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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 is sure to be an intense round of questioning. They are so thorough they reportedly included fake protesters to make sure that cavanaugh knows how to handle himself in the event of an outburst. Its confirmed he would solidify a conservative majority presumably for decades to come. And democrats are not going to let that happen without a fight, already slamming these hearings before they begin. Earlier i spoke about all of this with chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee, senator chuck grassley. Lets start with judge kavanaugh and get your thoughts on that. So the democrats are very upset that 100,000 documents are being withheld, basically due to executive privilege. If Chuck Schumer this on saturday saying we are witnessing a Friday Night Document Massacre he called it. The president s decision to hide 100,000 pages from the records is not only unprecedented in the history of Supreme Court nominations, it has all the markings of a coverup. Here she is on Meet The Press talk about some of the documents that she saw the contents off. She things other people should too. You could ask some very interesting questions about these documents im unable to even say because im not able to make them public. Martha so why are they being withheld . Ive told every member of the committee that if they have some documents that under the president ial records act cannot be made public for personal reasons or for president ial reasons that all they have to do is ask us and we will get those documents and it happens that senator klobuchar ask for about 12 pages of documents. She has them. If she will be able to ask questions based on those. No other senator has asked for any documents whatsoever. Martha so she will be able to raise what she read in their and ask questions based on it, which is not being hidden. No. Martha so shes not telling the truth there. The only thing that would be different is that there something in that they need to be secured. Then we would have to close the doors and get people out, but shes going to be able to ask those questions. Martha dick durbin yesterday was talking to chris wallace. He said its unprecedented to only get 6 of the documents with regard to the work that judge kavanaugh did when he worked in the white house both as secretary to the president and as counsel. That 6 is what the archivist said is possibly going to be a total number that would be available but because of Computer Software and the elimination of duplications and for other reasons, theres a much smaller number. For instance, i originally said back in july there might be a million pages available, getting rid of duplicates and for other things that you dont need. We have it down now to about 488,000 pages, but remember, this is more documents than the last five Supreme Court nominees have had total. If you add them all together. This is more documents. Martha democrats would say that because he has a much deeper paper trail. He worked in the white house for a long time. They ought to say praise the lord we got more. If you dont forget, 307 opinions he wrote and both schumer and lahey have said in the case of soto mayor, we know what you stand for because youve brought a lot of opinions. If thats the best basis for making your judgment if you ought to be on the supreme cour Supreme Court. Cavanaugh has been on the Circuit Court for 12 years and has a massive number of pages. I think 15,000 pages of decisions hes written. Thats the best way to make a decision. Whether you should be on the court. So i think youre hearing from a lot of people they cant find anything wrong with the qualifications of kavanaugh so Many Democrats have said even before he was nominated they were going to vote against anybody that was on that list, so the bottom line is, how much more do you need to know to vote no . Martha good question. One of the potential Hot Button Areas is going to be his take on whether or not a sitting president can be indicted. If he went after president clinton hard when he worked for ken starr and then he later said the president who is concerned about an ongoing criminal investigation is almost inevitably going to do a worse job as president. So doesnt that contradict the stance he took with president clinton . I think those statements say exactly what we want on the Supreme Court. Somebody hit in his instance says Congress Needs to legislate in this area. He is not a person thats going to be on the court to fill in the details that Congress Left vacant. Thats not his job. Hes not a super legislator. He supposed to interpret law. So hes telling congress, fill in the details. Hes not saying a president is above the law, he saying that when youre president of the United States, you might not be prosecuted, but as soon as they stop being president of the United States they can be prosecuted. Martha i want to go to a tweet you sent out and we will put this off. My prayer is that our president can be as disciplined in his discourse and speeches like the last two weeks before his election. Then we will be successful in the next two months like he was successful and you saw what he just said about Jeff Sessions. I read it as we came into the segment. It doesnt sound like hes listening to you. He needs to think in terms of what did it take to win back the election, because going up to about three weeks before the election it didnt look like he was going to win and then he followed a very disciplined approach to it and got over the hump. And he can help the Republican Party a lot by being the same disciplined person coming up to the midterm election. Martha i thought it was interesting you also employed the help of the first lady and that tweet. Eroded to both of them. Barbara grassley has a lot of influence on me. I assume that mrs. Trump has a lot of influence on him. Martha what about Jeff Sessions . Do you think you should lay off 40 think i should let Jeff Sessions go . For one thing i think this is the president s choice. I have always said that a president should be able to have who he can be comfortable with. I consider Jeff Sessions a very personal friend. I think that he could be more aggressive in running the department. Martha argued surprised that the prosecutions are Going Forward against Chris Collins and Duncan Hunter during the runup to to the midterm elections . Not because maybe they did something wrong, but the reason why is i thought that the ethics or the standards within the Justice Department is that after getting close to election you didnt prosecute people, he prosecuted them after the elections. So you didnt interfere with the elections. Martha so you are critical of Jeff Sessions on this. The president was. I dont know if i would be critical because he expects his people he puts in as u. S. Attorneys to do their job. My understanding is contrary to what the Justice Department normally does things that you dont do things that would influence an election. Martha senator, thank you for being here, good to see you tonight. Thank you. Martha coming up next, Elizabeth Warren is one of the president s favorite targets. Pocahontas is not happy. Martha but newly released documents about that namecalling stirring up a whole new controversy tonight. We will be right back. 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Critics have accused warren of using her socalled minority status to get ahead professionally and now after years of refusing to engage, she is now finally releasing all of the related documents with regard to this that she had buried him chief National Correspondent ed henry live with the story tonight. Martha, good to see you. Some still not satisfied because the president has been raising questions about whether senator warren lied. There a lot of conservatives saying what they are doing is shifting the goalpost and saying its complicated what she did or didnt say but the bottom line is she did not use her heritage to get a better job at harvard, so case closed. Critics of warren are saying not so fast. She knows this could be damaging to her reelection this year number two as any president ial run down the load. She decided to cooperate with the boston globe investigation. They spoke to 31 of the 52 Law Professors still living at orford law school in the 90s. All but 30 ones of the claims about her ethnicity were not discussed in the hiring process. The other one person said even if it came up it did not impact his vote on her appointment. The globe noted there is confusion because prior to all that she listed herself as a quote on quote minority before the University Of Pennsylvania offered her a job even though the law schools dean wrote in a 1987 document she was the best candidate despite being quote unquote white. And then three years after taking the job she asked the university to change her listed ethnicity to Native American. The president at a recent rally demanded she clear it up. Imagine a 2020 debate where he will challenge her to take a dna test. Other than warren saying in 2012 her family suggested she had high cheekbones, no other evidence has been presented. Watch. In the middle of the debate when she proclaims that she is of Indian Heritage because her mother said she had high cheekbones we will say i will give you a Million Dollars to your Favorite Charity paid for by trump if you take the test and it shows you are an indian. I still have a picture on my mantle at home and its a picture of my mother had before that, a picture of my grandfather and my aunt has walked by that picture at least a thousand times were marked that her father, had high cheekbones like all of the indians do. A liberal paper in her own state back in march called for her to take a dna test to shut the president down. She has largely ignored that and said this Weekend Quote Unquote my family is my family and claimed again it had no impact on her getting hired. Martha. Martha thank you very much for joining us now, byron york and Fox News Contributor. What is this document dump . The first thing it tells us is she is running. Martha thats pretty clear i think. She could have released all of the stuff before. She either released or approved the release of lots of confidential documents. She didnt have to do it but she did it now. The other thing if she thinks this will cause President Trump to stop calling her pocahontas, not going to happen, because it is actually kind of complicated. I think the boston globe story reports pretty convincingly that she was not hired because she was Native American. The schools are not saying we will hire a Native American Faculty Member. But its also a fact that after she was hired at penn and after she was hired at harvard she then listed herself as Native American and faculty director. Harvard did actually list her as a Native American Faculty Member to show the diversity of its teaching staff. So she still cited it but it looks like that it did not getr job. Martha whats the impact on her if she runs . Its always going to be an issue in which she is ridiculed about. You think is going to stop doing that . Away. But i think as a matter of actual serious debate its just not going to be that big a deal. Many of us know about our parents because of what they told us. If you always are that your father fought in the war, vietnam, the gulf war, Something Like that, you dont really go check the military records. You think dad is a veteran. So i think she has an argument by saying this was a story and my family and thats what it was. Martha certainly had an affinity for that part of the story. She likes that part of the story and she did change her designation, the interesting thing in those documents, she changed it and checked Native American. She never convincingly explain why she did that. Martha exactly. I want to ask you about one other thing and thats with regards to sally h. Senator grassley, who was on a short time ago, has now issued a letter again, hes complaining that the department of justice will not turn over the emails and documents from the period which she was connected with the white house as Deputy Attorney general with specific regard to the travel ban issue. He wants to know what she wrote and said about that and to whom she was speaking and also the issue of investigating Michael Flynn. This is a festering issue on capitol hill. Sally h, the Obama Appointee was obamas Attorney General for ten days. There were these two huge issues. It was her decision for the Justice Department not to defend the first version of the travel order that President Trump did i believe on january 27th. And senator grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Said that really handicapped the