we had different perspectives. and, you know, as long as you were honorable, as long as you re honest, as long as you didn t leave anybody behind, as long as you treated people with dignity, you always got on with john, even if you strongly disagreed with hill, like i did in the war in iraq. give him some space. but, in fact, you didn t have those basic basic american values, then you didn t have a lot of respect for you. what do you think of the president s reaction? i don t have everybody knows who the president is come on, you guys all right, you just heard it from the vice president himself. he s here, this is one of the largest labor day parades in the country. he s here obviously campaigning with democrats nine weeks before the midterm elections. he s going to be very active. he s one of the most sought after democratic surrogates in these midterm elections. whether it means anything in
republican senate, if you had the election today. i agree. they could lose a couple seats but they could win a couple. i think it is going to be close to the margin, and they ll hold their majority. we ll have you back and see how the prediction holds. gosh knows a lot can happen between now and november. that ll wrap up this hour. i m chris jansing in for stephanie ruhle. see you again at 11:00 a.m. eastern. coming up, more news with kristen welker. hi, chris. happy labor day to you. good to see you. good day, everyone. i m kristen welker, reporting from washington. right now, gearing up. capitol hill gets ready for the big fight this week. the nomination hearings for brett kavanaugh. the president s pick for the supreme court will be in the hot seat as democrats push for the release of thousands of documents. mccain s last message. the par her war hero and celebr statesman takes his final rest at the naval academy, as his daughter and two former presidents call for
legalize. it s about how you legalize and how do you make sure you reduce the harms both of prohibition and of drug use. of course there may be issues for people who use marijuana, other drugs. there are of course issues for kids. we want to make sure that we put those protections into law in the best way possible and into regulations. the reality is youth use has remained stable even in the states that have legalized. the uis have remained stable or dropped. the data shows that legalization is working and for the administration to come out and say we need to look for the bad news so that we can then somehow convince the public that the sky is green, it just isn t going to work. maria mcfarland sanchez romano, thank you for coming in on this labor day, we appreciate it. we ll see what the president finally decides about the bill. a fierce battle playing out
bush advised him to air on the side of transparency but that the trump administration directed him not to release certain files citing executive privilege. and so you have democrats saying that this is unprecedented. that republicans are trying to ram through the nomination without proper scrutiny. they say these documents would provide insights into kavanaugh s thinking on issues like abortion rights and presidential investigations. here s what democrat senator dick durbin, who sits on the judiciary committee, here s what he had to say about this. they re suppressing these documents. if we re lucky, we ll see 6% of all of the documents that have been produced, or could be produced, to reflect on cavanaugh s true position on issues. he is saying and the white house saying the american people have no right to know. now, the white house says democrats will have plenty of material to draw upon when they question kavanaugh at his senate confirmation hearings this week. you know what de
of holding the president accountable. they re looking out for themselves. the president is looking out for himself. the democrats should run on the message that we re looking out for you. he s going to be marching in this parade here in the next two hours. and also appearing at some of the picnics that are a staple of this annual tradition. this is his first stop, literally, after he was named to barack obama s ticket in 2008. we re going to get out of the way here. the parade is literally going to be starting in just a few minutes. don t get run over, we need you there. thank you so much. those exclusive comments from vice president joe biden. we ll keep our eye on what s going on in pittsburgh. he was talking about the midterm. what s shaping up to be one of the most fascinating primaries of 2018, the massachusetts 7th in boston. donald trump barely got into double digits here. it s liberal versus liberal. the city counselor challenging