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Is going to be an all-out battle, senator josh holly saying expect a major battle in the senate if biden nominates woke activists. it would seem as we look out to when this actually happens there could be a very serious battle royale for his replacement. >> well, thats the thing with judicial confirmation fights. they are very unpredictable, you know. harriet meiers was effectively blocked in her effort, robert bork in his effort, and controversy with bret kavanaugh. these things can take unexpe...

>> steve, why are you shaking your head in agreement? >> i mean, i think susan hit the nail on the head, don. this is not as nearly high stakes a confirmation process as, you know, amy coney barrett replacing ruth bader ginsburg, as brett kavanaugh replacing anthony kennedy, merrick garland replacing anthony v antonin scalia. thats why i think this process is not going to be quite as divisive and contentious as the last few weve seen. you know, from the republicans perspective, whats the point? ...

They still have a 6-3 majority on the supreme court. they still have what they think is a very strong agenda to use against president biden in the midterms. and so i think this is going to look very different, don, from the last couple of supreme court confirmation fights that weve been through. >> hey, steve, youve been going through this list, president bidens potential short list of picks. who stands out to you? >> yeah, don, i think any conversations going to start with the same two names. t...

Pragmatism and generosity of spirit. >> reporter: now 51 with only the third black justice in the courts 233-year history, jackson has responded to questions about race during previous confirmation hearings, carefully addressing the role it plays in her thinking. >> i dont think race plays a role in the kind of judge that i have been and that i would be. >> reporter: but not discounting it. >> ive experienced life in, perhaps, a different way than some of my colleagues because of who i am. >> re...

0 his campaign promise to nominate a black woman? the short list circulating in washington signals historys about to be made. and youve got to hear this. podcaster joe rogan thinks he has the definition of what makes a black person. >> unless youre talking to someone who is like 100% african from the darkest place where theyre not wearing any clothes all day and theyve developed all that melanin to protect themselves from the sun, even the term black is weird. >> okay. professor michael eric dys...

Congressman joe kennedy ii. here is part of his message in his a9nnouncement video. >> now is not the time for waiting, for sitting on the sidelines, for playing by rules that dont work anymore or never worked to begin with. donald trump has forced a reckoning in america. but meeting this moment requires more than just confronting him. we deserve leaders who will show up where we are, who arent afraid to break down an old system and build something better. a health care system of salvation, not ...

Cabinet members he wants and absent some external factor, which we have seen come up in other confirmation fights, you know, something about ratcliffe himself, his background, something else that derails it, i do expect him to be confirmed. >> david, let me get your thoughts on appointing somebody without experience in the intelligence community. he does sit on the intelligence committee in the house. not having the institutional knowledge of the broader american intelligence agencies, in your e...

Rights at a hospital within 30 miles of the procedure. opponents say youre limiting access. this was argued in the state of texas about proximity and access. what happened then, what was the precedent? what does it mean now? >> in 2016 the supreme court upheld the texas challenge and said you cant do that. it takes away womens rights to choose and so on. so the key thing that we have all been on pins and needles today because we wanted to know is that 2016 decision of the supreme court going to ...

Today because we wanted to know is that 2016 decision of the supreme court going to be good law or not and in order for it not to be good law, the chief justice would have to say i believe this louisiana law is okay and kavanaugh would have to do so too making it five votes to strike it down. >> how could the law be okay if the texas law is not okay? >> because the supreme court is generally bound by precedent but theyre not absolutely bound by it. and when you have changes to the competition of...

Bush-gore ruling since 2000 theres a degree in which weve been treating it that way. we have all these confirmation fights that are partisan. havent we collectively? >> you know, there have been certainly some high profile confirmations where thats been the case, some high profile decisions. but i agree. i think it was important for the chief justice to put the brakes on that notion. and the reality is that thats not actually the experience with the court. there have been decisions that conserva...