It is not normal because we are not able to see 100,000 documents that the archiv archive because the administration said that we cant see them. 140,000 documents that i see but you cant see because they wont allow to make it in public and i kan cant tell you about it on the show. Joining me jeff bennett and pete williams. Jeff, lets start with you, these hundreds of thousands of documents are documents of george w. Bush administration, apparently was okay handing over or suggested they wanted to air on the side of transparency and this white house said no. Yeah, i think it is an interesting point to make. You have the lawyer whos overseeing the document review representing the bush administration, he says former president bush told him to air on the side of transparency but he says he was directed in later conversations with the Trump Administration and the white house and the department of justice to withhold some of these documents as hundreds of thousands or so documents. Thats why you hear democrats say they feel like theyre being railroaded on all of these crucial issues, such as abortion rights or president ial power. They want to know more about are where judge kavanaugh stands on these issues and how he advised then president bush on some of these issues. Raj shaw makes the point that well, we released some hundreds of thousands of documents. Pete, lets talk about this, this is a different set of documents than we have been talking about. Senate democrats have been asking republicans to join them in their request for a lot of documents dating back to kavanaughs time as staff secretary in the white house. Why is this controversial . I think first, a couple of reasons. The committee wants as much information of the nominee as possible and potential opponents of tkavanaugh. Democrats are looking for any reason they can cite to support their novote. There are a lot of reasons that democrats come into this hearing predispo predisposed, quite apart from him. One is the way republicans treattrea treated mayor garland, the nominee president obama had in his last term. The president says it does not count. The democrats are fuming about that. The second thing is this document issue and thats quite apart of kavanaughs record as a judge. So for reasons both institutional and political, democrats are concerned of this document issue. Jeff, is any of this going to make the difference at the moment. Republicans believe they seem to have the votes to go through with these. Will it matter relating to the documents both of the bush era and the other documents from the National Archive . Reporter republicans control the senate and because of the change in senate rules, they could confirm kavanaugh with just no vote, with no votes at all from democrats. One of the interesting dynamics here is that you now have democrats on the outside raising money against Democratic Senators really trying to make sure they stay within the ranks. Brian fallon who once worked for chuck schumer, he was the Campaign Spokesperson for hillary clinton. Hes raising a lot of money on the outside running ads and trying to make sure that people like joe mansion and joe donally, three red state democrats who voted for gorsuch that they wont now vote for kavanaugh. This is the kind of things that republicans do to other republicans. It represents whats at stakes and how democrats are now trying to run this outside game because they realize there is not much they can do in the senate itself. Pete, you and i were together on the day when the kavanaughs no, ma nomination were announced. There were all sorts of democrats talking about preventing this going forward. They were not successful and delaying the hearings which are starting now or at least the process is starting tomorrow. Is there anything that anybody who does not think Brett Kavanaugh should be on the Supreme Court could do about it at this point. I think jeff got it right. It is a simple matter of arithmet arithmet arithmetic. The latest call of delaying is cohen pleaded guilty in new york and there were some democrats saying well, he is pleaded guilty to a Campaign Finance violation, he says that President Trump told him to do it. That means the president implicated in a crime that we should delay these hearings to figure out what that is and prepare to ask Brett Kavanaugh about that. As you know ali, brett kavana h kavanaughs view on whether the president can be subpoenaed, he certainly thought so during the Clinton Administration when he was working for ken star of the lewe lewinski situation. Although he has said in that law review article that it would take an active congress to provide the president with immunity. I am sure we are getting a lot of questions about that. When the questioning begins on wednesday, tomorrow will be the Opening Statements by the senators. The Opening Statements by the nominee himself and the introduction of the family and then we get down to the good q a on wednesday. Well be tuning in on that. Jef jeff, thank you. Jason, you written a detailed column arguing that kavanaughs nomination should not be considered both because of his views, and as pete just mentioned was referred to in the guilty verdict or the guilty plea for michael cohen. Yes, this is the most pivotal Supreme Court nominee nomination of our lifetime. We have a president implicated in felony and his Campaign Managers are convicted of eight felony charges and now we have a white house thats refusing to release 100,000 documents so strangest and worse possible nominee at the worse possible time. If democrats are along with it, this is legitimatizing a process. Anthony kennedy may have the votes to be confirmed as we just discussed. Hell permanently damaged the institutions and unless he asks senator republican to postpone the investigation until the Mueller Investigation is completed. Whats your argument here. Brett kavanaugh is someone that cares about the Supreme Court and he cared about it his entire life. Hes going to make a decision thats going to be the most unpopular decision of the history of the United States since the days of slavery. Hes going to decide to reverse roe v. Wade. Whats unique of kavanaugh is his strange involving when it comes to executive power, when republicans we can expect that hell hear numerous matters and including whether his papers can be held up of power and decided by the Supreme Court. Hell be the fifth decision on a court thats going to be intact for half a century more or less. Hes going to be making decisions, well see Brett Kavanaugh making decisions in 2050. Hes going to live long past donald trump but hes going to carry the delegitimacy of donald Trump Administration will possibly be convicted forever unless he makes a decision to say i care more about this court than my immediate career. What do you say if somebody says if all of these arguments are simply posturing by democrats who dont want a republican on the Supreme Court . Theyre posturing by democrats who dont want a republican on the Supreme Court but theyre also and americans have spoken out about this. We have a Supreme Court that has the last seat was filled, took 422 days and spent less than 60 days since kavanaugh was named. Theyre rushing to put him into place. Donald trump is prepeariaring t extraordinary and provacative steps, probably before the end of the year. Brett kavanaugh is going to be the decisive votes on whether donald trump gets away with these things. Jason, usa today columnist. Tomorrow well have live coverage of the confirmation hearing for nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Brian williams kicks off our coverage at 9 00 a. M. Eastern right here on msnbc. If we are doing so well, why didnt he free pay worth for workers. You are wafing msnbc. Cause e with recall. Learning from him is great. When i can keep up ing msnb. Wing msnbc. Aing msnbc. Ting msnbc dads got all the answers. Anncr prevagen is now the numberoneselling brain Health Supplement in drug stores nationwide. She outsmarts me every single time. Checkmate you wanna play again . Anncr prevagen. Healthier brain. 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President trump gave them the blow days before the holiday weekend, he announced freeze employee pay. The president said we must p n maintain efforts to put our nation on a sustained course and federal Agency Budgets cant stain such increases. As we head into labor day, our nation pays its gratitude to the hardworking men and women who make our country run. I am going to be doing some work over the weekend. I am going to be studying the federal workers in washington that you have been reading so much about and people dont want to give them any increase, they have not had one for a long time. I am going to study it over the week. It is good time to study at labor day, lets see how they do next week. A lot of people are against it. I am going to take a good hard look at it over the week. People dont want to give them an increase. You tweeted you dont want to give them an increase. Whose decision is it by including a raise of the spending bill that needs to be improved by the end of the month. Chris liu is now a senior fellow of virginia center. Chris, good to see you. I am not quite sure why the president got up in charlotte and said people said so, so i am going to study it over the weekend. He said so and he tweeted it. You are right. I work for a president who has a policy process where you had a lot of recommendations and the president made a decision after studying that. We have done at the opposite way with this president , he makes rash decisions and catches blow backs. Lets be clear, this is just one facet of a relentless attack on workers over the last 19 months. The hypocrisy here is incredible. He says he cant afford pay raise for federal employees that would cost at most. This comes after a 1. 5 trillion tax cut thats largely gone to the wealthy and has balloon our deficits. He also says the economy is booming. Why cant federal employees share a little of this economy. It is something we all foresaw. If you give the tax cut of the wealthy and corporations that all trickle down, one would assume that the benefits of the tax cut would not be suffered by federal servants. Whats important to understand here is who we are talking about. About 60 of the federal civilian employees work at department offense and Veterans Affairs and about 10 of them are people with disabilities including disable veterans. This is not just antiworkers or antiveterans. It is antimilitary as well. Looets taets go back to 201. Federal workers got a 2 raise. They never had a 10 raise. 2013 for 2015, nothing. 2016, they got 1 . We have inflation running in about 2. 9 . We have general wage increases and not federal Civil Servants but minimum wage increases of 2. 9 inflation, 2. 7 increases. The point is even if they got their 2. 1 for 2019, they would be behind. If you look at all of these things, federal salaries are not keeping up with the living. Exactly. Some of these raises were not given during the Obama Administration is both reaction to the fact that we are in a recession at that time. At this period of time when it seems that this money is going out the door, federal civil employees should have a chance share in this. Everyone with the 2 does not keep up with this. We have not seen that across the board in the private sector and in the public sector. Theyre not going to see it either. Chris, thank you very much for joining me. Chris lu, star power on the ground today in massachusetts. Seven districts ahead of tomorrows primaries, two progressive and one c. Who the voters are going to choose. Well show it to you live next on msnbc. Hawaii is in the middle of the pacific ocean. Were the most isolated population on the planet. Hawaii is the first state in the u. S. To have 100 Renewable Energy goal. Were a very small electric utility. 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Pocahantas, i apologize to you. To the fake pocahantas i continue. Hall right, meantime, bostonians are gearing up the major battle tomorrow. The outcome which could swing the seventh Congressional District of the most liberal districts in the nation further left. Nbc ali is in boston today following this race, whats the story here . Reporter well, aliv. , we have been here in boston and we have been here all day talking to the members. What she said that she feels like the win is wind it as her k and the momentum is on her side. A lot of people i talked to on the ground here referred to it as their fight. Presley campaigning and wants to show it is not a matter of waiting in line and waiting for your turn to run. She wants to offer a new leadership vision. Take a look at what congressman capuano has said. We always have the issues internally, thats what families do. It is always a struggle for the minds and the souls of the body. Once that happens, my hope is that we have a common enemy with people that dont share any of our values. Reporter it is fascinating when you consider the fact that when i talk to voters who are for capuno seems a little offensi offensive. It makes you focus and keep your attention and thats what hes looking forward to it. My question, ali, why . This is an establishment verses an insurgent thing thats going on all around the country. Others say progressives verses more progressives. I end up making the argument as others do that it is not enough to say you are progressives and where are you on seeking the impeachment on the president or putting these bills up or showing where you vote and a lot of these i guess you may call them as establishment democratic candidate came around in time when compromise with republicans or compromise with conservatives was a common thing. Reporter certainly, President Trump is pretty central of the argument here. A few hours ago, capuano has said he has not found a place to Work Together with the president. When you are talking about compromise, i dont think either are looking to compromise with President Trump. Folks are not trump fans and candidates are not trying to make that argument. In the closing hours of these race, all of them are looking to turn out and of course, there are some inherit barrier to that and it is labor day today and kids are going back to school. It will be hard for kids who are not passionate voters to get out and vote and especially for the pressley campaign, theyre looking for people to turn out to vote for them. Tomorrow night, everyone out here is trying to canvas and get their ground game strong and fi