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I will see you back here after christmas. >> sandra: enjoy. happy holidays to you and your family. merry christmas. thanks for joining us here on "america reports." i am sandra smith. >> john: i am john roberts. have a merry christmas. the "story" with martha maccallum starts right now. >> martha: thank you. merry christmas to you. good afternoon, everybody. i'm martha maccallum. this has been truly riveting testimony that we've been watching throughout the day. it's all coming really primarily from the back and forth with the former minnesota police officer, kim potter. the day was april 11th...

As you did for the washington post to understand the story come across the alerts on our phones across the country. cable news headlines every day. what was shocking was how dangerous the people around trump thought he was as he becomes so desperate to hold on to power in those final months in office. i mean, we're talking about a mark milley lot these days. in my book he reported that trump asked him and others to shoot americans, jonathan. that's not an over exaggeration. he wanted peaceful protesters after the george floyd murder shot in the leg, their sculls cracked. his own secretary of s...

Criminal justice where they looked at violent crime in 22 cities. what they found is that compared to last year there's a rise in homicides. 16% rise in homicide. in 2019 there's a significant rise of 42%, of course all of this having to do with guns. they also say that gun assaults are higher this year than last year, 5% higher. one of the interest things they did find is that the rate of homicide rose sharply after the george floyd murder. it's unclear as to why, perhaps that has something to do with policing, whatever it may be. they also found that burglaries and robberies are down. so the...

Targetism, racism. >> but kelly maintains there is progress. >> i can only reflect on the riots and unrest around the country following the george floyd murder. didn't have clashes with the police department. >> reporter: though some are critical of the pace of change even the police department acknowledges it takes time. >> you need kids growing up seeing what we're about to do. >> reporter: trying to undo decades of mistrust day by day. >> you know, gene robinson, there can be change. change can occur, sometimes. the right police commissioner going in and the right set of facts makes a diffe...

These are régis and terms and constructs they use, to lie about them just as they lie about anti racism, and critical race theory and the 1619 project. >> and your book, it really took off after the george floyd murder. so did robin deangelo's book, white rage. i believe that's the name. do you think the right is using the george floyd movement, and the fact that white americans saw what happened to george floyd and said oh my god, we need to question whether or not there is structural racism in our society that said this is about. it's about one americans waking up to what happened and they ...