court after being accused of profiling latinos. his main goal to to defend trump s policy agendas. he is 85 years old and joins an kelley ward is in that race and martha mcsally is going to announce her plans to run or not. the former chief strategist used the words treasonous and unpatriotic to describe his meeting with a group of russians. because of my diabetic nerve pain. i hear you, claire, because my dad struggled with this pain. folks, don t wait. step on up and talk to your doctor. because the one thing i keep hearing is. i m glad i stepped on up. me too, buddy. if you have diabetes
convicted of an order to stop profiling latinos. they are bringing drugs. they are bringing crime. they re rapists. and some, i assume are good people. reporter: fierce opposition to the president s plan ask umming from all sides. from the president s own diversity council. i am resigning right now from that council. i don t see the point in continuing to try to work with people that clearly don t see this issue the way i do. reporter: to former president obama who said in a statement, to target these young people is wrong because they have done nothing wrong. it is self-defeating because they want to start new businesses, staff our labs, serve in our military, and otherwise contribute to the country we love. and it is cruel. now that it s in the hands of congress, the question is do they have time to fix this? let me say a word about the six months. calculation of six months is to march 5th so we have plenty time, right? not by senate standards we don t. reporter: the trum
manafort. i want to bring in ray suarez, a veteran journalist and currently visiting professor at amhurst college and jason johnson, politics editor. let me start with you, jason. i marched on sheriff arpaio and debated him on several occasions. let s be clear that he was convicted of racial profiling. i mean he was profiling latinos. yes. pulling them over and checking out whether they were immigrants, many of them american citizens, american-born citizens. for the president to issue his first pardon to someone that was convicted, not just accused, convicted of racial profiling, three weeks after charlottesville, what does this mean? i ve been saying this all along. the president of the united states is a terrorist
i ll make a prediction, i think he s going to be just fine, okay. and, he was actually convicted of criminal content. it will seem to be a tough argument to make that you re not a racist when you re about to pardon a man who is been found convicted who was racially profiling latinos. well our popular with the base no, this is a man who s been found guilt for profiling latinos, donald trump said i like that i think he like the base that the he didn t officially say he was going to pardoned. let s see what he does. he didn t officially say what he ll do. dave, to bring you in here. john, also keep making the point this was about the base, this was about the base. is the speech the right way to go about holding that base together? look, looking through purely
reporter: today vice president mike pence coming to the president s defense. the president strictly denounced white supremacist, neo-nazis and the kkk repeatedly, and he did it when he denounced hate and violence on saturday, he did it in his address to the nation on monday, and he did it again the other day. there was no more equivalency by the president. reporter: that fallout has the tendency to become worse if the president continues on pardoning the sheriff joe arpaio, who was accused of stopping profiling latinos. he was a staunch republican surrogate on the campaign trail. i ll see you again with donald trump, because once he becomes president, i know he s never going to forget arizona. he ll be back, and i hope to see him as president. reporter: trump also threatening to deepen the divisions in the gop, engaging in a war of words with arizona