Month: August 2017

On this weekend’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” former deputy chief of staff for President George W. Bush Karl Rove said President Donald Trump’s pardon of former Maricopa County, AZ Sheriff Joe Arpaio was “a bad mistake” and that it sent “a bad signal for the country.” Partial transcript as follows: WALLACE: President Trump in Phoenix was clearly hinting he was going to pardon Sheriff Joe Arpaio. In fact, as a line from “The Godfather,” today I settle all family business. And while the country was watching Hurricane Harvey Friday night, the president fired Sebastian Gorka, set out guidelines for banning transgenders in the military and pardoned Sheriff Joe. Which means it’s time now for our Sunday group. GOP strategist Karl Rove, columnist for “The Hill,” Juan Williams, Catherine Lucey, who covers the White House for the Associated Press, and Josh Holmes, Mitch McConnell’s former chief of staff and the GOP strategist. Well, Sheriff Arpaio was convicted last month of criminal contempt for defying a court order to stop detaining Latinos on suspicions that they might be illegal. His opponents called it racial profiling. We asked you for questions about the president’s pardon, and Maria Swanson tweeted this. If the

On this weekend’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Dr. Kelli Ward, Sen. Jeff Flake’s (R-AZ) challenger in next year’s GOP primary, said it would be a “big mistake” for the “establishment wing” to primary President Donald Trump. Ward said, “I definitely think in 2018 we need to elect people who have that America first agenda in mind. People who want to secure the border, who want to stop illegal immigration, who want to repeal Obamacare finally, who want to keep the economy growing, who wants to fix the tax code and want to make sure that our military is the strongest in the world.” “Unfortunately, we have a lot of people in Washington, especially in the Senate, who like to talk a lot, but don’t like to collaborate with each other, House to Senate, within the Republican Party to accomplish the agenda that the American people are crying out for,” she added. When asked about a primary challenge to Trump, Ward said, “I certainly think that would be a big mistake for the establishment wing of the Republican Party to attempt. I think President Trump and his leadership is what the country wanted, that’s