republicans say they will block any attempt to dominate merritt garland. we will take it live as it comes and. >> robin: no later hotspots but there is the craft it antioch. >> james: what the president does, and ruled them out of weather and traffic. the live looked outside does show a nice high clouds over the east bay. still on the chilly side with forties' out there. by the time kids go to school and then leave it will have risen to '60s and '70s. >> robin: from 88210 what is packed like a normal. from 101 to the 85 split is jammed. there's a crash of antioch is slowing down the traffic there. >> mark: to people have been shot at the bart station near berkeley. >> averi: there is an overnight double shooting that happened in this area. the police were called from the shots fired. the two people shot arnelle in the critical condition. the police are treating this as a targeted crime. he concedes the glass shattered ended open doors. the police are still looking for who the person looks like and whether the car was. >> mark: president obama is about to t

>> mark kirk is a home state senator, remember, merritt garland is from chicago. mark kirk said before the break that he thought his senate republican colleagues should as he put it, man up and vote for garland this was a foregone conclusion that he was going to meet wi it doesn't indicate the dam breaking on merritt garland. 15 republicans in the senate, including him, have said they're willing to meet with merritt garland. but only two of them have said that garland deserves a full up senate floor vote. so that's mark kirk and also susan collins of maine. so that's not exactly what, what it's going to take to get him confirmed. the leadership continues to say there should be no vote. that it should be up to the next president. >> still an uphill battle on that front. thanks so much, pete. >>> there was a plan under way to defund planned parenthood. but now virginia's governor is stepping in. >> after vice president joe biden watched his son, bo. lose his fight against cancer, >>> big announcement from the world's largest soup maker. campbell's says it will comple

many of them going a step further, refusing to even meet with merritt garland. here's why that's a gamble. he's a relative centrist. if a conservative wins the white house, it's a gamble that would surely nominate a more conservative justice to take antonin scalia's spot. what if hillary clinton wins? she would make her own decision and maybe gone for garland at that point. here's the second gamble for the republican establishment. submit to donald trump who holds an increasingly insurmountable lead or fight back against the front-runner an hoped hope a contested convention doesn't result in riots as trump suggested. let's start with the intersection of a supreme court nomination and presidential politics. it's happening on capitol hill. is there anyone more qualified to talk about all of that than our own kelly o'donnell? fill me in with what's happening on the meetings. >> reporter: the start is for merritt garland to get face-to-face time but just with democrats so far and that's significant. he would certainly need the support of republicans to move forward

i would rather have a less liberal nominee like merritt garland than a nominee that hillary clinton, if she were president, would put forward. >> a small number of republicans now say they're at least willing to meet with garland after the senate's two-week break, but they're quick to point out those meetings will only be as a courtesy. julie? >> garrett tenney reporting from washington. >> cthe director of the cia get grilled on capitol hill. >>> and spring starts tomorrow. say good-bye to winter, although it's supposed to snow tomorrow. what a confusing mess. the northeast is actually bracing for one more blast from old man winter. i'm going to welcome old man winter back. >> spring has sprung. >>> ted cruz wants governor john kasich to drop out of the gop race. is that fair? considering kasich's big win in ohio. our political panel weighs in. >> we have a very direct path to 1,237 delegates to winning the nomination outright, and that's what we are campaigning hard to do. when you think about success, what does it look like? is it becoming a better professor by being a more adventu

joining me for more on the merritt garland nomination. form former attorney general, eric holder. first interview since leaving the justice department. i want your thoughts on judge garland. you know him well and the possibility that he may not even get a hearing on this nomination. >> well, hi, andrea. thanks for having me. merritt is a guy i've known for years. he's a careful, thoughtful judge, who bases his decisions on the facts and the law. he's in the main street of american political and judicial thought. he's a guy who i think is imminently qualified and no one has taken any shots at him. viewed in a vacuum, i think everybody, republican and democrat, would say he's more than qualified to be on the supreme court. this is really all about the political battle that exists between republicans and democrats. and i would say, transitive of republican leadership to bring to the floor a very qualified nominee. >> we are hearing some pushback from liberal groups also because he is not a liberal progressive as they would like. he's not a minority. he's not too old. what do you say t

. >> a milestone today for the supreme court nominee merritt garland.e met with a republican senator. garland met this afternoon with senator mark kirk of illinois. leaders in the republican party insist they will not hold confirmation hearings or a vote on judge garland's nomination to serve on the court. however, there are some cracks in the resistance. 16 republican senators now say they're open to at least with the candidate. today, senator kirk went even further. >> we need for rational, adult open-minded consideration of a constitutional process. which judge garland is part of. he's been duly nominated by the elected president of the united states. to fill a vacancy which we know exists on the court. >> senator kirk is in the midst of a tough re-election battle in illinois. merritt garland grew up in a suburb of chicago. >>> it's almost time. nats park sprucing up for this weekend exhibition games this weekend. there are a number of changes to make it fan-friendly experience, tom sherwood got an up-front look today. >> it takes more than 40,000 fa

ranks over the weekend say there should be hearings on merritt garland and a vote for obama's supremeitol hill luke russert. i know it's a little break but saying up for reelection, they should at least meet with him? >> reporter: you have three republicans saying they should meet and perhaps hold hearings. collins of maine. no surprise there. she's the wife long moderate. kirk of illinois in a tough election battle coming up against tammy and jerry, more conservative and there are breaks in the dam. i spoke to aids close to mitch mcconnell and said the majority leader said there will be no hearing and vote and they personally believe any conservative backlash that would go against mcconnell is much, much worse than the opeds that would run against him and the republicans that would be upset about this. they would rather have the support of the base and first time, mcconnell does have support of the conservative base. today, met with donnelly and it's march. he needs to do his job. those are sympathetic figures. we'll see how the meeting goes tomorrow with kirk, a republican. how forc

according to reuters, either judge have i vi nav ven or merritt garland will be will announced. the team of advisers helping to vet candidates answered the presidede's questions has finished its work as of tonight. the new justice will replace the late antonin scalia. >> it wass hot today in south florida. our first 90 degree reading of the year. i'll tell you where that happened and whether you can expect more of that heat tomorrow. >> a man is gunned down while walking to work wearing his uniform. the details coming up. >>> urgent shutdown at a commuting nightmare looming. > why a complete emergency shutdown of one of the nation's largest mass transit systems plagued with problems is less than an hour away. >> and continuing coverage ofof decision 2016 and the florida primary. our political analyst is still but she's on the move getting a man is shot and killed in miami gardens. police are trying to find the gunman. the murder may be connected to a rash of armed blurring burglaries across the county. jamie guirola joins with ushe details. >> reporter: police are following lead

republicans are are not opposed to merritt garland per se but proposed to the idea of him. gop would be dug in president had nominated santa claus. they feel the next president, not current should fill ant anyone scalia's seat. garland scheduled to meet with top include senators. president obama announced in a rose garden ceremony. >> at a time when our politics are so polarized this is precisely the time when we should play it straight and pointing of supreme court justice with the seriousness and care it deserves. >> garland born and raided in illinois has served as chief appeals for d.c. sir circuit and overcome with e motion. >> this is greatest honor of my life -- [inaudible] >> graduate quit private practice and became a federal prosecutor and terry nichols who carried out oklahoma city bombing. democrat answer republican praised hmm for even handedness and consensus nominee, but here there's little consensus. mitch mcconnell says e he will not meet with garland. >> right to act as a check on a president and withhold consent. >> democratic senator harry reid hopes rep

allowed to pick the future a couch republicans and mark kirby is passing on to meet with nominee merritt garland >>james: he will announce his endorsement crew was the mechanic who had a chance of beating donald trump. >>reporter: tiding she is not the type to sit on the sidelines. >>reporter: the partnership is in full swing as a husband chief fund raiser she had raised over $50 million last year the california born said the economic relations a family trip to washington and got turned to politics when things the stress on the trail that turn tied to burn off steam called her to sing her broadway show tunes. >>reporter: still the she stayed behind the scenes and most days off the trail at home caring for the young son. >>darya: even the ohio is at an open carry state people would not be allowed to walk alongwith guns. the gop convention will be held a gun free in july. >>james: 7 people and injured and two people had to be pulled from the burning car, lapd said a their rush to pull the man and woman from the burning mercedes for natural gas tank exploded the gyro the mercedes suffered from burn

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president obama is urging the republic led senate to least consider his circuit court nominee merritt garland. leaders have agreed not to confirm any nominee from president obama. the president is pushing back, saying garland is supremely qualified, and is ready for the public relations war ahead. >> he is prepared, i think, to take on whatever unfair or unjust or wildly exaggerated claims that just opposed to any nominee that i might make. >> this fight shifts over the next two weeks as republican senators head back to their home state. activists on both sides plan to hold rallies on the local level, including here in ohio, to try to shift land. >>> new details this morning about the huge victory in court for former wrestling great hulk hoe began. a florida jury awarded hoe began $115 million in his invasion of privacy suit against gawker media hoe began sued gawker for posting 2 minutes of a sex tape featuring him in 2012 in a statement, a spokesman for hoe began says he is exceptionally happy with the verdict. the court will reconvene monday to decide on punitive damages beyond the 115 mil

. >> and what about air merritt garland.ning in the past but a front runner we've learned? and obviously is a very impressive resume. he's considered to be a consistent -- consensus candidate here but court watchers say his age and the bottom line the fact that he's a white male might work against him. >> i think the president is searching for diversity here on the court. we've seen that in his earlier selection. so i would about pate he try to do that again. and while 63 certainly doesn't seem old to me, when you think about the supreme court justice trying to serve 20, 30 years on the court the president will probably pick someone a little younger. >> and may be more palatable to republicans in the senate to have someone a little old er. but then you get to the hearing part and republicans are saying they are not even going to hold a hearing. and jane kelly on the 5th circuit is -- >> judge kelly has been someone senator grassley has supported enthusiastically for a long time. so it is going to be very difficult to say thi

i'll say one thing, judge mer measu measu merritt garland.her scalia. >> still a center right country. >> he's a good smart open minded guy. and it's a shame politics twirled it all up. >> every time they pick someone ends up not being the conservative that they hoped for. >> judge roberts. >> roberts, exactly. >> you are are renaissance man. >> coming up the hug make headlines. but the knicks and their dismal season. as we head to the break check out the markets in europe. "squawk box" returns in just a moment. ted over 100 years ago as a benchmark for average. yet many people still build portfolios with strategies that just track the benchmarks. but investing isn't about achieving average. it's about achieving goals. and invesco believes doing that today requires the art and expertise of high-conviction investing. translation? it's time to bench the benchmarks. . >>> welcome back to "squawk box". what kid doesn't dream of meeting their favorite player. one young player made that happen at the knicks-pelicans game last night. >> pelicans, no

chopper 2 is over an accident near merrick garland high school -- merritt island high school. you can see investigators checking out what appears to be a bicycle that is jammed underneath. two people were apparently crossing the street. witnesses are telling us it is likely they are young people. both were airlifted to the hospital, indicating very serious industries -- injuries. dan billow is about at the scene. we will bring it to you live when he gets there. the trouble started yesterday but still burns tonight. hot spots are still flaring up in parts of brevard county, after this 10-acre brush fire flared up yesterday afternoon, damaging some homes nearby. cleaning up damage tonight. and as a precaution, some of those homes had to be evacuated. angela: this all happened in the area of san fillipo and cogan drives. wesh 2' s dan billow reports the fire risk remains high. dan: i have just yards from where the fire was burning because a few will like this, heavy and dry. drying out in the springtime heat. how bad with this wildfire season be? a clear consensus is taking shape

say in who replaces the late justice scalia. 2:00 today i am nominating to judge merritt the harlot -- married brian garland. supreme court pick. it was emotional for federal appellate judge merrick garland. >> is also the greatest gift i've ever received except and that's another caveat, the birth of our daughter's jesse mbeki. >> president obama pointed out there's a long history of bipartisan support calling on the senate to vote instead of tying the nomination. >> to go down the path would be wrong. it would be a betrayal of our best traditions. >> reporter: republican leaders are standing firm in opposition. they insist voters should decide the ideological battles of the court when they elect the next president. >> is the president's constitutional right to nominate up a supreme court justice and the senate's constitutional right to act as a check on the president and withhold its consent. >> democrats are pushing back hoping the choice of what they call a moderate judge will position. >> reporter: -- >> copresidents nomination qualified to change course. >> reporter: republican party has already forme