it's been it's been a day. that is going to do it for me. i am charles coleman junior in for jonathan capehart. thank you for watching. tune in tomorrow to the sunday show when the michigan attorney general joins the show to talk about the harris-walz campaign ahead of their visit to her state on labor day. that is tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc. stay tuned with msnbc. good evening. good evening. the fire and fury over donald trump's political stunt that the most sacred ground for

military families in america. should we be shocked? yes, political boomerang. why republicans should do research before going ahead with their attack on kamala harris. and katie harris said the zoo has come to town. it turns out the real circus just showed up on trump's transition team. i am ayman mohyeldin. let's do it. five time draft dodger donald trump loves to paint himself as a champion for veterans. >> nobody has ever defended the veterans like i have defended the veterans. >> i took good care of our vets. >> we will take care of our veterans better than anybody. >> trump's performative support for the military hit a new low this week when he went arlington national cemetery 213 fallen soldiers who died during

the 2021 afghanistan withdrawal. as we now know, trump used his visit to get political, filming an ad in which he jabbed president biden with the headstones of fallen troops in the backdrop. we can never assume why trump does what he does, but we do know that it leads to disgraceful moments like the one we saw which was of course another disgraceful moment that happened recently when trump said the presidential medal of freedom, which honors civilians is, quote, actually much better than the medal of honor, which is awarded to servicemembers who are wounded or killed. trump's arlington stunt was an attempt at cleaning that up. he failed. as npr first reported, cemetery officials tried to prevent trump and his staffers from filming in an area known as section 60 where veterans of recent wars are buried. only arlington staff members are authorized to take photos there. trump's campaign staff responded by verbally abusing and pushing aside one of those

officials. the trump campaign denied violence took place but the campaign director than insulted cemetery staff, claiming one of them suffered from, quote, a mental health episode. the ordeal prompted the u.s. army to make a rare public rebuke, issuing a statement confirming the encounter took place and adding that the trump campaign was well aware of federal laws, army regulations and dod policies which clearly prohibit political activities on cemetery grounds. trump has been caught plain and simple and his blatant disrespect for the military is nothing new, especially for veterans who criticize him. case in point, the late senator john mccain. >> he is not a war hero. he is a war hero because he was captured. i like people who weren't captured, okay? >> then of course as president you may remember reporting that trump referred to fallen soldiers as, quote, losers and suckers. while trump and his allies deny he said that, trump's former

chief of staff john kelly confirmed trump did say that, which led trump to attack kelly as he has many of his former cabinet members such as jim mattis and former chairman of the chief mark kelly who trump is accused of treason. then there is what trump would do if elected again, vowing to fire so-called woke generals. watch. >> would you fire those generals? the woke generals at the top. >> yes i would get rid of them. i would fire them. you can't have woke military. >> when it comes to explaining his actions at arlington, trump is being trump of course, deflecting accountability. he started by claiming ignorance in an interview with dasha burns and now it appears he is pointing the finger at the families. >> all of a sudden i hear that somebody that i have no idea who it is got into an argument with somebody else at the

cemetery. they said, sir, could you take some pictures with us at the graves of our child? i didn't want to take pictures, but i wanted to take them if they wanted to take them. >> taking aim at families of fallen veterans. nothing new for trump. remember in 2016 when a gold star father addressed the dnc, blasting trump's attack and a now powerful and prophetic speech. >> have you ever been to arlington cemetery? go look at the graves of brave patriots who died defending united states of america. you will see all faiths, genders, and ethnicities. you have sacrificed nothing. >> and of course how did trump respond to that?

>> his wife, if you look at his wife, she was standing there. she had nothing to say. maybe she wasn't allowed to have anything to say, you tell me. >> trump's allies piled on, accusing khizr khan of using his son as a political pawn, which makes what happened this week at arlington all the more sickening. the disgraced former commander- in-chief standing on the graves of america's fallen to take what he knew was an illegal photo all to support cheap political points. khizr khan is a gold star father. he joins us now. his late son served as a u.s. army captain in iraq. thank you so much for coming back on the show. it is good to see you again. vice president kamala harris put out her own statement today condemning what happened at the arlington cemetery. she said, quote, this is a man unable to comprehend anything other than service to himself. you called out trump's lack of sacrifices in your 2016 dnc

speech, as we highlighted. what you make of this latest incident involving trump at arlington cemetery? >> well again, i am disgusted, but not surprised. this is trump that the world has known. he has no concept of service and sacrifice. multiple occasions when he was in office, how he disrespected our heroes and their families and he continues to be. what i am surprised is republicans are as patriotic as anyone else. how come they have not seen this contempt of our heroes in uniform and our veterans and their families?

deep down in trump and have rejected him? they have three presidential elections, ayman. the last three presidential elections trump has been the republican representative. it is amazing. the legacy that republicans have created for themselves, for such a despicable person that fails to respect the sacrifice and service. so i am disgusted, but i am not surprised from trump. it will continue to be like this, that is what he is. >> you bring up a very important point about the republican party. when you and your wife for targeted by trump in 2016, there were a handful of republicans who defended you, like late senator john mccain. when you look at the modern-day republican party they have all

fallen in line with trump's disrespect to veterans and their families. you have his running mate j.d. vance defending his visit and even senator tom cotton from arkansas put the blame on everybody but donald trump. this is a new low point for the republican party and the state of veterans in this country. >> ayman, i honor the service of both senators and other veterans and their families. we honor their service. the both of them i say this. and please make a note of it. in the 234 year history of the united states, there has not been a president or former president who had been indicted and convicted of a felony. whereas trump, their candidate, candidate of vance and cotton,

is convicted of 34 felonies. the lowest in the history of the united states. this is a tragedy that is a legacy of shame and in the history of the united states and republicans will continue to have this burden henceforth in history that they nominated a person who was convicted of 34 felonies, as their candidate. >> i want to ask about something you have a lot of experience with and it is in relation to this incident at arlington. according to the new york times, and official filed a report but then declined to press charges. the person believed to be involved in the altercation. military officials later said they feared the employee would

face retaliation from trump supporters of her identity was exposed and ultimately leaked online. you have experience with this, unfortunately, as someone who was targeted by trump and his allies. how real of a threat was that? how menacing of a problem are these threats to people who try to do the right thing in our society, but then get attacked by trump supporters? >> ayman, i would testify to the courtesy and professionalism of arlington cemetery staff. they are most courteous and most cognizant of families and the heroes that are buried there. i have had, personally our family has had many years of interaction with them. they are most courteous, most professional and all they were trying to do was enforce the regulation that is in place.

i am not surprised. their concern is justified. as a witness to their professionalism, professionalism of the arlington cemetery staff, there courtesy is amazingly impressive and they are always cognizant of why they are there. what honor they are protecting and guarding on behalf of all of us. so i am not surprised because of the concern of trump's behavior. >> final question to you, what do you say to military families, other military families like yours who see what donald trump is doing and yet support him anyway? >> don't be suckered in. he has shown his true colors. in 2018 in france when he called our heroes suckers and

losers and then standing in the same section 60, he asked general kelly where his young son is buried. asked what is in it for them? this person has no concept of sacrifice and no concept of service to this nation and more important while america i ask, will you hire a person with this record of felony convictions to guard your family? same thing to our veterans and their families, that you have served this country with honor and dignity. continue to serve, one more time. make sure that donald trump, as his own attorney general said, bill barr said in a public statement, that donald trump should not be elected president again. he is a narcissist, troubled

man. all true. >> khizr khan, thank you so much for your time. it bothers me around these moments and incidents, but i am so glad for your insights and sharing your thoughts with us. thank you. >> thank you. some breaking news out of the middle east today. the israeli military announced tonight that they have located several bodies during fighting in the gaza strip. they also announced they have yet to identify the bodies, which will take several hours. the news comes as tens of thousands of israelis protested the netanyahu government in tel aviv today, advocating for the hostage deal. shortly after the military announcement the hostages missing families issued a statement calling on mobilization and stating netanyahu abandoned the hostages. this is a fact. starting tomorrow the country will tremble. again there is no official confirmation on the identities of the bodies. moments ago president biden addressed this news after exiting church in rehobeth,

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begin hearing arguments as to whether trump's actions are covered by presidential immunity. u.s. district judge chutkan set a hearing for thursday to discuss the future schedule of this case, originally set for trial in march. a lot to break down. we have msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos here to help us make sense of it. let me read to you something. this back-and-forth about the scheduling and jack smith filing the superseding indictment. he said, because of the vagueness of the immunity test that justice roberts puts forward, whatever ruling judge chutkan makes will likely be appealed. are we bound to see endless appeals in this case? >> of course because the immunity decision by the supreme court raised more questions than it answered. yes it give us a qualified test, but no one has applied

that before. no one knows what it looks like, so judge chutkan will be doing this for the first time arguably in american history. that is why it was probably very clever for jack smith to voluntarily obtain a superseding indictment where he excised all the stuff that was obviously not going to survive. most notably the allegations that donald trump tried to use the doj or pressure doj officials to help him in his plan as a candidate to overturn the election. that was going to go away because the supreme court said in so many words, this is an example of what thou shall not prosecute a former president four. even the new streamlined indictment will be a subject of appeal after appeal and really probably from both sides if they don't like what they get. so we may be marching back to the supreme court and not in a way that gets completed before the election and probably not before inauguration. >> you bled it a little bit into the second question. was this move by jack smith,

the superseding indictment that you mentioned stripped-down areas of potential dispute, does that strengthen his case that donald trump did in fact, as he alleges in the indictment, commit these crimes? or does it just make him basically like he still has a case, but it does not make it stronger or weaker that he stripped the things he thinks might be in dispute. >> consider most of the time when a defense attorney like me it's a superseding indictment it strikes fear in our hearts because it usually means the government is found the bank accounts or discovered a body or something that is bad for defendants or they are adding charges. that is not what happened here. this is not a typical superseding indictment. this is the rare superseding indictment where the government has narrowed instead of expanded its case. have they done it surgically in a way that makes the case easier to survive in judge

chutkan's court and the appeals beyond? it is interesting to me. jack smith got rid of the stuff he knew was going away, but it is interesting. he has allegations about mike ends. mike pence and donald trump's communications with him are probably squarely in the middle zone. the zone where it might be presumptively immune, but that can be overcome by the correct evidence if jack smith can put it forward. that signals to me that jack smith, while he got rid of the stuff he knew was going to be out, is still feeling ambitious about anything that is a gray area. he still wants to move forward with those mike pence type allegations, so he is feeling confident enough and wisely got rid of the stuff that could not have been kept in the indictment. >> let me ask you about the civil rights case because we have heard trump and his attorneys try to say there are

no victims in this crime. that it is barred by the statute of limitations. they even go so far as saying there was no evidence of intent to defraud. debunk that argument for us and why it does not hold any water. >> this is a common argument among white-collar criminals. criminal defense attorneys will tell you that clients will often say hey, nobody was hurt by what i did. everybody got their money. that is not the way to think about federal criminal statutes. for example if i lie to a bank in order to obtain a loan at a favorable rate and even if i repay that loan, what i have done is expose the bank to risk unknowingly. i've put them in danger of losing a lot of money. the fact that i ultimately did pay everything back, that does not somehow make it right. if everybody did that, if everybody lied to a bank and got the interest-rate they wanted, there would be many people defaulting and this would cause irreparable harm to the entire economy.

the argument that nobody got hurt is something that white- collar criminal defendants frequently claim. it rarely goes anywhere because that is usually not a defense. i violated the law, but nobody got hurt. everybody is still pretty much the same. >> also the money that goes to trump on baseless claims that he lied about his documents or devalued his assets is one less dollar that goes to somebody who is not lying on their documents and you could argue that a person gets hurt by the bank not having money to give out to other people. >> that's exactly right. the public policy behind these statutes is certainly sound. we want people, large corporations, to be honest. ayman, i don't know if you filled out a mortgage application in the last 10 years, but it felt like 10,000 pages of me bearing my soul. everything i've ever done since grade school. if i'm being honest and you are being honest for our condos in the city, it will stand to reason that the trump

organization should do the same thing. i may sound glib, but that is some of the rationale you heard from the state. if everybody did this the economy would crumble. by the way about a decade ago everybody was doing this. this is a danger that has to be attacked. >> good to see you my friend. really appreciate it. coming up next, republicans are trying to link vice president harris to a terror attack in afghanistan. if only the facts supported their claim. ice cream on you? your money is a part of your community, so your bank should be too. like, chase! molly leaving was one thing. but then i thought mom's weak bones might keep us stuck on the couch. no way. (♪♪) if you have postmenopausal osteoporosis and are at high risk for fracture, you can do more than just slow bone loss.

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u.s. military left and in doing so, ending a chaotic withdrawal under president biden. it marked the end of a 20 year war and like the war itself it's ending was messing, disastrous to end -- disastrous and deadly. you might remember images of afghans cramming into military vehicles to escape or running after and grabbing onto planes evacuating, willing to escape by any means necessary. you might remember the deadly attack carried out by isis which killed 13 american soldiers and over 170 afghan civilians. the trump campaign believes the terror attack opens a door to criticizing trump's new opponent, kamala harris, because of an interview she gave in 2021 in april of that year in which she told cnn she was the last person in the room with the president when he decided to make the call on

getting our troops out of afghanistan, saying that she was comfortable with biden's decision. because harris cited with her bosses decision and because j.d. vance is bosses embroiled in scandal for turning a tribute to a fallen soldier into a campaign stunt at arlington national cemetery, the freshman senator÷y@ would be clever to say this. >> sometimes mistakes happen. that is the nature of government, the nature of military service. but to have those 13 americans lose their lives and not fire a single person is disgraceful. kamala harris is disgraceful. we will talk about a story out of the 13 brave, innocent americans who lost their lives. kamala harris is so asleep at the wheel that she won't do an investigation into what has happened and she wants to yell at donald trump because he showed up. she can go to hell. >> one expert said that the line is a perfect political attack to remind the general public about what happened and

the chaos that ensued, but that only works if you ignore the facts. starting with the facts that there have been multiple investigations into that deadly attack, but the cold, hard truth here is that the withdrawal that biden and harris oversaw was initiated by donald trump. in early 2020, then president trump struck a deal with the taliban that set a timeline for u.s. withdrawal. that timeline included a dwindling down of troops on the ground. many, even those in trump's administration, warned against the deal because the afghan government was not at the table and officials believed the taliban could not be trusted. negotiations did not focus on future governance of afghanistan or the safety of afghans, particularly women, which is one of the reason the administration chose to keep troops in afghanistan. for trump this was about ego, being the only president who could get it done. one move that raised red flags was how the trump administration

forced the afghan government to release thousands of prisoners to appease the taliban. that in effect weakened the afghan army, allowing the taliban to gain control of afghanistan much more quickly than anticipated. ironically the taliban made the same mistake by releasing even more prisoners during their recapture. many of these prisoners were part of or ended up joining isis-k, an enemy to the taliban and the united states. one of the prisoners was in fact the isis-k fighter responsible for the airport bombing at abbey gait. so the trail to the very attack republicans hope to use against kamala harris actually leads us back to trump. it was trump who allowed the taliban's outsized power. it was trump who ignored the threat of groups like isis-k and in case you heard trump claim he would've made sure that u.s. troops were not drawn down to such low levels so quickly, don't buy it. it was trump who brought troop

numbers down to the historic low of 2500 from over 15,000. democrats have their share of blame, too. former president obama sent thousands of troops after president bush. what is really heartbreaking in all of this is that in all of this talk about the war in afghanistan and the withdrawal, we forget the biggest failure. both parties let down the people of afghanistan. they were sold the promise of a brighter future and instead they were handed a brutal u.s. occupation that took thousands of lives and ultimately resulted in the return of the taliban.

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we are we are back talking about the gop's misguided attack on the biden administration and vice president harris over the kabul airport bombing that killed 13 u.s. troops and 170 afghan civilians. with me is the host of no lie with brian tyler cowen and steven dacey served as chief strategist to mitt romney's 2012 campaign and was also the author of it was all a lie, how the republican party became donald trump. i will start with you and this line of attack. what do you make of the way the trump campaign is using the kabul airport bombing and the u.s. withdrawal that the trump administration initiated and really set into motion as a way to try and sway voters away from

kamala harris? >> you know the maybe sad truth is afghanistan was never really an issue in american politics when a lot of americans were dying there. i don't think it is going to be more of an issue now that no americans are dying there. as you said earlier, the tragedy of what happened, but fewer americans have died in afghanistan under biden-harris then under obama or bush or under trump. so this is, i think, a choice that the president made to end this war and it has ended for americans and i think that big picture is what is going to mean the most to your average water watching this. >> harris has pretty much steered clear of this nonsense coming out from trump and j.d. vance, but she did address the arlington incident, saying trump disrespected sacred

ground. her response focused on his treatment of servicemembers, but shied away from rebutting any general withdraw critique. what do you make of that decision? is that the right approach by the harris campaign? >> i think it is. she's been good not taking the bait. donald trump has a vested interest about trying to get her to take that bait. we saw it with the cnn interview where she was asked for her response to the inane claim that she is not actually black and she brushed it off because she knows it is smarter not to get on his level. not to take the bait on every single thing he puts out there. not all of this stuff is worthy of a response, so her recognizing that rightly not only spares her the indignity of humoring him, but it puts him on a different level. it makes him seem weak and deflated that she is not even going to humor the ridiculous stuff he is putting forward.

>> avenue to ask about the jb response to the post and why don't you get off social media and launch an investigation into unnecessary deaths. it pains me because if vance had done a quick google search he would have known there have been already multiple investigations into what happened at abbey gait. they say basically no one was at fault. the situation was a chaotic situation. why is it so hard? is it actual ignorance that he does not know military investigations have been looking into this since it happened three years ago or does he want to ignore it and rewrite his own history that he can use as an attack line? >> of course he knows this. he is a united states senator. he is well aware of it. this is a manifestation of the trump campaign being lost. they really don't have a message now. the entire campaign was predicated on one message that he was not joe biden.

that does not matter now and they are really flailing around. i've been in those rooms were campaigns are trying to come up with messages and i can promise they have not come up with one yet and the problem i have is that donald trump is a candidate of emotion, not of strategy or planning or any kind of vision. he is just out there in remoting. i think they're doing a little bit of this and a little bit of that and meanwhile i think harris-walz has a consistent message. >> stuart, from a strategy point of view since you have worked on campaigns, republicans have traditionally been seen as the promilitary party. that is something democrats have not necessarily competed with over that narrative. when you look at what donald trump did at arlington and what he has said about medal of honor recipients and what he has done in the past with accusing senior military officers of treason.

they can now on the narrative that donald trump is done so much damage to the military with his rhetoric and disrespect that he can no longer be credibly considered a patriotic commander in chief. >> is that for me? >> go ahead sir. >> i think something very big happened in american politics here and that is that this 20, 30, 40 year history have republicans as a party of strength in foreign policy. justified or not. it has now been reversed. i mean it is extraordinary. we have gone from the most consistent anti-russian, anti- soviet union element of american politics. the republican party conservative base. that is now the pro-putin element of american policy. who goes to taiwan? nancy pelosi. this is a big thing happening now.

this isolationism away from nato, pro-putin. we look at this in the lincoln project. there are a lot of voters who are very uncomfortable with this who otherwise might be trump natural voters, but they find this repugnant and it does not seem right to them. i think the harris-walz campaign did a great job at the convention lining up those folks and doing a good job, i hate using the word reclaiming patriotism, because no party has owned patriotism, but they are using the iconography of it. i think successfully. >> brian, your thoughts on that and how the harris-walz campaign can be more assertive, be more aggressive on how trump's foreign-policy was disastrous when he was in office. things he has been saying since he left office about ukraine and russia are all legitimate lines of attack. it is rare you are running

against a former president so you actually have four years of him in office that you can point to and say what a disaster that was. >> it is not just foreign- policy. donald trump has positioned himself in such a way that all of this republican branding that helped them for so long, that they coasted on for so long, has been exposed as total bs. these are people who beat their chest for years and years as the party of family values, law and order, military, states rights, official responsibility and on each of those topics they exposed that as this veneer that does not represent your actual behavior. the party of family values is lining up behind a guy who cheated on his wife. convicted of 34 felony counts related to those hush money payouts. this is someone who added

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all in on conspiracy theorist robert f kennedy junior who just shut down his ill-fated presidential campaign and one time presidential candidate turned russian propagandist tulsi gabbard. check out this ridiculous meme trump shared on his social media platform. it featured gabbard as well as faces like j.d. vance, vivek ramaswamy and elon musk and trump himself and of course as members of the justice league. the only thing more unhinged than a former president posting that meme, kennedy announcing monday that he will serve on trump's transition team to, quote, pick the people who will be running the government. both have been tasked as honorary cochairs of the transition team. a senior advisor confirmed to the new york times that members of that team will help trump select personnel and policies. god help us all if they win. brian and stuart are back with

us. i will start with you. the idea that trump and j.d. vance, superman and batman and members of the justice league. i don't even know where to begin with that one. any thoughts? >> look, if you are trying to escape the weird allegations, then perhaps the first decision you make to attack a guy who was known at the moment for loading a bear carcass in his car in new york city and staging it in a bicycle accident. all of this is what we already know, which is donald trump second term would be staffed by people who are not only insane, which is what the rfk jr. thing does, but also aggressively inept and also dangerous. we know from project 2025 for example, i think the scariest part is this element where all federal employees would be reclassified as political appointees.

meaning donald trump would not only be able to appoint his inner circle of dangerous people who surround him, the crazy people who surround him, rfk, tulsi gabbard and on and on, but also the entirety of the federal government. think about how that would manifest itself. all this is is a blinking red light to the rest of us. >> stuart, what is the political calculation trump is making because unless he is about to create the department of conspiracy theories and that is what rfk jr. is going to be in charge of, there really is no political gain by giving them prominent roles. i understand you want to make a gesture to bring in whatever percentage of voters they may have that are loyal to them, but that is an insignificant amount. what is trump thinking by prominently featuring both the russian conspiracists and tinfoil hat guy? >> you know i think we always have this sort of need to say there must be some strategy to

this, otherwise it seems like madness. there is no strategy to this. it is madness and he is a blithering idiot. trump, you know if you pet him he will follow you home and that is what these two people have done. they flattered him. this is sort of like cool people donald trump would like to hang out with and i would like to say to all of my republican friends, all those people i helped elect. remember the republicans were going to be the party of adults? this is what you've turned the party over two. look at that. a bunch of nuts and weirdos who have no interest in governing. you have made one of the most serious endeavors in our world, governing the united states, into an absurdity and it is completely on you. >> to that point, brian, marc short a republican strategist and former chief of staff to mike pence slammed trump for recruiting rfk and gabbard, saying that doubling down will

not energize turnout among traditional conservatives. what do you think is behind this decision? rfk and tulsi gabbard have become maga celebrities in their own right, but has trump dug a hole with them that he can't get out of? >> i think stuart's point is the exact right one, which is donald trump will move over and embrace anybody who pets them, basically. it is indicative of a larger problem because you see how the world's autocrats and dictators want a useful idiot in the white house. that is why he has support of vladimir putin. xi jinping, erdogan. because all they have to do is flatter him and they will wholly own him because that is all he is looking for. in some colleague. in some other world leader. once they have him under their thumb they can use him anyway they want to, like for example

undermining nato, which has been the goal of russia for the entirety of putin's presidency. so this is indicative again of a broader problem with donald trump, which is he will embrace anybody who is nice to him and it is very easy to get him to do that, to manipulate him, to bend him to your will. >> a sad state of affairs to see someone like that vying for the highest office in the country. brian tyler cohen, stuart stevens, thank you both. a new hour of ayman starts after a quick break. farxiga can cause serious side effects, including ketoacidosis that may be fatal, dehydration, urinary tract or genital yeast infections, and low blood sugar. a rare, life-threatening bacterial infection in the skin of the perineum could occur. stop taking farxiga and call your doctor right away if you have symptoms of this infection, an allergic reaction, or ketoacidosis. ♪ far-xi-ga ♪

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on this on this new hour of ayman, texas attorney general ken paxton targets latino campaign volunteers including an 87-year- old great-grandmother. plus, donald trump twists himself into a pretzel trying to rebrand on reproductive rights. and a key union group booze j.d. vance as he tries to rewrite trump's record. i am ayman mohyeldin. let's do it. when 87-year-old lydia martinez woke up before 6:00 a.m. to the sound of a knock on her door last week she assumed it was perhaps a neighbor who needed milk or eggs. her surprise it was not a neighbor. rather nine officers, most of them men, pushing through her