Virus can spread and everybodys for joe biden in this town. I think hes going to win. Why this irish town is backing biden in novembers president ial election and how hes waiting into the aggressive debate. 6. Good to have you with us. We begin with a showdown brewing in washington. U. S. Democrats and republicans are gearing up for a battle over Supreme CourtJustice Ruth Bader ginsbergs seat. This as the country continues to mourn the passing of the Supreme Court icon. The seat, which she occupied for nearly three decades, is now covered with a black drape. The u. S. President donald trump is already scrambling to fill that vacancy. With less than two months to go before the u. S. President ial election. His campaign is even selling tshirts calling for just that. Mr. Trump says he plans to pick a woman for the job, possibly this week. Meanwhile, u. S. President ial nominee joe biden says the winner of novembers race should decide who will fill the Supreme Court seat. The former Vice President has committed to nominating a black woman to the bench if hes elected. Cnns manu raju previews whats looking to be a fascinating political fight in washington. Reporter President Donald Trump is moving quickly to name his Supreme Court nominee to fill the seat of the late ruth bader ginsberg. Raise your right hand. Reporter three female Appeals Court judges appear to be among the frontrunners but he has little margin for error to get his nomination confirmed to the bench before the november election. Trump and Mitch Mcconnell can only afford to lose the support of three republican senators in order to get a nominee confirmed. Two republicans have said the nomination should wait until after the elections. The latest Lisa Murkowski velasko. On sunday she said i did not support taking up a nomination eight months before the 2016 election. We are now even closer to the 2020 election, less than 2 months out, and i believe the same standard must apply. She would not comment whether she would approve trumps nomination. Similarly, senator Susan Collins of maine fighting to keep her seat said the vote should wait until after the election but her office has not responded to cnns questions about whether she would vote begins a Trump Nominee if former Vice President joe biden wins in november. The battle comes amid a furious fight for control of the senate in november and it has put some republicans like cory gardner of colorado in a difficult spot as he campaigns to keep his seat. In 2016 when republicans refused to move on barack obama, they argued it was too close to the election. Gardner said the American People deserve a role in this office. On saturday gardner refused to say if he would stick to that. There is a time for debate and politics. The time for now is to pray for the family. Reporter several veteran republicans including Chuck Grassley have refused to say whether the party should wait. Mitt romney has so far declined to comment. Several republicans in difficult races are aligning with trump. I voted for several hundred conservative judges including two on the Supreme Court and another on the way. Till lis sung a different tune four years ago. Were going to let the americans speak. Its a question of checks and balances. Four years ago cruz said this. Its for the people to decide. If President Trump is able to push through another lifetime appointee, it will cement a 63 conservative majority on the Supreme Court and that will affect millions of lives for decades to come. Now mr. Trumps rival, joe biden, is asking republicans to think before they vote. Dont vote to confirm anyone nominated under the circumstances President Trump and senator mcconnell have created. Dont go there. Hold your constitutional duty, your conscience. Let the people speak. Cool the flames that have been engulfing our country. We cant keep rewriting history. And the top democrat in the senate, Chuck Schumer, says rushing a nomination so close to the election is despicable. On sunday schumer was asked about what could happen after the election. Just take a listen. If the president s pick is approved and biden wins the election, should we add more Supreme Court justices . Its a decision that comes to the senate. We first have to win the majority before that can happen. Once we win the majority, god willing, everything is on the table. Cnns legal analyst, reeva martin joins us. Thank you for talking with us. Hi, rosemary. As the Supreme Court mourns the loss of ruth bader ginsberg, ignoring and respecting rbgs dying wish to have the next president of this country make her replacement. We see President Trump forging ahead. How likely is it the two other republican senators will stand with them and stop this vote until after the election. Youre right, rosemary. The country is mourning the death of ruth bader ginsberg, me, too, as any lawyer would be. She paved the way for all of us to be in the Legal Profession today. Unfortunately the republicans are not honoring her legacy or her dying wish, which is to have her replacement by the next president of the United States. I have absolutely no faith that the two republicans that have come forward or that there will be two others that have come forward. We saw it play out before. We saw it with Brett Kavanaugh. Several senators said they would be voting against Brett Kavanaugh yet they changed their votes when the time actually came. I dont think democrats can depend upon the republicans doing the right thing. Very clear they made that very clear given the statements that have been issued to date. If they cant rely on the republicans, what are the options available to democrats Going Forward . I think Chuck Schumer put it best when he said all options are on the table. If theyre successful in winning back the senate come this november, i think you will see them considering packing the court which is the equivalent of extending the number of justices on the court. Theres no Supreme Court mandate and weve heard many others talking about expanding the court, not only to 11 but maybe 15 jurors. Weve also heard talk about eliminating the filibuster and even giving statehood to washington, d. C. , and potentially puerto rico which will give democrats an opportunity to pick up some additional democratic senators. I dont think anything is off the table. Thanks to cnn legal analyst speaking to me last hour. Away from the political wrangling, people are paying tribute to Justice Ginsberg outside the Supreme Court. Jessica snider is there. Reporter people have flocked to the Supreme Court for three nights in a row now, and its not just all the flowers and the candles that people are laying out here but the memorials have also turned inventive. You can see on the sidewalk the chalk drawings. They say everything from, thank you, rbg, to rest in power. Its really amazing. These talks, tributes, they remain all around the perimeter of the Supreme Court itself. Outside the Supreme Court tonight the crowds have actually thinned out. A lot thinner than last nights vibrant tribute and vigil. The flowers are still lining the sidewalk. People have been coming out here for three nights now to leave the flowers and to light these candles. The tributes arent just outside. Weve learned inside the Supreme Court, even though its been closed since march, they have kept with tradition in that theyve put a black wool crepe over her bench chair and bench in front of her. Theyve hung a draping over the courtroom entrance. Thats something thats been done since the 1800s. A lot of tributes out here. Still waiting to hear what the final memorial plans are for Justice Ruth Bader ginsberg. President trump repeatedly boasted to Journalist Bob Woodward about the number of judges hes appointed. The interviews for all the rage provide insight for mr. Trumps thinking as he plans to push forward another nominee. Cnn has obtained audio from the interviews. I just signed my 187th federal judge, its a record. 187 judges in less than three years, bob. And two Supreme Court judges. Never been done before. The only one that has a better percentage is george washington. My percentage is ridiculous and our numbers when i get out, ill probably have more than 50 of the judges elected. And Lindsey Graham is sad there were a couple of those judges that he himself didnt care for and rejected them. Are you aware of that . Yeah. Yeah. I dont want that. Does he have thats his committee and they no. Lindsey and other people dont like them, they tonight like them because there are cases they are conservative or they came out with a couple of bad decisions or something. Woodward told cnns Allison Cooper that President Trumps Main Objective is winning and the battle of the Supreme Court seat helps him in november. Whats interesting in the discussion with him about judges in the Supreme Court, its clearly engaged. He realizes or believes it may be a winning issue for him. Instead of talking about the virus, now were talking about the Supreme Court nominee. Jared kushner, the president s soninlaw, whos a Senior Advisor in the white house, in the book i quote kushner saying, that theres a theory behind always of this. Controversy elevates message. In other words, if you have a controversy, it will elevate the message. Were certainly going to have a controversy. The message here from the president s side, look, hes tough. Hes looking out for his base. Hes going to get conservative republican new justice. Bob woodward with anderson cooper. The u. S. Is fast approaching a somber new milestone in the coronavirus pandemic. Nearly 200,000 lives lost to covid19 and the cdc is updating its guidelines. We will have those details next. The United States is approaching a Staggering Number in the coronavirus pandemic. Nearly 200,000 people have died from covid19. Democrats protested outside the white house sunday. They lit up a display that says, quote, trump lied 200,000 died. Cnns Evan Mcmorris santoro has more on the pandemic from new york. Reporter projections now show that in the next day or so america will cross a grim milestone in this pandemic. 200,000 confirmed deaths from complications of coronavirus. To put that number in perspective, lets go back to march 29th when President Trump addressed the idea of 200,000 deaths. If we can hold that down as were saying to 100,000, thats a horrible number, maybe even less, but to 100,000 so we have between 100 and 200,000, we altogether have done a very good job. Reporter that 200,000 number comes even as places like new york city, where im standing, are seeing their viral numbers come way down, but this country is still in the grips of this thing. The pandemic is wreaking havoc on the american economy, education, and of course peoples lives and theres really no end in sight. Over the weekend admiral brett gerard told cnn he has no real time line for when a safe and effective vaccine will become widely available here. Evan mcmorris santoro, cnn, new york. Ann remoyne is a professor of epidemiology joining us from los angeles. Thank you for joining us. Nice to be here. So, doctor, nearly 200,000 americans have died from the coronavirus in seven months. More than any other country in the world. 31 states are seeing an increase in cases, but daily deaths are trending downwards. What does that indicate to you . And how is it even possible that the richest country in the world has lost so many lives. Reporter rosemary, there are a lot of questions in this that you just posed right here, and a lot of really important facts that youve also stated. So the first thing that you mentioned, 200,000 deaths. This is really an important thing to stop and consider right now. When you think of 200,000 deaths, thats the size of a town. Montgomery, alabama, for example, 200,000 people. That is the massive devastation of human life. What we also need to think of, 200,000 deaths. It is now covid19 is now the third leading cause of death in the United States just after Heart Disease and cancer. The third leading cause of death in the United States used to be accidents. Weve surpassed that in covid19. So we are really at a very critical moment here, and its important for everybody to remember that there it is in our hands to reduce the spread of spreading the virus. Hand washing, masks and social distance. The cdc updated the guidance sunday evening now saying the coronavirus can commonly spread through small particles in the air through talking and breathing. How does this change the way we approach covid19 and what does it say about the importance of wearing a mask . The guidelines by the cdc have recently been updated. This is really good news, but this is not new news. We have been discussing for a lengthy period of time now that aerosol of this virus is possible and that it wasnt just these large droplets but small droplets that can hang in the air for not just minutes but even up to hours and can spread the virus. So its great that the cdc has now updated their guidelines based on science and that now it really underscores why its so important to wear a mask, that social distancing is really important, and that six feet is a minimum of how far apart we should be and that being in closed spaces is really something that we should avoid with people that are not in our households or in our small groups of people that we are close to or bubbling with. This virus can spread from person to person and it has been cultured from air in hospitals. We know the importance of ventilation in this. Being outdoors instead of indoors, social distancing and wearing a mask are critical. As we head into the flu season, along with covid19, the white house testing czar is calling on allamericans to wear masks and avoid crowds, as youve just mentioned. We saw saturday night President Trump held a huge rally in fayetteville, north carolina, with people packed in tightly together. Very few Wearing Masks. Not only is the message not getting through, but the actions of the president work against the message his own white house is trying to put out. What is going on here . Its a huge problem when the most powerful person in america is not embracing the word of Public Health and spreading it far and wide. And, in fact, encouraging people to be close together, not Wearing Masks and really promoting opportunities for this virus to spread. Ann ramoyne, thanks as always. We appreciate it. Its my pleasure. Coronavirus cases are rising in europe, and that is worrying officials in the u. K. The countrys chief medical officer says they are heading in the wrong direction at a critical point in the pandemic, and a British Health secretary said a Second National lockdown is possible if people dont follow health rules. France set a new record for daily new cases. Cnn is in france and the u. K. Covering the pandemic. Melissa bell is in paris and Scott Mcclain is in london. Good to see you both. Melissa, lets start with you. What is the latest on the virus and restrictions . Reporter here in new yothe theyve explained over the preceding two weeks the number of cases have doubled in more than half of all european countries. It gives you an idea europe wide the nature of the problem. The other problem with the second wave is how this is a virus that tends to strike in clusters so theres this intense geographical concentration of it with that huge weight on health systems. Now over the course of the summer, late summer, weve seen rises in some of those mediterranean places where people are going for a break. The big urban centers, Capital Cities of europe are under pressure as people get back to school and work. Cities like paris being particularly affected right now, but other french urban centers also introducing their own matters to keep the figures down. Now its happening in spain. This could be something we might see more of in the coming days and weeks on the european continent. Rather than imposing another National Lockdown, the spanish concentrating on the city in which large numbers of cases have been rising. That was madrid. Six districts are locked down. 850,000 people who are going to have to stay at home unless theyre having to work, taking kids to school, rather like what we see in the first waive. This time applied to another National Lockdown if people d