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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. the ....
they did not defund planned parenthood. they definitely don t want to build a border wall. but now almost ten months into the republican congress, top republicans on capitol hill have finally found an issue they can really rally around. preserving president obama s immigration policy. the trump administration has announced that next tuesday will decide the fate of daca, the obama era program which apparently illegally gives work permits to illegal immigrants who arrived in the country as children. killing that program would fulfill one of the term campaigns promise. it would also fit with the republican party s stated position against amnesty and in favor of enforcing the law rather than granting politicized immunity. scrambling to preserve daca. this morning in a radio interview, speaker paul ryan begged the president to keep the program in place until congress can pass a bill granting amnesty to the illegal immigrants daca covers. i actually don t think you should do that.
team up doesn t ensure they ll be successful. for most customers amazon is the primary stop. the way amazon has really changed the retail landscape. that will be one of those big business stories of our generation. it s changed buyer behavior. you check amazon to vouch for the price. early start continues with the latest from the phoenix rally. i hit him with neo nazi. i hit them with everything. i got the white supremacist and the neo nazi, we have kkk, i got them all. president trump ticking off all the groups he has condemned or says he has condemned. president trump goes off prompter and defends his charlottesville response but apparently forgets or at least downplayed what angered critics in the first place. good morning, welcome to early start. i m christine romans. t. 1:00 a.m. in phoenix and for those who think it s the liberal media criticizing the president s speech, the standard saying quote, the president was whining about unfair treatment in washington ....
expensive suits in the closet. according to another new report, manafort was under government surveillance before and after the election. cnn reporting he was wiretapped under fisa warrants. according to that report, the government snooping continued into early this year, including a period when manafort was known to talk to president donald trump. sharon lafraniere is a reporter who broke the story tonight. she joins me by phone. your reporting is they told manafort they planned to indict him. how common is that? that s not that uncommon that a prosecutor would say we don t believe your story, you re not really cooperating with us. we re going to indict you. the difference here, i think, might be, as my colleagues found out is that they threatened an imminent indictment and this was in the summer and we haven t seen it. one of the themes of the piece is the approach of mueller and how it differs particularly in white color investigations. the report says it s more like th ....
no rest for people northeast of the center of the storm and these nighttime hours, tornado warnings are requiring people to stay up and stay alert. harvey has been downgraded to the tropical storm but it continues to punish the infrastructures of central and coastal texas with wind and water. one confirmed death and injury. most of them in one town that seem to take harvey dead on. local media is reporting at least ten people in this one town were treated for injuries from a collapsed rooftops. it is rockport, texas. take a look from the air. this is what is left of rockport. there was no escaping harvey. rockport is a fishing town about 30 miles northeast of corpus christi and other areas like port lavaca and others pierced by the power of harvey. leadership in the state of texas compared for assets deployed all over the region and we just heard tonight. let s bring in the texas lieutenant governor dan patrick by phone. always good to be with you. i wish it was under differ ....