First, we need to save our city. President trump weighs in. We have our military willing and ready and able. My guest is keith ellison. Atlanta mayor, washington, d. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and florida congresswoman val demming. Its put more than 40 million out of work as much of the country is trying to return to some form of normalcy often ignoring social distancing. You see no fear. We are embracing it. Prompting fears of a second wave. Every community is one wild weekend from falling off the cliff. Joining me is msnbc anchor joshua johnson. Maria teresa kumar and pat mccrory of north. Welcome to sunday. A special edition of meet the press. Good sunday morning. America is waking up to two crisis. One is so new its called the novel coronavirus. The second institutional racism is with us for some 400 years. Overnight protests in dozens of cities across this country. Anger erupting over Police Brutality over africanamericans. Most demonstrations were peaceful with few incidents. Others had moments of confrontation and, yes, some violence. A look around the country from washington, d. C. To chicago. To new york. To where it all started, minneapolis. This comes after george floyd, a black man, was killed in Police Custody when a Minneapolis Police officer kept his knee on floyds neck until he was dead. The officer Derek Chauvin has been charged with third degree murder and Second Degree manslaughter. After the country is dealing with the coronavirus. We have lost more than 400,000 lives and 40 million jobs. In those cases, africanamericans have been victimized and President Trump failed to respond in a manner we expect to come from previous president s. He initially tweeted, quote. He later tried to walk that back. On the virus the president seems more interested some changing the subject than in addressing it, let alone the death toll tweeting instead about mailin balloting and barack obama and russia, china, my colleague Joe Scarborough and media and stock market and twitter, itself. We are following two huge stories and we start with the nationwide protests. We have correspondents all across the country. We start with shaq. What do you got. Reporter good morning, chuck. For the first time in four days, minneapolis residents are waking up to scenes absent of burning buildings and overnight widespread destruction and historic activation of the National Guard insisting that local and state police have to regain control of the city. By the thousands yesterday, protesters came out yesterday to demonstrate and clean up from the mess from the day before and trying to remain peaceful in the name of george floyd, a man we learned this week was considered a man of peace and kindness by his friends and family. After protesters violated an 8 00 p. M. Curfew, officers fired tear gas and rubber bullets into the crowd to clear the streets. Protesters say they will continue to come out and demonstrate until justice is served. Justice for them is the rest of the three remaining fired Minneapolis PoliceDepartment Officers involved in the death of george floyd. Chuck . Shaquille brewster getting us starred in minneapol started in minneapolis, shaq, thank you. Blaine is here to report. Reporter what we saw play out on the streets of atlanta was a much different and much calmer scene than what we watched unfold on friday night and due in large part to two things. More rules and more resources. Atlanta mayor ordered everyone off the streets of atlanta by 9 00 p. M. A citywide curfew. We saw National Guard troops coming in edition to local Law Enforcement to contain the crowds. Atlanta police told us they made 70 arrests overnight and this morning, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has authorized even more National Guard troops, as many as 3,000 to fan out across the state of georgia as officials here prepare for another night of protests. Chuck . Thank you. Garrett hake is here in washington where he is following the night long protests in Lafayette Park across from the white house. It was a rough night friday night. How was it last night, garrett . Reporter another rough night out here. Largescale public protests are nothing new in washington, d. C. Nothing more american than coming to the Nations Capital and yelling at your government but we saw, i think, unprecedented levels of anger out here last night. Frankly, from the protesters i talked to, just exhaustion they are back in the streets again protesting another Police Killing of another black man. A lot of protesters said they were out here for freddie gray, they are out here for michael brown. They have had this anger so long and dont feel like its being addressed. Speaking of the president ial tweets of the governments response. I asked a number of protesters what they thought the way the president is handling this. The reaction i got the most was brushing him off. This is a president they no longer believe he speaks for them or to them. They are having this conversation without him. Chuck . Garrett haake at Lafayette Park, thank you. Priscilla thompson is in houston and let me bring you in, George Floyds hometown. How were things last night, priscilla . Reporter a lot of grief in houston. Last night or over the course of the past couple of days since friday when the demonstrations began, more than 200 people have been arrested but these protests have been, by and large, peaceful and nonviolent. Instead what we have been seeing is a number of vigils popping up to honor the life of george floyd, his classmates from jack Gates High School gathered and released balloons and retold stories of what it was like growing up with him in the third war and playing basketball and football with him and while there is a lot of anger here and a desire to see justice, there is also an interest in remembering who george floyd was as a person and celebrating that. This comes as the governor has signaled that George Floyds body will return to houston for funeral services. Chuck . Priscilla thompson in houston there where they are mourning the death of their hometown resident george floyd. Thank you to all. Joining me from minneapolis is Minnesota Attorney general keith ellison. Mr. Ellison, welcome back to meet the press. Thank you. I start with the issue of this outside instigators, i guess. Were trying to understand who are the people responsible for this violence . Yourself . The governor . Minnesota has indicated that there is some domestic terrorists out there, perhaps white supremacists. Bill barr, the attorney general, characterized the outside instigators this way and let me play that bite for you and get you to respond. Many places, it appears the violence is planned, organized, and driven by an arcic and left extremist groups, far left extremist groups, using antifa tacks and being traveling outside the state to promote the violence. Its our understanding, mr. Attorney general, that according to the justice department, they got that intelligence from state and local authorities. What do you know about who is behind this . Well, here is what i know. There has been a lot of videotape taken by demonstrators of people who are very suspicious, who really did start breaking windows, particularly at the autozone and there have been other, you know, photographs and cars with no license plates, very suspicious behavior. But the real point is we do need to investigate it because, you know, the truth is nobody really knows. Ive talked to people who are demonstrating. Some of them say they think some of those folks are from minnesota and they say some have come from out of town. What the exact political motivation is unclear at this point. We need to investigate it. But what i would say, though, particularly as it relates to bill barr and the president is that they have not brought a single pattern and practice lawsuit against major municipality where there is systemic Police Abuses in america. They have actually tried to walk back their involvement in key states where they existed under the Obama Administration. They have not moved forward when it comes to 21st century policing, which the Obama Administration started. So i think the federal government does have a role but it needs to be constructing a better relationship between cities and the Police Departments that serve them and make incendiary comments about who is to blame here as opposed to actually investigating it isnt helpful. We need their help to be more constructive, unless assigning blaming on matters we dont know the truth of yet. Do you want to see federal charges brought against these four Police Officers . And do you think that will happen under this attorney general . Many. Yes, i do. And i dont know. I hope so. I can tell you that our local u. S. Attorney is a very constructive partner. Erica mcdonald is from minnesota and she is a serious prosecutor and Law Enforcement person, and i do trust her. The folks she works for, i hope, just leave her alone and let her do her job. Let me ask you this what your understanding of whether the three other Police Officers dp we heard the county attorney of Hennepin County expect charges to be brought. Where are we on that and what do you expect the charges to be if they are brought . Well, you know, i know we are early in the process, chuck. At this point, there is the two charges of thirddegree murder and seconddegree manslaughter. That complaint could well be amended to include other additional charges or even higher charges. And the other individuals are not out of the woods. The investigation is ongoing. In answer to your questions of what charges, i dont know. Id be speculating. Its not my case. But, you know, certainly aiding and betting is a possibility and there are others as well. So i think that that is something that the county attorney mike freeman is looking into now. We expect to hear something in, you know, the fairly near future. Big picture, mr. Attorney general. You know, a lot of americans, there is, you know, minnesota has the minnesota nice image. Minnesota has an image youre an africanamerican man that got collected statewide as the attorney general and the statess legal enforcement officer. Right. Some look at this and are surprised. Tell us the story in minneapolis why this shouldnt surprise people in your mind. Well, minnesota is kind of a tale of two cities. It really is a beautiful, wonderful place. I love it here. Ive raised all four of my kids here. There are so many great things about it and so many great people. Yet, we have very stark disparities when it comes to africanamericans. Health disparities in health care and Health Disparities in housing and Health Disparities when it comes to employment and disparities all around. I mean, ill give you a quick example about 70 some percent of minnesotans own their own homes but only 27 of africanamericans do. Africanamericans are a fragile economic position in this state and we need massive investment. What i say to people is, look. If we can have some of the highest s. A. T. Scores in the country, if we can have some of the highest voting participation in the country, highest Home Ownership in the country, for whites, then we can do it for everything, but we have to have the will to do it for everybody. I think this sad tragic situation might give us the energy to really, really make those kind of commitments because they are absolutely needed. Keith ellison, the democraticelected attorney general of the state of minnesota, i appreciate you coming on this morning. I know its been a long week and a long few months for everybody, frankly, in this country. Thank you for coming on and sharing your perspective with us. Thank you. Joining me now is mayor of washington mariel bowser and mayor of atlanta, keshia lance bottoms. I know a long week for both of you. Mayor bowser, a report about last night, let me begin with you. How was it compared to friday night . And do you feel as if that going to see calm Going Forward or not . We are certainly going work for that, chuck. We are sending a very clear message to people that they have a right to exercise their First Amendment rights but not destroy our city. We saw just a destruction and mayhem among some that was maddening. Our crews are out right now cleaning up our city and we are working with all of our Law Enforcement partners to ensure calm in our city. Mayor lancebottoms, you were very passionate on friday night. You said at one point youre not protesting anything running out with brown liquor in your hands and breaking windows in this city, go home. You invoked your own 18yearold son, your own concerns, fears that you have about him and your kids. How were things last night and compared to friday night . Things were a bit more complex night but they werent perfect. People were still out protesting, by and large, peacefully. We had a 9 00 curfew last night we ended up arresting around 157 people last night. So we know that frustration is still there and all of the issues and all of the concerns and anger that were there on friday havent gone away. But this is more of a systemic issue that we are facing that is going to take time for us to address, but certainly acknowledging the deaths of so many innocent people in america, and there are no easy answers, but as mayor bowser said, the solution is not to destroy our cities. Mayor lance bottoms, do you believe there were outside forces at work . We heard from the attorney general. He seemed to think that there was some antifalike. He said very radical left groups. We heard in minnesota the governor thought there was some very radical far right groups also involved. Have you seen any evidence of any of these outside instigators . What i know in instant is that this protest, even from just a physical standpoint, didnt look like our normal protests. We, obviously, have a large africanamerican population in atlanta. This crowd was a very diverse crowd and that was noticeable on friday even before the problems began. We also noticed that many of the protesters even got lost when there was a detour. Many organizers in the city who often dont agree with me have shared that these were people from the outside, they did not know them. And have no idea where they came from. Mayor bowser, you have a unique issue. You have one resident in washington, d. C. Who, i think, was back seat driving you on friday night. Im referring to the president. I know you believe he hasnt been playing a helpful role. You made that very clear on twitter yesterday. Can he play a helpful role still . Or is it too late . Well, i think that the president has a responsibility to help calm the nation and he can start by not sending divisive tweets that are meant to harken to the segregationist past of our country and he can start by doing that right now. We certainly urge him to do that. We, as mayor bottoms has just said, we have systemic issues in our country to address and its going to take us at every level, federal and local, its going to take community and government to heal the hurt that people are feeling. So what you see in cities across our nations, what we saw last night, people who are angry and people who are hurting, and some not doing it in ways that are helpful to our cause but we still have to acknowledge that hurt and that anger. Mayor bowser, this is happening during a pandemic. You just started a phase one reopening in d. C. On friday. Im curious. Are you concerned that the police wont be respected when they try to enforce social distancing rules right now . Im concerned that we have Mass Gatherings in our street when we just lifted a stayathome order and what that could mean for spikes in our coronavirus cases later. In fact, im so concerned go that im urging im so concerned about it that im urging everybody to consider their exposure. If they need to isolate from their family members when they go home and if they need to be tested, because we have worked very hard to blunt the curve. While i saw some people are masks last night, others didnt. While i saw some people socially distancing, others people were right on top of each other. So we dont want to compound this deadly virus and the impact that its had in our community. Mayor lance bottoms, i want to go back to the president. There is some talk he might give an Oval Office Address in the next few days. What would you like to hear from him . Do you think any of his words could be helpful here . What id like to hear from the president is leadership and id like to hear a genuine care and concern for our communities and where we are with Race Relations in america. We know that when he spoke on charlottesville, he made the matter worse. And we are already we are well beyond the Tipping Point in america and as my grandmother used to say, if you dont have anything good to say, sometimes you just shouldnt say anything at all. Your preference would be maybe he shouldnt bother with a televised address like this . I dont have an issue with the president of the United States addressing our nation, but i am concerned that this president has a history of making matters worse. Mayor bowser, before i go, there is some talk about the fourth of july celebration. The president wants to try to have one on the mall. Where are you on this . Chuck, even be for the events of the last several days, we have been very concerned about large gatherings. We will not be