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figure a replacement for justic. anthony ke >> the question is who's on the list and who exactly makes an ideal candidate? as you can see f'sm the rundown one of the stories we're following, let's get to it. white house moving full steam ahead to pick the next supreme court justice, prervdent intewed five candidates and expected to announce his nominee next monday, he's reportedly picking first truly conservative female justice>> it could come handful of lawmakers and the fection, so is the white house preparing for an intense and fast fight? let's bring i matthew l a ross yeah. correct me if i'm wrong? >> thank you so much for being there's a lot of talk about this, beuse he's got a tight time table. leaving to europ in a few days, he's got to make the pick at this thint, do ink pulse of what's going on, potentially he already knows exaly w going

through the interviews to make sure he's not missing anything >> i think you're exactly rightd probably inside kge with facts that w kennedy going to retire, probably prepared for this well ahead of time. probably had his list down, he was probably aware of who he wanted to put on the court a o nowr may not be just going through the motions you know, president trump would want to avoid seeming likee was doing things off-the-cuff as he's off accusedf doing. talked foure candidates he told us about, one was a woman. and we also know that today he spoke with utah senator mike lee, amend me barrett has one of the leading, how this would be interesting if she came on she would make the fourth woman on the court b the one who is very conservative. do you think this would be a good pick for tpresident? if so, why. >> well, depends on what he's trying to do. we're not suref there's any particular cases or any ump wants to have overturned. i feel that warrettould not

rule very differently from the other topics tha we've been made aware of. i'm not sure if this -- if him justan wng to put ace conservative j on the supreme court is a point of vant r vanity but i dh't think there's that separates barrett's juris prudence. >> i think a lot of peopleec ha been criticaause they're concerned she could be one of the justis who comes in and opposes --hey're a lot of talk about p trying toentially overturn roe v wa. and because she has made very clear what her thoughts are on that in the past even though she said she wouldn't rule to overturn precedence that was already set by the supreme court >> that'set somng that comes into play that's importan what conservative judges like to doea is lre pnc dceefdeiniteel take more than replacing ken to overturn row and the next most middle groun justice on the court roberts like those leav things incremental he doesn't like to make b changes. i don't think there will be eough support on the court regardless of any case that would bec raised which would also take years to go through,

litigationou'll not get the court to completely overturn it might be the case that we get more restrictions that enle on abortions i do not forese an erturn of row happening at all >> let's talk confirmation procs because we know with president george w bush his own party h a lot of issues with his nominee. doesn't seem like that's tmp's issue coming up with this potential picking but could there be potentially some sort of hold-out from the gop? >> there could be, there's been talk of -- there's a few people that would pottially resist barrett, but given theleew ru which is that a -- a president will not be able to appoint a supre court justice with a put opposition inme govern. i think whoever he appoints will skate through without too much pomp and circumstance. et's switch gears and talk about the upcoming summit that heas with vladimir putin. there is talk he plans to have this meeting with him without ds present. what's your take on this, matt? >> this is the kind of thing that i wlso wonder it becomes such a public spectacle.

the president n is able to ch a meeting.e to bind much isu i do at think there'sthing really wrong with e u.s maintaining good relationships with any countr you know, regardless of how the media portrays the particular relationship. i think that the citizens of the wod canenefit from peaceful d open trade agreements with any country. appy about should be seeing things move forward. agree thathowever, in politics, optics is everything and it doesn't suit, optically, if you will that the meeting with vladimir putin without aids, it could be construed as potentially some shoddy business. with us weot g strategist joyce kendrick joining us viask ype. your taking joyce? >> i totally agree. i think that gen what has been happening in all of the publici some collusion going on. i think it doesn' look right if he meets with vladimir putin

without otherdvisors presents. >> joyce, you were not with us out the supreme court and who tk the president will get to pick. i'll go back a l tle bit just to give you an opportunity to weigh inthat. we've heard a lot of the different nameshat were thrown out there. we know t president has talked with at least five people ly recent what are your thougiss on ? we know that the democrts rigom now have c out strongly against amy comb me barrett. how do you think? is there a strategy or what should be the strategy for the democrats? >> i think we ha to pick a lesser of evils. i think that trump is going to do w wtever hets to do. i have heard a lot of talk about a mule tramport? the first asian person to be on the supremecourt. i understand that -- i mean for trump, that would be a good pick because it wou t kind of looko ldus feed the people who are saying he's againti minori and thehetoric

about maybe being prejudice. and it would also, he likes to make history if he could pick the first asian american to bem on the s court, i think usthat. >> joyce, matt, thank you both forhus. >> thank you. president trump finally honoring a request to ler flags for the victims of the capitazel itgaas ntt pewereviou e wh that request. but press secretary sarah hackabee-sanders said when president trump heard mayor of annapolis wanting to reach out to him directly he immediately ordered the flags lowered. the trump administrion has announced the end of an obama-era guidelinehat meant to encourage diversity ons college cam >> what they di is came in and they revised policy eected to mirror the bush administrationm endations to prioritize representation neutral alternatives. there was a rot lot that w back and forth into this, we heard a lot from both sides,

people opposed there was a lot of big talk with the big supreme court decision with the students -- a student fm achool in texas who said shet thought she did not get into the school in texas because of the way they allowed studes in based on race, she lsued,ost and now we'reoing to go see how this new change from the trump administration could possibly affecteverything. wall street journal reporter michelle hackmanns us via skype. if you could awake down what this new guideline that the trump administration is going to to do,re b akwho i don't fully understan i. >> sure. wsoith the trump administration actually did was get rid a of obama-era guideline. that it felt like went beyond what the -- what the law said, you know, the supreme court said race is a perming to usen yourless tib admissions as limited a way as you can and s sort of don't taket too far.he and t trump people felt like these obama guidelines werey

basi saying, well, her are ways to use race and sort ff take it aar as you can wle still being in the legal limits he trump administration felt like that was an inappropriate use of federal policy. >> quick question here, because ying that they're going to ysa follow what the constitution guides right now and of course, we know that back in016, like shawn was saying earlier, scotus upheld the fisher clse and a you have private universit saying they will continue to abide by their own admission guidelines, so reallyis this just something that the president is putting forth just to set on record what his guidelines are on this policy? but it doesn't really seem likee it willr really take effect? or could this potentially set some sort of judicial precedent or thirdoption, open now the lines for this new pick of scotus to potentially overturn affirmative actioch