they can try to swing a couple of republican senators like lisa murkowski. susan collins of maine. but they might loseouple because some democrats are in tough reelection fights in states trump won big andhey might lose them. so there are not a lot of good options >> i think we need to really think about the -- what the eademocratic partydership is doing.

by that time there might be enough pressure on republican senator susan collins of maine and lisa murkowski to vote against a judge that would overturn roe versus wade. they're the only two pro-choice republican senators. so if jeff flake does not back down from what he said he would do to block trump judges before he knew that one of the judges he would have to block would be a supreme court justice, then jeff flake could create a dynamic situation on the senate floor where anything could happen. the democrats might be able to hold all of the democrats then in opposition to a trump supreme court nomination. and then, on the senate floor, it would only take that one republican to kill the nomination. and if jeff flake is that one republican, he would then leave the united states senate with a very important place in history. leading off our discussion now, jill wine banks, neera tanden, and ron klain, former chief counsel to the senate judiciary committee and an obama administration official. he has worked on several senate confirmations of supreme court justices in his senate staff positio

and we don't know exactly how far susan collins and lisa murkowski are willing to go on the issue of abortion. and right now that is all of the talk. that is what everybody is talking about because it is believed to be the first thing that could go if this court swings dramatically to the right. so i think we really don't know how they're going to move their weight around in the senate with it so narrowly divided, every senator on the republican side has a lot of power to kind of affect -- maybe not the timing but the tenure of the debate about the justice. >> with 25 candidates, there are some on there who are conservative, young, and that the president thinks can get through the litmus test of susan collins and senator lisa murkowski for blowing up his nomination. he doesn't want that to happen. >> and is there anything realistically you think the democrats could do to prevent a roll call vote on the floor of the united states senate until after the mid-term elections? >> i think obviously it is very hard. but i also feel that we've seen some extraordinary things happening in polit

and i asked lisa murkowski and we had a 10-minute diussion on a stairwell and she said roe vers wade is a significant factor but not the only factor for her. she is aware of the pressures she fac already. she is under the pressure cooker a lot considering her independent streak and buck the party leadership.it bus anybody's depess. robert: they are not the onlyer ones u pressure. the red state states, itkamp, joe mamp chin of west virginia. >> and right before the election, they don't want to be getting crossways how trump voters and do they approach this? theys. need democr heidi and you can't alienate them either. you sayi' glad i'm not a senator. that will be a tough and then the interesting thing, say someone breaks away, one of the republicans, one -- what do the democrats do, do they want to put the president trumpominee on the supreme court? it's fascinating the way they have to operate in this eironment. robert: we don't pay enough attention how this administration has overhauled the u.s. courts. and it's not just the supreme courts bute d mcbegan in the white house working w

and the question is, i guess, can democrats peel off susan collins and lisa murkowski who are nominallyot very likely. >> and do you think that if the democrats raise hell, as sang ella wants them to, that helps or hurts whatever chance they have in getting susan collins and lisa murkowski to come to their side. >> the goal is to get people who are constituents who feel disenfranchised and vote to in align with them and if they see a weak spine, that is not to their benefit. but in terms of being consistent in hypocrisy we're talking about the importance of mid-term elections and a statement and example used about the russia collusion to wrap things up from doj because you don't want anything to infringe on that and so if it is important to the justice department it should be consistent with the supreme court justice so i have a difficult time hearing people talk about the idea you could be dismissive of an election cycle whether it is presidential or midterm where it is a point of contention as to why that particular investigation should go away until later. >> do you think that this i

chooses is something that would be offensive to pro-choice republicans like susan collins or lisa murkowskiher thing they have to worry about is that they've got these ten red state democrats, some of whom may decide that it's no sweat out of their back to go vote for this republican nominee. three democrats did it last time for gorsuch in these red states. so that could occur again. but they've lost the filibuster. this can pass with 51 votes. so they will fight if they have to, but they really know they don't have the leverage they wish they had mplts. >> some of them will fight because they actually believe it's important. it's not just a political posture. >> but they go into it knowing that the odds are that they're not going to win. >> they're going to need 50 votes because if it's a tie, then the vice president breaks the tie in favor of the republican nominee. this could create, as we've noted, some serious problems for those vulnerable democrats up for reelection in states that trump won. >> that's right. gloria of course alluded to this just a minute ago. this is why we had so man

news is reporting tonight that white house council don mcgahn reached out to susan collins and lisa murkowski to discuss the vacancy. the two confirmed the call to nbc news. and sarah sanders tweeted senators collins and murkowski met with donald trump tonight to discuss the future of the supreme court. she also says, quote, potus team also talked with more than a dozen other senators today as part of an outreach to get views and advice from both sides of the aisle. so we're still very early in the nomination process and the strategy of the two sides are still being worked out. one thing is certain. the people who may ultimately have the most power to influence who becomes the next nominee to the supreme court are the american people. as joe biden said today, the price to be paid for putting our values at risk must be clear now. joining us now christopher khang, now the chief council of demand justice, and also joining us jason johnson politics editor at the root.com and kareem gene pierre. >> i'm going to start with you because you organized the rally today been i feel the democrats are stak

it comes down to use and collins and lisa murkowski. they say they are pro-choice. if they vote for any person on trump's list, they are voting to end a woman's right to choose. donald trump has told us that. he said in the campaign if he got two votes on the supreme court, he would reverse roe versus wade and end a woman's right to choose. we have to put that in front of collins and murkowski. they have to be more worried about getting eelected than getting a primaried by a trumpite. that's what our forces have to bring to this fight. >> cheryl lynn. >> i'm not a politico. i concede i don't have all of the numbers. i don't want to put it down it these two senators. we're in a moment in which every senator has to confront himself. i understand it the power mitch mcconnell has. you heard him in the top of your segment. he said we will confirm president trump's nominee this fall. he hadn't looked at what the nominee is or what the qualifications are of that nominee. he's going to confirm. that's astonishing for the senate majority leader to say. president nixon advanc

the president also met with judiciary chairman chuck grassley, lisa murkowski and lisa collins who are watched closely as the white house vets supreme court nominees. >> the white house claims it cannot keep the country safe unless a federal judge reverses its order requiring the government to quickly reunify families separated at the border. the ruling endangers national security. the administration's hard-line immigration policy is not deterring everyone. cnn's nick valencia was on a ride along with customs as they caught a group of immigrants crossing the rio grande. >> after meet with the leaders of honduras, guatemala and el salvador, pence delivered a clear message. >> among this flood of illegal migrants are human traffickers and violent gang members like ms-13. but most are making the journey seeking economic opportunity. driven by the misguided belief that they can ignore the laws of the united states and enter our nation without consequences. i say with great respect to the presidents gathered here, this exodus must end. >> as of monday, there are 2,047 separated, unaccompani

what do you expect from lisa murkowsky, from susan collins? from any other republicans that may hold up a nomination, that could overturn roe? and then what do we expect from joe manchin on the other side, and heidi heitkamp and senator donly from indiana. are they going to, because they want to get re-elected, are they going to blindly follow wherever trump's nominee takes them? >> well that is where all of the focus is going to be, joe. if you look at the democratic messaging that came out last night, they made it very clear the two things that they're going to focus on with any nominee are the two things that trump quite frankly said would be litmus tests which are the overturning of roe and also the aca. he's actually said that. he would choose, he said that in the past he would choose justice who is support these things. in the confirmation hearings, they will nail whoever the nominee is, on these points. now the two women republicans, yes, there's going to be a lot of focus on them. a lot of focus on the democrats. but i think lisa murko

susan collins and lisa murkowski and senator donnelly, senator man chin and senator heitkamp.said to unveil it before he leaves for a trip to europe. both parties bracing for a showdown. on this one they have a process. they have to understand the importance of reaching out. lisa murkowski, susan collins, two republicans worried about the swing vote with anthony kennedy gone. new restrictions on abortion could come into play. critical. with john mccain absent, if you lose a republican, you're going to lose a democratic vote, so you bring in three democrats that are likely to be your target of opportunity here. >> this is one of the big things the white house is hailed as doing smoothly last year. that was the nomination and confirmation of neil gorsuch who is a chief justice now. don mcgahn, the white house council, is having a meeting now while the president decides what the supreme court will look like for the next few decades. we were told short after we found out kennedy was retiring that they will move this quickly and now we're seeing how quickly they want this to go. a

the two who folks are talking about is collins, murkowski, susan collins, lisa murkowski, both pro-choice, both sending signals that this may be different than last year's battle over neil gorsuch where they voted to confirm gorsuch. indicating maybe the issue of roe v. wade could be preeminent in their considerations on this. it's a big if. would they go to the lengths of voting no, joining with democrats trying to stop a trump pick? they've sent signals that have people talking about it. if you start at 50 for republicans and lose collins and murkowski, that's an ugly four but you're down to 48 for the republicans and then you would be short. remember, we're talking about democrats here, too. a lot of democrats running for reelection this year in states donald trump carried in 2016, some by giant margins. so manchin, west virginia. up for reelection, trump won by 42. heitkamp in north dakota, trump took it by 36. donnelly in indiana, trump took it by 20. donnelly, heitkamp, manchin, they voted for neil gorsuch last year, they're vasing voters in these states so if you had 48 and you got

my friend lisa murkowski and i have something in common turns out we worked on the transatlantic pipeline in atlanta. on the pipeline after high school i joined the union and i spent the summer working in the kitchen it was an entry-level job i wasn't allowed to touch anything hot or sharp, but it was an interesting summer and all those years later it gave us something to talk about. once we started talking about that, we found ourselves talking about something else we have in common. we are can turn to that the fact kids in rural communities don't have access to the mental health services they need. we met with too many parents and teachers that worried their kidr kids were slipping through the cracks so we decided to team up and now we have a bipartisan bill to bring mental-health professionals in the health service corps into more schools to have access to services. the truth is when women are empowered to contribute fully, we all benefit. we've seen it in the last generation and we are seeing in our politics as women drive the resistance to policies that hurt people and leave our chil

. >> reporter: alaska's lisa murkowski and maine's susan collins who says she wants a justice who views roe v. wade as settled law. senators are discouraged from asking a nominee how they would rule on a particular case, though, collins and the rest of the senate will dig through the nominees' records looking for clues once the president names his pick, which he says he will do very soon. nancy cordes, cbs news, capitol hill. >>> well, president trump says he's looking forward to his meeting with russian president vladimir putin. the summit will take place july 16th in thousands of documents by next week. >>> a september 7th hearing is set for president trump's former campaign aide. george papadopoulos lied last year. he is cooperating with the special counsel, robert mueller's investigation, into possible collusion and the trump cam pape. >>> and first lady melania trump made her second trip to immigration facility. she met with border officials in tucson, arizona, yesterday. she toured a facility in phoenix also. last week she visited a shelter in texas. >>> rescuers in thailand conti

people like susan collins and lisa murkowski have been incredibly thoughtful on helping support women's care. these are the kinds of voices the conversation taz we need to be having activating engaging in people across the country. >> republican senator susan collins of maine said roe versus wade is settled law when asked about abortion rights this afternoon. let's watch. >> well, first of all, i view roe versus wade as being settled law. it's clearly precedent and i always look for judges who respect precedent. >> susan collins is great and said she respects jungs accepts it as it is. do you believe that roe versus wade is safe? >> no, because when a president makes that pledge on national tv and says he's going to stick to it and goes to the measure of saying he would punish women, you have to take what he said during the campaign, he is implementing. and what we don't want is a bench that basically is going to follow that will textualist list being sent to him. it would be one thing if he was calling us and saying i hear you. let's hear who you think or justices that would follow pri

i want to draw your attention to lisa murkowski and susan collins. why are they critical. because they both have shown that they're concerned about th wade. they are concerned about abortion. with anthony kennedy as the swing vote, this is the first opportunity in many decades for anti-abortion rights groups to get a chance to actually fundamentally reshape and perhaps take on that critical decision. i talk to senator susan collins about this a little bit earlier today. she was very clear. take a look. >> does the nominee have to commit to you that he or she would uphold the precedent of roe versus wade to get your support? >> i always have a thorough interview with judicial nominees for the supreme court, for circuit courts. and one of the questions that i always ask is, do they respect precedent? and from my perspective, roe v. wade is an important precedent and it is settled law. >> so as you can see, she says, look, this is settled and what she wants to hear from any nominee is that they are will respect those precedents. i do think that there are still -- we don't hav

on the republican side, jeff flake, susan collins as well as lisa murkowski on the democratic side. we just showed them there. red state democrats. what does the president do? what does the white house do? it's my reporting they haven't done a ton on the actual pick side. >> yeah, well, they can't do much outreach to convince senators to vote for this pick until they have a pick. so they're going to want to vet these potential nominees. and trump's going to want to meet with them. i think one important factor and you know this based on all the appointments to nominations trump has made before, he values personal chemistry. he's going to want to have the finalists come in to sit down with them. he's going to want to feel like he can connect with this person. like this person is going to be loyal in some way to him. at least he's comfortable with the person. that's going to matter. then they're going to put a lot of pressure on heidi heitkamp and manchin of west virginia. they're going to really feel the heat. and one person to really look at is joe donnelly of indiana. that is a soci

the senate confirmation of kennedy's replacement could hinge on senators lisa murkowski and susan collins, two republicans who support abortion rights. >> i view roe v. wade as being settled law. >> president trump said he will nominate kennedy's successor from a list of about two dozen people. 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

. >> lisa murkowski, susan. they have been in a swing in situations before. >> that's exactly right. they are not afraid to stand up strong for what they believe in. they are not afraid to vote against the republican tide. so this is why it's important for the president to not have a roe v. wade litmus test for his nominee, whoever that person is. and to even hold out hope that that person could be annan thoepb kennedy-like supreme court justice. remember, kennedy was the justice that wrote the deciding opinion on same-sex marriage. so it could be a republican justice who is very socially progressive. so we'll have to wait and see. but that's what it is going to take to get murkowski and collins on board. >> shermichael, i'm looking at midterm elections looming. the president said he will make his nomination a week from monday, july 9th. with all of this hraoplg, is there a republican advantage to the a quick process or to dragging this out closer to election day, and what's the likelihood this gets done like th

i have a few question marks about lisa murkowski and susan collins. i think this will put red state democrats in a tough position if they don't vote for trump's nominee. if they don't, they will be in trouble with their far-left base. they are in a tough position in the mid-terms because of this. charles: the president has foreign trips lined up. first russia, then he'll address nato. it feels like for some it was cobbled together rather quickly, and people are wondering what we can achieve at a time when we are in disputes with our friends. ned: they thought the singapore summit it with kim jong-un was hastily put together and i thought it was a triumph and a positive step in the right direction. he has been talking about putin. i think it's a good thing to have talks with russia. singapore was such a success. charles: president trump saying just not long ago he'll focus on syria, ukraine, russia and the elections. people want him to be tough on vladimir putin with respect to meddling in the elections, and they wanted him to say it, whether putin say

they can try to swing a couple of republican senators like lisa murkowski. susan collins of maine.ut they might loseouple because some democrats are in tough reelection fights in states trump won big andhey might lose them. so there are not a lot of good options >> i think we need to really think about the -- what the eademocratic partydership is doing. what is pelosi and schumer's job? that is to whip up votes to support things. we need to remember that the discipline with which the republicans mucked up the system and prevented the -- obama's nee, supreme court no there's the playbook right there. >> right. >> the democrats, like you said, they have to have t stomach to do that, they have to have the will and they have to hear from av ierage people that's wha expected. so much is at stake. >> but the republicans are in the majority now,o realistically what can the democrats do? >> filibuster, roll call votes, slow down the system. there's just as few month until the midterm election, and the whole issueith the supreme court, so many things are at stake. abortion rights and the ov

. >> besides these conservative democrats, we're looking at republicans like lisa murkowski and susan collins. is that what this fight will boil down to? >> it's one of the things this fight will boil down to. we're seeing a lot of attention being put on the issue of roe v. wade. when gorsuch replaced scalia, we knew that was a conservative. with the risk of a conservative taking kennedy's place, i think a lot of progressives and democrats are concerned about the future of roe versus wade. manchon is in a bits of a predicament. he's in deep red west virginia but at the same time he wants to appeal to a democratic base. the president has said he's not going to ask his potential nominees about the issue of roe v. wade, so that could open the door to speculation on the future of that ruling. so i think conservatives are really about to hunker down to really get someone into that court seat to potentially make traction on that issue. but i think you're going to see a big fight from democrats on that. so lots of money being put into this right now. >> and interesting days ahead. kevin, wha

but look on the other side, we have senator susan collins of maine and lisa murkowski of alaska, veryndependent-minded senators who haven't been afraid to buck their party. they both support abortion rights. that will be the frame that the democrats use in the coming weeks. this is the nominee that could overturn roe versus wade. >> this is not going to be the summer of love. this is not 51 years later and everyone is kisinging kumbaya. >> some can speak much more authoritatively than i can on supreme court nomination. i can't imagine that will be a pretty process. as far as the summit, i think one of the big concerns is that president trump stands next to vladimir putin and praises him. sort of what we saw with kim jong-un in singapore. there is a lot of concern he will make comments about meddling in the election that will disparage the investigation. we have already seen that actually. but to stand next to vladimir putin and do it brings it to another level. and he might make concessions or agreement. a lot of people felt he did that, he made concessions to kim jong-un and north ko

on the republican side, senator jeff flake has often opposed the president and lisa murkowski and susan collins are concerned about whether the court will uphold abortion rights. >> from my perspective, roe v. wade is an important precedent and it is settled law. >> reporter: on the democratic side, heidi heitkamp, joe donnelley and joe manchin are up for re-election. >> i think they want me to do my job, i would hope, kasie. my host is the best person with the best quaffifications gets that position. >> there is it next to nothing that democrats can do to stop this. don mcgahn has called knowuse to this knock-down-drag-out fight. lester? >> now to some explosive moments also on capitol hill as house republicans grilled fbi director christopher wray and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. republicans urging rosenstein to wrap up the russia investigation, which he's overseeing. democrats firing back. our chief white house correspondent hallie jackson has fore for us tonight. >> reporter: inside a house hearing room, a political production. >> i'm read what the press said. >> i would

. >> just watch the two female senators lisa murkowski from alaska, susan collins.s why you are going to see at love pressure on them. you will see democrats two republicans if they could peel them away and say no, i mean, their handling of this process is going to be interesting. do they decide to be that vote for a justice that could potentially overturn roe v. wade. there may be a lot of people that think it's poorly worded. but this is politics. and there is going to be a message from democrats saying this court. this new trump court with two new supreme court justices will overturn the right to abortion in at least 30 states. >> shannon: you have to find somebody who has never written a opinion on it or answered a question on that. >> even that strikes me as optimistic. the conservation here is sanguine about the possibility of a fight over somebody's actual record and the things he or she has actually written. i don't think that's what's going to happen. i think democrats we have seen already are so hysterical at the prospect of a conservative court that they'

a' reporter: alaska's lisa murkowski and maine's susan collins, who said today she wants a justice who views "roe st wade" as settled law. >> the prudent course is to wait red see whom the president chooses to nominate. r: reporter: senators are discouraged from asking nominees how they would rule on a particular case, so collins and test of the senate will comb through the nominee's record looking for clues once the president announces his pick which, jeff, he says, he will do very soon. >> glor: nancy cordes on capitol hill. nancy, thank you. things got pretty heated today. republicans accused of f.b.i. and the department of justice of withholding documents from the mevestigation into russian meddling in the 2016 electio goa sparred with deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who oversees the special counsel probe. >> whatever you got, finish it the hell up, because this country is being torn apart. pp i think the best thing we can do is finish it appropriately and reach a conclusion. >> glor: rosenstein insisted his wifice is "not trying to hide anything." severe storms with gusts u

ready to deliver, there's tremendous pressure on the two pro-choice republican women senators, lisa murkowski of alaska and maine's susan collins. >>ter: idehave y ance of blocki a nomination, they can't afford to lose a single vote, but now three democrats up for re-election in states trump won are feeling the heat. they all voted to confirm neil gorsuch, but that didn't stop the president from attacking one of them, north dakota's heidi heitkamp, in her own backyard last night. >> heidi will vote no to any pick we make for the supreme court. >> so, let's bring back in terry moran from the white house. and terry, with the president's second nomination to the court now, less than two years into his presidency, this court will likely soon lean solidly conservative, and the president's potential picks, they're all relatively young. >> reporter: that's right, david. that long list of 25, the average age is somewhere just over 50 years old. when the president says his choice will have an impact on america lasting for decades, he's absolutely right. and that sharp shift to the right that this nomi

senators lisa murkowski and susan collins of maine. >> roe v. wade is an important precedent. it is settled law. >> reporter: they will be under pressure. >> no question about that. terry moran live from the white house. president trump is in new jersey this weekend. he says he might be interviewing potential supreme court nominees. >> that's right, david, in new jersey and in washington next week. he said he might even add a couple names. he's been through this process before with neil gorsuch. it's clear he like other presidents wants to make that personal assessment. people in the process say he's looking not just for intellect, but toughness. >> terry, a comedian claiming he called the white house posing as a senator, congressman menendez and said he convinced them to get the president to call him back from air force one. >> that's right. the white house is not confirming this. we called senator menendez and they say the white house called and asked why senator menendez called. it was a comedian who was able to have a conversation with president trump. the president talkin

you see key players like chuck grassley, republican chair of judiciary can do, susan collins, lisa murkowski but at the bottom you have democrats like joe manchin, democrats facing reelection in strong trump republican states, in 2016, that is interesting, the president's critics say he doesn't reach out to democrats, he's clearly doing that. heitkamp praised that he is reaching out for democratic votes. contrast that to this process from democratic senators out of the supreme court denouncing the idea the president is going to try to get this pick done before the midterm elections even though barack obama got a supreme court nominee before the 2010 midterm switching contest disability of the white house about advice and consent with what democratic senators and liberal commentators are saying making it sound like this is the end of the world. >> looking at destruction of the constitution of the united states, folks he has been appointing for lifetime appointments. >> this court is unbounded in its power, not just abortion and marriage equality but everything. it is all political. >> whereve

lisa murkowski and susan collins, according to politico. the fate of the supreme court could ride on these two senators. but how likely is it that collins and murkowski would actually break from their own party? well, we can look at some of their words now. according to politico, collins has said that an outside group should not be dictating whom the senate considers. murkowski says that trump has already kept his commitment to that list of 25 conservative choices by elevating neil gorsuch to the supreme court and that he should extend his search beyond that list. a very interesting comment there. so given that, what you're hearing from republicans, the president is also starting to put the pressure on democrats, specifically potentially flipable senators from red states that went for trump. joe manchin, joe donnelly, heidi heitkamp in particular, heitkamp getting some treatment from the president when he visited her home state earlier this week. >> we need kevin cramer to replace liberal democrat heidi heitkamp in the senate. heidi voted n

susan collins and lisa murkowski or convince red state democrats like joe mansion, joe donnelly and heidi heitkamp to jump on board. they met with donald trump last night to discuss the supreme court vacancy. on donald trump's short list are two female candidates come two highly qualified individuals but also no doubt that a female nominee could go a long way to swear senators that may be on the fence. >> thank you very much. the president said he will announce the pick to replace justice kennedy july 9th. the battle lines have already been drawn, they will try to derail the confirmation process until after the november midterm elections. one washington post columnist tell democrats they know they should be blaming thing democrats nuclear action gambles are coming up snake eyes. the cohost of the 5, juan williams and guy benson invented talk radio, the hit show. let me play what sen. cory booker is saying about this as we move forward. >> we have a president with a criminal investigation, donald trump is two or three years left but we should put a pause on this and avoid a conflict of int

guests including heitkamp herself up for also at that dinner, lisa murkowski of alaska and susan collinsf maine. >> roev. wade is an important precedent and it is settled law. >> day two will be under tremendous pressure. >> terry moran, abc >>> in lake county, firefighters are being flown into some of the remote areas to help make containment lines. full contain many is expected next tuesday. 22 structures, some of them home,s, have been destroyed. this map shows you where the fire has burned in an area near clear lake oaks. the fire started last saturday. >>> a 9-year-old napa boy is in stable condition at the uc davis berkeley science camp. it happened on thursday. thou there are a lot of questions about why it happened. cornette bernard has the story. >> all of us are completely horrified. >> this is the napa classroom where a week long chemistry camp for kids, ages 8 to 12, was happening. bow thursday, a science experiment demonstration went terribly wrong. >> something happened. there was a fire. unfortunately a young man, 9-year-old, was burned. >> the 9-year-old boy and eight oth

that includes merate republicans like lisa murkowski and susan collins.a 51-49ajority and will likely need every vote. in be prepared to sit traffic if you're traveling this holiday. >> aaa is predicting some godly conditions on the road. that's because 1.2 million people from our area wilbe aveling more than 50 miles over the next week and a half. that's 19% of everyone who livea around d.c. >> wow. just so you know monday is expected to beib te, but aaa predicts tuesday afternoon will be t absolute worst time on our roads, especially when holiday traffic mixes with rush hour volume between 4:00 and 6:00 p.m. >> as you probably, expe the most congested roads are going to be the big highways highlig t tl ed there on your screens. the belt way and of course i-95. >>> today is the busiest day at the airport for people who are flying out for the 4th of july. >> the headaches could be worse for travelers here because of construction around theairport. >> reporter: i'm meagan fitzgerald where tsa officials expect today to be the busiest travel dayy've ever see

would republicans like lisa murkowski of alaska, susan collins of maine who have made this an issue that'sduring the gorsuch hearings, could the president lose their votes? >> it's possible, but i think there will be some democratic votes. i think the nominee's going to get through, and i think we have chuck schumer and harry reid to thank for that for, you know, playing with the rules and putting the republicans in a more -- neil: you know, they've been saying of the president on this, mitch mcconnell on this, boy, you are hot to trot right now, so hold off finish. >> yeah, it's ridiculous. as ed whalen pointed out for you, it's a ridiculous argument, and it shows you sort of the paucity of arguments they have on their side. neil: it really is your sand box if you're the party in power. you realize that glaringly here. >> right. especially now with the rules in the senate, no filibuster. neil: yeah. it's a simple majority. >> put it this way, it's hard even for the republicans to blow this one. [laughter] neil: they have in the past. we'll watch what happens. bill mcgurn, former speech wr

. >> reporter: the senate confirmation of kennedy's replacement could hinge on lisa murkowski and susan collins, two republicans who support abortion. >> i view roe v. wade as being settled law. >> reporter: president trump says he will nominate kennedy's successor from a list of about two dozen people. laura podesta, cbs news, new york. >> kennedy retires july 31st. >>> defense secretary james mattis is in south korea this morning amid reports that north korea is making rapid upgrades to a nuclear facility. recent satellite photos show fast paced infrastructure improvements at that site. experts say it looks like modifications were made to a reactor with other work. the ongoing work doesn't mean north korea is ignoring its commitment to denuclearize. >>> we are now hearing from a former i.c.e. spokesman who resigned after he claims he was pressured to mislead the public. james schwab says i.c.e. agents recently showed up at his door claiming they were investigating whether he was the one who informed oakland mayor libby schaaf about impending raids. >> did you ever contact the oakland

majority leader has said the legislation, but you could imagine 51- is iossibl susan collins and lisa murkowski and the others get together with dow jones alabama if he is elected in tennessee to say do we not have more of a regular order in the senate. right now this is shocking to me, they are out of 14-7 which would protect him but it would create a review process if the president tries to fire the special counsel, there are some concerns about that that could be addressed but it comes out the judiciary to-1. shouldn't he at least bring it to the floor to let people amended to see if they can get 60 votes on the floor? the littlest punching just say i'm not bringing it to the floor and incidentally of the if the president doesn't like it he can veto it. it's not taking away his power or legislation to do it. so i think there is a pretty good feeling among the younger members especially in the house and senate tha the senate that m is really broken and that it is and this pres trump and i think you could see a situation whatever happens in the next four or five month this post-election day in

also at that dinner, lisa murkowski of alaska and susan collins of maine, both pro choice. >> roe v.ade is an important precedent and it is settled law. >> day two will be under tremendous pressure. >> terry moran, abc news. >>> in lake county, firefighters are being flown into some of the remote areas of the ponte fire to help secure containment lines.ne tuesday. 22 structures, some of them home,s, have been destroyed. mandatory evacuation orders have been lifted. this map shows you where the fire has burned in an area near clear lake oaks. the fire started last saturday. >>> a 9-year-old napa boy is in stable condition at the uc davis burn center in sacramento. his clothes caught fire at a city-run science camp. it happened on thursday. now there are a lot of questions about why it happened. >> all of us are completely horrified. >> this is the napa classroom where a week long chemistry camp for kids, ages 8 to 12, was happening. but on thursday, a science experiment demonstration went terribly wrong. >> something happened. there was a fire. unfortunately a young man, 9-year-old, w

. >> gloria, how aren't are sunni collins and lisa murkowski, for the future of abortion rights in thisotes have senator murkowski and senator collins are are absolutely crucial. because we do know that the republicans are the majority. in the united states senate so their voices are parent. their votes are important and they understand the consequences. i'm sure they wouldn't call themselves proabortion. i'm sure they'd call themselves pro-choice because you know, as pro-choice people, we're not saying women should have abortions or should not have abortions. we are saying they should have that choice. they should have lib rer erty t make the voice for themselves and not have the government or senators sitting in the united states senate or washington or legislators make that choice, so their votes are crucial. we're going to be watching them carefully and the concept that let the decision stand. it's a legal concept called starry desis is. they have made that decision about roe v. wade time and time again. let decision stand. >> all right, thank you very much for your perspective and

>> let's talk about susan collins and lisa murkowski. they are not going to vote for somebody who will roll back roe versus wade. everybody has to calm down. if they don't get this person approved by the senate and the clock keeps ticking they do have an election. my thought is they will come up with a measured strict constitutionalist but someone who won't vote in an extreme way. charles: a lot of folks on the republican side who didn't like donald trump or were critics of donald trump, they are saying at least they are backing him despite having some continues with him validated today. because the supreme court is the ultimate decision that the president of the united states can make. >> he drove out the vote by putting it out there to americans. look, this is how important a president is with respect to appointing supreme court justices. i think the say thing will hold true now. what they will try to do is delay the vote. however, if they don't use the political poison pill to get to 51, what they will try to do is make it a get out t

. >> reporter: the senate confirmation of kennedy's replacement could hinge on lisa murkowski and susan collins, two republicans who support abortion. >> president trump says he will nominate the successor from a list of about to dozen people. laura podesta, cbs news, new york. >> kennedy's retirement will take effect on july 31st. >>> right now, protests are you understand way at an i.c.e. facility in portland, oregon. this video just into our newsroom shows tensions rising between demonstrators and police. you can see there in riot gear. officers reopened the federal facility this morning in order to house illegal immigrants. the trump administration's immigration policy is under fire by some doctors. jackie ward joins us live with what they have to say. >>> reporter: now doctors are weighing in saying even if families stay together in detention facilities the health toll on children could last a long time. pediatricians and psychologists told cnn that keeping children in custody is traumatizing and can lead to anxiety, depression and thoughts of suicide. because children continue to

wade, that's a direct challenge to susan collins and lisa murkowski that have a pro choice voting record. my guess is the president avoids that kind of person and the nominee avoids that kind of disclosure -- >> neil: and gorsuch was good at this. most of the candidates are, on the left or right, avoiding direct answers to those questions. dianne feinstein has a statement. we're four months to determine the senate. there should be no nominee until the americans have a chance to way in. you said the president when obama was considering a replacement, that was put off. what do you make of it? >> just what you said. this is the world cup, the super bowl of american government. it's going to happen in the middle of a closely contested congressional election. so expect both sides to be firing at each other. interest groups spending a lot of money to make their case. as you said, neil, the arguments will be switched from where the republicans and democrats were last time around. the key is, really, who -- who the president nominates and then how that person performs during the confirmation hea

. >> they won't get those democrats and they may not get susan collins and lisa murkowski again and they seat in alabama. paul: double digits, the economy could float this back up and they could get to -- they might be able to hold the house and the senate, you're looking better. >> okay. paul: these days. >> nothing is assured yet. it's not a game. paul: all right, when we come back with the north korean nuclear summit back on track we will ask general jack keane what president trump should demand of kim jong un before going ahead with the meeting or more meetings ron! soh really? going on at schwab. thank you clients? well jd power did just rank them highest in investor satisfaction with full service brokerage firms...again. and online equity trades are only $4.95... i mean you can't have low cost and be full service. it's impossible. it's like having your cake and eating it too. ask your broker if they offer award-winning full service and low costs. how am i going to explain this? if you don't like their answer, ask again at schwab. schwab, a modern approach to wealth management. stop

you know, the democratic scenario is somehow persuading susan collins of maine or lisa murkowski of alaska nominally pro-choice to vote against donald trump's nominees with john mccain unlikely to be voting because he's ill. that's the math that they have to work with. i agree there are democratic senators who had likely to vote for this nominee. so i think the numbers very much favor confirmation. >> we know from trump's comments he's going young. he wants an impact on the court for decade. the standard used by a lot of judicial nominees they have put forth in the past where you have nominees not saying whether brown v. board is correctly decided. there will be a high bar. if they put an ideological bar -- >> with whom? there won't be. >> absolutely, there will be. >> which senators? >> collins, murkowski, the people you just mentioned. >> gorsuch. >> gorsuch too. gorsuch was nowhere near the extreme example. >> on the issues of roe and gay rights, on the issues of affirmative action, neil gorsuch is the perfect template to look for going forward. we don't have to guess here. there is a l