Beautiful morning there in washington, d. C. A little cloudy. Thats okay. Nice temperatures as we head into fall. I know that were all excited about that. Ive heard from a lot of people who have said finally fall temperatures, at least here, sadly, as rejust saw from allison, not in the west coast. We want to wish you a very good morning. Thank you for making us a part of it. The live shot of the u. S. Supreme court, expecting major news on that front later today. Were talking about, of course, the announcement that is going to name the new what we presume to be nominee of the u. S. Supreme court. And it comes at a time when the president is raising a lot of questions about the legitimacy of the election. In fact, he has been quoted as saying the only way he will lose that election is if it is rigged. Cnns Sarah Westwood is live from the white house with this. Its been a week of attacks on mailin voting and his refusal to commit to a peaceful transition. What are you hearing from the white house this morning, sarah . Good morning, martin and christy, thats right, President Trump into this weekend going further in his efforts to undermine his supporters confidence in the Election Results suggesting to them at his rally in virginia last night the only scenario that they should trust the outcome of the election is if the results reflect a victory for him. In all the others he suggested that there will be fraud and theres absolutely no evidence that fraud will play any role in deciding the outcome. All of this comes after a week in which the president stirred up considerable controversy when he refused to he doubled down on that even after his republican allies on capitol hill, many of them came out condemning the president s words and his inflammatory position. Last night the president suggested he might be open to a friendly transfer of power, but only if he feels he wasnt cheated. Thats the only way were going to lose is if theres mischief, mischief. And it will have to be on a big scale. So be careful. And we do want a very friendly transition but we dont want to be cheated and be stupid. Now at that rally the president meddled a number of debunked conspiracy theories related to mailin voting and misleading information about mailin voting and that came days after the president seized on an announcement from the department of justice that they had opened an investigation into nine improperly discarded ballots in pennsylvania. Some of those had indeed been filled out for trump but that announcement drew allegations of politicization they also violated some pretty serious standards of ballot secrecy. They tried to couch the words later this week saying he would agree to a peaceful transition of power if he believed it was a free and Fair Election but its clear from the president s comments last night he wants to be the one to dictate what is a free and Fair Election and hes also been suggesting he doesnt believe a free or Fair Election is possible if mailin voting is expanded. In another appearance yesterday in atlanta the president made jokes about clinging to his office, even after two terms. Lets say will we be president in ten years . Only if we had a couple of terms. Theres your breaking news. I told you, hes a dictator. Weve been he will not give up power. The president will obviously be announcing his Supreme Court nominee to fill that vacancy. Here at the white house later today, significant for a lot of reasons. But one of them is that the president acknowledged this week that the results of the election could end up being decided by the Supreme Court. So if he successfully gets this nominee confirmed before election day that means a third of the justices sitting on the bench if that happens will have been appointed by trump, martin and christy. Sarah westwood at the white house for us, thanks very much for that. Democratic president ial nominee joe biden is dismissing the president s latest attacks on the election process. Cnns Arlette Saenz joins us. Its a distraction. Joe biden says that the president s comments relating to a peaceful transition of power not committing to one is a distraction from the issues at hand. Said that he is avoiding talking about things like the economy and the Public Health crisis in the wake of covid19. And biden also, once again, criticized the president for casting doubt on the election and calling into question the integrity of mailin voting, something weve heard repeatedly from the president. Take a listen to what joe biden had to say in an interview yesterday. The American People arent going to be shut down in this election. Theyre going to vote, vote in large numbers, and theyre just not going to be denied. Im confident all the irresponsible outrageous attacks on voting well have in the election in this country as we always have had and hell leave. So joe biden there ultimately believing that if the president does not win reelection that he will go peacefully. We are heading in now to a critical weekend when it comes to the debate. We are now just three days away from President Trump and joe biden facing off for the first time on that debate stage. Biden told reporters that he started heavily focusing on his debate prep on thursday. We know that he is preparing for possible attacks from President Trump. Biden said in an interview that he believes that the debate will be straight attacks from the president , that he expects the president to go personal. Now, his campaign has said that hes not necessarily going to fact check the president on every single claim. They believe that the Fact Checking should be left to the moderator but they are preparing for these attacks from President Trump and the president on his part is also setting the possible lines of attack that joe biden could aim his way as theyre going to face off for the first time in that debate. Now, were going to see joe biden a little bit later today taking a little bit of a break from that debate prep. Hes expected to do over the coming days. He will be addressing a conference of the nations mayors. And one thing well be looking to see is whether he talks about the Supreme Court vacancy just hours before the president is expected to name judge Amy Coney Barrett as his Supreme Court pick. Biden for the most part has kind of stayed away from talking about this vacancy. Instead he has been talking about health care, trying to frame this campaign as a critical one relating to health care as we get closer to the november election. Marty and christy . Arlette saenz. Great information to know, thank you so much, arlette. This morning President Trump begins his push to get a third justice on the Supreme Court. The president intends to nominate a name weve heard a lot this morning, conservative judge Amy Coney Barrett to replace Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. Barrett is currently a federal Appeals Court judge and a former clerk for justice antonin scalia. The power to confirm barrett lies within the senate where the majority leader mcconnell said the president s pick will receive a vote this year. Joining me now is amy howe, cofounder of the scotus blog. Morning. Good morning, thanks for having me. Let me start with your thoughts on what appears to be the nominee. Amy judge barrett, what do you know about her . We know that for the late Justice Scalia for whom she clerked she is realist, that you should interpret the constitution according to what the words meant when it was drafted back in the late 1780s. As a judge on the court of appeals she was a judge on a gun rights case and the challenge to a federal law that takes away the gun rights for people who are convicted of felonies and the majority on that case upheld the statute that was the challenge was by the owner of a Footwear Company who was convicted of mail fraud and Amy Coney Barrett dissented from that ruling. She said back when the constitution was drafted states didnt take away gun rights just because someone was convicted of a crime, you looked at whether or not someone was dangerous. Do you anticipate that she will have any difficulty getting the position . It seems fairly unlikely. The republicans have a majority in the senate. She is without a doubt, well qualified, when she was nominated to the seventh circuit, when she had bipartisan support, for example, from her colleagues at notre dame, from the folks who clerked with her on the Supreme Court, from her students at notre dame, and, you know, with the clerks and the students they said we dont always agree with her views but we think shes brilliant. And, you know, im not a political reporter, im a Supreme Court expert, to the exat the present time that im an expert at anything. But, you know, it really seems like the battle in her confirmation is more about whether or not the seat should be filled rather more than the qualifications of the nominee itself. Well, and that brings me to the next question i have, which is this issue, or thought that has been brought forward, primarily by democrats, that she should recuse herself if she makes it onto the Supreme Court. And if, somehow, a contested election ends up in the u. S. Supreme court, is many think it might, what do you think of this idea of her recusing herself from that . Certainly its going to come up at the Supreme Court at her confirmation hearings. She will not want to say anything about it other than that she would follow, i think in all likelihood, the code of recusal for justices. The Supreme Court really leaves the decision of whether to recuse up to individual justices. And, you know, its hard to see that, you know, the fact that someone has appointed you, how that carries over into into a decision in a case even when its a fairly significant case. But i think its certainly going to be an issue that democrats are going to bring up. Well see how it plays out. Right, i mean, i think thats a fear that some have, that she would and this is putting it in crass terms, but sort of repay a favor to the president. And in doing so cast her vote as it were in the president s favor. If there were a contested election. Is that likely, do you think . We dont know much about her vote on election laws, we dont know what the issue would be if it came up to the court as a contested election. You know, i do think were going to hear a lot about it. I dont know you know, at confirmation hearings you dont learn much about the nominees views that you didnt already know and im not sure were going to learn much about her views on this at the confirmation hearing either. Were going to follow your blog because you certainly know and have great insight. We appreciate you joining us this morning, amy howe, thank you. So new predictions for how quickly we could see the availability of the first coronavirus vaccinations. And the new prediction on how long it may be before we see a return to prepandemic routines. And the fallout continues over a grand jury decision with the Breonna Taylor case. Still ahead, how sisters of other Police Shooting victims have joined forces to demand that federal police reform. 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When you think back to february when this all began in the u. S. We are at the 7 million coronavirus mark. A vaccine may help us to get back to her prepandemic routines, vaccinations could very likely start maybe november, december. Hes making it clear when we might actually see an impact interest those vaccinations as well, should that timeline he just talked about hold up. Cnns Polo Sandoval is following that for us. Good morning to you. Dr. Anthony fauci releasing a promising prediction, we could possibly see up to 700 million doses of a vaccination next spring, were offering a reality check we may not be back in precovid19 normalcy until late next year. Dr. Anthony fauci says vaccinations could start before the end of the year. In reality, by the time you get enough people vaccinated so that you can feel youve had an impact enough on the outbreak so that you can start thinking about maybe getting a little bit more towards normality, that very likely, as i and others have said, would be maybe the Third Quarter or so of 2021, maybe even into the fourth quarter. But the availability and starting vaccination could very likely start in november or december. Faucis comments come as the u. S. Passed 7 million confirmed cases of covid19 according to data from Johns Hopkins university, more than 203,000 people have been killed by the virus. Dr. Fauci also raising concerns about fighting covid as we head into the fall and winter. If you look at some of the superspreading type liengs thth have occurred almost all of them have occurred in indoor situations. Youre going to have to do a lot of things indoors with the necessity of the temperature. With that being the case if we dont care fully follow the guidelines, the masking, the distance, the crowds, we may see another surge. The first state to surpass 800,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, the Florida Governor ron desantis says the state is moving into phase three of reopening, allowing restaurants and bars to fully reopen. Desantis also said he expects the state to host a full super bowl by this february. I also want to be able to show were going to be able to host the super bowl in february. We expect to do a full super bowl and were going to show that were going to be able to do that. Reporter meantime new york city mayor bill de blasio announced that the citys Outdoor Dining will be permanent. New york deputy mayor crediting it with saving jobs and called it a lifeline for the struggling restaurant industry. About 12 states are now seeing mask usage rates above 50 according to researchers for the university of washingtons institute for Health Metrics and evaluation. The ihme also said more than 95,000 lives could be save bid january if 95 of americans wore masks. Back here in new york, though, that test Positivity Rate remains at less than 1 . New York City Health officials are highlights what theyre describing as an extremely concerning uptick in south brook, another one in queens here, the concern is that could lead to more potential spread here in the actual city itself so Health Officials warning that if they continue to see the indicators throughout the weekend, they could implement stricter measures like limiting gatherings, finding people not Wearing Masks and closing nonessential businesses. New yorkers are facing perhaps what is one of the most precarious moments that emerge from the lockdown. Polo sandoval, thanks very much for the update. 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