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Correspondent, greg palkot. gregs dad, ed palkot, died this week at the age of 108. ed was born in 1913 in pittsburgh. this photos shows him at two months old amount gallon of milk was 4 cents. woodrow wilson was the president and ed palkot was just getting started. here he is with his parents. he survived the 1918 spanish flu, two world wars, experienced the great depression and watched the moon landing. ed lived through history and played his part in it voting in 22 straight presidential elect...

Supreme court justices in american history, 108 of them have been white men. so i suppose there was a long running affirmative action program for caucasian gentlemen going on. it wasnt until 1967, of course, that we had the first black man on the court, and that was thurgood marshall, and 1981 before we got a woman on the court. you can make whatever you want of that, but, you know, of course president biden wants to put a black woman on the court. its time. thats fine. you know, and his saying ...

And he made very clear that he wasnt gonna do that. and by the way, the meeting lasted for over an hour. he was incredibly generous with his time, and really, understands historic nature of this. you know, the fact that we got 114 justices, and 108 of them, ali, have been white men. and i have been surprised that some of the pushback from some of my republican colleagues, not all of them, but some of them, given that they were overjoyed when ronald reagan said hed appoint a woman, donald trump a...

Member of the senate judiciary committee, who was in the room where it happened with president biden today. senator klobuchar, good to see you again. thanks so much for being with us tonight. >> thanks, ali. im still trying to process using on the next best thing to the fly on the wall -- >> you know, that may not have been the best way to put it. but you love you know i love talking to you. talk to meet with president biden was telling lester holt. theyre doing a deep dive into it for a potenti...

At 108. that is "the story" for this friday, february 4. we will miss him. may he rest in peace. join me this weekend. ill be anchoring "fox news sunday." until then, have a good weekend. "your world" starts right now. >> sandra: president biden the strong jobs report and acknowledging prices for food and energy are still too high. hiking spending on the social agenda will bring those prices down. will it? well ask jerry bernstein with the white house council of economic advisers. im sandra smit...

Murkowski, susan collins and -- rachel scott tonight. i know the white house is hoping for public support for judge jackson again. >> reporter: hoping for, but not counting on it. one of those republicans, senator lindsey graham, who voted to confirm jackson to the d.c. circuit came out today and called this a win for the radical left. the reality is democrats do not need any republican support. in fact, judge jackson can be confirmed with a simple majority, only 51 votes. that threshold lowered...

Moment. lets go to steve harrigan reporting live from kyiv this morning. whats the latest where you are? >> cyberattacks. the government is describing them as massive. they are targeting government sites as well as media sites. it was long predicted a cyberattack would be the first wave of a potential larger russian invasion. well have to wait and see whether or not that comes true. also some disturbing satellite images from southern belarus. thats just across ukraines northern border. basically...

>> here in western ukraine in this tough moment, there is fear and also fortitude. this is a mass that was packed, focusing on the 108 ukranians who lost their looifrz. young ukranian military of visible presence outside that church marching. regular civilians still also standing strong despite some fear. today she still believes in the military here and her country. >> im sure that ukranian army is the strongest army in europe because of its spirit. we have confidence in the armed

Absolutely laser locked on getting this done. even though he suffered tremendous losses with tanks and armored vehicles and people, he keeps pouring in more because i think hes already committed in and hes going to continue pushing until he gets when he considers victory. >> he is committed. >> trace: good to see you tonight, thank you. u.s. calls to ban russian oil. what is the white house saying about that? lee by about 15 million barrels of oil every month from russia. add that up, oil is at ...

Several republican senators voting for her. just jackson has been nominated to take the seat in the supreme court that is currently held by justice stephen breyer who is retiring. judge jackson was actually a supreme court clerk for justice breyer when she was just out of law school. so there is some nice symmetry to this nomination in that sense. we are going to talk tonight with someone who clerked alongside judge jackson on the supreme court at that time. someone who has been friends with her...