midterms. plus charges against a major company and a guilty plea for financing isis. and actor kevin spacey is back on the stand today defending himself against sexual assault allegations. this is what we re watching at this hour. thank you for being here. i m kate bolduan. president biden is making a move today to try and put abortion rights back in the spotlight and back on the ballot. with the midterm elections three weeks from today. the president is speaking soon at a dnc event in washington where he is expected to make a promise that his first move in the new year will be to codify roe v. wade, that is if democrats don t lose power. this is one of the many topics that candidates debated last night in key races across country. but let s get to the white house. jeremy diamond is standing by. what is the president laying out in this speech. reporter: well president biden is trying to put an issue that he and his advisers believe is advantageous to democrats front a
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
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are a bit more energized than what some of the polls have reflected so far. and biden putting this abortion agenda back on the agenda is going to be welcomed a stacy ab rams and rafael warnock. they feel like tlahey re on the side and support in jaerm is fairly high so as much as that issue could remain front and cen center, they are happy about. it and kemp did close the door on further restrictions on abortion. some folks want to limit what you could do with embryos that are made through ivf and restrict plan b. medications and he made it clear that is not where he was going. he doesn t sound interested in taking up further abortion restrictions. some voters do seem open to a split ticket in georgia which is an interesting thing to consider, that people need to
conversations with foreign governments about investigations when three of you, three members of the senate, senator menendez, lahey and durbin, sent a letter that read something like this, they wrote the letter to the prosecutor general of ukraine. they said their advocates, talking about the congressman, they re strong advocates for robust and close relationship with ukraine, and we believe that our cooperation should extepe extend to such legal matters regardless of politics, and their concern was ongoing investigations and while the mueller team was getting appropriate appropriate responses from ukraine regarding investigations of, what, the president of the united states, and you re asking about whether foreign investigations are appropriate? i think it answers itself. thank you, mr. chief justice. thank you, counsel. mr. chief justice.
what they accused trump of. actually texted the lobbyist for the oligarch, i would like to do a preliminary call. human, me, no one else. warner also texting not have a paper tale with his messages colluding with the russians. senator indicating he be willing to travel abroad, to meet with steele to get the dirt on trump and manafort. what they are blaming trump of! not a good look for someone who does a files all for an election interference, and he s not the only democratic senator guilty of which they are accusing trum. send letters from senator menendez, durbin, lahey, they threaten to withhold aid if the government of ukraine stopped investigating trump on the trump-russia side. meeting with ukraine s new president zelensky, democratic senator chris murphy threatened to cut off u.s. aid if the president down the country opens