welcome united states senator -- >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome united states senator, tom tillis[applause] sen. tillis: good afternoon, everybody. i know it is a hot day, and we appreciate you being here. we are running a little late. we also appreciate our vice president here on a hot day. he can take the heat. i want to thank you all. knowhe people in america what the thin blue line means. it means the police across the nation on the difference between our safety and chaos. i want to thank every single one of you getting up every day and protecting our communities. i want you to know you have a president, a vice president, and u.s. senator that recognizes the sacrifice you make and will do everything we can to protect you. i want to thank you all for being here today, and i want to get the vice president on the stage quickly before -- quickly. before i do, i want to introduce the president of the southern states police benevolent association for a few comments and introduction of our vice president. thank you. [applause] >> i would like to thank you for being here. my name is k

we have great members on our side, tom tillis and joni ernst. i am in a tough fight. my opponent raised $100 million. i dared to support kavanaugh and dared to support trump. reason,ecome, for some their number one target. my opponent raised more money in august than any candidate running for senate. when you are spending $5 million a week on tv ads, everybody in south carolina will see his ads at least 130 times in one week. i'm sure it will be the same for tom tillis. if you have $5 or $10, send it. lindseygraham.com. help us financially so we can push back. i want to make the court fight the center of my election. i doubt if he does, but i need the resources to make it the center of my election. you can pray to give grace. is whatom line is, this i came appear to do. this is why i ran for office. this is why you knock on doors and make phone calls. this is the time for us will start this is our time, and we will meet the challenge. >> senator lindsey graham, you are doing a fantastic job as chairman of the senate judiciary committee. grateful that you have joined u

senator tom tillis, tom, thank you very much.esident trump:: and some warriors there in congress and they're tough and they're smart. representatives david rouser, ted bud and dan bishop. thank you, fellas. they are tough. but you're not as tough as these guys, i'll tell you right now, right? you're not as tough as them. there is no better place to mark this profound world war in wilmington, north carolina. the people of this city and this state and it's an incredible state and i want to thank you for being so nice to me. you've been very nice. very, very nice every time we've asked for something. but i've been nice to you also, i have to say that. but you made the extraordinary contributions to the war effort. that's north carolina made this extraordinary contribution in so many. nearly two million servicemen trained for combat in north carolina. more than any other state. wow. that's pretty good, isn't it, huh? who would know that? two million trained. more than any state. president trump:: over 360,000 service members from you

we have great members on our side, tom tillis and joni ernst. i have dared to support trump. i have become for some reason, their number one target. my open and raise more money in august than any candidate running for senate. when you are spending $5 million a week on tv ads, everybody in south carolina will see his ads at least 130 times in one week. so if you have five dollars or $10, send it. graham.com. i want to make the court fight the center of my election. i doubt if he does. but i need the resources to make it the center of my election. is, this is what i came up to her do, why i ran for office, why you knock on doors , thisu make phone calls is the time for us. this is our time, and we will challenge. >> senator lindsey graham, you are doing a fantastic job as chairman of the senate judiciary committee. grateful that you have joined us here at the values voter summit and we will be praying for you. we will be praying that your sense of humor holds up. most people don't realize, you got a great sense of humor, and i think that helps you a lot in these difficult time

. >> that's dangerous like what republicans did, senator tom tillis. the trump rally tonight. in a tight reelection bid. what he's saying about the nomination here? >> made it pretty clear. going to follow the president's lead on this. the nomination to make and the timeline to set and that he's going to vote for whoever the president puts up for nomination. it's important to point out as well, senator tom tillis sits on the judiciary committee but he'll play a very important role, an important stake. important factor heading into this election, clear where it stands. air force one in the picture, using air force in his e relexx. reelection. the campaign. this is armageddon right now heading into. he wants to talk about covid, covid, covid. now you're going, of course, to talk about scotus. the supreme court. the democratic source today or make it clear to me to kind of those two things, saying your health care is at stake here. if you get a conservative, ruth bader ginsburg was the one who said, you know, i'm not going to overturn the affordable care act. if you don't want to

[video] >> for tom tillis it is about the money.e is raked in more campaign cash than any other senator. he took good care of them. he opposed bipartisan bills to lower the price of prescription drugs, and voted to give the millions and millions in new tax breaks when they jacked up prices even higher. tom tillis, washington corruption. we pay the price. that addd in north carolina yesterday -- ad in north carolina yesterday. plenty of house races to choose from. one of the most closely watched is the iowa first race. freshman democrat is being targeted by house republicans. the national republican congressional committee released. [video] >> for me, it is always about iowa. >> who is abdicating? her government-run takeover of medicare would raise seniors? it could cost $40 trillion in close 17 hospitals in northeast iowa. >> for me, it is always about iowa. >> not true. abby's extreme views damage iowa. host: back to your phone calls, asking if you plan to reelect your member of congress. john does out of missouri. caller: hey. ban

. >> senator tom tillis of north carolina supports a vote which is opposite what he said in 2016. it seems like -- i'm not sure if that's a signal of a trend among other senators in tight races but i think we will be learning more about that just throughout the day as we hear from some of these senators. >> tom tillis is also in a tight race just like the president. not only does he support the vote. he would support the nominee because the president has put out a list. you'll see a lot of these republicans who say, you know, if the president sticks to his list, one of the nominees from his list, they're likely to support them. >> josh dawsey, appreciate it. >>> npr reported this detail quoting just days before her death as her strength waned, ginsburg dictated this statement to her granddaughter. my most fervent wish is that i will not be replaced until a new president is installed. a legal affairs correspondent for npr was close with justice ginsburg and she's who the justice's family chose to share her dying wish with. you and i spoke last night. i've been reading what you wrot

senate. >> martha: senator tom tillis, good to have you with us tonight.re tonight, democrat senator chris coons, also a member of the very important senate judiciary committee. they have their work cut out for them. thanks for being with us. so let's put a show on the other foot here. let's assume hillary clinton had won the election and it just for the sake of argument president trump is a candidate again and he has decided to run against her. judge ginsburg passes away september 18th and hillary clinton is the president. she risks losing the presidency, would you be encouraging her to go ahead and try to fill that seat before the election stomach >> to things. i would be pointing out to her that it has never happened this close to an election, just 41 days before an election when half of the states in our country are already voting for president, that a president has moved forward with filling that seat. president abraham lincoln is one of just two that had a vacancy this close to the election and he declined to fill that seat. i would also tell her tha

tom tillis is not taking that tact. like cory gardner does or susan collins who had her famous i'm not doing anything against donald trump. >> dana: let's talk about one of the battleground states. pennsylvania. this is a monmouth poll just out with this race tightening in pennsylvania. so president trump now at 45%. biden at 49%. just in july, that was five weeks ago, biden was at 53% and trump at 40%. so tell me what you think is causing this. we always know that partisans usually return home. we've had the conventions, violence, energy policy in pennsylvania. what do you put it down to? >> also, by the way, that is the numbers among registered voters. likely voters, it's between 1 and 3%. the race is a statistical tile in pennsylvania. you can tell who is worried about the election by their actions. whether they're changing strategy, a week ago, joe biden said -- told david muir on abc news that he could win it from his basement. then they said he's going to start campaigning in the battleground states after labor da

in arizona, colorado, maine, and tom tillis. but where are we now?ll four of those were in much tougher shape than they were at the beginning of the year. iowawe have joni ernst in who was thought to be in a competitive, not that much trouble. now that is a tossup race and she is b

and it is a similar story in north carolina, where tom tillis is down to cal cunningham. >> brennan:hony, given a record number of people are expected to vote by mail, will we know how this race is headed before november 3rd? >>some of it will be in the bank, as they say, because so much -- in fact a majority of the votes will be cast before election day. if you look at two states here, starting with north carolina, look at how many democrats over republicans say that they want to vote by mail or absentee, and then a sizeable number also are going to vote in person, early. i suspect when we get to election day, we'll be looking at whether or not republicans can turn out in large numbers on election day maybe to make up that deficit. the fact is that they've done it before in the past, and they say they're going to do it again. but one other wrinkle in this, margaret, is that republicans say they find navigating the voting process very easy in higher numbers than democrats do, in a race where you're going to have different kinds of voting, and that's going to be really important to wh

there was a bill in the senate right now that tom tillis is sponsoring that will do just that and i'moing to sponsor it in the house. >> congressman? rep. lamb: i just don't get it. this isn't about you being upset. the law protects these people now. all you hear from this guy is that everyone else is a liar, every democrat is the source of all these problems we are having. look, there are issues. this is a very difficult pandemic. the last thing we should do is throw out the law that guarantees coverage to 133 million americans. there are 100,000 people in our congressional district who have health insurance because of the aca and there are 20,000 more who are uninsured that should have it. that will get worse under your approach. you can say what you want. the law protects these people now. you can't get rid of this law. mr. parnell: listen, i'm going to protect people with pre-existing conditions, conor. running a commercial. i'm sitting here right here, right now, i will always protect, i will always protect you if you have pre-existing conditions. you know that. you are running a

. >> to others, tom tillis and lindsay graham said they would likely support a trump nominee. >> some of the larger ones in california, new york uand wish wash d.c. one world trade center, lit in blue, the color of justice, and justice ginsburg's favorite color. >> one day after justice ginsburg's passing. >> the senator ultimately to move as quickly as they can to try to fill the justice's seat. the president said he would hand thing its over to mitch, meaning mitch mcconnell. and at the rally in north carolina, he has decided one thing about the person he will pick. that person will be a woman. here is the way he explained that decision, on the south lawn before his departure last night. >> would -- i. >> i could see most likely it would be a woman. it would be a woman. if someone other than to ask me now, i would say that a woman would be in first place, yes. >> the president plague coy there. he annoyed on stage at his rally, yes, the pick would be a woman. he had that decision made when he was talking to us on the lawn. ed amy barrett, placed in that position by president trump o

protect people with pre-existing conditions but in fact, there's a bill in the senate right now that tom tilliss sponsoring the will do just that and when i get to congress i will cosponsor it in the house. >> congressman. >> i just thank you don't get it. this isn't about you being ups upset. the law protects these people now. all you hear from the sky is that everyone else is a liar and every democrat is the source of all these problems we are having but there are issues and this is very difficult pandemic. the last thing we should do is throw out the law the guarantees coverage to 133 million americans. there are 100,000 people in our congressional district who have health insurance because of the aca. there are 20000 more who are uninsured and who should have it and that will get worse under your approach. you can say what you want but the law protects these people now and you can't get rid of this law? >> listen, i'm going to protect people with pre-existing conditions, conor pretty you are wanting this commercial is sitting here right now telling you i will always protect, i will always p

lewandowski and the president's son, anchoring coverage out of finland and lawrence jones, senator tom tillise supreme court confirmation. also congresswoman liz cheney. put down the remote, in two minutes in 16. as a single mother, my first job is to care for derek. everything i do is for him. when i moved to this apartment after six months, we need to connect with the world. i use the internet to keep him in the language, because that's the way to connect to my family's traditions. he has to know where he comes from. we need internet essentials. there's no excuse to not get connected. todd: minneapolis police confirm they are looking at an alleged ballot harvesting scheme tied to ilhan omar stair -- project fairness claim to captured on camera. >> first time we've seen the deed being done on tape the media says there is no evidence, there you have it. this guy was going around residential buildings pressuring people for these ballots, taking them from the elderly. jillian: carley shimkus here with more on the investigation. carley: this started with the right-wing activist group project a t

reelection bid in competitive states, cory gardner in colorado, republican of colorado, joni years, tom tillis in north carolina, martha mcnally in arizona indicated she thinks they should forge ahead with the nomination, mitch mcconnell says they are going to go ahead and try to fill this seat. listen to what mitch mcconnell said earlier this year to bret baer. >> if you're asking me i hypothetical whether this republican senate would confirm a member of the supreme court to a vacancy created this year we would fill it. >> this is what mitch mcconnell said four years ago when there was a vacancy under president obama. >> the next justice could fundamentally alter the direction of the supreme court and have a profound impact on our country. so of course, of course the american people should have a say in the court's direction. >> reporter: in february of 2016 when antonin scalia passed away mitch mcconnell moved quickly, unilaterally, not even consulting with other senators to say they would block any nominee, they would not even entertain a nominee president obama would put forth in an electi

. >> reporter: the first of three televised debates tom tillis and cal cunningham sparred over many issuesd-19 vaccine approved before the end of the year. >> a candidate for the u.s. senate looking at the camera, telling 10 million n. carolinian's he would be hesitant to take a vaccine. >> north carolina station the most expensive center rates in the country with political advertising approaching $150 million according to ken for media. >> democrats spending $20 million for the republicans at the moment. >> reporter: the fox news poll showing cunningham starting the month with the 6 point the democrats see an opportunity in a state that elected democratic governor and donald trump in 2016. >> good year for democrats to win north carolina. >> we have seen a lot of generational change. >> a race targeting swing voters in the suburbs. >> part of the strategy, they are more centrist. >> donald trump's influence, how much people like donald trump will determine whether people come out to vote. >> reporter: tillis describes himself as a fiscal conservative. >> what people in north carolina want

tom tillis says yes. or would you rather have a man on the supreme court?eers and applause] let's give it one more quick chance. this is a free poll. this is tens of thousands of people. this is a lot of people. you know, the fake news, they'll say he had a smattering of people. if bernie sanders had a crowd, oh, he had a massive crowd, it was so big. with me, my crowds are five times bigger than bernie's, and they will say he had a smattering of people. thousands. might as well let them come on over. you had thousands of people behind these people. i would imagine the sightlines are not too good. -- who would rather have a man on the supreme court? >> yeah! trump: who would rather have a woman on the supreme court? [cheers and applause] now tomorrow, on fake news cnn, "he was playing games with the united states people. it was a terrible thing." no, i'm just taking a poll. please. by the way, that's a very accurate poll because that's the way i feel. it will be a woman -- a very talented, very brilliant woman. [cheers and applause] chosen yet, but we have

the question is, susan collins, joni ernst, tom tillis, do any of them say i can't do this and get re-elected do i care, that this will basically seal my fate. martha mcsally certainly did not already. >> ron, i get the stability of the race viewed through the national lens, as evidenced by the real clear politics averages. what explains then the disconnect between volatility in states like some that you've named, and the stable picture nationwide? >> well, i think part of it is an art of polling, part of it is states are subject -- the swing states you're talking about are subject to more active campaigning so it can be affected by which side is spending a lot of money on television. you know, at that moment or not. but i would say, michael, you know, the swing states, unlike the president who said if you take out the blue states america is doing just fine on the coronavirus which obviously isn't true on its own terms. but the swing states are not separate from america. i've tracked roughly 20 state polls released last weekend, and joe biden led donald trump among college-educated white vote

president if he wins will have a positive impact on the down ticket republican candidate there, senator tom tillisrking behind the scenes doing everything he can to hold on to a narrow majority. >> he's right. we'll know more the wednesday after the election than in these weeks and days before. appreciate the great reporting there. >>> coming up for us, kickoff night tonight for the nfl in the middle of a pandemic. ary materis and responds to your body- -so you get deep, uninterrupted sleep. take advantage of our best offer of the year, with savings up to $500. ms. williams: we've been working hard... ms. robinson: ...to make learning fun again. ms. duncan: and making sure our students can succeed. ms. zamora: we're with you every step of the way. ms. robinson: i know it's a challenging time. ms. zamora: no one wants to be back in the classroom more than teachers. ms. williams: we have missed you so much. mr. hardesty: but we all have to be safe. ms. robinson: because we're all in this together. narrator: making our school buildings safer. ms. robinson: working together, we can make it a great yea

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tom tillis said he would take a coronavirus vaccine.rt said this. >> i have questions and we have seen too many times and especially in recent years politics intervening in what should be driven by health and science, whether it's cdc center for disease control suggestions and recommendations on how we deal with this pandemic, we have seen politics intervene there. >> do i read you to say you would be hesitant to receive the vaccine if it were approved by the end of the year? >> i'm going to -- yes, i would be hesitant. >> we just heard a candidate for the u.s. senate look into the camera and tell 10 million north carolinans we should be hesitant to take a vaccine. i think that's irresponsible. >> is that irresponsible? >> no, i don't think that's irresponsible. let me tell you what i'm hearing. he wants to make sure that this vaccine goes through the process and n a proper and effective way. when we know we have record public mistrust, when we know that we have skepticism, it is so very, very important that we can say we followed the s

tom tillis seems comfortable moving ahead. >> the time is up to the president. >> reporter: and southblican senator, lindsey graham, who was in a dead heap race against his challenger and criticized his own party when they upheld the nomination of merrick garland. >> if there's a vacancy in the last year of the first term, you can say lindsey graham said let's let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination and you could use my words against me and you'd be absolutely right. >> reporter: pt says he plans on nominating a woman and will make his pick likely next week. a federal appellate court judge in chicago, amy barrett is the frontrunner. >>> coming up at 11:00 we'll take a deeper look into barrett 's legal career and other nominees. >>> an emotional scene outside the supreme court. hundreds gathered outside to pay their respects to the late justice ruth bader ginsburg. they left flowers and home made cardboard signs at a growing memorial. vice presidential nominee, kamala harris w the message, justice ginsburg was a titan a relentless defender of justice and a leg

, that's potentially problematic for people like cory gardner up for re-election in colorado or tom tillisn north carolina. however, if he waits until after the election, conservatives are concerned that you could get into a scenario where perhaps president trump could lose or perhaps democrats would take the senate from republicans. if that's the case, even though folks are returning and republicans would still have control in the lame duck, there may be some concern for moderates that they don't want to move ahead with the president's nominee if the voters have made a different decision in november. so that's what mcconnell is weighing. he sent a note to his members last night warning them to keep their powder dry. not to lock in on any specific position at this point. he wants to have a conversation. he wants members to understand what's at stake. again, he can only lose three republican members, anderson, so his margin here very tight. >> yeah, lauren fox, thanks very much. >>> want to go to the white house now because the process to select a supreme court justice nominee is going to s

i think this is mostly good politics for republicans, like we mentioned tom tillis.nk this helps him. it makes the race bigger than just donald trump. and especially there's the idea that trump and mcconnell might end up, you know -- you could wait until the lame duck session to have the vote. and so, you know, it may be that this election takes on a bigger, even bigger than we thought importance that transcends donald trump. if you're a conservative that doesn't like donald trump, this is a reason to now vote. this is a reason to now be engaged. so, look, susan collins in maine, that's a tough one. alaska, murkowski, but i think this is a good development. it's a traj gee from a personal standpoint, but politically speaking i think this is a positive for republicans, both donald trump and the senate. >> we're hearing through your reporting that the interviewing process might begin within the next couple of weeks. the president has said he would want to seat a woman, largely to try to appeal to female voters, but it can't be just any woman, right? it's going to matte

even though some endangered republicans like north carolina senator tom tillis took the opposite positionn 2016. >> if we're going to let the american people speak. >> moving ahead before november could squeeze republicans like cory gardner running for re-election in colorado. gardner's office did not respond to questions about whether the winner of the november election should make the hugely consequential pick. it took them two to three months to pick a supreme court nominee meaning it would be faster than usual to approve a replacement before november. there's another complication. if arizona's appointed senator martha mcsally loses in november, that would mean democrat mark kelly could be sworn in the end of that month, bringing the majority to 248 -- mcconnell has little margin for error. several are uncommitted. like mitt romney and some have been wary about an election year confirmation. like senator chuck grassley who roo refused to hold hearings. >> i couldn't move forward with it. >> on saturday, his office declined to say if that is still his position. others have shifted their

even though some endangered republicans like north carolina senator tom tillis took the opposite positionn 2016. >> we're going to let the american people speak. >> reporter: yet moving ahead before november could squeeze republicans like cory gardener running for re-election in democratic leading colorado. gardener's office did not respond to questions about whether the winner of november's elections could make the hugely consequential pick. it usually takes 2 to 3 months to confirm a supreme court nominee. meaning it would be much faster than usual to approve a replacement before november. if a vote slips there's another complication if arizona's appointed senator martha mcsally loses in november. that means the democrat mark kelly could be sworn in by the end of that month bringing the gop majority down from 52 to 48. and several senators are uncommitted like utah's mitt romney. and some senators in the past have been wary about an election year confirmation. like senator chuck grassly who refused to hold hearings for obama's nominee in 2016. he told cnn in july -- on saturday his offi

and tom tillis as well. in in 2014, so they don't have as much of an identity that is separate from the political environment. how they do is tied very much to healthy president does. -- to how the president does. they will remember to vote for the republican down ballot. judy: many republican calculi, or whatever the plural of calculus is. amy walter, tamera keith, we appreciate it. judy: photojournalist sebastian rich visited u.n. peacekeepers in cyprus to see how they are adapting amid the coronavirus. find his images on our web site, pbs/org/newshour. and that's the "newshour" for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. join us online and again here tomorrowvening. newshour, thank you. please stay safe and we'll see you soon. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by -- >> caregiver. eclipse chaser. a raymondjames financial advisor taylor's advice to help you live your life. >> johnson and johnson. consumer cellular. bmsf railway. the candida fund, committed to restorative justice and work through i

but tom tillis is with us. i can tell you that. [cheers and applause] great.ve great republican senators. we have great people. we have a great country. that's really -- we have a great country, and we are going to keep it that way. [cheers and applause] so we win an election, and those are the consequences. it is called fill that seat, and that is what we are doing. the supreme court was important in both the 2016 election and 2018 midterm elections, where, by the way, i did not run. we had a lot of people saying "he really took a little bit of a shellacking," in fact we gained seats in the senate, but they never talked about that. they do not talk about that. but we did not run, and i had a lot of people who never voted for the 18 -- i said no, no, vote. i think we were, like, 9 million people decided they wanted to wait, and they waited. you see what's going on. you see what's happening. you see the enthusiasm we have, which, by the way, we set a record in 2016. the bad news for the democrats is we are more enthusiastic now, not even close, then we were in

look very differently 48 hours later and what i'm thinking about is a race like in north carolina, tom tillis, someone we weren't sure where he would come down on the question of a supreme court nominee. he is ready to vote for the president's nominee whether that happens in two weeks or whether that happens in two months. and i think what that's really all about, the underlying factor is this is a motivator for the president's base. this is a motivator or conservatives, for liberals, as well, but when you're talking about a presidential race, a senate race about leadership and was about coronavirus, was about the stakes in this country over health care you are now talking about a race that's about turning out your base and i think that's very important when you're talking about not just a presidential election but also those down ballot senate races. >> thank you to all of you. appreciate it. >>> we do expect that the democratic presidential nominee joe biden will take to the stage in philadelphia to give remarks on the u.s. supreme court seat left off by the death of ginsburg. our live team

in arizona, colorado, maine, and tom tillis. but where are we now? all four of those were in much tougher shape than they were at the beginning of the year. iowawe have joni ernst in who was thought to be in a competitive, not that much trouble. now that is a tossup race and she is behind in a decent number of poles we are seeing. moreyou have got one georgia seat with -- i'm having a -- pres. trump: labor day. that was a very special time i had speaking to some of the labor union heads and other people. they are very happy with the way things are going, as you have probably seen the numbers are terrific. so we called some people, wished him a very happy labor day. they told us how they are doing and we celebrate the american worker. we are in the midst of the fastest economic recovery in u.s. history. so we have a lot to be thankful for, including this beautiful day. i thought we would do this outside as opposed to in your more normal place. the united states experienced the smallest contraction of any major western nation. you probably know that. y

that's senator tom tillis of north carolina in a tough re-election race and in the judiciary committee who wrote an op-ed that said he's standing on principle and that's why he's not considering president obama's nominee back then. he put out a statement he didn't say exactly what he would do, but he did say that president trump is again facing voters at the ballot box and north carolinians will ultimately render their judgment on his presidency and how he chooses to fill the vacancy. also going on to make the statement that he would support a president trump nominee over a joe biden to fill the supreme court. so while this is going to be a battle to replace justice ginsburg, it's also going to be a big electoral battle as well. >> what strikes me is how the phrase standing on principle can have so many interpretations. that said, i thank you so much. the president now signaling he wants to replace justice ginsburg without delay. let's go to the white house. monica, another welcome to you on this saturday. what more can you tell us? >> reporter: alex, for the first 12 or so hours after

martha mcsally and tom tillis. you have to send me back. the control of the court on is the line. that is his thinking here. the big picture reality is that moving forward this way is just incredibly combustible for a senate that is incredibly divided. you will remember ruth bader ginsburg was confirmed to the court with 93 yes votes back in the 1990s. this is how we used to do things. that has been slowly falling apart. it was really collapsed just in the last five to six years. merrick garland was a seminal moment. obama's nominee in the 2016 was under way and mcconnell refused to confirm him because it was an election year. democrats have never forgotten that. that is the lesson. i think we are in for some potentially very difficult times in the u.s. congress here in the next few weeks. >> kasie, hang for a second while we bring in chuck todd. he is joining us as well. chuck, good morning. kasie just talked about the rough couple of weeks or months ahead, no doubt. it creates a very critical situation for many democrats. you had chuck schumer four years ago saying the president

bigger question, sandra, is how it plays in the senate races, key races in north carolina with tom tillisin iowa with jody ernst. sandra: he was asked about court packing and he would not commit on that, listen. >> i know that you will be upset with my answer, but what i'm not going to do is play the trump game. if i were to say yes or no to that, that becomes a big issue. that's the headline here. sandra: i won't ask you to read into that but what did you takeaway from it? bret: it's not the trump game. it's what democrats -- his own democrats in his party are talking about openly. and they are saying that this is what's going to happen. as the defacto leader to have party he should have to answer that question whether it's today or it's on the debate stage behind me. i think it's going to be a question he's going to be repeatedly asked because that's a big deal. if he's decided, we will go forward with adding supreme court seats or, no, i don't think that's a good idea, that's part of being leader to have party, is you have to answer the questions. sandra: bret, on managing expectations

even though some endangered republicans like north carolina senator tom tillis took the opposite position in 2016. >> we're going to let the american people speak. >> yet, moving ahead before november could squeeze republicans like cory gardner running for re-election in colorado. gardner's office did not respond to questions about whether the winner of the election should make the hugely consequential pick. >> it took two to three months to confirm a supreme court nominee. it would be -- before november. yet, if a vote slipped after the november elections during a lame duck session of congress, there's another complication that if martha mcsally loses in november. that would mean that mark kelly could be sworn in. that would bring the majority down. mcconnell has little margin for error. like utah's mitt romney and some senators in the past have been wary about an election year confirmation. like senator chuck grassley who as chairman of the judiciary committee refused to hold nominations for obama. he told cnn in july -- >> if i were chairman of the committee, i couldn't move forward wi

other vulnerable senators include north carolina's tom tillis who seems comfortable moving ahead. >> the timing is up to the president. i intend to vote for the nominee. >> reporter: and south carolina senator lindsey graham, who is in a dead heat race against his challenger and famously criticized his own party when they held up barack obama's nomination of garland. >> if there's a republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term you can say lindsey graham said let's let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination. and you can use my words against me and you would be absolutely right. >> reporter: president trump says he plans on nominating a woman to replace ginsburg and will likely make his pick next week. sergio quintana, nbc bay area news. >>> the remaining supreme court justices are also remembering justice ginsburg. chief justice john roberts said, quote, we at the supreme court have lost a cherished colleague. we mourn but with confidence that future generations will remember ruth bader ginsburg as we knew her -- a tireles

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tom tillis says yes.d you rather have a woman, or would you rather have a man on the supreme court? okay, what about a squirrel? who would like a squirrel on the supreme court? now we're doing supreme court justice gender reveals. trump says he's leaning towards choosing a female judge. and pay special attention to his hands here, as he says it smsh were to -- if somebody were to ask me now, i would say that a woman would be in first place. yes. >> jimmy: who does that? his mouth is always lying, but his little hands tell the truth. look at this. this was from one of those covid task force briefings he used to do. >> the professionals did the models, i was never involved in a model, but at least this kind of a model. he hears himself saying model and he goes oooh. the only donald trump could get horny talking about the coronavirus. the woman who is considered to be the early frontrunner for the nomination is from new orleans, and she seems like an interesting choice. >> i am not antifa, i'm not a sex slav

seeking elections, people that would be subject to this pressure, martha mcsally, corey gardner, tom tillis, that all of them were not willing to break with their party, right? and that's been the way they are throughout.th we'll all hang together or we'll all hang separately.et then there were the old-time senators, maybe they'll be institutionalists in this in setting, retiring lamar alexander from tennessee, or iowa's chuck grassley who said in 2018 he would not take up a nomination in this fashion. of course, that was a lie. the last hope was that utah's mitt romney, notably the one bipartisan vote for impeachment to remove the president would break from the president. but no, he signaled today he support a vote on trump's pick. so republicans probably do have the votes to do this.so there is no magic trick, right? no procedural thing you can do as democrats to stop them. i mean, you can delay, you can make it difficult, and obviously they should do that. but the real question becomes what to do about this if, in fact, they have the votes, which they appear to have. what is the plan?av

the next round of endangered republicans electorally, will tom tillis be in for doing it, david purduedy tree for democrats, but it may require one of them to say no rather than one of the endangered. one of the dynamics pushes them more closely to trump's fate. it may be harder for democrats to win some of these states if joe biden does it. even if biden falls just short the correlation between the senate and the presidential may get tighter as a result of this issue pushing everyone back to their partisan corners. in both states a slight pro-choice majority. and another issue of health care, and this does create a problem for republicans. >> i have 30 seconds, just respond, please, john. >> we're going to have obama care in the supreme court if it is a split it goes back to the lower court. the question is who will focus on it and when will they feel the pain? will it be before or after the fact. >> i can tell you what all of it will be really interesting to watch. fasten your seat belts, everyone. we're going to be hear to have it. >> thank you for watching, everyone. i'm don lemon,

you have tom tillis who is facing a really tough re-election fight. he said, yes, i want to vote. i want it now. and in states like maine, you have susan collins saying, no, no, not so fast. i think that it's really hard to predict which constituency this galvanizes more because we don't know who the nominee is going to be and it's somebody that really doesn't energize the religious right, although i have a hard time imagining trump would do that. then it's a whole different ball game. i think, though, phil is right. you can't put a number on -- although you could. in excess of $100 million. what this does to the democrats. they are just really fired up about this. and it's a question of whether or not that motivation endures until the election, i suppose. but, you know, you can see a situation where if trump holds off and doesn't have -- and the senate holds off and they don't have this vote until after the election, that that really revs up both sides. and in an election that appears it's going to be this close, it's really anyone's guess how this could shake out. >> gentlemen,

it through trend analysis and say in the down ballot race for senate, republican incouple bebt tom tillis was down eight or ten points by the last two or three months and now that's neck and neck. what we're seeing affirmation of in pennsylvania, north carolina and others, it is likely not a persuasion race. people know who they want to vote for. it is a turnout race, a mobilization race, a get-to-work race for party advocates and activists throughout the country. >> david, we've got to go, but i'm curious what you think in this 2020 race, we always hear different numbers. it's always smaller than most people think. what do you think the true number of undecideds is right now? less than 1%? >> i'd put it in 3% to 5%. it's enough to turn the election but only if you get those undecideds to turn out. it's easier to get the decideds to turn out. that's where the resources of each campaign are focusing. >> david jolly and yamiche alcindor, thank you so much. >>> we've got brand new poll numbers giving us a snapshot of where things stand. we'll dig into pennsylvania specifically. that new poll

we just finished r reading all f the races voter suppression all that tom tillis, who is writing --inth carolina can helped put in place. this is the first election where we are not under those voter suppression laws. northurts have v voted -- carolina can easily turn with people turning out to vote. he simply wants to confuse everything. we see in these other states, the great fear repubublicans hae a people voting. they don't want anyone to vote. the only one they want people to vote are small groups of people that support them. they don't want persons who have paid their debt to society to vote. we're having strange decisions. one thing -- one decision we saw in north carolina, we just won a decision that would allow a larger number of formerly incarcerated people to vote even if they have not finished paying their monetary debt to society. what we're saying is in our constitution, the 15th amendment is says no one can deny or abridge the rigight to vote. what we are seeing is an attempt to --e to deny the right in real time. that is why we have to fight back. that is why we have t

80%, including the all-important algorithm, a group of republican senators including marco rubio, tom tillis, and our next guest, yes, they sent president trump a letter saying partial sales structure as it stands now between oracle, walmart and tiktok, is unacceptable. joining us now in a fox business exclusive is republican senator from mississippi, roger wicker. first, senator, your reaction to the news that a federal judge has now jumped into the thick of this situation. >> well, my reaction to the news is that this is why i watch fox business, to find up-to-date information. this is something that's absolutely new to me. i did not know about the federal judge's decision until i heard it from your very own lips. liz: well, let me just clarify, then. we appreciate you coming on to give us this reaction, but in essence, a judge says that they have until tomorrow, the trump administration has until tomorrow afternoon to defend its decision and get into court which would mean over the weekend, about the ban. the ban is set to begin at 11:59 p.m. eastern time. that's what the president had pu

tom tillis is in a very tight race in north carolina. joni ernst in iowa and susan collins in maine. this is the judiciary committee, the republican judicialry committee members. it's on the line for them on november 3.m so when donald trump puts out his nominee next week, which i imagine it will be, when he names his pick, it better be a phenomenal pick. better be unimpeachable. >> it will.be >> laura: the senators better be on board with that pick. raymond? >> i think charlie has it right. this is going to nationalize all of those senate races but it does something else for donald trump. over these many months, we've been watching joe biden and his running mate, covid-19, snatch the headlines. that running mate will be severely blunted when this drama hoff a supreme court pick moves center stage. this is really important for tht re-election bid of the president. my guess is he will make the appointment quickly and encourage the senators to come on board. that will be part of their group re-election. we'll see how that plays moving forw

and tom tillis in north carolina, as well.ll of the senators have in common that they came in in 2014, and they don'tmu have ah of an identity that is separate from the political environment. w they do is tied ver much to how the president does, and they want to make sure tt if his voters are excited and they get out and vote, well, they're going to remember to vote or the republican down ballot, o. >> woodruff: many political calculi -- i'll let you guys sghten me out on the math. amy and tamara, thank both. >> you're welcome. >> woodruff: on thhour online, photojournalist sebastian rich visited u.n. peacekeepecyprus to see how they are adapting amid the coronavirus. find his images our web site,. pbs.org/newsho and that's the newshour for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. join us online and again here tomorrow evening. for all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you, please stay safe, and we'll see you soon. >> major funding for the pbs newshour h been provided by: >> the kendeda fund. committed to advancing restorative justice andul