rockport. they need them desperately. we spoke with the chief who said he had no communication capabilities. dproe cell phone out, internet out. nick has a sat phone and we will check in with him later. we have our live team obviously covering hurricane harvey in many different places but listen, there's a lot that happened overnight in washington at the white house that we want to get to. >> president trump pardoned a controversial sheriff, also lost one of his top aides. sebastian gorka. and he moved forward on his military transgender ban as the russia investigation takes a new turn. >> cnn's senior political analyst and senior editor at the atlantic, ron brownstein and senior political correspondent for the hill, amy, thanks for being with us. lot of people are speaking out about the pardon of joe arpaio, including john mccain, senator jeff flake, both from arizona,