to be very good advice, not only in dealing with marty but, even to this day, in dealing with my current colleagues. >> reporter: to justice ginsburg's clerks, marty provided a counterbalance to his sometimes-serious spouse. >> there was one episode at one of her clerk reunions when, in the process of putting his arm around her, marty had taped a sign to her back and the sign said her highness. and when she realized it, she chuckled. but i love that story because it's a window into the banter of what was at the heart of their love affair. >> she followed him to oklahoma where she was in reserve office training. and when they noticed that she was pregnant, she actually got demoted. >> discrimination wasn't something that was abstract in her life. it was something that was real and present and that made her, i think, sensitive to the experiences so many people have. >> reporter: from oklahoma, the couple moved to boston, in 1956, to attend harvard law school. ruth ginsburg was one of just nine women in the program. >> the dean had a practice of each year having only the female students come to a dinner in his home. and the dean asked e

turned out to be very good advice not only in dealing with marty but even to this day in dealing with my current colleagues. >> to justice ginsburg'sty provided a counterbalance to his sometimes serious spouse. >> there was one episode at one of her clerk reunions when in the process of putting his arm around her, marty had taped a sign to the justice's back. and the sign said "her highness" and when she realized it, she chuckled. but i love that story because it's a window into the banter that was at the heart of their wonderful love affair. >> she followed him to oklahoma where he was in reserve officer's training. she got as a job as a civil service officer at a social security administration office. when they noticed she was pregnant, she actually got demoted. >> discrimination wasn't something that was abstract in her life. it was something that was real and present and that made her, i think, sensitive to the experience that so many people have. >> from oklahoma, the couple moved to boston in 1956 to attend harvard law school. ruth ginsburg was one of just nine women in the program. >> the dean had a practice of each year hav

marty serving an amazing homemade bagguet. >> he brought a powerful legal mind to the table. >> marty ginsburgt tax lawyer in this generation and one of the leading figures in merger and acquisitions law. >> the married lawyers teamed up on a project, the case that marty found and one that ruth thought may shake up america of gender bias. >> our goal in the '70s was to end -- it was so many things off limits to women, policing, firefighters and flying planes. >> the victim of the discrimination case the ginsburg took on was not a woman. >> it was about this guy and he took care of his mother and he wanted to get a tax benefit for the caretaker who he hired to take care of his mother when he was away or unable to be there. >> the tax code did not recognize males as primary care givers. so combining the forces of marty ginsburg and r.b.g., she argued that was sex discrimination. >> the united states court of appeals or the tenth circuit eventually agreed. >> they use that case as a vehicle to explain how gender stereotype actually worked. they don't just hold women back, they actually hold men b

to be very good advice, not only in dealing with marty but even to this day in dealing with my current colleagues. [ laughter ] >> to justice ginsburg's clerks, marty provided a counterbalance to his sometimes serious spouse. >> there was one episode at one of her clerk reunions when in the process of putting his arm around her, marty had taped a sign to the justice's back, and the sign said "her highness." when she realized it, she chuckled. i love that story because it's a window into the banter that was at the heart of their wonderful love affair. she followed him to oklahoma where she was in reserve officers training. she got a job as a civil service worker at the social security office. when they noticed she was pregnant, she actually got demoted. >> discrimination wasn't something that was abstract in her life. it was something that was real and present and that made her i think sensitive to the experience that so many people have. >> from oklahoma, the couple moved to boston in 1956 to attend harvard law school. ruth ginsburg was one of just nine women in the program. >> the dean had a practice of each year having only the fema

next to her beloved husband marty ginsburg.ears. >> 56 years. you know, and they just had this kind of -- i mean, their marriage was -- he was her rock and literally as she would talk about saved her life, literally, when he noticed in one of her hospital stays that she was being given the wrong dose of medicine and ripped out the tubes. so you know, she credits marty ginsburg with so much of what she was able to do in her life and at the supreme court, but she also liked to tell the story about she also thinks he saved her life. >> he -- they met, of course, at harvard law school. she said he was the first man who respected her for her brains, but as an author wrote this week, that was humble brag because hbg was a knockout. >> right. and he was a brilliant lawyer himself. they had this wonderful friendship with the scalias, which i, you know, find so touching, especially now when we seem so divided, but marty ginsburg was a fantastic cook, and so he and marine ska rcalis justice scalia's wife would do the cooking. they would

you know, marty ginsburg was one of the best tax lawyers in america. some kind of a slouch professionally, and so the two of them had this -- they were high-powered professionally and they were committed to family personally and they had this equal marriage in a way that was just a great model as i was, you know, building my own marriage. >> what are your thoughts on that, julie, documenting her, talking about her personal life and about her marriage because it ties directly to her professional success. we know that he lobbied hard for bill clinton to -- to consider her for the position and that he -- he moved, you know, for her career to thrive and flourish. >> yeah. that's right. i mean, you know, by the time we were spending time with justice ginsburg, marty ginsburg would have been dead for a number of years, we were timid about approaching the subject thinking this must be so painful because her husband passed away and every time his name came up it was the opposite. there was a twinkle in her eye. she loved to talk about him and that's because sh

she has a wonderful partnership with her husband, down to the fact that it seems like marty ginsburg, justice ginsburg's husband and jesse barrett are known as the best cook in the family, something the supreme court helped to kick off, that supreme court cookbook in his honor. there's a lot of ways in which these women are similar. also in their commitment to being friendly and cordial with people they disagree with. that is why you have people, there's that famous ginsberg scalia relationship, such good friends in the court, even though they differed. barrett, same thing, colleagues that span the spectrum, the people she clerked with saying that she is someone who ought to be in the art, she's super brilliant. people like noah feldman said that he disagrees with her on so many things but that she should be confirmed to the court. this is the kind of role model that ginsberg was in forging those kinds of relationships and barrett has a similar path herself. host: here is how you can ask our questions -- our guest questions. the line for democrats, (202) 748-8000. the line for republi

marty ginsburg was, also, an important figure, not simply in her life. he ran the campaign to get ruth on the court. the president, if i remember correctly, president clinton was considering both ruth and steve briar. but marty called everyone. ruth cooperate uldn't do it. she was a federal judge. marty did a full-court press. i mean, he organized that campaign to make sure we all called the president. or, actually went and talked to him to recommend ruth. and of course, hillary was already there. but we all got multiple calls from marty, as he called everyone to make sure that we made the case. he gave us talking points. and i'd say, marty, i don't need talking points. i know ruth. but it was -- it was a very special time to see her come on the court. and of course, we're all thankful for the years we had her. our lives will never be the same. we'll -- we'll always be better, every woman and every child in america will have a better life, because of ruth ginsburg. >> i don't want to -- if -- i don't know if you want to talk about what happens, now. you

ginsburg? i would say that all of you who know a woman who could benefit from the kind of love and support that martyave to ruth, it's on you to honor ginsburg by women theirose marty's. thank you. >> thank you for thinking in that powerful way about how we honor her legacy. thank you. our final speaker before we go to questions is professor mary harnett, who is also working on the biography of the justice. professor harnett: thank you, dean and colleagues. justice ginsburg so loved students. her students, our students, all students, which is why she found so much time to them, for you. even during her busiest days she found time to meet with women's law fellows at georgetown, and to make a surprise visit to my seminar. i remember well when she was scheduled to appear in january of 2017. on the day she was scheduled to appear we found out that president obama would be giving his farewell address to the nation. i emailed the justice and asked if she would like to reschedule. i received an email back from her, terrific, dedicated, devoted judicial assistant. -- assistant, kim mckenzie. she said, the ju

i should just interject here that marty ginsburg, your husband, was a year ahead of you, and when you graduated, he was drafted, and you went to fort sill, oklahoma for two years. and if we have time, i'll ask you a few questions about that, but by the time you both returned to harvard laschool -- he a year ahead of you and you were starting -- you had an 18-month-old. >> 14 months. >> 14-month-old daughter. god forbid. i made a mistake. [ laughter ] and you were worried about whether you could do it all, and your father-in-law, marty's father, was actually... you could tell the story better than i could. >> tremendously supportive always. he said, "ruth, if you don't want to go to law school, you have the best reason in the world and no one will think the less of you. but if you really want to go to law school and become a lawyer, well, stop feeling sorry for yourself, and you will find a way." that advice has stood me in good stead my entire life. the question is do i want this enough. if the answer is yes, i find a way. [ spectators murmur ] >> when you think about your life as a n

that may never have happened had it not been for the intense lobbying effort by her husband, marty ginsburg. at her confirmation hearing, chaired by then-senator joe biden, the nominee did not shy away from her feminism. spotlighting contentious topics like abortion rights. >> this is central to a woman's life, to her dignity. >> reporter: the senate confi confirmconfir confirmed her in a sweeping vote. she's perhaps best known for a decision in 1996 that struck down a male-only admissions policy at the virginia military institute. >> it's justice ginsburg writing an opinion that building on the foundations that lawyer ginsburg laid. >> some people did not react well, and my response was, wait and see. you will be proud of the women who become graduates of vmi. [ applause ] >> reporter: and in a landmark case on accomplishment discrimination in 2007, she wrote a powerful dissent that prompted congress to change laws. the fair pay act became one of the first pieces of legislation signed into law by president barack obama. while on the supreme court, she was a consistently liberal voice on is

reporter: helped along the way by the remarkable love affair with her husband, college classmate marty ginsburg>> he was the first boy i ever knew who carried that i had a brain. >> reporter: together they went to harvard law where in a class of 500 she was one of only nine women. all invited to dinner with the dean. >> he asked each of us to stand up and tell him what we were doing taking a seat that could be occupied by a man. >> reporter: graduating at the top of her class but unable to get hired by a law firm, in an ere rar when women couldn't even get credit or mortgages, setting out to change that by picking cases involving discrimination against men. >> men and women are persons of equal dignity and they should count equally before the law >> reporter: winning five out of six supreme court cases in the 1970s. >> the judges didn't think sex discrimination existed. >> reporter: her reputation eventually winning her a place on the high court. >> many admirers of her work say that she is to the women's movement what former supreme court justice thurgood marshall was to the movement for the r

>> my parents were good friends with marty ginsburg's parents. we were all from new york. we had a commonplace that we club.o that was a country not a fancy place, a wonderful place to play golf and socialize. when marty engaged to ruth, she was so excited. along, walking along, he had a great smile on his face and he said to me i want you to meet my future wife, ruth. it was a thrill. just wonderful. >> thank you for sharing that story with us. is a republican from florida. go ahead. >> thank you for taking my call. we are going to need everything to keep this country great and do the things we need to do. >> next up is annabelle in new york and independent. >> thank you for taking my call. -- i amanted to say very pleased with trump's decision on nominating amy coney barrett because she is an incredible woman. she loves her family, she loves the constitution and she loves this country. she is not partisan to either side. really feel that she did a beautiful job speaking tonight. the way she honored justice ginsburg was beautiful also. >> next call is albert in south caro

ginsburg will be laid to rest next week at arlington national cemetery next to her beloved husband marty ginsburghulze, abc news, the capitol. >>> google's parent company has filed a series of lawsuits filed by shareholders over how its handled sexual harassment claims. five shareholders sued alphabet here in california after its board approved a $90 million exit package for an executive fired because of sexual harassment. the company is promising changes, including pledging $310 million to expand diversity efforts. >>> if you live in san jose, you're being asked to be among the first participants in the new climate action core. governor newsom announced the program yesterday. san jose is one of the first cities to participate. >> climate change is burning down our forests. it's lapping up our shores. it's choking our lungs. the impacts are real, and we see them today and all too recently. >> core members will help combat the climate crisis by volunteering. people can volunteer on the program's website. there is also a fellowship program which provides a stipend. >>> all right. let's turn our att

her husband, marty ginsburg, encouraging her to gain strength after her first battle with cancer. >>nt you to do is just grab them and just pull. >> just standing up straight? >> yup, just pull. >> reporter: the two would go on to train together twice a week for more than two decades. their sessions captured in the documentary "rbg." >> i am 84 years old, and everyone wants to take a picture with me. >> reporter: tonight, that trainer and a nation honors a trailblazer. some final pushups for a woman who broke barriers and fought to stay strong until the very end. i'm david muir. and the veterans that never quit on their team. when being a fan gets tough, and stretching your budget gets even tougher... ...our agents put in the time and legwork for you, ...so saving on auto insurance is easy. because saving a little extra goes a long way. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. >>> beat the heat but be careful. from a high surf warning to the risk of cyrus, there's a lot to watch out for this weekend. >> i'm meteorologist sandhya patel. tracking the surf, high fire danger, heat, and

ginsburg will be laid to rest next week at arlington national cemetery next to her beloved husband marty ginsburgabeth schulze, abc news, the capitol. >>> google's parent company has filed a series of lawsuits filed by shareholders over how its handled sexual harassment claims. five shareholders sued alphabet here in california after its board approved a $90 million exit package for an executive fired because of sexual harassment. the company is promising changes, including pledging $310 million to expand diversity efforts. >>> if you live in san jose, you're being asked to be among the first participants in the new climate action core. governor newsom announced the program yesterday. san jose is one of the first cities to participate. >> climate change is burning down our forests. it's lapping up our shores. it's choking our lungs. the impacts are real, and we see them today and all too recently. >> core members will help combat the climate crisis by volunteering. people can volunteer on the program's website. there is also a fellowship program which provides a stipend. >>> all right. let's turn

her husband, marty ginsburg, encouraging her to gain strength after her first battle with cancer. >>nt you to do is just grab them and just pull. >> just standing up straight? >> yep, just pull. >> reporter: the two would go on to train together twice a week, for more than two decades. their sessions captured in "rbg." >> i am 84 years old, and everyone wants to take a picture with me. >> reporter: tonight, that trainer, and so many we sand my heart fell.oke i knew we'd lose our home... and we did. over 24,000 homes have been destroyed by wildfires in the past few years. wildfire victims need help so i'm voting 'yes' on 19. it limits property taxes on wildfire victims so families can move to a replacement home without a tax penalty. you never know what you'll be faced with. please, vote 'yes' on 19. >>> people were out in the south bay getting some exercise ahead of this weekend's heat wave. i want to give you a live look from our east bay hills tower cam where some of the hottest temperatures are expected this weekend. we're talking triple digits. thanks for joining us. >> it is not

20th anniversary dinner for the women's law and public policy fellowship program when professor marty ginsburg introduced justice ginsburg as a keynote speaker. >> when wendy williams and mary hartnett asked me to speak at what they said was appropriately what they termed "my favorite subject," naturally, i prepared a lengthy discourse addressing the supreme court's performance in tax cases. [laughter] sadly, wendy reacted with an expect and hostility. [laughter] , i am going to speak a few minutes only about my wife, honorable ruth. ,ut you are the losers, because i promise you, the supreme court's performance in tax cases is exceedingly funny. [laughter] [applause] we travel a lot. our travels, like in the affordt of columbia, memorable moments. in december of 2000, just after bush against gore, ruth and i were in new york city to see a play. after the first act intermission, as we walked down seasts, ito our seemed like the entire audience began to applaud. many stood, ruth being one. two, and over and whispered loudly, "i've that you didn't know there was a convention of tax lawyers here."

guest: first was her unbelievable marriage to marty ginsburg. everyone just so how in love they were until the end, when he died of cancer a few years ago. as she said, he just made me crack up. we would laugh together. he was more outgoing and gregarious. she was more conservative. but they shared a sense of humor. because of their equal partnership, they shared responsibility for the kids. she said he was responsible for her success. they shared equal responsibility for child raising and he was her equal. she was as mindful in her personal choices and self-discipline as she was in her opinions in writing. a videoddaughter in talked about how they would have discussions about whether or not she should have a second scoop of mango sorbet. she had a sweet tooth and she thought carefully about having extra dessert. and then there was the fact that she was the most attentive copy editor i've ever experienced. she allowed me to transcribe arguments. she wanted to edit them before. when she gave me a manuscript, each -- was marked off in beautiful pe

about her life, "on the basis of sex," her good friend was interviewing her and she asked what marty ginsburgat me and answered her, he would have loved it. that was a side of justice ginsburg that was kind of rarely seen in public. but it just -- i wanted to tell that story even in the sad moment, to try to capture the totality of who she was. a great justice, but somebody who could delight in that moment. >> let me bring in our justice correspondent pete williams, who, of course, has covered her basically for almost i believe almost the entire time she was on the court. and, pete, you know what is remarkable about justice ginsburg in this town is that, you know, you and i both know, if you have sharp elbows, eventually we find out. and, you know in the supreme court, you even eventually find out. she seemed to get along with everybody. and i'm sorry, in washington, that's very difficult. and i think it is quite extraordinary. >> so true. and, you know, she made her mark, of course, she came to the supreme court first time 49 years ago to argue her first case, and then it was 27 years ago th

then years later at her 80th birthday party in aspen, two weeks after marty ginsburg died, ruth ginsburg came with her grandson paul. she recounted how much sandra day o'connor meant as a mentor, helping her get through her first majority opinion, assigned by chief justice rehnquist, teaching her the ropes as to how to handle the supreme court. she was really so grateful. and their sisterhood was profound because they had suffered such discrimination. i wouldn't have my job, and i think many of the correspondents and certainly the lawyers and the judges and the women in congress, you, claire, represented -- you were on the armed services committee and did so much for women in the military, the sex discrimination they were experiencing. for them now to see this fight take place, which could really wreck whatever comity is left in the senate. >> yeah, i said earlier, you know, the senate is on life-support when it comes to one of those things that ruth bader ginsburg embraced, and that's collegiality. and mitch mcconnell is about to pull the plug. and i think he's killing what makes the se

being presented with, he talk a very hard look at judge ginsburg, and i want to add that probably her most effective advocate was her husband martyt has been written and said in the last days about justice ginsburg's stellar record as a lawyer, but her love affair, her long marriage with her partner marty and he was -- he was in her cor he met her at cornell to the very end. >> yeah. >> and i was delighted when bill said, well, i'd like to meet her and sit and talk with her, and so we arranged for her to come in very carefully under the radar on a sunday, and they had the best conversation. it was like a master class in constitutional analysis, and at the end he told me, wow. she really is the real deal. >> let me go to the politics of the court, but i don't want to do it through the last four years. i want to go back to one title i didn't use was former senator. you were there for eight years of these judicial wars which now seem so -- they look like little skirmishes to where we are today. how broken is this process? >> oh, absolutely broken, chuck, and i was able to watch your previous interviews with senators klobuchar and ba

marty ginsburg was a lawyer himself. they were, of course, law school classmates at harvard and columbia. and he was a very distinguished tax lawyer and tax professor. but he was a very outgoing person. he was very friendly, he was the life of the party, he was a famously great chef. ruth ginsburg was sort of in the background when they were together. when marty died in 2010, that was kind -- i mean, god knows it was a terrible thing for ruth to lose her husband, but it was also kind of a social blossoming for her. and one reason why, you know, the cult of rbg and notorious rbg and all of the celebrity she achieved late in life, that was because she was much more of a public figure after 2010. but i will be quiet and let us see the proceedings. >> okay. so you have her family members have come in. you saw speaker pelosi. minority leader of the senate, chuck schumer. and now they will bring in the casket of late justice ruth bader ginsburg. again, let's just listen to this moment in history. >> halt. center face. march. >

she really was so, you know, the brooklyn girl who went to cornell, talked about marty ginsburg, thee college classmate, as the first boy who ever cared about her brain and then followed him when he went into army service. she got pregnant and couldn't keep her job in the federal government, civil service job because she was pregnant. she experienced discrimination at every step of the way and fought for all the rest of us. a lot of us who grew up in a similar era some decades later really deeply appreciate it and we see that also with younger women. >> i want to bring in senator mccaskill here as we are seeing now the hearse pull up to the steps of the supreme court, those former law clerks to justice ginsburg lined up to serve as honorary pall bearers. senator, you're a former prosecutor, you were a senate in the state of missouri. i want to talk a little bit about your reflections at this moment of what justice ginsburg meant to you. >> it is surprisingly -- i guess maybe not surprisingly, very emotional this moment. she galvanized this country in terms of the very premise of equa

ginsburg, marty ginsburg. he was basically a gourmet chef.just able to really appreciate the many things they had in common. and they didn't compromise their beliefs to make sure they were able to stay friends. they still held on to their beliefs. and when they disagreed with each other and their opinions, as they often did, they really let each other have it. but that didn't get in the way of the wonderful bond they had. >> when he would explain to you, as his son, you would say you don't agree with her about anything. i don't know how you guys are friends. what would he say to you? >> well, you know, i took the relationship for granted because they had already been friends by the time he was on the supreme court. so, i just took it for granted. but i can share a story that one of his former clerks told recently. this former clerk is now a federal judge, jeff sutton. and he was visiting my father shortly before my father passed away. it happened to be justice ginsburg's birthday. my father said i have to go. i have to go down the hall and gi

marty ginsburg died in 2010, so she was alone for ten years.no longer had him to come and rouse her from her office and get her home. and sometimes court personnel would say, you know, late at night, she's still in there. she just -- she just never stopped. and until the middle of this month, she was conferring with colleagues. working on cases. she would often take stacks of materials with her on her hospital runs. you know, it was only to the very end that she was stopped. and what a poignant moment we're all observing right now. >> yeah. you're so right, joan. she worked so hard and she expected the same of her clerks. but she always worked even harder. but she also lived large and she was kind and she never missed a birthday or a wedding announcement or a baby announcement and always sent letters and congratulatory calls. i think she was a full human and her fight is not over. remember? >> yeah. >> let's listen to this live. hold on. here we have the ceremony. >> god has given, god has taken. praise be the name. psalm 23. [ speaking in a fo

rudy guiliath b ginsbu ginsburg, talking about her husband cooking as though he was the next marty ginsburg. certainly casting her as the "brady bunch" mom. >> well, i mean, that may be true but i do think that judge barrett has had a number of her writings and other views that she's expressed, and i think there will be a way will be a w for democrats to fairly examine those and not go down the rabbit hole the president wants. this is not about amy barrett's relegen religion, it's about whether she would serve in a manner that is be fitting the country. and continuing to highlight the american hypocrisy, and america is with us and democrats on this, that this decision should be left to the next president of the united states. i think it's important for democrats to continue to highlight that, but also really to focus on her record. she has a record, and she has written, you know, at least rather succinctly, and to highlight what is at stake for the american people when it comes to health care, you know, getting rid of protections for pre-existing conditions, and children over 26 being on th

ginsburg will be laid to rest next week in arlington national cemetery next to her beloved husband marty ginsburg. christine sloan, abc news, new york. >>> and president trump's chief of staff is going after the director of the fbi. he said historically he's not seen any kind of coordinated national voter fraud effort in a major election. now the president is pushing voting by mail in some states and not in others. abc news chief white house correspondent jonathan carl has more. >> reporter: president trump is campaigning like his presidency depends on it. four states in two days trying to raise doubts about the legitimacy of the election along the way. >> we may end up in a dispute for a long time because that's the way they want it, but we're going to end up winning, that's for sure. >> reporter: the president continues to warn of widespread voter fraud. despite the fbi director's assessment that there's been no such thing. >> is voting by mail secure? >> we have not seen historically any kind of coordinated national voter fraud effort in a major election, whether it's by mail or otherw >> repo

ginsburg will be laid to rest next week in arlington national cemetery next to her beloved husband marty ginsburg. christine sloan, abc news, new york. >>> and that race for the white house now just 38 days away now until november's election. president trump spent the night holding a rally in virginia despite state health officials warning it posed a significant health risk. abc 7 news reporter rick scott is in washington with the very latest on the campaign trail. >> reporter: overnight president trump packing in events on the campaign trail in virginia. >> now they're talking about tens of millions of these fake ballots going all over the place. who's sending them, who'd sending them back? >> reporter: and georgia once again pushing back baseless claims that mail-in voting leads to widespread fraud. >> we may end up in a dispute for a long time because that's the way they want it, but we're going to end up winning for sure. >> reporter: but a day earlier his hand picked director said there's no evidence to support that claim. >> we've not seen historically any kind of coordinated national voter

let me say this, marty ginsburg was also an important figure, not simply in her life, he ran the campaign to get ruth on the court. the president, if i remember correctly, president clinton was considering ruth and steve breyer, steve got the second appointment. marty called everyone, ruth couldn't do it, she was a federal judge. marty did a full court press. i mean, he organized that campaign to make sure that we all called the president or in my case, actually went and talked to him, to recommend ruth. and, of course, hillary was already there, but we all got multiple calls from marty. as he called everyone to make sure that we made the case. he gave us talking points. and i'd say, marty, i don't need talking points, i know ruth. but it was a very special time to see her come on the court. and, of course, we're all thankful for the years we had her. our lives will never be the same, will always be better, every woman and every child in america, will have a better life because of ruth ginsburg. >> i don't want to -- i don't know if you want to talk about what happens now, mitch mcconnell

openness where she was willing to allow people into her life, into her beautiful marriage to marty ginsburgle where even her colors would speak to her opinions at the supreme court. she was willing to be on camera in her 80s working out she had an enormous amount of openness in part because she wanted to draw people into the world of the court she wanted people to understand what was at stake. when she became the notorious rbg, when my co-author came up with that as a lark, it was out of protest how the court moved to the right so there was a real substance to this too. >> of course she was known for her decents. you talk about her strength. what is the biggest lesson she taught you >> tenacity. ifshe could keep showing up to work at the age of 87 with her enormous health challenges, which were even worse than we knew, if she could continue to go to work after the ugliness of the brett kavanaugh hearings after seeing so many of the things she fought for her whole life undone by a right-leaning supreme court, i think the ability to keep showor as long as you physically can, that was somethin

ginsburg will be laid to rest next week in arlington national cemetery next to her beloved husband marty ginsburg. christine sloan, abc news, new york. of staff is going after the director of the fbi after he said historically he's not seen any kind of coordinated national voter fraud effort in a major election. now the president is pushing voting by mail in some states and not in others. abc news chief white house correspondent jonathan carl has more. >> reporter: president trump is campaigning like his presidency depends on it. four states in two days trying to raise doubts about the legitimacy of the election along the way. >> we may end up in a dispute for a long time because that's the way they want it, but we're going to end up winning, that's for sure. >> reporter: the president continues to warn of widespread voter fraud. despite the fbi director's assessment that there's been no such thing. >> is voting by mail secure? >> we have not seen historically any kind of coordinated national voter fraud effort in a major election, whether it's by mail or otherwise. >> reporter: that prompted som

ginsburg, marty ginsburg, who was -- he was basically a gourmet chef. so they were just able to really appreciate the many things they had in common. and they didn't compromise their beliefs to make sure they were able to stay friends. they still held on to their beliefs and when they disagreed with each other and their opinions as they often did, they really let each other have it. but that didn't get in the way of the wonderful bond they had. >> when he would explain to you as a son, you say, you don't agree with her about anything, how are you guys friends? what would he say to you? >> you know, i took the relationship for granted because they had already been friends by the time he was on the supreme court. so i just took it for granted. but for -- i can share a story that one of his former clerks told recently, this former clerk, now a federal judge, jeff sutton, he was visiting my father shortly before my father passed away, and it happened to be justice ginsburg's birthday, and my father said, well, i have to go, i have to go down the hall and gi

marty ginsburg was basically a gourmet chef and my mother is a really good cook, so they were enjoy swapping recipes, and my father often enjoyed the spoils of those recipes. and they made each other laugh. i don't think many people made justice ginsburg laugh out loud. her husband was one and my father was another. she used to say when they were on the d.c. court of appeals, they sat next to each other, and he would whisper jokes to her, and she would have to pinch herself from disrupting the court with laughter. >> we uncovered this clip i want to share with you. they appeared at a press club event. ad here is what they had to say. >> we agree on a whole lot of stuff. ruth is only really bad on the knee-jerk stuff. [laughter] >> she is a good tex textualist. she is terrific. she is obviously very smart. in most cases, i think we're together. >> we agree on many procedures. cases, not always. you got one wrong last year. [laughter] >> you pointed out earlier, and they pointed out as well,they did disagree, often on her legal cases. it was one her few majority opinions, the 1996 decision tha

reason she for example, justice scalia got along is he constantly made her life and same thing of marty ginsburg she had an incredible marriage of true partnership that rested on the fact he constantly made her laugh. her own humor was more subtle. she was someone who was always ready with a very subtle barb and you had to look for it in her writing. she certainly appreciated family. she appreciated the institution of the court, and i'm just very struck at this moment by the fact that according to npr, she dictated a statement to her granddaughter and said that her greatest wish is that she not be not her successor and installed by this president. it's a piece of her great rev ra she did not want this president to replace her. how much she did not want her legacy being defined by being replaced by donald trump. >> okay. so man us not with us. let me layout what he said. he said there were a lot of questions but that this is something that if donald trump is reelected, mitch mcconnell would likely move to do during the lame-duck session and gloria borger is with me and man us laying out the math,

and that drive is what attracted a fellow student and future husband marty ginsburg, who died of cancern 2010. >> this is typical marty. >> reporter: why do you say it is typical marty? >> because he is reading a good back and he is underdressed. >> reporter: their early relationship is featured in the movie "on the basis of sex." >> which one makes me look more like a harvard man? >> he was her biggest supporter. my mother always said at cornell, he was the only boy who cared she had a brain. >> reporter: she married marty in 1954, and had jane in 1955, and enrolled at harvard law school the following year. when her husband graduated harvard law in 1958 and took a job with a firm in new york, ruth transferred to columbia law school, where she graduated first in her class and still found herself unable to get a job. >> i had three strikes against me. one, i was jewish, two, i was a woman, but the killer was i was the mother of a 4-year-old child. >> she was virtually unemployable. >> reporter: stacy hawkins teaches law at rutgers law school. >> they simply were unwilling to give an oppo

she has a wonderful partnership with her husband, down to the fact that it seems like marty ginsburg, justice ginsburg's husband and jesse barrett are known as the best cook in the family, something the supreme court helped to pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the unfinished business is the vote on the motion of the gentleman from california, mr. swalwell, to suspend the rules and adopt house resolution >> we break away now and go to the house floor for one more vote. the clerk: resolution reaffirming the house of representatives commitment to the orderly and peaceful transfer of power called for in the constitution of the united states and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the question is, will the house suspend the rules and adopt house resolution 1155. members will record their votes by electronic device. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s

marty. justice ginsburg married me and my husband back in 1997. she was a very important figure in my life i recall after marty died, about two weeks later, i was at a dinner with her in aspen at the aspen ideas festival and it was an honor of justice o'connor's 80th birthday. and she got up and gave such an extraordinary tribute to sandra day o'connor and she told a story about how she was first placed on the court, she was the second woman of course, and she was assigned to write a majority opinion by the chief and she was frightened this woman who had done so much had been so extraordinary as a judge and also of course in her private legal work and always first in her class and struggling against all of the discrimination against women but she was so nervous about writing that opinion and she said, i could never have gotten through it. then she did a perfect imitation at this private dinner, this birthday party of sandra day o'connor and said justice o'connor said, just put one foot in front of the other. just do it you have got to do it. and th

growing up and her mother imbued her with the idea she could do that of course she goes with marty ginsburgthey fire her from even that because when she got pregnant. the next time she was pregnant, nine years later at rutgers university where he was a law professor, she wore her mother-in-law's clothes to hide her pregnancy. and signed a new contract and then had the baby. and so they couldn't fire her then but all of that personal experience and the understanding that came to her that at that point in this country, there were hundreds maybe even thousands of state, local, and federal laws that by law barred women from jobs, from rights, even from jury service and she began the crusade to undo those she was the architect of the legal fight to undo those laws and she succeeded beyond, i think -- not beyond her dreams but beyond the expectations of an awful lot of people and a lot of the rights that those of us on this panel and our younger cohort have are really due to ruth bader ginsburg and i have been thinking about that all week that i have been fortunate to be born after -- in a time w

they liked to eat really good food and marty, justice ginsburg's husband, was a good chef and my mom good cook. they gathered together every new year to celebrate and they managed to focus on the things in common. >> it's so lovely honestly and such role models particularly in this hyper partisan time. it's so fun to watch her giggling there along with whatever your dad just said and in fact, she talks about, she talked about how he would make her laugh even while they were doing their justice stuff, so listen to this moment. >> justice scalia would whisper something to me. all i could do to avoid laughing out loud so sometimes i'd pinch myself. people sometimes asked me, what was your favorite scalia joke? i said i know what it is but i can't tell you. [ laughter ] >> i just love that thought of them on the bench, doing this incredibly weighty stuff and your dad making her laugh. >> yes, it is funny to imagine that, and apparently not many people made her laugh out loud as often as my dad did. her husband was the other person she said made her laugh out loud very often. it's worth p

justice ginsburg: in my entering class, there were over 500 and , marty was a year ahead of me, there were five women in his class. and today the harvard law school david: you0% women did extremely well and you got onto the harvard law review. but when your husband needed to move to new york, you wanted to transfer to columbia law school and the dean did not think it was a great idea if you wanted to be a harvard graduate. justice ginsburg time -- justice ginsburg:. i didn't because marty was diagnosed with a testicular tumor in his third year of law school. were early days for cancer and there was no such thing as chemotherapy. .here was only radiation we did not know whether he would survive. and i did not want to be a single mom. when ihter was 14 months started law school. we wanted to do this as a family. job and so iood , would i be able to complete my legal education at columbia and he said absolutely not, you must spend your 30 year here. there was a cornell classmate of who had her first year of law school. she transferred into our second year. and i said to the dean, "well,

she has a wonderful partnership with her husband, down to the fact that it seems like marty ginsburg,ce ginsburg's husband and jesse barrett are known as the best cook in the family, something the supreme court helped to kick off, that supreme court cookbook in his honor. there's a lot of ways in which these women are similar. also in their commitment to being friendly and cordial with people they disagree with. that is why you have people, there's that famous ginsberg scalia relationship, such good friends in the court, even though they differed. barrett, same thing, colleagues that span the spectrum, the people she clerked with saying that she is someone who ought to be in the art, she's super brilliant. people like noah feldman said that he disagrees with her on so many things but that she should be confirmed to the court. this is the kind of role model that ginsberg was in forging those kinds of relationships and barrett has a similar path herself. host: here is how you can ask our questions -- our guest questions. the line for democrats, (202) 748-8000. the line for republicans,

her late husband, marti ginsburg, was buried there back in 2010. >> sandra: with the sudden vacancy onelection. leading speculation the battles over the nomination will spill over and impact other issues leading up to november 3. a recent "wall street journal" highlights that reading, quote, supreme court fight complicates coronavirus aid talks, spending bills. white house economic advisor larry kudlow. good morning. i think that is a lot of concern. with this dominating the election atmosphere, what happens to the stimulus talks? >> well look, a couple of things on this. i think the market sell-off today is coming out of london, coming out of britain where they have had another bounce in the virus and they may close down the economy. i think that's the single biggest factor in the market sell-off plus some continued correction in tech stocks. >> sandra: do you have any direct knowledge that that will happen? >> no, i don't. i don't want to get ahead of that story, either. that's what is coming out. you see reports and discusses. i hope it's not the case. the good news here for us is w