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defund the department, the mayor doubles down overnight. protests in wake of george floyd s death remaining mostly peaceful over the weekend, brian. brian: yup, ainsley, demonstrators marching from coast to coast demanding police reforms. today president trump is set to hold a law enforcement round table at the white house. we have all this covered for you this morning. but we begin with matt finn in minneapolis where the push to disband the police department is moving forward. isn t that right, matt? that is right. it was two weeks ago today that george floyd was killed here in minneapolis. and immediately afterward, several city council members banded together and promise they will dismantle the police department. now there is this major announcement that minneapolis city council members insist they have a veto-proof majority and are moving forward with dismantling the police department. minneapolis city council members now say 9 out of 13 members support dismantlin ....
that air base is home to some 320 americans who are there training iraqi military pilots and the u.s. says it has no plans to evacuate them. this huge strategic gain as the pentagon admits isis is now getting a foot hold beyond iraq beyond syria. libya, yemen, pakistan and afghanistan now seeing a rise in isis militants. the reason? deflections by the taliban. they realize flying under the black flag of isis will get them more money and more recruits. let s go straight to phil black who s in northern iraq right now. when you look at the map and see how close baghdadi is to that u.s. training base how close is isis to that base right now? reporter: pretty close earlier in the day, brooke. we understand from iraqi officials and the u.s. military there are some eight isis members who plan to attack the air base. they say they were all suicide bombers. they were all stopped and all killed. they say this is a sprawling base a very large facility and that u.s. personnel tha ....
America’s servicemembers, past and present, have shown incredible sacrifice and dedication to defending our freedom. We owe it to our nation’s heroes and their families to cut the bureaucratic red ....