biden claims his remarks were taken out of context, but really when does biden ever say anything that can be taken out of context? >> well i tell you what, having been a receiver, i like a a softer ball. [ laughter ] >> and neil smith, an old butt buddy, are you here, neil? neil, i miss you, man. >> i promise you, the president has a big stick. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: we have a great show, everybody! give it up for the roots right there! >> jimmy: we have a big week of shows ahead. tomorrow night, she's an emmy and academy award nominated actress, taraji p. henson will be here. >> steve: yeah. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: we love taraji. >> steve: nobody like taraji. >> jimmy: plus we'll have a a performance from fka twig. that's a good show. [ cheers and applause ] later this week, gerard butler and nathan lane will be joining us. it will be a good week. [ cheers and applause ] but first, we have a great show tonight. we love it, love it, love it when this man stops by. he's a great actor. he's a phenomenal human being. funny, funny, funny, funny guy as well. we're gonna talk sea

. >> reporter: among the mourners, vice president joe biden representing the white house and ted cruz a former supreme court law clerk who criticized president obama for not attending. the president and first lady paid their respects friday as justice scalia lay in repose. the other seven of the court's remaining today as were two retired justices, john paul stevens and suitor. as for a successor, the white house made a point of showing president bema walk obama walking with material. this was a day remembering the man devoted to his faith and family and the law. pete williams, nbc news, washington. >>> in the south pacific, fiji was battered by a cyclone causing extensive damage. kelly kobiella has the story. >> reporter: the cyclone crashed in with deafening winds. torrential rain and gusts of 186 miles and hour, lifting roofs like pieces of paper. leaving tourists and locals terrified for >> i didn't know if i would survive. this cyclone was terrible. ter ter it was terrifying everyone. how you can sleep? >> reporter: the spanish rugby team in fiji for training. the monster storm i

. >> reporter: don't joe biden who didn't run >> i don't regret it. it's the right decision for my family, and me. >> reporter: leading attacks against bernie sanders, speaking tonight at the same democratic party dinner as sanders. even as sanders and hillary clinton will be answering questions at that msnbc town hall here. lester? >> andrea, thank you. >>> you can see the clinton and sanders town hall tonight at 9:00 eastern only on msnbc. >>> a historic announcement from the white house today. president obama will become the first sitting president to visit cuba in nearly 90 years. a major step as the u.s. and cuba move to normalize relations. the trip which is planned for march 21st and 22nd was immediately met with criticism from republicans, including ted cruz, who said he would never visit as long as castro is in power. >>> there was something else pope francis said today, besides his comments on donald trump, that took many by surprise. he suggested birth control may be used to prevent the spread of has been linked to birth defects. this despi

. >> reporter: but republicans say vice president biden saw things their way 24 chaired the senate judiciary committee and said no confirmations during a presidential campaign. >> action on a supreme court nomination must be put off until after the election campaign is over. >> reporter: words that senate republicans are now gleefully recalling. >> what we're doing is what the democrats top leadership has advocated in the past. >> reporter: but it was actually the rank republican on senate judiciary 24 years ago who said confirmations should go on during a campaign. >> it is this process, if process which should not be changed expediency which has signified the majority of our system of government. nominee, quote, in the weeks ahead. >> mr. president, how many names? >> reporter: pete williams, nbc news, washington. >>> a dramatic day in the civil lawsuit brought by sports reporter erin andrews. in court andrews looked on in tears as her father testified about her trauma after a man secretly filmed her at a hotel. andrews is suing her stalker and the hotel's owner and former management compa

vice president biden will attend the funeral but president obama will not, prompting ted cruz to describe mr. obama this way. >> lawless and faithless president. who is eager to travel to cuba but unwilling to show up at the funeral of justice scalia. >> reporter: with republicans saying the next president should appoint scalia's successor, biden told rachel maddow the senate must act promptly on get the court back to nine justice is. >> if we don't nominate someone in the next month or so, start the hearing process, they say nothing is going to happen until the next election, it won't be until next june or july before you have a supreme court justice. >> after a private ceremony this morning with a prayer and a reading, the supreme court will be open to the public for those who want to say their final good-byes. >> pete williams outside the supreme court, thanks. >>> pope francis' back and forth with donald trump is not the only reason the pope is making news this morning. on his flight back to the vatican, he indicated that contraceptives could be used to prevent the spread of zika, des

biden responded. as my record shows, i presided over the consideration of justice kennedy, reagan nominee, who was confirmed in a presidential election year. >>> we have dramatic video out of australia. a construction crane was on fire in melbourne. that led to this. the arm of the crane crashing to the ground. thankfully, no one was injured in the accident. the fire may have started in the motor of the crane. >>> huge waves are causing big problems in hawaii. a historic swell hit the north shore of oahu with waves jumping on to roadways and soaking cars. transportation officials were forced to close the highway. locals said the surf was the biggest they've seen in a decade. a few daring surfers jumped in >>> al is back with more on the weather. >> quick look at the national forecast. we'll show you we are expecting the strong storms down through the south. beautiful weather along the west coast. we have snow out of the rockies. it'll make its way east later on. we'll get to your local forecast in the

you think about sort of the future of the democratic party, you get past hillary clinton or maybe joe biden and you got to go way, way, way left before you find anybody that's on the national stage. >> i also wouldn't characterize it as left and right the way we've been talking about for a long time. >> exactly. >> particularly when we're talking about economic progressivism, this is something that's really more about insider and outsider, about top and bottom on the economic spectrum. >> that's been the split there. >> and her vulnerability is she has yet to prove -- >> if hillary clinton is on a march to the nomination, does that help your efforts to unify behind cruz and rubio? >> i think it would. in a normal year it would. i don't know that it will this year because there is so much anger. talking about outsiders and now people are making decisions looking. i for one am very happy to be talking about the democratic primary. >> fair enough. but a pause there. congresswoman, nice to see you. thanks for coming by making that news here. we'll be back with the end game segment and question

rumors about joe biden. this is going to be a very difficult three weeks. if the campaign panics at any point, maybe overcorrects, it a month from now. >> rest your voice for a second. we want you to comment on the republican side of things. donald trump topped the latest polls last night. 75 polls heading into the new hampshire primary. voters turned out for him in force on tuesday. nbc national correspondent peter alexander is already in the next battleground state, south carolina. >> good morning. south carolina, where the next primary is ten days away. donald trump likes to boast he's a winner and he proved it in a huge way last night. more than doubling his closest competitor, john kasich. this is a candidate who has re-defined republican politics and ran away with new hampshire. tell me it's a revolution >> reporter: donald trump, triumphant triumphant. >> we are going to make america great again. >> reporter: the brash >> we want to thank the people of new hampshire. right? do we love the people of new hampshire! >> reporter: extending an olive branc

>> if the polls are right, and it's double digits, it is going to be stories about joe biden, michael bloomberg. bernie sanders is already outraising her and will with more money. nevada will suddenly look like it's in play. the national polls will show bernie sanders ahead of hillary clinton. this is going to be the most painful three weeks before the south carolina primary for her since she's had in february 2008. >> thank you so much. we'll have more from here in new hampshire coming up, including live interviews with jeb bush and chris christie. for now, matt, up to you in new york. >> we'll be back with you in a couple minutes. >>> we want to turn to the fight against the zika virus. the obama administration now asking congress for $1.8 billion in emergency funding. warning americans considering trips to latin america and the caribbeans. tom costello is covering this outbreak for us. >> we have 51 cases of zika in the united states according to the cdc. people who returned to the country, they've contracted zika abroad. we know of 16 in florida alone. while we don't yet have any

. >> we do know that president biden. vice president biden and mrs. biden will be attending the funeral tomorrow. that funeral is at 11:00 a.m. at the basilica here in washington, just a few miles north of the supreme court. almost due north of the supreme court. and that will be live on c-span at 11:00 a.m., as well. justice and mrs. scalia, marine scalia have had nine children. cliff is in flint, michigan. what do you think justice scalia's legacy is? caller: i think for a lot of americans, justice scalia was a divisive figure on the court. while he claimed to view the constitution as far as its original intent, he was always 100% behind all conservative views. and that is like saying he had already pre-judged his opinion before he heard any case. 100% of the time, justice scalia was going to decide for whatever conservative views are. not what the constitution was. if we really looked at the constitution original intent. that means african-americans are three fifths of a human being. you cannot sit there and say i view it the way it was written. th

vice president joe biden is still speaking. he is wrapping up his keynote address to a very energetic crowd that has a lot at stake here. thousands of democrats pack the san jose convention center to hear biden motivate skin spire with the presidential nomination and the u.s. senate seat before voters california democrats have a lot to gain or lose. a heckler disrupted biden off the top of his speech but was quickly escorted out by security. biden started offsinging his fellow democrat's praises then took jabs at republicans in washington, talking about the u.s. being the epicenter of energy around the world, urged voters to unite and warned they have a long, important battle ahead of them. >> let me start by giving our republican friends not so much republican party friends and candidates a tip. you can't lead this great country without recognizing what made it great in the first place. and more important ly, you can' lead america unless you believe in the american people and their capacity to do virtually anything they set th

doing as senator biden actually did. ont is what we are counting republicans in the u.s. senate to do. they should not do it because they are forcing -- forced into a position based on awkward quotes that they themselves have given. goodness knows, there are plenty of them. we could discuss those as well. in some ways, the most important element of this is they have a constitutional duty. they swore to uphold an oath, and fulfill the responsibility that the institution of the u.s. senate has to consider the president's nominee, to give them a fair hearing and give that person a yes or no vote. i know there are at least two senate republicans yesterday he would knowledge that oath and acknowledged that if the president, when the president nominates someone, the hearings should go forward. senator kirk himself specifically referenced the oath he took, not just as a member of the united states senate, but also as a member of the armed forces. he takes that oath seriously, and recognizes that giving the president's nominee a

end of biden quote. well, mr. president, that doesn't sound consistent with all of those biden rules that i shared with my colleagues on monday. so we ask, is it really possible to square chairman biden's 1992 election-year statement with vice president biden's 2016 election-year statement? was chairman biden's 1992 statement really just all about greater cooperation between the senate and the white house when chairman biden said in 1992 that if a vacancy suddenly arises -- quote -- "action on a supreme court nomination must be put off until after the election campaign is over." was he simply calling for more cooperation when he called for withholding consent -- quote -- "no matter how good a person is nominated by the president"? was he merely suggesting that the president and the senate work together a little bit more, when he said we shouldn't hold hearings until these circumstances, was that all about cooperation between the branches? well, since we're talking about filling justice scalia's seat, it seems prob

biden is also scheduled to visit the mission bay campus and talk about a cure for cancer. this democratic convention kicked off today and it is the largest gathering of democrats and they report on the agenda in this big election-year. >>> the stage has been set and everything is underway. there's a lot of enthusiasm and a lot at stake. >> i love change, progress, and hope and i believe in doing the work. this is that we can on the california party platform will be decided and this is a key race in the senate to replace barbara boxer. both carla and nevada have quoted these endorsements. >> this is on behalf of all of the people you care about. >>reporter: joe biden will give a speech on saturday and for some the drama of the presidential election is driving the act that this am. and more involved with everything and watching the debate and it is very interesting. >>> it is a statewide conference but there will be discussions going on with national implications. >>reporter: this is a push for legal marijuana to a minimum wage that rises with inflation. >> we are focused on

first, my colleagues should read chairman biden's speech for themselves. it takes up ten full pages in the "congressional record," so there is as much context as anyone could possibly want to consider. a second option is to consider how the media have described that speech. one cbs news story, for example, has the headline "joe biden once took g.o.p.'s position on supreme court vacancy." perhaps they, too, are contextually challenged. here is what "the washington post" said about the speech. let me refer to the chart here. "biden's remarks were especially pointed, voluminous and relevant to the current situation. embedded in the roughly 20,000 words he delivered on the senate floor were rebuttals to virtually every point democrats have brought forth in the past week to argue for the consideration of obama's nominee." well, the constant refrain of senate democrats and their media allies over the past few days is that the senate should just -- quote -- do its job, unquote. of course what they really mean is that the senate should do what they want the senate

vice-president biden says during his time as chairman of the senate judiciary committee, he presided over more supreme court justice nominations than any other person in history, and says this has never happened before. at least one group is now upping the pressure on the senate to *not confirm a nominee until the next president takes office. office."this isn't about republicans or democrats it's about your voice. you choose the next president. the next president chooses the next justice." justice."this is a brand new ad launching this sunday in iowa and in washington d-c. it's part of a campaign, called "let the people decide", from the judicial crisis network.it includes a line telling people to call and in washington dc, part of a campaign called it let the crisis network that includes a line telling people to call iowa senator chuck grassley who has said that he believes the next president should choose the next nominee. >>> it seems that the people are split on the issue and a new cbs news poll out today shows 47% of americans want president obama to appoint the next justice and

end of biden quote. that doesn't sound consistent of the biden rules i shared on monday. we ask if it is possible to chair biden's 1992 election year state with vice president's 2016 election year statement. was he simply calling for more cooperation when he called for withholding consent quote no matter how good a person is nominateno nomina nominated by the president end of quote. was he suggesting the president and senate work together a little bit more when he said we should not hold hearings until these circumstances was that all about cooperation between the branches? well, since we are talking about filling justice scalia's seat it seems appropriate to ask how would he solve this puzzle? i suppose he would start with a text. so let's begin with. in 1992, chairman biden discussed cooperation between the branches. yes, in fact, he did. so far so good for vice president biden. but that can not be the end of the matter because it doesn't explain the two vastly different interpretations of the statement. let's look at the text. here is what chairman biden said about coo

the vice president, joe biden, will be attending today. president obama and the first lady were among the more than 6000 people who paid tribute to antonin scalia a at the supreme court on friday. the public viewing was extended well past the original 8:00 scheduled and time. to joernest pointed biden's personal relationship justice. his casket was lying yesterday at the supreme court where, for the public was, able to visit. we are standing beside the casket. we will show you some of that until the funeral mass gets underway. >> a look at the supreme court great hall yesterday. we take you back live now to the basilica of the national shrine of the immaculate conception in washington, d.c. the funeral mass coming up this morning for supreme court ,ustice at the nee antonin scala who passed away at the age of 79. [organ music] ♪ [organ playing] >> [indiscernible] dear brothers and sisters in the lord, thank you for joining us today for the funeral mass of justice antonin scalia here at the basilica of the national shrine of immaculate co

well, i think probably everybody kind of knows that these are the biden rules. the biden rules recognize -- quote -- "the framers intended the senate to take the broadest view of its constitutional responsibility. the biden rules recognize the wisdom of those presidents, including another lawyer and former state lawmaker from illinois who exercised restraint by not submitting a supreme court nomination before the people had spoken. the biden rules recognize the court can operate smoothly with eight members for some time and -- quote -- the cost of such a result, the need to reargue three or four cases that will divide the justices 4-4 are quite minor compared to the costs that a nominee, the president, the senate and the nation would have to pay for what assuredly would be a bitter fight." end of quote. the biden rules recognize that under these circumstances -- quote -- "the president should consider following the practice of a majority of his predecessors and not name a nominee until after the november election is completed. the president that he's referring t

joe biden is a well liked, and trusted candidate. charles: we are talking about the socialist with a very formidable lead, and that's got to be shocking to everyone in politics. >> i think the thing we have to consider is city would venture to guess 90% of those who are supporting bernie don't -- continues define socialist if they had to. this is the jant tie hillary vote. this is the powell would like to see. i would like to see a poll. i noticed the under currents. when i asked people supporting bernie who their second choice is, very often it's donald trump. most of the time it's another gop contendser. i think the dnc is looking at these numbers and doing the math and realizing they don't have a candidate in hillary clinton. charles: what if hilly pull hilf hillary pulls this off and she does win this? >> she cried. we'll have to pull something else out of the hat because the cry trick already worked. i wouldn't have been surprised if bernie sanders continues to lead her double digits going into new hampshire. but the wall street

watch wncn news at 10:00 pm for coverage -- 6:00 pm.>>> biden will visit duke. the cancer institute has 100 oncology port certified physicians and 500 staff dedicated to cancer research. you can count on wncn as well as nbc17.com for live coverage. >>> tens of thousands of dollars seized by law enforcement after rates at two sweepstake parlors yesterday for the first business the a1 cafi on 70 w. in goldsboro. illegal terminals and $70,000 in cash. second business the longhorn on highway 117. they found 50 illegal terminals and 15,000 in cash. the owners about the establishment of facing felony charges. >>> raleigh police issued a warning of a phone scam. the person is impersonating a deputy sheriff and threatens to arrest the victims if they don't comply with demands for officials say no real law enforcement will ever contact you in any way like this. residents asked to hang out and notify police if they get the call. >>> president obama will walk down political memory lane and address the state legislature in springfield, illinois. the university of his presid

there we see the bidens coming in. vice president and mrs. biden and the men in the scarlet top there of course is the cardinal of washington. the archbishop of washington and he said there's no generalized right to privacy. i said well the court said so in 1965. he said well the court was wrong. >> pretty blunt. we're watching now, five of them are directly members to chris's point. to the left it's a little scattered now. that locked like part of the large scalia brood there, 64 strong family members. including 36 grand kids. who were there as well. >> you know something that struck me today when we arrived there were protesters from the church. it was an 8-1 decision. justice scalia was the only disenter. he voted in favor of the protesters right to do what they're doing today at his very funeral. it was one of those ironic moments. he voted in favor of protecting their ability to have that free speech and to be here and to protest at his funeral today, neil. >> did you ever get the -- his son talked a great deal yesterday, that he did hav

and, again, that isn't just a matter of doing as senator biden recommends, as then-senator biden recommended, that's doing as then-senator biden actually did. and that's what we're counting on, on republicans in the united states senate to do. and, again, they shouldn't do it because they are forced into some position based on awkward quotes that they themselves have given. and goodness knows there's plenty of them. we'll see how long this goes. maybe we can discuss some of those as well. but in some ways, the most important element of this is we have a constitutional duty. they swore to uphold an oath and to fulfill the responsibility that the institution of the united states senate has to consider the president's nominee, to the give that individual a fair hearing and to give that person a yes or no vote. and i know there are at least two senate republicans yesterday who acknowledged that oath and acknowledged that if the president, when the president nominates someone, that hearing should go forward. senator kirk himself specifically referenced the oath that he took not just as a member o

. >> republicans are also using vice president joe biden's own words against the white house. >> that if a supreme court justice. >> in 1992, senator biden urged the republican president to hold off choosing a supreme court nominee. >> president bush should consider following the practice of a majority of his predecessors, and not name a nominee until after the november election is completed. >> biden now said that was out of context and about a hypothetical, since the vacancy didn't happen back then. >> understand joe has made a few statements over the years about a lot of things but in this one instance, it wouldn't mean a thing, because nothing was pending. >> did he make a mistake saying that? >> no, he has a right to speak. >> the white house has repeatedly said it will send a nominee to the senate. >> this would be an historic and unprecedented acceleration of politicizing a branch of government that's supposed to be insulated from politics. >> it's unprecedented ground. republicans refusing to even meet with a nominee and democrats refusing to back down. >> the american people

that's the biden benchmark. the reid rule the schumer standard than the biden benchmark rate i read a statement from the vice president that he issued after he saw this ole miss clip and his statement has been made public. the he quite conveniently said this is not an accurate description of my views on the subject. is that t well, i think the words are pretty clear. i think we might have said is that these are no longer my views on the subject because of course you would like president obama to be able to make that nomination. so i want to reject this myth that many of our democratic colleagues are spreading that what we are doing here and now is somehow unprecedented. quite the contrary. what we are doing is what the democrats top leadership is advocating in the past. what do they think we are? do they think we are going to abide by a different set of rules and they themselves advocated? how ridiculous would that be?lis i cannot explain it to my constituents in texas. is when republicans are the majority repub

i got a fairly epic sitdown, a one-on-one with vice president joe biden. he talked about everything from donald trump's new war with pope francis of all people to what's about to happen with the vacate supreme court seat. it's all straight ahead. nte supreme court seat. it's all straight ahead. supreme court seat. it's all straight ahead. hundreds of crash simulations. thousands of hours of painstaking craftsmanship. and an infinite reserve of patience... ...to create a vehicle that looks, drives and thinks like nothing else on the road. the all-new glc. the suv the world has been waiting for. starting at $38,950. (dog) mmm, beneful healthy weand low-calorie... keeps me looking good. hey, i get some looks, i hear the whistles. (vo) beneful healthy weight, a delicious, low-calorie meal your dog will love. with wholesome rice, real chicken, and accents of vegetables and apples. then your eyes may see it, differently.ave allergies. only flonase is approved to relieve both your itchy, watery eyes and congestion. no other nasal allergy spray can say that. compl

. >>> now to emily turner in san jose where joe biden spoke at the state democratic convention today. hi, emily. >> reporter: it was a big day. in fact, you can see all these people behind me pouring out of the convention center as things are starting to wind down, although they will continue until 8:00. a big day for balance lot measures, signatures and candidates who had to gather their support. some of the candidates were going to find out tonight if they got the nomination for the democratic party. two are vying for the senators seat in the u.s. senate. barbara boxer is retiring. also today was a big pep rally for democrats going into a big election year that is so hotly contested. none of the speakers had to pick sides about which one they supported but they did, as you can expect, have a lot to say about the hot topics, things like racism, immigration, the economy and also about republicans. >> all you've got to do is go back to george bush in 2000. mccain, 2004. romney, 2012. it's the same tired prescription. they haven't changed at all, folks. they've just gotten meaner. >> re

i got a fairly epic sitdown, a one-on-one with vice president joe biden. he talked about everything from donald trump's new war with pope francis of all people to what's about to happen with the vacate supreme court seat. it's all straight ahead. >>> one of the reasons the president has been able to move so far to the right is that there is no primary opposition to him. and i think it would do this country a good deal of service if people starred thinking about candidates out there, to begin contrasting what is a progressive agenda as opposed to what obama is doing. >> all right. that was you in 2011. understand that. >> but that was in response to a question on a radio show. this is a media issue. this is one thing i said on one radio show many, many years ago. media likes that issue. >> you were pretty tough on bill clinton's record and you said you hit his record on wall street. you said this was a guy who wanted to deregulate wall street, for welfare reform, and got nafta through. it didn't sound like a presidency you were very pleased with. >> i was a

the whous says biden's security detail is less disruptive and biden had a personal relationship with scalia. senate republicans are closing ranks and supporting mitch mcconnell's opposition to president obama's choosing scalia's successor. some senators say they would be well within their right to refuse to confirm the president's nominee. on the other side, republican presidential candidate jeb bush said if he were in the probably nominate a replacement for scalia. coming up, complete coverage of justice scalia. pete williams will have a live report coming up after news 4 today. >> you should not be roaming around the building and having the opportunity to establish these relationships with these children. >> anger and frustration this morning after a school system admits that it failed to protect students from sexual predator. 17 victims have come forward saying school volunteer deonte carraway sexually abused them. the abuse happened at judge sylvania woods elementary school in glenarden and other places. the school board is now reviewing policies on whether students should be lef

vice president joe biden and his wife along with several other justices were present.. . (ska-lee-a) scalia's large family including nine children and 36 grandchildren were also there. abc/s bazi kanani is in washington with more. (nats music) into the massive basilica that has hosted 3 popes... surrounded by the symbols of the faith he held dear... justice scalia's sons symbols of the faith he held dear... justice scalia's sons carried his casket up the aisle in a final farewell. (sot - clarence thomas) hope does not disappoint because the love of god has been poured out into our hearts through the holy spirit that has a scripture reading by fellow justice clarence thomas-- closest aligned with scalia ideologically in the court. but the last mass for the outspoken conservative wasn't focused on his contributions to the law... (sot - father paul scalia) the deeper he went in his catholic faith the better a citizen and public servant he became. in his homily, justice scalia's son paul, a priest, talked about the importance of his father's christian faith... and his love fo

. >>> it was a big day for democrats in california starting with a visit from joe biden. the vice president was at ucsf with his wife. they're touring the top cancer research facilities as part of the white house's $1 billion initiative to end cancer. the vice president headed to the south bay where democrats from all across california have descended on san jose for their party's state convention. >> reaction from democrats to the primary results in south carolina. >> this was day 2 of the convention in snow. it included a couple of disruptions. >> reporter: the vice president brushed off shouts from a heckler who claimed cellphone radiation caused the death of biden's son beau. >> that's okay, it's all right. let's not act like republicans. [ cheering and applause ] >> i ain't donald trump. i don't have that much hair. >> reporter: the protestor was removed and biden went on to offer some advice to the feuding gop candidates. >> you can't lead america unless you believe in the american people and their capacity to do virtually anything they set their mind to. >> reporter

when grassley refers to the biden rules, he refers to a speech that joe biden gave when he was chairman of the senate judiciary committee in 1992. he was addressing a situation in an election year. there was a thought that perhaps harry blackmun would retire that year and there would be a vacancy. it did not end up happening, but joe addressed the possibility and he made a very equivocal statement which was, i estimate of the senate judiciary committee do not believe that president george h.w. bush should in this election year make a nomination and if he does, i believe he said, we should seriously can sitter that the committee should not hold hearings on that nominee. that as as see perfectly analogous situation. they are happy to quote senator back towords right anyone who is that they oh president obama's nominee consideration. well,mocrats have said that was a hypothetical, we are talking about actual vacancy and or ais not a plan vacancy justice who is engaging in a political maneuver, somebody died in office and this is an unexpected vacancy and is not the same. host: because they

reporter: including vice president biden and dick cheney. does not disappoint, the love of god has poured out into our hearts. reporter: his colleagues paid their respects. >> our heartfelt sympathy at the loss of your husband, your father, your grandfather and friend. reporter: the 79-year-old justice remembered for his love of god, country and family. love forft dad with a his country. reporter: his son, a priest from arlington, did an emotional homage to his father and his patriotism. >> there is no conflict between loving god and loving one god's -- loving one's country. he was the country's good servants, because he was for god first. reporter: thousands paying tribute. >> he is looking down on us. we are going to miss him. reporter: certainly there will be a sharp partisan battle to find a replacement for scalia on the high court, but for today, this is remembering an icon, a longtime serving supreme court justice. family ind a arlington, many of his children graduated from the area. we have been writing on social media how proud we ar

and vice president joe biden will attend scalia's funeral mass tomorrow but biden says he the vice president said he has no desire to sit on the high court even if he was asked but he also said, you never tell a president for certain you wouldn't do anything. the vice president also criticized republicans for saying the president should not nominate a replacement. >>> the u.s. has hit north korea with more sanctions because of its nuclear program. president obama is quietly signing the punitive measure overwhelmingly approved by congress last week. it comes as the u.s. and china are in delicate negotiations over new u.n. sanctions. one senate sponsor of the u.s. measure hopes that china will notice the strong support for sanctions. >>> back here at home more than two months after the terror attacks in san bernardino, the fbi tells abc news it's still not ruling out the possibility that a third militant was at that scene. the agency is also still looking for a hard drive that was used by the shooters. agents searched the home of syed farook's brother. no arrests were made but several boxes an

. >>> it was a big day for democrats in california starting with a visit from joe biden. the vice president was at ucsf with his wife. they're touring the top cancer research facilities as part of the white house's $1 billion initiative to end cancer. the vice president headed to the south bay where democrats from all across california have descended on san jose for their party's state convention. >> reaction from democrats to the primary results in south carolina. it included a couple of disruptions. >> reporter: the vice president brushed off shouts from a heckler who claimed cellphone radiation caused the death of biden's son beau. >> that's okay, it's all right. let's not act like republicans. [ cheering and applause ] >> i ain't donald trump. i don't have that much hair. >> reporter: the protestor was removed and biden went on to offer some advice to the feuding gop candidates. >> you can't lead america unless you believe in the american people and their capacity to do virtually anything they set their mind to. >> reporter: outside the supporters showed their strengt

beau biden died of brain cancer. he was 46 years old. >> everyone, everyone is affected and families are affected when increasing by mull tips of four or five or six when a person is lost or is diagnosed. >> reporting from san jose, nbc bay area news. >>> the first victim of thursday's shooting spree at a manufacturing plant in kansas is speaking out. melissa torrez was spraying and drying parts when she heard gunshots outside and turned and saw the door open and saw cedric ford. that's when she ducked and started running. >> i just kept running and i could see rick -- i should hear shooting and see ricochet bullets, sparks off metal. i didn't look back and i didn't even dare to see where he was going. he looked directly at us and just looked so evil. how can you look your co-workers you see every single day in the eyes and just shoot at them? >> torrez was hit in the hand hid in back with one of the 14 people injured. three of her co-workers were killed. ford was killed in a gunfire exchange with police. >>> in the

vice president joe biden, scalia's funeral. >>> george gaynes has died. if the name doesn't sound familiar some of his memorable roles surely will. he was punky brewster's irritable foster dad in the popular '80s tv show and the bewildered commandant lessard in seven "police academy" movies. a lot remember him as the soap opera star with a crush on tootsie in the 1982 film. he was 92 years old. >>> the winner at westminster's dog show was celebrated at the top of the empire state building. >>> when we come back, they have >>> finally tonight, a florida couple's life just changed forever. they have cashed in the second of three winning tickets for last month's $1.6 billion powerball jackpot. as our janet shamlian tells us, it was tough for them to keep their excitement under wraps. >> maureen smith and david have known they were powerball winners for weeks, but it's a secret they kept, even from their own family. >> lost a lot of sleep. i lost over ten pounds, too, a lot of pacing at night, let me tell you. >> the winning numbers were one smith says she's

and it will put joe biden and dr. jill biden on stage at the oscars. >> where he will declare his presidency. >> candidacy. >> make sure you watch us live. we're on sunday live. quickly, juan, your favorite childhood booking? >> the be chosen. >> ago thank christie books. >> spieder and the fly. >> giving tree. >> and i had so many. my mom. my favorite one was three kittens lost their mittens but i chose -- >> independents a strip club. >> why am i asking you this? children reading is so important. the barbara bush foundation center for literacy, they do amazing work. if you don't read as a kid, your life will be much more different. so this was cool. michelle obama and the white house officially announced this new app. it is called open ebook. it allows for all the educators, i won't list them all buff 66,000 title one schools on down to get access to thousands of children's books that you can download to your phone or tablet that you can pass around so everybody in the family, especially for kids this is great. here

that the name of vice president joe biden is popping up yet again. a prominent, bill bart mann fired off an e-mail to fellow democrats saying, i would urge all of you to join me in keeping our powder dry until we see if the for the good of the party we should res direct draft biden movement. he specifically cited a new poll showing a steep dive for clinton. as bernie sanders pulled into a virtual tie with hillary clinton in a national poll, he packed the fame town hall so tight the fire marshal shut it down. and the spillover crowd waited in the snow to hear sanders stand up loud and proud. >> yes, we are going to move this country in a very new direction. thank you all very much. >> reporter: sanders leads hillary clinton in new hampshire by double digits. in the new national poll found she is only up by 2 points. after beating him by 31 points in december. sanders is fueled in particular by the enthusiasm of young people that has befuddled clinton. >> i want to say a word to the extraordinary people, particularly young people who are supporting sen

not know -- this country economically has come a long way under president obama and vice president biden in the last seven years. [applause] now, shouldn't: be too hard on our republican friends. they suffer from a serious illness called amnesia. they can't remember where we were seven years ago when we were losing 800,000 jobs a month. we were running up a record-breaking deficit of $1.4 trillion. when by the way, the world's financial system was on the verge of collapse. other than that we were in good shape when bush left office. we have come a long way in seven years and we should be proud of the accomplishments of the obama and biden administration. [applause] senator sanders: but we have got to be honest, and acknowledge we still have a long way to go to create the nation that i know all of us believe we can create. [applause] senator sanders: i have been all over this country talking literally to hundreds of thousands of people. nobody i know thinks that it is acceptable, that it is moral, thinks that it is sustainable that in the united states of america we have more income and w

vice president joe biden he will be presenting. and awaiting guests 1500 bottles of champagne and 16,000 feet of red carpet abc7 news, hollywood. cornell. >> you mentioned the vice president. what is he doing there? i didn't think the oscars was really his thing? >> you wouldn't think so. nor would you think it would be his thing to be introducing lady gaga, but that's exactly what he's doing. he's introducing her for her performance for the song she's nominated for, until it happens to you, which is in the campus sexual assault documentary "the hunting ground." and vice president biden has been a big advocate against sexual assault so this is a big issue for him. >> all right. thank you so much. have fun tonight. >> this year's grab bag for nominees is packed with goodies. one item is causing a bit of controversy. items inside are worth about $200,000. it's the normal chapstick, a little odd personalized m & ms and a $900 toilet paper dispenser. and $55,000 ten day all expenses paid trip to israel. a spokesperson for the isreali g

vice president joe biden will attend. it's been a source of some discussion, as you know. >> that's right. some of the president's critics have said that this is an example of the president not reaching out to conservatives as he could and should at a time like this, a time of mourning. others say that as the president he should attend the funeral of every supreme court justice. the response from the white house, wolf, has been they thought president obama going to the service yesterday at the supreme court was more personal and a more meaningful way to do it. two, that vice president joe biden had a deeper relationship with justice scalia and they felt it more appropriate for have the biden to go. three, not everybody appreciates all that comes with a presidential visit including tremendous security, a lot of pomp, and that might not be appropriate or what a family wants at a moment like this. and lastly, i was referred to comments that a former clerk of justice scalia, ed whelan, a noted conservative in town, made, in w

the host said biden gave him $20 for cookies. he announced later in the show the troupe i saw a lot of thin mints. sean: i was thinking samoas. those are the best. nikole: those are good too. [laughter] sean: thank you very much. erin: we're following some breaking news out of china this morning. a knife-wielding attacker slashed ten children outside of the lunchtime. two of the children were hurt. all of them are expected to survive. the suspect took his own stabbings. sean: authorities are sounding the alarm about a new and deadly twist. fentanyl is being disguised as other medications. they've seen multiple cases as pills marked as oxycodone and percocet turning out to contain fentanyl. the dea says the related overdoses killed more than 700 people nationwide between late 2013 and early 2015. erin: three 12-year-old girls in pepper. >> it is a terrible thing. i don't understand why kids have lost all respect. erin: investigators say two of the girls poured crushed pepper flakes into the teachers drink while the third distracte

. >> >> a new book links the vice president's late son beau biden's cancer to time with the national guard in iraq. the book suggests that biden and other soldiers were sickened by fumes from burn pits in iraq and afghanistan. burn pits were often used to get rid of waste including chemical weapon debris. beau biden spent a year in iraq, pentagon officials tell us the evidence linking burn pits with health problems is inconclusive but admit some deployed service men and women have suffered persistent symptoms. >> i believe they were a direct effect on his health. i just have too many soldiers with the same complaints that were located in the same place he was. >> beau biden died from brain cancer in may of last year. >> the democratic national convention now five months away and montgomery county's rolling out the welcome mat with the help of the political party's mascot. donkeys, pickles and jenny from the zoo were there as local tour itch leaders assembled visitor kits. they are hosting 18 delegations at the hotels during the convention. they want the delegates to make the most of