Want to test his fortitude and commitment to those things when they see him there tonight. All of this happening this evening against a back drop of protests and some security concerns given whats been going on in the country. Of course you go back during 2016. Remember this scene that was one of the last time arizona watime thepresident was in ariz. Today earlier the president was in yuma, arizona. He toured a customs and Border Patrol facility there. Shining a spotlight on one of the administrations policys achievement that illegal border crossings have plummeted during his time since the inauguration. We have got team fox coverage for you tonight on the ground in phoenix. Jonathan hunt outside the Convention Center. Mike emanuel is inside the arena where the president is set to speak. Good evening, mike. Martha, good evening, the folks filing in to this Convention Center right now are pretty loyal and diehard group. It is 107 degrees in phoenix right now. And they have been standing outside for hours. And i am not joking. They seem to be in good spirits at this hour. The folks that i have talked to no short fuses due to the heat outside. They seem excited to hear from the president about some key items on his agenda after more than seven months in office. There has been some buzz about whether the president would offer a pardon for former Sheriff Joe Arpaio who is from the phoenix area. The white house is ruling that out tonight. Bottom line folks we have talked to say they would like to hear the president s vision on tax reform, what to do about the border. We know after the president visited the border today, we expect that he will Push Congress for the money for that border wall and other types of security. The folks we talked to say they are just really looking forward to seeing and hearing from the president live. Now lets go outside to my friend and colleague, Jonathan Hunt. Jonathan . Mike, as you know, we are still some three hours away from the scheduled start of this rally. Already though we have crowds of protesters, antitrump protesters on the streets outside this Convention Center. Its a scene we saw many times during the campaign. These antitrump protesters shouting their slogans at the Trump Supporters. Many of whom i have to say have been lined up for many, many hours. Since early this morning, in fact thousands of them expected to go inside the Convention Center. But then, of course, thousands have to come out. That is the flash point the police are concerned about. When they leave this Convention Center, they mix it on the streets with the antitrump protesters. That as we saw during the campaign is when the violence tends to break out. The Phoenix Police department has some 3,000 officers on duty on the streets and on call tonight. They hope that there will be no need to use many of those officers but they say they are prepared for the worst. Martha . Martha jonathan, thank you very much. So earlier today one of the president s staunchest supporters Newt Gingrich offered the commanderinchief this advice for tonight. Watch. My hope would be that he will side step senators mccain and flake. Hes going to need both of them this fall in terms of the agenda. This is not a place to pick a fight. And i hope that he will be more president ial and less confrontational tonight. But, look, he is the president. He gets to do what he wants. Martha that is true. David bossie president of citizens united. Former Deputy Trump Campaign manager and fox news contributor. He was also rumored to be helping the Trump Campaign try to find a potential primary challenger to senator jeff flake in arizona. So, he is here tonight. We will ask him about all of that. Good evening, david. Good to have you here. Geenkt. Thanks for having me. Martha we are both not in the 107degree temperatures in arizona. That makes us more comfortable this evening. Newt gingrich says dont go after jeff flake in this environment tonight. Dont go after john mccain. Flake, in fact, votes with you most of the time. John mccain didnt in the healthcare vote. This is just not the place and the time. What do you think . I think newt is fundamentally correct, actually. I think that, you know, the president has a lot to talk about and he is going to be excited sotosee this enormous turnout in phoenix, arizona. Its going to be an uplifting rally, just as all of his rallies are. They were doing the campaign. He has a lot to talk about. About his agenda. And one of the things that frustrates the president and frustrates me is that the president s agenda is not being in congress and not being done in a quick manner. And i think that is whats really been showing. The senator flake thing is about his book and much more about that than the Public Policy debate. It is quite shocking really to. Have a sitting republican senator write a lengthy missive about why he is against the president in his own party. Ill be honest with you. As a conservative leader over the last 20, 25 years in washington, d. C. , jeff flake has just not been there for the conservative movement. Martha so are you supporting other people . No, no. Martha are you trying to get kelli ward to run against him in the president tweeted about her. She is very controversial. Is she someone you want to run against jeff flake . If not, who else . Many people in arizona. Members of the congressional delegates. Former members of the congressional delegates who easily could take on jeff flake. What i was trying to say is that jeff flake makes himself in this book to be some conservative leader and he fundamentally is not. And thats all im saying is jeff flake is somebody whose vote the president needs. Who the president wants to work with and has wanted to work with up until this book. I think thats really what has changed the dynamic. Thats just an individual who has picked a fight with the president. Not the other way around. Martha we will see where that goes. There is obviously a lot of dissent on capitol hill among republicans. And between them and the president and it starts at the top apparently according to this New York Times story about mitch mcconnell. Let me putt up the quote from this story that came out just a short time ago. It says the relationship has disintegrated to the point that they have not spoken to each other in weeks. Mcconnell has privately expressed uncertainty that mr. Trump will be able to salvage his administration. David. I dont know who is saying that. But i can tell you that the white house is working closely and their legislative team. Rick deer born, mark short and tremendous team of professionals at the white house are working closely with the house and Senate Leadership on tax reform. And thats going to be the signature piece of legislation for this year. If we can get it done. By the way, republicans were sent here to get tax reform done. In the house and the senate and now in the white house. We have to do what the president has done. Economy growing at 2. 6 . The dow and the markets are at alltime highs. Martha david, and i know Marc Thiessen is going to say this. Let me jump in for one second. Heed is going to say he needs heller and jeff flake. Correct. Martha you need to add to the number of republicans to make getting these things through easier. If we can get tax reform done this year, not next year, this year, which the congress has to do, if we can get it done this year, we can win more seats next year. It becomes easier because the economy is ready to take off. Deregulation is taking a hold without tax reform. Look at what the economy is doing right now with the president s leadership. If we can just get tax reform and tax relief for the american people, for the hard working american people, this economy is going to take off. Martha is the president going to try to dethrone jeff flake from that senate seat and are you working on it . Yes or no . I have got to governmental i think thats yet to be seen. Martha all right. David. Thank you. Good to see you. Thanks for having me. Martha a man says trump takes down jeff flake he better be ready for Chuck Schumer to take over. Is he American EnterpriseInstitute Scholar and fox news contributor. Mark, good evening. You heard my conversation with david a moment ago. What say you . Well, first of all, i start this by saying as somebody who wants donald trump to succeed as president , and the republicans to succeed, i m very concerned about this. I mean, the fact is we learned from obamacare that 52 republicans aint enough. Thats not enough to get the trump agenda through. And so, you know, attacking jeff flake and having a costly primary, even if whether he succeeds or not, its going to spend suck in tons of money from around the country that should be used to target those five democrats in states that donald trump won by 20 and some of the ones that he won by a tighter margin. This is money there is only so much money thats going to go into this campaign. Why waste it on a primary. Jeff flake votes with him 95 percent of the time. Martha an ad that has to do with kelli ward. Mitch mcconnell put this out. Lets take a look at this home. She is one of the people and very controversial if people arent familiar with her. She ran against john mccain last time around. And lost badly. Martha then she said some awful things about john mccains illness and how she should replace him now. Here is the ad against her. Embarrassing behavior. Dangerous ideas. No wonder republicans rejected her just one year ago. Trail kelly not conservative just crazy ideas. There is some money being spent as you say that could be going other places. If she wins, lets say trump were tone doors her and she were to win, she is the sharon ankle of the 2018 republican cycle. Do you remember sharon angle tea partier in 2010 won the nomination to take on harry reid a completely winnable race and handed us six more years of harry reid. Do we want to repeat. This gone after dean heller. He has gone after Lisa Murkowski and heller. Martha these people are not conservatives. Maybe someone should run who is to the right of them who could help to bring in bigger numbers and then they would vote with the president and some of these folks are not going to. Yeah. I mean in the place like nevada, dean heller is a purple state, which donald trump didnt win. So, attacking the republican incumbent over there doesnt help when he is already in trouble. Jeff flake, if flake doesnt win this nomination and kelli ward is the nominee, we could see arizona go democrat for the First Time Since 1988 when dennis deconcidi was the senator. We need to not attack our own people but democrats in pressuring those 10 democrats who were elected and who are up in states that donald trump won to vote with us for tax reform. To vote with us for these things and if they dont spending our money to win republican seats in those states. Martha we are going to be watches the president very closely tonight. It was a different tone that we saw last night. Walk into the room and gets into rally mode or if we are seeing, perhaps, the new people that are in the white house on sort of giving direction to this administration. So, well see. Marc, thank you. Always good to see you. Thanks, martha. Martha still ahead, tensions boiling over at Charlottesville City Council member. Watch this. [chanting] [blood on your hand] you just showed us how weak you are. 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Dont start humira if you have an infection. Want more proof . Ask your rheumatologist about humira. Whats your body of proof . Martha breaking tonight, live scenes right now in chapel hill, north carolina. This is the latest in the fight to remove confederate statues from towns and cities across the country. We have heard that on campus there may be more protests there this evening. So we are watching that at unc and we will be bringing that to you as we see what unfolds throughout the hour. So those scenes follow this from the Charlottesville City Council meeting last night, which was an intensely heated environment. Watch what happened in there. Statues are coming down overnight in texas. [applause] lexington. We just had a murder nazi town in ourally in our town. Martha Victor David Hanson is warning it could set a dangerous precedent. Here is what he wrote when we wipe away history at a whim by this 2017 and not say 2015 or 2008, we better make sure that our targets are uniquely and mellow dramatically evil rather than tragically misguided. Trace gallagher live in our west coast newsroom with how this has spread coast to coast sometimes in the dead of night. Hi, trace. Hi, martha. The debate over whether confederate symbols represent hate or heritage is raging in a number of states in bradenton, florida the commission ordered a confederate statue to be boarded up and that prompted dueling rallies where flag were borden, insults hurled and protesters were arrested. Watch this shouting] one side said the statue had been coopted by White Supremacists and needed to be removed. The Opposing Side says the statue simply honors those who fought for their believes. Outside the courthouse in maryland a confederate memorial was taken down in charlottesville. For the time being the statue is being donated to a local museum and might be added to the county historical societys civil war collection. In Columbus Ohio at the camp chase confederate ciaramitaro which early in the civil war served as a prisoner of war camp the scwerst statue was vandalized. Head torn off when vandals tried to topple the statue. In baltimore, a 225yearold monument commemorating Christopher Columbus was vandalized. A video posted online, which we cannot show you, has the statue being destroyed and the narrator who says that Christopher Columbus initiated a centurys old wave of terrorism, genocide, rape, and slavery. In the nations capital, the Jefferson Memorial appears to be safe for now, though it will get an update to address the quote complexity of americas third president , including his history as a slave owner. And finally in houston, a man was arrested and accused of trying to blow up the dick doweling confederate monument. He was hailed as confederate war hero in houston serving in the Jefferson Davis guards. Martha. Martha thank you very much. Here now dana loesch host of dana and blaze tv and jonah. Do you approver disapprove of trumps charlottesville response. 56 say they disprove. 26 approve228 approve and 16 o opinion. Seeing destroy of public property unacceptable. Martha jonah, do you agree. I absolutely agree with our Vice President there. I think he was a much needed and welcome voice to this conversation as a leader who understands the sensitivity of race in this country. This has become a very divisive issue on all sides. I have a friend of mine conner, a 28yearold white male who is a very vocal trump supporter who came to me recently and said look, just because i support donald trump doesnt make me to be a racist and i know the left has taken it in that direction. I know that the media has taken it in that direction. I know just because you want to see these statues up doesnt make you someone who supports slavery. He so we have to being a knowledge that in addition to that i wonder history, yes, its history and i believe it should be in a museum. By would we give out participation trophies to somebody who lost a war. Isnt that what they say snowflakes do . I just dont understand that piece. But i really do agree with what Vice President pence said which was allow the local government to rule on that. I believe thats the right answer for this situation. Martha i mean