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CNNW Fareed Zakaria GPS September 20, 2020

Sgljts sgljtsds. President vowing to bring over the president nominates to the floor. And just an hour from now, the v Vice President , former Vice President will stake to the stage in philadelphia to give his remarks on the Supreme Court vacancy. And then just moments ago, a key republican senator weighing in on a possible nomination to replace Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg before election day. Our correspondents are standing by with all these developments. Lets begin with cnns lauren fox on capitol hill. Lauren, democrats may have an ally in Lisa Murkowski. Both she and Susan Collins saying they are against taking of a Supreme Court nominee before the election if two more republican senators also oppose, then the president s pick could be in jeopardy. Elaborate. Thats right. Democrats have two allies right now. You named them. Senator Susan Collins in the state of maine. And now just moments ago Lisa Murkowski a fiercely independent republican from the state of alaska who has crossed party lines before, especially on fights over the Supreme Court. If you remember, she voted against Brett Kavanaugh just a few years ago. So theyre certainly lining up. But, remember, mcconnell needs to hold his conference together. But democrats need four republicans to cross the aisle and vote with them. Right now they only have two. And these statements are really interesting because essentially what these two women are saying is they are not comfortable moving forward with a nominee before election day. And this has always been one of the key questions. Does mcconnell move forward now when he still has momentum, when this will motivate voters to show up in races perhaps in North Carolina or iowa where there are tough races to be had, or does he wait until after election day and that carries a lot of risk as well because, if you know, it is a possibility that donald trump loses the white house. It is also a possibility that democrats regain power in the senate. Even though they return for the lame duck, some moderate republicans might be uncomfortable moving forward if the voters have spoken and they were to have to take a vote on Donald Trumps nominee. So thats what is at play right now. Meanwhile you have senators like tom cotton, a republican, a conservative saying they are going to be moving forward without delay. I am told that republicans are trying to convince mcconnell, conservatives especially, that this needs to happen fast. It needs to happen now. If you have the votes, you vote. That has always been the rules of the road on capitol hill and it has always been the rules of the road for the majority leader. Hes going to be conversation conversations with his members over the next couple of days. But it is clear they certainly are supporting mcconnell right now even if there are two republicans who have come out against moving forward right now. And what the president is saying, hes ready to name his nam kn nominee of choice this week. All right. Now happening in the next hour, the former Vice President will be making a few statements. Lets go to philadelphia where joe biden is getting ready to talk. Our jessica dean is there with a preview. Jessica, can we expect to hear perhaps a list of potential Supreme Court nominees from biden as the president had challenged him . Well, they have signalled that thats not likely to happen. What is likely to happen today is were going to hear former Vice President joe biden talking about the Supreme Court vacancy, and were being told by campaign aids they want to tie this to the Affordable Care act. They want to take the case that this is going to impact the Affordable Care act. There is a lawsuit making its way through the Supreme Court right now and joe biden has often attacked donald trump on the campaign trail for months now about taking away preexisting conditions from americans all across the country with this lawsuit that will undo parts of the Affordable Care act. If you zoom out and think about 2018 when democrats were able to take power back in the house, this is the argument they made across the country. It was all about health care. It was about preexisting conditions and protections. And the Biden Campaign believes that americans understand this argument that they are able to understand what this could mean to preexisting conditions and protections as it applies to their health care. And the Biden Campaign believes that can be a way to really explain to people what this is about to really frame this vacancy and why its so important that joe biden be the president to select the next Supreme Court justice. Now, we heard from Vice President biden late on friday. He said he believed that the American People should select a next president and that president should select a justice to be considered by the senate, so we know where he stands on that. Expect to hear about health care and also the coronavirus pandemic more today as he ties that all to this legacy. Well take his remarks when they begin at the top of the hour when scheduled. Jessica dean, thank you so much in philadelphia. Fill the seat fill the seat fill the seat fill the seat the sound of President Trumps supporters chanting fill that seat at a Campaign Rally last night in North Carolina just hours after the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. President trump made it clear that he is going to use the open seat as a Major Campaign issue, and he vowed to nominate a replacement in a matter of days. So article 2 of our constitution says the President Shall nominate justices of the Supreme Court. I dont think it can be anymore clear, can it . I dont think so. I will be putting forth a nominee next week. It will be a woman. All right. For more on this now, lets bring in john harwood at the white house. The president and his fellow republicans appear determined to get the nomination and confirmation process underway as quickly as possible. What are you hearing about the possible pick for the president. Well, you could tell from the cheers at that rally where the president addressed the issue. He is eager to embrace and his supporters are eager to embrace something to shake up a campaign that has not been going very well for the president , and the way the pick is shaping up, it could have some direct political impacts. First of all, the president hes going to move quickly. He indicate hes going to pick a woman. The president has a big deficit among women and it is possible to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg with a woman. Probably the leading candidate is amy barrett. She is an Appeals Court judge from the midwest, key electoral battleground. Teaches at notre dame. Conservative catholic. You have joan larsen also from the midwest, longtime professor at university of mirchigan law school. You have an Appeals Court judge in florida. Cuban american, thats a key constituency for the president. Whoever he picks, this will be in the hands of Mitch Mcconnell, the Senate Republican leader. Hes been very effective for his party on the subject four years ago when barack obama had a replacement ten months before the election. Mcconnell came up with a justification for holding the seat open. He said, we shouldnt do it in an election year. Now that were two months before the election, hes come up with a new justification. We heard a senior white house official mark short echoing that justification today. I reject the notion it is hypocrisy. Historical precedent is when your party is in power and going back to george washington, the party has continued to confirm those nominees. So i dont think there is hypocrisy. The people of america elected donald trump president in 2016 in large part because he was so transparent and said, heres who i would nominate. Of course, what the president and Mitch Mcconnell need is for 50 republicans to buy that argument. We have heard from two as lauren fox indicated earlier, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski. They dont buy the argument. I think at this stage, fred, you have to say the odds are in favor of President Trump and Mitch Mcconnell that they will get this done. Don, let me also bring into this conversation cnn Supreme Court analyst joan. Joan, the democrats are vowing to do whatever it takes. Everything is on the table, you know, to slow or stop a confirmation happening this year. With speaker pelosi, you know, threatening another possible impeachment, but she says shes not interesting at all in shutting down the government, you know, to slow things down, is there nothing or is there something that democrats actually can do . They really have to count on the political will. They have to count on key senators to make a difference. Mitch mcconnell has the math on his side right now. They have to make clear to people that it is not just cases like the Affordable Care act that jessica so rightly referred to, but this is a lifetime seat. This is affirmative action. This is religious liberty. Whoever is appointed and donald trump is looking at women in their 40s right now. Whoever is appointed will probably serve at least 30, 40 years. So whatever happens now can effect the law of our children and grandchildren. So thats the case i think theyre trying to make to the public to put some pressure on the senator. But, fred, to your most practical question, its really up to what Mitch Mcconnell is able to pull off. And back in 2016, when Mitch Mcconnell first declared that he was going to block president obamas nominee a full month before president obama even nominated h ed Merrick Garland e thought, can this work . Now were talking over a matter of 40 days here. John, former president bill clinton weighed in. He was on cnn earlier today. And, you know, he talked about this republican hypocrisy as he sees it for blocking obamas nomination of Merrick Garland in 2016 and moving forward with this pick during an election year. Listen. There is a case to be made for the argument mcconnell made that in the middle of a president ial season you should give the voters a say. Thats what he said. When it was ten months away. But when the shoe is on the other foot and he wants to judge, were fewer than 50 days away and that argument doesnt cut any mustard. It is a power play, and they think they can do it. John, if democrats cant do much, you know, to stop this process from going forward, what are the chances of three or four perhaps republican senators deciding that they will, you know, refrain from backing an immediate confirmation . President clinton said it was a power play. That is exactly what it is. And joan was precisely correct a few minutes ago when she said the only tool democrats have at their disposal is politics. That is the demonstrated will of the American People. Political pressure on republican senators running for reelection and the prospect this would generate a huge backlash against republicans. It is notable the strategy that jessica dean outlined that the Biden Campaign is taking. Many of the key voters theyre targeting in those midwest earn battlegrounds that gave trump the presidency a few years ago where biden hopes to win it back is blue collar voters. They may have been prolife. Joe biden is preparing to make a bread and butter argument to those voters, not about abortion which may appeal to younger voters, more liberal voters, but about taking away your health care. And that argument is something that democratic strategists may be effective in holding some of those voters that joe biden needs in michigan, wisconsin and pennsylvania. Lots on the table. Health care, reproductive rights, equality. These are the things that people are now urging folks to be thinking of when they vote, especially as a consequence of the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. So, you know, joan oftentimes people are thinking about, you know, the possibility that a president will have the opportunity to put someone on the bench. How is that even more, you know, resonant now . One thing that joe biden has going for him is that in november, a week after the election, the justices are going to take up a constitutional challenge to the Affordable Care act, to obamacare. So there is a very real possibility of the Supreme Court now, without Ruth Bader Ginsburg completely voiding that law. There is no way that was going to happen because in 2012 the Supreme Court rejected that challenge. Back in 2013 the Supreme Court rejected that challenge. But they needed Ruth Bader Ginsburg to do it. I think its still going to be a closed case, but it is a very salient example of, as john said, bread and butter issues here just because the court is about to take it up. So it might be a more effective argument because its right before people right now. President trump has said that he is not trying to get rid of the part of the law that says that anyone with preexisting conditions like diabetes or cancer cant be kicked off their health plans. But in the Supreme Court, his lawyers are arguing for that saying we dont preexisting conditions in this law. We dont want this law at all. I think there is a chance the case could be made. But, boy, when donald trump said after 2016 that one of the reasons he won or maybe even one of the leading reasons he won was because of the Supreme Court, the vacancy he was then able to fill, i think this is what hes counting on to really help him on november 3rd. Uhhuh. All right. Well leave it there. Thanks to both of you. Really appreciate it. All right. Next, the u. S. Set to hit a grim milestone of 200,000 deaths from coronavirus. This as cases in at least 30 states spike. Are we on the cusp of a second wave . And empty promises in the race for a vaccine. 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If we can hold that down as were saying to 100,000, its a horrible number, maybe even less, but to 100,000 so we have between 100,000 and 200,000, we altogether have done a very good job. Fred, there is a lot of news going on, as you know, but the central story in this country, even in places like new york where we brought the numbers way down remains this pandemic. It is getting in the way of jobs. It is getting in the way of schools, and its still killing people every day. As far as we can tell for now, thats not going to change. Fred . All right. Evan, all very grim nonetheless. Thank you so much. I want to bring in dr. Bass set, an emergency medicine physician and the medical director at baylor saint lukes mcnair campus emergency department. Good to see you, doctor. So as we approach this awful milestone, which appears to be inevitable, were se

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