And through this evening. Stay with us. My colleague Lawrence Odonnell is taking over now. Good evening, lawrence. Good evening, rachel. Well get straight to the live coverage. Thank you. In minneapolis the curfew will last until 6 00 a. M. And go into Effect Tomorrow night at 8 00 3p. M. Minneapolis time. The resolution i imposing the curfew says all persons must not travel on any public street or in any public place. Well go to ali on the streets of minneapolis in a moment to get the latest on the situation there. We have seen protests of the Minnesota Police killing of george floyd in several cities around the country today including new york city, washington d. C. , atlanta, houston, denver, los angeles and san jose. Today fired Police Officer Derek Chauvin had his knee on George Floyds neck is now defendant Derek Michael chauvin and this is his mug shot after he was arrested today. Mike freeman announced the charge today at 1 07 p. M. Minneapolis time. Good afternoon. Im Hennepin
California, or someone from the south is different from someone from the north. China is a massive, diverse country. If you come to visit, do not spend all of your time just in beijing. Try to go somewhere different. Other places are nothing like beijing. When i have friends come to visit, i love to go out and try regional foods. Hunan food, middle eastern food, just to give people a flavor that when we talk about china, and i am guilty of it too, it is just a short hand. There is no one china. What story have you written that has gotten the most attention in china . A really good question. I think the story of the communist party chief, bo xilai. That exposed a lot of corruption at the high level of the communist party. I think the escape of the blind activist got as much attention from folks back here who are interested in the human rights question. Chen guangchens escape from harsh treatment and interrogation. Partly because he is blind and being a human rights lawyer and activist.
Communist party. I think the escape of the blind activist got as much attention from folks back here who are interested in the human rights question. Chen guangchens escape from harsh treatment and interrogation. Partly because he is blind and being a human rights lawyer and activist. Somehow, he escaped from these conditions. He made his way hundreds of miles from the province to beijing. That really got a lot of attention. That was a pretty dramatic story that happened over the last year. How exclusive were those stories to you . I got the first phone call when he was escorted from the embassy to the hospital. It was partly accidental. He was calling the Washington Post because of a former partner of mine who wrote a book, and he had a chapter devoted to Chen Guangchen which put chen on the map. I do not think he had a lot of access to the media and he wanted to let the Washington Post know. We had good relationships not only with chen and his allies. They would call us when there we
Prepared should the situation deteriorate for u. S. Embassy workers in libya. Out of an abundance of caution the Defense Department prepositioned eight ospreys which are capable of vertical liftoff, can carry up to 20 or so passengers and three kc130j planes. They have stationed marines in italy at the Naval Air Station should they be needed to help with the evacuation. Decisions to move any of our personnel out of libya the situation on the ground obviously could change quickly. So well continue to evaluate and update our posture if needed into. Reporter the former qadaffi era general leading an attempt to push out various islamic factions who have taken over the country lived in Northern Virginia in numb for years and voted in recent u. S. Elections. This movement is not military coup in conventional sense or entrance to military rule. This is what we reject. This is outdated. Reporter his fighters stormed parliament on sunday and fighting islamic factions taken over benghazi and var
Banning the words jihad and islamic extremism from its National Security discussions. And now the administration seems to find itself in lockstep with Al Jazeera English, the middle Eastern News Network here in america that al gore helped bring to the usa when he sold them his television outlet current tv. As it turns out Al Jazeera English has a real problem with the english part of its name, certain words like terrorists and islamist one person easter ris is another persons Freedom Fighter executives there explained. I am not making this up. With all this playing out we have new fox news polls tonight showing what real americans think with 56 of respondents saying we are at war with radical islam. 47 saying the president underestimates the threat. And in the third poll 84 say they think the terrorists will try to launch an attack on u. S. Soil and soon. Trace gallagher has the story from our west coast newsroom tonight. Trace. Megyn White House Deputy press secretary eric schultz was