Former Republican Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday that President Donald Trump has "drifted away" from the Constitution, adding to a growing list of former top military officials who have strongly criticized the President's response to the nationwide protests surrounding the police killing of George Floyd.

"We have a Constitution. And we have to follow that Constitution. And the President has drifted away from it," Powell, a retired general who served under President George W. Bush, told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union."
The comments from Powell, the first African American secretary of state and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, add to a growing list of rebukes made in recent days by former top officials who have expressed discontent with Trump's strongman approach to the protests sparked by the death of Floyd, a black man who was killed in late May by a white police officer in Minneapolis.
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CNN's Dan Simon reports from Seattle's Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone where protesters and activists have taken over a 5-block area of the city.

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President Donald Trump warned against labeling "tens of millions of decent Americans as racist or bigots" during an event promoted as discussing "justice disparities" in Dallas. The roundtable did include faith leaders, law enforcement representatives, small business owners and senior members of the Trump administration, but the administration did not invite Dallas Police Chief Reneé Hall, Dallas County Sheriff Marian Brown and Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot, who are all black.
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President Trump responds to law enforcement using smoke canisters and rubber bullets to break up a peaceful protest in front of the White House so he could visit a nearby church. CNN's Daniel Dale fact checks his claims.

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President Donald Trump will host his first rally in months next week in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and he has plans to visit four other states in the coming weeks as his campaign prepares to relaunch in-person rallies.
The decision to hold a rally in Tulsa, a city with a checkered racial history, on June 19, or Juneteenth -- the day that marks the end of slavery in the United States -- is especially striking as the nation undergoes a conversation about racism in the wake of George Floyd's killing at the hands of police officers.
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As millions protest in the Black Lives Matter movement, the fashion industry is also re-examining its role in the anti-racism conversation. CNN's Hala Gorani talks to supermodel and activist Naomi Campbell, who has spoken candidly about the racism she has faced as a black woman in the fashion industry. #CNN #CNNi #News

CNN's Daniel Dale fact-checks claims President Donald Trump made on coronavirus cases, Dr. Anthony Fauci and HIV/AIDS research during a Fox News town hall.
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CNN's Anderson Cooper calls out a number of Republican senators who dodged questions or were silent when pressed for reaction after President Donald Trump suggested without evidence that a 75-year-old man who was seriously injured after being shoved by police officers in Buffalo, New York, last week, may have been part of a "set up."

In an unsubstantiated claim, the President tweeted, "Buffalo protester shoved by Police could be an ANTIFA provocateur. 75 year old Martin Gugino was pushed away after appearing to scan police communications in order to black out the equipment. @OANN I watched, he fell harder than was pushed. Was aiming scanner. Could be a set up?"
At a news conference following a Republican policy lunch, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky refused to say whether Trump's tweet was appropriate.
CNN pressed him twice, and he instead pointed to the work led by GOP Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina to try to put together a police reform package.

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America's top general has apologized for appearing in a photo-op with President Donald Trump following the forceful dispersal of peaceful protesters outside the White House last week, calling the move a "mistake" and saying his presence "created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics."
Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said during a pre-recorded speech released that he regrets accompanying Trump on a walk from the White House to St. John's Church last week where he was photographed wearing his combat uniform and moving with the President's entourage through Lafayette Square.
The images provoked a swift wave of criticism from lawmakers and several senior former military officials who said they risked dragging the traditionally apolitical military into a contentious domestic political situation.
Milley also said that he was "outraged" by the killing of George Floyd and added that the protests it sparked spoke to "centuries of injustice toward African Americans."

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Democratic South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn tells CNN's Jake Tapper that he does not support calls to defund the police, saying instead to restructure law enforcement.

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Top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci and the CDC are warning that the coronavirus pandemic is not over and recommend that Americans continue to take precautions such as wearing masks.

Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday evening tweeted, and then deleted, a photo showing a large group of President Donald Trump's reelection campaign staff not wearing face masks or social distancing, two recommendations of the coronavirus task force that Pence leads.

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When the United States emerges from the Covid-19 public health crisis, its national security will need time to recover before operating at full strength again.

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As states lift more restrictions and more Americans go out to socialize or protest, 22 US states are seeing higher rates of new coronavirus cases. #CNN #News

President Donald Trump says he is taking daily doses of hydroxychloroquine, a drug he's long touted as a potential coronavirus cure even as medical experts question its efficacy and warn of potentially harmful side effects.

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As the world is distracted by the Covid-19 pandemic, China appears to be making bold military moves on multiple fronts, causing experts to warn of the tension between the US and China. CNN's David Culver reports.

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CNN's Dan Dale fact checks President Trump's speech after he was acquitted at his Senate impeachment trial. #CNN #News

CNN's Anderson Cooper called out White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany's defense of President Donald Trump's baseless tweet about Buffalo protester Martin Gugino.

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