All right, Aaron, thank you very much. Have a good weekend.

Coup is off. I am Chris Cuomo. Welcome to an expanded edition of Prime Time.

Protests and a pandemic. Both still very much in full effect. Both testing our commitment to each

other. One demands that we come together. The other that we do our best to stay apart.

And while the need for leadership is very great, we may be better off if President Trump

just stays out of both. He has made people think masks are a sign of weakness,

as cases pop up around the country and he has no answer. And now, after saying we must pay great

care to not call too many people racists, he made this mess of a message about chokeholds.

I think the concept of chokehold sounds so innocent, so perfect. And then you realize

if it's a one-on-one, now if it's two-on-one, that's a little bit of a different story,

depending, depending on the toughness and strength. You know, we're talking about toughness and

strength. We are talking, there's a physical thing here also. With that being said, it would be,

I think, a very good thing that generally speaking, it should be ended.

You know what he's talking about? I have no clue. Let's ask Jim Acosta at the White House.

He's obviously riffing there a chokehold sounds innocent. Is there any direction from the White

House about where he's trying to go with this? Not really. And as you noticed, Chris,

the president kind of danced around the question. He said that in some cases, chokeholds are

quote, perfect, but in other cases, not so much, and that he feels that perhaps they should be banned.

He didn't really give a definitive answer there. We've been waiting for definitive answers

on a whole slew of questions about these police brutality issues over the last several days.

The president hasn't been taking questions from White House reporters. He took some questions

from Fox News, but there is no clear suit, let's wear the president's head on all of this.

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