president met with several people tonight that will be key votes. the democrats, three of them who voted to confirm neil gorsuch, senator heitkamp, senator don lee and joe manchin. also two key republican votes, senator susan collins and senator lisa murkowski. two votes that will be very crucial on this course. conversations are coming into play about whether or not this next supreme court justice could be a factor in overturning roe versus wade. the president did meet with those senators as well as joe grass lea of iowa to discus his next supreme court pick. he said it s going to come off of that list of 25 people they released in the fall. there they are there on the screen. those are going to be people, don, who essentially decide the fate of the supreme court for the next several decades. take a look at them. thank you. appreciate it, kaitlyn. back now to my folks here who were speaking to me right after this news conference.
don, he won an award this year for a feature he did growing up during seg ration. wendi winters was an award-winning reporter. that s devastating for those families. i feel like i ve lost members of my own family. it s very tough in this day and age when you re berated as a journalist and you go out and do your job on any given day covering what most of us do, what most journalists do. covering the stuff that goes on in your community. to have that happen is very hard to stomach and very hard to take. i did not know robert well. i know he was looked upon as a mentor. and i liked his sense of humor. i like people who make me laugh. and i think that the capital gazette is going to be devastated by that loss. and that is a very good it s a paper about the same size of the two that i run.
today in the news room of the capital at the newspaper of annapolis, maryland. president trump did not answer shouted questions from reporters today. watch this. any word about the dead in annapolis? can you talk about the shooting in annapolis? can you talk about the shooting in annapolis? can you talk about the dead reporters in annapolis? mr. president, what about the families, mr. in the. why are you walking away? so joining me now is kaitlyn collins. kaitlyn, many times the president will come over and talk. he ll shout some answers back. he didn t, as they shouted questions, but we did hear from him today later on, correct? don, we did. right after this shooting happened, the president tweeted, saying he had been briefed on the shooting. he was in wisconsin today. we were here at the white house as the shooting was happening
years and a cup of months on an investigation that resulted in nothing? well, this investigation will end when its end. as a guy who served as chairman of the ethics committee, i can tell you the more you investigate, that just opens up more doors and you have to chase things down. and these investigations in my view always take longer than any of us would like. i believe director mueller is going to in fact present his findings to the grand jury and ultimately to congress. i think this is going to be dumped in congress lap at some point. i don t know what mueller is going to find, but i think trey is a good friend, and trey is knowing to get his wish. this is going to be sent to congress at some point and they re going to have to deal with it. it will be delivered. i ve got one more, and if you can answer for me because
we did not hear from the president in person today, don. there s a chance we could hear from them tomorrow before he goes to bed minister, new jersey. but once again, don, we are seeing this president in his short 17 months or so in office. he s going to have to confront and face another form of gun violence. it s something he has already had to face several times throughout his presidency. i m going to talk to senator cory booker about this more in just a moment. but you have some new reporting about some key senators at the white house tonight. what can you tell us? that s right, just 24 hours after justice anthony kennedy announced that he is going to retire, the president is already meeting with senators who will be key votes in confirming his next supreme court nominee. of course, we learn today from sources that the white house hopes to nominate someone by july 9th. that is very soon. a date that s fast approaching and a date that will come before anthony kennedy has official