Trump. The first letter of each paragraph of his Resignation Letter spells out the word impeach. About hiseak to resignation, charlottesville, how trends, policy threads the world, andnd how t the massive hurricane is racing toward texas. And to florida when the state has just executed a man despite protests from pharmaceutical giant Johnson Johnson about drugs in theits execution last night. Meanwhile, in missouri, the governor stayed an execution after new dna evidence. Plus, the white house has drafted a memo on implementing President Trumps ban on transgender people serving in the u. S. Military. Seems what the president is saying is that he is going to fire 15,000 highly trainined motivated troopops. It is a catastrophe for military readiness. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In texas, tens of thousands of residents began evacuating coastal communities thursday, as forecasters predicted Hurric
Controversial former sheriff joe arpaio, although arpaio tells cnn he has not been invited to this rally. Before the rally, the president plans to tour the border in yuma and thats where we find boris sanchez. We know that the mayor of phoenix asked President Trump to stay away from his city and there are major protests planned there tonight. What more are you hearing . Reporter hey there, pam. Yeah, as you said, we are hearing that several different progressive and antibigot groups are going to be protesting the president here in phoenix at the Phoenix Convention center. There will be waiting for him outside. This is in response to the president s remarks on the violence in charlottesville one week ago today at trump tower. The mayor of phoenix, as you said, greg stanton, asked the president to push this event back. Obviously, the president deciding to move forward. We have also heard from the chief of police in phoenix who says that her officers are ready for anything. As you said, t
He indicated he might not be the killer. Now with just hours left to live, a condemned inmate gets a surprise lifeline from the governor, but why did this take nearly two decades . Good afternoon and welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Tonight President Trump will take the stage in phoenix, arizona for an unscripted Campaign Rally, were told. It comes after last night when the president laid out some details for the path to afghanistan. Tonight will the president echo what he said in his scripted teleprompter address last night, urging americans to come together with love and in peace, or or as is his wont when speaking before adoring crowds and free from the constraints of his teleprompter, might President Trump come closer to exploring something quite more divisive . That is the question. Sara murray is live for us in phoenix. Sara, elected officials are not exactly rolling out the welcome mat. The mayor asked him to delay his visit and senators there are at odds with President Trum
That he might pardon joe arpaio at this rally tonight, because he said last week that it was something he was taking very seriously. Cnn reached out to the 85yearold sheriff. He said he was not invited to this rally but if he were, he would be happy to join. Before heading to phoenix, the president , as you said, is stopping here at a Border Patrol center in yuma. He is set to take a tour and take part in a briefing. This is really part of an effort for the president to highlight a part of his agenda where he has had some success. Weve heard from officials at Border Patrol who tell us that theyve seen a significant decrease, 46 fewer apprehensions at the border in the First Six Months of the year compared to last year, in large part because of increased funding from this administration, pam. All right, boris sanchez, thanks for breaking it down for us. Lets talk more about this with cnn political commentator ben ferguson, also host of the ben ferguson show and rick wilson. He is a repu
Clarissa we had nikki haley on, the ambassador to the u. S. , onetime governor of south carolina. Had a couple of important things to say. One, this is so much different than what has been decided in the past, and afghanistan and pakistan arent on the travel ban because we know enough about the people who are traveling from those countries wanting to come into the u. S. What do you make of those two notions . Well i think lets start with the first notion. I think President Trump had a really piece of fancy footwork that he had to do here. He had to basically justify why he was doubling down on a war that he has continuously disparaged, and how it was going to be different in his handling than it was under president obama, whose handling of afgh afghanist afghanistan hes consistently disparaged. While he was sort of successful in the first part of that endeavor elucidating to an american audience why this is important, isis, al qaeda, safe havens, pakistan, nuclear power, a lot of reaso