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A look at the day s latest news and headlines. moment. but first, ed henry joins me live tonight with the back stor story. congressman hunter has temporarily stepped down from his three committee assignments and congress under pressure from p chris speaker paul ryan who l forcibly strip him of those assignments and that s a sign of how much political hot water he s in right now. stepping down from the armed services panel had to be particularly hard for hunter and for a man who quit his job after 9/11 to serve as a combat marine. also ps stands accused of misusing campaign money in some cases, intended for wounded warriors. the congressman and his wife margaret who serves as his campaign manager pled not guilty to some 60 charges of stealing a quarter million dollars in campaign funds. the couple today greeted with those chance of, lock him up. the use campaign cash for private school tuition, and spend big money on personal went to hillary clinton s fund-raisers before ....
stay tuned. we ll have senator susan collins announcement as soon as she comes to the floor. from there we ll know more. thanks for joining us. i ll be on the five at 5:00. i m dana. here s shep. shepard: the vote is tomorrow, but the big moment is right now. a live look. the floor of the united states senate where we re about to witness what could be the tipping point for judge brett kavanaugh s supreme court nomination. at any moment now, the key republican senator from maine will announce how she plans to vote tomorrow. susan collins holds all the cards. if she s a yes on brett kavanaugh, he is likely the next associate justice of the supreme court. big picture, there s four key senators today. three of them are collins, joe wbr id= wbr600 /> manchin and jeff flake voted yes today. jeff flake said he will vote to confirm kavanaugh unless something big happens. susan collins hasn t said how she will vote on the actual nomination. we re watching the republican senator ....
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 well-publicized charge just ahead of the midterm is by the jeff sessions justice department. two easy wins now in doubt because there s 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 so-called murder board gauntlet gett ....
if brett kavanaugh s confirmed to the supreme court it will have profoundly negative effects on workers rights, women s rights and voting rights for decades to come. all i can say within an hour and 18 minutes of your nomination, you became the biggest threat to democracy. in the eyes of some of the most partisan people in the country who would hold kagan and sotomayor up as highly qualified and would challenge any republican, vote against them. you live in unusual times as i do. you should get more than 90 votes but you won t, and i am sorry it has gotten to where it has. it s got nothing to do about you. if you don t mind, and you don t have to, what did you tell your children yesterday about the hearing? they did as they i ll tell them what they told me. they gave me a big hug and said, good job, daddy, and margaret, before she went to bed made a special trip down and gave me a special hug. i just wish if we could have a hearing where the nominees kids could show up ....
republicans are saying monday or no way. is it going to be about getting it through, or getting it right? and president trump orders the declassification of documents in the russia probe. why? transparency, he says. give all the information, do it right. one-on-one with republican congressman matt gaetz. and, cnn has stormy daniels book where she shares explicit details of her affair with donald trump. chris cillizza on what we learned after months of allegations and denials. busy tuesday. what do you say? let s get after it some more. a lot of people thought that brett kavanaugh s accuser would testify on monday before the senate committee. but cnn has obtained a letter that says professor ford wants to testify, but she wants the fbi to investigate first. now, there s a plus/minus here. it s a boost to her credibility, but on the negative side, it smacks of politics. because this is what the democrats have been pushing for. so, let s test this. we have florida republican mat ....