Arpaio. In the next hour, a lot more people are here. More than 10,000 people have signed up on facebook to participate in the protest. The rally begins in about two hours. Right now, the police are doing a good job keeping both sides separate. The s. W. A. T. Is here with rifles. Gary, thank you very much. The mayor of phoenix opposed the president s visit. He is a democrat. In a recent oped, he accused the president of dousing racial tensions with gasoline and he fears he may be looking to light a match. I spoke to the mayor before we went on air. You called on the president not to come to phoenix. Im wondering what your concern was, is it just the possibility of the protest, certainly there are a lot of Trump Supporters there that want to see him tonight. I felt after the tragedy in charlottesville, which happened just a short time ago, the president failed moral leadership after
charlottesville. His failure to condemn the racism and the nazis there, to have a Campaign Rally here in
Reporter immediately there were cracks in the president s conservative base, breitbart dubbed the president amnesty don while ann coulter tweeted, at this point who doesnt want trump impeached . The white house tried to contain the fallout. The president would consider citizenship for the dreamers. Outraging hard liners. Not discussing amnesty. What the Trump Administration is a responsible path forward in immigration reform. That could include legal citizenship over a period of time. Reporter on the ground in florida, the president contradicted that. Were not looking at citizenship, were not looking at amnesty, were looking at allowing people to stay here. Reporter then insisted the wall is coming. The wall to me is vital. If i dont get the wall, then we will be coming to you. Reporter after being left out of the discussion between the president and democratic leaders, House Speaker paul ryan insisted, there was no deal. It was a discussion. Not an agreement or a negotiation. Reporter
So theyre scrambling. Theyre trying to figure this out as well, chuck. No indication as to whether the president has been briefed on this. Hes about to hold an event with sheriffs. In fact im told he just entered and so well try to get more questions to him about all of this. But this is unprecedented, as you say, the fact we have someone inside sounding the alarm like that. Thats what it is, someone sounding the alarm. The call is coming from inside the house. By the way, i should make a point, no Press Briefing today, no Press Briefing yesterday. How many are we up to how many Press Briefings have we had in the last six weeks . We havent had one in two weeks and we had less this summer. I think then its typical, for the record. So its becoming sort of the diminishing Press Briefing. Now, they would argue, hey, look, you had four different chances to ask the president questions today. That is true, and well take it. But of course shouted questions, yeah. Exactly, exactly. Shouted ques
ms knox will not go to jail, as she has already served four years for murder, before being acquitted. slovakia s prime minister robert fico has accused his political opponents of being partly responsible for last month s attempt on his life. in his first comments since then, he said there was no reason to believe his attack was the act of a lone lunatic and he called the attacker an activist of the slovak opposition. he gave no evidence to support his claims. a russian ukrainian was detained in france was a police say he was a preparing explosives near the main paris airport when one of them are an awful to was badly burned to the incident. police say they found bomb making equipment as well as passports and guns. the boeing starliner spaceship with two astroanuts on board is currently on its way to the international space station. the spaceship
russia may be bullish now about growth rates, but with western governments looking to remove loopholes and tighten sanctions, soon russia s economy may not be flying so high. steve rosenberg, bbc news, st petersburg. let s turn to some important news around the world. a georgia appeals court has halted the georgia election interference case against former president donald trump. the court is putting the case on hold until a panel ofjudges can review a lower court s ruling allowing fulton county district attorney fani willis to remain on the case. this ruling means the case would be unlikely to move forward before november s presidential election. amanda knox the american woman who was convicted and then cleared of murdering her british roommate has been sentenced to three years in prison for slander in a retrial. ms knox has been convicted of falsely implicating a man in the murder of meredith kercher in italy, 17 years ago. despite today s sentencing,