Announcing the nomination of Merrick Garland. President barack obama good morning. Verybody please have a seat. Of the many powers and responsibilities that the constitution vests in the few are more consequential than appointing a Supreme Court justice particularly one that succeeds Justice Scalia one of the most influential jurrists of our time. The men and women who sit on the Supreme Court are the final arbiters of american law. They safeguard our rights. They ensure that our system is one of laws and not men. Theyre charged with the essential task of applying principles put to paper more than two centuries ago to some of the most challenging questions of our time. So this is not a responsibility that i take lightly. The decision that requires me to set aside shortterm expediency and narrow politics so as to maintain faith with our founders and perhaps more importantly with future generations. Thats why over the past several weeks ive done my best to set up a rigorous and comprehen
The very latest right now. Also breaking overnight, twisters tearing through the midwest. Nine reported tornadoes touch down destroying homes. As hail, lightning and severe storms wreak havoc on roads now there are new warnings out this morning. Good morning america. Breaking newsment president obama has Just Announced hes made his choice for the Supreme Court. As the chief judge of the court of appeals. Merrick garland. 63 years old for the district of columbia. Long career on the District Court appointed by president clinton in 1996 and served in the Justice Department under president clinton oversaw the prosecutions of the Oklahoma City bomber and the union any bomber that is judge Merrick Garland. He is president obamas choice for the Supreme Court. We will have president obamas announcement at 11 00 a. M. Eastern from the rose garden. When he comes to make that announcement that abc news learned that Merrick Garland will be the president s choice by the death of Justice Antonin Sc
The dance is not over and trump, of course, trying to answer people who say that there may be a contested convention here and he definitely doesnt want that. So lets talk aut the main thing this morning. One side its all clinton and the other, almost all trump and one path is clear and the other a little more blurred. Thank you, florida. Thank you, north carolina, thank you ohio. Hillary clinton and donald trump are starting to leave the competition in the dust. To win the states that we won and to win by the margins and especially, look, this is my second home, florida. To win by that kind of a number is incredible. Trump trounced marco rubio on his own turf forcing the floridian to make his exit last night. While we are on the right side this year,r, we will not be for john kasich there is freshen newsenthusiasm. We will go and secure the nomination. Reporter holding nearly 60 of all remaining deficits for the convention while ted cruz is style trying to make it a twoman race. Americ
Girls in the Democratic Party claiming that waterboarding was a war crime in world war ii when the japanese did it, wow, they must have been playing with their barbies as kids and not reading about the history of world war ii and what the japanese did to their prisoners. No, waterboarding would be a reward. [laughter] youve been good today, were just going to waterboard you. Lets get you out of those cold electrodes and get you into a nice waterboard. No, waterboarding as racked by the japanese as practiced by the japanese would be something as i describe in this book. They fill the prisoners stomach up with water, so much water, so much water, smash down on it with a stick to make the prisoner vomit. They would pour saltwater down the prisoners mouth until he vomited. Fill prisoners these are three different versions of waterboarding fill the prisoners stomach up with rice and then force him to drink water until his stomach exploded. The one case they kept citing of a guy, something a
Investigative agencies. With a raid into was a situation that was really upside down. Normally they would try to find evidence and then find out what is going on and they found nothing. They couldnt find any crimes. So they did file a report saying that we dont have anything on these guys and they had seen most of them as being like dirt farmers. Sort of an agricultural bounty of afghanistan. [inaudible question] is rhythmic that all of these legal issues arise in context with the situations for all of us. And its great that we can learn about our systems of justice from this. Particularly for the folks that are being prosecuted. Given that the administration has made clear that even if they are found innocent, they have shaped the case. And if you do conclude that this is theater for the entertainment of americans are we finding that the real aim for one of the things coming out of it is there is a use of these to control how this is told by the media and exemplified by how tightly th