Good morning, everyone. It is saturday, may 30th. Im alex witt. Protesters taking over city streets in outrage over george floyd, a man who died on memorial day after a Police Officer was videotaped kneeling on his neck. In portland, oregon, police clashing with protesters. Some protesters smashing windows. Protesters also threw projectiles their way. And chaos on the streets of los angeles overnight. In downtown specifically as the police there declared protests an illegal gathering. Moving to denver, more tear gas and flesh grenades. Moving to cincinnati, not much of a Police Presence there at the moment when protesters shattered this storefront. Take a look at this video from brooklyn. Protesters squaring off with nypd officers. Dozens in fact, were arrested there. This was the scene outside the white house as protesters got too close for comfort. Moving to georgia, early this morning, the governor declaring a state of emergency after tensions flared overnight. And also new in detro
The stark milestone, 100,000 deaths, comes less than three months after the First American was reported to have died. The people most ravaged are those whose suffering often is unseen, the elderly, africanamericans, and the working poor. The Washington Post front page tonight. This is the front page tonight at usa today. Quote, 100,000 deaths. 100,000 people have died from coronavirus in the United States. And it will continue to change our lives. The u. S. Is the only country to record anywhere near 1 million cases of the coronavirus. The country now hits another somber milestone. Heres the front page tonight over at the web site for our friends at cnn. 100,000 americans didnt have to die. One tragedy of americas coronavirus milestone is that so many didnt have to die. Another is that no one knows how many more will perish. Again, this is the cnn front page right now. Also, this next one maybe isnt that important for you to see, but just so youre aware, this is what it is, in contrast
Left are blaming him. We are investigating Amy Klobuchars connection to the arresting officer in the george floyd case. She was Hennepin County District Attorney for ten years. She and the democratic establishment are facing tough questions tonight from black lives matter about her relationship with that officer. And the president signaling a new move on china. As a diplomatic approach on beijing, amidst the crackdown of hong kong in the controversy over coronavirus. Welcome to fox news night. I am Shannon Bream in washington paired we begin with mike tobin monitoring the scenes on the streets of minneapolis as he has for days now. What can you tell us . I can tell you that there have been some remarkable developments over the past few minutes. We watch the protesters and police go at it from about sundown on. About 5 minutes ago the Police Gathered in the parking lot on the west side of the third precinct and in mass they pulled out. So the mob came through and they took the fence dow
Im chris hayes. The pandemic descended on the country and the government and president utterly failed to protect us, it felt like we entered by far the worst part of the presidency and yet, somehow, somehow the last few days have felt even worse. Unrest in the streets of minneapolis, a Police Station burned down last night as a Community Responded with grief and outrage and anger to the killing of george floyd. The indelible inranging image of the white Police Officer with his knee on the neck of a black man who was saying i cant breathe until his life was snuffed out. His hands in his pockets. We learn today that the officer allegedly had his knee on floyds neck for two minutes and 53 seconds after floyd became nonresponsive. Keeping his knee on his neck all that time as he was dying. And as the nation grapples with yet another killing of a black american by a Police Officer and masses of people once again take to the streets across the country, tonight in protest, the background cond
Its the only reason the senate is in session now. It not to help anyone or legislate anything. It just to confirm the judges who are really chosen by Mitch Mcconnell, not by donald trump. And its been an Amazing Group of judges that really test the lower end of the qualifications scale for senate confirmation. It has become the entire purpose of the Republican Party in washington to pretend or excuse me, to protect the president for any accountability for any of his various scandals, up to and including impeachment and get those judges onto the court for life come hell or high water. Thats full stop everything theyre doing. Im glad Chuck Schumer is here to bring our attention to it. Thank you rachel. Thanks, lawrence. We have arrived at a point that we saw coming weeks ago. We knew we would get here. In the last few days, we knew it could be any day now. But knowing that, knowing this day was coming doesnt make it any easier for this country so we begin tonight with a moment of silence