what s being obscured here is arpaio who has been covering for decades truly one of the worst sheriff s in america. a lot of his practices are not all that uncommon. so people who are learning about arpaio now and hearing that he shackled women in labor to the bed, his aggressive use of stun guns, overcrowding in his prison, racial profiling on the streets, arpaio didn t invent any of those practices and i would hate for other law men to be embolden in doing those because of this pardon. he was shameless about talking that he had his own concentration camps. utterly unapologetic, probably hundreds of thousands defending the guy. he s got a press conference coming up. victoria, does this pardon while criminally gets him off the hook, does this open him up to civil lawsuits because when he was quicked by a judge and
unity and but also to talk about arpaio, who is quite frankly, you know, a symbolic to the alt-right, to the-supremists, to the neo-nazis, and any pardon, and we are hoping part of the demonstration is to make a point that the pardon for arpaio would deepen the divisions, it would go counter to whatever the president said yesterday at his discussion about afghanistan, about unity and being against bigotry. this is a red meat rally, a campaign rally, and in previous visits to arizona it has always been very the rhetoric has been extreme. i hope when the president comes here that arpaio is not on the table and that the people that are here to protest are here to protest not only trump, not only what happened in virginia, but also the policies and direction which this government is going.
folks who have driven or flown here from as far as alaska and they expect him to hear him hit back against some of these folks including senator jeff flake who they would like to see replaced with somebody like kelli ward, who gotten sort of soft support from the president so far. they also want to hear from the president about sheriff joe arpaio, such a controversial figure here but not among the president s supporters. they would love to see the president pardon him including miss ward speaking on this today. take a listen. do you want to see him pardoned tonight? i do. i think there s a lot of political motivation behind what went into prosecuting sheriff joe. reporter: and i ve reached out the folks at the white house for some clarity on this. they are not saying essentially one way or the other, at least not on the record, whether or not a pardon could be in the cards for tonight. as of last night, arpaio didn t know if it could be in the cards
that this particular federal judge, susan bolton, had gotten it wrong. he s right about that. you know, the constitution guarantees a right to a public trial and a trial by jury. both were denied to arpaio by the federal judge. he repeatedly asked for a trial by jury. she wouldn t give it to him. these a clear violation of the sixth amendment. it s also a violation of federal statutory law. any time you re facing criminal contempt, the law says it must be a trial by jury upon request. that was denied to him. finally, arpaio didn t willfully violate a court order. he followed the advise of his lawyer and under the law, it says that relying in a good faith manner upon advice of counsel is a complete defense to criminal contempt. i could expect the conviction it s only a misdemeanor i would expect it to be thrown out