Senator tom cotton, who was on the president s short list for the Supreme Court, and chris coons, is a key member of the Senate Judiciary committee and part of joe bidens inner circle. Then, we will ask our sunday panel how Justice Ginsburg staff reshapes the president ial race. Plus, bill gates, his Foundation Spends billions on Public Health around the world, gives his take on how the u. S. Has handled a pandemic, all right now on Fox News Sunday. Chris and hello again from fox news in washington. With six weeks until election day, the stakes got just a whole lot higher. The death of Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg leaves a vacancy on the Supreme Court and adds a big issue to the race for the white house. President trump says he will nominate a new justice, a chance to create a solid 63 conservative majority on the court. The democrats are crying foul, saying voters should get a say, electing a president and a new senate before a justices name to the court. In a moment, we will talk with two key players in the fight, republican senator tom cotton and democratic senator chris coons. But first lets bring david spunt at the Supreme Court with what looks to be a better nomination fight in the final days of the campaign, david buried mourners began coming to the steps of the Supreme Court friday evening to honor the second woman to sit on the high court. The president is pushing hard to fill a third woman on the high court as soon as possible. I will be putting forth a nominee next week. It will be a woman. President trump aching it clear, a batter over the future of the Supreme Court is underw underway. Several thousand paid respects by candlelight 287yearold Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg, a champion of womens rights. I, Ruth Bader Ginsburg across the street from the court, the battle to fill her seat is just beginning. President trumps nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States senate. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell said in a statement. A single sentence giving progressive heartburn. Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer if leader mcconnell and Senate Republicans move forward with this, then nothing is off the table for next year. In 2016, following the death of justice antonin scalia, barack obama nominated Merrick Garland for the court but mcconnell denied him a hearing. The Senate Majority leader now fending off because of hypocrisy, says this time is different. Since the 1880s, no senate has confirmed an opposite Party President s Supreme Court nominee in a president ial Election Year, he said in a statement. Former Vice President joe biden now fighting for the president and senate elected in november to choose the new justice. We should do this with full consideration and that is my hope and expectation what will happen. The court is still in its summer recess, the next term begins two weeks from tomorrow, chris. Chris david spunt reporting from the Supreme Court, david, thank you. Joining us now, republican senator tom cotton, who as we mentioned is on President Trumps shortlist of candidates candidates for the court. Senate majority leader mcconnell, as we noted, has said flatly that the president s choice, new choice for a justice will get a vote on the Supreme Court. Senator cotton, are you talking about a vote on this justice before the election six weeks from tuesday . Senator cotton good morning, chris. At the outset, let me express my condolences to Justice Ginsburgs family and my regard for her lifelong dedication to public service. To answer the question, the president said hes going to it submit a nominee as early as this week and the senate will exercise our constitutional duty. We will process that nomination, we will conduct hearings, we will be thorough and deliberate and careful just as we were with nominations of justice we will move forward without delay. Chris does that mean that there will be a vote to confirm before the election . Senator cotton chris, there will be a vote. Therefore in some cases, like Justice Ginsburg herself, in which the nomination and confirmation process took less than 44 days. There have been other cases which it took longer, so its too soon to say right now, but we will move forward without delay. Chris so, youre suggesting that you might have the confirmation vote before the election, but the hearing the hearing rather before the election to the actual vote after. Lets take a look, you race it or how long it has traditionally taken the senate to confirm an injustice. Lets put this up on the screen. Since 1975, the average has been 40 days from when a president nominates of justice until the senate holds its first hearing. And 70 days from nomination to senate confirmation. We now have 44 days until the election and there has been no nomination by the president yet. Why the rush to judgment . Senator cotton chris, we are not going to rush, we are not going to cut corners or steps, we are going to move forward without delay. As i said, there have been some cases in which its taken newer than 44 days, Justice Ginsburg processor self, some of taken longer. We will move without delay or deliver fashion, we will process the president s nominee and i that nominee as well. Chris back in 2016, after Justice Scalia died, president obama named federal judge marek garland as his new nominee to the court and as you well know, you are part of the senate then, Senate Republicans blocked the choice of garland. Heres what you said at that time. In a few short months, we will have a new president , and new senators, we can consider the next justice with the full faith of the American People. Why would we cut off the National Debate this next justice you met why would we squelch the voice of the people . Why would we deny the voters a chance to weigh in on the make of the Supreme Court . Chris now, garland was nominated nine months before the election and you were saying then nine months before the election was wrong to deny voters a chance to weigh in. So if it was wrong then, nine months before the election, why is it okay now, six weeks before the election . Senator cotton so chris, in 2014, the American People elected a republican majority to the senate to put the brakes on president obamas traditional nominations. In 2018, we had a referendum on this question, just a month before the 2018 midterms. We had the vote on Justice Kavanaugh. There could not have been a clear mandate because the American People didnt just reelect republicans, they expanded our majority. They defeated four Democratic Senators who voted against Justice Kavanaugh. There were elected the one democratic senator who did vote for Justice Kavanaugh. So we have a clear mandate to perform our constitutional duty. Thats what the Senate Majority will do now. Thats what we did back in 2016 as well. Chris you really dont think there is any hypocrisy at all in saying we need to give voters because i mean, you can parse the 2014 election, the 2018 election anyway youan, but you stated a pretty firm principle about marek garland in 2016. Its wrong to deny voters a chance to weigh in. You dont see any hypocrisy between that position then and this position now . Senator cotton chris, the Senate Majority is performing our constitutional duty and fulfilling the mandate that the voters gave us in 2016 and especially in 2018. Chris i just want to i promise this is the last question on this particular subject. Lets do a thought experiment. Your lawyer, you do hypotheticals, or you did when you were in law school. Lets assume if President Trump were to lose an election six weeks from now, if the senate were to change hands so that one from republicans to democrats, in a lame duck session with a president who had been defeated and a republican majority that was about to be out of office, someone say the lamest of lame duck sessions, are you saying you still think it would be proper to vote to confirm President Trumps nominee to the court . Senator cotton as i said, we are going to move forward without delay and there will be a vote on this nominee. But to the point, donald trump is going to win reelection and i believe the Senate Republicans will win our majority back because the American People know that donald trump is going to put nominees up for the federal courts who will apply the law, not make the law. If joe biden is not going to do that. Joe biden still refuses to identify who you might nominate and joe biden and Senate Candidates by Cal Cunningham in North Carolina and teresa greenfield and i would need to put their cards on table, they need to say what they were doing this kind of nomination. Chris okay, let me ask you one other question about this. Republicans now have a 5347 vote majority so you can only afford to lose three republican senators, assuming all the democrats oppose the president s nominee and still get i guess we can say she because the president says it will be a woman, confirmed with mike prince del mike pence breaking the vote but lets look at the tally where republican senators say the mic stand at this point. Susan collins and Lisa Murkowski have both expressed doubts so close to an election, trust, Chuck Grassley has as well. How sure are you, senator, that republicans will actually have the 50 votes plus Vice President pence to confirm a Trump Nominee . Senator cotton well, i will let all those senators speak for themselves and make the decisions on their timeline. As Mitch Mcconnell said, there will be about and i dont think we should discount democratic votes either. The one democratic senator up for reelection in 2018 who voted for Justice Kavanaugh was reelected. I know the democrats are saying radical things right now. Theyre threatening rioting in the streets, they are already doing that though. They threatened to pack the court, they were already threatening to pack the court. Senders can look at what happened in 21814 of their colleagues lost their election a month after voting for Justice Kavanaugh and the one who did vote for Justice Kavanaugh got reelected. I wouldnt discount democratic votes at this point either. Chris a couple of minutes left, i want to get to the actual issues at stake here because there are a lot of big issues at stake. You say or on the record is saying that roe vs. Wade should go. Do you hope, and do you expect that if a Trump Nominee has confirmed that she will vote to end a womans right to choose . Senator cotton chris, im prolife, my views on this are wellknown and theres no need to restate them at length here but what President Trump has done is assembled a highly capable pole of jurists on his list who understand that their job is not to make the beyond that i cant speculate about the outcomes of hypothetical cases years down the road. Chris but you do support the idea and i assume you would support the idea of a justice voting to end roe v. Wade . Senator cotton again, my views are wellknown and their longstanding varied i believe roe v. Wade was wrongly decided because it took that question away from the American People acting through their state legislatures, but beyond that i cant speculate about the hypothetical outcome of a case that hasnt yet been started lea case that has been started and if the court is going to hear this term, theres a lawsuit to overturn obamacare. Would you help that a justice appointed by donald trump would vote to end to overturn the Affordable Care act . Senator cotton chris, i think the Supreme Court got that case wrong eight years ago, especially in the socalled individual mandate which find americans for not being able to afford elf insurance, which a federal government made unaffordable in the first place. Thats one reason i lead the charge in congress to appeal the individual mandate, which had fined more than several million americans. That case is being argued right after the election. Its not clear whether we will have an injustice confirmed, so i cant speculate on how the court is going to rule on that particular case or if this nominee will be seated in time to rule on that case. Chris so, finally, i was going to ask you that you are on the president s short list, whether or not you would accept his nomination to the court given that he now says that the woman, do you want to ask them to reconsider or are you okay with a woman on the court . Senator cotton yeah, chris, i guess we can break some news here, that im not under consideration since the president said is going to nominate a woman i have already communicated with the white house that now was not the time to have me under consideration. Im on the ballot in arkansas under arkansas election law, we are long past the time to change the ballot so im looking forward to working with the president to confirm this nominee, to campaign for reelection myself and to reelect the president because its about more than just this single nominee, its about nomination to the Supreme Court in the future as well. Chris senator cotton, thank you, thanks for your time, always good to talk with you sir. Senator cotton thanks, chris. Chris up next, we will get reaction from senator chris coons, a key ally of democratic nominee joe biden. Theres a lot of opportuni ties that i would ever been able to have, ties starting at 16 as a cashier, and walmart gives you that opportunity. When i first started off, i was someone who didnt believe in themself. I went from being in a shell, to being outspoken, to being proud, to being knowledgeable. It made me who i am today. 20 years ago, i was an hourly associate cart pusher. 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Democratic senator chris coons is a key member of that committee and also part of joe bidens inner circle. Senator, whats wrong with President Trump and the senate going ahead and confirming a replacement for Ruth Bader Ginsburg . I understand you wont like their choice, but theres nothing in the constitution that curtails their power even if its just six weeks before the election. Senator coons well, chris, thanks for a chance to be on with you again varied first, we should start by, if i can, offering my condolences to the family of the loved ones of Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. She spent 27 years on our countrys highest court as a towering figure, a trailblazer, somebody who fought for gender equity and ill remind you, or dying wish dictated to her granddaughter as she passed on Rosh Hashanah was that the voters should choose the next president , the next president should choose her successor. Thats because she understood deeply our constitution and the significance of the Supreme Court and its legitimacy. For the republican majority just 44 days before the next president ial election to rush through a new justice in a partisan confirmation process will further divide our country, further challenge the legitimacy of the court and i think would dishonor Justice