neil im taking a leap year that if it were you, you wouldnt say that. I havent reached a conclusion yet. Now, i wouldnt say what something is. I was a prosecutor. I prosecuted thousands of cases. What i have learned, is you want to sit through the evidence really carefully before you move forward on something. Charging issues are always the most difficult there are as you proceed to trial, you had better have your ducks in a row. You want all of the information before you reach a conclusion where you want to take somethi something. Neil there is a concept. Thank you very much. Beautiful state. Beautiful state of idaho. Just an awesome state. We have a lot more coming up here including what is going on the white house. We dont know the details. We are told the president would meet with africanamerican leaders. That could telegraph how to proceed from here post the georgia florida case and where we as a country go from here. Stay with us. These are real people, not actors, whove got their eczema under control. With less eczema you can show more skin. So roll up those sleeves. And help heal your skin from within with dupixent. Dupixent is the first treatment of its kind that continuously treats moderatetosevere eczema, or atopic dermatitis, even between flare ups. Dupixent is a biologic and not a cream or steroid. Many people taking dupixent saw clear or almost clear skin. And had significantly less itch. Dont use if youre allergic to dupixent. Serious allergic reactions can occur, including anaphylaxis, which is severe. 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As you know, judge, some want to defund those departments altogether. Nablus has talked about disbanding altogether. How far at any level let alone the government level can you go . There are thousands of Police Department in the United States from little tiny hamlets to the new york city Police Department. They are regulated locally, usually by the governing body of the municipality. They are not regulated federally. They are required to follow the bill of rights and comport with the constitution which they have taken an oath to uphold. In the federal government wants to regulate something that is essentially local or even statewide where the power to regulate i