Want to test his fortitude and commitment to those things when they see him there tonight. All of this happening this evening against a back drop of protests and some security concerns given whats been going on in the country. Of course you go back during 2016. Remember this scene that was one of the last time arizona watime thepresident was in ariz. Today earlier the president was in yuma, arizona. He toured a customs and Border Patrol facility there. Shining a spotlight on one of the administrations policys achievement that illegal border crossings have plummeted during his time since the inauguration. We have got team fox coverage for you tonight on the ground in phoenix. Jonathan hunt outside the Convention Center. Mike emanuel is inside the arena where the president is set to speak. Good evening, mike. Martha, good evening, the folks filing in to this Convention Center right now are pretty loyal and diehard group. It is 107 degrees in phoenix right now. And they have been standing
from a lot of spokes surrounding imam s trip to saudi arabia. bill: imam and his partners with spending $100 million trying to build a controversial mosque in lower manhattan, critics want to know will he find funding for the mosque in new york overseas and why are you paying for his trip? eric shawn, good morning to you, who is paying? reporter: the imam behind that controversial mosque near ground zer low travel the world on our tab. turns out the obama administration thinks that imam abdul arouk is the right man to represent the united states, on a state department mission to muslim countries in the countries. he recently refused to call hamas a terrorist organization and has said we are partly to blame for 9/11 , saying in a recent interview u.s. polices, were, quote, an accessory to the attacks that he brands a crime. the controversy hasn t stopped the white house from sending him as part of that special state department cultural program. t.j. crowley had nothing but p