Live from cnn World Headquarters in atlanta, we want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. Im George Howell, the cnn newsroom starts right now. Around the world, good day to you at 2 00 a. M. On the u. S. East coast. A prominent journalist disappeared in turkey after entering a saudi Consulate Office and there is growing concern he may have been killed inside the building. The details of this mystery are still unfolding around jamal, a journalist and critic of saudi arabia last seen on tuesday after entering the saudi consulate in istanbul. What happened to him after that, its still unclear. But heres what we do know. A political advisor to the turkish president tells cnn there is a strong possibility that he was killed inside the saudi consulate. Saudi arabia strongly denies any involvement. U. S. Officials say they cannot confirm what happened to him, but two Senior Administration officials tell cnn the u. S. Is quietly trying to figure out what h
To talk with mitt romney on the campaign trail. Hes set to become the republican senator in the age of trump. Plus, do not congratulate. Russia stuns spain at the world cup. But first the interviews, the lobbying effort and even the ads are underway to replace Justice Anthony kennedy on the Supreme Court. The president is back home after spending the weekend at bedminster conferring with white House Counsel don mcgahn. A handful of names are floating around from the president s list of 25. Democrats are pushing to postpone the confirmation until after the midterms. My colleagues on both sides of the aisle know that this vote could be one of the key votes of their entire career. If they vote for somebody who is going to change precedent, it could be a careerending move. You dont need a degree in applied physics to understand the forces that democrats are up against. So for the white house, its striking the right balance. Convince republicans to hang together and change the court for dec
worst process she d ever been through, and then trump basically came like a mafia boss warning she d be in trouble. so, if that s the tenor of the day, i think partisanship is not going away. and then there s talk that the democrats, if they manage to control the systems of government in a few years, may want to pack the cork and try to create 11 justices rather than 9. there is no question the importance of what happened is that the centrist vote of justice kennedy on the court is gone. we now have a 5-4 court with no one really obviously balanced in the middle. and so we re going to have a conservative court for a long time. and ruth bader ginsburg, one of our liberals, is 85. steve briar, another, is 80. so, it could be before the trump
but let s take people who are worried because they believe that they want roe v. wade upheld, what s the real likelihood that this is going to be a major confrontation down the line? are there cases wanting their way through the system now? what i always said was it s not going to be overturned as long as kennedy is there. kennedy is gone. i think the odds are not bad that it might be overturned. and what if there is yet another i mean, we have two other members of the court, steve briar, 77, ruth ginsburg is 85. i think there are two ways to go here. you can expect that it will be whittled away so that you can have a lot make abortion pretty just about inaccessible in the 20 or so states that have tried to do that. sometimes it already is. or it will be overturned
worried because they believe that they want roe v. wade upheld, what s the real likelihood that this is going to be a major confrontation down the line? are there cases wanting their way through the system now? what i always said was it s not going to be overturned as long as kennedy is there. kennedy is gone. i think the odds are not bad that it might be overturned. and what if there is yet another i mean, we have two other members of the court, steve briar, 77, ruth ginsburg is 85. i think there are two ways to go here. you can expect that it will be whittled away so that you can have a lot make abortion pretty just about inaccessible in the 20 or so states that have tried to do that. sometimes it already is. or it will be overturned outright. i don t foresee another one of