Now, whats not clear is if the shooting was related to the protest or not. Or was some sort of separate incident. Police have not, yet, confirmed on that. Portland, of course, has become a flash point in the demonstrations over racial injustice. I want to bring in, now, cnn security correspondent, josh campbell, for more on this. Hes on the line from los angeles. Josh, what what have you been hearing about what happened . There has been an awful lot of action in portland, over the last few years. Yeah, thats right, michael. Obviously, this city has been the focus of so much attention, in the United States, for well over two months, now. There have been these nightly clashes between protestors and Law Enforcement officers. Both, federal and local Law Enforcement officers. But today, it started to take a bit of a different turn, in that these protestors arent just antiLaw Enforcement. What we saw is theres a large group of prodonald trump protestors, who are now, also, inserted into the
Country. These are pictures out of kenosha, wisconsin, today, where jacob blakes family has organized a march. He is the black man shot seven times in the back by a Police Officer. Blakes family strongly disputing a new account of what happened by the police union. We should warn you, this video is disturbing. Now, the union claims blake fought with officers before the shooting, even putting one of them in a head lock. They say blake had a knife on him, which he refused to give up. Blakes uncle calls their version of events insulting and garbage, and the family attorney insists blake did not pose an imminent threat. Meanwhile, blake remains in the hospital where his father says he was shackled to his bed until just yesterday. Cnns sara sidner is in kenosha where a march planned by blakes family got under way last hour, and sara, what have you seen . What are you hearing . Reporter there are now thousands of people who are in the streets here. This is members of the black panthers here
That russia, china, and iran are actively trying to interfere in the u. S. President ial election. Jeremy diamond is joining us from the white house right now. Jeremy, tell us whats going on. What do we know about this very significant decision by the odni . Reporter our colleague jake tapper wrote this story earlier today and we have seen wholesale condemnation from democrats on capitol hill who are frankly upset at the way this has unfolded and really cannot believe this idea that the director of National Intelligence and intelligence officials who work for him would not be Briefing Congress with 66 days left until the general election on this critical issue of Election Security and foreign interference. The president was asked earlier today about this decision and why it unfolded. Listen to what he said. Director radcliff brought information into the committee, and the information leaked. Whether it was shifty schiff or somebody else, they leaked the information before it gets in. A
This is cnn breaking news. Hello and welcome to you, our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. Im ken brunhuber. This is cnn newsroom. We start with breaking news out of portland, oregon. One person has been shot and killed near the site of a fierce and violent clash among protesters. Police are calling it a homicide, but we have to be clear, we dont know if the killing is linked to the unrest. The shooting comes after a huge caravan filled with supporters of u. S. President donald trump rolled into town earlier on saturday, met by furious counterdemonstrators. For months now, portland has been a flashpoint for protests. Our security correspondent Josh Campbell spoke earlier about what led up to saturdays violence. This city has been the focus of so much attention in the United States for well over two months now. There have been these nightly clashes between protesters and Law Enforcement officers, both federal and local Law Enforcement officers, but today it sta
Mike baker is a New York Times correspondent, he joins me from there. Mike, you were there during these clashes. What did you witness regarding the shooting that occurred and do we have any information as of yet on the victim . Yeah, so the shooting occurred while there were a bunch of trump pro trump vehicles driving through downtown. As you guys covered there, there was a gathering in the suburbs of Trump Supporters and they were going to drive around the outskirts of the city, but a lot of them decided to come through into downtown where they met a bunch of protesters who were there wanting to confront them. And sort of during the hours of that happening, there were reports of gunfire, went over to the scene and the police had blocked it off. There was a man who had been shot in the chest, who was being treated at the time, and he appears to have been wearing a Patriot Prayer hat, a far right group here in the portland area. Tell us more about the clashes between these two groups, m