gabe sherman tweeted, inside the house, some aides are a news 4 new york ed trump is announcing scotus pick at 9:00 bm because staffers think bill shine chose 9:00 p.m. to help hannity s ratings. shine recently joined as an assistant to the president and he is a former fox news executive who got his start at the network as a producer for hannity. apparently the two men remain close friends. meanwhile, the wall street journal is reporting when it came to one of the other rumored judges on the short list, there was a lack of certain pizzazz the president was looking for. citing one person close to the white house, trump voiced reservations about judge kethledge, believing he didn t show the sort of energy the president likes to see in appointees. joining me to talk more about it, national political reporter
president trump has made his decision for the supreme court. the president and his team want to make a big splash with the conservative base that he needs to energize for the upcoming midterm elections and explains why the president is almost guaranteed to select a nominee to overturn roe versus wade but the russia investigation may also be critical, wolf, as the team appears to be looking at how a potential pick would handle the indictment of a sitting president. closing in on his prime time pick for the supreme court, president trump is cranking up the reality tv drama as only he can. it s the four people but they re excellent. every one. you can t go wrong. i m very close to making a final decision. reporter: sources tell cnn the four finalists are hardiman, kavanaugh, kethledge and barrett all staunch conservatives. much of the betting on hardiman. he was a runner-up last time and caught on video pumping gas on his way into washington just before the president selected
he has not made a decision. i have not made it final. president trump teasing the prime time supreme court nominee decision. say it s the tour people, they re excellent, you can t go wrong. it i includes amy komew barrett, and prebrett kethledge. reports say mitch mcconnell is pushing kethledge or hardiman. i have never seen a president
to are you going to have a donald trump loves reality tv, is he going to try to pit bear receipt versus elizabeth warren or something in a spectacle of who really recommendation the women s movement? i also wouldn t rule out geography a little bit in this. hardiman is from pennsylvania. that s a crucial state for donald trump. and you know, they are floating his name really i think this morning to the top of the list. they may feel he s going he s unimpeach oable, like grorsuch, he can pick up nor con semore ae senators and break the solid blue line you re talking about. and kethledge from michigan and some of them are quite young and could be on the bench for a long time. amy coney barrett, 46 years old and kethledge 51. thank you, stick around we have more news we need your help on at this.
at the white house in a little bit. i want to bring in justice correspondent pete williams, who has been diving into all of this. pete, kristen talked about a couple of the quote, unquote, final contenders for this pick. what else can you tell us about who is in the mix? reporter: well, any one of these people would be more conservative than justice remember addidadd kennedy, w retiring. brett kavanaugh is the only finalist with an ivy league education. we went to yale and yale law, and it is something the president said is important. thomas hardiman, he s a finalist last year. you may remember, there were several hours where we didn t know if it was going to be between hardiman and gorsuch. he was the first in his family to attend college. drove a taxi before law school at georgetown. serves on the 3rd circuit of appeals in pennsylvania, and so does the president s sister, who put in a good word for him. kethledge is an appeals court