It to me or the v. P. Possibly another fabricated russia hoax. Maybe by the fake news at New York Times wanting to make republicans look bad. The president and National SecurityCouncil Discussed the russian bounties in late march. Congress, of course now demanding more information. Republican congresswoman liz cheney report something reporting on russian bounties is true the white house must explain why werent the president and the president briefed . Was the info in the pdb. Who did know and when . What has done in response to protect our forces . This goes much deeper. We have called for a report to the congress on this. This is as bad as it gets. I dont know what the russians have on the president politically, personally, financially or whatever it is, but he wants to ignore. Todd congressman ted lieu tweeting, quote dear richard grernl did you really tell real donald trump and vp pence that russia was paying militants to kill u. S. Troops or is the press secretary lying . I never heard this and discussing how you to continue to politicize intelligence. You clearly dont understand how raw intel gets verified. Leaks of partial information to reporters from Anonymous Sources is dangerous because people like you manipulate it for political gain. The a. P. Reporting that the administration is expected to brief select members of Congress Later today. Steve, anxiously, and brian, bark to you. Brian the story emanated from the fact that interrogations of captured militants played a central role in making the Intel Committee confident. Inthedges community confident that the russians had offered to pay bowntdie bounties in 2019 ay taliban would be official. If you can call taliban official who killed an american because they found large bodies of cash; however, the one thing to keep in mind, too. There is no proof ever in the president s utility brief. Had you two one acting and one current director of National Intelligence who said flat out that we have never been we never briefed the president on that because it didnt seem credible. K. F. Mcfarland the National Security advisor will be with us at 7 156789 what i find disturb no, sir matter how this turns out somebody in intelligence is telling the New York Times, maybe out of frustration or to upend and make the administration look bad. Bottom line there is a schism between the Intelligence Community and the administration which should be disturbing to everybody. Steve well, but thats been the entire Trump Administration. We still dont know who anonymous is we know coming up on four years, that white house has leaks like a sieve with people inside it who simply work for the president but dont like him. This should come as no surprise. So it will be interesting to see what sort of information the our leaders probably the gang of 8 will be released on this later today and see . They change their tune because nancy pelosi said it was outrageous yesterday that the president didnt do anything about, apparently he didnt know anything about it. Meanwhile, lets take you out to seattle. Ainsley can i weigh in on that . Steve absolutely. Ainsley ric grenell who was dni ted you dont understand how raw intelligence gets verified he said that to congressman ted lieu really you didnt tell the president . No. I never heard of this. You dont understand how raw intelligence gets verified. I read that as because when you hear what the president says he says intel didnt find it credible. So they didnt tell me. They didnt tell the Vice President. Ric grenell didnt know. So it sounds like it wasnt credible. If they did have this information it didnt go high enough to where it would reach the president s desk oar be in his Daily Briefing. Brian both could be true. Carter scholar with the cna worked for joe dunford the bounty information if true could be a random initiative rather than one that reflected a well accord nafted program ordered by the highest level of government which would lead to not be in the president ial daily brief because a random initiative would not make it there. Steve all right. More on this a little later on. Meanwhile, lets go ahead and talk about whats going on out in seattle. The very latest on that chop zone we had heard that the seattle mayor jenny durkan was going to start taking down the barricades. She said she was going to clear barriers from the chop area by sunday morning. Late sunday, still up there because whats going on there right now has become very clear that the people in that zone are not being served with the City Services cant get the police to come in there if somebody is being shot at or robbed. Carmen best says its absolutely necessary for the Public Safety that we can respond in that area. And so now sounds like while the city wants to remove those barriers you see there reorganize hes want to call Anderson Park because there have been all sorts of problems right there. They want to take the protest over to the east precinct which is still closed. And although the mayor has said we are going to reopen it. The aim of the protesters is to keep the east precinct from opening how are they going to do that . They are prepared to form a human chain around the building to make sure the cops never come back. Ainsley exactly right. They marched over to the mayors house. Not every 911 call requires a Police Officer with a gun. Thats why chief best and the seattle pd are conducting a deep review of seattle pds budget in accessing what function could be removed to other doiments or be removed intirlg. The protesters want to defund by 50 . Brian they do and not the only ones. In milwaukee they are defunding and diminishing police and shootings are going through the roof. In saint solution 13 people shot. There is video of two Business Owners sitting throughout with guns saying listen if cops arent protecting me im shooting anyone that comes close to us let alone whats happening in peoples homes. And the mass retirements which well discuss at the bottom of the hour. 272 nypd cops have retired over 100 milwaukee cops are retiring. They dont want anything to do with it. In terms of this quhop i dont know the lawsuits are mounting. City Council Going to take the chop zone down on friday agitators won that one. Then they said it was going to happen on sunday. Agitators won again. Now they are saying its monday. Do you know what happens when you keep moving the goal post, right . The goal posts keep moving. We dont have any confidence that this is going to end any time soon. Now, i will tell you that we have a very capable police force that could probably go in there but we believe they probably have a standdown order. So this city has gotten so progressive here lately that i talk to my friends who own restaurants and other businesses i can tell you the crescendo keeps increasing here with people saying we want out. Brian but instead new york has a good idea lets do the same thing there they have an occupy zone which they welcomed because they want to defund the police. In seattle they want to defund and close down precincts. They want social workers in milwaukee. They want to reimagine the entire thing. Unless joe biden and Company Speak out and say thats not me specifically and that is go ho go s. Going to be held to account eventually they must be compliant with it. Meanwhile as you know last week was a big week for legislation where the senate and house both proposed theirs. The house passed theirs in a simple majority. For tim scott he only got three votes from the democrats. Not up to 60. Therefore the republican version of police reform, Law Enforcement reform died. But, it might not be over. He talked over the weekend. While i do talk about the fact there are a lot of things in common. There are a few things that i believe makes it worse on cities, makes it worse on the most vulnerable populations within those cities. And what we are seeing manifesting in new york city today is a buy product of those concerns that i have about the house legislation. There is a reason why murder suspect 79 over the numbers last year. 64 shooting increase over the numbers last year just in new york city. When you start demonizing and stereotyping up a Law Enforcement as evil and bad you start putting targets on their back. The demonizing of Law Enforcement is not a part of my bill, because i dont want Law Enforcement to demonize africanamericans. Steve exactly. When he was with us last week. He was very frustrated and broken hearted that he had put so much into this and gotten so much up put from people, from stakeholders in this particular issue that he thought that given the fact that he said that he had billion 70, 75 Common Ground with democrats, he thought this could actually go somewhere. But he also said this has become a political hot potato and its going to be an issue, obviously, for both sided republicans are going to be able to say going into november. Dont look for anything to happen before then. The republicans are going to say, look, we tried to do it but the democrats wouldnt work with us. The democrats, ainsley, are simply going to say, look, we feel that the republicans simply didnt have enough in their bill and we could never go along with that. Ainsley yeah. Tim scott, who is the only fraternal republican senator. Is he from my home state of South Carolina. He sat down with karen bass, the chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus which is 50 black legislators that discuss issues that reflect their community. Tim scott met with her this is waterfall thing because this is about compromise and we need to save lives and we need to talk about this republicans and democrats together. He said the difference is the republicans, they say no chokehold unless the officers life is in danger. Democrats want to say absolutely no chokehold at all. And the other issue tim opposes allowing the victims of misconduct at the hands of Police Officers to be able to sue the police. Instead maybe we can compromise bile suing municipalities or counties or states. Steve you know, anxiously, the other big thing is the democrats want to strip police of immunity so if they are involved in something when they are doing their job they have immunity. The democrats want to get rid of that. Republicans say absolutely not. There would be no incentive to a Police Officer ever to step into the fray unless he is protected and his bosses have his back. Brian i think we should understand what is happening. This isnt subtle difference between the way you view police and the way you view law and order. We are actually witnessing what happens when police pull back. This originally was a situation which i welcome in this country where we are looking at racial iniquities and talk about things that may be in our society that we can balance out by creating an awareness and a discussion. And now we all of a sudden said all cops are bad. Now push them back, defund them, lessen their responsibilities. Legislative the numbers and guess whether a . They have a degree of pride. They understand what they are doing on a daily basis. They might be overextended. Not only are they not getting credit for doing stuff that would normally be out of their auspices they are getting discredited and blamed for what is going wrong. Some like the bronx precincts commander even though im coming up on 30 years, i quit. Even though 279 officers in the nypd quit. 183 in milwaukee, in minneapolis quit. Let me ask you something is that the outcome you want . Because giewrks welcome to the wild west in 2020. Because, without police, who by the way everyone calls, Everyone Wants police when they need them, but no one wants them when they dont, so, you cant have it both ways. Its up to these lawmakers, everyone running for a senate seat or a state senate seat to speak up and tell us where you stand. Because theres a way to make this better, and there is a way to make it worse. We are in the middle of anarchy. All these cities are change, seattle, new york, milwaukee, minneapolis. Every major city is changing right before our eyes. I cant believe we are allowing this to happen. I cant believe we are allowing our police to be the bad guys. Ainsley some of my Police Officer friends say that downtown, i guess its city hall or somewhere downtown in new york, thats where you have to go there, you make an appointment. You call when you are ready to retire. They said that the phone lines have been so busy, Police Officers actually physically going and waiting in line hoping that they get in so that they can file their retirement papers. Iit takes months to do that anda long process. Some people eligible for retirement are doing that because their family members fear four their lives and they are too. Steve they did track that and there was a report out yesterday that said that the number of new york city Police Officers who are retiring since the George Floyd Killing has gone up 49 in the last one month as oppose to the year before. Ainsley. Its something. Ainsley yeah. We will talk to bank did that coming up. Right now, lets talk to jillian. She is upstairs and has headlines for us. Jillian a protester now charged with murder in a deadly shooting at a louisville demonstration. [gunshots] gunshots at a park where people gathered to protest the death of brianna taylor. Steven lopez accused of firing on the crowd arrested and hospitalized by after being shot by a by stander. Lopez had been arrested at another protest less than two weeks ago. A grim milestone as the world continues to fight covid19. Global cases surpassing the 10 million mark. Deaths passing 502,000. The u. S. Is the worst affected country with 2. 5 million cases and other 125,000 deaths. California ordering bars to close in seven counties. In pennsylvania, Allegheny County is banning Alcohol Consumption at bars and restaurants starting tomorrow. At least 17 states pausing and even reversing their reopening plans as of sunday Mississippi State flag will soon be history. State lawmakers passing a bill to change it by removing the confederate emblem. The bill is now heading to governor tate reefsz who says he will sign it. The 1894. Commission a new flag without the emblem but featuring the phrase in god we trust. People will vote in november. Patriots assign ago former mvp to replace tom brady. Cam newton spent the last 8 years. Will will losing a draft pick for forming the bengal sideline last season. The wont be allowed to report any this season. Cam newton in a patriots uniform. Brian makes sense. They do want to win this year. Still ahead a horrific weekend in chicago. 3 children killed in shootings including a 20 month old boy. A pastor who con sold the parents joins with us a message for city leaders next. If you are not mad. If you are not outraged. If you are not heart broken about this, then what will you be heart broken about . I like to recommend pronamel to my patients. Pronamel will help push the minerals back into the enamel, to keep the enamel strong. I know it works. 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He was killed in his car seat when somebody opened fire on his moms car after they were leaving the laundromat. Our next guest was at the shooting scene to help the family. Is he a victims advocate and founder of solutions and resources pastor Donovan Pryce joins me right now. Pastor, good morning. Good morning. How are you . Steve im doing okay. You know, a lot of people looking in on this story are heartbroken. When you arrived at the scene, to comfort that mother who had just lost her son, leaving the lawn drirks he was in his car seat. What do you say . You kind of hold people and try to hel