bader ginsburg, perhaps the most liberal member of the court. >> it was a wonderful friendship even before their time together on the court of appeals they both served. on as has been reported, the families would have dinner together on new years eve. and i remember years back, sitting there and feeling comforted that my father had such a wonderful friend on the court and that my mother also was so close to her husband marty who was a wonderful man. it was wonderful to see, although they didn't always agree on cases there was still that strong friendship between my father and that colleague. >> your homily for your father was very beautiful. and that's the right term, right? >> he would prefer sermon. >> okay. >> but you persuaded him that was wrong. >> one of our last conversations, we had that argument yet again and i think i got him around to my way of thinking. >> so i'll go with you, given that you're the judge here. and you started it with a very interesting writerly, sermonly method. you started talking about, well, let's take a listen. >> we are gathered here because of one

the one with ruth bader ginsburg, you see the two of them laughing and thoroughly enjoying each other in an open and natural way which is refreshing in washington in this particular era. >> woodruff: i think you could see that as they were standing there today at the supreme court. there may not have been disagreements that way but certainly were politically david over what's going to happen now. the president said he's going to nominate someone. the senate republican leadership said we may not confirm them, we may not consider. >> we should consider. the constitution says the president nominates and the constitution is there to put rules around our struggles for power. i think it's totally fair and the republicans can probably get away with not doing anything. to me, what we'll do and i don't know the effect of this, it will polerrize the bases, create more conflict, elevate the social issues on the republican side, elevate campaign finance on the democrat side, probably have a polarizing effect on the election. if the candidacies were strong, would probably help a cruz and sanders b

scalia and liberal justice ruth bader ginsburg had a friendship, an odd couple they were called. >> they were polar opposites on the bench. scalia was a conservative. ginsburg was a liberal. but they were able to bridge their differences and build a long lasting, deep friendship over the last several years. in fact, they traveled the world together. there's a picture in justice ginsburg's office showing them riding an elephant together. she once joked she was sitting behind scalia to more evenly distribute the weight. they like to give each other a hard time. another fun story was they went parasailing together. and justice scalia admired her courage but was also worried she was going to float away. they'd make appearances together in public, talk about their friendship, the fact they spent new year's eve together. there was even an opera named after them. and so they really shared a lot of interest and had a deep respect, despite the fact they had different ideologies. >> pamela brown, thank you. >>> just ahead, remembering harper lee, an author who cherished her privacy while making an

maybe some of our viewers don't know his best friend on the court was liberal justice ruth bader ginsburg. >> that's right, jake, they were best buddies on the bench. scalia called them the odd couple because they had such different ideologies but they rode elephants together, they went parasailing together and they were best of friends. what was interesting here today was that people showed up to pay their respects like the ones behind me in line and not all of them share scalia's conservative ideology but they wanted to come here and pay their respects because scalia was such an influential judge. he really changed the way people looked at the law and he dedicated 30 years of his life to service. on this somber afternoon at the high court, president obama and the first lady arrived to pay their respects to justice antonin scalia. the first couple paused at the flag-draped casket as scalia's former clerks stood guard. they'll be taking turns through the day and night. one of his clerks, jamison jones. >> it was a really touching ceremony this morning. justice scalia was a brilliant mento

ruth bader ginsburg. anthony kennedy. and chief justice roberts. what's -- where anthony kennedy is standing, that's where justice scalia used to be. the senior associate justice, the longest tenured associate justice always sits to the right of the chief justice. and justice scalia was such a big presence in the courtroom right next to the chief justice that it is going to be very weird, frankly, to be in that courtroom on monday without chief justice, without justice scalia there. i've been going to supreme court arguments for more than 20 years and i've never been to a supreme court argument where antonin scalia was not a participant and usually the loudest and most vociferous participant. >> about how he changed the oral argument process, and how much that evolved under him. >> that is a big, big change that happened at the supreme court. in the 1980s, it was a very quiet bench. you had chief justice warren burger. you had justices like thurgood marshall, like william brennan, who very rarely asks questions. they really were very reticent to ge

senator feinstein pointed out that when you supported ruth bader ginsburg for the senate it clearly was someone whose views were different from yours. >> that's right. >> woodruff: you said the president's choice should be respected. >> well, i think the president's choice should be respected. but it doesn't mean you have to have-- you have to accept that choice. and in this situation, just think about it. they are already voting in the primaries. we're already in full swing in the presidential election, at least the primaries. it's contentious as can be. it's the most obnoxious political system, series of problems that i have seen in the whole time i've been in the united states senate. >> woodruff: senator, are you saying then that the majority of republican was not hold hearings on the judiciary committee? >> i think if you are not going to allow it do come up in this brew ha ha year where there is insighting and screaming and shouting, yeah, i don't think any reason, there would not be any real good reason to have hearings. >> woodruff: is there any precedent for that, for the senat

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as we've learned tonight, he had a real friendship with ruth bader ginsburg. they had if you year's eve dinners together regularly, the two families. so we need to remember that on this evening as well. >> i think that's a very good point, david gergen. as we go to break, let's also remember the fact that back in 1986, this is a justice who was unanimously confirmed by the senate, 98-0. david gergen, thank you very much. i do want to let you know before we go to break later this week, cnn hosts two republican presidential town hall events in south carolina. all six republican candidates will participate. marco rubio, ted cruz, ben carson will appear on wednesday night followed by donald trump, jeb bush and john kasich. that's hosted by anderson cooper at 8:00 p.m. in south carolina, ahead of the primary there, give voters the opportunity to ask their questions directly to the candidates and, of course, the passing of supreme court justice antonin scalia will be addressed as well. we're going to take a quick break. much more on our breaking news when we return.