Smile. I wonder what kind of candy it was. That is special report for this labor day. If competence of coverage starting tomorrow morning, 9 15. Martha and brett. The story hosted by Martha Maccallum starts right now. Hi, martha. Martha thank you, mike. Good to see you tonight. Breaking this evening, the president appears to be working over his Attorney General yet again. This a short time ago. Too long time obama investigations of two very popular republican congressman or to a wellpublicized charge just ahead of the midterm is by the Jeff Sessions Justice Department. Two easy wins now in doubt because theres not enough time. Good job, jeff. The latest attack comes on the eve of a monumental day for this president. Just hours from now the Confirmation Hearings for his nominee to the Supreme Court Brett Kavanaugh will get underway. Reports indicate cavanaugh spent the weekend in a building not
too far from here. He went through the socalled Murder Board Gauntlet getting ready for what
our coverage begins with martha maccallum. and, of course, with plenty of analysis after you don t want to miss this. and there is no place like home. the white house is defending president biden for spending a lot of his first year, 28% of it, in his one of two houses in delaware. but it is not just the amount of time which people are noticing. it is not knowing who the president is spending all that time away from the white house with. the log, what s on them? and there is this. democrats today look and say this is going to be a bloodbath, a red tsunami that will crash upon our shows and i want the make a decision not to run. harris: the list of house democrats saying so long got just longer once again. what it means for the future of president biden s party as many americans have shifted their support now to republicans. saying they identify themselves now more as republicans than democrats. by a wide and growing margin. power panel next.
weather. so lots of things go into make a decision about when you execute a raid of this complexity and this danger, and there were a lot of factors that had to line up to be just right. you have to, you know, make sure that your intelligence is solid and that the individual that you re going after is, in fact, at the location you believe him to be and that all the external factors not just the weather but the ability to operate at that particular time of day and have enough visibility all those things factor in. it was multiple factors. it all came together such that this was the best window to execute this mission. and i would remind you that it s not like we were just sitting on our hands for those months. i mean, as you probably saw in
0 the control of central command. tony. two quick questions. what happened to his body? was it carried away like with bin laden s body or too badly damaged? and two, administration officials told reporters today this had been planned for a long, long time, the president was presented in december with a tabletop model of the compound or the building. why was the raid now versus two or three weeks ago or a month ago? can you shed any light on that? yeah. his body was left at the site. as for the time being, it is correct, this was a mission long planned, months in planning as i mentioned to jen, but, look, you have to build enough context around the individual s pattern of life, and you have to factor in external factors that you don t get to control like the weather. so lots of things go into make a decision about when you execute a raid of this complexity and this danger, and there were a lot of factors that had to line up to be just right. you have to, you know, make sure that you
america shall be considered an attack geagainst them all. what could have been done differently with the benefit of 20 years of experience in. i thought about it a lot. i would have make a decision to do nothing sub sstantive for a year. i mean no bombing or strike, et cetera. i would have gone around the world and built up a firm coalition for what we do about al qaeda. i would have done a mass effort to train americans in arabic to get ourselves to do something that we knew would be very, very difficult. i can t think of any president that would okay, let s take a year and wouldn t be impeached. the blood lust was so strong. i freely admit it. i know it would have been almost