Across the spectrum, White House Correspondent kevin corke is live for the cuts are gathering and good evening, kevin. You spent numerous hours here into my arch better circumstances but i can tell you weve been joined by thousands here tonight and mostly celebrating the life and the legacy of the late Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. Fell by pancreatic cancer, and this is something that i know very well. It is still a shock because even though at her advanced age, you may be saying that, you know, she was so strong. Indeed, she was buried and she seemed almost indestructible and yet tonight she comes to cancer. It let me share a statement from the chief justice of the high court, john roberts, a very interesting statement. He said our nation has lost a jurist of the historic stature in the Supreme Court lost a cherished colleague. It today we mourn but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her. A tireless and resolute champion of justice. Heres the president on her passing. Wow. I didnt know that. I just heard that for the first time. She led an amazing life. What else can you say . She was an amazing woman. Whether you agree or not, she was an amazing woman. An amazing life. Im sad to hear that. Thank you very much. An amazing woman who led an amazing life, last year the Supreme Court falling at halfstaff in similar circumstances at the capitol in you could see the flags flying at halfstaff and that certainly the case over at the white hou white house. Obviously, politics will become a major story line here because people will wonder if the republicans in the senate will move ahead with the nominee. Let me share a statement from the Senate Majority leader, Mitch Mcconnell. He said this tonight. President trumps nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States senate. Interesting Chuck Schumer tweeted a response in the American People should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court justice. Therefore the vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president. Here is the former Vice President joe biden. Tonight, into in the coming days, we should focus on the loss of the chief justice. In her enduring legacy. But that there is no doubt, let me be clear, that the voters should pick the president. In the president should pick the justice. For the senate to consider. This was the position of the Republican Senate in 2016. Almost ten months to go before the election. That is the position the United States senates must today. Thats the real question, what will the senate to in the days ahead . I think you hit the nail on the head, shannon, tonight is the night to honor her legacy, her memory, and there will be plenty of time for speculation and very likely a nomination. Shannon. Shannon yeah, very quickly. Kevin, thank you for the live reporting there. The body with the responsibility of vetting and voting on the Supreme Court nominees and both sides of the aisle. Chad pergram on demand to fill us in and whats the Immediate Reaction across the Global Impact . This will be a very challenging path the next couple weeks or months here as they tried to get the nomination through. Paid touch it to the individual senators, Susan Collins and Susan Collins is facing a competitive reelection bid right now and Lisa Murkowski is not up, but she indicated that she thinks it will be better to wait until after a new president is inaugurated. I would look at other senators who are facing competitive reelection in competitive states this fall, cory gardner, colorado, republican colorado, thom tillis in North Carolina and Martha Mcsally in North Carolina indicated that she thinks they should forge ahead with a nomination. Mitch mcconnell as they reported said theyre going to go ahead and try to fill the seat. Watching what Mitch Mcconnell said earlier this year. If youre asking me a hypothetical about whether the Republican Senate should confirm a member of the Supreme Court to a vacancy they created this year. Before november. We would fill it. And this is what Mitch Mcconnell said four years ago when there was a vacancy under president obama. The next justice fundamentally alter the direction of the Supreme Court. And have a profound impact on our country. So of course, of course, the American People should have a say in the courts direction. Back in february of 2016 when he passed away, Mitch Mcconnell moved very quickly and unilaterally saying that they would block any nominee and not even entertain a nominee who president obama would put forth in the Election Year and that ultimately turns out to be garlands we never got the hearing in the United States senate. This is why dianne feinstein, top democratic on the Judiciary Committee from california said under no circumstances should they consider a nominee for the election here in 2020. It could they get it done before the election even if things go smoothly . It is hard to see. It takes an average about 4045 days when someone is nominated and before they get the hearing in United States senate and that the Judiciary Committee. It takes about 6770 days and the average year for actual conversation on the senate floor. The most recent metric we have for Brett Kavanaugh in the fall of 2018, 57 days before he got the confirmation hearing and 89 days before he was actually confirmed on the senate floor, shannon. Shannon his confirmation battle has proved that a lot of times this is not smooth or a speedy process and especially not the most recent in recent years. I have to feel like historically this will be different than everything before it. Thats right, and the hearings are explosive because these are a lifetime appointment and we certainly saw a lot of protests here on capitol hill with Brett Kavanaugh. There was a very dramatic scene and we certainly sound with clearance thomas and anita hill and they reopened the Clarence Thomas hearings in the fall of 1991 after they heard about anita hill in the same thing happened with Brett Kavanaugh and just because you submit someone to the Judiciary Committee, that doesnt mean that this is smooth sailing. Keep in mind of what happened with harriet miers, former white House Counsel who president george w. Bush nominated, she had to withdrawal and going back a little bit further they defeated robert york and president reagans nominee on the senate floor in 1987. Douglas ginsberg was nominated and he had to withdrawal and thats how you end wound up with anthony kennedy. It takes a while and they can get it an it done in 40 days or. Shannon yeah, we know that some of the people who are nominees on his list including the old and now the new list, hes met with them before and theyve gone through the process last time around with cavanaugh and the vetting process. So, listen, can republicans hold together the photos and can they get enough votes and what about the filibuster . It will be a question if they have the votes and as i say, the math is very important and right now, right now the senate is 53 republicans, 47 senators who caucus with the democrats and they can only lose two and gets down to 5051 and if you lose another one you have a tie, you cannot Vice President pence trying to break the tie and thats never happened with the Supreme Court nomination. I mean, that would be pretty amazing. As it pertains to a filibuster, this is very important, you never technically had a filibuster of a Supreme Court nominee. He was already on the Supreme Court in the late 1960s when they wanted to elevate him to chief justice of the United States and he was filibustered. There was going to be a filibuster and it was pretty clear back in 2017 with a nomination of neil gorsuch and so the Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell introduced what is known as Nuclear Option two. This is something that harry reid opened up to lower the bar to cut off filibusters from 60 days, lower it down to 51 and all executive branch nominees, except the Supreme Court. What happened with Mitch Mcconnell and neil gorsuch in 2017 is that he extended it the Supreme Court nominees and neil gorsuch for that matter, Brett Kavanaugh never would have gotten the confirmation vote had they been going by the old rules. I should point out these are not senate rules in the senate does a lot of the business by president s and what he did in 2013 and what mcconnell did in 2017 was established in president lowering the bar. They cannot realistically filibuster the nomination, shannon. To be when its crazy to think about that its not that many years and decades back that nominees did not even come to the hearing. They did not show up to defend themselves and theres no fighting, and more recent years, there were justices who would confirmed 980. It was not that long ago and it seems impossible at this moment and things have changed and this is a very unique year and very challenging year in a lot of ways. Still a lot to see. Thank you for being up late or early however you want to call it on the east coast, we appreciate it. Any time, shannon. Thank you. Shannon Justice Ginsburg and served two and half decades on the Supreme Court in 1 of 4 women ever appointed to the court. During her tenure, she was a fierce advocate for womens rights. Heres a look back at her long interest in which career. I, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, do solemnly swear. She might have seemed small in stature but the second woman to be nominated to the u. S. Supreme court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a trailblazer for womens rights. A champion to civil liberties. Born ruth and joan bader 1993 in a workingclass neighborhood in brooklyn, new york. The daughter of nathan and celia bader. Her mother died when she was 17 and the day before she graduated from high school. Was one of the most trying times in my life. But i knew that she wanted me to study hard and get good grades and succeed in life. Thats what i did. She finished first in her class at Cornell University where she met and married martin ginsberg, an aspiring lawyer. The first boy i dated who carried it that i had a brain. Like her husband, ginsberg pursued a law degree enrolling at harvard after the birth of their daughter, jane, at a Columbia Law School where she graduated at the top of her class. She stated in the world of academia and while a professor at rutgers university, she gave birth to her son, james, but she left records for Columbia University to become the schools first female tenured law professor. She described it as a pivotal time for womens rights. I wanted to be more than when i was, and to be in the right place to help advance this movement for womens equality. She went on to create them American Civil Liberties unions, womens rights project and as general counsel, she began appearing before the Supreme Court. She argued six cases for womens rights before president jimmy carter nominated her to serve on the u. S. Court of appeals for the d. C. Circuit. Then, 1993. President bill clinton nominated her to the nations highest court and she was only the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court in the first jewish woman. It was a long ways that we have come in this nation. After a series of hearings, the Senate Confirmed ginsberg to the post by a vote of 963. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, i believe the nation is getting a justice who will be a guardian of liberty for all americans and insurer of equal justice under law. On the bench, ginsberg was known to lean left of center but favored caution and restraint in her decisions. And she never had a favorite opinion. My favorite opinion was a little bit like my favorite grandchildren. Ginsberg said the ruling in the virginian military case prohibited the state from operating allmale institution with taxpayer dollars gave her tremendous satisfaction. That was a very satisfying for me to write. It was a precursor to the better pay act which Congress Passed into law in 2009 to address perceived pay gap between men and women. In the intro t interview, if yod oveoverrule the decision to supt candidates running for office ginsberg said i think the notion that we have all the democracy that money could buy straight so far from what the democracy is supposed to be. And thats number one on my list. In her personal life, three separate cancer diagnosis in 1999, it was colon cancer and a decade later, pancreatic cancer, 2018, she underwent lung cancer surgery and each time she was out of the hospital within days. My colleagues are rallied around and made it possible for me to go on and not wast missinn court. Outside of court, ginsberg loved opera and a passion she shared with conservative Justice Anthony scull leah famously serenaded by domingo in 2011 and Harvard University where she earned the honorary degree. She made exercise a staple in her life, even into her 80s working out twice a week with her trainer. My father came to the United States when he was 13. And he came from a small town outside odessa. She was part of her jewish heritage and the advances made for american jews. Jews were fearful about things, who they wear, but today, you can say it openly and with pride. That, i think, something ive witnessed in my own life span. Throughout her life she remained a optimist. We still have a way to go to ensure that all people in our land to enjoy the equal protection of the laws. But considering how far we have come, there is good cause for optimism about our countrys future. Him as we now forecast a political firestorm over or when when the vacancy will be tackled by Ruth Bader Ginsburgs passing, the justice saw and talk about the succession coming after her, shes been doing it recently as well. Correspondent leland has the angle covered for us tonight. Good evening to you, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg really understood what a cultural icon she was. She had a full career you point out to end 60 years old, she went on to the Supreme Court and nominated by bill clinton. Among those that share the liberal ideologies, she had this largerthanlife figure and presence and she understood her importance in the cultural scheme, but also the importance around her community. This is a quote given to npr obtained by mpr dictating to her granddaughter in the last few days of her life. The most fervent wish is that i will not be replaced until a new president is installed. Now comes of course the question about whether or not President Trump will try and fill the seat left vacant. We know what the shortlist looks like, President Trump and candidates of 2016 became the first president ial candidate to put out a list of potential Supreme Court nominees and obviously picked to from that. We have a list that looks in 2017, since then hes added about nine people including a number of senate members. Including a couple of senators on september 9th. A couple of those senators, ted cruz and josh hawley among them, on the list will be voting if President Trump decides to nominate someone and ted cruz has been out in the past couple of hours talking about how he thinks that the vacancy needs to be filled before the election. Because he sides what goes to the Supreme Court, the auction goes to the Supreme Court to allow 2,000 bush v gore, you would have a 44 liberal bench of the Supreme Court and it