President trump calling video shocking and ordering an expedited federal investigation into George Floyds death. The officers have been fired but have not been charged at this time. The minneapolis mayor and many others saying they should be. Im not a prosecutor but let me be clear. The arresting officer killed someone. He would be alive today if he were white. The fact that ive seen, which are minimal, certainly lead me down the path that reese was involved. That race was involved. Dana George Floyds brother calling for action. The officers need to be arrested right now. They need to be arrested and held accountable about everything because these people want justice right now. Justice. If this guy was arrested, convicted of murder and given the death penalty. Dana we are awaiting a press conference from the fbi on this very case and i also wanted to point out that George Floyds girlfriend, her name is courtney ross, she had a statement she put out saying about the unrest and the riding, she said i am heartbroken, waking up this morning to see minneapolis on fire would be something that would devastate george. He came here for the people and opportunities. He was about love and peace. She said she wants demonstrators to know she understands her frustration but she wants people to protest in a peaceful way. We will take it or on the table. Lawrence jones, let me start, we spoke earlier today. As night comes to minneapolis, they are bracing for another night of these riots. Your thoughts. As i told you on your program earlier, a lot of times as someone whos been on the ground reporting on these protests when the tragedy like this happens, reports come out afterwards and you see that the majority of the people that set things on fire art from those neighborhoods. They are outside people. There antifa. Its not the community that is mourning. I hope they are there to announce charges. This happened monday. Its thursday. If this was a cop that was brutally murdered and there were people who student watched it happen, they would be in jail right now and there would be no bail. I think its important that when we are having this conversation, to take the city in context. The city has gone through this before. They have been sued by Police Officers and their departments before because of racism. One of those people that sued them is the current chief of police. The union rep that is in that Police Department was seen by the police chief now with a white power sign on his jacket. So when you see people upset, they are upset because of the pattern. You know me, this audience knows me. I wait for the facts on most things. Ive been an investigator. Ive spent a career in criminal justice. My first job was working in Juvenile Court but im also a black man. This could have been me. When you see people like me who are conservatives, when you see someone like tim scott, the first black republican senator since reconstruction saying ive been pulled over in the Capital Seven times and the cop tells me the senate pin i recognize that your face i dont recognize, this is why you see outrage in this country. To piggyback on whats going on in the country during the pandemic, theres a lot of conservatives now asking questions about the states, you have seen members of the state abuse their power and now theyre saying maybe whats happening in the black community, maybe they werent lying all along. Of course theres people in the media and on the left to take advantage of these tragedies but you know me. Im not one of those type of people. Dana no. Youre a great person we are so glad to have you here today, lawrence. Greg, since monday, since this has happened, even though the country, theres a lot of division, a lot of polarization. There was near universal, almost universal agreement that these investigators, the Police Officers should absolutely be investigated. That wasnt in question. Then when a protest, a peaceful protest crosses the line into a right and you see a situation where targets looted, and autozone up in flames. A low income Apartment Building that was underway cop inflames me think about the people are going to have to wait to get their jobs back. Im sure the state is on edge already because of the virus. Its a real unfortunate thing. There is universal agreement. Greg theres two important parts of your question. Number one, we feel like we have to be in two boxes, two prisons. You either believe that Police Brutality exists or you are repulsed by looting. In fact, you can agree with both of those. You dont have to be in one box with the other. The fact is you can be absolutely disgusted by what happened to that young man in that video. You could also be repulsed by what youre seeing right now, this ridiculously absurd video from last night. Im also wondering why there are certain people who are silent about this behavior, as though it comes down to be expected. What does that say about you if you just expect this kind of behavior . What does that say about how you feel about minorities . To your point, the universal agreement, if you strip away the medias framing, you will find that mostly everybody agrees on the basic things. Coronavirus. We all want to beat this virus and get back to living healthy. Economy. We want to get back to work safely and not go crazy. We are against Police Brutality and we want justice for whatever happened and we find looting repugnant. Nobody would disagree with any of that. It goes back to your question. What are you riding against . What did target do to you . What did lowincome housing due to you . We are all in agreement, which makes the rioting in the looting scene opportunistic. Dana George Floyds girlfriend, jesse, saying he wouldve wanted the protest to be peaceful. He wouldnt have wanted to see this. I dont know if that message will land on any ears over the there. Jesse you dont need to swipe a flat screen tv to this guys death. Thats were so many people have so much compassion for this community and they see these images on the screen and they lose a little bit of it. Even i can understand rioting or protesting the police. Of course, this Police Officer looks like he killed a guy. So yeah, get out in the streets. Get out there and show how angry you are, how much pain youre feeling. But then when you start slipping into stores and stealing cell phones and electronics, i dont know. This is what divides the country because you have the media, and im not comparing these two protests. You have the media. You had a protest last week over a lockdown, totally peaceful. People are losing their civil liberties, their jobs and their livelihood, their rights. They are out there peacefully protesting and they are just getting smeared by the media. And then you have other people protesting rightfully over a dead man and they start lighting things on fire. You hear nothing about that. Its apples and oranges, i get it. Theres reasons for people to be on the streets. I understand that. But that hypocrisy is sad and everyone agrees. Yes, lawrence. This cop was a bad apple. He had complaints, multiple deadly incidents on his record. A history problem there in that department very looting and setting things on fire is going to mend fences. Its only going to make things worse. Dana marie, maybe you can help us understand what the fbi and state and city officials, when they come to the podium, they are about an hour late getting to the press conference. You are a great communicator by trade. What do you think they could do or say tonight that would maybe help quell the rioting. Marie charges. Charges against these Police Officers. Not just that they have already been fired but that they are charged with murder and whats been so interesting to me, dana, even a few years ago we saw the Trayvon Martin situation or eric garner, you did not see Police Chiefs from across the country coming out in support of the victims. You saw silence for the most part. Just this week, we have seen Police Officers, Police Chiefs across this country who worked so hard to repair relationships in their own communities, how to save these Police Officers dont represent us. We are better than this. Thats a sea change i think is important in the public narrative across the country. Thats one very small hopeful sign that weve seen in this horrible tragedy. Dana marie, thats an excellent point. I heard from a police chief who said today when he saw all that great work theyve been doing that community is at great risk. They been trying to build trust. President trump makes good on his threat against twitter. You will hear from him next. 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Trump signed an executive order calling for regulations to punish social Media Companies for political bias. He also took a big shot at twitter over factchecking his tweets. Take a look. I think if twitter were not honorable, youd have a guy like this beer judge and jury. I thin think you shut it down. How would you set it down . I dont know i have to ask the lawyers. If it would be able to legally be shut down, i would do it. I think i would be hurting it very badly if we didnt use it anymore. Jesse twitter is defending its decision. But Facebook Ceo Mark Zuckerberg ripped the move, telling dana that social media platforms should not be the arbiters of truth. Okay. A lot to take in. Dana, when you talked to zuckerberg earlier, what was the sense . Was it him needling a competitor . Dana i think they are rivals of course. They get lumped together in terms of big tech, and i think one of the things that zuckerberg was trying to say is that we have a different approach and if twitter wants to do it its okay but he did say he thought twitter made a mistake and that he doesnt think the big tech companies, if youre going to be a platform, be a platform and dont weigh in. One of the thing thats lost in this discussion is just how much the left really disdains the social Media Companies, especially facebook because facebook made that decision that it wouldnt weigh in on political speech. Speaker pelosi today ripped mark zuckerberg. They have been taking it on the chin, even joe biden, things that they should take down. President Trumps Campaign ads or posts or speech, his tweets that are cross promoted on facebook. This is in some ways what President Trump is doing, you could maybe see there would be some bipartisan support. But for very different reasons. They both hate it. I think its a slippery slope for conservatives. I know the Communications Act of 1996, its 25 years old and may be a does need a little bit of updating but i also think of these companies dont have that protection, censoring will be a much more likely thing because there will they will be liable for all sorts of things. Its probably better to let it all go. Jesse im not so sure about that. If you could maybe target the regulation a little bit better. Gutfeld, what do you think . Do you think its going to hurt the president . Or do you think twitter mightve stepped in it and might regret what they have done . Greg i dont know. Trump loves to kick the tires of everything. Feels like hes kicking the tires, see what he can do and gets people riled up. Its hard because the entirety of communication and culture is overwhelmingly leftward. Entertainment, media, academia. It is all left. Its too late to roll back that stuff. There is the fourth horseman, the one you should be concerned about. If this horseman, social media, joins the other ones, then its really over because this horseman controls the algorithms and that controls the news, it controls everything. I understand that when twitter decides to factcheck, we instinctively think, who is doing the factchecking . Who is it . Is it this idiot who calls everybody in the white house nazis . Because thats what happens everywhere else. They are overwhelmingly progressive and leftward. They think that trump is racist and they think his followers are deplorable. Do you really want them in control . Thats what i think everybody is concerned about. Like i said before, if factchecking is a highway, the red cars get pulled over in the blue cars dont. I think that is where a lot of this animus comes from. Its not going to be fair and balanced like this beloved network. Jesse marie, why cant joe biden just get on twitter if he knows how to do it and reply back to the president if he says something he thinks its crazy. Why does he need big tech guys to help him run his campaign . Marie this isnt about joe biden. I think everybody probably knows by now that i am not on twitter because of the bullying and threats. I know, jesse. This is donald trump trolling twitter. He cant shut it down. He knows he cant shut it down, the real question for twitter is whether they are comfortable with their platform being used by anyone, including the president , to promote hateful, violent, dangerous or outright fabrications to millions of people. Thats a really hard question. The fact that donald trump is taking this action today is really not a legal one. Its a political one. His favorite kind of political action. Grievance, politics. But let me tell you theres a lot of conservatives on twitter. A lot of them went after me for a long time. Thats why im not on there. The idea that twitter is not safe for conservatives is just not true. Its not borne out by the facts. Jesse all right, lawrence. Marie makes the point that twitter doesnt want to have people going out of their platform and lighting and making threats, doing all this stuff, okay. They would have to police it, the left and the right but thats not whats going to happen. Whats going to happen is they are going to over police the right and look the other way when anybody on the left does anything crazy or lies. Lawrence the big problem here, the problem with most companies when they get away from their value systems, the fact of the matter. The actually are taking right now is violating their Mission Statement. They said, their Mission Statement is to share information and content without barriers. This is a new barrier. They are violating it. They are trying to be the one between the people they are trying to reach. I dont think the president is trying to shut down twitter. Has nothing to do that. What is trying to do is bring awareness to a big issue. Me as a conservative, i believe that this is a private company. They can do whatever they want to do but i think its a bad business practice to violate your Mission Statement as well as the main person, donald trump. Everyone is coming there to see what he says on twitter. He sets the new cycle on twitter every single day. Those people will leave when he leaves. When it comes to competition, i think they let their politics get the best of them. Jesse yeah, and we know what their politics are. Coming up, millions of americans could be heading back into the office but its going to look a lot different. Well tell you more about that next. I dont keep track of regrets and i dont add up the years, but what i do count on. Is boost high protein. And now, theres boost mobility. With key nutrients to help support. Joints, muscles, and bones. Try boost mobility, with added collagen. What do we wburger. Inner . I want a sugar cookie. Wait. I want a bucket of chicken. I want. Its the easiest because its the cheesiest. Kraft. For the win win. 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We have heard a lot in washington, d. C. , where i live about the fact that if you keep working from home, it helps essential workers who have to take Public Transportation. Helps keep Public Transportation less crowded. We see people here think that they are not going to turn to office work until labor day or even next year. What do you make of these new guidelines and how some people still want to work from home . Lawrence i think, marie, we expected this to happen. Our company has changed. Theres Payroll Department, different departments that have decided that we work better from home. I get it. The problem with these guidelines is there seems to be this ongoing changing thing and i think thats most frustrating thing for americans is that if they wouldve just been honest and so we dont really know what we are working with. When we said you didnt need a mask, we really didnt know something. Or when it came to the surfaces, that you really couldnt contracted from the surfaces and everybody went for the lysol and everything. I think at the end the day day but most americans are finding is that we werent being as sanitary as we shouldve been. I think we have to put the destiny and most americans hands. Youre going to be able to choose. This locked down where we are at right now, and some states refusing to open is a problem. The guidelines should be a guide. In some cases you need to do more and in some cases you may not need to apply these guidelines. Thats the way i look at it. Marie lawrence brought up the great point. What we know about the virus and how its transmitted has changed so much. To be getting they were telling us not to wear masks and i we are supposed to. It makes these guidelines challenging, doesnt it . People think theres probably a lot we still dont know. Dana absolutely. Ive been shocked that instead of just saying we dont know, they just keep issuing guidance and then three days later they revise the gardens. I think americas companies were looking to the cdc to get guidance like this. They want to bring their workers back in a safe way and they want to do it in a way that will prevent them from being sued. We live in a pretty litigious culture and we know all the lawsuits that are out there. A company that says we follow the cdc guidelines and we are sorry that you came down with coronavirus. We dont know if it was here or wherever. I think there is reason to have this guidance. Yes, i think for some companies they found that their productivity in this period has remained a little same. But i think theres fatigue setting in. People are going to miss out on the innovation and collaboration that comes in with running into your colleagues in the hallway. I also think its true that one of the things people do not miss, if they had a big commute, a tough commute, lots of traffic, delayed trains are our infrastructure is not keeping up, i could imagine some people say would be better for me to just work from home. Perhaps the best thing to do is what lawrence suggested, get the guidance and let companies figure it out. Try to get people back to work in some way. Give thing i would say is i absolutely think this guidance for restaurants has got to be lifted and alleviated. You cannot have people going into restaurants and expect them to come back, if you have to eat with a piece of plastic all around your body. Its not going to happen in the restaurants wont survive the local governments and may be the cdc doesnt allow them some leeway and fast. Marie jessica a lot about the question of liability . Do you think there should be protections for those Companies Bring employees back, operating like we all are under incomplete information about the virus . Jesse i do but these leftwing trial lawyers probably wont let it slide. The democrats are in their pockets. You know how that plays out. Do Lawrence JonesSay Something about the fox news Payroll Department . We are still getting paid, right . Marie i think he did. Jesse i dont care where they work. Just keep the paychecks coming. Heres what i think about this remote work situation. I think it discriminates against certain types of people. Goodlooking people, people with a great sense of humor, and people that are really good around the water cooler. I have made some of my best moves around the water cooler. People laugh at my jokes. I get ideas for my show. People are impressed with the things im wearing. I get promoted because, you know, i have a certain, you know, how do you call it. Im not going to say it in french but you know what i mean. If you are just judging people on how much they are producing or their quality of work. Youre just going to judge people on work quality alone . Theyre not talking about intangibles . We need intangibles in order for people to be judged fairly. Dana has anyone here ever seen jesse around the water cooler . [laughter] jesse i dont even know where the water cooler is. Marie greg, do you miss jesses jokes . Greg he just described himself as Michael Scott in the office. The person who comes in the offices as you know what, people like my jokes. Im going to go over and make some conversation. You know what i find interesting, how selfrighteous the media got telling you to stay home for three months under the threat of shaming, arrests, fines. When it comes to looting, and vandalism, there is no shaming. They could shame you because you werent wearing a mask that they are not shaming people carrying out tvs. Anyway, i wanted to bring up the most awkward thing thats going to happen in work and thats getting onto an elevator. If an elevator door opens and theres two people on the elevator, do you get in . If you wait and somebody lines up behind you, are you they going to be mad at you if you dont go in and they go in . Its going to be complicated because the elevator could be one of the main ways a virus spreads. You are in a box with other people. You havent thought about that, have you . Marie and you can use your foot to push the elevator butt button. Greg i think that is only in asia. That hasnt started here yet. Marie more to come on the five. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo with controversy on what he saying about nursing home deaths. Stay tuned. This is a tempurpedic mattress. And its mission is to give you truly transformative sleep. So, no more tossing and turning. 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If i were advising a friend, i would say you have a vulnerable person. Best to keep them at home and not put them in a congregate facility. Keep them in a situation where you have the most control. That is the blunt truth. Thats what i would do with my mother. Lawrence dana, very telling in this interview. He has taken a hit in the polls right now and i want to pop this up. 40 of new yorkers right now when it comes to his handling, have a negative view of him in the way hes handled those nursing home situation. The governor has been on these press conferences. He got praise from both sides. Will this destroy that narrative right now . Dana it had to come back down to the once the facts started to get out there. He is not used to being questioned. He was riding high for so long and having fun with his brother on cnn and then this story was relentless and so this is where journalism catches up and hes forced to answer. There was a story about how they are counting the numbers of nursing home deaths and maybe altering them. There were days of Media Coverage when it was suggested that the woman in florida in charge of the data had been manipulating them and then she got fired. It turned out to be fake news. Then you have this story and its not getting as much attention. I think because people are so upset that their loved ones that couldve lived an average of ten years longer put in these positions. The last thing ill say is great for him that he could have the resources to take care of his own mother if he had to. Most people dont have that capability. They have to rely on a place in order to help them help their loved ones. Its hard enough to make that decision they have to put your parents or your loved ones into a nursing him without him piling on and saying basically if you cared more, you would keep them home. Thats disgustingly unfair. Lawrence marie, a lot of the pushback that the governor is getting right now, a lot of families want to sue. They want to get involved and theyre not able to sue because the mayor gave the Hospital Executives immunity. What are your thoughts . Marie Governor Cuomo said he made this decision because he was following initial cdc guidance that ten other states also followed that turned out to be tragically not good. He certainly does bear responsibility. I think governor should be able to trust the guidance that they are getting from the cdc. In this case that wasnt true. I think with litigation its going to be very messy on this issue and many others related to covid. I dont know how its going to play out but its going to be messy. Lawrence jesse, i interviewed some folks and it will be on hannity tonight for their mother died as a result of this. One lady told me about my mom and with a leg injury and she left in a body bag. That was a real quote. What are your thoughts . Jesse they were sending body bags of these Nursing Homes along with patients, like a twoforone deal. Marie is wrong about the guidelines. The guidelines didnt say stuff sick people in the Nursing Homes. If those were the guidelines, why didnt ron desantis do it . He did something brilliant and he saved countless lives. When i do something wrong, i blame everybody but myself. I blame greg. I will say that the producers screwed up. Its exactly what cuomo did. Remember what he did. He played dumb. What directive . And then you know what, he tried to delete it, then he said trump told me to do it. Now he said no, its the Nursing Homes fault. He got caught red handed in on me everybody can see he made a boneheaded error. The media is covering for him. Lawrence greg. Greg i was going to say what i said before but it kind of drives me crazy that he had chris rock and rosie perez theyre like as celebrity bells and whistles. The pandemic reveals i think the true weaknesses and strengths of our country. We found out about american unity, innovation, industry. Our witnesses were bureaucracy, the media, politics, elder care. I think we need to look at revamping Nursing Homes to get better pay for the people that are there, to entice better personnel, tax credits for families with elderly. Limit the number of people who live there so that you dont have a world war ii vet sitting in his own stuff for three hours because nobodys there. This is the finish line of life, and if you are lucky, youre going to make it to that age, only to be kicked off the planet and the most degrading way possible. Your reward for making this long, for defending a country, raising a family, doing great things in this world, your reward is abuse and neglect. That is the big story, how we warehouse the elderly like they are burdens with a pulse when in fact they should be treasured and valued because they gave so much and we are giving them so little. Lawrence we should definitely treat our elders with more respect than that. The governor definitely should take a l on this. We have to go. More the five coming up next. Doctor bob, what should i take for back pain . Before you take anything, i recommend applying topical relievers first. Salonpas lidocaine patch blocks pain receptors for effective, nonaddictive relief. Salonpas lidocaine. Patch, rollon or cream. Hisamitsu. For 37 years we have been fighting for survivors of child sex abuse. Even in these uniquely challenging times were still fighting with dedication and devotion. California law gives survivors a chance to take legal action, but only for a limited time. If you were sexually abused by a priest, scout leader, coach or teacher contact us confidentially today. Its time. Greg welcome back. According to science has medical benefits. It makes you feel better. Dont just take danas word for it and her filthy mouth. Research forming a study peoples pain tolerance goes up by as much as 33 if they repeatedly said the f word, dana, and the f word, i will say it now, its fox news. To a lot of people it is very [laughter] dana to some people, yeah. [laughs] greg you swear like a drunken sailor. Dana yeah, yeah. I have no pain. [laughter] no pain, no gain. It works for me. I had a friend, i wont name her, that i work with at the white house. She could say the f word better than anyone i ever knew. The assistant, she has no pain either. Believe me. Greg marie, i have a theory that swearing doesnt replace other words. It actually replaces actions. So before swearing was invented, if you stub your toe, you would probably hit someone with a rock but now when you stub your toe, you swear. It changed our behavior. Marie its a good outlet, a good way to channel your frustrations. It has to be done well. He cant use it too much. Cant over lose it. It loses its meaning. Has to be well applied and i fully support it certainly. Greg lawrence, ive never heard you swear. Lawrence i do. The problem is, when i use the f word, that means im really upset. We should support this because at least youre voicing it and not putting her hands on people or objects or something. I think this is something that we should endorse. Greg when we say the f word, we know the word. Should we come up with another word that represents the phrase f word. Because effort is actually worse because it makes you think of the word. Shouldnt we have another word that represents f word that represents the other word . Sticks where the f is your monologue, gutfeld . This is your monologue . This is it . Greg on thursdays i put together the show for saturday. Dont you know that by now . Jesse okay. Ive got it. Just checking. I missed it. Greg it makes me warm all over that you care. On that note, one more thing is up next. Its best we stay apart for a bit, but youre not alone. Were automatically refunding our customers a portion of their personal auto premiums. Learn more at libertymutual. Com covid19. [ piano playing ] with one protein feels like. What getting fueled with three energy packed proteins feels like. Meat cheese and nuts p3. Because 3 is better than 1 we turn to the most certain thing there is. Science. Science can overcome diseases. Create cures. And yes, beat pandemics. It has before. It will again. Because when its faced with a new opponent, it doesnt back down it revs up. Asking questions til it finds what its looking for. Thats the power of science. Dana fox news alert. The fbi and Law Enforcement officials are giving an update in the investigation into the death of george floyd in minnesota. The county attorney mr. Freeman to my right is here to talk about the state investigation. With me is the special agent in charge of minneapolis fbi. He will talk about the federal investigation and superintendent drew evans from bca will also make a few comments before we open it up for question and answer. My name is erica my donald, im the United States attorney for the district of minnesota. On may 25, 2020, george floyd was arrested and detained by minneapolis Police Officers. Im here to talk about and make sure the community and the media is aware that we are conducting a robust and meticulous investigation into the circumstances surrounding the events of may 25th, 2020 and the Police Officers actions on that evening. Probably dont need to say this to all of you but minneapolis, our nation, really the world has witnessed this incredibly disturbing loss of life. My heart goes out to george floyd. My heart goes out to his family. My heart goes out to his friends, and my heart goes out to the community. We are grieving and we will continue to grieve. To be clear, the department of justice has made the investigation in this case a top priority. We have assigned the highest of the high in my office to investigate and look at the case. The fbi likewise has a has assigned their experience Law Enforcement officers to conduct the investigation. To be clear, President Trump as well as attorney general william barr are directly and actively monitoring the investigation in the case. I have had direct communications with attorney general barr and his staff and will continue to do so. The investigation in this case will determine whether the actions of the former minneapolis Police Officers took violated any federal criminal laws. To include any civil rights violations. Federal civil rights in criminal cases have categories and one is called under cover of law. If an officer, federal, state, local or tribal is acting under their authority and inserts or invokes the power bestowed upon them to deprive any person of any right or privilege protected by the constitution or the laws of the United States, thats in violation of federal criminal law. It must be proven that the subject took action or did not take action when he or she knew that was wrong and chose to do it anyway. As with all matters, the investigation in this case will be comprehensive and will be conducted with the highest integrity, as the community would expect. For those that arent aware of my background, prior to being the United States attorney for the district of minnesota, i was a judge in Dakota County for over 8plus years. Having sat on that side of the bench and having presided over a multitude of trials, i can tell you. I can tell the community. I can tell everybody interested that it is critical. Its essential, imperative that the investigation is done right and done right the first time. And thats what were going to do. This has been a rapidly evolving situation. We first learned of it in the Early Morning hours of tuesday. The fbi reached out directly to me and weve been working on this case nonstop since we were notified. We understand the severity of the situation unfolding. It breaks my heart to see what is going on in our streets in minneapolis and in st. Paul and in some of our suburbs. I am pleading, pleading with individuals to remain calm and to let us conduct this investigation