foreshadowed pardon of controversial sheriff joe arpaio, the latter drawing open and direct criticism from speaker paul ryan. also over the weekend as the president focused on responding to his first major domestic crisis he took on notable fire, incredible comments from defense secretary james mattis and his secretary of state rex tillerson. we ll play those for you and explain why they are so significant at this point in this presidency, and finally, a brand new washington post report that trump s business sought a deal on a trump tower in moscow while he ran for president. we ll speak with one of the reporters who broke that story late yesterday but we begin with the texas flooding, more rain is in the forecast and there is simply nowhere for the water to go. stories of heroism, neighbors and people from hours away helping each other in the depth of the catastrophe. the latest, two people are dead,
attention is paid to their security concerns, for example. and various issues. so they have there s a sense of solidarity among the federal judges, and you saw it there and you ll see it now. victoria, from charlottesville to this pardon, some miegght say this president stirs up racism and opens the door to violence. is that overstating it? i don t think so. it s not a dog whistle. it s an explicit message of saying it is okay to use race and plug it in as a wedge as john kasich said this weekend, and with the issue of racial profiling, this is a very serious issue, and i know that it was something that sheriff joe arpaio was synonymous with. he s saying it s okay to pull someone over just because of how they look. if you think someone is latino, they might be illegal.
so while voters are ousting him, the president is embracing him. i think this is a really clear show of the disconnect between the majority of voters, republicans also, and the president of our country. you re exactly right. the voters pushed him out of that very conservative county. the judges in that area found him in contempt of court. he was in the middle of the judicial process. everybody out there turned on this man because he was such a thug. and conservatives turning on the president for what he s seen. the washington examiner editorial board writes the trump once the law and order candidate embraces lawless disorder with the arpaio pardon. president trump described him as a law and order candidate on the campaign trail, but he has consistently shown he really meant the candidate of busting
and i think that bush skprl christy and john kasich didn t realizes that the party base had started to change, and trump just put an exclamation point on it. so the white house is dealing with as axios put it cascading crises. there s a number of things that are going on. there s the debt limit, donald trump saying that elshut down the government if he doesn t get fund be for his wall, tax reform. the timeline keeps get being paushd back. the midterm elections are around the corner. we re getting more news about russia. he s getting a lots of heat for this pardoning of joe arpaio. we re also hearing that he reportedly went to the doj and said how do we get this arpaio trial donna way with. can you get this moved on instead of before he went on to do the arpaio pardon. how does a presidency, an administration handle all of those crises? while dealing with a natural disaster. and how do you stay an
political crisis in terms of the comments he has been making. everybody is looking to see if he can summon the muster to be presidential in the moment in houston because of this disaster. the ugly truth is that the president will get a lot of opportunities to handle texas because the problem is only going to get worse and will continue weeks and months to come in terms of needing help. we ll hear from him on that ongoing basis. to karoun s point it was not a coincidence that we heard on friday gorka step into the exit and the arpaio pardon. you don t get the friday pass the way you used to. it was also not that clever a move. he was trying to hide that. how large does it loom that he pardoned joe arpaio, who was, according to the court, according to the prosecutor, engaging in a pattern of discriminatory practices in the name of immigration. central political battlefields of the 2018