Keeping firefighters busy today. Talk about turtle power its wednesday, july 22nd. Early today starts now glad youre with us. Im Frances Rivera im fill mphillip mena protests continue in places like portland, oregon where the city is on edge. Demonstrators protesting Excessive Police force continue to clash with federal agents who have arrived without the consent of leaders something that portlands leaders are saying is escalating the chaos reporter tensions escalated as hundreds of demonstrators clashed with federal agents, anger boiling over as some of the crowd set e federal courthouse President Trump calling the protesters anarchists. They were ripping down that city, destroying the city, looting it while many of the protests have been peaceful theres also been violence, and looting the presence of federal agents is fuelling the tension. The protests were calming down and that the presence of federal troops here, trumps troops here in the streets of portland has substantially exace
Of covid19 deaths in britain. And prosecutors say a man who tied two decades ago killed swedish Prime Minister roloff palalme in 1986. Welcome. We begin in the u. S. , where George Floyds brother urged politicians to, quote, stop the pain and pass reforms to end police brutality. Loneous floyd was testifying before the House Judiciary Committee and told members not to make his brother buster best death in vain. The death sparked weeks of protests in the u. S. And around the world. Heidi joe castro reports from washington. Floyd traveled from houston to the u. S. Capital. Waseorge call for help and ignored. Please listen to the call i am making to you now, the calls from our family and the calls ringing out from streets across the world. People of all backgrounds, genders and races have come together to demand change. House Democrats have passed sweeping legislation including increased accountability for mixed conduct misconduct for and Banning Police chokeholds. Im tired. Im tired of p
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But she said at one point in that little press conference he gave, i think most people the emails. Do you agree with that . I think thats true. Its about enthusiasm and its whether trump is bringing back republicans in the polls, whether the story helps down ballot candidates more and i think thats the case. Its not the bombshell or the gamechanger that he is portraying it is. It does seem to me is that we have been talking about the emails for two years now and the new batch of emails most people dont distinguish from the old batch of emails. Maybe what bernie said over a year ago was right. Enough of the emails. We invite you to join the conversation at 86655press. We will be right back. On your radio, tv and on line. This is the bill press show. I am from there. Where . The rocky mountains. Speith i was born in charlotte. There you go. [inaudible conversations] i thought the hatch act single is good. Yeah comment was. And the double standard. I was going to ask them are you accusing
About the white Officer Police officer who fatally shot an africanamerican man last week. Will bring you it life. The political stakes of Police Reform are becoming clearer tonight for joe biden. Coming up shortly we will have with House Majority whip James Clyburn and Deputy Assistant to President Trump john smith. We have fox team coverage. First chief White House Correspondent john roberts has details of the president s plan live from the north lawn. At noon today in the rose garden the president signed an executive order to undertake reforms in policing and the president said he wants a Law Enforcement officers and departments across country to adopt the highest professional standards possible to serve their communities. Whats needed now is not more stoking of fear and division. We need to bring Law Enforcement and communities closer together not to drive them apart. Its just the beginning of more to come. The house and senate are working on broad measures but President Trump wante