Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87
Anderson Cooper 360
CNN
3.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you very much for those of you joining us now at the top of the hour with |
| 0:04.1 | Bader Ginsburg who was far more than merely a Supreme Court justice has died. She was |
| 0:09.2 | only the second woman ever pointed to the court and was already a legend when she |
| 0:13.4 | arrived in the fight for gender equality. Sandra Day O'Connor was the first, Justice |
| 0:18.4 | Ginsburg was the second. Justice Ginsburg died at home in Washington surrounded by family, |
| 0:23.4 | were told from complications of pancreatic cancer. She was 87 years old and despite her |
| 0:29.0 | long bow with several different forms of cancer and all the complications she seemed to |
| 0:34.2 | many, indestructible. Just last night she appeared remotely at the National Constitution |
| 0:39.0 | Center where she was honored with the Center's Liberty Medal. In the coming hours we'll be |
| 0:43.6 | talking to the people who knew her best. We'll look at her remarkable legacy both before |
| 0:48.5 | she got to the Supreme Court and after. And whether the president will try to fill her |
| 0:53.0 | position with the election fast approaching. Joining us right now by phone and seeing |
| 0:57.0 | an achieved political analyst, Gloria Boerger, on the phone as well, is seen in chief |
| 0:59.9 | of legal analyst Jeffrey Tuben who's written extensively on the Supreme Court, also on |
| 1:03.4 | the phone. CNN's Ariande Vogue and Dr. Sanjay Gupta. Jeff Tuben, let's start with you. |
| 1:09.1 | First of all, I know you were speaking to Aaron earlier but for our viewers who are just |
| 1:13.0 | joining us, just talk about Justice Ginsburg. Jeff Tuben, can you hear me? Okay, we don't |
| 1:25.2 | have Tuben. Let's trick in with Sanjay Gupta just to talk about the medical aspect on |
| 1:31.4 | this. Sanjay, Pinkrietta Cancer is obviously an extremely difficult form. She has been through |
| 1:37.9 | so much. There were so many people pulling for her, hoping she would go on for years. |
| 1:45.3 | Yeah, I mean, she's really dealt with a lot, Anderson. You go back to 1999, 20 years ago, |
| 1:54.5 | she was dealing with colon cancer at that time. She was first diagnosed with Pinkrietta |
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