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>> yesterday's events began with hundreds of cars filled with supporters of the president rallying and then driving through downtown portland. they were supported and energized by the president himself. you have tried to divide us more than any other figure in modern history. and now you want me to stop the violence that you helped create. what america needs is for you to be stopped. >> the president responded in typical fashion on twit ter calling mayor wheeler, and i'm quoting, a fool. then during the press conference firing off this tweet calling the mayor, the whacky radical left do nothing democrat mayor of portland, who has watched great death and destruction of his city during his tenure. he down played the reckoning since the death of george floyd offering few words or actions to try to quell all the unrest. 65 days until the presidential election. trump insists people won't be safe in joe biden's america. but biden plans to turn that logic around when he speaks in pennsylvania tomorrow posing this question to voters. are you safe in donald trump's america? we're covering this from all angles here in washington. let's go right to portland first. josh campbell is on the scene after last night's deadly violence, where does the investigation stand and what are officials preparing for as far as tonight is concerned? >> reporter: it was a violent flight knight. there were clashers between pro tump supporters and some of the demonstrators and rioters who have been here for over 90 days now. that resulted in one person being shot and killed. police say that they heard the sound of gunfire and rushed to the scene and found a man who was dead on the ground. now "the new york times" is reporting that the deceased individual had a hat with an insignia of a far-right group leading to questions whether that person was part of the pro trump ka va van. police with the mayor indicating they are getting indication on social immediamedia that there people that are talking right now about coming here to downtown portland in order to seek revenge and vengeance for that person who was killed. raising questions about why they see a more violent night here in the city of portland than we have seen in nights pest. asking questions of the plus chief what is the plan for tonight. he didn't know. he needed to talk to his incident commanders. the idea they don't have a plan to brief. this all come koms as a backdrop that continues with the war of words between the mayor of portland, between president trump, after this person was shot and killed overnight. we saw people that were arrested. the president took to twitter and said that what occurred here was not unexpected. essentially saying that because officials in the city haven't stopped a lot of the violent protests that he assumed it was inevitable this would happen. you'll have the counterdemonstrators coming here in his name with their pro trump signs engageding some of that looeding to violence. i asked the mayor, the president was live tweeting the press conference. i asked about that. he said that it's not inevitable that there would be violence because the president himself has been fueling so much of the anger that has been taking police here. so just a chaotic scene both war of worlds between poll tigs and you have these competing groups coming here engaging in more violence. >> is there a curfew there in portland? >> that was a question that was raised. it didn't seem to be something thaerp planning. there were large crowds still out here. it raises questions if they will have personnel, what is the plan? it goes back to not indicating what they plan to do. it's not just the violence, but whether it's ready. if they are ready for another violent encounter. >> they should be able to em limit a curfew. >> thank you very much. jeremy diamond is at the white house for us. not only do we have this clash between the president and portland's may your, we now have the highest ranking official joining the cause for the president to cancel his trip on tuesday to kenosha, wisconsin. i want to get to that, but i want to ask about a tweet from the president, which has also raised some eyebrows. update us on that. >> that's right, wolf. the president of the united states is tweeting his cob co o condolences to the victims of the homicide. and naming this individual. we are not a this point naming this individual because officials have not yet named this person. and cnn has not been able to independently verify the information that is circulating on social media. it's notable that the president is chiming in on the situation. and so early. we know official there is are still gathering the facts. they still haven't identified this person. but it does appear that this individual may have been a supporter of the president's, which may explain why we see a quick reaction from him. the president has yet to offer con doe lenses to jacob blake or his family. instead he said it was not a good sight. a sight he did not want to see in reference to the the video of a police officer shooting jacob blake. as you were talking, there's also this issue of the president's visit to wisconsin. there's no indication that he's going to meet with blake or his family during this visit on tuesday. the governor of wisconsin is speaking out about this. this is his statement. he's urging the president to reconsider his visit. i'm concerned your presence will only hinder our healing. i'm concerned it will delay our work to overcome division and move forward together. i'm concerned a visit from you will require a massive redirection of resources to support your visit at a time when it is critical that we continue to remain focused on keeping the people of kenosha safe and supporting the community's response. you see there both a concern from a resources standpoint about the law enforcement resources that a presidential visit inevitably draws out, and also from a more political standpoint, what kind of a message the president is going to bring to a city in such a volatile situation. if it's any indication, we know this is a president who does not choose to be consoler in chief. this is a president that seeks to seize on these divisions that exist and stoke those for his own political gain. all the white house has said, they have not responded yet to the letter to the president. all they have said so far is the president is going to go there to survey the damage to some of the riots that have taken place and also to meet with law enforcement tishls. >> thank you. jeremy diamond at the white house. the rooil of the presidential thomas knee will deliver a speech tomorrow in pennsylvania. his core message, are you nasaf in donald trump's america. let's go to jessica dean. give us a preview of what we can expect to hear from biden tomorrow. >> we're hearing from campaign aids we should expect to hear joe biden draw a contrast with his vision of leadership with that of donald trump's leadership. we should expect for him to talk about what he thinks a president should be doing in these moments and what he sees donald trump doing in these moments. earlier today, biden releasing a statement forcefully condemning all of the violence both on the left and right saying that is absolutely not nis, calling on donald trump to do the same. i'll read you a bit. shooting in the streetings of a great american city is unacceptable. i condemn this violence. i condemn violence of every kind by anyone whether on the left or the right and i challenge donald trump to do the same. it does not matter if you find the political views of your opponents abhorrent. any loss of life is a tragedy. and in that statement, he also went on b to say that it is the role of a leader to turn down the temperature when it gets t hot. when there's violence top bring people together. and he makes the case and he will likely make the case tomorrow as well that donald trump is simply not up to the job of doing that. that instead, he's fanning the flames of division within this country and joe biden wants to offer another path forward that he sighs himts as able to bring to the table. we're also told by aids he considered traveling to kenosha, wisconsin, but local officials there, as we herd from jeremy and josh, are reaching out saying that they are concerned about president trump's visit. the biden campaign didn't want to cause anymore problems. they also didn't want to be knocked off course by what president trump is doing. they are focused very much on their message that they have had have from the very beginning. the message he got, which is this is about restoring the soul of the nation. we can expect for them to come back to that message tomorrow and for joe biden to really make the case that there's another way forward. and a that his version of leadership is what will draw america and push america forward and bring america together. >> jessica, thank you. jessica dean reporting. i want to bring in the global human rights leader. thank you so much for ginning us. when joe biden speaks about the ongoing unrest tomorrow, what would you like to hear from him at this very critical sensitive moment? >> somehow our nation has got to be unified. the statement he released, in my judgment, object target. because unfortunately, we have seen the president always fan the flames. and i wish that he could operate differently, but we don't expect that. but certainly, joe biden presents a different narrative. all of us have to roll up our sleeves if we're going to resolve these problems. whether it's around violence or around the plague that is killing people. and so i think the unity is needed now. someone who can reach out to all sides regardless of what your view is, which is what he said in the statement that he released today. >> the mayor of portland laid much of the blame for the violence and division right at the president's feet during a press conference about last night. how much of a factor is the rhetoric in all of this? >> i certainly believe that the rhetoric plays a role. and a as you know, the last book my father wrote was where do we go from here? chaos or community. it feels as if we're in chaos. but somehow we have to work to community. we have to great community. when community exists, these kind of things we're seeing obviously disappear. that means finding way to create opportunity. finding ways to be inclusive and not exclusive. finding ways to lift up and not push down. so i think that's just where we are. >> the president, as you know, is scheduled to visit wisconsin on tuesday. en tonight the governor is asking the president not to visit. do you think he would do more harm than good by going to kenosha by going at this sen sensitive moment? >> i would love to tie thi he would be able to do good, but unfortunately, that's not been the experience because his rhetoric already proceeds. and that rhetoric might do more harm than good. for limb it's just a political stop to organize police and everyone else he believes supports him. and really the president is supposed to speak to all of the people. 20 try to bring people together to resolve issues. that's not what it feels like he wants to do. so i kind of agree with the governor. and also from a resource stand point. it takes a lot to protect a president. and if resources are deployed away from the situation, that could be problematic. >> it could be indeed. the governor made a very strong statement urging the president to reconsider to not visit wu at this sensitive moment. as the president picks fights with local officials like the portland mayor, lives are lost at protests, are you worried that the violence and the politicking will overshadow the message behind the black lives matter movement? >> i am concern ed, but i think just as we had a major demonstration on friday for the 57th anniversary of the march on washington, i believe people have the capacity to rise up and it's not just in anger. it really is mobilizing, it's organizing, it's becoming engaged. it's registering even at this point. and voting. and i still think that opportunity exists. i am concerned about how it's being portrayed by others. however, the large overwhelming number of demonstrations we have seen in this nation and around the world have been peaceful. there is violence. but also we theneed to think ab the fact in kenosha, prior to mr. blake being shot seven times, people were not rioting. i'm not justifying rioting, i'm just only stating for a fact every action creates a reaction. and so we need to talk about how do we keep those things from happening so that we can keep violence from emerging. >> martin lieutenauther king th thank you for joining us. appreciate it very much. >> thank you. sglrvel coming up, the fda is considering fast-tracking a coronavirus vaccine before even before a critical step. but is it a dangerous move? we have 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we see compelling data, tonight make sure it's safe. it's best suited for therapies for sick people. we're going to give vaccines to healthy people in that context, we really need to have a high bar for safety. >> you want to make sure that there's perhaps deadly side effects from the new vaccine. you have to go through all the trials. a recent poll actually showed it, you saw this, that 40 prs of the american public right now are already saying they won't take the vaccine if the data is not complete and safe. that number could actually increase. do you think people will be skeptical to take it? because that's a huge concern right now. >> it is. unfortunately, we have a long history of people not always trusting the signs around vaccines. i do believe it's important to do those careful studies to assure the american people that these are safe and effective to take. and that's why it's important that we don't cut corners. i still believe we will do it right, but i want to make sure that happens. >> let's hope they do it right and the vaccine is safe and effective. let's talk about reinfection. a man in hong kong was the first confirmed covid reinfection. but now researchers in nevada identified a 25-year-old man who appears to have been infected with coronavirus twice. what do we know right now about reinfection with covid-19? >> neither of these cases was completely unexpected. we didn't ever think that the virus was going to give 100% immunity. that some people would get reinfected. the hong kong case was reassuring. because the second time around the person had no symptoms at all. that's how immunity works. the nevada case is more puzzling. the person got more sick on the second time around. i think these are going to be rare, but we have to watch where the data goes on this. >> the scientist said the man had strains of covid slightly different. would a vaccine cover those variations? >> most of the vaccines being developed now look like they should be able to cover those kinds of variations. so people are worried about that. so far, i haven't seen any data that makes me worried. i think the vaccine should be pretty effective against variations of the virus. >> 36 states are now reporting outbreaks of covid-19 on college and university campuses where students have gone back to school in recent days. 8,700 cases in recent days in 36 states. the university of alabama yesterday they said they had a thousand plus new cases since they reopened two weeks ago. these are pretty significant numbers. how worried should parents be about sending their kids back to colleges around the country in the midst of this coronavirus pandemic? >> yeah, this has been a frustrating issue because i think there is a way to bring kids back in safely. you've got to do test iing when they return. you've got to quarantine them. then you have to have a testing program while they are there. many colleges just aren't doing those things. they are sort of hoping and praying that things will work out well. it's not working out well. i think the key issue is to follow the signs and not just hope for the best. >> you're at hearth vord shard and moving to brown university. what are they doing? >> the brown plan has been straight forward. we're waiting until the data suggests that we can bring the ustudents back. we're going to do entry test whg they come back. we'll do ongoing surveillance testing. along with all the distancing and other things that are so important and mask wearing. so the bottom line is that i've been advising colleges and universities to follow the signs on this. and i believe if they do, they have a pretty good shot of being able to stay open. but if they don't, there's really not much hope of being able to keep colleges open without large outbreaks. >> the pandemic continues. doctor, thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you, wolf. wisconsin's governor is now asking president trump to reconsider his planned visit to kenosha on 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does this potentially put local law enforcement in a tough spot? they have to prepare for a visit from the president of the united states at the same time knowing the mayor, the governor, the lute governor have all asked the president not to come. this is not a good time. >> well, let me say this. from that of former law fman, i would say under the circumstances of what's going on in kenosha with all politics aside, this is about public safety. i think it would be to the best interest that neither the president nor joe biden go into kenosha at this i'm. the most important thing there now is that that city needs to be brought up to under some type of control. buzz it's been too many days in which they have been in such social unrest. we have seen for too many days now. i think there's going to be additional support that i hope that mayor asks for because it put a lot of stress up on the local police there, which they are not clearly not capable of managing. i think at some appointmepoint consideration must be about public safety at this point. not politics. so to your question, my answer would be i don't think it's good for either one of them to attend at this time. they need to be a at a place it's some sense of normalcy because lives at a stake. >> they have their hands full enough right now. joey, let's turn to portland. president "new york times" reporting that the man shot and killed in portland overnight was wearing a hat with the insignia of patriot prayer, a far-right group. this is a complicated situation, but what do you make of that detail? >> i make a number of things, wolf. more globally, we're in difficult, uncertain and troubling times. i make of it we talk about deescalation as it relates to police. we theed to be speaking about it as it relates to politicians and the rhetoric used as it relates to people who are on the streets and what's happening and so the reality is that we are in a difficult spot. and that spot takes us to a place where, yes, we're talking about ke snnosha, but then we'r talking about portland and atlanta and new york and the troubling thing to me is that we have to get a grapple upon what the root cause of this issue is. and the root cause of the issue is the troubling issues that are happening with the police as it relates to young black men who are being shot apparently for no basis whatsoever. we have to get a grapple around that. certainly, we need police, but police need communities. when communities feel disrespected and you're watching and we're talking about investigations and not accou accountability, we're going to see issues like this. so never anyone should be shot whether it's in portland or any place else in the country. certainly new york city matter what hatter they are wearing or who they support or love. 2 doesn't matter. but people are raw right now. emotions are going to get worse in the event we don't get behind this and have leadership bringing us together and not pushing us apart. the mayor of portland unleashed a skacathing report placing the blame for creating the division, for creating the hate we're seeing on american streets. we did see the president tweet seem to relish the conflicts. what role is his rhetoric having on these clashes right now? he's posturing himself as the, quote, law and order president. >> it's all the times like this whether you're on the right or the left, i understand the frustration of the mayor and i can in some ways understand the frustration of the president. but both of them have to demonstrate a leadership they lead from the right and the left. nothing would be better than the president of the united states in that mayor finding a why ay come together to resolve that issue in plabd. but doing it in a way the american people can look at them as being a model. at this point right now, there's no positive modelling that's coming in in these very tough times that we're living in. it's occurring in a lot of cities across this country. i think it becomes important from the frustration from any side that the politics are somehow put aside. the show boating and grand stand ing is put aside. the american people, that's the fwraetest majority of the people in this country looking for leadership and expect leadership from those who are in leadership positions to find a way to meet in the middle because we're a country right now that is hurting and that is misunderstood and a lot of different ways and a lot of different domains this has become complicated, and leadership right now is what's going to lead us out of here. so whoever can say they are law and order, we have to conduct ourselves not just in the sense of the physical law and order, but we have to be mental and smart in the terms of how we move towards a society where we do have law and order. but it requires at the this moment more than anything else is that leadership itself come together and roll model for this country what is so urgently needed. >> legal experts are warning that some of the far right militias with their lack of police training are on actual shaky constitutional ground right now. what do you think? >> i think a couple things. first off, just to pivot quickly to my friend dr. alexander's point, we need to come together. it would be great for the mayor and president to do that. when you have a president who says he's a fool, calling the mayor names and various thing, i don't know how we get to that point. that's the issue of deescalation. to the constitutional question, let's understand that everyone has a right to bare arms. but there are also laws in place such that you do not overreach. the fact is you want to bare an arm, you can. should you use it against someone else, no. should someone die, no. the fact is we're a country founded upon principles and the bill of rights and freedom of speech and bare whatever you want. but at the end of the day, that's not meant as an absolute right where you can have a gun and killing someone. where you can have speech and there can be this mass chaos everywhere. so ultimately at the end of the day, something needs to happen in a positive way, some harmony needs to take place. it gets worse before it gets better, particularly in an election year where people are raw and for good reason based upon what we're seeing. what we are seeing as it relates to cities around the country, the diversity of these crowds that are launching for justice. the diversity of the crowds launching to say enough is enough as it relates to violence against black men in this country and black women in this country. i think that's a positive thing. but ultimately, we have to get a fix on this and a fix quickly or more people are going to die. >> joey jackson, thank you very much. obviously, very sensitive moment in american history right now. coming up, a new poll taken after the convention. now suggests president trump is not necessarily seeing a bump in support following his convention. we'll break down the numbers, when come back. thinking about your financial plan... ...so are we. prudential helps 25 million people with their financial needs. with over 90 years' of investment experience, our thousands of financial professionals can help. go to prudential.com or talk to an advisor. for spending a perfectly reasonable amount of time on the couch with tacos from grubhub? 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>> i mean, i think that trump hasn't been a lot different from a lot of previous administrations. iran is a convenient enemy to put on the enemies list. trump ramped that up. and in this episode, you'll see a lot of the values of iranian people is the same that immigrants have. they come to the country and love their homeland and want to keep their culture. it's quite a distance between that and the image of iran in mainstream media. >> you spoke to a number of iranian-americans. what do they want other americans to understand them and their culture? >> it's funny. if you had to deal with hospi l hospitali hospitality, iranian-americans would win that. i think they really want to know that they are very open. it's sort of the thing that's troubling. they have to talk about how open they are and they have to be protective because the images out there in the world. >> in the second episode, you're looking at the homeless crisis in los angeles. how did the situation get so bad and what's actually being done to try to dress it because it is an awful situation right now. >> every mayor who comes into los angeles says they are going to fix it. that hasn't happened. i think we have to think about the fact that people have lived here for 100 years or so. that's a community down there. they like living down there. they wish they had better places to live. you have to look at them as a community ask not as a problem. >> let me quickly get your reaction to what's going on in the country. the president will be visiting wisconsin on tuesday. it's a sensitive moment. what do you make of that? 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>> yesterday's events began with hundreds of cars filled with supporters of the president rallying and then driving through downtown portland. they were supported and energized by the president himself. you have tried to divide us more than any other figure in modern history. and now you want me to stop the violence that you helped create. what america needs is for you to be stopped. >> the president responded in typical fashion on twit ter calling mayor wheeler, and i'm quoting, a fool. then during the press conference firing off this tweet calling the mayor, the whacky radical left do nothing democrat mayor of portland, who has watched great death and destruction of his city during his tenure. he down played the reckoning since the death of george floyd offering few words or actions to try to quell all the unrest. 65 days until the presidential election. trump insists people won't be safe in joe biden's america. but biden plans to turn that logic around when he speaks in pennsylvania tomorrow posing this question to voters. are you safe in donald trump's america? we're covering this from all angles here in washington. let's go right to portland first. josh campbell is on the scene after last night's deadly violence, where does the investigation stand and what are officials preparing for as far as tonight is concerned? >> reporter: it was a violent flight knight. there were clashers between pro tump supporters and some of the demonstrators and rioters who have been here for over 90 days now. that resulted in one person being shot and killed. police say that they heard the sound of gunfire and rushed to the scene and found a man who was dead on the ground. now "the new york times" is reporting that the deceased individual had a hat with an insignia of a far-right group leading to questions whether that person was part of the pro trump ka va van. police with the mayor indicating they are getting indication on social immediamedia that there people that are talking right now about coming here to downtown portland in order to seek revenge and vengeance for that person who was killed. raising questions about why they see a more violent night here in the city of portland than we have seen in nights pest. asking questions of the plus chief what is the plan for tonight. he didn't know. he needed to talk to his incident commanders. the idea they don't have a plan to brief. this all come koms as a backdrop that continues with the war of words between the mayor of portland, between president trump, after this person was shot and killed overnight. we saw people that were arrested. the president took to twitter and said that what occurred here was not unexpected. essentially saying that because officials in the city haven't stopped a lot of the violent protests that he assumed it was inevitable this would happen. you'll have the counterdemonstrators coming here in his name with their pro trump signs engageding some of that looeding to violence. i asked the mayor, the president was live tweeting the press conference. i asked about that. he said that it's not inevitable that there would be violence because the president himself has been fueling so much of the anger that has been taking police here. so just a chaotic scene both war of worlds between poll tigs and you have these competing groups coming here engaging in more violence. >> is there a curfew there in portland? >> that was a question that was raised. it didn't seem to be something thaerp planning. there were large crowds still out here. it raises questions if they will have personnel, what is the plan? it goes back to not indicating what they plan to do. it's not just the violence, but whether it's ready. if they are ready for another violent encounter. >> they should be able to em limit a curfew. >> thank you very much. jeremy diamond is at the white house for us. not only do we have this clash between the president and portland's may your, we now have the highest ranking official joining the cause for the president to cancel his trip on tuesday to kenosha, wisconsin. i want to get to that, but i want to ask about a tweet from the president, which has also raised some eyebrows. update us on that. >> that's right, wolf. the president of the united states is tweeting his cob co o condolences to the victims of the homicide. and naming this individual. we are not a this point naming this individual because officials have not yet named this person. and cnn has not been able to independently verify the information that is circulating on social media. it's notable that the president is chiming in on the situation. and so early. we know official there is are still gathering the facts. they still haven't identified this person. but it does appear that this individual may have been a supporter of the president's, which may explain why we see a quick reaction from him. the president has yet to offer con doe lenses to jacob blake or his family. instead he said it was not a good sight. a sight he did not want to see in reference to the the video of a police officer shooting jacob blake. as you were talking, there's also this issue of the president's visit to wisconsin. there's no indication that he's going to meet with blake or his family during this visit on tuesday. the governor of wisconsin is speaking out about this. this is his statement. he's urging the president to reconsider his visit. i'm concerned your presence will only hinder our healing. i'm concerned it will delay our work to overcome division and move forward together. i'm concerned a visit from you will require a massive redirection of resources to support your visit at a time when it is critical that we continue to remain focused on keeping the people of kenosha safe and supporting the community's response. you see there both a concern from a resources standpoint about the law enforcement resources that a presidential visit inevitably draws out, and also from a more political standpoint, what kind of a message the president is going to bring to a city in such a volatile situation. if it's any indication, we know this is a president who does not choose to be consoler in chief. this is a president that seeks to seize on these divisions that exist and stoke those for his own political gain. all the white house has said, they have not responded yet to the letter to the president. all they have said so far is the president is going to go there to survey the damage to some of the riots that have taken place and also to meet with law enforcement tishls. >> thank you. jeremy diamond at the white house. the rooil of the presidential thomas knee will deliver a speech tomorrow in pennsylvania. his core message, are you nasaf in donald trump's america. let's go to jessica dean. give us a preview of what we can expect to hear from biden tomorrow. >> we're hearing from campaign aids we should expect to hear joe biden draw a contrast with his vision of leadership with that of donald trump's leadership. we should expect for him to talk about what he thinks a president should be doing in these moments and what he sees donald trump doing in these moments. earlier today, biden releasing a statement forcefully condemning all of the violence both on the left and right saying that is absolutely not nis, calling on donald trump to do the same. i'll read you a bit. shooting in the streetings of a great american city is unacceptable. i condemn this violence. i condemn violence of every kind by anyone whether on the left or the right and i challenge donald trump to do the same. it does not matter if you find the political views of your opponents abhorrent. any loss of life is a tragedy. and in that statement, he also went on b to say that it is the role of a leader to turn down the temperature when it gets t hot. when there's violence top bring people together. and he makes the case and he will likely make the case tomorrow as well that donald trump is simply not up to the job of doing that. that instead, he's fanning the flames of division within this country and joe biden wants to offer another path forward that he sighs himts as able to bring to the table. we're also told by aids he considered traveling to kenosha, wisconsin, but local officials there, as we herd from jeremy and josh, are reaching out saying that they are concerned about president trump's visit. the biden campaign didn't want to cause anymore problems. they also didn't want to be knocked off course by what president trump is doing. they are focused very much on their message that they have had have from the very beginning. the message he got, which is this is about restoring the soul of the nation. we can expect for them to come back to that message tomorrow and for joe biden to really make the case that there's another way forward. and a that his version of leadership is what will draw america and push america forward and bring america together. >> jessica, thank you. jessica dean reporting. i want to bring in the global human rights leader. thank you so much for ginning us. when joe biden speaks about the ongoing unrest tomorrow, what would you like to hear from him at this very critical sensitive moment? >> somehow our nation has got to be unified. the statement he released, in my judgment, object target. because unfortunately, we have seen the president always fan the flames. and i wish that he could operate differently, but we don't expect that. but certainly, joe biden presents a different narrative. all of us have to roll up our sleeves if we're going to resolve these problems. whether it's around violence or around the plague that is killing people. and so i think the unity is needed now. someone who can reach out to all sides regardless of what your view is, which is what he said in the statement that he released today. >> the mayor of portland laid much of the blame for the violence and division right at the president's feet during a press conference about last night. how much of a factor is the rhetoric in all of this? >> i certainly believe that the rhetoric plays a role. and a as you know, the last book my father wrote was where do we go from here? chaos or community. it feels as if we're in chaos. but somehow we have to work to community. we have to great community. when community exists, these kind of things we're seeing obviously disappear. that means finding way to create opportunity. finding ways to be inclusive and not exclusive. finding ways to lift up and not push down. so i think that's just where we are. >> the president, as you know, is scheduled to visit wisconsin on tuesday. en tonight the governor is asking the president not to visit. do you think he would do more harm than good by going to kenosha by going at this sen sensitive moment? >> i would love to tie thi he would be able to do good, but unfortunately, that's not been the experience because his rhetoric already proceeds. and that rhetoric might do more harm than good. for limb it's just a political stop to organize police and everyone else he believes supports him. and really the president is supposed to speak to all of the people. 20 try to bring people together to resolve issues. that's not what it feels like he wants to do. so i kind of agree with the governor. and also from a resource stand point. it takes a lot to protect a president. and if resources are deployed away from the situation, that could be problematic. >> it could be indeed. the governor made a very strong statement urging the president to reconsider to not visit wu at this sensitive moment. as the president picks fights with local officials like the portland mayor, lives are lost at protests, are you worried that the violence and the politicking will overshadow the message behind the black lives matter movement? >> i am concern ed, but i think just as we had a major demonstration on friday for the 57th anniversary of the march on washington, i believe people have the capacity to rise up and it's not just in anger. it really is mobilizing, it's organizing, it's becoming engaged. it's registering even at this point. and voting. and i still think that opportunity exists. i am concerned about how it's being portrayed by others. however, the large overwhelming number of demonstrations we have seen in this nation and around the world have been peaceful. there is violence. but also we theneed to think ab the fact in kenosha, prior to mr. blake being shot seven times, people were not rioting. i'm not justifying rioting, i'm just only stating for a fact every action creates a reaction. and so we need to talk about how do we keep those things from happening so that we can keep violence from emerging. >> martin lieutenauther king th thank you for joining us. appreciate it very much. >> thank you. sglrvel coming up, the fda is considering fast-tracking a coronavirus vaccine before even before a critical step. but is it a dangerous move? we have 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we see compelling data, tonight make sure it's safe. it's best suited for therapies for sick people. we're going to give vaccines to healthy people in that context, we really need to have a high bar for safety. >> you want to make sure that there's perhaps deadly side effects from the new vaccine. you have to go through all the trials. a recent poll actually showed it, you saw this, that 40 prs of the american public right now are already saying they won't take the vaccine if the data is not complete and safe. that number could actually increase. do you think people will be skeptical to take it? because that's a huge concern right now. >> it is. unfortunately, we have a long history of people not always trusting the signs around vaccines. i do believe it's important to do those careful studies to assure the american people that these are safe and effective to take. and that's why it's important that we don't cut corners. i still believe we will do it right, but i want to make sure that happens. >> let's hope they do it right and the vaccine is safe and effective. let's talk about reinfection. a man in hong kong was the first confirmed covid reinfection. but now researchers in nevada identified a 25-year-old man who appears to have been infected with coronavirus twice. what do we know right now about reinfection with covid-19? >> neither of these cases was completely unexpected. we didn't ever think that the virus was going to give 100% immunity. that some people would get reinfected. the hong kong case was reassuring. because the second time around the person had no symptoms at all. that's how immunity works. the nevada case is more puzzling. the person got more sick on the second time around. i think these are going to be rare, but we have to watch where the data goes on this. >> the scientist said the man had strains of covid slightly different. would a vaccine cover those variations? >> most of the vaccines being developed now look like they should be able to cover those kinds of variations. so people are worried about that. so far, i haven't seen any data that makes me worried. i think the vaccine should be pretty effective against variations of the virus. >> 36 states are now reporting outbreaks of covid-19 on college and university campuses where students have gone back to school in recent days. 8,700 cases in recent days in 36 states. the university of alabama yesterday they said they had a thousand plus new cases since they reopened two weeks ago. these are pretty significant numbers. how worried should parents be about sending their kids back to colleges around the country in the midst of this coronavirus pandemic? >> yeah, this has been a frustrating issue because i think there is a way to bring kids back in safely. you've got to do test iing when they return. you've got to quarantine them. then you have to have a testing program while they are there. many colleges just aren't doing those things. they are sort of hoping and praying that things will work out well. it's not working out well. i think the key issue is to follow the signs and not just hope for the best. >> you're at hearth vord shard and moving to brown university. what are they doing? >> the brown plan has been straight forward. we're waiting until the data suggests that we can bring the ustudents back. we're going to do entry test whg they come back. we'll do ongoing surveillance testing. along with all the distancing and other things that are so important and mask wearing. so the bottom line is that i've been advising colleges and universities to follow the signs on this. and i believe if they do, they have a pretty good shot of being able to stay open. but if they don't, there's really not much hope of being able to keep colleges open without large outbreaks. >> the pandemic continues. doctor, thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you, wolf. wisconsin's governor is now asking president trump to reconsider his planned visit to kenosha on 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does this potentially put local law enforcement in a tough spot? they have to prepare for a visit from the president of the united states at the same time knowing the mayor, the governor, the lute governor have all asked the president not to come. this is not a good time. >> well, let me say this. from that of former law fman, i would say under the circumstances of what's going on in kenosha with all politics aside, this is about public safety. i think it would be to the best interest that neither the president nor joe biden go into kenosha at this i'm. the most important thing there now is that that city needs to be brought up to under some type of control. buzz it's been too many days in which they have been in such social unrest. we have seen for too many days now. i think there's going to be additional support that i hope that mayor asks for because it put a lot of stress up on the local police there, which they are not clearly not capable of managing. i think at some appointmepoint consideration must be about public safety at this point. not politics. so to your question, my answer would be i don't think it's good for either one of them to attend at this time. they need to be a at a place it's some sense of normalcy because lives at a stake. >> they have their hands full enough right now. joey, let's turn to portland. president "new york times" reporting that the man shot and killed in portland overnight was wearing a hat with the insignia of patriot prayer, a far-right group. this is a complicated situation, but what do you make of that detail? >> i make a number of things, wolf. more globally, we're in difficult, uncertain and troubling times. i make of it we talk about deescalation as it relates to police. we theed to be speaking about it as it relates to politicians and the rhetoric used as it relates to people who are on the streets and what's happening and so the reality is that we are in a difficult spot. and that spot takes us to a place where, yes, we're talking about ke snnosha, but then we'r talking about portland and atlanta and new york and the troubling thing to me is that we have to get a grapple upon what the root cause of this issue is. and the root cause of the issue is the troubling issues that are happening with the police as it relates to young black men who are being shot apparently for no basis whatsoever. we have to get a grapple around that. certainly, we need police, but police need communities. when communities feel disrespected and you're watching and we're talking about investigations and not accou accountability, we're going to see issues like this. so never anyone should be shot whether it's in portland or any place else in the country. certainly new york city matter what hatter they are wearing or who they support or love. 2 doesn't matter. but people are raw right now. emotions are going to get worse in the event we don't get behind this and have leadership bringing us together and not pushing us apart. the mayor of portland unleashed a skacathing report placing the blame for creating the division, for creating the hate we're seeing on american streets. we did see the president tweet seem to relish the conflicts. what role is his rhetoric having on these clashes right now? he's posturing himself as the, quote, law and order president. >> it's all the times like this whether you're on the right or the left, i understand the frustration of the mayor and i can in some ways understand the frustration of the president. but both of them have to demonstrate a leadership they lead from the right and the left. nothing would be better than the president of the united states in that mayor finding a why ay come together to resolve that issue in plabd. but doing it in a way the american people can look at them as being a model. at this point right now, there's no positive modelling that's coming in in these very tough times that we're living in. it's occurring in a lot of cities across this country. i think it becomes important from the frustration from any side that the politics are somehow put aside. the show boating and grand stand ing is put aside. the american people, that's the fwraetest majority of the people in this country looking for leadership and expect leadership from those who are in leadership positions to find a way to meet in the middle because we're a country right now that is hurting and that is misunderstood and a lot of different ways and a lot of different domains this has become complicated, and leadership right now is what's going to lead us out of here. so whoever can say they are law and order, we have to conduct ourselves not just in the sense of the physical law and order, but we have to be mental and smart in the terms of how we move towards a society where we do have law and order. but it requires at the this moment more than anything else is that leadership itself come together and roll model for this country what is so urgently needed. >> legal experts are warning that some of the far right militias with their lack of police training are on actual shaky constitutional ground right now. what do you think? >> i think a couple things. first off, just to pivot quickly to my friend dr. alexander's point, we need to come together. it would be great for the mayor and president to do that. when you have a president who says he's a fool, calling the mayor names and various thing, i don't know how we get to that point. that's the issue of deescalation. to the constitutional question, let's understand that everyone has a right to bare arms. but there are also laws in place such that you do not overreach. the fact is you want to bare an arm, you can. should you use it against someone else, no. should someone die, no. the fact is we're a country founded upon principles and the bill of rights and freedom of speech and bare whatever you want. but at the end of the day, that's not meant as an absolute right where you can have a gun and killing someone. where you can have speech and there can be this mass chaos everywhere. so ultimately at the end of the day, something needs to happen in a positive way, some harmony needs to take place. it gets worse before it gets better, particularly in an election year where people are raw and for good reason based upon what we're seeing. what we are seeing as it relates to cities around the country, the diversity of these crowds that are launching for justice. the diversity of the crowds launching to say enough is enough as it relates to violence against black men in this country and black women in this country. i think that's a positive thing. but ultimately, we have to get a fix on this and a fix quickly or more people are going to die. >> joey jackson, thank you very much. obviously, very sensitive moment in american history right now. coming up, a new poll taken after the convention. now suggests president trump is not necessarily seeing a bump in support following his convention. we'll break down the numbers, when come back. thinking about your financial plan... ...so are we. prudential helps 25 million people with their financial needs. with over 90 years' of investment experience, our thousands of financial professionals can help. go to prudential.com or talk to an advisor. for spending a perfectly reasonable amount of time on the couch with tacos from grubhub? 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