Cant relax with this thing. It is relentless. If you give the virus an opportunity to spread, it will. Welcome to inside politics. Im john king. To our viewers in the United States and around the world, thank you for sharing this consequential sunday. Nation mourning the passing of a beloved Supreme Court justice. And bracing now for a bruising fight over her replacement in the final six weeks of a president ial election already unprecedented because of the coronavirus pandemic. Ruth Bader Ginsburg died friday, after a long and heroic battle with cancer. She was 87, a trailblazer in the fight for womens rights, and a member of the nations highest court for 27 impactful years. So final question, help me finish this sentence, okay. There will be enough female justices on the Supreme Court when there are when there are nine, of course. The tributes outside the court this weekend, a reminder this tiny soft spoken justice will somehow also a pop culture icon, notorious rbg, a tribute both t
Now, we have a political fight over how and when to fill Justice Ginsburgs feet and that will by most accounts dominate the political debate for the next 43 days until the november 3 general election. Barring other major events. Rebel begins argue they gained seats in the senate in 2018 and have both a political mandate from the electorate as well as a moral obligation to fill that seat with a conservative. Democrats argue they won back the house and the president ial candidate is leading in the polls and senate looks shaky this time around for the republicans so nothing should be done before november 3. The battle begins in earnest this week. Tonight we show you what is extinct with key senators and legal eagles who have been at the center recent sprinkler nomination battle. We began at the white house with correspondent Mark Meredith that we learn more about which woman may be the present will be nominated early as this week. Hello, mark. Present from he says he will nominate woman t
Hello, everyone. The battle over filling the late Ruth Bader Ginsburgs Supreme Court seat will heat up in the hours ahead as senators return to work. Ginsburgs seat now draped in black at the Supreme Court. President donald trump says he will have a nominee in the coming days. Democrats hoping to block any plans to rush a vote through before the november 3rd election. On sunday democratic president ial nominee joe biden called on the senate to wait. Dont vote to confirm anyone nominated under the circumstances President Trump and senator mcconnell have created. Dont go there. Uphold your constitutional duty. Your conscience. Let the people speak. Cool the flames that have been engulfing our country. We cant keep rewriting history. Whatever happens from here, the looming showdown is already reshaping the election. Cnns senior Congressional Correspondent manu raju with more. Reporter President Donald Trump is moving quickly to name his Supreme Court nominee to fill the seat of the late r
News, the u. S. Death toll tonight topping 200,000. Just a short time ago the president addressing the tragic threshold. Well, i think its a shame. I think if we didnt do it properly and do it right, you would have 2. 5 million dead. But its a horrible thing. Should have never ever happened. China let this happen. The original numbers were around 200,000 if you do it right. If you did a good job and the public worked along. If you didnt do it right, you would be at 2 million, 2. 5 million. Those were the numbers. But this should have never happen. This should have never come out of china. They should have never let it happen. The president seizing the moment to praise himself. And i dont need to go through again with you the factual comparisons of places like south korea, right, that show his praise to be factually wrong, right, in terms of the death. Because it isnt just that he is factually wrong. It is that every one of these people was alive nearly seven months ago. Every one of th
Tonight the seat is on the bench speak s s to that void. And to the larger than life marge she left on history. Its unfortunate we cant dedicate the program to that, but the court is one of three branches. The decision they make are front and center. The president has already said he expects to name a successor this week, a woman and most certainly a very different justice than Ruth Bader Ginsburg with the Affordable Care act to to consider and a contested election. Any or all of that will affect millions of lives for decades to come. And people will be voting, no doubt w that in mind. They may also be considering the actions of republican senators who publicly opposed even Holding Hearings on president obamas Merrick Garland. But that was then. Theres also the larger media context. The sad fact that the country is about to pass 200,000 deaths from covid19. The president speaks in the past tense about the pandemic. It is unfortunate ly all too present. Which is why we cant simply look