arpaio. in the next hour, a lot more people are here. more than 10,000 people have signed up on facebook to participate in the protest. the rally begins in about two hours. right now, the police are doing a good job keeping both sides separate. the s.w.a.t. is here with rifles. gary, thank you very much. the mayor of phoenix opposed the president s visit. he is a democrat. in a recent op-ed, he accused the president of dousing racial tensions with gasoline and he fears he may be looking to light a match. i spoke to the mayor before we went on air. you called on the president not to come to phoenix. i m wondering what your concern was, is it just the possibility of the protest, certainly there are a lot of trump supporters there that want to see him tonight. i felt after the tragedy in charlottesville, which happened just a short time ago, the president failed moral leadership after
charlottesville. his failure to condemn the racism and the nazis there, to have a campaign rally h
will they get picked out? today, no answers to that question. sarah huckabee sanders could not or would not answer questions about whether current service members will be removed. the president has a lot of support for all americans and certainly wants to protect all americans at all times. the president has expressed concerns since this obama policy came into effect. but he s also voiced that this is a very expensive and disruptive policy, and based on consultation that he s had with his national security team, came to the conclusion that it erodes military readiness and unit cohesion, and made the decision based on that. the decision is based on a military decision. it s not meant to be anything more than that. at a white house event an attempt to get clarity from the president later went ignored. people in the military? she s very rude. so all we have on this policy change that will profoundly affect thousands of service member s lives are the president s three tweets, wh
reporter: yeah, wolf. as you said. this is going to be a campaign-style rally here in phoenix. one of several the president has held since the inauguration. it s actually going to be the furthest west that donald trump has gone since becoming president, and we should expect some familiar faces on hand with him. the vice president, mike pence. his chief of staff, john kelly. it s also notable who is going to be absent from this rally. arizona s two republican senators. both john mccain and jeff flake, very critical of the president. both of them had very harsh words for him after his response to the violence in charlottesville at that press conference in trump tower one week ago. and the president didn t hesitates when responding to that criticism, specifically from jeff flake. he took to twitter last week saying that the arizona senator is weak and a non-factor in the senate. and praising his potential gop primary opponent dr. kelly ward. it s unclear whether or not dr.
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backdrop he is going to step in front of the american people tonight and try to make the case that he has the right path forward when it comes to afghanistan and that they should trust him. it s a very big decision for me. i took over a mess. and we re going to make it a lot less messy. reporter: president trump set to outline his strategy for america s path forward in afghanistan. a major test for the new commander in chief, one that could put more american troops in harm s way. after meeting with top administration officials at camp david on friday, the president announcing saturday he had made a decision after months of deliberation and delays. he has made a decision, as he said. he wants to be the one to announce it to the american people. it is a south asia strategy, not just an afghanistan strategy. reporter: the president has been presented with a wide range of options. everything from a full withdrawal to the deployment of up to 4,000 more soldiers,
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areas, up to 35 inches of rain, because this is a massive rain making system, and due to complicated weather patterns, chad can explain, it ll probably stall out in texas. we ve lost power to 63,000 homes in this area, that s corpus christi, they ve put together a boil order, that s a recaution, with so much water around here, essentially the city s drinking water could be contaminated. and the wind are not expected to dramatically die down any time soon. so, the hard shp really is not coming to a end, we re shifting to a more difficult phase. martin, we ll have chad along in a moment, there are 131 miles per hour winds. how does this compare to the other hurricanes you ve covered. you and i have both been out in a lot of them.
time. because if the water does pile up as is expected, it could cut off not only rescue efforts to come in but escape routes to get out. that s what you saw in new orleans after katrina. this is not a katrina, it s a very different circumstance, but the da