I dont trust barack obama o o the Supreme Court justicece its called delay, delay, delay. I dont think the president shshld move forward and wee should let the next president of the United States should decide. Im gladhe senate is agreeing what we should. Those opinions have been met with harsh words on the other side of the aisle by hillary clinton. It is outrageous that republicans in the senatee and on the campaign t til have already pledged to block any replacement that president obama nominatete there are 3400ays until the next president takes office, so thatats plenty of time. Nbcs tracie potts joins us now in from washington to sortt it all out. Good morning, tracie. Good morning. Could move on a potential nominee, a replacememt pretty quickly. Its taken him about a month in advance the last time he did this. Lets s ke a look at some of names that are coming up. First of all, seb real of them from the d. C. Court of appeals. A former u. S. Deputy solicitor general who argued more than 2 2 cases in front of the u. S. Supreme court, paul watford appointed by president ntbama to the ninth circuit out of california. Nine republicans voted in favor of watford. That could be key. He also c crked previously for justice ginsburg. Patricia millen also on the Circuit Court of appeals. Her case got caught upupn the filibuster over it. A lot of names out therere were seeingomee battling back and forthot only between republicans and the president over whether or not he should make this nomination but between republicans. Ted cruz already has an ad out this morning saying if d dald trump is selececd he could not be trusted to nominate the next Supreme Court justice for the United States. Well keep an eye on this as more potential nominees are mentntned, dara as thehe slug it out and wheheer or not president should actually makak the selection in his last days in office. There are only five d ds left and the field is down to just six candidates but saturday nights debate was the most venomous debate and there were plenty of fights in both english and spanisis nbcs Gabe Gutierrez has more. Reporter after momentsts the most contentntus debate so far. He lies. Liar, liar, liar. Reportete the variation of liar was used at least 13 times. The most used by donald trump. Trump slammed by jeb b bh over Foreign Policy and how to fight isis and syria. A. Itsbsolutely ludicrous to suggest that russia could be a positive p ptner in this. Jeb is so wrwrg. While donald trump was building a reality tv show, my brother was building a security apapratus to keep us said. The world trade center. Dont go after my mother. Reporter marco rubio came after his defense. Thats what allowed isis to grow and b b 20000 be able to strike america. Took issue with something rubio took advantage of. I dont why he would s s that because he doesnt speak spanish. [ speaking spanish ] reporter cruzzlso pounced on trump. Youre the biggest liar. Youre probably worse than jeb bush. You are the single biggest liar. Onald has the worst pattern. When he speaks to his own record, he speaks liar, liar, lili. Reporter john kasich speaks to a different tone. Ive got to tell you. This is just crazy. This is just nuts. Geez, oh, man. Reporting. A bitter arctic cold air is bringing cold weather. Meanwhile weather thats struck reporter whether it was the cause of a hugee pile june that shut down a major stretch of u. S. Highway in minneapolis, at least tenen peopleere taken to the hospital with injuries. We know a squall came through and it was zero. It turned icy quickly. It is what it is, we deal with it. But this is one of the worst crashes ive eveve seen. Reporter it was the coldest valentines day on record in the northeast and frigid temperatures caused problems for firefighters in new jersey. We got off a plane yesterday and i n nrly ran back into the airport. I had never known cold like that ever. Reporter there is good newew forecasters predict a warmup later this week. Nbcs rafael is here to tell us when the weather will change. Good morning, rafael. Good morning. Its going to be a messy day we havee a messy president s day developing. Freezing rain a possibility for the carolinas and virginia. That snow will transition later on today, tonight, and freezing rain and eventually raiain with mumu milder weather in the northeast. Heavy rainvernight into esday and even flooding concerns there, but it couound as snow i i ie interior throughout the day on tuesday. A busy travel day and the weather is not bigig for the east. D. C. , new york, philadelphia, icago is quiet deaeang with a beautiful day. Temperatures there well into the 80s and tomorrow again, tracking the heavy rain for the big cities of the northeast. Lookokt the temperatures. Well into the 50s. 55 foror the city. Flooding wilil be a concern there, 87 in los angeles and tracking storminess across florida. Thats a look at the n nional weather. Now heres a closer look at your day ahead. It ooh going to be a messy day across the midatlantic c d freezing rain changngg over to rain later on tonight. Wawahing out for Severe Weather across the gulf coast like mobile c cld see severe storms this afternoon. So not a greatatravel day for all the folks heading home after the holiday weekend. No, but a good day to have off and stay hoho. Yes. Popeperancis visited one of the poorest cities in mexico city. Hereached his message o o equality and hope to more thann 300,000 attending massss nbcs anne thompsps has more. Reporter pope francis went to the city notorious for poverty and crime. Francis rode through the graffiti covered streets given makeover by criminals more the pope portrayed in all kinds of was even as a graffffi artist. 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