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served. with us to start off our coverage, nbc news white house correspondent, monica alba, at the washington national cathedral, melissa murray, a former law clerk to sotomayor, and laura jarrett, and presidential historian, michael beshlash. >> reporter: josé, we will hear from the late justices son in addition to her biographer. as you will hear from president biden and chief justice john roberts, its remarkable because both of them really first met her in 1981. john roberts was wo...

Think hes guilty . The lead with jake tapper . Weekdays it for and cnn its monday, april 8 right now on cnn this morning, donald trump closing the financial gap with President Biden with a Record Fundraising Haul as he he uses a big announcement on abortion this morning. President biden, preparing to bring a Student Loan Relief to a new group of borrowers plus bad weather threatening to spoil plans for millions of americans hoping to get think glimpse of todays Solar Eclipse all right 5 00 a. M....

I have got to tell you when i get a chance to influence potentially the next supreme court nominee, the gloves are going to be off here. every a history in this country of presidents replacing ideological seats with very close ideological people. so, if justice ginsburg or justice breyer were to leave, president trump would historically replace somebody who is close ideologically, not necessarily as far as left but somebody who was more moderate or even a liberal. i think those days are gone and...

Donald trump is once again tweeting his doubts about the u.s. intelligence communitys assessment on russian election hacking. instead trump seems to be siding with the wikileaks founder julian assange who says russia was not involved. our political experts are here to discuss. and david, what is really behind donald trumps skepticism of what the u.s. intelligence community has been saying? >> well, you know, wolf, this all started questioning whether or not russia was getting involved in order t...

Trump is so unpredictable. >> i wouldnt want to bet against the joker in the deck. you never know. there is a thought if trumps the nominee, he brings out democratic turnout. he stokes up the democratic turnout. >> he brings out the turnouts for the debates. i dont know anybody from this planet who isnt watching that. today on npr, president obama spoke about trumps ugly attack against him. obama said part of the anger directed at him was ethnic. lets watch how he handles this. hes very carefu...

Against the joker in the deck. you never know. there is a thought if trumps the nominee, he brings out democratic turnout. he stokes up the democratic turnout. >> he brings out the turnouts for the debates. i dont know anybody from this planet who isnt watching that. today on npr, president obama spoke about trumps ugly attack against him. obama said part of the anger directed at him was ethnic. lets watch how he handles this. hes very careful. >> somebody questioning whether i was born in the...

Proceeding before a judge with cross-examination. they then decided they wanted to do it secretly so they changed course and they had a secret grand jury with no judge, no defense attorney and no public viewing to get a charge against michael jackson. i dont like grand juries, i think public preliminary hearings are far fairer, and i think you need cross-examination of witnesses, particularly a police officer like mr. wilson. you need somebody questioning him about the statements he made and why...

Case all of them have been appointed by chief justice john roberts. >> i think thats an incredibly important case that it was made that who is making the adversarial case here. they are being presented a case by the government. who is making the case against the government. i just dont -- i could not disagree more with the idea that we dent want to have somebody questioning what the executive is doing. i think thats probably the biggest problem that we have seen recently is that there is this fe...

Country militarily. its a great choice. the fact that the president wants some of his team within that team -- listen, hes the president. he can do whatever he wants. its up to the others to conform. im excited about the choice. he is something that will buck the system and question some of the decisions. thats appropriate to always have somebody questioning, sir, we are we doing this? thats what he is known for. thats a good thing. >> you think this michael flynn de-stormtrack -- distraction go...