washington to whoill take his at. >> >> we beg with gray who in texas outside the ranch where scalia died good morning. >> good morn erica, before sunse and we are learning more about justice scalia's death her at this resort and ranch. we know scalia traveled toest texas on friday and attended a pay with about 40 guests idayning en he didt sho u for eakft, crn sta went his room wherehey found him respsive. local law enforcement, u.s. mahals and fbi agents were al called in. investigatorsayhereere no signs of foul play herand that scalia likely diedof, quote, natural causes. a devt catholic. ities usher in priest to perform last rites and his bodyas moved to alpine nrb an with a police escort trsported more tn20 mil a feral home in el paso. scalia's family isxpected to

at this point tre's n informion about a memorial or a funeral service for thesupreme court justice. erica? >> j gray for us in xas. ank you. >> jtice sca was a giant o the bench, the mosconsertive vo ofll o jtices d hieath h sp fig er textjuice. wel get to tha i jusa moment, but pete williams has a look atscalia's life and lega. pe, good morning. >> certainlyhe most outspoken conservative, justice scalia seemed to be in robust health so his death comes as a hugely unexpected blow. he was a justice with a powful intellec intellect and his dth means the court has lost itowerful nservati >>e was confied unanimously

juste was a steadfast conservative. agnst afrmate action a opponent of abortionrights it was wrongly deced it clare rights the nation's foders never iended. >> nobody everught that they had been includ ithe rigs containi theillf rights. >> scaa said jges suld stic followinghe words of the laws they interpret. >> we not goverdy the drafter's inte. we are govned by, it's not what theraerinteed, bu wt thraer ented. >> h dighted liberal puing t court to expand the rights o defendants on trial, to confront eiaccusers in court. judgeshould not conside packs and sentencing that weren't foun by ajury. the historic ring thatted second amendment guaranteen invidual's right town a firearm forse-defense, the st impntecion ever. >> met his future wif maurn on a blind de when

e scalias were a big family, five boys and four s. two of hhildn became wyers folwing their father in a pfessio he clearly relished. >> i like thinking about the law, and i le figuring out the right ar to leg problems. >> hisudeath after yes on the supmert has stund t nation'segal counity. >> off the court he was incredibly engetic. his questioning from the bench, he was alws completely engaged d so it's a shock to e family of peoe in and around the court. so this lve the court with eight justices, enly split idea logically as it epares to te up such divive issu any time the is 4-4 tie the urt'secision essentily doesn't countndhe lower court rulings are left standing so justice scalia'death casts a big shaw over the rt of the supreme courtte. >> pete williams, thankyou.

polical fight is brewing this morng ove whohouldominate thext supremert ice. ld it be przr his successpresidt boom or his or his successor? >> rorter: where the presint will be hosting a summit of asia leaders, predent bm paid tribute and to his life and public seice. quily sigled there will be a polical battle over confirming a successor i the high court. theresident says he will not wait. >> i plan to fulfi my constitutionalesponsibilities to nominate a successor in due me. there will belenty of tim for me to do so and for the senate to full fitfi its responsibility to give that purpose a fair hearing and timely vote >> reporter: the president made his intentions clear because top

bo justi would end the conservative majority had alrey drawa line. mitch mcconnell put out statement saying the arin pele shod ha a vce in theelection of their next supre court juste. therefore this vacancy should not betilled until we have are new president and leave t court wit an open seat. failing failing to ffill this vancy would be uld be a shameful happened indicationf responsibities. the politicins arelearly drawn this mningnd the fight ll play out on the campaign trail ande washingto with republicans havin54 seats in the senate, more than democrats and giving them the power to really ctrol ts procesng forward. erica? >> kelly o'donnellt the white hoehismorning. thanyou. he was white hse counsel

onheir admistration's suemcourt nomitions. you were worng wit the supre co supreme cot. hi legacy i well estabshed at this poin wh wase lik a arson? >> never agreed wi jtice scalia o almos ything. he w aarm persoand he loved theack and forth. we had an exchang about bush gore and he was alws warm and kind. s behind on a personal leveonrfacy as family m boved mentor rlerks for whom he was a key influence i their lives. many wou forge howivisive his decions could be that he was unanimously confirmednd this wille difrent this time around to fill hisat.

thisprocess, if he nominat someon he sd he ll, what's your advi? yove hpe other presints do this. hey have a three-branch gridlock in the fedal gornme. ey she senate should confirm someone and theyay the supreme court suld rain deadlocked at 4-4 for two term. at never happened before not whathould happen now. the predent should and will fulfillis cstitutiol nonationo nominate someone and the senate should give that person a fair hearingake dgement on that person's invidual merits and alificatio. >> shoul the presidente okin for on,ay makgarland,ernas ethrou the nate? >> what i know fromhe sotomayor and kagan, he takes hi responsibserisly. >>e caughtonstl w.

and then the senate sul do itsjob. theye the rig t reject, up, down, it their respsibilityo makeir ca and jge the person bed on t case they mak befe the nate >>ron, thasominnn a sdaymorning. tnk for havg me >> antonin slia and the question who should be theext supre court justis was t on toi it did notake for the sparkrt to start flying. gabe gutierrezs live f us. good morning. >> the future of the supreme court i now front and center in the presidentia election, but th debate quickly got personal and turned into an all-out brawlin a ste for rough-and-tumble politics. on the less croed stage thinth republican debate started with some rar agreement. dt believe the president should appoint

to the supreme cour delay. delay. >> reporter: but then ings got >> this is a man who insults his way -- >> ted cruz has jt been telling lies. >> front-runner dald trump blastingeb bushn foreign policy. >> the world trade center came wn during the brothes reign remember th. >> while dond trump was building reality tshowy othe was buiing a security apparatuo keep u safe. >> marco rub hoping to rebound from t last debate cam to bush's debate slamming trump. >> ihank god it wasll of e time iwas george w. bush notl gore. >> theridaenator clashed with immigration. >> fst of all, i don't know how he knows what i said o

seco ofll -- [ speaking spanish ] >> cruz also pnced on trump biionae's past liberal sitions on abortion -- ar. youre probably worseha jeb bush. >> he's a nasty guy. >> dond has thiseird paern. when you pointo his own recd hecreams liar, liar liar. >> striking a differenttone, hn kasich. i have to tl u, this is jt crazy, huh? this is just nuts. >> while mt on th sge fo each other, dr. ben carsonoughor attention. o many peopleave sd to me, y need to scream and jum and down likerybody else. thateall what you want what you just saw? i dot think so. >> the gop primary here is in just six ds and w expect justice scalia's replacement to

caaign trail beth hillary clinton and bernie sanders are am slaing thereblican plans to hold up nominee. erica? gabe gutirez, tnk u. chuck todds moderatf meet the pss and andrea mitche is nbc chief foreign affas corresponden od morni to you. this re changed overnight. atoes the death of justice scalia do to this election moving forward? >> it ps t supme court front and center. this has been something that th candides have been talking to ba voter a long time that this election me th anything se cld der the balce of the supremeourt going rward. it's one of the older supreme courts that we've had in some time a that's why thi ediction has been made and now wi scalia's death it only enforceshat notion with voters, but it going to- it is going to throw washington into a tizzy. i think it could shut down the senate essallyor the year if tngso as badly as it

wants to do, what the senate republican wan to do so i think it's going to end up elevating the issuef the supreme court into a top five ise t rest of th year. >> as itvates that issue, you can ima that t candidates may havd in the back o their minds list, in terms o president obama does he have a short list nomees at the rey? absolutely. ery president has a short list. th is the eventuality that people wor about,ut that peopleav to prere for. every white hse counsel, ery justice rtmentas prepared a st, but the problem now is he has to make a decision, is he going to propose someone who would be more in his line of thinking or at thi time as a lame duc is he goi to propose someone whos soentrist and so universally respectedhat

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we'll have more on his passing in a moment. and mexo city, pope ancis is prepario h a ma in one of t area's poorest mmunitie the faithl are already thering for today's service. about 00 are expected. it follows a day of prayer and poti pe took the nation'sders to task for failg to te aore acti and against povert the dru trade and corruption. and after a thorough coast guar spection, the cruis sh anthem of the seas set sl onatdaynd is now headed to the bahamas. ehip was forced to cut i prevus tripho after saing rht through a big storm. passenrs described that trip as chaotic and terrifying. thest grd ss t sp was in ghapeo sailagain. sheinelle, tnk you. we h much more thisning on death of jusce antoninal. appointed ourt 30ears o, his dea leaveor vacancyn the bench. we have complete coverage for you thif hour nbc's jay gray outse the rch wre scia died, and he has more for us.

>> reporter: good morning, erica. he'shat we know rht no sticecalia was foundead insi h room at this resort andanch after traveling to west texas on friday and attendin a private party with out 40 guests re he didn't show up f breakfast tht moing. that's whe employe wt to at room a found him responsivee. lol l enforcement as wel as s.arshal and the fbie called in at thi poin the sayhere are no signs of foullaynd atcalia likely ddf wt they call, quote, natural causes. a devout catholic priest was broughtn to administer las rites before scalia was transporteith the pole escort morehan 200iles to a funera he in el paso. hi family i exptedo travel to e pasoater today. th have not a this pnt anund any plans meri o funerservic. th'sheiv here ica, bk to u. jay gyors tsorning xa thank you. fo more on scalia legacy,

correspondent pe williams pete, good morningo you again. >> craig, good morning. this was a crt that was dided 5-4ogicly. so now it 4-4. here is whatld happe if the major pendi cases areecided by a tie. that would leave low court rulings in tact. other words, whichev side n below would prevail. tie vote woulde b news for presid oba's hop to p his newmmigrati policy into effect, the one that wou let up to 5 million peopl here ilgally remain. the ler courts blocked that licy. it would alsoeave standing a tohewic o access abortionvices intexas. and might prot oth stateto try that se approach. would be a victory for unions that rresent public employees. they w in the lower cous, defeating a effort to restri eir ality toollectnion du. the cou will continue functioning with onl eight justices, butt wl likely produce at leastome td votes, delayg the kind of nal resutn that only the supreme court canove. craig? >>et wlis for us this

anks. > a hug fight is alrea loing or whohoul nominat theextremeourt juste. nbc's kel o'donnell is at the white house with more on that for us thismorning. kelly, good moing. >> rte good morning, erica. that fight is because the i so muc at ake. it is aix of pocs, ideology and trn. the sudden dea of a coervative justice uer a democr presidenteans t bance of the court could shi to the libering ifhe confirmed. so republicans have a great dea of pow in thisprocess. they conol theate judiciaryommiee which would run t extensi backgrod check a nominee. the public heari where t esent's choice would ansr estions, and the decide if th full senateets avote. that could take mont. republicans claim tre is trition their side, sayin at no nomee w both select and confirmed a eltion yr for decas. th argue thahe next presenthould get to shape theourtit this vacancy. democrats wil be able to marshal politic pressure to see a nominove through this

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