and judge cavanaugh as well. if you look at judge cavanaugh's 300 opinions and the 11 times he's dissented on the principles that the supreme court vindicated you see a record ago long as justice alito and justice scalia was on justice and liberty in particular. leland: your respect for both men certainly comes through as we watch on screen left some of the these immigration rallies. looking forward and we combine these were the interview that president trump is having, where does he look on immigration? what are the immigration issues that could be coming before the court that the new justice will have to decide on? >> you know, if by any chance president trump is watching i would encourage him to look at an opinion judge cavanaugh wrote whether undocumented workers should be allowed to vote in the union elections. judge cavanaugh said they should not be allowed to vote. on issue after issue, 300 times out of 300 times, every opinion that judge cavanaugh has written suggests a strong kind of fighting for the con

jim cavanaugh is with me. jim, you mentioned "charlie hebdo." it's only interesting insofar as the fact that this is a newspaper, this is a media organization. that gives police perhaps something else to work on in terms of who is targeting it or whether there are any motivations. they are going to look for threats to this organization, whether anybody has had a beef with them? >> absolutely. whether it is a personal vendetta, revenge. it could be a workplace scenario. you know, it could be former employees. it can be someone who was aggrieved by the publication. you even have -- in the news recently provok tours calling to murder journalists. journalists are always under threat especially when they are trying to report on the truth on exacerbated things in society. and journalists are killed all over the world for their reporting. it's not unusual that journalists would be attacked. but it doesn't mean that the motive here is about that it. could be a personal motive. a boyfriend/girlfriend, husband/wife, financial matter, family crime. so many

amy -- bret cavanaugh, amy barrett and tom hardiman, a judge from pennsylvania. ray ketledge from michigan. joan larson is out from women. allison another ives -- allison ives. they understand that the court has a duty to enforce the limits on government power and to interpret the constitution according to the text and the original meaning. they really believe in the rule of law. and this is a tremendous opportunity for the president to pick another justice like neil gorsuch who is extraordinarily well-qualified. very courageous and independent. and who wants to interpret the constitution the way the framers meant it to be. >> tucker: can democrats stop this? can you imagine a scenario where they could? >> i think if the president has a process like he had the first time, engages in a lot of advice and picks a great nominee like neil gorsuch. if he uses the gorsuch model i

jim cavanaugh, retired atf special agent in charge. we are following this story and our msnbc reporters in the field as well. jim, what do you see as important here? >> i think a couple of

this was written in 2009. >> i think that cavanaugh, judge cavanaugh, who sits on the circuit court, his interview has already been concluded. the interview would have been concluded as we look at the credentials there was when he wrote that law review article for the "minnesota law review." clearly today and, you know, look, you can say it's foreshadowing there, this person is talking about exempting a president from criminal prosecution. it's not a total exemption, to be clear. in the article he talks about deferring it, which i do not agree with. i think you need an opportunity if a president has run afoul of the law to hold the president accountable then, not to wait four years, eight years to to do it -- and to do it. that's a story for another day. someone who has that ideology and tipped their hand with regard to supporting such a law which constitutionality, i should say, would be very much in question because it would then look at holding a president above the law, i think that he would be a great choice as it relates to president trump himself thinking, look, this is the ki

. -- brett cavanaugh. clerked for justice kennedy. >> judge cavanaugh has distinguished himself on the d.c. circuit, has written brilliant opinions on a broad range of questions. he clearly meets the mark. >> laura: matt schlapp, a lot of people on the list. >> i worked with brett for four years. he would be fantastic. >> laura: you hear from the left. his another white male guy from the georgetown prep. you can already hear the left. they check off the box and say you can't nominate another white man. we need a diverse court. it is the jelly bean approach. >> we need to see 50 votes, and these democrats running in these red states, they have got to support the supreme court nominee or they are in big political trouble. >> laura: speaking of which, kamala harris went into total fearmongering mode today. let's watch. >> we are looking at a description of the -- destruction of the constitution of the united states, as far as i can tell. this has got to be, and we all need to understand this, to be one of the

judge cavanaugh. d.c. circuit here in washington. >> very distinguished service on the federal bench. hundreds of opinions published. someone who understands that the limits on government pour in our constitution are enter twined with freedom in our country. >> bret: will he have problems with democrats? >> anyone the president nominates will have a problem with democrats. i think the moderates will understand cavanaugh would be suitable. >> bret: he was the top official in the george bush white house. hardeman. >> he was someone the president interviewed the first time around. someone on the bench quite a while. seen lots of cases. someone who understands it's the job of a judge to interpret the law that is written. >> bret: reaching 5-4 rulings where kennedy was the majority. union dues just out today. trump travel ban. abortion lng. -- language. texas redistricting and ohio voter roll purge. but a swing vote on a lot of major cases. is the fear on the left justified this means that roe v. wade is in jeo

i think any one of them would be an amazing replacement for justice kennedy. >> tucker: brett cavanaugh is an impressive guy, for sure. one of the top democrats in the house of representatives, and fact that a man who many thought would succeed at nancy pelosi as speaker of the house should democrats win in the fall lost its primary last night. he is congressman joe crowley and he was widely expected to be house speaker and exterior of democrats retook the house. as we said, he was on his way out and he was toppled by a 28-year-old self identified socialists called alexandria ocasio-cortez. during the primary, ocasio-cortez attacked crowley for his race, saying that as a white man he was not fit to represent the district. she explicitly said, the election was "about race." can you say things like that now? apparently you can and win. charlie hurt is an editor at "the new york times." there have always been bigots in the country, for sure. but you didn't see people running for office saying, don't vote for the other guy, because of his skin color. when did that become allowed to? and why

the two leading candidates the president is looking at, justice cavanaugh from the d.c. circus and justice bare wrote from the seventh circuit, leading candidates for men and women, barrett is in her mid 40s and cavanaugh is 53 years hold. the president has to take the list of 25 and narrow it down to a single person. the president said that discussion began today with justice kennedy. listen here. >> we had a deep discussion. i got 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 very hard seat to fill. so we talked about different things. he was here a half an hour. >> the president knows he has a battle getting his nominee through the senate. chuck schumer said none of the people on the list should be acceptable to congress. so the gauntlet has been thrown. neil? >> neil: it has. thanks, john roberts. when they told me that tom dupree was coming in and will be here in person and i said, am i'm wearing this silly outfit? the former justice department maestro, good to see y

brett cavanaugh is the leading cabinet. candidate. he wants worked as a law clerk for justice kennedy. >> the announcement came just hours after the supreme court dealt a setback to labor unions . the justices struck down a law that forced nonunion workers to pay fees that go to collective bargaining. the court ruled mandatory union dues violated first amendment rights. that overturns a 40-year-old court precedent. jackie ward talk to union members to see how they feel about the union ruling. >> we were prepared for this type of ruling. as far as what we plan to do, we're going to stay strong and united. >> reporter: she works for the san francisco housing authority and has been a member of the union for more than 27 years. she says there's a misconception that union dues are used for political causes. she tells me that is not with the money goes towards. >> they are used for representation and negotiating. they are not used to have membipinrsr:this impacts public sector union members like firefighters, teachers and nurses. members in

mike lee, cavanaugh, a former candy clerk who currently sits as a judge on the u.s. court of appeals for washington dc, and amy connie baer, a former notre dame professor, who served as a clerk for the late supreme court justice. minority leader nancy pelosi says the stakes of kennedy's departure cannot be higher. >> republicans now have the opportunity to erase a generaf for women's rights, lg b ghts, workers rights and healthcare.>> our republican colleagues in the senate should follow the role they set in 2016 , not to cons year. >> reporter: democrats are still angry that republicans blocked president. obama's supreme court nominee before the 2016 election, on the grounds that voters should have a say and want the same deal now. she tweeted, for months away from an election there should be no election for a supreme court nominee until the american people have a say. mcconnell said that the senate when he denied judge garland hearing for nearly a year. the senate should follow the mcconnell standard now. nate ma mcconnell says the situation is much different. >> w

starting with brett cavanaugh.he was a lawyer for ken starr's team, but others have zeroed ed in on amy barrett, confirmed to the federal bench in chicago. she was a former law clerk to justice scalia and law professor at notre dame before taking the the federal bench but tangled with senator feinstein during her confirmation hearings. we've also heard the name raymond catlidge. a former clerk who now sits on sixth circuit. and you may see park come up. a favorite of mitch mcconnell. someone who's served in both government and private practice and finally, thomas hardeman. he has a fascinating back story. he drove a cab for some time. first in his family to go to college and he used to sit on the same court as the president's sister. >> thank you so much. laura jarrett. five big names to know. and now to our chief legal analyst, jeffrey toobin. kennedy of course, republican appointee. conservative. but you know, he was the key swing vote going the other way on same-sex marriage, abortion, roe v. wade, is everyone o

lucy cavanaugh, nbc news, london. >>> taking guns off the street. happening tomorrow in san francisco another gun buyback event. it is not in response to the maryland shooting. it was already scheduled to happen. this will begin from 8:00 in the morning until noon at united plaza on howard street in sonoma. and if you have a gun and you need a lock, you could pick one up there for free at any sfpd station. >>> what happens when county workers schedule a strike at the same time the county fair is about to begin. in this case the fair goes on. marin county workers planned to stage a three-day walk out starting sunday july 1st and the marin county fair begins tomorrow. the day before. and it runz through wednesday. while there are a number of closures and reduced staff, operations countywide and marin leaders say the fair will not feel that impact. >>> if you look at the calendar and say where has it gone. the first half of 2018 is just about gone. in the books and with that starting the second half of the year. cal trains monthly passes will cost you

first is cavanaugh, a judge here in washington. he is 53 years old and he spent will some time on the starr investigation. he has come to oral arguments a couple time this is term. he is very active. another one is ray ketlidge, he is only 51 and he had an opinion on a big digital privacy case, that was reversed by the supreme court. that was his opinion. and another one is thomas har y hardimon. president trump liked his life story. he spent time driving a cab to get his way through school. so he is a big contender. and finally a woman named amy koenig barrett. she is somebody trump just nominated. and during her confirmation hearing things got heated with dianne feinstein and some of the judge's supporters said feinstein was going after her on her religious as sort of a litmus test. so that right now is the working list. but last week it seemed like cavanaugh was at the top of the list for now. and he is a former kennedy clerk. >> thank you. let me put those names back over to jeff toobin. what did you make of those three judges?

brett cavanaugh from the d.c. circuit here in town. have a ray kethledge and on the sixth circuit, from michigan. we also have a woman by the name of amy barrett, a former notre dame professor on the seventh and circuit. and to circle back to my idea of connections, a man who mitch mcconnell really favored and got donald trump to put on the sixth circuit, judge thapar. he could potentially the first asian american justice on the court. and those are just a few of the names. but i would say that donald trump is put on a list of more than 20 names and neil gorsuch, when he was chosen, he was not chosen from the first list. his name came later. so there could be a dark horse here. but i still think that they will confine it to the names we have. but maybe not these four necessarily. although i think they are leading contenders and i think they're surrogates are doing work right now to try to get their profiles raised higher with the president and with key people who will influence this choice. >> interesting. and joan, looking back, were

reported early favorites brett cavanaugh. president georgepo w.apted him to the court of urt back in 2006..c.co circuit the president says he wants to pick a nominee that willrtit on the for decades. >>> let's switch gears now. another gopck setbaor immigration reform. yesterday theejouseected represented theff gop'sch strongesort in decades to find aompromise. compromise bill would have provide add pathway to citizenship for damers and provided a proposal to stop the administration's practice of separating famies at the border. >> more than a thousand women are expected to gather in d.c. today to protest the trump administration's zerode tolerancer policy in what oanizers say will be a massive display of civil disobedience. the group isemonstrating against the separation f migrant familiesthe calls come f a federal judge order requiring the trump administration to reunite children separated from their families within 30 days. the protesters will begin gathering at the freedom plaza arounng 10:00 this m. just before noon they'll march to the depar

he has a little bit more seasoning, not quite as long as judge cavanaugh but enough for them to get al sense of him. we have several of these judges who are out of michigan from the heartland of the country, and the president last time seemed very interested in that. we didn't get a lot of inside the beltway action. >> the woman who could be the second woman on the president's list that he's talking about, joan larsen of michigan, court of ael pas 6th circuit. >> another recent transplant to the court of appeals. should he ka she came off the state supreme court. has been regarded in academic circles for quite a while has someone who is a very, very solid conservative. in the president is interested in somebody who is interested in somebody who has more judicial experience, he might go for larsen. >> your wild card, william h. prior jr., alabama, the 11th circuit, is known for one thing and that is his resistance to roe v. wade. >> oft stated and strongly stated. if the president decides i really need for movement conservatives, evangelicals to get out there and support me, get to the

circuit named brett cavanaugh. judge cavanaugh has written explicitly about whether or not a sitting president can be indicted. he has expressed in writing that the indictment of a sitting president would "cripple the federal government, rendering it unable to function." and you know, that's interesting from judge kavanaugh. as an abstract point of argument. it might be a fun thing to chew over with him on the law review or whatever. but it's another thing entirely that he is being considered for the supreme court by a president whose campaign manager is on trial, whose deputy campaign manager and national security adviser and foreign policy adviser from the campaign are all awaiting sentencing and cooperating with prosecutors in this ongoing fbi counterintelligence investigation. no president has ever picked a supreme court nominee when looking down the barrel of this specific kind of personal potential criminal liability for himself. senator cory booker says a supreme court nomination under these circumstances sh

brett cavanaugh is his name, he is 53 years former white house lawyer for george w. bush. he was confirmed to the u.s. court of appeals in washington in 2006. he is considered a thoroughly conservative choice to the right of justice kennedy. and on www.ktvu.com we posted the list with the name -- names of all 25 possible nominees. you can go and find it under web links. >>> the official results are in from the san francisco mayor's race, the department of elections has certified the results in says voter turnout was 52% for the election. more than 253,000 ballots were cast in the june 5 primary. after eight rounds of ring choice voting, london breed won the race by one percentage point over mark leno. that is a difference of over 2500 votes. she will carry out the remainder of the late mayor term until 2020. >>> a sheriff's deputy shot and killed a dog today after it attacked its owner. deputies responded to the 5500 block of arcadia circle at 8 pm. the woman had severe bite wounds on several parts of her body and was on the ground being tended to by neighbors when deputie

we're hearing the front-runners to replace justice kennedy include brett cavanaugh and raymo raymond kettledge. and a former judge from kentucky who's close to senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. >> laura podesta here in new york. thank you, laura. >>> ahead on "cbs this morning," leonard leo who helped revise the list of supreme court nominees, he'll tell us what president trump is looking for to succeed justice kennedy. >>> and president trump plans to meet with another controversial world president vladimir putin. bolton spoke at a press conference yesterday after he himself met with few tin. bolton says president trump will ask about the summit. russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. president trump says the meeting will likely take place after the meeting on july 11th and 12th that he's reviewing. >>> the department of health and human services is reviewing the conditions at a shelter. meanwhile david begnaud rode along as officials raided a smuggling stash house in texas near the border of mexico. >> reporter: it was 10:30 a.m. in edinburgh, texas. the deputy w

a reported early favorite brett cavanaugh. president george w.ush ouappointed him to the c of ircuits for the d.c. in 2006. the president says he wants to ck a nominee that will sit on the court for decades. 4 >>2 is the time right now. usthe presidenting on relations with russia and of a sumetween thethe details president and russian president vladimir putin. now, an official announcement is supposed to happenlt aneously in d.c. and moscow. te plans call for two leaders to get together after the president's trip to europe next month where he'll attend nato meeting in brussells.da wednesat the oval office the president was asked what topics would be a part of the meetings agenda. >> i think we'll be talking abit syr think we'll be talking about ukraine, i think we'll be talking about, uh, many other subjects and we'll see what happens so you never know. k you neverw about meetings what happens right but i think a lot of good things can come with meetings with people. we had great meetings with president xi of china. every place i've been we'veea

some are being touted at frontrunner judges bret cavanaugh and amy barrett.enator mitch mcconnell says he want to vote to confirm them this fall and setting up the stage guys for a very, very contentious battle. brian: you think so? we finally get some tension in washington for a change it will be good just to diffuse things. ainsley: his brother is also on the list two. lees are on the list. steve: holy cow. meanwhile we have got as you can see right there judge andrew napolitano strategic analyst. brian: supposed to be on vacation. brian: the way the cards fall. steve: the republican does have a one vote majority in the senate. john mccain is out. up on comil capitol hill, they are going why don't we follow the biden rule because it's an election year wait until after the election. didn't that only apply to presidential election year? >> yes. it did only apply presidential elections. and these rules are just precedence. they are not rules. basically what the parties in power decided to do at the time. steve: right. judge: but, what mitch mcconnell did thoug

. >> reporter: all scott cavanaugh got was this sign saying the water feature is out of order and parts are on the way. he says he didn't know there are reports of kids getting sick. >> i wish they would just share a little bit more information with the public on that stuff. >> reporter: nbc bay area got a hold of this complaint inspection done by contra costa health services. the county inspector coming to blue goose park in brentwood after reports of four children getting sick after playing for two hours in the water on june 11th. their symptoms include vomiting and diarrhea. the inspector found chlorine and ph were within the required levels, but he also discovered the ultraviolet light disinfection system which is used to destroy harmful bacteria didn't work, andshutdown featur failed to activate. the city manager telling me by phone he knows the pump is getting repaired, but he has gotten no reports of anyone getting sick. but for this parent, who lives near the park, he would like the city to be more vigilant. >> they should have had thorough checkings every week, every weekend ma

we have the details from nbc's lucy cavanaugh. >> reporter: anthony bourdain was a globe trotting chefy skipped a good meal. so, when he didn't meet close friend and chef prepared for dinner thursday night, something seemed off. a waiter telling "the new york times," mr. ra pair thought it was strange. we thought it was strange. ra pair was in france filming the cnn series "parts unknown" staying at this five star hotel. when bourdain failed to show up for breakfast the following morning alarm bells went off. hotel staff said they tried to reach him on the cell phone. he was later found unresponsive in his room. >> let's talk about food and eat food. >> reporter: bourdain's mother told "the new york times," he is absolutely the last person in the world i would have ever dreamed would do something like this. but she a bourdain's mood had darkened in recent days. >> i was an angry young man. >> reporter: on the 2014 episode of his show he opened up about his past struggles with drugs an depression. >> there was some dark genie i hesitate to call a disease that led me to dope. >> reporter

but i do know in the calf gnaw -- cavanaugh report that we cited indicated that the cost of just implementation and integration of a software system, before you're dealing any of the other issues, it costs up to $250,000. that the maintenance of the system -- >> $12. we know that, too. the figure seems a little misleading. i guess the real question that justice breyer may be getting at and i would like your help on it too is the xafrt -- comparative difference. states may force internet providers to provide information like colorado does that enable them to collect tax from the taxpayer. the real delta here isn't no duty at all on the internet supplier versus collecting sales taxes. it's something like colorado's regime collecting sales tax. do you have any information at all as to which is a lesser burden. i wondered whether the colorado regime might be more burdensome to clients like yours who do sales over the internet than just simply collecting the sales tax itself. >> the colorado regime is much less burdensome. >> do you have any data on that? is there anything at all that tells us that?

rumored at the top of the shortlist is judge brett cavanaugh out of dc, justice kennedy will step down. >> organizers calling for a day of unrest today. cut targeting the 0-tolerance policy, the timing of all this. >> several incidents of harassment against republicans and some calling for more disruption. women's march to demand congress, it starts in a few hours saying we will find our bodies on the line to demand the end to the 0-tolerance policy that automatically criminalizes undocumented immigrants and to abolish ice, an agency that is terrorizing our communities every day. the tone of the march raising questions days after maxine waters urged supporters to push back political opponents. >> we all have to remember to treat our fellow americans, all of our fellow americans with the kind of civility and respect. >> martin luther king warned us about people like chuck schumer, not the ku klux klan, the obstacles toward justice, it was people calling for, quote, civility. >> reporter: at his rally in north dakota donald trump referenced dangerous rhetoric from the left. >> and please

somepeculation because judge cavanaugh klerkdz for kennedy it may have made kennedy m comfortable with his decision to refire. >> this week started beautifully and we're keeping our eye on storms across the region. t looking likeooking like no now.>> most place have not seen much in theay of rain today j shawn,, and the cloud hung tough today. that capped mperature and atmosphere was not able t bubble up like it usually does what we expect thunderstorms. the areaound tonight. wanted to mention we are still continuing to watch out to the west. we see thunderstorms out there and also see one that is more of downpour that i've been watching here right on the line between charles county anoust. mary cy that is movingds t prince frederick. brief, heavy rain for you. there fairly isolbeed. theren a bit more crossing through the hancock and hagersto area and moving to pennsylvania and widen out little bit. a bit more still back to the west. through west virginia and lanothere that i'm watching up closer to the area.sburgh so everything moving prchty mu from west to east proaching the wood sto

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lisa would be fantastic, people like judge cavanaugh and others, a whole list of potential nominees the president has on the list all of which would bode well for the country and the constitution. >> we don't have the best connection so we will you go but we know you will be counseling the president through this process, you know many of the judges on this list, thank you for your time tonight. great to have you. the president speaking in fargo, north dakota unleashing a new salvo about replacing justice kennedy. let's go to kevin cork in fargo. they were fired up. >> reporter: you better believe it, 6000 people packing the arena in fargo and another 6000 turned away, incredible to see this long line of red hats in fargo. no surprise a long and raucous address, 71 minute speech imploring them to support kevin kramer and he slammed so-called liberal sen. heidi heitkamp, the president mentioned the biggest news, the repenting retirement of justice anthony kennedy after 30 years on the bench. >> justice anthony kennedy, a very special guy just announced a little while ago his retirement fr

cavanaugh is a major front runner, at this point in time. republican senator mike lee of utah is also on that list. there are two people on the list, the final list, for the supreme court running that ended up going to neil course such -- gorsich, so, those are people who are considered to be top of the list. our sources are saying, eliana, that the brett cavanagh is someone that that the president is looking at it very closely. >> live in washington for us, thank you. for more on justice kennedy, and the battle that will loom over his successor, i am joined with addie, thank you for being here. let's start with the justice kennedy's legacy, what will he be remembered for? >> this retirement will include things that he might have known -- a been known for, before the big decisions today and yesterday. probably, mostly as a swing vote, or the person regarded as eccentric in many supreme court battles. >> in a majority of the cases, he cited with more conservative justices. he was an appointee of president ronald reagan, but, it is his liberal

his name is brett cavanaugh and he is 53 years old and was also a former white house lawyer for george w. bush. he was confirmed to the u.s. court of appeals in washington in 2006 and is considered a thoroughly conservative choice to the right of justice kennedy. >>> whoever president donald trump chooses, they say the president has a chance to reshape the high court for decades to come. a professor of law at uc hastings says the president will pick someone who lines up with hisagenda. >> the question is, what kind of right-winger will this be, will it be a libertarian business old-school republican or someone from the christian right? >> she also said democrats will likely tied -- try to stretch out the hearings as long as they can and as close as they can make it to the midterm election in november. david levine, a professor of loss as the nominee is likely to be a strict constructionist will move the court to the right. >> as much as possible they will make the person look like justice neil gorsuch, a young person, clear track record in conservative. who can have an impact for 30 ye

brett cavanaugh.f he picks from that stable of vetted traditionalist journalists, i don't know what the left is going to do. we are look for another kneel gorsuch. >> i hear jeanine pirro has it wrapped up. charles: democrats are railing against our constitutional system. they are saying president trump wouldn't same amount of votes, there have been democrats with the same number of total votes. it sounds like the democrats are ready to attack the constitution as a way of saying -- really ultimately it can be a 6-3 court. >> there is no question. i don't think that's the case with most of democrats. i think where you will see upset with the democrats is the mcconnell rule which isn't a rule which he applied on merit garland. saying in an election year you shouldn't be doing that. >> it's obvious. it's totally obvious it's always an election year. for congressmen it's always an election year. >> the constitution never said presidential or any other election year. what's going to happen this year is the

thomas ha thomas hardman, present cavanaugh of maryland.l advantage of being from the senate majority leader's home state. >> you have been reporting that the timing of this is significant. because it could actually push the whole confirmation process once it gets under way do happen a little bit faster? >> reporter: on the one hand yes, justices say when they announce their retirement, their retirement will be official when the next justice is named. if the president and the senate want to have nine justices here when the new term begins on the first're going to have to get it done then. but there's some feeling on the floor of the senate, that they're going to drag this out as long as possible, it will be a live election issue all the way up to the november election. the white house they want to get the full nine justices here, but the senate republicans may well want to make this a campaign issue, and people tend to pay the most attention to campaigns the closer they get. so we may not have a ninth justice on the court come the first mon

i think chairman roberts ranking members cavanaugh and commending you all for getting to this point. putting together a bill of this size and complexity is no small task. this legislation will impact every citizen and nearly every acre of land in america. there's several pieces of this legislation that i like very much and support. the market access informed market development programs being funded. these programs are very important that they promote our products abroad and leverage private dollars. i think there's sensible and much needed reform to the conservation reserve program that should help refocus it better to its original intent. in iowa we had some landowners getting over $300 an acre to put their farms into the crp. that was making it hard for young and beginning farmers to compete for land against the government. even well established farmers had rented land taken away from them because it was enrolled in crp at these lucrative rates. they were especially en sensed about being outbid for land by government knowing our tax national debt is 20 trillion. so i commend also m

and brett cavanaugh is the odds on favorite if the president picks a man. he's 53 years old.o 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 simp

brett cavanaugh is at the top of the list.ust recently he dissented when his court cleared the way for an undocumented teen to get an abortion. another one, amy barrett, she was at notre dame. during her confirmationearing, you could see that the democrats were really trying to get at her views of abortion. and she even got into a little bit of a spat with senator diane feinstein on religion. some people said that feinstein was looking for a litmus test there. another issue, the second amendment. tom hardiman is on this list. he's not one of the favorites of the federalist society, but donald trump really liked meeting him when he was a runnerup for the gorsuch seat. he has these opinions on second amendment, so that could come up in his hearings. another former kennedy clerk is ray kethledge. he wrote a digit privacy case that just got over turned. and the last one is interesting because he's very close to mitch mcconnell. that might get him over. and if indeed things get really heated in the senate during this contentious t

sources tell fox news that right now, brett cavanaugh is a major front-runner. he currently serves on the u.s. court of appeals here in d.c. that's a position he was appointed to back in2006 by george w. bush. there are also two people on the list who were finalists for the job that ended up going to now justice neil gorsuch. president trump personally interviewed both of those people. they also serve on court of appeals in pennsylvania and kentucky and we are told they also are pretty high up on the president's list at this point in time. >> thank you. >>> for more on justice kennedy's retirement, what this all means for the future of the supreme court, we are joined by uc-hastings professor hadar aviram. we know justice kennedy was reliably conservative but did side with liberals on key social issues, gay marriage and abortion among them. how much further right do you see the high court shifting now? >> so justice kennedy people think of him as the central swing vote in the court and he would be for civil rights organizations and people petitioning cords he wo

of appeals for the seventh circuit is one woman who sources say is a leading contender as is bret cavanaugh, a judge on the court of appeals for the district of columbia. both are conservative justices that trump picked from the list of 25 contenders he released during the campaign. despite fears on the left that selecting a staunchly conservative justice to replace swing vote anthony kennedy could put abortion rights and same-sex marriage in jeopardy, trump is saying those issues will not be a litmus test for his pick. take a listen. >> are you looking for somebody who would overturn roe v. wade? >> well, you know, it's a great group of intellectual talent. but we really -- you know, they are generally conservative. i'm not going to ask them that question, by the way. that's not a question i'll be asking. it is a group of very highly talented, very brilliant, mostly conservative judges. because i think i won't be discussing that because i think it's inappropriate to discuss. so i won't be discussing that. >> reporter: trump has said he will interview potentially one or two justices while h

brett cavanaugh, 53. amy coney-barrett 46, raymond ketledge, 51, amul thapar, 49.ee, 47, thomas hardiman, 52. this will be a conversation not only in the supreme court, but in both courts. >> they are very quiet behind the scenes that we're not even privy to, although my colleagues pointed out some of them in today's paper. this administration has been laying the groundwork for another nomination and confirmation site. they've made steps to try to persuade anthony kennedy that now would be the time to retire. and when that happened they were very much prepared for a quick process to try to get this person through. no matter who it is, whether it's someone on that list or somebody not on that list, there's no question it's going to change the koccomplexion of court in the way president trump has talked about wanting to do. >>> we'll take a break while we wait for the president of the united states. this is about the tax reform that the president signed six months ago and he'll also talk about the maryland shooting. let's listen to the president. >> thank you very mu

early favorite brett cavanaugh. president george w. tsh appointed him to court of appes.rked as a law clerk to justice kennedyn the 1990's. >> ♪ >> 6:06 is the time. sterday out in the sticks. >> yeah, north and west is where you got the bulk of the rain. a couple showers in d.c., a couple in southern marylandlk but the butayed off to the north and west. lucked out a little bit. >> next comes the heat. >> here comes the heat. get your pool g ready. you'll need it this weekend. 76 outside right now, it' s a tart in d.c. satellite and radar still a couple showers out in the sticks as wisdom likes to say trying to work their way out of t mountains. there could be a sprinkle or light shower. in the afternoon here come the sunshine and those 90's. going 90 deges for a daytime gh today. skies will clear through the afternoon hours. again we'll heat things up. through the weekend. wait until you see the fork. friday, saturday, sunday, some of the hottest days we've had n d.c. and we'll kee it going right in through the rest -- early next week and into the fourth of juholiday as.

joining us now is jim cavanaugh. jim, what do you glean from what we know so far? this is somebody who had a vendetta specifically against this newspaper, having filed a lawsuit against them, allowed himself to be taken alive however. >> right. this thing went on for years sim erring with this guy. it's a revenge motive. he wanted to get back at the gazette because they wrote a story about when he pled guilty to harassment charge in 2011. you can imagine every reporter in the world writes about these. so it's a routine story. he went after them for defamation. and lost his appeal in a circuit court last week. so he's a man choking on an empty grudge. they're saying he's not cooperating so far. but the baltimore sun is talking about he had a tweeter feed out talking about the corrupt corpses of the gazette in resent cent days. what a great job they did, they caught him at the scene, got his postings on twitter, which may be better than a confession in the long run if they tie it right to him, they got a strong case. but that's not going to bring back these five grea

jim cavanaugh, retired atf special agent in charge. we are following this story and our msnbc reporters in the field as well. jim, what do you see as important here? >> i think a couple of things. one from a witness early on said the shooter, killer reloaded, that gave him maybe a chance for people to get away. also had police with quick response, 60 to 90 seconds, and they apprehend the guy alive. he could have charged them even with an empty shotgun but chose not to die. so we don't know the motive. it could be an attack on journalists for their job, the guy chose to live. makes me think the guy has issues. >> you're referring to the potential motive that authorities haven't nailed down. the point is while tragic in any situation, that it would be a different type of crime analysis if this were workplace dispute or domestic dispute with larger motive, larger agenda. >> right. exactly. if there's political motivation say against journalists, the commanders need to sort that out, if they can find that out, need to tell the nation that

. >> sean: cavanaugh, the front runner?one who is being very seriously considered. >> sean: thank you, both. when we come back, sara carter, gregg jarrett, and jim jordan was in the meeting with strzok, straight ahead. you won't see these folks at the post office they have businesses to run they have passions to pursue how do they avoid trips to the post office? stamps.com mail letters ship packages all the amazing services of the post office right on your computer get a 4 week trial plus $100 in extras including postage and a digital scale go to stamps.com/tv and never go to the post office again >> sean: right here reaction. peter strzok >> sean: here with reaction, peter strzok testifying, and his testimony earlier today, ohio congressman jim jordan was there, sara carter is a report, author of -- you see that book --dash out in early july, "the russian hoax." please order your copies. a great book. i've actually had the honor of reading it. gregg jarrett. jim, you are in the room. i would love to know what you can't hel

and jim cavanaugh, retired atf special agent in charge. brendan, i have to go to you first. this was your hometown. you were a paper boy delivering the gazette years ago. talk to us about what this publication is to your community, especially at a time when local newspaper papers are more and more scarce. >> stef, it's a small town. you know, there just aren't that many people here. 30,000 people in annapolis. the paper, you know, this morning on social media, i saw three different people from annapolis, friends, who had been profiled by wendi winters. she was one of the journalists who was killed yesterday. and so we call it the crab wrapper here. we say that with affection. but there was nothing remotely political about this paper. its editorials were straight down the middle. it very much did the work of a local paper. i keep coming back to wendi winters. she was active in my wife's church. and she wrote the teen of the week feature. she wrote the home of the week feature. this is the work that a local paper does so we understand who we are. annapolis is lucky to have a l