well, there s only one woman thought to be on the short list, judge amy barrett of the 7th circuit. not clear whether hatch was speaking on his own preference. or that s inside knowledge. david, thanks so much. much more on all of this tomorrow morning when george goes one-on-one with rudy giuliani on this week. now to the military headline tonight. u.s. military confirming one american service member was killed and two others injured in an apparent insider attack in southern afghanistan. that incident under investigation. the third fatality involving u.s. troops in that country so far this year. next, to the search through garbage for a mom who went missing just before mother s day. investigators zeroing in on a landfill in georgia. a co-worker questioned tonight. abc s stephanie ramos with the latest on that investigation. reporter: tonight, the fbi is expanding their search to try and find a young mom from florida whom they suspect is no longer alive. our main focus is
former law clerks to retiring justice kennedy. barrett is a former law clerk as well to justice scalia. president trump told reporters on board air force one he expects to announce his pick on monday night at 9:00 p.m. joining us now, a reporter for the washington examiner once again, melissa quinn. good to have you back with us. the president says he has narrowed his focus down to a few supreme court contenders. run us through whom they might be and what their backgrounds could make one of them the right choice for trump. reporter: yeah, good morning. thank you for having me. of those three, it is widely agreed upon in conservative legal circles they are all originalists and textualists which was something important to president trump when he found out he was going to be tasked with naming not one but two justices to the u.s. supreme court. amy kony barrett is a current judge on the 7th circuit u.s. court of appeals. she was nominated to that position by president trump last year an
supreme court. he met with three men and a woman and it appears that all would vote to roll an boars rights and one seems to have clear views that the president should not be subject to a criminal investigation. to discuss, i want to bring in erin gloria ryan and also alice, i read your piece this morning and i saw the picture of all six women. you have siktx. you can give me one or two lines on each of these women? slur. so obviously the buzz is with amy kconey barrett. because the president met with her today and she has been considered frontrunner for a few days now. she is out of indiana with the 7th circuit. was a professor at notre dame for a long time and has many devoted former students all over
tucker: one of the biggest moments of the current presidency occurred this week with supreme court justice anthony kennedy announcing that he is retiring from the court. for many conservatives, supreme court nominations were the single most important issue of the last election. the reason they voted. they will be watching this very closely. who are the front-runners to replace justice kennedy and what do we know about them? joining us now is someone who knows answers. leonard leo is outside adviser to the president on the judicial nominations and joins us. thank you for coming on. we are hearing a number of names batted around. amy barrett is at the top of every list i read in the last two days. tell me what do we know about amy barrett? amy barrett is a judge on the 7th circuit in the midwest in chicago. she is from indiana. very distinguished law professor from notre dame law school. clerked for antonin scalia.
tucker: one of the biggest moments of the current presidency occurred this week with supreme court justice anthony kennedy announcing that he is retiring from the court. for many conserv tucker: one of the biggest moments of the current presidency occurred this week with supreme court justicegl anthony kennedy announcing that he is retiring from the court. for many conservatives, supreme court nominations were the single most important issue of the last election. the reason they voted.in they will be watching this very closely. who are the front-runners to replace justice kennedy and what do we know about them?en joining us now is someone who knows answers. leonard leo is outside adviser to the president on theow judicial nominations and joins he. thank you for coming on. we are hearing a number of names batted around. amy barrett is at the top of every list i read in the last two days. tell me what do we know about amy barrett? m amy barrett is a judge on the 7th circuit in the