His pick two hours fro now. A decision that could impact the balance of the americas highest court for a very long time. Manu raju has reaction from capitol. But pamela brown is in washington. Reporter the anticipation is building. And the white house is keeping this airtight. The nominee was referred to as he or she this morning even in the email so not giving anything away. Sources say the decision has come down to two prominent d. C. Circuit court judge, Merrick Garland and Sri Srinivasan. He was anonymously unanimously confirmed in 2001. And garnered praise from ted cruz what at the time called him his friend. Worked for both the bush and obama administrations. Successfully argued against the defensive marriage act and if confirmed would be the first immigrant on the High Court Since before world war ii. And then Merrick Garland. Hes widely respected across both sides of the aisle and is considered by many a moderate judge. Hes been waiting in the wings for this opportunity for years after he was picked over for the last two seats on the high court. A graduate of harvard and Harvard Law School and served at the department of justice. Hes 63 years old and the conventional wisdom would be that obama would prefer someone younger. Of course carroll this is a unique time with republicans vowing not to hold a hearing so anything is possible. You are right about that pamela brown. If i were a betting woman i would say Sri Srinivasan and only because the Senate Confirmed his position on the u. S. Court of appeals 970. Marco rubio and ted cruz voted in support. And manu raju now, despite that there is already a push on the floor of the senate to defeat whoever the nominee may be. Thats right. This started as soon as the vacancy arose. Mitch mcconnell said we should wait to the next president to see that republicans have really dug in. Taking a hard line. No confirmation hearings whatsoever. Yesterday when i spoke to a senator he said they wont even conduct a background check. Not even a fbi background check to vet the nominee. Something that is typically custom in this approach. The democrats are going to try to make this a process argument saying that the president has the right to nominate someone even if it is an Election Year. The republicans are out of step on this issue. Expect protest back home in these vulnerable republican senator states and including Chuck Grassley, even though he is probably solid for reelection. Democrats are going to focus on him and hope he cracks before july and one thing carol, the white house is keeping a close hold on this nomination right now. They have not informed capitol hill yet. Our producer just ran into the harry reid, so its still some anticipation about who the nominee will actually be. Just to reiterate how unusual this senate opens up at 10 00 this morning. Just about an hour. And by 10 15 eastern republican wills take to the floor and start pushing back on a nominee, and they dont even know the nominees name yet. Thats right. Actually this is rather unprecedented in modern times. Norms since the mid 1960s. G the since then any nominee who has not pulled themselves out of conversation or withdrawn in anyway, they have gotten confirmation hearings. So republicans say it is not unusual if not unprecedented to have a nominee nominated and confirmed but it is also unprecedented not to have a confirmation hearing. So that process argument is whats going dominate the floor today and tomorrow and the weeks ahead. Well check back. Super tuesday becomes winning wednesday as front runners Hillary Clinton and donald trump rack up big wins. Clinton trounces Bernie Sanders, winning four of five states. Missouri right now too close to call. Clinton scores a surprisingly strong win in ohio. Denying sanders another dose of that mid west magic that propelled to last weeks huge upset in michigan. It has her looking ahead to the general election showdown. And donald trump may appear more likely in that role than ever. He wins three states and missouri again. Too close to call. His only loss of the night, the state of ohio. A very particular governor of ohio john kasich wins big, keeping his Campaign Alive with his home state victory. Marco rubio ends his president ial bid after getting hammered in florida. He becomes the first sitting senator since 1960 to lose his home state in a president ial primary. This morning a triumphant donald trump was asked about rubio as the possible running mate . Would you consider him for a vp . People are saying inside the party that would go a long way towards healing a lot of concerns . Well i just think it is too easterly to think about it, chris. I dont like to think about it. I like to get the deal closed. Is he in conversation . I like him. Ive always liked him. Then he got nasty two or at least three weeks ago and. People get if you got nastier than he did you cant be too upset at him. Is he in conversation . Well i think hes a. Trump holding a big lead. Cruz says hes the establishments best hope of defeating trump. But kasich needs to quit now. He doesnt have any chance of winning there. It is true john kasich might take just enough votes to give those states to donald trump. If he sticks around, john kasich will become Donald Trumps best friend. Lets bring in sarah murray from miami beach with more on this. Reporter like you said donald trump had a big night last night h. He proved once again he can win all over the country but john kasich threw up a roadblock there and now the question is whether he or anything at this point can stop trump. Were going win, win, win. Donald trump celebrating another big primary night. A very nice time but im working very hard. And there is great anger, believe me. There is great anger. Reporter the republican front runner racking up victories this three more states, bringing his total now to 18. The race between trump and ted cruz so tight in missouri that a winner hasnt yet been declared. Now cruz insisting the race is down to him and trump. Only two campaigns have a plausible path to the nomination. But Ohio Governor john kasich is still keeping hope alive. Clinching his first win of the race in the winnertakeall state of ohio. I have to thank the people of the great state of ohio. I love you. And in florida, trump putting a nail in the coffin of establish darling senator marco rubio. I want to congratulate marco rubio on having one a really tough campaign. Hes tough, hes smart and hes got a great future. Reporter rubio ending his president ial ambitions after the bruising double digit loss to trump in his home state. While it is not gods plan i be president in 2016, or maybe ever. And while today my company is suspended, the fact that ive even come to spar is evidence of how special america truly is . Now down to a three man race, trump continues to call for unity. We have to bring our party together. We have to bring it together. While kasich and cruz make a pitch to rubio supporters, both pledging to take this fight all the way to the convention. To those supported marco, who worked so hard. We welcome you with open hards. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. But i want you to know something. We are going to go all the way to cleveland and secure the republican nomination. Reporter of course the big question for john kasich is whether he can win any states other than his home state. His campaign is heading on to pa pennsylvania. So well see how he fair there. I just got word of this. Fox is going to host this big debate on monday night. Donald trump just said on fox and friends this morning that he will not be participating. What do you make of that. Hes sort of been eluding to this idea that hes done with the debates. I think were at the different faze of the race. Especially now that we are down to three candidates there was this sense from trump that he doesnt really feel like he needs to be up there debating these guys. I think at this point he does feel he is the undisputed republican front runner and if it were anyone else the party would have already rallied behind him. And i think what you are seeing now is reflection of that. Reporting live from miami beach this morning. So trump appears indestructible. Antitrump republicans threw everything at him and found nothing can sink trump. But i have to say nobody has ever, ever, in the history of politics received the kind of negative advertising that i have. Record, record, record. By the way, mostly false. I wouldnt say a hundred percent but about ninety percent. Mostly false. Vicious, horrible. They say it was 18 million the first week. Meaning last week. And 25 million. It added up to over 40 million. Still the possibility of a contested Republican Convention lives. Tony frata who works for george w. Bush tweeted quote what essentially happened was Hillary Clinton was elected president. Joining me director for the Republican National committee. Welcome sir. Good morning, carol. Is there a possibility of a contested con convention . Con vengvention. From an rnc perspective were going to continue to prepare for a all contingencies, including an open convention. Interesting. Because kasichs campaign seems to be banking on a contested convention. There are even whispers that the House Speaker paul ryan could be nominated at the convention and he said this on cnbc last night he said, you know, i havent given any thought to this stuff but then he went on. I say, wrestell, there are a lo people running for president. Well see. Who knows. What do you make of that . I dont. I feel pretty confident not just pretty confident. I feel confident that the nominee of this party will be one of the remaining three individuals that is currently in the race. And the possibility of a contested convention. Is it because so Many Republican leaders are concerned about trumps high negatives . And ill give you an example. When you look at the exit polling. So few minority voters turned out the polls for trump this ohio, north carolina, illinois and missouri. They didnt even register. Even in florida where there is a huge hispanic population. Trump scored 27 to rubios 52 . Wont this be a problem in the general election . Because Hillary Clinton cleans up with those voters . Well i appreciate you taking the math the way you do. But if you look at how its worked out so far. As of last night going into last night we had 3. 9 million more vote attorneys republican side than the democratic side. We have a record turnout in 22 of 26 states a of the states that voted into last night the democrats were down in 19 of the 22 that had voted prior to last night. So i appreciate that. But the reality is quite different. The intensity, the turnout are all on the republican side. So say what you will, but the numbers just dont add up. People are excited about the republican side. The fact of the matter is that when you look at Hillary Clintons numbers her negatives are through the roof. There is a looming fbi investigation over her head. Questions about whether shell be diindicted. Im confident our party will do very well in november. I appreciate the media concern but i think well take back the white house in november. One more question about the possible contested convention because there are fears that if that happens it could get violent. This is what Tony Fabrisio told politico, only in the mind of the d. C. Political establishment is the brokered convention at this point. And if the elites try and steal the election from trump the riots will look like a garden party. Donald trump even hinted himself there might be violence. Lets listen to what he said on new day this morning. I think well win before getting to the convention. I be i can tell you if we didnt and if were 20 votes short or a hundred votes short and were at 11 hundred and or 12 hundred someone else is at 5 hundred. I dont get it. I think there would be riots. What do you think . Well first of all, i think assume hes speaking figuratively. I think if we go into a convention, whoever gets 1237 delegates becomes the nominee im sorry to interrupt but i dont think mr. Trump was speaking figuratively. I dont think he was. Then you should ask him carol. I appreciate you trying to, you know, guess what he was saying. But the fact of the matter is the left and the people on the left that have disrupted events or trying to go in and undermine peoples First Amendment rights. 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We heard the secretary saying last night in her speech in south florida. When we hear a candidate for president call for rounding up 12 million immigrant, banning all muslims from entering united stat stat states. When he embraces torture, that doesnt make him strong. It makes him wrong. So Hillary Clinton is hoping to galvanize democrats behind her, even some of o those who may not have been voting for her first. Because of donald trump she hopes that that is a way to rally democrats. Now Bernie Sanders issued a statement oervernight. He said he is not getting out of this race. About half of the contests are still ahead of him here. The reality here is setting in. The math is clear that she is almost certain to be the nominee. Now shes not going call for him to get out at all. I asked her last week how long she expected to stay in. She said look, i stayed in until the very end. I expect him to as well. So that is likely what is going happen here. But this is a turning point in this campaign. No question at all about it carol. You heard what jeff said. There is no doubt. Sanders now faces daunting delegate math in every scenario he loses. Still according to politico his campaign could soon start making a plea of support to super delegates. A Senior Campaign advisor telling politico, we believe that slowly we can win support for people who arent for someone or who are softly for her, and then we can reach out more. But as jeff said, time is running out. So would late breaking momentum be enough for sanders to survive . Bakari sellers supports Hillar Clinton and nomiki cannes. Good morning to both of you. Should sanders drop out . Not at all. I think sanders is necessary for this race. Just for the most obvious point that if he drops out the substantive issues go silent. And Mainstream Media and everyone else would cover trump. So this is a good voice to have. Good issues to talk about. 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