justice ginsburg said, i dissent. a great deal was made of this. >> for democrats, "i dissent" became a rallying cry. >> not long after bush v. gore was decided, the justice and marty were in new york, and they went to the theater. she was noticed as she was walking to her seats, and lots of people in the crowd started to stand and applaud. and marty turned to her, and he said, i bet you didn't know there was a tax convention in town. >> it was just the beginning of ginsburg's transition from a stoic justice to a pop culture icon. >> thank you. thank you. thank you. introducing the all-new 2021 gla suv. starting at just $36,230. it's the biggest thing that ever happened to small. lease the gla 250 suv for just $399 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. ( ♪ ) ready to juvÉderm it? correct age-related volume loss in cheeks with juvÉderm voluma xc, add fullness to lips with juvÉderm ultra xc and smooth moderate to severe lines around the nose and mouth with juvÉderm xc. tell your doctor if you have a history

ginsburg was at home with her family. her death was due to complications from metastatic pareatic cancer. outside the supreme court, where she served for 27 years, mourners continued to add to an informal memorial that began last night with candles, flowers and notes to the justice. president trump heard the news of ginsburg's death fr reporters as he left a campaign rally in minnesota late yesterday. >> you are telling me now for the first time. she led an amazing life. what else can you say? she was an amazing woman-- whether you agreed or not-- she was an amazing woman who led an amazing life. i am actually saddened to hear that. i am saddened to hear that. thank you very much. >> sreenivasan: this morning, the president tweeted to fellow republicans that selecting a supreme court justice is "the most important" of decisions, and "we have this obligation without delay!" democratic presidential nominee, former vice president joe biden, called on the republican- controlled senate to wait until after the november election

at 39-year-old, ruth bader ginsburg's reputation -- between 1973 and 1978, ginsburg argued six gender discrimination cases before the supreme court's all male bench. >> i knew that i was speaking to men who did not think there was any such thing as gender base discrimination. and my job was to tell them it really exists. you would not want the world to be that way for your granddaughters. >> in at least two cases that she talked for over ten minutes without ever being interrupted. >> sex like race is a visible and immutable. sex like race has been made the basis for unsufficientjustified least unproved assumptions, concerning an individual's potential to perform or to contribute to society. >> to change the country's perception on gender, she found a case with another male plaintiff. he had been barred from receiving his late wife's work benefits. >> you have a father whose wife has died. he wants to stay home to care for his young son. the laws are set up in a way it is disadventagious for him to do that. he wanted to challenge that law. he wanted to be a stay-at-home father after hi

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martin ginsburg. here's juju chang. >> reporter: they were law school sweethearts. >> he was an extraordinary man. very smart, but completely unthreatened by how smart his wife was. >> reporter: it's a love story about a feminist couple long before her time. >> she said marty was the first guy who cared that she had a brain. >> he was bragging about her in law school, saying my wife is going to be on law review. he continued to support her career throughout their marriage. >> reporter: a formidable tax attorney in his own right, it was only after his intense advocacy that bill clinton nominated ginsburg to the highest court in the land. >> she says it was marty who lobbied and made sure that she was at least under consideration. >> reporter: at her supreme rem court confirmation hearing, she spoke about marty's support. >> i have had the great good fortune to share life with a partner, a man who believed at age 18, when we met, that a woman's work, whether at home or on the job, is as important as a m

neutrogena® >>> yesterday, at the age of 87, ruth bader ginsburg roousupremer ginsburg passed away due to complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer. justice ginsburg affectionately dubbed rbg for from her fandom, the passing of such a prolific scholar would be a loss under any circumstances but as we sit 45 days from november 3rd, it's hard not to think about the impact this has on presidential politics. four years ago, we faced a similar predicament with one key difference. the conservative justice antonin scalia died unexpectedly. hours after learning of scalia's passing, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell announced that the republican-controlled senate would not consider a nominee from the obama white house. his threat proved true. in march, president obama nominated merrick garland, the chief judge of the circuit court of appeals to fill scalia's spot on the bench. although scalia had received overwhelmingly bipartisan support, this time around, he did not even receive a hearing. four years ago, senator mcconnell argued to collect a new supreme court justice so close to an

as npr wrote tonight upon learning of the passing of justice ginsburg, she said, when ginsburg began her legal crusade, women were treated by law differently from men, hundreds of states and federal laws restricted what women could do, by the time she put on robes she had worked a revolution. after the nomination of the supreme court from president clinton, we just heard from secretary of state, hillary clinton, she put a bug in her husband's ear about the prospects of justice ginsburg, she was confirmed to the supreme court in 1993. do you know what the confirmation vote was for her? you know what the vote was in the senate? it was 96-3. we have not done that in a long time. she was the second woman ever confirmed to the court. a reliablely liberal voices on the court and a strong one. particularly in her later years she became known for her firry dissents as the court turned further and further to the right. in 2013, when the roberts court gutted the voting rights act on chief justice john roberts contention that the times had changed and the voting rights act was no longer needed.

my oldest daughter is 19 and met justice ginsburg and i think justice ginsburg was a true hero for both of my daughters of this cultural figure that emerged it is one that she embraced that she was notorious r.b.g. and she said original she shared the same package from brooklyn >> trevor morrison, clerk for justice ginsburg in 2002 and 2003 trevor, thank you so much for being with us. i know it is a different cuicul for you. >>> we have been watching scenes of the united states building in washington where people are convening spontaneously having heard the news about justice ginsburg passing stuff like that does not happen very often with politics but that's a live shot tonight joining us now is nina totenburg, nina covers justice ginsburg but also a friend to the justice. thank you so much for making time i know you knew you would get these calls to pass on the night of justice's passing >> we were over there today and she was still alive, i was bringing some food i knew this day was coming, i would say a couple of weeks but only a couple of weeks at the most she was ferocious. she wa

ginsburg urge ed congress to ta up the issue. the lily ledbetter law was the first bill president obama signed into law. she didn't slow, steven colbert discovered that the hard way, trying to keep up with rbg's famously tough workouts. >> i'm cramping and working out with an 85-year-old woman. >> ginsburg hired a trainer after treatment for colorectal cancer in the late '90s. doctors discovered cancerous growths on her lung. the surgery was successful, but the recovery caused ginsburg to miss hoer oral arguments for th first time in her career. even after losing her husband of 56 years to cancer, ginsburg was back on the bench the next morning. >> i love the work i do. i think i have the best job in the world for a lawyer. i respect all of my colleagues and genuinely like most of them. her best friend on the bench was the late justice antonin scalia. >> what's not to like? except her views of the law, of course. >> she shared a laugh about ginsburg drinking wine before nodding off at the state of the union. >> i wasn't 100% sobe

this in the wake of ruth bader ginsburg's death. but first this hour, a few moments to pause and refleblct hundreds are doing streaming in at this makeshift memorial at the u.s. supreme court bringing flowers for ginsburg's life-long fight for equality. >> it's because of the work that she's done that i was able to have a good job that allowed me as a single woman to support myself and to choose to have a family to have reproductive choices that allowed me to delay pra pregnancy until i was ready for it and then choose to do it on my own. >> in my lifetime, i expect to see three, four, perhaps even more women on the high court bench. there will be enough when there are nine. nobody asked questions about all of the years when all nine were men. men and women are person of equal dignity and they should count equally before the law. >> you won't settle for putting susan b. anthony on the new dollar. >> when they would say things like this, how did you respond? >> well, never in anger as my mother told me. that would have been self-defe

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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

i liked ruth bader ginsburg. i'm sorry she's gone, but now they say who the president might want to appoint. i think there's a real risk here of this boomeranging for mitch mcconnell and for control of the senate. we don't know for sure, of course, but there's that possibility. >> we'll have to see. thank you all. appreciate it. dan rather joins us shortly. we'll talk to him. >>> it and next a live report from the fwroeing people's memorial outside the court and what we know about how the court is memorializing ruth bader ginsburg. one of the women she battled for. she joins us ll the moments you've missed and all the moments you haven't "hi" love, can't wait -"got the ring!" -"yes!" and with jared it doesn't have to ♪ you downloaded the td ameritrade oh yeah,mobile app?ake off. yeah, actually i'm taking one last look at my dashboard before we board... and you have thinkorswim mobile- -so i can finish analyzing the risk on this position. you two are all set. choose the app that fits your investing style. ♪ (b

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i just want to begin with your memories of ruth bader ginsburg. i would assume that as president of planned parenthood you might have been in the room in the supreme court chamber some time seeing justice ginsburg in action. >> absolutely, lawrence. and, in fact, i remember i had really had just started at planned parent hood when there was a major abortion rights case before the court. and at the time, justice ginsburg was the only woman on the court. so you can imagine this barely 100-pound, five-foot woman sitting there with all these men representing an entire gender and basically carrying us all on her shoulders. and, of course, she was more than up to the task. but it was really extraordinary to hear men talking about the most intimate personal details of women's private medical decisions and justice ginsburg, of course, we lost that decision, she wrote a scathing dissent. she was amazing. and of course it was great to go back and see her on the court with sonia sotomayor and elaina kagan. they were a fierce trio and they made all the differ

vivian and reverend lowry and now ruth bader ginsburg. those elders have left us, and now it's left for us to determine who we are going to be and so, yes, i worry about what could happen, but i think we have a long way to go before we get there. and you've already talked about some of the senators like graham and grassley and others who have said that they would not proceed with a vote if it was during the final year of trump's first term, especially if the primaries had already started. here we are 47 days from the general election at the end of the day, have we no decency left? i'll be looking to see i think the america people, the people you see outside that supreme court, the people singing "amazing grace," the people standing on lines the first day of early voting in virginia and preparing around the country to vote despite the pandemic, those people are waiting to see who we are going to be. i'm going to continue to push and trust and fight, as we will at the legal defense fund, for the right thing to happen. and if it doesn't happ

do you know who introduced bill clinton to ruth bader ginsburg? it was hillary clinton who thought she would make a fine supreme court justice and the former secretary of state, democratic presidential nominee, joins me now. secretary clinton, welcome back to "meet the press." take us back to those conversations you were having with president clinton at that time and just what made you advocate for ruth bader ginsburg? >> well, chuck, i had known ruth bader ginsburg for a number of years, and i had followed her work. i was a great admirer of her groundbreaking litigation, both as a lawyer and a law professor. and i knew that she had served on the court of appeals appointed by president carter with great distinction, not only because of her razor-sharp intellect and her ability to frame arguments to make them effective, but how well she got along with her colleagues, including at that time judge scalia before he was elevated to the supreme court. she just seemed to me to have all the attributes that bill was looking for, someone who could get to wo

the former president nominating ginsburg, of course. and hillary clinton acknowledging in recent days her role in encouraging her husband to select ginsburg. and the signal from the conservative chief justice on the tone set by justice ginsburg and what she did for her country. terry moran has long covered the court. >> reporter: at the supreme court this morning, a tableau of honor and grief. justice ruth bader ginsburg's former law clerks arrayed across the sunlit plaza, her honorary pallbearers, as she returned one final time to the court she served so long. members of the supreme court police force carried the casket up the stairs into the great hall, followed by her family. all her colleagues and former justice anthony kennedy gathering for the traditional jewish ceremony. ♪ >> reporter: then chief justice john roberts spoke briefly and simply of his longtime colleague and unlikely pop icon, "the notorious rbg." >> it has been said that ruth wanted to be an opera virtuoso, but became a rock star instead. >> reporter: the chief ju

nobody thought about ginsburg but hillary clinton knew all about ginsburg and she told her husband to really look at her. it was a funny story, bill clinton did not want the press seeing it so she told ginsburg to the white house on sunday and wearing regular close. there was bill clinton watching football and all dressed in a suit and tie and she was in lounge clothes and she was embarrassed. it took bill clinton ten minutes to realize that hillary clinton was right that this was the winner. he went back for her. we have to remember when bill clinton picked ruth bader ginsburg, there were republicans in the white house of 12 prior years. this was a big thing. every year and month by month, she as supreme court justice grew into the legend we know and president clinton told me when she had her coming to the clinton library, she had so many people waiting 15,000, fans from arkansas that he had to move her to the sports arena because her popularity was so great. when we look at bill clinton's great move as president, picking her was one of them. >> tonight there is a lot to focus on. th

justice ginsburg's trainer doing pushups before her casket to honor her. and tonight, the breaking headline -- president trump moving to make his pick official. >>> also tonight, the family of breonna taylor in front of the cameras today after a grand jury declined to charge louisville police officers in the shooting death of breonna taylor. the family now demanding a release of the grand jury transcripts. one officer charged with wanton endangerment. bullets going into the neighboring apartment. the family attorney asking, what about the bullets that hit breonna taylor? and tonight here, the video emerging showing police right after the raid on breonna taylor's home. >>> president trump's chief of staff going after the director of the fbi today, who told the american people, we have not seen historically any kind of coordinated national voter fraud effort in a major election. and tonight here, a closer look at mail-in voting and absentee voting, and why the president is pushing voting by mail in some states and not others. and a state by state guide for y

ginsburg, marty ginsburg. 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 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

justice ginsburg wrote the dissent. that became the lilly ledbetter law that was the first bill signed by barack obama. so the congress has the ability to overturn injustices that spring from the supreme court, and that's why we have to have a big turnout in this election, not for politics, not for anything other than what it means to people in their homes, in their lives. >> you are in the middle of negotiations over government funding. the government runs out of funding at the end of september. is there any way we can use leverage in those negotiations to slow this down? >> none of us has any interest in shutting down government. that has such a harmful and painful impact on so many people in our country, so i would hope that we could just proceed with that. there is some enthusiasm among some exuberance on the left to say. we're not going to be shutting down government. i do hope though that the focus on health care and what it means in terms of the courts will have public opinion be of such magnitude that the republ

it goes against ruth bader-ginsburg's dieing wish. to have the next president of the united states, whoever it may be, choose her successor, just 40 some odd days before this election. and andrea, i have to tell you i'm struck here. it is impossible not to be moved at ceremonies like this. i was here for john mccain's ceremony as well. and this one, of course, means so much for women. myself included. i was struck by how there are many cars driving by, gates being opened and shut, but instead just that sound of ready, step as they carried her down these capital steps. it's hard not to reflect on the military honor guard representing our troops at this important moment carrying ruth bader-ginsburg. there is so much uncertainty about what is going to happen with the future of our branch. and you were talking about the things that are at stake coming up in the november election. it's hard not to be struck by the history and the reality that we have done this transfer year and year out every four years. and i think that reality is really

was ine contrast to gh stakes fight over replacing ginsburg. president trump now says he will name his nominee, on saturday afternoon. the news summary. of this, after top u.s. health officials voiced careful confidence todut a coronavirus vaccine. at a u.s. senate hearing, dr. anthony fauci said he's hoping for a reliable vaccine by december. he also said, people will still neede masks and social distancing. >> we feel cautiously optimistic that we will be able to have a safe and effective vaccine, althgh there's never a guarantee of that. we feel strongly if we have a combination of adherence to public health measures together with a vaccine distributed to this country and worldwide, we many be abel to turn around this terrible pandemic. >> woodruff: republican senator rand paul argued that herd immunity is working, and that's new york.tions have fallen in uci shot back, "if you believe thatyou are alone." anwhile, "johnson and johnson" announced final stage testing for a single-dose vacc other u.s. candidates call for two doats. demoin the u

the impact of ruth bader ginsburg's death. we'll see. f ruth bader ginsburg's death we'll see. verizon knows how to build unlimited right. start with america's most awarded network. i'm on my phone 24/7. then for the first time ever, include disney+, hulu and espn+. we're a big soccer family. "handmaid's tale ." i love "frozen ". then give families plans to mix and match, so you only pay for what you need. and offer it at a price built for everyone. plus, get the samsung galaxy s20 5g uw on us when you buy any note20 5g. and $300 when you switch. the network more people rely on gives you more. >>> and joining me now, is congresswoman spanberger. and a welcome. i want it get your reaction to the death of ruth bader ginsburg as we start. >> justin ruth bader ginsburg was an inspiration to so many of us. i can't even fbegin to imagines drive that she had of a woman who entered one male dominated field as another. she is an inspiration to me. she blazed a path to so many of us. and i think that she will continue to be an example to generations of women like my three young daughters

this interview with justice ginsburg's granddaughter was just posted today by the bbc. watch. >> i asked her if there was anything she wanted to say to the public, to anyone, that wasn't already out there, and she said there was. and i pulled out my computer, and she dictated the following sentence to me. she said, my most fervent wish is that i will not be replaced until a new president is installed. and i read it back to her. she was very happy with that. and when i asked her, is that it? is there anything else you'd like to say, she said, the rest of my work is a matter of public record. so that was all she wanted to add. >> my most fervent wish is that i will not be replaced until a new president is installed. justice ginsburg's granddaughter, clara spera, to whom that statement was dictated, speaking with the bbc today about hearing that from her grandmother, about her grandmother asking her to record that. otherwise, she said, my work is a matter of public record. >>> republican senators who in 2016 were absolutely unequivocal about how principled they are and how

ginsburg passed away, office is not commenting beyond that. a couple of senators raised concerns like chuck grassley told me in late july they should not move to the vacancy this year and not saying where he stands tonight. someone to look at as well, not saying yet, as well as al alexand alexandra. to get behind the nominee and the question, will it help them politically come november to keep the senate majority and keep the white house? >> i want your take on senator collins because she said she has no objection to the president nominating someone now but also says the trump nominee in that scenario. t >> you're the president, work on your nominee. knows that's going to happen anyway. in a tight race. going to win and nominee. a lame duck session where i am still the leader, should lose control of the senate, i'm going to try to do this. susan collins to be there, the saving vote, that happened. the nominee prior to the election. this is, you know, for mitch mcconnell, i cannot overstate, a sha shakespearean. and also a supreme court seat. d

that's why justice ginsburg made this her dying wish. the legitimacy of the court would be harmed by further politicization just 44 days before an election when the republican majority just 4 years ago when justice ginsburg's closest friend scalia passed away insisted on keeping the seat open for nearly ten months, i think it further suggests to the american people that this is all about politics and not about principle. i'm going to be working this weekend, this week to reach across the aisle and see if i can't persuade some friends to respect tradition, to respect the precedent they set in 2016 and to let the voters decide. chris: finally as i noted earlier, you're a member of joe biden's inner circle. how do you think -- let's assume and i think every reason to assume, we heard from the president, we've heard from mcconnell and tom cotton today, they are going to go ahead with this, how does this reshape the race for president? senator: well, i think it further focuses the american people on what's at stake. i will remind you justice

justice ginsburg. every day here and on live stream. take care. >>> tonight, the supreme court showdown. after the justice ruth bader ginsburg. and word tonight on how this country will honor her. first, president trump this evening promising to nominate a woman to the supreme court as early as friday. the president pushing for a vote in the senate before the election. a short time ago, abc news confirming the president did meet today with federal judge amy coney barrett, one of his top contenders. justice ginsburg's daughter revealing her final wish, to, quote, not be replaced until a new president is installed. and the president's reaction today to that statement. what joe biden is now saying, as the nation mourning the loss of an american icon. she'll make history again. the first woman ever to lie in state at the u.s. capitol. >>> the coronavirus here in the u.s. as this country is set to mark 200,000 american lives lost, tonight, the audio. president trump giving himself an a-plus for his response to the virus. and the cdc with new

a cadet presented ginsburg with gift back in 1997. she received a letter. you can see her wearing it from the audience. >> the one enclosed was my mother. she's dead now. we want you to have it in an abstract way, you will be mother of vmi's first succeeding women graduates. >> that was given to the mother of vmi's cadets when they graduated. 20 years on allowing women to tour the vmi. joining us now is our former law clerk for justice ruth bader ginsburg. >> thank you for being here. thank you for your time. >> nice to be here. >> as you see the whole country talking about ruth bader ginsburg. the country has been thinking about her and talking about her for a long time. now in the wake of her passing, thinking about what's going to happen on the court and thinking of the legacy that she leaves, i want to talk to you about i wanted to know from somebody who worked so closely with her. what do you think of her legacy and what do you they the rest of the country do not know? >> i think the country do know a lot of her legacy now thanks to the notorious rbg a

and may god bless ruth bader ginsburg. thank you so much. >> democratic presidential candidate joe biden, the nominee there, speaking truly from the heart as he walks away there within the national constitution center. he touched a lot of bases, and we'll get back to my conversation with michael moore, the filmmaker, who watched this with us as well. but mike, you were there on the scene. he spoke about so many things, but notely about the north feli lived by ruth bader ginsburg. talk about the headlines that will come out of this speech. >> reporter: that's right. he mentioned he spoke with the justice's daughter and granddaughter. he reminded us he presided over her confirmation to the supreme court when he was chairman to the senate judiciary committee. i thought one of the most interesting things about this speech, how we expected to hear him drill down on the idea that health care and the future of the affordable care act is on the line with this appointment. but i thought it was interesting, given that no one is as f

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 t

and justice ginsburg, then lawyer ginsburg, wanted to take that case to the supreme court to stand for the idea that women had reproductive rights. but in the end, the government settled. and so, you know, and did away with the policy. and what was what she represented a client after all and so that case never went to the supreme court. >> nina, i want to ask you about her last wish. you were reporting that and you saw her just two weeks before she died. and her last wish was to avoid the political mess we're now in. >> right. she told her granddaughter clara that -- and there were others in the room who were witness to it, among them her doctor, because i checked. because i'm a reporter. and she told her granddaughter, my most vfervent wish is that i not be replaced until after a new president is installed. that my replacement not be named until after a new president is installed. so she was hoping to avoid the male strom, the hand to hand comfwhat we're about to sco combat that we're about to see and dragging the court into it. these kinds of power plays have consequences, and someti

ruth bader ginsburg has died. she was only the second woman appointed to the court and already a legend when she arrived in the fight for gender equality. sandra day o'connor was the first and justice ginsburg was the second. she died at home in washington surrounded by family. we're told from complications of pancreatic cancer. she was 87 years old and despite her long bout with several different forms of cancer and all the complications, she seemed to many indestructible. last night she appeared at the national constitution center where she was honored. in the coming hours, we'll talk to the people who knew her best and look at her remarkable legacy before she got to the supreme court and after. and whether the president will try to fill her position with the election fast approaching. joining us right now by phone, cnn chief political analyst geor gloria borger and jeffrey toobin and on the phone, dr. sanjay gupta. jeff toobin, let's start with you. first of all, just, i know you were speaking to erin earlier b

ruth bader ginsburg a trailblazer in life. they said breaking one final barrier as the country says farewell to this legal icon. the first woman, the first jewish person to lie in state in the united states capitol. >> yes. john, you know, it's so compelling right now to think we're even closing the last chapter on her life as we see the casket taken down the steps there. you know, all the things she's done in her life, born in 1933 but she essentially did not become the notorious rbg until she was 80 years oemd, that nirk name from a 2013 dissent she had written that went viral and a law sku law student at new york university picked it up and i thought of the families with the young sons and daughters with flowers over to the supreme court where the -- she was lying in repose, that every step of her life has been trail blazing to the end and even into the 80s and at her death at 87. it is historic and what it says to us and the public out there watching right now, john, is that this chapter is not being closed, that her legal

ruth bader ginsburg gave her best to america. ginsburg and lewis confronted discrimination with tenacity. theirs is the example that we must follow in this moment. they didn't give up. they fought until the very end. they taught us that when times get hard we must channel our despair, use our pain as fuel to organize, to vote, to listen, to inspire to speak up, and most importantly to love. many have already donated in record amounts in the hours after the death of justice ginsburg, but this is just the beginning. how else can we continue the work of these two giants inafter the break we're joined by two who will help us find that inspiration as we look at the empire state building in new york city tonight in red, white and blue in honor of justice ruth bader ginsburg. n honor of e ruth bader ginsburg. ( ♪ ) ready to juvÉderm it? correct age-related volume loss in cheeks with juvÉderm voluma xc, add fullness to lips with juvÉderm ultra xc and smooth moderate to severe lines around the nose and mouth with juvÉderm xc. tell y

ruth bader ginsburg was confirmed -- nominated and confirmed in 40 days. other justices have taken longer than that. and i don't know how this process will move forward, but i do know that the constitution prevails here in terms of how we do this. >> brennan: you said speed is a big facto through a proce has met with the president before, and she has active paperwork. you voted for her in the past. does she have a leg up in this process? >> i don't know if she doe does or not. i voted for her in the past. i would be pleased to vote for her as a justice on the supreme court. almost all judges recently confirmed that had an experience that led to confirmation, some of them different than others, but oconhat makthrough tho has n it otherwise state,elomp mentioned,gt than,ak judge legot, he praised her -- do you need that? >> the president has to make that decision. i think she got 80 votes when she was confirmed. she certainly got a substantial majority. there are good choices out there. i'm sure the president is going to make one. i look forward to the name

how are you remembering ginsburg today? >> ginsburg's dissent changed my life and it changed a lot of lives across this great nation. because the outcry and the outpouring across the nation when the verdict came out and the led bbetter good year case,t not only affected me and my family but it was thousands across this nation and it's a fundamental american right that women are paid and compensated according to the law and the law has been on the books for many, many years, but most companies and employers do not adhere to it. so it was nothing but right and she changed my drastically, but i will say this. she gave me some dignity to hold my head up and go forward because she and three other justices realized that should have gone as it was presented in court. but five justices ruled against us and change d the law. that's why it is so critical right now on who is appointed to the supreme court because never in my life would i have ever suspected when i was a young lady, working my way up the ladder, so to speak, that my li

ruth bader ginsburg gave her best to america. ginsburg and lewis confronted discrimination with dtenacity. they didn't give up. they fought until the very end. they taught us that when times get hard, we must channel our despa despair. to vote, to listen, to speak up and most importantly to love. many have already donated in record amounts in the hours after the death of justice ginsburg, but this is just the beginning. how else can we continue the work of these two giants? after the work, we're joined to help us find that inspiration as we look at the empire state building tonight in red, white and blue in honor of justice ruth bader ginsburg. unitedhealthcare medicare plans offer so much more... ...so you can find just the right plan for you. like the "visit a doctor anywhere our rv takes us" plan. the "zero copays means more money for rumba lessons" plan. and the "visit my doctor while eating pancakes" plan. unitedhealthcare is the #1 medicare plan provider, so you're sure to find the right plan for you. including the only pla

the vacant seat on the supreme court, following the death of the late -- last night, of ruth bader ginsburg, saying that he'll make his choice next week and that he'll choose a woman. and sounding more defereinite at it at his campaign rally in south carolina tonight than he did a few hours earlier when he was leaving the white house on that way to that rally. i want you take a look at it. >> i will be putting forth a nominee next week. it will be a woman! it will be a woman! >> i could see most likely, it would be a woman, yeah. i think i can say that. it would be a woman, if someone were to ask me now, i would say that a woman would be in first place. the choice of a woman, i would say would certainly be appropriate. >> from, more than likely than, it will be a woman. the president also saying, once he makes his choice, he expects the confirmation process in the senate to move quickly. the senate minority leader mitch mcconnell vowing that the president's nominee would get a voe, but democrats will try to stop that. more tonight from manu raju. >> this decision ought to be made by the nex

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johnson, an army reservist trained justice ginsburg since 1999. her husband, marty ginsburg, encouraging her to gain strength after her first battle with cancer. >> what i want 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 h

ruth bader ginsburg has died. she was only the second woman appointed to the court and already a legend when she arrived in the fight for gender equality. sandra day o'connor was the first and justice ginsburg was the second. she died at home in washington surrounded by family. we're told from

ginsburg herself seemed to enjoy the ride. >> pretty good. jeffrey: allowing stephen colbert to join in her famous workout routine. >> working out with an 85-year-old woman. jeffrey: which, by the way, the documentary revealed was done while she watched "the newshour." that she had fun with pop culture tied to rap is a, alough it was not her genre. >> have you ever considered being a rapper? [laughter] >> i don't think i have that talent. jeffrey: she says betsy west saw the rbg character as a way to reach more people. >> she saw it as an opportunity to spread her message, her ideas about our constitution, about equal rights, about the 14th amendment. here was a way to spread that message to a lot of people who really don't pay much attention to what is going on in the supreme court. jeffrey: ruth bader ginsburg was not only loved by the culture. she loved it. she was a lifelong and constant theatergoers, often greeting cast and crew backstage. her greatest passion was opera, shared by her fierce ideological opponent and friend on the court a

more on the life and impact of late justice ruth bader ginsburg. and first, my colleague with today's top news stories. >> sorry for watching this hour for you. breaking news out of washington. law enforce omtficials confirm a letter addressed to president trump tested positive for the deadly poison, ricen. it was intercepted at a off site screening facility addressed to the white house. they're currently investigating where the letter came from. >>> covid-19 related fatalities now surpassing 200,000 today. confirmed kalss rose to over 6.7 million across the country and smoke from ongoing west coast wildfires has consumed the air. six of the largest fires in state history were this year and we're not even at the halfway point of the fire season. yosemite continues to stay close due to smoke from the blazes. two died, 14 injured. law enforcement say they're investigating this. the police department was rocked by protests after the death of daniel crude. r the death of daniel crude real progress? when you're affected by schizophrenia, you see it diff