Pelley and good evening. This is our western edition. More than 3,200 American Children did something today that could lead to an early death they smoked their first cigarette. Thats one of the findings in a new 980page wakeup call from the Surgeon General about newly discovered dangers of smoking. 50 years after the first alarm went out that smoking causes lung cancer todays report says it causes as many as 10 other lifeshortening diseases. The report says smoking is to blame for 480,000 premature deaths a year thats up 9 . Smoking resulted in nearly 176 billion in medical costs last year. Our dr. Jon lapook talked to the Surgeon General. Cigarette smoking does affect almost every single organ in the reporter whats the significance of adding new diseases to the list of problems already known to be caused by cigarettes . Cigarette smoking does affect almost every single organ in the body. Right now of every three cancers in the united states, one of those cancers is caused by cigarette
And americans voted for a president based upon knowing that. If you look at the polls, for example, among white evangelical christians, Something Like 80 of them voted for donald trump because of the Supreme Court. It is a monumental occurrence that you are about to hear from the white house. Why is that . Because unfortunately, in our divided country, there are now four liberal justices and four either conservative or moderate traditional justices. It is a tie. The liberal Supreme Court justices believe it, and i am generalizing now, but this is, i dont think im going to be argued, that the constitution of the United States evolves with society. It is not the same as it was when Thomas Jefferson and James Madison and the Founding Fathers put it together. The conservatives believe that it should stay in its tradition. Here is President Trump. [applauding] President Trump thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. When justice clea passed away
The republican par. Party. If party was paired if he didnt get the nomination for president , they were worried he might still keep running anyway. He might become a spoiler the conventional wisdom if republican politics at that time, september 2015 if trump couldnt win the nomination or presidency, his stint as a candidate for president thus far was going well enough that it was really good for his celebrity status. It was probably good for his business. So he would keep going with his candidacy regardless. So republicans are worried about this worst case scenario, where trump would not win the republican primary but hed stay in the race and hed run as a third party or independent candidate. From that position he could definitely never win the presidency but seifen off republican votes to screw up the general election chances for whoever did become the republican nominee. That was the worry. That was what was going on in that moment in republican electoral conventional wisdom. Now, lo
Weve got you covered with Joe Lieberman on the very big battle to come. Religious leader bob vanderplaid said the holy war yet to come and rand paul on whether any of this gets done. First, to Shannon Bream at the Supreme Court where the search is now on. Hi, shannon. This is an interesting day. The term closed out, closed it up and said see you back october 1. No hint of any retirements. What we didnt know, Anthony Kennedy made up his mind. He wanted to talk to President Trump before issuing a simple letter to the president and went public. He said please permit me to express my gratitude to confirm to the mandates and promises of the law. He has been a swing vote. He doesnt like that term but hes been a key in the 54 decisions. Many in landmark consequences, even in the last week. Over time we think about him being a key vote in cases involving abortion, lgbtq rights. Hes been celebrated by those camps. Theyre lamenting fact that hes going to be gone. Theyre worried about the person
You hearing . Reporter the president at one point used the number five. Then said it might be six or seven. Then when you have a potential candidate like mike lee, the senator from utah, republican, of course, who does have a lot of legal respect in the community, it shows us that theres a little elasticity in this process. At the same time, the president has put this deadline on himself, in order to have the announcement and the early sort of fallout, or celebration, depending on how people view the selection that he makes, before he takes his next overseas trip. So, thats part of how hes bracketing the timing. Of course, its fourth of july. And there are fireworks on everyones minds and it certainly plays into the Supreme Court selection process. So, of the list, of course, was whittled down from a much larger list that the president had published as a candidate. Its been revised to date over time. Whats key over time are jurists who have been vetted at least in the wide ranging sens