Hello from Washington, sort of. I'm Chuck Todd and this is the Chuck Todd cast. For the

last week, protesters have made their presence felt all across this country in response

to the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man in Minneapolis who was pinned down by police

officers and never lived to tell about it. In some ways, these are images we've seen before.

But with a new wrinkle in the form of President Trump, by this point, you know the story. Police

cleared Lafayette Square outside of the White House so that the President could pose in

front of a boarded up church. The events tied together themes that we were already seeing,

overwhelming use of police force, surprise movements from the President, criticism that

the move was an abuse of power. For good measure, throwing some mixed messages from the White

House and BC News is now reporting that Wednesday, the President is backing off his threat

to use the Insurrection Act to send troops into U.S. cities and clearly his defense secretary

is feeling some heat too, wanting to show some distance from the President's actions on

Monday night. Today's show Eugene Scott, political reporter for the Washington Post and MSNBC

Joshua Johnson. Join me, Eugene Joshua. Welcome, virtually to the Todd cast.

Thanks for having us. Let's just start, simply Joshua, where are we?

We're in a turning point. Man, this is history in the making. I mean, there's, I keep

thinking about that line from Hamilton, look around, look around at how lucky we are to

be alive right now. History is happening in Manhattan. And that is literally what is happening.

We are in a time when history is happening in Manhattan and elsewhere across the country.

In a way, I think we can possibly maybe, hopefully, look back on this and say that we were lucky

to be alive right now. At a moment, when the whole country began talking about a number

of issues in a very different way, if you look at the span of the year, we've been talking

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