stanton speaking out about president trump s planned campaign style rally in phoenix tonight, fearing it could inflame tensions in the wake of charlottesville. there s also speculation the president might pardon former arizona sheriff joe arpaio, who awaits sentencing for ignoring the judges order to stop anti-immigration patrol. mayor stanton saying let s be clear. it can only be seen as a presidential endorsement of the lawlessness and discrimination that terrorized phoenix as latino community. he goes on to say to white nationalist, neo-nazis, and other races who shamed our country s mother and charlottesville will surely chair a presidential pardon. the spring in our panel. john mccormick is a senior writer for the weekly standard. welcome to you both. the sheriff did not ask for it, he did not seek this. the mayor talked about the kind of fire a good start of the president decides to go there and pardon the sheriff. should he skip it? i don t know if i m qualified
to charlottesville and really harsh terms then turned around and praised him for that afghanistan speech and thought that he had stepped in to in some ways to that commander in chief role. any good will he might have established throughout the past 24 hours i think is gone now and especially as we know, congress has to come back with a long to do list and basic tests of governing at hand that president only xser baiting those tensions. mark, we can criticize the president all day long but he s not wrong. if you ask the american people how they feel about the media, the president has done a superb job attacking the media and more and more people don t tune in, don t support the don t support the press. they do support this idea of fake news. but is the president asking for it when he brings back charlottesville, brings up a script and is flat out wrong? richard spencer, a leader of the
here s what i said on saturday, we re closely following the terrible events und folding in charlottesville and we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred and bigotry and violence. that s me speaking on saturday. we re closely following the terrible events unfolding in charlottesville, virginia. we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred bigotry and violence on many sides. on many sides. on many sides. that s what the president didn t repeat last night. the president was already glowing this morning about the rally tweeting, phoenix crowd last night was amazing, a packed house. i love the great state of arizona, not a fan of jeff flake, weak on crime and border. border, you know the wall the
people racing in the streets outside the arena. tensions escalated into pockets of chaos following president trump s speech. groups of both trump supporters and detractors began shouting chants at each other. i wouldn t call it chaos. it was chaos, i was in the middle of it. those are your words. we were prepared and decisive and immediately responsive. chaos any way you look at it. we ll begin with president trump on the attack, not necessarily attacking isis, not attacking the kk, bk but attacking the me. in phoenix, his favorite place to be, starting off with criticism against the coverage of his response to the violence in charlottesville, virginia, a domestic terror attack that left one woman dead. he took a significant portion of time reading the transcript of what he said to the public but he left out a few crucial words.
folks not happy about it. it comes on the heels of all the troubles in charlottesville and many interpreted it as the insensitive remarks that they were good people on both sides of the argument in charlottesville. many encourage the president to delay the phoenix rally if only to let tempers across the nation calm down. he rejected that advice. secondly his visit focuses on a hot-button issue, immigration. thirdly, comes after the president said he was seriously considering a pardon of arizona county sheriff who was recently convicted of a misdemeanor charge of contempt of court. and as many prominent political figures in arizona have made the decision not to attend the president rally including both republican senators jeff flake and john mccain, and three house members will skip the rally. another prominent figure not attending the rally, doug ducey. his spokesman told the associated press that he will greet the president at the airport but then he will oversee