Across the spectrum, White House Correspondent kevin corke is live for the cuts are gathering and good evening, kevin. You spent numerous hours here into my arch better circumstances but i can tell you weve been joined by thousands here tonight and mostly celebrating the life and the legacy of the late Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. Fell by pancreatic cancer, and this is something that i know very well. It is still a shock because even though at her advanced age, you may be saying that, you know, she was so strong. Indeed, she was buried and she seemed almost indestructible and yet tonight she comes to cancer. It let me share a statement from the chief justice of the high court, john roberts, a very interesting statement. He said our nation has lost a jurist of the historic stature in the Supreme Court lost a cherished colleague. It today we mourn but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her. A tireless and resolute champion of justice. Heres the president on her passing. Wow. I didnt know that. I just heard that for the first time. She led an amazing life. What else can you say . She was an amazing woman. Whether you agree or not, she was an amazing woman. An amazing life. Im sad to hear that. Thank you very much. An amazing woman who led an amazing life, last year the Supreme Court falling at halfstaff in similar circumstances at the capitol in you could see the flags flying at halfstaff and that certainly the case over at the white hou white house. Obviously, politics will become a major story line here because people will wonder if the republicans in the senate will move ahead with the nominee. Let me share a statement from the Senate Majority leader, Mitch Mcconnell. He said this tonight. President trumps nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States senate. Interesting Chuck Schumer tweeted a response in the American People should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court justice. Therefore the vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president. Here is the former Vice President joe biden. Tonight, into in the coming days, we should focus on the loss of the chief justice. In her enduring legacy. But that there is no doubt, let me be clear, that the voters should pick the president. In the president should pick the justice. For the senate to consider. This was the position of the Republican Senate in 2016. Almost ten months to go before the election. That is the position the United States senates must today. Thats the real question, what will the senate to in the days ahead . I think you hit the nail on the head, shannon, tonight is the night to honor her legacy, her memory, and there will be plenty of time for speculation and very likely a nomination. Shannon. Shannon yeah, very quickly. Kevin, thank you for the live reporting there. The body with the responsibility of vetting and voting on the Supreme Court nominees and both sides of the aisle. Chad pergram on demand to fill us in and whats the Immediate Reaction across the Global Impact . This will be a very challenging path the next couple weeks or months here as they tried to get the nomination through. Paid touch it to the individual senators, Susan Collins and Susan Collins is facing a competitive reelection bid right now and Lisa Murkowski is not up, but she indicated that she thinks it will be better to wait until after a new president is inaugurated. I would look at other senators who are facing competitive reelection in competitive states this fall, cory gardner, colorado, republican colorado, thom tillis in North Carolina and Martha Mcsally in North Carolina indicated that she thinks they should forge ahead with a nomination. Mitch mcconnell as they reported said theyre going to go ahead and try to fill the seat. Watching what Mitch Mcconnell said earlier this year. If youre asking me a hypothetical about whether the Republican Senate should confirm a member of the Supreme Court to a vacancy they created this year. Before november. We would fill it. And this is what Mitch Mcconnell said four years ago when there was a vacancy under president obama. The next justice fundamentally alter the direction of the Supreme Court. And have a profound impact on our country. So of course, of course, the American People should have a say in the courts direction. Back in february of 2016 when he passed away, Mitch Mcconnell moved very quickly and unilaterally saying that they would block any nominee and not even entertain a nominee who president obama would put forth in the Election Year and that ultimately turns out to be garlands we never got the hearing in the United States senate. This is why dianne feinstein, top democratic on the Judiciary Committee from california said under no circumstances should they consider a nominee for the election here in 2020. It could they get it done before the election even if things go smoothly . It is hard to see. It takes an average about 4045 days when someone is nominated and before they get the hearing in United States senate and that the Judiciary Committee. It takes about 6770 days and the average year for actual conversation on the senate floor. The most recent metric we have for Brett Kavanaugh in the fall of 2018, 57 days before he got the confirmation hearing and 89 days before he was actually confirmed on the senate floor, shannon. Shannon his confirmation battle has proved that a lot of times this is not smooth or a speedy process and especially not the most recent in recent years. I have to feel like historically this will be different than everything before it. Thats right, and the hearings are explosive because these are a lifetime appointment and we certainly saw a lot of protests here on capitol hill with Brett Kavanaugh. There was a very dramatic scene and we certainly sound with clearance thomas and anita hill and they reopened the Clarence Thomas hearings in the fall of 1991 after they heard about anita hill in the same thing happened with Brett Kavanaugh and just because you submit someone to the Judiciary Committee, that doesnt mean that this is smooth sailing. Keep in mind of what happened with harriet miers, former white House Counsel who president george w. Bush nominated, she had to withdrawal and going back a little bit further they defeated robert york and president reagans nominee on the senate floor in 1987. Douglas ginsberg was nominated and he had to withdrawal and thats how you end wound up with anthony kennedy. It takes a while and they can get it an it done in 40 days or. Shannon yeah, we know that some of the people who are nominees on his list including the old and now the new list, hes met with them before and theyve gone through the process last time around with cavanaugh and the vetting process. So, listen, can republicans hold together the photos and can they get enough votes and what about the filibuster . It will be a question if they have the votes and as i say, the math is very important and right now, right now the senate is 53 republicans, 47 senators who caucus with the democrats and they can only lose two and gets down to 5051 and if you lose another one you have a tie, you cannot Vice President pence trying to break the tie and thats never happened with the Supreme Court nomination. I mean, that would be pretty amazing. As it pertains to a filibuster, this is very important, you never technically had a filibuster of a Supreme Court nominee. He was already on the Supreme Court in the late 1960s when they wanted to elevate him to chief justice of the United States and he was filibustered. There was going to be a filibuster and it was pretty clear back in 2017 with a nomination of neil gorsuch and so the Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell introduced what is known as Nuclear Option two. This is something that harry reid opened up to lower the bar to cut off filibusters from 60 days, lower it down to 51 and all executive branch nominees, except the Supreme Court. What happened with Mitch Mcconnell and neil gorsuch in 2017 is that he extended it the Supreme Court nominees and neil gorsuch for that matter, Brett Kavanaugh never would have gotten the confirmation vote had they been going by the old rules. I should point out these are not senate rules in the senate does a lot of the business by president s and what he did in 2013 and what mcconnell did in 2017 was established in president lowering the bar. They cannot realistically filibuster the nomination, shannon. To be when its crazy to think about that its not that many years and decades back that nominees did not even come to the hearing. They did not show up to defend themselves and theres no fighting, and more recent years, there were justices who would confirmed 980. It was not that long ago and it seems impossible at this moment and things have changed and this is a very unique year and very challenging year in a lot of ways. Still a lot to see. Thank you for being up late or early however you want to call it on the east coast, we appreciate it. Any time, shannon. Thank you. Shannon Justice Ginsburg and served two and half decades on the Supreme Court in 1 of 4 women ever appointed to the court. During her tenure, she was a fierce advocate for womens rights. Heres a look back at her long interest in which career. I, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, do solemnly swear. She might have seemed small in stature but the second woman to be nominated to the u. S. Supreme court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a trailblazer for womens rights. A champion to civil liberties. Born ruth and joan bader 1993 in a workingclass neighborhood in brooklyn, new york. The daughter of nathan and celia bader. Her mother died when she was 17 and the day before she graduated from high school. Was one of the most trying times in my life. But i knew that she wanted me to study hard and get good grades and succeed in life. Thats what i did. She finished first in her class at Cornell University where she met and married martin ginsberg, an aspiring lawyer. The first boy i dated who carried it that i had a brain. Like her husband, ginsberg pursued a law degree enrolling at harvard after the birth of their daughter, jane, at a Columbia Law School where she graduated at the top of her class. She stated in the world of academia and while a professor at rutgers university, she gave birth to her son, james, but she left records for Columbia University to become the schools first female tenured law professor. She described it as a pivotal time for womens rights. I wanted to be more than when i was, and to be in the right place to help advance this movement for womens equality. She went on to create them American Civil Liberties unions, womens rights project and as general counsel, she began appearing before the Supreme Court. She argued six cases for womens rights before president jimmy carter nominated her to serve on the u. S. Court of appeals for the d. C. Circuit. Then, 1993. President bill clinton nominated her to the nations highest court and she was only the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court in the first jewish woman. It was a long ways that we have come in this nation. After a series of hearings, the Senate Confirmed ginsberg to the post by a vote of 963. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, i believe the nation is getting a justice who will be a guardian of liberty for all americans and insurer of equal justice under law. On the bench, ginsberg was known to lean left of center but favored caution and restraint in her decisions. And she never had a favorite opinion. My favorite opinion was a little bit like my favorite grandchildren. Ginsberg said the ruling in the virginian military case prohibited the state from operating allmale institution with taxpayer dollars gave her tremendous satisfaction. That was a very satisfying for me to write. It was a precursor to the better pay act which Congress Passed into law in 2009 to address perceived pay gap between men and women. In the intro t interview, if yod oveoverrule the decision to supt candidates running for office ginsberg said i think the notion that we have all the democracy that money could buy straight so far from what the democracy is supposed to be. And thats number one on my list. In her personal life, three separate cancer diagnosis in 1999, it was colon cancer and a decade later, pancreatic cancer, 2018, she underwent lung cancer surgery and each time she was out of the hospital within days. My colleagues are rallied around and made it possible for me to go on and not wast missinn court. Outside of court, ginsberg loved opera and a passion she shared with conservative Justice Anthony scull leah famously serenaded by domingo in 2011 and Harvard University where she earned the honorary degree. She made exercise a staple in her life, even into her 80s working out twice a week with her trainer. My father came to the United States when he was 13. And he came from a small town outside odessa. She was part of her jewish heritage and the advances made for american jews. Jews were fearful about things, who they wear, but today, you can say it openly and with pride. That, i think, something ive witnessed in my own life span. Throughout her life she remained a optimist. We still have a way to go to ensure that all people in our land to enjoy the equal protection of the laws. But considering how far we have come, there is good cause for optimism about our countrys future. Him as we now forecast a political firestorm over or when when the vacancy will be tackled by Ruth Bader Ginsburgs passing, the justice saw and talk about the succession coming after her, shes been doing it recently as well. Correspondent leland has the angle covered for us tonight. Good evening to you, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg really understood what a cultural icon she was. She had a full career you point out to end 60 years old, she went on to the Supreme Court and nominated by bill clinton. Among those that share the liberal ideologies, she had this largerthanlife figure and presence and she understood her importance in the cultural scheme, but also the importance around her community. This is a quote given to npr obtained by mpr dictating to her granddaughter in the last few days of her life. The most fervent wish is that i will not be replaced until a new president is installed. Now comes of course the question about whether or not President Trump will try and fill the seat left vacant. We know what the shortlist looks like, President Trump and candidates of 2016 became the first president ial candidate to put out a list of potential Supreme Court nominees and obviously picked to from that. We have a list that looks in 2017, since then hes added about nine people including a number of senate members. Including a couple of senators on september 9th. A couple of those senators, ted cruz and josh hawley among them, on the list will be voting if President Trump decides to nominate someone and ted cruz has been out in the past couple of hours talking about how he thinks that the vacancy needs to be filled before the election. Because he sides what goes to the Supreme Court, the auction goes to the Supreme Court to allow 2,000 bush v gore, you would have a 44 liberal bench of the Supreme Court and it could create a constitutional crisis saying its imperative to the senate to fill the vacancy. Shannon. Shannon yeah, its hard to imagine that timeline actually happening based on where we are at the moment. Our political life. Yes, lets hope it doesnt come to a Supreme Court 44 decision. But this is 2020. It is 2020. Yeah. Shannon leland, thank you very much and appreciate your time. Much more to come on the life and legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Weve got comments coming in from Hillary Clinton who was in a very tough president ial election in 2016 when were having a very similar debate over the open seat and she sang tonight, weve got that next. Shannon continuing the conversation about Justice Ginsburg, her life, legacy, what comes next. It rejoined tonight by National Contributor murdoch and washington columnist mark, good to have you with us. Good to be back. Shannon okay, we are barreling ahead on the political angle to this, both the top senators in the Top Democrats and republicans in the majority leader Mitch Mcconnell weighing in tonight. Much of what we saw in the hours following her death, were having tonight Hillary Clinton weighing in. She was, of course, 2016 contender facing off against President Trump when theres an open seat in the all the polling that thats a Major Driving force on both sides whether its hillary or trauma voters and heres what she sang tonight about this going to the senate. The democrats who are in the senate will have to use every single possible maneuver that is available to them to make it clear that they are not going to permit Mitch Mcconnell to enact the greatest travesty, the monument of hypocrisy that would arise from him attempting to fill this position. Shannon mark, where do we go from here . Well, basically whats going to happen is President Trump will nominate someone to fill her seat in the senate will confirm him. Or her. Its how it will work. When we look at president s, the president is that when the president and the senate to agree on the nominee, the nominee gets confirmed to credit Dan Mclachlan has the great piece on the history of this and dug into this recently that theres been 29 instances in American History where as the president has nominated somebody during the Election Year, or theres a been a vacancy, every single time the president nominated somebody. It would be unprecedented for donald trump did not nominate somebody for the position and then you look at what is happening when there was the president was a oneparty in the senate of another party and eight times the nominee failed and only once did they get through. That was in 1888 under cleveland. The opposite situation of what we have today the president of the same party as the senate and there have been tenants where thats happened and only once where the nominee failed. The president is to do it and they will concede. Shannon Mitch Mcconnell as we talked about tonight was very careful with his words in 2016 and has been since then and making the distinction that if the senate and the president were of the same party, you can move forward and where there in opposition, thats where you move in. Theyre calling it hypocrisy saying that it actually is not a different such a matter in this case and we have people flipping now on the side and those who said absolutely should not fill the seat now in 2016 sang tonight listen, we laid on the framework and this actually says were going to do it. Democrats who demanded that garland get a chance and he didnt hear any blame and he was the nominee but you get a chance of the boat and tonight saying absolutely that theres no way you can allow the vote. He will be up to the republicans and whether they can hold together their pockets to get enough numbers and we talked about chad pergram. Just imagine the situation for a little bit different and Hillary Clinton in the white house and Chuck Schumer with the majority leader in the conservative justices passed away i think it will be full speed ahead and there would be a totally different story and thats one thing. Secondly, we are assuming that this is done after the election, and because of all the mass mailing votes the democrats have been pushing, we may not know in november, not knowing december who the president is, and the senators will decide to lend very tight races in those races might get tied up in here in new york city a primary for the congressional seat. I was like the six week ongoing situation of all the pallets being looked at and debated ov over. It may not be easier to get through this after the election and we know who the president isnt who the senators are after the election then thats an open question going into january. Shannon this is a very unique moment in history in this country and the world has been hit by the pandemic and then since may we have had increasing protests, some of them have turned very violent and we have seen damage to cities and businesses, lives, because of all the different tragedies. Across the country. Its a very fragile divide right now and so lets look at this in the context of that. It doesnt change the calculations moving forward . Might change the outcome and you know, someone says that if trump does this and might be riots and have you been to portland . Have you been to rochester . The riots are happening all over the country. Im sorry, but the riots dont work. Look, the truth is actually, ted cruz pointed out that its because the president of the election might be thrown is the courts, you could have only justices and thats a situation if you get the side and the net situation and then Hillary Clinton and her comment saying that they better use all the tools at their disposal and guess what they disarm themselves and the democrats are the ones who got rid of the judicial filibuster and they chose to filibuster garland and get rid of it for the Supreme Court justices. Theyve made their own bed and the reality is that donald trump if you can get 50 votes will put the supreme justice on the Supreme Court before the election and little that the democrats can do about it and no one to blame but themselves. Shannon over to you. I agree with mark and exactly what he sighed, and another interesting aspect of this is again, the unusual putting situation. People are voting now and last week and a half, so as the situation goes on, people are voting on its not by november 3rd but the day that its happening in real time for better or for worse. Theres all sorts of unusual distortions and unintended consequences and repercussions that go on throughout this and as you say, as if this year were not exhausting enough and were dealing with this as well. What a year 2020 has been so far and w who knows whats going to happen. Its me when i pray every morning there is so much to be handled and we can only pray that that there is healing in the country and we are just going to have to plow through history as it comes at us. Thank you both. Thank you, shannon, shannon. Thank you. Shannon much more to come on fox news night and get some greater insight into the Supreme Court career with Ruth Bader Ginsburg next. Ll us doug was nabbed by hezbollah. Your wife is cia and so are you. No one knows where you are. You gotta get him out. Well get back to you. I cant give up on him. This is terrorism were getting out of here. Infidel. Rated r. Shannon reflecting on the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the vast amount of experience and insight covering the Supreme Court in fox news is Supreme Court producer, brain of the correctio operation, and bis joining us on the phone. Thank you so much for your time with us and i know that you spent time around Justice Ginsburg in my conversations with her and the interviews. What are your thoughts tonight about her and the impressions that you had . I think she wil be rememberet only for her talent, but her perseverance and her work ethic. As somebody who was going through her previous cancer diagnosis would break her legal briefs from the hospital bed. She would bring a flashlight to the theater and secretly tried to read the briefings between the acts. If this is somebody who took her job very seriously. Shannon she did it, and we have talked about the fact that she was so committed to it despite calls from the left or the right for her to step down, this was her life work, only member of the passing of her husband and they were devoted and close. They had a beautiful love story which i love the surprise and she would show up on the bench and her thought was this is what he would have wanted me to do. The commitment kept her going through a lot of challenges. She wide, she had her share of hardships over the years. She talked about earlier in her career that she faced a kind of three strikes as a woman, a jews, and a mother to boot and try to overcome all of that to become and reach the Supreme Court. A real testament to her talent and perseverance. I call her a Justice Warrior because despite her tiny size and soft voice, she had a real fierce determination and intellect. It showed. Nobody messed with Justice Ginsburg when it came to arguing before her and around her colleagues. Shannon you and i have talked about it too, she was a very powerful dissenter that went justices issued their opinions and the majority reading the synopsis from the bench, not all the time that the centers read their portions but she often did. She wasn was a very strong void its something she enjoyed doing making sure she made her point. Making sure that she was hurt in the number of the important dissents that she authored. It something of a change for her in the earlier years on the bench, she was more subdued and did not write the fierce dissents. And she got years on the court and eventually became syrian your liberal justice and right e strongly worded defense. She used her colleagues good friends on and off the bench as a model on how to craft egg strongly wood defense that the future generation would use when they decided what the issues would be. Shannon thats a very demand genuine relationship and we heard one of the justices sounds talking about it tonight and he shared in writings as well. To see them together and you know, they are where friends and they had genuine affection for each other. They bonded over what they had in common instead of focusing on what they didnt agree on which was plenty when i. They shared a love of opera, fine wine, and so they had much more in common personally. Its a great picture in Justice Ginsburgs chamber of the two of them and they used to go on trips together. Oversees a lot together. Theres a great picture of the two of them standing on top of an elephant when they went to india. And the justice once told me when they were in france together, she went parasailing and she could not convince him to go parasailing with him. Much more braver about doing that. Shannoni would never do that. Shannon it is true, she them seemed pretty and personally and professionally, and she leaves behind two children and four grandchildren that shes very proud of and you know, very much a woman who is committed to her family as much as her career. More so her family and they were both the two passions of her life. And we keep saying but a trailblazer of somebody who forced a path and making sure that there was a way that she showed the world that you could be a working woman with a family, husband, children that you of doored and also live out your professional and greatest dreams there as well. Bill mears, thank you for joining us and sharing a little bit tonight and we appreciated. Thank you. Shannon much more ahead as we remember Supreme CourtJustice Ruth Bader ginsburg and talk about what happens now in 2020. The game doesnt end after a spectacular touchdown grab because theres always another team looking to punch one in. 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How do you think her legacy should be remembered tonight . I do think many are siding, shannon, her liberal dissents in later years and theres something to be said that maybe its not atypical for a Supreme Court justice. But as a judge and justice, she really was first and foremost a kind of procedure less and if i could use the word nerdy and precise who was one of the reasons why they like her so much and not simply for her personality. I think that it is actually misconstrued or it misses a big part of who she was as a judge and justice to be focusing only on the big and equal protection cases. She was asked for nearly precise, professorial, very sor1 foot in front of the other long dominated. Would you agree . Shannon let me say this, john, she was in the vast majority of the Supreme Court career, she was a reliable vote with the left block and they liberal block. On matters of great substance and encases she would venture away from that. Thats quite right, she was a reliable voting on the liberal block of the cords and i think its her career on the court is shaded by the fact that she was always playing defense. Shes on the court for the majority is primarily conservative. She spent most of the time playing defense and chipping away the majority and so aside from the opinion in the Virginia Military case, there is no great majority opinion other than the ones, she will be known to further the lawsuits because shes a stickler for the right filings and thats not the issues that will get the attention of most americans. Our great career was before she was on the bench because she advanced some very innovative theories and got the court to accept that discrimination was unconstitutional and thats the greatest achievement of her career. Shannon i want to give you both time to comment on this and where do you think we go from here procedurally now in the senate . With the debate joining very quickly tonight with senator Chuck Schumer and majority leader Mitch Mcconnell weighing in. Harry, to you and then to john. The mind reels soon after her death but i do think that it is the law of the jungle and i dont see any legal principles that stay the president s hands but there is a political consideration both before and after november 3rd. Shannon its a very different year and this country has been through a lot. I think the president , like president obama four years ago will go ahead and nominate someone very quickly to fill the vacancy in the real focus of the action is in the senates and his replacement is dominated by traditions of practice but senator mcconnell committed to having a vote. I expect the vacancy will be filled before the end of the year. Shannon the president put out a list and there is some pressure on former Vice President joe biden into but it will list and thats coming from the left and they want to make sure that folks will be progressive enough in their view. But do you think either of them will quickly give us a list . It will forces hand because hes committed to do so unconventional. We will provoke too much criticism relative to the sort of down the middle, very conservative list. Shannon quickly, john. I expect them to unless he is ready for six points ahead, he will play it safe and i dont see why that would be taking a big risk and already committed to appointing an africanamerican woman as his nominee. Shannon thank you both for being with us. Good to see about. Thank you, shannon. By, shannon. Shannon more coverage of Ruth Bader Ginsburgs legacy and looking at the Supreme Court where attributes and folks are gathering and sharing in their memories of her and grieving her passing. We welcome today Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. She has become such an icon. I am 84 years old and everybody wants to take a picture with me. When you come right down to the closest thing i know to a superhero i know. Ruth Bader Ginsburg change the world is for american women. I became a lawyer when women were not wanted by the legal profession. If thousands of state and federal law discriminated on the basis of gender. She was falling in the footsteps for racial equality. She wanted equal protection for women. Men and women of equal dignity and they should count equally before the law. She captured for the male members of the court what it was like to be a second case citiz citizen. I did see myself as a kind of Kindergarten Teacher in those days because the judges did not think discrimination existed. I had the greater fortune to share life with a partner, truly extraordinary, for his generation. He was the first boy i ever knew who care that i had a brain. She is a center of power on and off the courts. Time Justice Ginsburg wrote a defense, the internet would explode. I would not be in this room today without the determined efforts of men and women who cap dreams alive. Ive heard that she does 20 pushups three times a week or something i mean, we can get off the floor or get down to the floor. Shannon a tough cookie, a fighter, inspiration until the end. It tonight flags are at halfstaff across the country and honor of the lost of Justice Ginsburg and the legacy she left behind. Thank you for watching the special extended coverage and we will keep you covered in the days and weeks to come. For now, thats it from washington. Good night. Sean welcome to fox news. 9 00 on the east coast, 6 00 on the west coast. U. S. Supreme court Justice Ruth Bader ginsberg is dead at the age of 87. She battled cancer for decades. Was fighting pancreatic cancer at the time of her passing. She leaves a long legacy of the Supreme Court. She was appointed by president c bill clinton, known as one of the most liberalleaning judges on the bench. Justice ginsberg had a distinguished legal career. The first jewish woman to serve on the highest court in our land