KEILAR: The president's decision on a nominee to replace Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will come Friday or Saturday. With only 43 days until the election, he is moving at warp speed. But in 2016, then candidate Donald Trump had a much different view about who should make the call on a Supreme Court nominee during an election year.</s>TRUMP: Because I think the next president should make the pick and I think they shouldn't go forward and I believe -- I'm pretty much in line with what the Republicans are saying. I think that the next president should make the pick. We don't have a very long distance to wait. Certainly, they could wait it out very easily, but I think the next president should make the pick. I would be not in favor of going forward.</s>KEILAR: I want bring in White House Deputy Communications and Deputy Press Secretary Brian Morgenstern. Brian, thanks for coming on.</s>BRIAN MORGENSTERN, WHITE HOUSE DEPUTY COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR AND DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY: My pleasure, nice to be with you.</s>KEILAR: So you heard the president then candidate Donald Trump saying it himself, the next president should make the pick. So why has he changed his mind this time?</s>MORGENSTERN: Well, it's a different scenario this time. The Republican majority, which was expanded in 2018, running on confirming constitutionalist judges is in charge, that the president and the Senate of the same party over history. There have been 19 such vacancies, 17 of them have been confirmed.
Trump Reverses View On Supreme Court Selection In Election Year.