election. the president has already been feuding with both senators from that state who both feuded with joe ar pachlt io in the past. he is a hugely controversial figure himself and deeply disliked figure, particularly among latino voters. the fact that the president did this friday evening with a storm bearing down on houston. i do think over time you will hear more and more people and have already begun to hear democrats raising as an objection to the pardon that it was done undercover of darkness, so to speak. whenever a president does something that voters think is unseemly, the opposition will try to twist the knife further, by adding anything to the pictur picture. whatever happened on friday has been eclipsed by all the devastation in texas.
your doctor should perform blood tests before you start and while taking xeljanz, and monitor certain liver tests. tell your doctor if you were in a region where fungal infections are common and if you have had tb, hepatitis b or c, or are prone to infections. xeljanz can reduce the symptoms of ra, even without methotrexate, and is also available in a once-daily pill. ask about xeljanz xr. sean: fox news alert. hurricane harvey is now category 4 storm bearing down as we speak on the texas coast. expected to make landfall any second. major breaking news, president trump has in fact pardoned former arizona sheriff joe arpaio. he was convicted of criminal contempt, only. we will show steve harrigan on the ground in texas tonight. this was moments ago. on the phone joining us, his first interview, former
visit to fema headquarters just three weeks ago. reporter: and still another topic that is hotly contested, the president sent the official policy over to the pentagon regarding the transgender military ban. he will give the secretary of defense six months to look at this and try to determine what will happen for those who are already openly serving in uniform as transgender. the policy would stop recruitment, it would stop making payments for medical care that is related to sex reassignment and gender reassignment surgery or treatment, and it would also be something that we think the president may have some latitude for this secretary of defense, to allow the careers to continue for those openly serving, but it s unclear. there s so much controversy around this, this is another one of the issues before president trump enacted this on a friday night in august with the storm bearing down. alex? exactly, kelly o donnell. we thank you for keeping a close eye on things from the white
with a devastating storm bearing down on the texas coast, the president had a lot to say about a lot of things. hurricane harvey one of them. instead, new volleys in a feud with republican leaders. kaitlan collins at the white house this morning. what s going on? reporter: that s right, john. the president is picking another fight with republican senators today. this is his first senator in two weeks he s publicly feuded with. this time, senator bob corker from tennessee. he went after him on twitter. look at what he said. trump tweeted, strange statement by bob corker, considering he is always asking me whether or not he should run in 2018. tennessee not happy. this tweet from the president comes a week after corker criticized him for his comments regarding the violence in charlottesville. let s listen to what he had to say. the president has not yet
he s under the pressure when the grand jury is sending out iss subpoenas and the wall street journal says we ve been hearing so mump about mike flynn maybe mueller wants to know russian hackers wanted to get clinton e-mails to mike flynn. looks bad. doesn t mean it is bad. there s a big and important story. there s another one, this storm bearing down on the gulf coast. hurricane harvey is now hours away from landfall. 5:23 local time in texas. you can see the furious water. this is the first time in 12 years that the mainland united states is bracing for this kind of storm. thousands evacuated. officials are saying get out to everyone in this path.