believing what cavanaugh said. listen, i think what is most important here is what did donald trump say in 2016? he was going to appoint justices to the supreme court that would overturn roe v. wade. it's why many republicans supported him in 2016 and continue to support him. so guess what? he appoint three justices there to fulfill his campaign promise. and it certainly looks like if you listen to some of the questioning today, if you look at the background of the trump justices, it certainly looks like they are prepared not only to affirm the mississippi law banning abortion beyond 15 weeks, but also overturn roe v. wade. this is what they are there to do. it's been a long, long, decades' long 50-year battle for conservatives and republicans. so now they have the opportunity to make good on this fight. >> i want to put up this map, laura. if the court was to reverse roe v. wade, 26 states are certain, are likely to ban abortion almost immediately. take louisiana as an example. the nearest clinic for three and fiv

. >> brett cavanaugh very much seem to be of that ascension. he goes to the prep school yes he was in conservative politics but it was gail so did he undergo evolution as well when he is making this journey at some point does he shrug off the establishment himself? >> the journey he took his when he began he was eyeing the conservative label movement and if you are in the conservative legal movement you joined the federalist society. he worked for two very conservative appeals court judgeses and then was able to gt in with anthony kennedy on the supreme court and it was when he thenim joined -- he never really went into private practice. it was clear that wasn't where .he saw himself. the path he saw in the republican party was more political and when he was brought onto the clinton investigation most people think that could be a career killer because it was a partisan role but it proved that it was seen as a good thing. but the evolution, he became partisan, political actor and at the senate judiciary committee hearing which he talked about th

you heard brett cavanaugh, who talked about president and all the justice talking about how importantrecedent is. they talked about how they can get rid of precedent. when necessary, the supreme court can do so. it has changed things because most justices have not said that publicly, and definitely not on issues like abortion and other issues in this country. sahil: they were quick to emphasize that if ey did overturn roe, it would be kicked over to legislators. yamiche: going back to this idea of what jonathan was talking about when it comes to frustration, one thing i hear from democts is they are frustrated about a credible issue that american democracy has. that brings us to the updates on the january 6 investigation. tuesday, mark meadows, chief of staff re former president trump, agreed to share documents with lawmakers. once a, the vice chair of the committee had this morning for former president trump. >> in a communications mr. trump has with this committee will be under oath. and if he persists in lying then, he will be accountable under the laws of this great nation and sub

here is justice brett cavanaugh. >> if we think that the prior precedents are siously wrong, why thenoesn't the history of this court's practice with respect to those cases tell us that the right answer is actually a return to the position of neutrality? yamiche: the court is expected to announce its decision by early summer. seung min, this is of course a huge case. so many people, women, but also everyone around the country, is watching best. talk about the biggest takeaways from this week's arguments, and the politics at play. seung min: the biggest legal take away is the future of abortion rights in this country and how limited or how broad the justices will eventually issue their ruling and what the impact will be state-by-state are definitely something that everyone is closely watching. we will probably be waiting until june to see what the justices decide. but there is a major political impact as well. if this decision does come in the summer, right in the middle of a heated midterm campaign where democrats majorities are at stake, and a lot of democrats and republicans i talke

, brett cavanaugh said he viewed review way is settled law and established precedent that could not beof noises, should we not use their personal views to interpret the law and what they said on wednesday was very much about brett cavanaugh saying why should abortion be an issue for the supreme court, indicating that he thinks the state should be kicked back to the individual states to handle. the reality is, what you have is by all indications, the conservative majority will try to to undo roe versus wade, they don't know how far they will go, but already, you have more than 20 us states that have abortion laws on their books that would get triggered should there be any rollback or change to roe v wade and in effect, you would have abortion outlawed or severely curtailed by more than half the united states if the us supreme court goes ahead and does this. this is an earthquake. this is huge of the go ahead with it. this is the case the been waiting for for years and there is huge pressure on this conservatives that have joined the court recently. but organisations like the federal soc

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cavanaugh. thank you. gavin herbert, founder of aller gan. thank you. for maureen nunn, thank you.here she is. charlie zhang, an entrepreneur, thank you for being here. i want to recognize the director of the nixon library, who i believe is here. thank you. we can introduce our conference chairman and set up our first panel of nobel laureates. it is my pleasure to introduce marlene malik, who helped bring this conference and the special exhibition i hope you all will have a chance to see to fruition. she received a presidential appointment from george h.w. bush to the national cancer advisory board and then cofounded friends of cancer research with her friend, dr. ellen segal, an advocacy organization based in washington, d.c. that drives collaboration among partners to power advances in science, policy and regulation to speed treatment to patients. she is the vice chair. she is on the boards of the anderson cancer center, duke cancer center. she played a vital role in conceiving this conference and bringing it to the nixon library. they hatched this plan. clearly, cancer research

so it's those 3 in the middle, which is chief justice roberts justice cavanaugh and justice barret, somewhat surprisingly, who are asking the tougher legal questions. because this case is not just about abortion as much as the public seem tends to think that understandably, it's also about the american rule of law and what it takes to ask the supreme court of the united states to overturn prior cases. and this case is, you know, this principle is 48 years old in our system. so it's very hard to say it. if they vote with what they consider to be there already form political or personal preferences, then row and casey will be over ruled by those 3 justices in the middle. have an extraordinary respect for the rule of law and precedent. and it is possible that they will come down on that side other than the other one, but it would take 2 of the 3. and those, those 3 that you've been talking about, of course, were put in place by republican president. donald trump is going to be a lot of attention being played, placed on the way this votes, depending on political affiliations. people are going to

idea w about kind of the most conservative justices and i was looking in particular to justices cavanaugh to the trump appointees once this question to overturn roe v wade so we have some concerns about whether or not there is a burden of planned parenthood and under the safe haven laws and where the constitution is on this question so that seems to overturn. >> host: north carolina, democratic caller. >> caller: i am old enough to remember when khrushchev said we would take over america by using your own laws against you. mcconnell put in over 300 judges up and down the appellate court circuit court and the supreme court wouldn't even present. people don't realize when she says we are originalists like all of the conservative judges. they think it should be written hard and well and never changed. it's not a living document. they want to do away with every program including social security and medicare. do they not realize that, and as as roberts, the first thing they did is pass citizens united. i am not sorry. corporations are not people. i h feel like we've been overthrown. >> host: g

you have to get ready because where things currently stand i know justice cavanaugh has aske all thees to get their filing by december 30th. to get a little break for an actual christmas, but that new your push is going to be probably decision-making time o this. we will watch for that. in the meantime, several people flagged this tonight, this report from which our jennifer griffin who covers the pentagon says that u.s. army has created a single vaccine is effective against all covid and sars variants variance it says withi weeks they expect scientist to announce they've developed the vaccine to protect people from all of its variants. do you know anything about this or can you shed any light on it? >> this is something we have been hoping for for a long time. it scientifically feasible and that is to create a vaccine tha as a parent coronavirus vaccine it works against all variance. what they've done is they've taken a protein and 24 differen services of that protein are similar to different aspects of the coronavirus egg or getting lot of different levels of immunity, not just to

cavanaugh. what if we think that roe is egregiously wrong? >> harris: and stare decisis that i keep learning from my friends here on the couch, particularly anyway, is president. it's like a fancy way pressing precedents. >> emily: to discuss further into stare decisis, part of what i found interesting the exchanges that the notion, part of the process of analyzing legal precedents is actually analyzing arguments for and against that present particular evidence and those in the united states are affirming absent and material change in the situation. no, the supreme court has never overruled a watershed case or as argued a watershed case meaning that when the justices were essentially asking her what has changed now, do you think? and i thought that was really fascinating because the answer upon being pressed was that there actually wasn't precedents for that to in a vacuum overturn a case. that's been gone almost ten years of silence which is quite vocal, and he said articulate to me that he writes that are discussing. and that was a discussi

cavanaugh tried to frame the issue. amy barrett a woman with carry to birth. they can leave the hospital and take an eubtory a fire station and drop off the baby. that's going to be our national solution for abortion. then you have cavanaugh, gee, this is a hard job. leave it up to the states. thank god he wasn't around vs. board of education. he -- i just don't understand how pathetic it was they were just so up front with how they want to be blind to the arguments and not even have even legitimate discussion, at least alito and thomas they wanted to wind back the clock and pretend they were the first ones hearing it for the time. they were trying to weigh. i felt those doctrines. and roberts never met a pregnant woman. he understands 19 weeks of pregnancy and other weeks of gestation and what the health effects are for women. even if you are passionate about abortion and you have different opinions, just the legal arguments i thought were so pathetic. host: ok. that's matthew there in michigan. clarence, woodbridge, virginia. democrats line. caller: i'm call

, brett cavanaugh said he viewed review way is settled law and established precedent that could not bet would get triggered should there be any rollback or change to roe v wade and in effect, you would have abortion outlawed or severely curtailed by more than half the united states if the us supreme court goes ahead and does this. this is an earthquake. this is huge of the go ahead with it. this is the case the been waiting for for years and there is huge pressure on this conservatives that have joined the court recently. but organisations like the federal society to hold their ground because some of the decisions in the past couple of years on abortion cases did not go their way. so, years on abortion cases did not go theirway. so, it is years on abortion cases did not go their way. so, it is a huge focus on how this goes down. taste their way. so, it is a huge focus on how this goes down.— their way. so, it is a huge focus on how this goes down. we are going to have to wait — how this goes down. we are going to have to wait for _ how this goes down. we are going to have to wait for a

but we heard from one of those trump appointed justices breck cavanaugh, who said that it was important for the justices to remain neutral. on the question of abortion, he wasn't laser focused rather on whether or not a the court could overturn a president, a legal argument. then we heard from chief justice john roberts, who may be the ultimate swing vote here, and he a cassim to be going more down the middle asking questions about whether not to overturn roe vs wade, but to be able to enforce restrictions on abortions at us at a shorter time of gestation, like this 15 week ban in mississippi. so that the ruling here, we're not expecting it for another few months, possibly not until june. but certainly this is a landmark case and the implications will be great. and on not what, what will happen if the supreme court does uphold the mississippi abortion restriction? right, so mississippi is asking, not only for their rule to be upheld, but they're asking for ro versus way to be overturned in completely, which means i would give the green light to any state in this country to immediately b

he's going to sign on to any sort of landmark ruling which keeps that going. similarly, just as cavanaugh seemed to want to take the cord out of it entirely, he said that he saw it is the most neutral option. as giving this back to the states, letting individual states decided that we had court could kind of just wash its hands of the matter. he also even said at one point that we had to find a way to balance the interest between the fetus in the mother and that he saw no real way to do that. these are again, comments that you would not expect from somebody who is going to vote to, to uphold abortion. is it currently exists? so what do you think the impact of this would be if they do good on the way that you suggest? well, i think what we're likely to see is ultimately a ruin coming down. that gives states far more leeway to do so. i don't think we're likely looking at it where abortion access will be eliminated entirely. but the bands are going to move up in time. probably something closer to like $1213.00 weeks would be allowed if a state once. so what you'll see is people who are in mu

amy connie barrett bred cavanaugh their decisions can still be swayed. i believe. i don't think there's a slam dunk for those. things are going to win an anti abortion ruling here. and if they do get the ruling, does it set roby to way aside altogether? does a throw back to the states, treat more controversy? it's going to be a mass scotty and it comes out just in time for the 2022 election to really he things up. isn't that special? the timing? once again, politics does play a role. that's how you know, that's le don. you know, i agree with you, i don't think anybody can be happy with it. maybe that means it's actor. the law will actually prevail in this. i do see the idea that this mr. belie, i think will stand, but it looks like roe vs wade will also still standard abortion will not be made universally illegal. i don't think you're going to see these, these supreme court justice take that step. but at this stage, ladon isn't this what the 10th amendment was for taking those issues that are not specifically lined out in the constitution saying, guess what we want

jim cavanaugh. a brilliant mind. he got his start at hew in the late 1960's.s brought over to the domestic counsel and ended up running health care policy. he played a major role in the nixon national conference. he is just an amazing individual. we have 24 members who served on the board. we have trisha's son, christopher and -- nixon, pete wilson is on the board, everett alvarez. the longest held prisoner in war. he was held for 8.5 years. he is an inspirational figure who i am privileged to call a friend. everett is on our board as well. it is a group of dedicated individuals who are passionate about american history education, civic education and i am privileged to work with all of them. susan: i want to show you this video to give you the opportunity to talk about how the nixon family members are involved. >> if my father were with us tonight, he would say to all of you thank you, men and women for serving in the most challenging time imaginable and for doing a job superbly and brilliantly. so many achievements in 5.5 years. he would say thank you to the

the filibuster to approve their own supreme court justices at the time nominees justice gors ig, cavanaugh and coney barrett. fast forward. now republicans have made three dramatic departures from precedent in just the last four years alone. now it has empowered the supreme court to potentially overturn nearly 50 years of precedent. and if they do, maybe it's time for democrats to wake up and make one more departure from precedent -- change the court. there's a lot to discuss this evening. to help work through all of it, i'm joined about senior reporter to "insider," daily columnist and host of the dina show and it's great to have all three of you with us. camilla, i'd like to start with you. this is likely to be one of the most significant and dramatic weakenings of precedent we've seen in our lifetime. just how flawed is this system when you have three people who can make the difference as to the liberties of 125 million women in this country? >> well, i think the biggest concern here is the public perception of the supreme court. you heard justice barrett and also now justice soto sayer

lucy cavanaugh, cnn, los angeles. >>> still to come on cnn, the white house says it isn't giving up onts ambitious build back better legislation. we'll have the latest from washington for you. plus a massive car pileup in nevada all due to heavy snow across the west. details ahead. ...demands a lotion this pure. new gold bond pure moisture lotion. 24-hour hydration. no parabens, dyes, or fragrances. gold bond. champion your skin. hey hun hey, get your own vapors relax with vicks vapobath or with vicks vaposhower. take a soothing vicks vapo moment wherever you chose. pain hits fast. so get relief fast. only tylenol rapid release gels have laser drilled holes. they release medicine fast for fast pain relief. and now get relief without a pill with tylenol dissolve packs. relief without the water. >>> welcome back to "cnn newsroom." i'm max foster. if you are just joining us let me bring you up to date with some of the other stories we're fooling. officials in south korea have given pfizer's covid pill. thousands of flights are canceled over the weekend by major u.s. air lines as the omicr

been they must'v been drafted and ready to go because those are been filed, this goes to justice cavanaughas we keep an eye on that, president biden is struggling with his approval ratings. one at the things that people say is shaking their confidence in him are these gaps that he keeps making. i understand it happen again today in south carolina. >> painful to watch great if yo have a chance to check it out. this is why they sorta like to keep him under wraps. fewer appearances in fewer apps. he spoke to the south carolina state university and he committed several verbal gaps a different points he reflected o the quote george family justice act policing acts, mangling the name of the george floyd justic in policing act brady also repeatedly referred to the vice president b1 harris as presiden harris. in speaking of, the vp very interesting got into it with media shows tonight so here is the real president of this country,. >> come on. it's joe biden. no no no no, no, no. it's joe biden, and don't start talking like a republican about asking whether or not he's president. and it's joe bide

trump appointee just brett cavanaugh appears poised to gut abortion rights.haracterizing that prospect as the court simply becoming neutral on the issue of abortion, no longer playing a role in the issue, which makes it sound like there won't be a rule on abortion either way. what it actually means is all republican-controlled states will now be free to make abortion a crime. the lawyer who answers him is julie from the center of reproduction rights. >> i think the other side would say that the course problem here is that the court has been forced by the position you're taking and by the cases to pick sides on the most contentious social debate in american life and to do so in a situation where they say that the constitution is neutral on the question of abortion, the text in history, the constitution is neither pro-life nor pro-choice on the question of abortion and they would say, therefore, it should be left to the people, to the states or to congress. and i think they also then continue because the constitution is neutral that this court should be scrupul

cnn's lucy cavanaugh joins us now. lucy, what are police saying about the shooting?ating is how the lapd police chief described this officer-involved shooting that took place thursday afternoon. police say they were responding to multiple calls of a possible active shooting at the north hollywood burlington store. they were told a number of people were sheltering in place. when officers arrived on scene, they encountered the suspect who was assaulting a woman. the woman was taken to the hospital with injuries. they then confronted the suspect near the dressing room, opening fire, killing him. when they did a search of the poli premises, they found a gruesome site. >> subsequent search of the upper floor, we found a hole in the wall. behind the drywall, wall you can't see behind, went behind it. turned out to be the dressing room. we were able to locate a 14-year-old female who was found deceased in that dressing room. >> reporter: the teenager, 14-year-old girl, was shopping with her mother. l.a. times reports she was reportedly shopping for a dress. the violence two

cnn's lucy cavanaugh has that story. >> reporter: laura, paula, good morning.s now asking the court to reconsider that lengthy 110 year prison sentence for him potentially reducing it to 20 or 30 years. just to remind our viewers, the truck driver was 23 years old at the time of the incident. he was going at about 85 miles an hour when his brakes failed. he was convicted of vehicular homicide. the da is not looking to overturn the conviction. in a statement she said he made multiple choices that resulted in the death of four people and adding the shorter sentence, quote, reflects an appropriate outcome for that conduct. at issue are colorado mandatory sentencing laws that require sentences to be served out consecutively rather than concurrently which is how he ended up with nearly a century behind bars. even a judge who sentenced him, quote, if i had the discretion it would not be my sentence. some colorado lawmakers now calling for legal reforms. take a listen. >> our system here at this building has created a situation where a judge at their own discretion wh

he put gorsuch cavanaugh coney barrett in the supreme court and put the embassy in jerusalem. he said he would build a wall and he did. he can just keep going. that's how you are supposed to do it but the intense opposition was just that. the left controls everything. the left controls big tech comes the left controls big media to left controls higher education the left controls hollywood and they are trying to control primary and secondary education. the left controls the white house and the senate and the left controls the house of representatives but what they don't control is we the people. that's the good news for the first words of that document that started this experiment liberty america, we the people. we have our rights and we have seen that begin to play out. we saw two weeks ago in your home state. voters said time out from this left agenda and curriculum they are trying to teach our kids and pushing back. we spent a lot of time onn that. i tell everyone, i wrote every word. i'mm old-fashioned. i get the legal pad out and i write it out the old-fashioned way. i rea

cnn's lucy cavanaugh has more on this tragic story. louie, what can you tell us?f described this officer-involved shooting that led to the death of this 14-year-old girl. officers say they were responding to multiple calls of a possible active shooter at this north hollywood burlington store on thursday around noon. when they arrived, they found the suspect, who was, they say, assaulting another woman. she was transported to the hospital with injuries. they confronted the suspect, opening fire. the suspect was killed, but a subsequent search of the premises led to a gruesome discovery. take a look. >> a subsequent search of the upper floor, we found a hole in the wall, and behind the drywall, solid wall that you can't see behind, we went behind it and it turned out to be the dressing room. and what we did is we were able to locate a 14-year-old female who was found deceased in that dressing room. >> reporter: now, we know that teenager, the 14-year-old girl, was shopping with her mother. the los angeles times reports she was shopping for a dress. the violence just

a crash that killed four people, cnn's lucy cavanaugh has that. >> reporter: the district attorney alexisg asked the judge to reconsider the 110 year prison sentence, potentially reducing it to 20 or 30 years. she said this was based on the facts of the case as well as conversations with the victims and their families. now, when the court reconvenes next month, it will be an in-person hearing. the judge said he does not want the defendant to testify. maderos was driving 75 miles an hour causing the crash. four people died, others were injured. he was found guilty of several charges including vehicular homicide and vehicular assault. because colorado's mandatory minimum sentencing laws requires sentences for each of those counts to be served consecutively rather than concurrently, he is facing more than a century behind bars. his attorney calling for legal reforms. take a look. >> the law doesn't really distinguish between people like mr. maderos who is not a danger to society, and other people that are sentenced to life that are a danger to society. and i think the law needs to make those

i forget who it was, but i think it was our guest a couple of weeks ago, jonathan cavanaugh.e long em, this shows from 10 years back. it is close to correlation with the chinese currency. might list all of the votes -- most if not all. rishaad: if we see china easing further, and a u.s. fed that is more hawkish, spreads should widen. it should mean money in the other direction, meaning a weaker yuan. that is the theory. yvonne: then you have the full capital account. then maintaining this covid zero strategy. people are not going out and traveling as much. basically, you will see those inflows into stocks and bonds. rishaad: in theory. david: when where the trade numbers -- yvonne: they were out yesterday. rishaad: blown out imports. david: demand for currency. that is really tied into the strength. perhaps also where we see more risk on. maybe even sentiments playing in that policy. rishaad: that number for the invoice boosted by commodities. and commodities priced in dollars. there we go. let's have a look at what is going on with the markets asx. up 1%. we've got nikkei cl

justice cavanaugh? >> i want to be clear about what you're arguing and not arguing and to be clear, you're not arguing that the court somehow has the authority to itself prohibit abortion or that this court has the authority to order the states to prohibit abortion? so i understand it. correct? >> correct your honor. >> you're arguing that the constitution is silent and therefore neutral on the question of abortion, in other words that constitution is neither pro life nor pro choice on the question of abortion but leaves the issue for the people of the states or, perhaps, congress to resolve in the democratic process? is that accurate? >> we're saying it's left to the people, your honor. >> for the -- if you were to prevail, the states, majority of states or states still could or -- and presumably would, continue to freely allow abortion, many states some states would be able to do that, even if you prevail under your view? >> that's consistent with our view. it's one that allows all interests to have f