becomes imminently powerful. all eyes focus on joe manchin and kyrsten sinema, they ve generally nominated president biden s nominees. we re joined by the democratic analyst, and let s pick up where chad left off there. since news of justice breyer s retirement leaked wednesday, democrats have been duking it out in the media. immediately reminding president biden that he committed to appointing a black female justice. the white house was asked to weigh in immediately afterwards and recommitted to this. it s almost as if the leaders in your party are not communicating with each other off line. what ever happens at the end, the democrats are going to close ranks behind the president.
we re seeing the impact of the now we know over half a billion dollars spent by liberal dark money groups to help elect democrats in the 2020 cycle, and all told $1.5 billion being spent that was just reported today in the new york times es. it s incredible. and these same groups are the ones pushing for some of these extremist nominees not because of their judicial philosophy, because some of them know that that this is going to achieve liberal policy goals they are aiming for. and that s something that really concerns me. griff: yeah. this seems to be payback by biden administration. of. griff: elizabeth, let me give you the last word on what you think the white house needs to be focusing on. is there a litmus test that they should have for their ultimate selection? yeah, so i think to president biden s credit, he said that he wants someone who, you know, will understand that the law works for everyone as just dis
damage that would be caused. it s a tough situation and we ve got to be steadfast and so far i think the president has been and we re getting bipartisan support. gillian: when you say the president is being steadfast, in what sense do you mean that? be very clear about the consequences, but also not further provoking and giving president putin, pardon me, an excuse domestically in russia who say that somehow he was provoked. so it s a difficult situation. we ve been through this before. i ve been in the ukraine. we ve got to continue to be consistent. i think he has been. gillian: secretary blinken said a couple of days ago that russia might not be serious about diplomacy at all, which begs the obvious question of why the united states is engaging in diplomacy if we re not certain if we have a partner on the other side? i mean, this is not, to be clear sir, run-of-the-mill, back door diplomacy of the
this is a historic decision and it s going to have ramifications for a few decades to come. the supreme court justices, as you know, are appointed for life. gillian: right. democrats have had a bad track record of appointing justices. to give you an example since 1967 democratic presidents have only put four justices on the bench, two under clinton, two under obama. republicans have put 15 on the bench and democrats got lucky that justices like david suter unpresident bush were more conservative. but with the tests of ideology we could be looking at a more conservative court. but issues criticizing president biden over promising that he s going to appoint a black female justice, well, guess what? in that black female judge pool or black female candidate
experience and appearance because two of three democrats who are currently vying for state office turned down opportunity to appear beside him. gillian? gillian: alex hoff at the white house, thanks so much. griff: turning now to our guest on the biden border crisis, among the attorneys general suing the biden administration on the border policy, attorney general from arizona mark brnovich. thank you for taking time. i think you may have heard in the previous report down on the border along with tom homan talking about the sheer frustration of the agents being unable to enforce the law you are trying to increase that. what is your reaction to what we ve seen this week with agents standing up to the leadership over this issue? griff, as someone that s spent a lot of time as a prosecutor prosecuting gangs before i became a.g., it breaks