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Other terms that you could call it. so, what are they doing when they could be, or should be, calling him out? when they should be operating within a democracy, what are they doing? they are stoking culture wars. they are playing to the base with manufactured outrage over president joe bidens vow to nominate the first black woman to the supreme court. they cant hang their outrage on her education or her record or anything at all, other than the one thing that they know. that shes black. they don...

>> dana: that was a traffic stop on a colorado highway. a car crashed into the stopped vehicle on the shoulder. people in both vehicles suffered moderate injuries. the law enforcement officer who made the traffic stop originally escaped unharmed but just barely. the trooper joins us now. i know that stretch of road pretty well and the cars are moving fast and i know that it is dangerous for officers to pull people over. what was it like that moment that you realized that you had just escaped wit...

We said just this very thing, joe biden, america needs a black woman supreme court justice so i must first just get your take on this nomination, and what it means for this moment in history. >> well, let me say this, president biden kept his word. at the end of the day, he said that he would appoint a black woman and he appointed a black woman and a black woman for us to be proud of, who he has an impeccable record and will bring a certain insight to the supreme court, you know, her history of ...

Department. meantime house lawmakers have also opened an investigation. also tonight, a federal judge is rejecting efforts by the former president to toss out conspiracy lawsuits filed by lawmakers and two capitol police officers. the judge says former president trumps words plausibly may have led to last january 6th capitol riot. stocks were off today. dow lost 233, the s&p 500 gel 31. the nasdaq was down 169. for the week the dow lost almost 2 percentage points the s&p 500 fell 1.5 the nasdaq ...

Here. pete mentioned it before he had to go. she was a public defender. that is not something that we see often in the the supreme court. its been a couple of decades since weve seen anyone with significant public defender experience become a justice. she brings a lived experience to the table. if she is confirmed, that is reflective of more than what you might typically see in a courts make-up. >> yes. and i think our nation is -- so many people are smiling in this moment because after 233 year...

From harvard both undergraduate and law school before serving as a federal public defender. rare experience for a supreme court justice. >> justice breyer exemplified every day, in every way that a supreme court justice can perform at the highest level of skill and integrity while also being guided by civility, grace, pragmatism and generosity of spirit. >> reporter: now 51 with a prospect of being only the third black justice in the courts 233-year history, jackson has responded to questions ab...

Justice sotomayor had some, but our next appointee with that sort of experience so shes seen how supreme court rulings play out on the ground. so you have that. and then as everybody has been saying about this moment, it is been 233 years of supreme court history and the first time with an african american woman. so youve got this really special perspective that shes bringing to the court and i think that could make a difference, alisyn, even though right now the court is very much entrenched in...

>> first and foremost, because weve never had one. >> when thurgood marshall became a supreme court justice, evrything changed. so what we want to see is someone who can bring her legal acumen and her lived experience to those conversations and to those deliberations. >> the reality is we actually think that the absence of a black woman on this court is an abject failure, frankly. >> reporter: but what do you say to people who say, "this is just an affirmative action pick"? >> its an interesting...

Judiciary and particular, are too complacent and have been too complacent with the status quo. so, that means it has taken 230 years to get a black woman to this point. to the cusp of being on the united states supreme court. and during that 233 years, black women had to fight for the right to become lawyers. and fight for the right to have a right to practice law, and fight for the right to serve on the bench. there have been barriers, that they have had to overcome because of gender and race. ...

Clearly is the -- she has the background we think he would favor. and today is the culmination of whats been going on actually since the transition. they expected they were e going to have an appointment to the court. and justice breyer announced formally at the end of january. and they have been interviewing a couple of really prime candidates, all highly qualified. but this is going to be so historic to say for the first time in the courts 233-year history an african american woman will be nom...