and the leader of the liberal pack, the oldest justice, 83-year-old ruth bader ginsburg, who has been openly critical of donald trump. >> throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet. >> reporter: ginsburg, who recently took center stage at the kennedy center last weekend, shows no sign of slowing down. with one open seat and an aging bench, president trump has the opportunity to shape the court for generations to come. pamela brown, cnn, washington. >> joining us is npr legal affairs correspondent nina totenberg and also george washington university law professor jonathan turley who's written extensively on constitutional issues. professor, as far as nominating as the process goes, i think people assume it's going to be easy for trump to get his choice confirmed, he's got a majority in both houses of congress. is that actually the case? >> well, remember, this is not a wide margin. even if he picks up the seat in louisiana, you'd have 52 republican senators. you can throw in on a tie vice president pence. but that is not necessarily a lead pipe cinch of

bader ginsburg with her! [ applause ] my fellow americans, it's time to update your resumes because donald trump is growing jobs and with a trump presidency america will be closed to overregulation and open for business. god bless each and every one of you and god bless america. thank you! [ cheers and applause ] >> please welcome former united states attorney general michael mukasey. ♪ ♪ [ applause ] >> you know, over the years hillary clinton has done a lot of things and said a lot of things to show why she should not be president of the united states, but how she treated and what she did with government secrets when she was secretary of state, and what she said about what she did both before and after she got caught exquisitely sums up the case against her presidency. she sent and received secret and top secret and beyond top secret information and e-mails on an unsecure private e-mail system instead of on the secure government system, and she did it without authorization. she said falsely, that there

. >> ruth bader ginsburg. what was she thinking? i've never heard a supreme court justice weigh in on an election like she did on donald trump. >> to new zealand? >> yeah. she talked about moving to new zealand. >> which is wonderful, by the way. >> i can't imagine what this place would be if trump was elected and i can't imagine what the country would be with donald trump as our president. i don't to contemplate that. she went on to say he was a faker. >> donald trump said she ought to apologize to the court and i think he has a point. >> jeffrey toobin said she went too far. >> she did go too far and what it does to donald trump i'll tell you this is it solidifies his base because it brings to the forefront this question of the court which is why he'll start talking about it again because for him it just says okay, we have ruth bader ginsburg who doesn't like me. i need to appoint my own justices. >> we have to take a quick break and very big day on both sides and the campaign and bernie sanders getting onboard and what he said an

remember last year ruth bader ginsburg had her eyes closed during part of the address. the cabinet with the exception of jeh johnson, they will be introduced as well. they will be walking in. jeh johnson is what they call the designated survivor. he is not there, but in the gallery, the first lady, michelle obama is walking in, with a nice round of applause. she has a bunch of special guests as well. >> the first lady remains incredibly popular. the politics go back and forth. there he is hugging the second lady, jill biden. she is very popular, and according to the president, probably also excited to leave the white house. >> there she is, she drove over with the president of the united states. dr. jill biden is right there. they're all applauding. there will be an empty chair there tonight as well, the deliberately wanted an empty chair for the victims of gun violence. >> that's right. governor malloy is also there, somebody who's also been very active in the push for -- >> here come the members of the cabinet. that's the secretary of the treasury jack lew. there's jo