of a doubt that mike lee would be faithful to the constitution and bill of rights. he won evolve and turn. he will honor his commitment -- >> dana: senator, i have to let you go. shepard will take over. i'm dana. >> shepard: thanks so much. breaking news, anthony kennedy, the swing vote on the supreme court is retiring, setting the stage for a fierce battle over the highest court in the land. i'm shepard smith in new york. the 81-year-old announced his stepping down after 30 years on the bench. president ronald reagan appointed him. he actually wanted a more conservative appointee. he couldn't make it happen at the time. since justice kennedy, who the "wall street journal" describes as a maverick conservative, has been a swing vote. the decider between liberals and

conservatives. "swing vote", a term he hated. he said cases swing, i don't. but still he was the swing vote on campaign finance, voting rights and more. as our corporate cousins report this afternoon, on the conservative side of the ledger, justice kennedy was part of the majorities that loosened campaign finance restrictions, recognized individual gun ownership rights and decided that voting rights protection dating to the jim crow era were too heavy handed on states in the modern day south. he wrote the 2010 opinion on citizens united versus federal elections commission. that struck down longstanding restrictions on corporate and union political spending in elections. he was also part of the 5-4 conservative majority in bush v. gore that resolved the dispute in the year 2000 presidential

election. justice kennedy joined with his liberal colleagues on array of rulings that will define his legacy. none more so than on gay rights. in 2015, he wrote the 5-4 ruling establishing that same sex couples have a constitutional right to marry. he struck down a u.s. law denying federal benefits to same sex couples and a texas statute that made it a crime for two people of the same sex to have intimate sexual activity. all of that from the "wall street journal." just a glimpse with how pivotal he's been in america. when justice kennedy steps down at the end of next months, july 31, the court will be split, four liberal justices and four conservatives. president trump now has the chance the give conservatives a solid majority. one that in theory that could last for decades.

the president said justice kennedy had great version and heart hand he will work on his replacement. >> we will begin our search for a new justice of the united states supreme court. that will begin immediately. hopefully we're going to pick somebody that will be as outstanding. >> shepard: the president in the last half hour. president trump already appointed neil gorsuch to the bench replacing antonin scalia that did in february 2016. that happened to the dismay of democrats at the time. we can expect this to be one of the most bruising confirmation processes in modern american history. fox news anchor and correspondent shannon bream is live with us now. who would have thought this afternoon -- i was watching your report as the gavel came down and the session closed and no announcements. now this.

>> this morning when the bench closed up shop, when the justices will all be back, there were no glimmers no, hints of any retirement. again, the justices can do this in any way. the justice wanted to talk with the president first. his letter goes to the president first. we got it. it's simple. he said it's the highest of honors to serve on this court. he's enjoyed 30 years of doing it. but yeah, it's a seismic shift. a being are filling the slot by somebody that was appointed by a republican president. justice kennedy, there's more. he didn't like being the swing vote. but when they come in the doors, we could see many, many times their arguments were targeted to one justice in particular and that was justice kennedy. they knew they would have to win him over. so for him to leave and the president to have an opportunity

to nominate somebody from the list he's out and and conservatives say they're happy on any one of them on the list. this appointment, this nomination, could be seismic for president trump. you talk about tough in the senate. there's pressure on capitol hill on justice kennedy to step down because senators have said, listen, we feel good about holding on to the senate for the fall. we need 51 votes to confirm a supreme court justice. but anything can happen. we're nervous. some of them have lobbied him and tried to talk him through the fact that they didn't want a bruising fight if they didn't have 51 in the senate. so whatever his reasons, he may felt he accomplished everything he wanted to do. he turned 82 next month. he's decided that's it next month. >> shepard: and the impact of his absence. >> yes. you touched on different issues abortion rights, the lgbtq

rights. he closed his opinion saying no union is more profound in marriage than embodies love, devotion, sacrifice in family and forming a marital union of two people is something greater than once they were. so he has always been an advocate for lgbtq rights and my inbox is flooded with people across the political spectrum but mostly on the left worried about him leaving. they think women's reproductive rights are in danger and lgbtq rights are in danger. those are the cases that will come before the court. we'll see who the president chooses, whether they get this done and they have every intention of getting it done before the mid-terms. it won't be like justice kennedy. >> shepard: remember when he was confirmed. a lot of controversy. i remember all that went into

that. a very complicated time in american politics in the late 80s. >> certainly was. so i thought we're to a different level of complication and controversy now. the rules have changed in the senate. things are more divisive on capitol hill. the days of seeing any of these justices confirmed 100-0, we won't see that again. we talked to senator ted cruz, mike lee who is on the list, his brother is also on the list, a lot of folks in the senate that said they would get behind senator mike low and maybe he would pull votes from the other side of the aisle because he's been a colleague there. folks know him. it's tougher to go after someone you have a personal relationship with. there's a number of judges on the list. two were interviewed in the group of three with justice gorsuch who became the man to take the seat. there's been other folks that the president has had success in putting on the federal bench. controversial. they would be a tougher fight.

he's very interested in possibly going to one of his nominees that is a woman or a minority. again, conservative groups say they would happy with anybody on the list of 25. it's been vetted by them. i think the president inaccident to stick to the list. no shannon bream, our court correspondent and host of fox news at night. we'll see you at 10:00 p.m. stay with us. big news today. let's turn to the "fox news sunday" anchor, chris wallace who is live on capitol hill. chris, my guess is that this isn't going to be the smoothest of processes. what do you see happening after july 31? >> well, it will be a battle. it's a battle that if republicans play it smart and if the president gives them the right kind of nominee, they're going to win. because they don't need to beat a filibuster. we've had the nuclear option with neil gorsuch. the senate majority leader.

mitch mcconnell for the first time in history said it only took 51 votes to get a supreme court nominee through. they have 50 votes and mike pence. that gives them 51. so if they hold together, they can ram this through without a democratic vote. democrats can huff and puff all they want and they'll be very unhappy. there's a lot of issues where justice kennedy sided with the liberal side, the democratic side. not the conservative republican side. you know, that was a reason this was a big issue in the last election. donald trump won. he will probably get a conservative justice on the supreme court, which will make it a solid 5-4 majority. not a swing vote. a solid 5-4 majority, this is the biggest moment of the president presidency so far. >> shepard: is there a chance in your mind -- can you come up with a way that if democrats

work very hard and the president's detractors try all they will that they could delay this until after the mid-terms or is that not going to happen? >> no. first of all, why would you if you have a majority and it's one vote majority, the reason we're talking about 99 senators is because john mccain, of course, is very ill and hospitalized in arizona. he can only vote if he comes back to the floor. that's not expected to happen any time soon. so they have a one-vote majority. while there's a good chance that they will hold that majority or increase it in the mid-terms, they could lose it. why on earth when 50 or 51 votes can put you over the top when they delay it -- frankly, if you look at the history, this is happening in late june. there's no reason at all why they shouldn't get a nominee. my guess is the president will move with some dispatch to get that out there. then there will be a vetting process, then the nominee will go up and meet with all of the

senators. then they'll have confirmation hearings and a confirmation vote. no way that this goesed past early november unless there's a slipup in the nominee. you can be sure that whoever is nominated by president, activist groups will do everything that they can to delay and disqualify that choice. the republicans will be as careful to make sure it's somebody that can get through easily like neil gorsuch no or swing one particular person, which must be a last ditch effort. it's not possible but -- >> that's a very good point. that's why i disagreed in the last hour with shannon who said look for somebody that has a strong record on the conservative side on abortion or gay rights. i doubt that. if you had somebody that, for instance gave you any sense that they might overturn roe v. wade

from 1973, there's several people on the court, several people in the senate, including republican women that might not go for that. so my guess is it's somebody that is solidly conservative but won't have a paper trail on the most conservative and controversial issues. >> shepard: your point on right for life and reproductive rights well-taken. what sort of issue can you see bubbling to the top in a world where we have a decidedly conservative supreme court? in terms of issues that i can see them pursuing? >> shepard: yes. things make their way up. but given the fact that it will be 5-4 and the discussions that will happen prior to, what might come along quickly? i'm sure people are saying, what

does this mean? >> there will be -- it depends on the issues that get before the court. the court doesn't choose the issue. so they'll have to wait for a case to bubble up and get to their level. social issues, whether gay rights, abortion rights. you can see all kinds of -- look what happened here. executive authority always come up as we saw with the decision on the travel ban yesterday. i will say, i did a power player with leonard leo, who will be an enormously influential person in this. one of the top people in federalist society. he helped draw up the list of the 25 conservatives, most of them judges as we mentioned, senator mike lee not a judge, but the choice will come from, and i said to him what are the key issues, he said it's observing the constitution and originalism, interpreting the

constitution as was written and commentsly understand in the 1780s. that has to do with separation of powers and limiting the bureaucracy. those are the key issues. >> shepard: chris wallace, can't wait for "fox news sunday" this sunday. >> i can't either. >> shepard: thanks, my friend. >> you bet. thank you. >> shepard: a lot to get to in this very busy news hour. we'll speak with experts on the political side, the legal side, the justice side, if you will and speak to some every day americans as well. ever without this that may be the biggest development in president trump's presidency, there were four or five other lead stories today. we'll mention those as well. just ahead. little things can be a big deal. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not an injection or a cream. it's a pill that treats differently. for psoriasis, 75% clearer skin is achievable with reduced redness, thickness, and scaliness of plaques.

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>> shepard: continuing coverage of the breaking news of the day on as a chance to nominate another supreme court just tis after the announcement of anthony kennedy. john roberts has more. they kept this under wraps, didn't they? >> they did. justice kennedy kept it tightly under wraps. the president said he learned about this early this afternoon when justice kennedy said can i come down to see you? it's been expected for some time. the president in the oval office of portugal playing tribute to justice kennedy. listen here.

>> justice kennedy will be retiring. he's a man i have known a long time and a man i respected a long time. a great justice of the supreme court. he is a man that has displayed great vision and tremendous heart. he will be missed but he will be retiring. >> other than committing troops to war and nominating a supreme court justice is about the most important thing that a president can do. in this particular case, the president has a chance to submit a 5-4 conservative majority at the court for a number of years at the very least. justice clarence thomas is the elder states man. he's 70. justice roberts could serve another generation. so depending who the president nominates, he can look this up for a while to come. >> shepard: give us a run down of what the president said about

potential nominees, john. >> the president took the unusual step -- i've never seen this. he released a list of 25 names to the supreme court. he wants conservative groups to have a clear idea who he is thinking about in terms of nominees. conservative groups are very happy with what name is on the list. now the task to narrow it down. here's the president. >> we will begin our search for a new justice of the united states supreme court that will begin immediately. really had a very deep discussion about his ideas on things, including -- i asked him if he had certain people that he had great respect for that potentially could take his seat, which is a hard seat to fill. we talked about different things. he was here a half an hour --

>> shepard: pardon the interrupti interruption. here's senator chuck schumer. >> reproductive rights for women and countless other protections for middle class americans are at stake. will republicans and president trump nominate and vote for someone who will preserve protections for people with pre-existing conditions or will they support a justice that will put the federal government between a woman and her doctor. the senate should reject on a bipartisan basis any justice that would overturn roe v. wade or key healthcare protections. the senate should reject anyone that will instinctively side with powerful special interests

over average americans. our republican colleagues should follow the rule they set in 2016, not to consider a supreme court justice in an election year. senator mcconnell will tell anyone that listened that the senate had the right to advise and consent and that was every bit as important as the president's right to nominate. millions of people are just months away from determining the senators that should vote to confirm or reject a president's nominee and their voices deserve to be heard now as leader mcconnell thought they should deserve to be heard then. anything but that would be the absolute height of hypocrisy. people from all across america should realize that their rights and opportunities are threatened. americans should make their

voices heard loudly, clearly and consistently. americans should make it clear they will not tolerate a nominee chosen from president trump's preordained list selected by powerful special interests that will reverse the progress we've made over the decades. i yield the floor. >> shepard: selected by powerful special interests. john roberts, this has been discussed already. that list put together with help. >> yeah, of course. the people like the judicial crisis network, the federalists society. they have all weighed in on who they would like to see the president pick. the president came up with the list. it was through consultation in particular with the white house counsel don mcgann. con to conservative groups on the list, there's not a single wild card. i talked to kerry sererenson.

she said they could support anybody on the list. and brett cavanaugh is the odds on favorite if the president picks a man. he's 53 years old. so he could serve for easily a generation. if the president decides to go for a woman, amy barrett of the seventh circuit court of appeals would likely be the frontrunner. she's in her mid 40s. whomever the president picks, you look at the list, he will pick a relatively young justice that will serve on a long time to come. shep. >> shepard: thanks. mitch mcconnell says a vote will happen this fall, meaning before the mid-term elections on the president's pick to replace justice kennedy. mitch mcconnell said not to base their partisan politics. listen here.

>> the pick should be fairly and not subjected to personal attacks. judges must apply the law even-handedly. judicial decisions must not flow from judges' personal philosophies or preferences but from an honest assessment of the words and actual meaning of the law. >> shepard: still some democrats are accusing the majority leader of hypocrisy for moving so quickly in this election year. let's turn to chad pergram. seems like the simplest phrase is, the winners make the decisions. that i won the house, the senate and the white house. now they decide. that's it. >> that's part of it. something seminal happened about 15 months ago. that's when the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, decided to invoke nuclear option two. that was changing the precedent in the senate of what it takes to clear a filibuster to put somebody on the supreme court. there had never been a

filibuster of a supreme court nominee, abe fortis was nominated by lyndon johnson in 1968. his nomination to be promoted to be chief justice of the united states was filibustered. but he was already on the court. so what happened with judge gorsuch, mitch mcconnell realized there was no route to get over the filibuster because the senate was so narrowly divided. the democrats opened that door, opened pandora's box by changing the filibuster rule for most types of nominations for all the courts and all cabinet officials. mitch mcconnell basically gave them a dose of their own medicine. he realized there was no way to get neil gorsuch on the court. i asked mitch mcconnell about this. i said are you happy you did this, after the supreme court ruling yesterday on the travel back. he said we now have a center right court. all i was doing is applying the biden rule. a reference to joe biden who

said in the mid 90s we shouldn't do anything until after the next election. chris murphy from connecticut, he said wait a minute. the shoe is now on the other foot, senator. listen. >> we're four months out from an election that controls the senate. it's hypocrisy for the majority lead tore move forward on a vote now when he wasn't in the 2016 election. >> don't underestimate how big these justices will be in the mid-terms, confirming them right before the election and whether or not the democrats can get energized on their side. shep? >> shepard: what would an energized democratic side be able to accomplish? >> the question is unclear. we asked chuck schumer about that yesterday before justice kennedy retired. he didn't give a very good answer. so that's an unknown. they've never been able to copy the ride on this. >> thanks very much, chad pergram. so much more on this breaking news out of washington in the

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>> shepard: bottom of the hour. top of the news. of course continuing coverage of the supreme court justice anthony kennedy who announced today that he will be retiring effective at the end of the next month, july 31. we have a copy of the letter that he wrote to the president. it reads as follows.

"dear mr. president, this is a formal notice to the president to end my active status as an associate justice of the supreme court while continuing to serve in a senior status as provided in the statute. for a member of the legal profession, it's the highest of honors to serve on this court. please permit me by this letter to express my profound gratitude for having had the privilege to seek in each case how best to know, interpret and defend the constitution and the laws that must always conform to its mandates and promises. respectfully and sincerely, justice anthony kennedy." trace gallagher with a why justice kennedy retired now. hello, chase. >> it's important for context to get a picture of why it is that justices leave. history indicates that most supreme court justices tend to retire under the same party they were appointed but clearly doesn't always work out that

way. a prime example is justice thurgood marshall. he wanted to retire under a liberal president but failing health forced him to retire under george h.w. bush. he was replaced by clarence thomas, who was his opposite. and then sandra day o'connor, who was a swing vote on the court. she was planning to retire after president clinton left office. her president was horrified at the prospect of leaving under an al gore presidency. she retired under george w. bush but criticized her replacement sam alito for being too conservative. and then the evolving justices, david sutor and john paul stephens. they shifted to the left and the court shifted right. so they were among the liberal vote. so post departed under president

obama allowing him to appoint justices that would maintain their legacy. and then the other side of the spectrum. justice byron white, a democrat appointed by john f. kennedy. but over the years, he moved away from democrats on key issues like abortion and justice white still choice to retire under bill clinton. and ruth bader ginsberg, the oldest justice said that liberals were misguided if they thought that she was going to step down under president obama so he could replace her with someone with a similar idealogical bent. but of course, replacements don't turn out the way the presidents hope they will. bottom line, when it comes to retiring and replacing supreme court justices, timing is almost everything. very few die in office in modern times. most retire. shep? >> shepard: trace gallagher, thank you, sir. let's go to mark sherman now, a reporter that covers the supreme court for the associated press.

it's his own beat. today, sir is a very busy day. thanks for taking time for us. >> my pleasure. some of the issues that are at the forefront now, if you look back over justice kennedy's history, there's been times, for instance, on the issue of guns where he sided with the conservatives, there's been times when he's sided with the liberals, the swing on the issue of guns. what might we expect to happen with a more conservative justice? >> you're right that kennedy was part of the majority in the hellinger decision in which the court said that individuals had a right in their homes for self-defense, to have a gun under the second amendment. under kennedy and must be said chief justice john roberts, the court has not taken on any other gun issues that would expand or further delineate those rights. so remains to be seen whether the change of a justice would make a difference there. it might.

>> shepard: one issue that many have suggested today in the short time, one issue top of mind would be trans-gender issues. the case of a boy and the use of a bathroom comes to mind. >> the supreme court had and got rid of a case that would have forced a decision on that issue. the case of gavin grimm, a high school student from virginia. we don't know where justice kennedy stands on that issue. if it's like his views on gay rights, he would likely have been a supporter of trans-gender rights. those issues are percolating in the lower courts. to what extent are trans-gender individuals covered by anti-sex discrimination laws. >> shepard: when justice scalia died so suddenly and the nation was saddened by his passing, liberals across the country whose next thought was, well, we have to get a new supreme court

justice and it didn't happen. conservatives could be disappointed similarly this time. is there? >> it doesn't seem like it under the new senate rules without the filibuster and also with a list of 25 mostly judges that president trump is already put out there. it seems like whoever he chooses to take kennedy's place is likely more conservative than kennedy on some issues. no more liberal than kennedy on others. no mark sherman that covers the courts. i know your time is tight. thanks for making time for us. >> thank you. >> shepard: and/or -- oren kerr allow professor at the university of southern california. thanks for being here, sir. >> happy to be with you, shep. >> shepard: top of mind for you today given this notification

from justice kennedy is what? >> it's the end of an era. for decades, the supreme court has had justice kennedy as the center vote. the person that lawyers would address cases to and the person that governed the agenda of the supreme court. with justice kennedy no longer there, someone else will be playing that role and the end of an era in the supreme court going back since the 1980s. >> shepard: what was the most important thing to justice kennedy about his job? what was his highest calling within it? >> shepard: . >> i think it's the seriousness that he took his approach to the constitution. he would wake up in the morning and think about the constitution and spend his day thinking about the contusion, getting it right, looking at each case in a fresh way. not somebody that pleased either say. he was on the conservative side sometimes and sometimes on the

liberal side and uniquely since the departure of justice o'connor, he was the unpredictable vote. but the seriousness with which he took his job every day for decades as a judge is what i'll remember. >> shepard: seems the truth that justice kennedy was never out to please or displease anyone. if we were to get his idea and who his replacement might be, not in the name of a person but in the way of a description, what do you think he might tell us? >> i don't think he would offer his views on that question. somebody dedicated to the rule of law and to the constitution, who would approach each case without reference to politics, trying to get it right each time. >> shepard: what changes in america as a result of his departure from this court? >> justice kennedy really brought stability to the supreme court. for more than 30 years, he was

the center vote or one of the venter votes that would control which way cases went. if you're a lawyer trying to figure out can i get the supreme court to take this view, you have to think about what justice kennedy will think. it takes five justices to have a majority to change the direction. so the center vote is for the agenda. with a different supreme court that shifts who is the center vote, shifts the arguments that are made to the supreme court and shifts what the supreme court might do. ? thanks, orin kerr, an attorney at the department of justice. arguments cases before the supreme court himself. great of you to take some time. thank you. >> happy to join you. >> shepard: if you were one of the many attorneys that were lucky enough and fortunate enough to make an argument before the united states supreme court, more often than not you

were tailoring your argument not to the court but one individual, one man, what will justice kennedy think? i have to swing justice kennedy though he hates the word and has said so often. that's what lawyers have always tried to do since justice kennedy has been on the court. now all of that changes. our next guest says it's note just president trump who is under pressure here, but different groups jockey here. she says justice kennedy's retirement will put swing state democrats in the spotlight. hot so? that's next.

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>> shepard: fox's top story continues. the retirement of the supreme court justice anthony kennedy at the end of next month and the search for a replacement. let's go to jean cummings from the "wall street journal." our parent company and their

parent company share ownership. great to see you. >> great to see you. >> shepard: i was trying to see who the pressure is on and obvious names come to mind. jeff flake, murkowski, a couple of others, i suppose. >> i think i'd go to the other side of the partisan divide and look at heidi heitkamp and tester an manchin. so it will be harder for them to vote against the president's nominee because they have to get the voters that voted for trump to now come and back them, too. so they are in really tough places right now. while having to appeal to trump voters, they need their own base to be super energized and to come out and vote. this vote could risk deflating their base. so really tough place. >> shepard: so that could give the president an opportunity to

nominate someone that is more conservative particularly while putting pressure on them to vote to hold their bases? >> exactly. i think the president will be under a lot of pressure to go -- to choose a hard-liner so he can solidify the conservative block on the court. the evangelicals and the other socially conservative folks that have weathered one scandal after another with this president have done so largely for this very moment. from their perspective, he owes them and they're going to demand the hardest line conservative they can possibly get through the senate. >> shepard: on the other side, there's the matter of moderates in the republican party. jeff flake, bob corker of tennessee, lisa murkowski, susan collins of maine. you wonder if they will apply pressure or if they have any ammunition to regarding keeping

the center, if you will. >> they could. where they may have more influence is in the process. you know, if mcconnell wants to ram somebody through really fast in the next two or three months and he's said that's what he wants to do, we know how the senate works. if you get two or three standing in the way, it will muck up the system. so that is a place where someone where the moderate republicans could use their influence to try to manage or adjust how the process works. >> shepard: you said two to three months to be rammed through. historically speaking, that would be fast. >> yes. >> shepard: your best observation, the next few months will be something in the way of order because republicans fall in line or will it be something in the way of chaos because

individuals want their own say? >> i'd say we're looking at chaos. >> shepard: as simple as that? >> as simple as that. >> shepard: we don't already have enough of that. >> that's right. >> shepard: so what you're saying is then that this process in your estimation won't be as smooth and simple, that two to three months will not be an easy task and nobody knows what is about to happen. >> that's right. the person has to be vetted. they have to go through hearings. you know, there's just a process here that does take time. the senate isn't in for much of august anyway. they couple in a couple weeks. but it's just a calendar -- mcconnell can speed it along, but it's going to be so intensely partisan it will be chaos. >> shepard: thanks, jean from wsg. good luck and thank you. >> you're welcome. >> shepard: it was a day packed with news. well-before we got this stunning announcement that the supreme

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>> shepard: other news now. washington and moscow have set a time and a place for a formal summit between president trump and russian president putin. that would have been a lead. that despite headlines from ties between team trump and russian. john bolton says the joint summit between the two presidents is in everybody's best interests. the two leaders have met twice since the president took office. the relationship between the two countries strained, but

president trump has said that improving relations with russia would be a good thing. john bolton says russian's interference in the 2016 election and sanctions did come up today. he expects the leaders to talk about them when they meet. the kremlin officials say the country didn't do anything wrong. another lead, kim jong-un said he would get rid of his weapons early. but new satellite images showing the opposite is true. the research group 38 north releasing pictures of a nuclear research facility. analysts say they show north korea making improvements there. happening now, this one a new pumping setup to cool reactors. the analysts note the pictures don't tell us the purpose of the activity and this is not the nuclear test site that the north koreans say they destroyed. a huge upset in the latest round of primaries.

images here. here in new york, the political novice alexandria ocasio-cortez beat one of the top democrats in all of congress, joe crowley. he's the number 4 house democrat and analysts called him the likely successor to the minority leader, nancy pelosi. ocasio-cortez is straight out of the bronx and queens. and mitt romney will take his seat in november. and president trump traveled to south carolina on monday to rally for mcmaster who was an early supporter of candidate trump, though some of his votes weren't what trump wanted. dan donovan, who the president endorsed, won the republican primary over michael grimm. grimm was trying to win back his old seat after doing time in federal prison for tax evasion.

he also once threatened to throw a reporter off a capitol hill balcony. all of those could have been lead stories today. the republican compromised bill for immigration went down in flames today. went down in much larger numbers than has been expected. public union funding. do you have to pay dues if you don't want to? the supreme court struck it down 5-4. joe jackson, the patriarch of the jackson family, dead at the age of 89. stunner of all stunners, last year's champion, germany, who have never failed to make it out of the group is out. germany is gone. visa mexico. the news continues now after a break.

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>> we will begin our search for a new justice of the united states supreme court that will begin immediately. >> our republican colleagues in the senate should follow the rule they set in 2016 not to consider a supreme court justice in an election year. senator mcconnell will tell anyone that listened that the senate had the right to advise and consent. that was every bit as important as the president's right to nominate. >> neil: the battle is on. so are we. justice anthony kennedy is leaving the supreme court. that's got everybody plotting. it's our biggest issue today. it's our only issue this hour. it is that important right now. welcome, everybody. i'm neil cavuto. this is "your world." get ready for a summer to remember as the supreme court