i think any one of them would be an amazing replacement for justice kennedy. >> tucker: brett cavanaughan impressive guy, for sure. thank you for that overview, i appreciate it. 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 his 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 socialist 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 washington 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 co

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

. -- 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

audience, that goes into your best guess list of what he's holding in his hand, starting with brett cavanaughmaryland u.s. court of appeals for the u.s. d.c. circuit. >> probably our number one candidate. he's on the second most important court of appeals in the country. very well known commodity. probably the inside washington candidate, which is actually quite important when you talk about these different groups. he has been involved in a lot of environmental regulation cases. a question was raised about him originally, and he wasn't on the president's first list because he was presented with a challenge to obamacare, and he didn't vote to strike it down. he voted for the proposition that the courts can't get involved at all. but since then, his stock has really risen, and i think he's probably, if you ask who's the leading candidate, it's judge cav nau. >> maggie haberman of "the new york times" tweeted tonight that the president's interested mostly in candidates from harvard or yale. he's a yalie all the way, so that would be interesting. >> he's got one other characteristic too. that's h

including brett cavanaugh of maryland. thomas hardiman of pennsylvania. amy coney barrett. raymond kethledge. >> you create a list of extremely able and conservative candidates all of whom would move the court in a conservative direction. there are differences among the conservatives. judge hardiman who is the runner up for the seat or neil gorsuch has a background, he went to georgetown. he drove a cab. he seems to empathize with working folks. brett kavanaugh is a former kennedy worker. extremely able. very bright. but has written a book of very conservative opinions on the d.c. circuit. involving immigrants rights and defendants rights and so forth. so all are very conservative. the real question is how will they move the court? some of them are more pro-defendant than others. and some are more pro-executive than others. so it'll be really important once it comes down to figure out whether this is a conservative in the model of justice scalia. but the bottom line is since all of them are so well qualified, it's going to be hard to say they don't deserve a seat on those g

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

. >> reporter: among judges said to ben the short list, brett cavanaugh of washington, d.c., hardiman, barrett of indiana. justices often say they'll step down when their successor is confirmed. by leaving july31st, justice kennedy puts pressure on the process to get the next justice on the court by m the firday in october, when the court's new term begins. willie? savannah? >> pete williams, thank you. >>> president trump had plenty toay about the future of the supreme court during an overnight rally in north dakota. while bac in washington, a contentious fight over the fure nominee alrea underway. nbc white house correspondent kristen welker hasf that part the story for us. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. all of washington i poised for a bruising battle with democrats arguing the process should be delayed beyond the mid-terms. republicans, who don't technically need any democratic vote, wt quick action. overnight, president trump saying he's ready for the senate battle ahead. j >>tice kennedy's retirement makes the issue of senate control one of the vital issues of o

brett cavanaugh, amy barrett recently appointed to the seventh circuit really shown in her confirmation hearing when she was assaulted by senator feinstein and others for her religion. there's a lot of great nominees in there or potential nominees. neil: is it fair to say that the most you can hope for may be one or two democrats to vote whoever the nominee is and there's just as good a likelihood that a couple of republicans might not? it's going to be close. >> that's right. the president is going to need all of the votes he can get in this no matter what. given the stakes, given who this new justice will be replacing, this will be the most hotly contested supreme court nomination of our lifetimes. and happening in the middle of one of the most poisonous years in our politics. this is going to be ugly no matter what. and the president will have to fight very hard to get democrats to come across the line, folk us like manchin. neil: is it your belief they'll have a pick done before the november elections? i mean obviously everything has to go perfectly. what do you think? >> if i had t

than they would, give us brett cavanaugh, this is not the red meat -- >> they know the wall is not goinguilt. it is symbolic. the van zandt brothers saying, what y'all want to hear? "free bird." it's a fake lynyrd skynyrd band but they still cheer. they still cheer for the wall that they know is not going to be built. >> it is an emotional flash-point, the wall is, right? and it is sort of part of the proxy for a larger message about immigration, about where they think the country is -- >> about elite condescension. >> that's i was going to say it can all be wrapped up into that. we're going to say things that are going to offend people on tv. we're going to say things that are going to offend nancy pelosi. we're going to say things that are going to offend the editorial pages of the "new york times." we're going to say things that offend all of steve rattner's friends, that's what's going through their minds in north dakota. but you know that right? not you specifically, but at the end of the day, you can strip it all down, it is, it is about offending the politically correct elite nort

brett cavanagh who serves on the u.s. court of appeals, here in dc -- he also served under george w. bush -- mr. 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