Meanwhile, as speculation abounds over the future of Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Senator McCain was asked about his views on the future of the court. Host Tim Russert asked McCain about his comment during the Republican presidential primary in 1999 that if McCain was elected president, his role model for his first justice named to the Supreme Court would be Justice Antonin Scalia.

• Sen. McCain: I think he would be frankly someone who would be approved by the Senate.
  Tim Russert: You do?
  Sen. McCain: I don’t believe he would be filibustered. No, I don’t. There’s many others that I also would strongly approve of as well.
  Tim Russert: Now, Justice Scalia, as you know, believes that Roe vs. Wade, which made abortion legal in this country, was incorrectly decided. Do you agree with him?
  Sen. McCain: Yeah, I certainly do to some degree because it was based on medical knowledge and technology at the time that indicated that children are not viable at its earliest stage as they are today. So it certainly wasn’t based on sound, up-to-date medical technology. We save babies every day that are premature at a very early stage. Thank God.