President trump ultimately firing the man hat taken prosecutor yesterday after he refused to voluntarily step down. Ag barr and his relationship with the president and more as we look ahead on sunday morning futures. Fallout today after violence erupt inned the seattle protest zone, largely abandoned by police. One person was shot and killed on saturday, another critically injured. We begin my exclusive interview with attorney general william barr with this and the challenges that now face Police Across america. What a moment were living in right now. Weve got a once vibrant town in seattle, residential and business town being taken over. Now called the capitol hill organized protest or chop or chaz, capitol hill autonomous zone. In minneapolis, demonstrators hurling bricks at cops and setting buildings on fire and peaceful and not so peaceful protests as a result of the death of george floyd. As the number one Law Enforcement individual in the country, what are you going to do to bring law and order back . Well, all these situations really involve two dimensions of the rule of law. One is the individual case thats precipitated the demonstrations and so forth. Its the job of the department of justice to mete out justice fairly and evenhandedly in that particular case and not be influenced by the mob. The second aspect is these demonstrations, which are fine. Protests and demonstrations are fine. When they become mob violence, we need to restore order. We cant be ruled by mobs. Very to be ruled by the legal process. In this particular situation, theres obviously legitimate demonstrators out there raising concerns about police abuse. But a lot of these demonstrations have been hijacked by essentially a anarchistic groups and professional agitators who are in it for the violence and the confrontation. So i do make a distinction between legitimate peaceful demonstrators and these violent agitators who are involved throughout the country. Maria well, they took over an area in seattle and theyre guarding it with guns. They tried to do it in portland as well. Does the federal government have a responsibility to protect citizens of our country if the cities and states wont do it . Because peoples property have been damaged. There are people who dont want this autonomous area in seattle around their home. Right. Well, in the first instance, its the responsibility obviously of the local officials and then the state officials to protect the rights of their citizens. At the end of the day, the federal government does have a responsibility to make sure that citizens are not deprived of their federal rates. Maria so will you challenge that autonomous city . Will you sue the mayor . What can you do . Well, i dont want to get into specifics but were obviously keeping an eye on it and as the president said in due course we may have to do something about it. But we cant let it go on indefinitely. Maria its also sparked calls to defund the police. Ilhan omar said that the Minneapolis Police department is, quote, rotten to the root. What is the impact of this pushback on Law Enforcement . Are you worried about resignations, the cops walking off the job . Yes. I mean, even before this happened i was speaking out about how the job of being a policeman in the United States these days is the toughest job in the United States. Theyre under a lot of pressure. I was concerned even before these pressures that we were having difficulty maintain the levels of police we need in our cities, retaining them. And obviously this environment where theyre demonized will deter a lot of people from continuing to serve as police and also im concerned of the effect that they may pull back some of their enforcement activities and not take those risks so i think it could lead as its led in other situations to an actual increase in Violent Crime and more deaths. You know, i understand an event like minneapolis and why it struck such a cord in the africanamerican community. There has been longstanding distrust of Law Enforcement and that partly comes out of the fact that for much of our history our laws were explicitly discriminatory. And for the past few decades, weve been reforming our of institutions to make sure they reflect our values and the police have been engaged in than we shouldnt let this incident and the actions of a bad few obscure the fact that the police made a lot of progress. Instances of the shooting of black unarmed males has been dropping. It was 38 five years ago, last year it was 10. 10 in the nation. And six of those were involved in attacking the Police Officer at the time they were shot. So while any death is too many, the fact is that in proportion, its relatively small. I mean, there are 8,000 roughly 8,000 homicides of africanamericans in our country every year. 8,000. 10 last year were due to force by shooting an unarmed black male. We have to keep that in perspective. We also have to keep in perspective that the Police Forces are much more diverse, the leadership of the police is much more diverse. They are committed to reform. Community policing has taken hold around the country. And that reform has to continue and what we have to do is bring out of these episodes, minneapolis, something thats good and that is it will galvanize the public will to continue the process of reform. It has to be fair reform to the police. Maria should the police have qualified immunity . Yes, i thin generally in oury immunity used to be absolute. They dropped it down to qualified to permit some lawsuits in egregious cases. Without qualified immunity i think most people would not take the job as a Police Officer. So we would essentially be doing away from our Police Department away with our Police Department. Maria what are the implications of collective barge anybody, there was an op ed in the journal, talking about the Police Unions and how its getting in the way of actual reform. I think it largely depends on the unions and its hard to generalize. But i do think that Police Unions have an Important Role to play and i do think that Police Management has to be able to get rid of bad apples. But by the same tokeen, i think there has to be due process. One of the things thats bothered democratic senator once used the expression, i thought it was actually a good one, that being the attorney general is like being the sheriff of one of these old western movies when the mob shows up at the jailhouse door, youre standing in front of the jail and sometimes that mob wants to hang the person, and sometimes they want to spring the person. And its the job of the attorney general not to be influenced by the mob but try to do justice in that particular case and i think police are at risk sometimes when some event like this happens of or we have to make special effort to make sure that they get due process. And the unions do play a role in that. Maria coming up, more of my exclusive interview with attorney general william barr, whether he thinks racism is systemic in america and his reaction to the latest claims of anticonservative bias among Technology Companies, the dojs proposal on social media coming up next. To make up. 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Did that case merit murder charges or is that officer being lumped in with the upset over george floyd . Well, because i might be called upon as attorney general to pass judgment on that case, under civil rights laws, i dont want to get into the specifics of it. But i certainly would have liked to have seen the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Complete their investigation before charges were brought. Also, the use of a grand jury. The grand jury process pro sides some protection to have citizens in a group decide that theres been a crime committed and there was no grand jury used in this case. I think its important to go through the right processes before charging someone. I also think there was fundamental difference obviously between what happened in atlanta and what happened in minneapolis. Essentially kneeling on someones neck for almost nine minutes who was already incapacitated. Maria very upsetting stories. Do you think that there is systemic racism in this country . No, i dont think theres systemic well, i do think theres racism in the country. Now, systemic in terms of the Law Enforcement and the police agencies, i dont think there is systemic Law Enforcement in those agencies. I think there may be individuals and there are individuals who may have bias and sometimes that may emerge and be map fested in some act manifested in some act but i dont think its systemic. Maria i ask because theres bad cops and theres a system that maybe has things that are built into it that should be looked at, for example, if a white kid gets caught under age drinking, the parents are going to do anything they can to avoid that conviction on the kids record that will follow him and hell carry the rest of his life. So theyll do diversion program, diversion program. Are we offering the same diversion programs to blacks and whites . In some jurisdictions, yes. In some, probably not as much as we should. As i said, this is a process of reforming our institutions, looking for inequities and making sure we address them. Maria let me move on to freedom of speech on what just took place. The doj planning to roll back the Legal Protections, the monopoly Legal Protections that Technology Companies enjoy. What prompted this . So the basic idea is that if youre acting as essentially a Bulletin Board and open to all comers and third parties can post their content on their website and youre not being selective about it, its open to all comers, you shouldnt be deemed a publisher. We want to encourage that kind of forum for third party views. That ran into problems because we wanted to encourage during the early days of the internet, we wanted to encourage platforms to take off obscene material or harassing material or other kinds of offensive material like that. What we said was in the law, section 230, if you take that down, that doesnt make you a publisher. If you take down objectionable material like that. Unfortunately, they started taking down viewpoints and started really being selective and based on whether they agreed with the vie pont or not viewpoint or not taking it down. And that should make them a publisher. They said under section 230 they werent. Thats one of the problems arising under section 230. We proposed a change to address that. What we said is you can take down stuff that is unlawful and you can take down stuff thats not does not accord with your terms of service but you have to make your terms of service clear. Have you to have a reasonably based reason for taking down the particular content and show that it violated your terms of service and you need to give someone notice and process whereby they can dispute that. Maria google did select federalist, zero hedge and tried to cut off their advertising revenue. Senator tom cotton also told me that he got a call from someone at twitter who said take down your tweet immediately about the police needing the military to back them up. Otherwise, were deleting your account entirely. Right. Theres something very disturbing about whats going on. To some extent, there was a bait and switch over the past couple decades. These Companies Held themselves out as open to all comers. Thats how they built up all their membership and networks, saying, you know, we have a wide variety of views. People can come in and post their views and their positions and their statements. And thats what led to people joining it and get the strong market position they have. Then they switched. Now theyre being more selective and theyre starting to censor different viewpoints. But you have this concentration of these very Large Companies that had that kind of influence on the sharing of information and viewpoints in our society. And that is a fundamental problem because our republic was founded on the idea and whole rational was that there would be a lot of diversity of voices and it would be hard for someone to to be able to galvanize a big faction in the United States that could dominate politically and oppress a minority. Yet now we have with the internet and with these big concentrations of power the ability to do just that, to quickly galvanize peoples views because theyre only presenting one viewpoint and they can push the public in a particular direction very quickly and our whole constitution and system was based on not having that and having a wide diversity of voices. So one way this can be addressed is through the antitrust laws and challenging companies that engage in monopolies. Maria coming up, election 2020, the issues that concern ag bill barr the most, he will fill us in when my exclusive intervieieieie where will you go first . 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The attorney general spoke with me about the november election including his concerns about voter fraud. Devin nunes says there is not a more important issue than this issue. The American People are being censored, information flowing to the American People is being censored. Are you worried about this going into the election. Im worried about censor censorship. Im worried about a lot of things. One, the censorship of robust debate. Im worried about undermining the Public Confidence and integrity of the elections. The thing we have going for us, especially with Intense Division in the country, is we have peaceful transfers of power and the way of resolving it is to have an election. When governments, state governments start adopting these practices like mailin ballots that open the floodgates of potential fraud, then peoples confidence in the outcome of the election is going to be undermined. And that could take the country to a very dark place if we lose confidence in the outcomes of our electio