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 Companies for the way they moderate content online . A lot going on with that. Then there is this argument from the president against mailin voting. That children will steal ballots from mailboxes. Willie, we never knew this. It was those darn kids. All along, it was those darn, meddling kids on scoobiedoo. They would vote harvest. Young children, willie. Vote harvesting all over america. Theres no mischief a child loves more than going through mailboxes to steal mailin ballots. Everybody knows that from the beginning of time. Stripped from little rascals and forward. Unbelievable. You look at half the plots from little rascals through leave it to beaver. The late eddie haskell, why did he love to do it . It drove ms. Cleaver crazy. Vote harvest. Whatever. I never knew. Also, joe biden points out two tweets from the same day in october. Biden warning that the u. S. Is not prepared for a pandemic, while trump was concerned about the button on the iphone. The latest from the campaign is ahead, as well. We begin with the breaking news from minneapolis. Violent protests raged for a second straight night following the death of george floyd, after being arrested by a Minneapolis Police officer. Last night, protesters turned their attention to the citys third Police Precinct, the base of the four officers who were fired in connection with floyds death. A Police Spokesman says officers evacuated the building after 10 00 p. M. Local time after protesters forced their way in and set it on fire. Heres how some of that played out live last night with Msnbcs Ali Velshi on the scene. Reporter celebrating symbolically that they have taken control of the Police Station. Heres the question we dont have an answer to, brian. We know there are, or were, to my count, at least five Police Officers that i could see. They might have been the same ones on the roof as were in the back. We dont know where the Police Officers are. But the front entrance, the main entrance to the Police Station is now in flames. Theres no sign of police, and there is more debris going on. Theres firecrackers being put off by the protesters in all directions. Theyve lit firecrackers in the parking lot. You can see that. Theres now a Police Presence on top of the building. Miguel, you see that . These streets are completely clogged in all directions. The earlier fire was only one block over there, and they couldnt get there. It wasnt even in the center of things. Without a very heavy presence, there is no chance. There are thousands of people on the street. I get your point, that to let a Police Station burn is symbolically an important matter for them to consider. There is no chance a fire truck is getting in at this point without a very heavy intervention by the authorities or the National Guard. I keep emphasizing that, theyre not here. Were not seeing that presence. We know the National Guard is in town. I saw heavily armed vehicles on my way here earlier, but there are no police vehicles. There are no armored carriers. There is no National Guard in the vicinity. There are a lot of firecrackers. The mayor said later he made the call to abandon the building to cut the risk of injury and addressed the violence overnight. There is a lot of pain and anger right now in our city. I understand that. Our entire city recognizes that. What we have seen over the past several hours and the past couple of nights in terms of looting is unacceptable. Our communities cannot and will not tolerate it. Minnesotas governor activated more than 500 National Guard soldiers yesterday afternoon following the unrest and looting from wednesday night. When asked where the troops were when the Police Precinct was being overrun, the mayor of minneapolis said, many were stationed at essential businesses, like banks, Grocery Stores, and pharmacies, to help prevent looting. We have live pictures right now, as the city still burns. The city still burns. The mayor is right when he says that it is unacceptable. The rioting, the looting. Lets just go down the list. We will start with the images that were looking at now. This is unacceptable. It is despicable behavior. It actually turns a lot of americans against the good cause. The cause of justice for all americans but especially, in this case, for black americans. And the governor of minnesota, i know hes called out the National Guard. They need to get on the streets, and they need to take control of this city. They need to do it now. I know i understand a had the of times Cable News Networks will stay focused on one small part of the city. And you dont have to tell me the overwhelming majority of minneapolis and the twin cities is safe and secure. I understand that. But the National Guard needs to stop this looting. They need to stop these riots. They need to stop them and stop them now. The National Guard needs to get on the streets. Rev, i know you will agree with me, this only undercuts the more important cause. I want to read to you though something that was said yesterday that certainly upset a lot of people, not only in minneapolis, not only black people in minneapolis, but americans across the country. Its this, Hennepin County prosecutor triggered an uproar at a press conference when he said, quote, there is other evidence that does not support a criminal charge. Now, his office later issued a clarification, saying freeman only meant it is critical to review all the evidence. I understand reviewing all the evidence, but there is a balance here. I know that you always, you always talk about the importance in these protests to premaremai peaceful. You always speak out against looting. You always speak out against this sort of violence. So lets first talk about what happened last night, how it can never happen again. Authorities need to step in and take control. But then, lets talk about what started all of this, and it was the heinous killing of a black man who had a knee shoved in his neck for nine minutes as he was begging for help, saying he couldnt breathe, and was calling out for his dead mother. I spent yesterday in minneapolis, and i brought with me the mother of eric garner, who was killed in a police chokehold, saying the same words, i cant breathe. Rev, can i stop you for a second there . Yes. Eric garner was murdered. We said that on this show. Eric garner was murdered on staten island. Again, while were being clear about what has to stop in minnesota, lets also be clear about that. Eric gardner was murdered. We saw murder in minneapolis. It is time for the prosecutors in that city, in that county, to start acting like theyre more interested in Law Enforcement than covering their own assas. I im sorry. Go ahead. I wanted to bring her to show the reason were seeing this anger is this is not the first time this has happened, even on tape, even with the same exact words. That does not justify looting and violence. In fact, what we said to many of the people there yesterday is, we cannot become like the very things we are fighting. The context of it, we saw their protests spread all over the country. We saw in louisville, kentucky, where a young lady, brianna taylor, was on my show, politics nation, on this station two weeks ago. People are outraged, and just y justifiably so, about the criminal justice system. For good reason. The question is how do you deal with the outrage to where youre getting the results youre looking for, which is a fair criminal justice system. You dont do it by appearing to be criminal yourself. We are not the ones that inflict the pain. We are the ones that have been pained. Our reaction must show that and highlight that. Otherwise, people exploit that and change the focus into demonizing those that conduct themselves in a violent way, rather than those that are saying, as the floyd family is saying, we want justice. Theyve said very clearly ive talked to the floyd family, and theyve said publicly and clearly, we want to see justice. We understand the outrage, but we dont want to see violence. The other thing i might add, joe, is as i walked around minneapolis yesterday, with some of the ministers and elected officials, some of the stores being damaged are blackowned stores. Yeah. We cannot become so reckless that we are destroying each other in our rage. The rage is justified. There is nobody more angry than me, longer than me. The question is, am i angry enough to get something done about it, or am i going to play into those that are adversarial to what im trying to say and try to represent . Lets be very clear here, very clear here. Anybody in the media, anybody in the field of politics that tries to justify looting, that cries to justify violence, that tries to justify images that we saw last night, all you were doing was playing into the hands of people who will exploit this for their own political gain, and to try to undermine the justice that the floyd family is seeking. Willie, speaking of that last night, donald trump tweeted out first of all, lets talk about what a leader does in a time like this. This is when president s get on the phone. This has happened this is how it works. President s see images like that, maybe sometimes theyre awakened at night, and you have president s who are awakened. They get on the phone and call the governor. They say to the governor, governors who arent in their party, hey, what do you need us to do to help . Lets coordinate this. Theyll get the local Law Enforcement officials on the phone. Youll have leaders from the federal, state, and local, all working together to make sure peace comes to this city. Well, that didnt happen last night. Instead, donald trump just sent out a tweet talking about shooting people. President of the United States, in the middle of the night, sending out a tweet talking about shooting people. Of course, twitter marked that. Pretty big news. It incited violence. Thats what he did last night. It is so important, and it is just like the coronavirus, it appears that it is up to the governors. Its up to the local officials. The president is going to be posing. He is going to be saying inflammatory things. He is going to try to appeal to people by saying, like a dictator, that he is going to resort to violence. When the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you. Okay, very interesting approach there, mr. President. Again, the president is not going to help, obviously. So it is incumbent upon local officials to take matters into their own hands here, and to bring peace to those streets, to bring justice for the floyd family. Yeah. And the president has conceded earlier in the day that what he saw in that video clearly was bad. What he saw the officer do to george floyd was pabad. When it turned to looting, violence at the Police Precinct we saw last night, the president believed he had license to say, again, when the looting starts, the shooting starts, while taking a shot at the mayor of minneapolis. There is another angle obtained by nbc news of the incident in the moment that killed george floyd. You see two other officers on the ground there on their knees, as well, with the one officer weve seen in the previous video here, which is very hard to watch. We ought to watch it, with his knee on the neck of george floyd, ultimately killing him. I was struck, joe, listening last night to Police Commissioners. Weve seen over the course of history, Police Officers, Police Departments circle the wagons here. Not in this case. The commissioner of police in new york city, in los angeles, in houston, in washington, d. C. , the Police Commissioner in d. C saying, this is nothing short of murder, what the officers did to george floyd. Police unions, who protect officers, many condemning what they saw. So plainly, what happened in that video was so terrible and so awful and so beyond what any Police Officer ever should do. Well, you know, also, not only that and lets go back to the video again. I know it is very hard to see, of the Police Officers. In the past, conservative outlets at times have circled the wagon, as well, and reflexively always defended Law Enforcement officers. I understand that instinct. That is my instinct. But, obviously, not in this case. Im seeing more and more conservative outlets outwardly condemning this, saying its murder, saying that justice should be brought in this case. Im so glad to see the same thing is happening from our Law Enforcement leaders across america, willie. They need to speak out because they know the truth. They know the truth. The overwhelming majority of Law Enforcement officers are people who are doing their best, putting their lives on the line every day, and protecting the rest of us. Yeah. The video is just undeniablunde. Nothing else to say about it. Horrid. Joining us, nbc news critical reporter shaquille brewster. What are you seeing on the ground . We saw the third precinct burning. We showed live pictures of buildings, continue to burn this morning. What are you seeing where you are . Reporter it was another day of largely peaceful protests that then turned into the clashes. Last night, we just saw open rioting here on the streets of minneapolis. For full disclosure, our team planned to be right there at the third Police Precinct where that fire happened. When we pulled up this morning, it was still a very active scene. There were still several buildings fully engulfed in flames. There was still a lot of people shooting off fireworks at different points in time. It was a very active scene. We just pulled out. We didnt feel safe being there, so we came about 6 miles back downtown to where we are now. What we do know, the mayor spoke overnight, just a couple of hours ago when you look at the time, around 2 00 a. M. We heard from the mayor who had tough words for the protesters. He also responded to what you guys were talking about, the tweet from the president. Lets pull up that tweet one more time. The president first starts by saying that hes talking about the situation. Hes responding to the dramatic images. He says, i cant stand back and watch this happen to a Great American city, minneapolis. He then goes into a full on attack on the mayor here, saying he is a radical, leftwing democrat. Then he goes into the second tweet. Its the second tweet we have to note that twitter puts up a warner before you can see it. You have to acknowledge that it is a tweet thats sensitive before you can even view it when youre on the app. In that tweet, he threatens to send in the National Guard, which has been already activated by the governor. We know 500 guardsmen have been activated. He writes, the thugs are dishonoring the memory of george floyd, and i wont let that happen. He says he had a conversation with the governor. Then adds, any difficulty, and we will assume control. When the looting starts, the shooting starts. He says, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thats a line that has a lot of significance, even when put in historical context. The m mayor frey responded to that earlier. Weakness is refusing to take responsibility for your own actions. Weakness is pointing your finger at somebody else during a time of crisis. Donald trump knows nothing about the strength of minneapolis. We are strong as hell. Is this a difficult time period . Yes. But you better be damn sure that were going to get through this. Reporter i have to add that, in my conversations with protesters, they have all emphasized that, yes, they dont like the rioting that youre seeing, but their main priority is they want to see the officer who had his knee on the neck of mr. Floyd, until he no longer was responsive and no longer had a pulse, according to the ems records, they want to see that officer arrested. Thats their bottom line. Until that happens, they plan on continuing to demonstrate. Hopefully avoiding what we saw last night, but they continue to plan they continue to have the plans for those demonstrations. Willie . Shaq, we were talking a few minutes ago about the Hennepin County attorney, who says he has to move slowly and investigate all the evidence, which is his job. He also said, there is evidence that does not support a criminal charge. He couched that later in a statement from his office. Do we have any sense for what hes talking about there, that there is evidence that we have not seen, that does not support a criminal charge in the death of george floyd . Reporter no. He had to clarify that statement. Lets just start with how unusual that is. We have the statement come and the press conference come from the fbi. Remember, in this case, there is both the federal investigation and then this is also in the hands of the state investigators. Either of those two bodies can go ahead and make charges and act on what they find. There was that press conference that was delayed for several minutes. It was about 90 minutes to two hours, where the press conference was delayed. The attorney came out and sai