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i'm jim acosta in washington. breaking news at this hour. we can now there have been at least 50 mass shootings in the united states in the last month. some of them happening in the last 24 hours n. austin, texas, at least three people are dead near a large shopping center. officers say it appears to be an isolated domestic incident. overnight three people were shot and killed, two others injured when gunfire broke out at a tavern near kenosha, wisconsin n. columbus wisconsin someone opened fire in a parking lot where a vigil was being held n. omaha nebraska, police arrested two teens after saturday's mall shooting that killed two people and injured another. this is a look at downtown minneapolis this afternoon. demonstrators gathering near the place are george floyd died at the hands of a minneapolis police officer last year. the city is very tense of course

ahead of tomorrow's closing arguments in the murder trial of that now former police officer derek chauvin. let's go live to minneapolis and sara sidner. in the last hour we had an incredible look at the scene behind you. there was violence there last night. members of the national guard suffered minor injuries after someone fired at them. what's the latest? what can you tell us? >> i will wait for that car to go guy. just right on cue. i want to get you quickly to, and then we will show you the scene here, which is gorgeous. a lot of people are coming together. the lieutenant governor made an incredible strong statement that will both harten some people and infuriate others. she said that minnesota is not a safe place for black people. that is a quote just coming out at this hour. i will read you a little bit more of what the lieutenant governor said, who by the way is native american, one of the first native american lieutenant

governors in this country. she says, i have had heart breaking conversations with my daughter about the killing of daunte wright. she doesn't understand why he's dead and why this keeps happening. as a child advocate i am grappling with the stark reality minnesota is a place where it is not safe to be black. that is coming from minnesota's lieutenant governor just this hour. and she says this as people are here mourning the death of george floyd and waiting for the trial of the officer -- former officer accused of killing him wraps up. the jury should get the case probably monday. there will be closing arguments. this is what is happening in the streets right outside of where george floyd was killed. you have hundreds of people here. there are block folks, white objection folks, native folks, latino folks. their asian folk. they are all gathering here together to send one message. and that message is, stop the

hate. whoever it's aimed at, stop it. stop the violence. stop the hate. they are all coming together to make that very clear. and the message is to police. the message is to anyone who is hayesful towards anyone. we have heard sings, that's what you are hearing right now. somebody is rapping right now. if i give you just a look, this area -- if you look straight over, you will see -- that used to be a place where you went and got gas. a gas station. they have changed this into george floyd square and taken that over, saying where there is people, there is power. and that is what you are seeing here. you are seeing people power, people coming together, trying to get the message out that the hate of asians or blacks or whites, or native americans or latino is unacceptable in this country. and we have to change that. that's the message being spread, knowing that there is a verdict that will likely come

potentially this week. starting monday, the jury gets the case in the trial of derek chauvin. right now, peace reveils right here in george floyd square. >> that is just a powerful image, sara sidner. joining me now to talk about this more is don lemon, the anor of cnn tonight. don's book is doing terrifically right now because it is so important, so timely. don this week we could have a verdict in the chauvin trial. as you know, you have been covering it every night, minnesota state national guard and minneapolis teams were fired upon overnight. we are also seeing protests across the country following the fatal police shootings of adam toledo, daunte wright. what are you worried could happen next in this country in it is happening day-by-day now. it is a daily thing that we have to talk about in this country.

>> i am worried about how bad it could get if people are not happy with the verdict that comes out of the derek chauvin trial. and we have seen unrest in the country before. people want justice. and rightfully so. i am not sure exactly what justice will mean, if that will mean a murder charge or one the manslaughter charges. we will only know once the verdict is rendered and once we find out exactly what that verdict is. but obviously, i think, as everyone, i am concerned about violence in the country. protesting is one thing. constitutionally guaranteed. but violence is another. and i think that that is not a possibility. i think if the verdict is not one that people find to their liking, i think that the likelihood that there is unrest is guaranteed. >> don, i want to talk about your book in just a second. what do you make of what sara sidner was reporting in just the last few minutes, the minnesota

lieutenant governor saying something i think is remarkable, that it is not safe to be black in her state right nownow? i mean that's an extraordinary statement to make. >> it is an extraordinary statement. i will leave that statement to her. i think the dangers of being black in minnesota and in man other place is quite real. and the danger -- quite different than being the dangers of any other ethnicity, i should say. look, the danger is real. her statement is her statement. those are not my words. i wouldn't quite put it that way. but my friend and colleague jonathan capehart wrote a piece in the both talking about how exhausting it is to be black in this country especially at this time watching all of these things happening especially with black men dying on cam rap in front of our faces seeing an army lieutenant being treated -- uniform, who served the country being treated the way he's

treated, so disrespectfully by law enforcement this this country. >> right. >> yeah. it is tough in this country to be black and witness these things. it's traumatizing in many ways to have to experience it on television over and over to watch these scenes unfold? let's talk about the story you shared on friday night. remarkable. a personal experience how you were welcomed by chicago police when you moved there. and the racism that you experienced in that city. that really has stayed with you all of these years. >> well that, and since it did, because that was my entry into chicago. there were two instances i can remember with police. one was when i first got there and i didn't have a license from the state. i explained to them. one also when i was waiting to park on a street. not used to chicago. i didn't move fast enough and someone was doing a valet and the cap yanked me out of my car and pushed me up against the car. i said i don't understand, what's happening.

i am new here. and i sid i have never been treated like this before. he said welcome to chicago. and i was experienced racist in subtle and real ways even with people i worked with. and by the newspaper when they were reporting on me in chicago. chicago -- martin luther king wrote he believed it's the most racist city in the country. how they housed people, and segregated people. i did find it one of the most polarized and segregated cities in the country -- i should say that i ever lived in. not in the country but that i ever lived in. >> your book "this is the fire, what i say to my friends about racism in the past few days" what have your conversations with your friends sounded like. >> we are all talking about everything that's happening right now. the chauvin trial, daunte

wright, adam toledo in chicago. we are having this conversation in real time now. >> it's interesting, jim, because when you write books about race people want happy, happy, joy, joy, right, things that make them feel good. when you write about the subject of race people don't ant to hear about it. i was concerned people would not want to hear the message that i was sending but it is resonating because everything i write about in the book, police brutality, white supremacy, reparations, education, policing -- all of it is plig out right in front of our very eyes right now. i think that's why the book is doing so well, because it's resonate asking people are realizing that we have to get a handle on what is happening in this country. so my conversations with my friends -- read the book. those conversations are in that book. but i went to dinner with a couple of friends last night and gave them the book as a gift. and we started talking about these issues. and at the end of the night we

all realized that we all needed to have conversations like this. many of the folks at dinner didn't look like me. they were white people. we started having these conversations and they felt comfortable enough to be talking about issues without me judging them with me and them -- both of us giving each other grace in the conversation to be able to discuss them in legitimate ways and without cast gating people. but holding them to account and telling them they needed to do the work. we all need to do the work. >> it is that kind of dialogue. that's how we get to know each other. understand what one another are going through. don, back to the chauvin case, we have seen a number of members of law enforcement testify for the prosecution against chauvin. in the daunte wright case the officer and the police chief both resigned. the officer involved was arrested and charged by mid week. is that progress? looking at what you have written about, what you experienced

yourself personally, do you think things are changing when you see what happened in the last week, from an accountability standpoint? >> well, let's see -- i want to see what the verdict is. >> right. >> let's see what happens with the other officer in brooklyn center. listen, i want to make it perfectly clear. i think things -- yeah, i think things are advancing. but i also think that not every police shooting is equal. they should all be looked at on their own merit. each person -- everything isn't a five-alarm someone must get the murder -- must refer murder or manslaughter. i think they all should be judged on their own merits. but i think it is high time that police officers are held accountable and that they are -- that they don't -- they aren't allowed to brutalize people and kill people with impunity. it is not allowed in any other profession in the country or in the world. any other profession. so policing -- yes, it's a hard

job. but police officers sign up and train for that hard job. that's part of the oath that they take, so to speak, is that they go into places of danger. and in order to go into places of dang e one must be trained to do so and to do it properly, and to deescalate and to realize that a traffic stop is not worth someone losing their life. if someone is a murder suspect, that's a different story. but if someone has an expired license or if you are pulling someone over for a traffic ticket there is no need to pull out a gun unless the officer's life is in danger. someone trying to flee from a police officer who is unharmed is not placing the officer's life in danger when you have their driver's license and their address and their information and you know where to get them don't shoot them. let them go. go to their house the next day and pick them up. whatever you need to do. we need to figure out officers cannot be allowed to kill people

with impunity in this country. is it advancing? let's see what happens in the derek chauvin trial and at the president clinton -- and at the brooklyn center. >> don, always starting great conversations whatever he does. he is doing it again with this, into. we appreciate it. multiple mass shootings as we have been saying in the past 24 hours. 50 since march 16th. all of this renewing calls for congress to act on gun reform. gop congressman mike waltz joins me next. we will talk about all of this. you are live in the "cnn newsroom." ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ back in black ♪ ♪ i hit the sack ♪ ♪ i've been too long... ♪

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sexual saul of a child. police are searching for him and warning folks in the area to shelter in place. we will keep an eye on that story and bring you developments that come in. in the meantime, 50 mass shootings in the span of a single month. that's the current state of america. from coast to coast, as families bury their loved ones, americans are once again looking to washington to see if this time our lead remembers finally ready to do something to stop the carnage. republican congressman mike walls of florida joins me now to talk about this and other issues. he's also a former green beret. congressman you are against a ban on assault weapons. we know our soldiers need weapons like these on battlefield. but do they really belong on american streets? >> yeah, hey, thanks for having me on, jim. i tell you, we all want to solve this problem. the data shows that the vast majority of gun violence, the vast majority of these crimes are committed actually with people using pistols not necessarily those weapons. but i think in the bigger

picture -- >> a lot of these mass shootings happen have sorld ar-15s and those kinds of assault-style rifles. >> hold on f. we look at these shootings and the legislation's currently before us, my issue is it just doesn't fix the problem. if you look at the tragedy in atlanta, look at the tragedy in colorado, those individuals, those shooters actually got their guns lyle legally through the existing background check system. i think it points to the fact that we have a real mental health crisis in this country regardless of which type of firearm you use. right? if you look at in a we had the parkland shooting and look at the legislation passed after that including a red flag daw that with due process -- that's an important point, with due process you present to a judge that someone has a mental health crisis -- oftentimes the shoot remembers flagging on social media, to family, friends or

others that they intend to do harm or violence. we now have a mechanism with due process in place where you can take those firearms out of their hands temporarily. >> are you aware that in indianapolis. >> law enforcement has used that 3500 times since then to good effect. >> in wisconsin you may have seen reports that there were red flags raised there. >> right. >> yet the shooter was able to do what he did in indianapolis. the red flag laws aren't going to always stop these things were happening. are there any gun safety laws you could support? >> yeah, for example, fixing the database that currently exists called the knick's database. bipartisan legislation has moved through to fix that. if you look at the mass shooting in texas at a church there, the shooter was an air force veteran, his data that would

have precluded him from getting a firearm wasn't shared with the fbi. these database make agencies work together and requiring states and courts to share their data with the database. i think that's an example. from my understanding over 6 million more records just in the last year have been shared with this database. so i think we need to take a hard look at fixing the system as it exists and make it work better. but putting -- >> the system is not working right now. >> making it harder for law-abiding stips in contravention of the constitution to have a weapon. prison -- this is important. prison surveys are showing that the vast majority of criminals get their weapons on the black margaret not through the lawful systems. i think that's where the solutions need to be focused. >> let's talk about afghanistan. i wanted to talk to you about president biden's announcement he is going to pull all u.s. troops out of afghanistan. >> yeah.

>> you have expressed concern about this. let me ask you, if not now, when? >> first i want to say, i think lost in this is that we currently have an american being held hostage by the taliban, mark fewerics. for whatever reason, the president didn't mention him at all. i know the family has got to be absolutely devastated and we are now withdrawing all of our leverage, which is your troops and our ability to rescue him out of afghanistan just as we did -- we left americans behind in the iran deal. we are now leaving them behind in this deal. my overall issue, jim, is that it doesn't present a plan for how to keep a lid on terrorism going forward. right? i mean half the world's terrorist organizations still economist there. al qaeda will come roaring back just as isis did when obama pulled out of iraq. except here's where it's worse. we don't have any other bases in afghanistan except that one that

we are about to close. >> congressman -- >> i don't see a realistic plan for how our counter-terrorism forces -- did i suggested leaving a small contingent there. when we pull the military out we pull the cia and everyone else out as well. now we are going to be blind in that region of the world. >> quickly i want to ask you about marjorie taylor green scrapping her efforts to form an america first caucus there in the house. >> yeah. >> did you have any plans to join that caucus in and what do you make of that idea? >> i haven't seen anything besides what was reported. i saw her statement saying there are some things floating around in the draft. but she had no plans to launch anything. jim, you know, i would hope you also have democrats on and ask them if they agree with maxine waters calling for more confrontation in minneapolis as we speak with such a

counter-peg. i think we need to tone down the temperature and the rhetoric on all sides. >> you didn't have plans to join the caucus. >> we need to tone it all down on all sides. sorry in. >> you didn't have plans to join that caucus did you? >> let meette tell you what i am interested in. something that's merit based. that's how i was raised in the military. i was also raised with martin luther king's sayings and teachings on how to move towards a colorless society. >> you are not saying you reject that idea of a america first caucus? >> i on the had seen anything about that caucus. i wouldn't have joined it if it was as it was reported. it doesn't exist.

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dr. anthony fauci is predicting the nationwide pause on administering the johnson & johnson vaccine will be lifted soon. take a listen. >> they put a pause, take a

look, see what's going on, make sure you know the scope of what's going on, and then make a decision. so hopefully by friday we will get back on track one way or the other. >> by friday? the cdc advisers are meeting on friday. but you think that that is actually when j&j will be unpaused? >> well, i think by that time we are going to have a decision. now, i don't want to get ahead of the cdc and the fda and the advisory committee, but i would imagine that what we will see is that it would come back and it would come back in some sort of either warning or restriction. >> the pause was ordered so that experts could examine whether a handful of unusual blood clots were linked to the shot. the case is exceedingly rare, just six reported out of nearly 7 million doses administered. joining us me the director of the vaccine education center at children's hospital in philadelphia. and a cnn medical analyst.

dr. offette, do you expect this pause to be lifted as dr. anthony fauci was saying? what kind of warning might we expect. >> yes, i do. they are going to meet on friday and do basically what european agencies did when they found a similar problem with the astrazeneca vaccine. i am going to guess they will restrict it to a certain age group for example, just those over 50. because this problem, which is exceedingly rare as you noted curse in those less than 50 and women. i think by saying over 50 you will take an extremely rare problem and make it even rarer or non-existent. >> 50% of u.s. adults have now had at least one vaccine dose. but vaccine hesitantsy is still a concern partly because of the rhetoric of tucker carlson.

>> for months they have been badgering the country to take a vaccine satisfies safe. it is possible this vaccine is more dangerous than they are indicating. >> how dangerous is that type of rhetoric do you think doctor in. >> super dangerous. it is interesting that tucker carlson for a long time wanted to know why the former president wasn't getting greater credit for the rollout of these vaccines. and now with the vaccines rolling out at really record paces, he is nowst kaing doubt on the safety of these vaccines. so to be clear, the vaccines are incredibly safe. we have given these vaccines now to over 200 million americans. it's a remarkable achieve men -- sorry. we have given 200 million shots. it is a markible achievement. and the safety data is terrific. but you are right, there is a lot of vaccine hesitancy.

and a lot of it breaks down along party lines. about 80% of democrats say they have either got ten shot or are eager to get it. but only 49% or so of republicans say the same thing. younger people as well show as increased hesitancy. and even we are seeing about a third of -- only about a third of evangelical christians saying they plan to get the vaccine. so we have a lot of work to do on the grassroots level really getting people to appeal to these particular interest groups. and particularly for, you know, republicans, it should be coming from established republican leaders. i would love to hear the former president speak out forcefully for vaccination. i would like to hear more people on fox news speak out forcefully for vaccination. these folks don't want to hear it from me. they want to hear it from people that they identify with, that they trust.

but it's a big deal. it's a big deal. we need to get to about 75% to 80% vaccination in this country if we really want to achieve what most people consider herd immunity is. without these interest groups it is going to be very difficult to get there. >> dr. offette, we are also seeing more and mosh pushback the covid restrictions from republicans. ted cruz says he no langer plans to wear a face mask on the capitol halls or on the senator floor. here is his explanation on that. >> at this point, i have been vaccinated. everyone working in the senate has been vaccinated. the cdc has said in small groups, particularly with people who are vaccinated, you cannot wear a mask. at this point virtually everyone here has been vaccinated. and everybody had the opportunity. >> many staff workers in the capitol still have not been vaccinated. why is it important for people to still wear masks. because of the variants. as dr. fauci made clear.

i am fully vaccinated but when i go out to the deli down the street and walk in with a group of people it is the variants that scare me. all the variants, they are in this country, and they are circulating in this country. we know for a fact that your protection with these vaccines will extend to severe critical disease but will not extend to mild or moderate disease. you can still get sick because of those variants. that's the reason to still wear the mask as dr. fauci has explained many times. i guess this hasn't filtered down to senator cruz yet. >> we have got to get that case load under control. it is not under control. dr. reiner pfizer's ceo says a third booster shot of their vaccine is likely needed in six to 12 months in part because of people not wearing masks and the ver yants spreading around i suppose. how will americans who are already vaccinated with pfizer know when it's time to go back for that additional shot?

>> first of all, you know, we are used to having from time to time to get boosters for various vaccines. think of the flu shot. we get a new flu shot every year. i was interested if what albert borlis said because we haven't seen the data that suggests when we will need this. the six month data out shows robust immunity out six months. we will have 12 month data coming forward soon. the first trials went out about a year ago. we will have 12 month date soon. we have not seen any evidence that the efficacy of these vaccines is waning certainly within the first year. i think what he is really talking about is these vaccines are going the evolve to more critically focus on the variants. sometime next year there will be

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as just one part of it. joining to us talk about this is brian stelter. you spoke with the former prime minister of australia, malcolm turnbull. fascinating discussion. he spoke out against the australian born rupert murdoch and the family. you found he was specifically concerned about what is going on here in the u.s. did that surprise you? >> it did. it is rare to see a former world leader of turnbull's stature speaking out against the murdochs so forcefully. former president barack obama has talked about fox news in carefully worded ways not to poke at the murdochs directly. it is rare to hear someone like turnbull speak with the murdochs as bluntly as you are about to hear here. he was talking about the riot in january and linked it directly

to fox. >> the murdoch media empire has enormous political power. it is the most potent political force in australia. it does not operate as a conventional news or journalijournalist ic operation any longer. in all of the countries where it is to be found it is utterly partisan it is more like a political party but the only mention of the murdochs. as you know, it has driven pop you list right-wing agendas, denying climate change, support, extremism on the right of politics, of populous politics to the extent most irresponsibly of all you might think supporting the proposition that joe biden had in fact stolen the election and was not legitimately collected president. and that of course was directly

connected to the sacking -- to the assault, the violent assault on the united states capitol. a shocking event. and one of the darkest days in america's political history. >> you, mr. turnbull, seem more disturbed by the attack on the u.s. capitol than a lot of people here in the united states. a lot of conservatives are trying to deny what happened and pretend it wasn't that bad. but i appreciate that you saw it for what it was. >> well, it was an assault on democracy. it was -- and it -- and you see, what murdoch has delivered largely through fox news in the united states is exactly what vladimir putin wanted to achieve with his disinformation campaigns. turning one part of america against another. so exacerbating the divisions that already exist in american society. and undermine the trust americans have in their democratic institutions. now, that's the -- that was the

objective of the russian disinformation campaign. and that is exactly what is being delivered from -- by fox news and by other players in that right wing populist media ecosystem. it is -- in feffect, what they have created is a market for crazy. they have become unhinged from the facts. that is now basically they have worked out that you can just make stuff up. they -- we -- you know, everyone talks about and complains about social media. but what is being done by curated media, mainstream media, including, and in particular, fox news, has donny normous damage to the united states. i mean the question you have to ask yourself is, is america a more divided country than it was before thanks to murdoch's influence in the answer must be

yes. do americans have less faith in their electoral institutions, and their legitimate institutions of government as a result of murdoch? yes. now, that is a terrible outcome. that is a terrible outcome. >> and turnbull there, the former prime minister of australia, was the center right leader in australian politics before being ousted a few years ago. he testified recently to the australian parliament about murdoch and the insidious influence of these media brands. what he's saying is what starts in the u.s., what happens on fox has consequences around the world. what struck me the host were the words market for crazy. the murdochs are creating a market for crazy. >> true. >> he says pew period of time's son is more extreme than his father and now he is running fox

news from a world away. >> just incredible to hear an australian leader talk about what is happening in their country and it is sounding so relevant to what we are dealing with in this country right now. >> yeah. >> brian stealther, just a fascinating conversation. for folks who want to see more of it, you can find it on line. reliable sources airs every sunday at 1:00 a.m. great conversation with the prime minister there. >> thanks. >> we appreciate it. major reports from corporate america on a new launch from apple. that's what wall street is watching this week. christine romans has the before the bell report. >> it is another big week for corporate earnings this week. united airlines, american airlines, johnson & johnson, coca-cola and netflix all report results. expectations for the quarter are pretty high. analysts say blowout earnings don't necessarily mean a blowout mark. according to america of america companies that beat on earnings underperformed in subsequent days that suggests the markets

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this is going to be a moving moment for that community. what are you seeing so far today? >> reporter: friday thousands of people showed up. right now the cloud is a lot smaller but we think it may grow. you can see what is going on now, there's a group performing for the crowd that has gathered here, and they don't feel like the community is getting the word out enough. all this happening steps away from where the young man was shot, and we spoke to so many in the community who want their voices heard, and nobody is listening to the fact -- in fact, take a listen to when we talked to somebody just minutes ago. >> there's so much trauma right now and there's a lot of hurt and pain that, i mean, community really needs to come together and i hope it does.

it cannot stop here. it has to continue. you know, cops need to come in, the police, the city, and the mayor needs to come in and listen to the needs of the city and not just put more cops out there. that's not the solution. >> reporter: this is a tough neighborhood and they were just talking about the fact somebody else lost their life recently here and they are hoping to put a spotlight on all that and hope to make changes, and we'll continue to follow this vigil. >> that's the news reporting from washington. i am jim acosta. pamela brown takes over the cnn "newsroom" live after a quick break. with visible, you get unlimited data for as little as $25 a month. but when you bring a friend, you get a month for $5.

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