Voters should pick the president and the president should pick the justice. President trump hopes this will upend a race he is losing but is there any evidence it will ill talk to nominhillary clintn the third ranking republican in the senate john. Plus, an administration at war with itself. Covi deaths hit 200,000 and President Trump finding his own experts on vaccines and on face masks. This face mask is more guaranteed to protect me against covid than when i take the covid vaccine. It is not more effective than any vaccine and i called him about that ill talk to health and Human Services secretary alex azar. How it is impacting President Trumps reelection chances. Covid, leadership and where the president ial race stands with six weeks to go. Welcome to sunday and a special edition of meet the press. Announcer from nbc news in washington this is a special edition of meet the press with chuck todd good sunday morning and a happy ru happy. The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader
Voters should pick the president and the president should pick the justice. He made a decision to wait until President Trump hopes this after close to an election, abraham will up end a race hes losing, lincoln was president and he made a decision to wait until after the election, and you have but is there any evidence it the fact that the people are voting right now, and i think that creates pressure on my is will ill talk to former democratic president ial nominee Hillary Clinton. Democratic senator Amy Klobuchar about. They dont want to have the of the Judiciary Committee and Affordable Care act thrown out the third ranking republican in the senate, john barrasso. Plus an administration at war when you colleagues, honestly, thats what a democracy is about. With itself. Covid deaths hit 200,000 and they dont want the Affordable Care act thrown out when you have hundreds of millions of americans with preexisting President Trump fighting his own conditions are you kidding me thats in f
Night just moments before the start of a republican debate, president obama vowed to fill Justice Scalias seat. I plan to fulfill my Constitutional Responsibilities to nominate a successor in due time. There will be plenty of time for me to do so and for the senate to fulfill its responsibility to give that person a fair hearing and a timely vote. But within minutes, the gop candidates on the debate stage demanded that the senate block any potential nominee. I think its up to Mitch Mcconnell and everybody else to stop it. Its called delay, delay, delay. A partisan showdown that will certainly play out on the campaign trail. We are going to look at this from every angle this morning. But first, two of the candidates on that debate stage are here. Well get to jeb bush in a moment. But first, marco rubio who had a lot on the line. Tried to bounce back from what even he admitted was a disastrous performance at the last debate. Well, last night he argued that the stakes have been raised. It
Although we have learned he will wait until after the Senate Returns from recess. I plan to fulfill my constitutional responsibility s to nominate a successor, in due time. There will be plenty of time for me to do so and for the senate to fulfill its responsibility to give that person a fair hearing and a timely vote. Fair hearing and timely vote. The battle became a talking point in the president ial debate last night. As you are about to see, things certainly got heated. I think it is up to Mitch Mcconnell and everybody to stop it. It is called delay, trdelay, delay. Theres no doubt in my mind barack obama will not have a consensus picked when he submits that person to the senate. If the next president is going to appoint four Supreme Court justices, if donald trump is president he will appoint liberals. If donald trump is president , your Second Amendment let me tell you. Hold on, gentlemen, im going to turn the car around. Ted cruz, with your brother wanted john roberts to be in t
I think its up to Mitch Mcconnell and everybody else to stop it. Its called delay, delay, delay. A partisan showdown that will certainly play out on the campaign trail. We are going to look at this from every angle this morning. But first, two of the candidates on that debate stage are here. Well get to jeb bush in a moment. But first, marco rubio who had a lot on the line. Tried to bounce back from what even he admitted was a disastrous performance at the last debate. Well, last night he argued that the stakes have been raised. It reminds us of this. How important this election is. Someone on this stage will get to choose the balance of the Supreme Court. And it will begin by filling this vacancy thats there now. Joining me now is senator marco rubio. And senator, as soon as we learned of the passing of Justice Scalia, you released a statement saying that the next president , not president obama, should pick scalias replacement. Now, president obama said yesterday that he plans to ful