confirmation fight. the president leaving the white house on this holiday spending four hours at his golf course in sterling with virginia, but taking calls along the way. at times, the president sounding like his mind is already made up. i think you ll be very impressed. these are really talented people, really brilliant people. and i think you re going to really love it, like justice gorsu gorsuch. we hit a home run there and we ll hit a home run here. to replace justice anthony kennedy, the white house is following a similar rollout like justice neil gorsuch, president trump s first nominee to the supreme court. please, louise judge. here they come. but his question is whether his second nominee will follow in the same ideological mode. the president has interviewed at least seven potential justices, including these federal judges thought to be leading contenders. brett kavanaugh and raymond kethledge, and amy coney barrett and joan larsen, who clerked for the late justice a
respect for established physicians,established law. rob: but it is not just his own party that president trump have to worry about in a confirmation fight . is here s the president talkingto maria about the democrats . it s probably going to be vicious because the other side, all they can do is obstruct and resist . that s all they want to do is stop things from happening so they re going to try very hard but it s going to go quickly if i pick the right person. trump went on to say he expects his next supreme court to go quickly and he s unlikely to ask his nominees position on roe v. wade. he says that abortion-rights could be determined on a state-by-state basis after the new supreme court justice is served. if we re in the middle of a baseball game where not even at the first fit in terms of this confirmation. it s going to be a while.
independents, will you push all of them including some of the more conservative members, like joe manchin and heidi heitkamp, joe donnelly who are up for re-election and heavily republican states this year to vote on mass against the president s nominee, even if that punts them at risk of losing their seat? listen, wolf, i m skeptical this president will come up with a good moderate for the u.s. supreme court. let me make that my starting point. but i think it is irresponsible for anybody to announce this far in advance sight unseen on voting against the nominee whoever it is. we are responsible have a responsible to the constitution and this country to fairly judge whoever that nominee may be. i m not hopeful. but i m going to stick around and wait for the president s choice. the confirmation fight will energize republicans heading into the mid-term elections. do you think the same thing could be said for democrats? absolutely. we understand the high stakes here. this isn t ju
another confirmation fight. we shall keep an eye on that. thanks for joining us on inside politics. see you back here tomorrow. wolf starts right now. this is cnn breaking news. hello, i m wolf blitzer in washington. wherever you re watching from around the world, thank you very much for joining us. up first, we re following the breaking news, summit showdown. we re not talking about north korea. the g7 summit of the world s wealthiest nations, shaping up to be a rather tense gathering, with allies of the united states very angry over tariffs imposed by president trump. we re standing by for a presummit briefing from larry kudlow, the director of the economic national counsel. he will be discussing the tariffs imposed by the u.s. and the possibility of a major trade war erupting between the u.s. and its closest allies. larry kudlow getting ready to
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