It is a labor day battleground blitz on this holiday monday. With campaigns making their final pitches in the traditional turn to the final sprint before election day. Youve got joe biden talking labor in pa. The vp candidating holding duelling events in wisconsin. Well take you to all of it. Plus, nbc news exclusive reporting on a possible pentagon shakeup. With the president looking for possible replacements for defense secretary mark esper. Were also live on the latest with the out of control wildfires in central california. One of them growing to 114 square miles. Thats about the size of fresno, california. We have a lot of news on a busy holiday monday. I want to start on the campaign trail and our nbc News Reporters there. Mike memoli is in harris beburg washington. Ali vie ali vitali is in wisconsin. Mike, talk about what were going to hear from bilater. T reporter the Biden Campaign knows pennsylvania well. Biden held his First Campaign event in 2019 at a union hall in pittsbur
Officials, hill and vindman, who talks with investigators. But the white house chief of staff is not talking. Thats what one Administration Source is confirming this morning. Add Mick Mulvaney to the noshow list. Weve got our nbc news team here with the latest from the nations kpnatio nations capitol. We are waiting to hear what the president had to say. Let me start with john then allen, National Political reporter for nbcnews. Com and our nbc news road warriors are here as well. John, let me start with you, and the lay of the land. A longtime bloomberg adviser told nbc that bloomberg is increasingly concerned that the current field of candidates is not well positioned and saying he would be able to take the fight to trump and win. Every candidate thinks they can take the fight to President Trump and win. Why does bloomberg think hes so special . I think what hes saying is the other candidates in the field arent that special and hes been watching the democratic primary advance and hes
pentagon for their update. that s set for about 30 minutes from now with a senior defense official telling nbc news today while the u.s. can t independently confirm the reports out of bucha, they have no reason to doubt ukraine s claims of what they call atrocities. we re also following two live meetings on capitol hill. the rules committee voting whether to recommend find two aides to former president trump in contempt of congress because they refused to go along with subpoenas of the january 6th committee. the senate judiciary committee about to returning from recess for a vote on the nomination of judge ketanji brown jackson to the supreme court. we are watching all of it. we ve got our team here for it all. i m hallie jackson. good to be with you, along with kelly o donnell at the white house. ali arouzi is in ukraine. courtney kube is at the pentagon and we have the senior advisor to nato s supreme allied commander. here is what we are watching this hour. fury from the