they re under a hurricane warning, mandatory evacuations issued. a mass exodus still going on. it s creating a nightmare. major roadways, gridlock. that s what it takes to get out. cnn is there. bill we re live in key largo. the closest key to the mainland, and i know it s like a world away down there. they have their own mind and their own feeling about how to deal with this. this may be something the likes of which they ve never seen. exactly, chris. if you live in l.a. you learn to deal with traffic. if you live in the keys you know about water and sky and hurricanes, hits and misses. we re hearing both sides of the extreme. 84-year-old former assistant police chief from key west, lived here his whole life. hard conk as they re called. never evacuated. he said irma is the one where he s leaving. i hung out last night with boat captains in key largo who not only are going to leave, but are
in the next week ear or week or two. and early start returns now with the latest projections from now-tropical storm harvey. devastating scenes playing out across southeast texas as tens of thousands are stranded, waiting for rescue from harvey s wrath. the rain is not letting up just yet. we re live in texas ahead. president trump heads to texased to to survey the damage texas today to survey the damage. questions follow. did he really pardon a controversial sheriff to get more conk during the storm more coverage during the storm? north korea launches another missile. this one over japan. a serious escalation the prime minister says poses the most grave threat ever to japan. cnn is the only western news organization reporting live from north korea. we ll go there shortly. good morning and welcome to early start, everybody. i m dave briggs. i m christine romans. it is tuesday, august 29th. it is 5:01 a.m. in the east.
heard much about russia. believe me, that investigation is very active. what about the pardon of sheriff joe arpaio in arizona? t the president saying he did time it for maximum conk, maximum ratings around the harvey coverage the friday night pardon of arpaio. what is the angle here? he got a lot of coverage because he did it on a friday night and everyone saw it in that a hidden motive. i have a hunch, christine, that they had planned to release it friday night before harvey was even a hurricane. while it was still forming in the gulf, i think they had decided let s dump this on friday night or they don t get publicity. it s auction surrender to think he wanted to give this it s absurd to think he wanted to give this more attention. he didn t. breaking out the names, mark rich, susan rosenberg, chelsea manning, oscar lopez rivera. an interesting comparison, but he was ready for it.
on the first piece, i think, look, one of the things that s important to understand about this process that s very different from the democrats, you recall then speaker pelosi said you re going to have to read the bill to know what s in it. that was the big difference. here is the bill. it s on the website. if you go to the house of representatives website, speaker paul ryan s website, it s listed. everybody can read it. it s going to go through what they call regular order. we re not jamming this down anybody s throat. it s going to go tough a committee process. all parties involved, all representatives will have input into it. that s the way to conduct this process. to do it to allow people to watch the process happen and the committee, allow members of conk to have their input in it, to make amendments, to see that we get the best bill that achieves the goal for the american people. when we ve done it the last time, it was jammed down people s throats. look what happened.
decisions. you don t want to prioritize in either direction. if people don t like the immigration laws of the united states they can reform them. our emphasis is on deporting and removing criminal aliens that pose a threat to public safety, and i just want to say this. there s been a lot of conk in the news about the effects of the news, and that s an issue people are free to discuss, but what s more important and what should be discussed more is the lives being saved, chuck, the american lives being saved because we re taking enforcement action and when we didn t take those actions in the past, you have families like the kiwilkern family and the mendoza family who lost people they loved because we are more concerned about the effects of people here legally than the lawful immigrants and u.s. citizens. it sounds to me that you did not tell i.c.e. workers who to prioritize. that s not correct, i in the white house would be improper for me to tell them from