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Professor in notre dame. she's seen as controversial during her appeals court hearing last november. her strict version of catholicism came up and backfired on dianne feinstein at the time. brett kavanaugh has the most involved report. that's a positive and a negative. a lot of people from the federalist society favor him for the long record but he's ruled on obamacare, abortion and other issues that are certain to come up and the democrats could claim that it's such a long record it will take longer, which could inch towards election day. >> shepard: that leads to pros and cons for each. >> y...

People on the list. another one is ray kethledge. he's also 51 years old. he's been on the bench for ten years. he's considered gorsuch 2.0 because of his philosophy that matches gorsuch and matches a little bit antonin scalia. then we have tom hardeman. he was the number two last time around for justice scalia's seat. the president really liked him for his personal story. first in his family to go to college, drove a cab. he has a big second amendment case people like. and finally, amy coney barrett. she's new on the bench. trump put her in a few months ago for a lower court. she doesn't have...

List this week is going to be his big announcement on a supreme court nominee to replace retiring justice anthony kennedy. the president says he'll announce that choice tomorrow night. joining me now to discuss this, cnn supreme court reporter. what do we know about these finalists? you said last hour there are four we're looking at who are most likely. >> right. this is the frantic last day before this big announcement. >> you got a long 24 hours ahead of you, i think. >> i do. top contender has always been brett kavanaugh. he's 53 years old. he's a judge here in washington, d.c. he has about...

Are highlighting bremen kethledge and thomas hardy made today. the president advisor for the supreme court talk about those issues on abc this week. >> they are all extraordinarily distinguished people. certainly brett, not and coney barrett and ultimately when people like them are nominated you'll see a lot of folks might not with regard to ray kethledge and tom hardiman, they're left on by conservatives and records a little bit later so it might take some time. they've almost no prayer with this confirmation. they need every gop senator to get the president's nominees through. democratic lea...

Washington ties, or ray kethledge who some people will refer to as a gorsuch 2.0, someone with a solid conservative track record and has picked up some support in conservative circles. >> jon allen, we didn't hear the name amy coney barrett, democrats have zeroed in on her, there is this issue with olympia snowe saying roe v. wade is a bottom line issue where she doesn't necessarily commit to vote for trump's pick here. is there a sense that amy coney barrett on that issue of roe v. wade has fallen back in this process? >> certainly possible, steve. i think there's a significant amount of supp...