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Get manchin and sinema there. we can do a group text chat and settle this right now and take the next month off, because this will be this month. >> it is clear there is one front-runner, but the stories that are going around washington today about jim clyburn being very keen on a particular nominee from south carolina, how much weight do you think that might have with president biden? >> i put most of the weight on that story on a nice profile written by "the new york times", and that seems to ...

To get through. the democrats need to have all 50 democrats in line to get their nomination through. its still possible they can pick off a few republicans, but probably not more than a few, just showing how polarizing the confirmation process ultimately is, erin. >> thank you very much. i want to go to van jones, former special advisor to president obama. van, you hear manu reporting, rips seem to be ready to oppose whomever biden chooses. you hear josh hawley making his argument this is goin...

Requirements. they have been acting in a way that seems like they are putting a scale based -- a thumb on the scale based on ideology and reflected in how people see them and so it is important as we go through this confirmation process to have an eye on that and understand thats why the faith in this court is being eroded. >> i want to ask all of you to weigh in on justice brievers comments today. he resigns the seat giving a president the extraordinary opportunity. more on that and the supreme...

Court. the white house tonight brushing off speculation that president biden might nominate vice president harris >> the president has every intention, as he said before, of running for re-election and running for re-election with vice president harris on the ticket as his partner. >> reporter: the pick will not change the balance of the conservative court but for president biden, with inflation soaring, his agenda stalled, and poll numbers sinking, its a chance for a much needed political win >...

Do you have a response to that? >> mitch has been nothing but no for a long time. and im sure he means exactly what he says. well see. >> reporter: appointed to the court in 1994 by president bill clinton, breyer, a consistent liberal justice on the bench. he has been a defender of abortion rights and affirmative action as well as a fierce opponent of capital punishment. breyer writing the opinion rejecting a challenge to the affordable care act last material. more recently, breyer coming under ...

Demons but im sure weve nipped that in the bud now. its a weird fight to pick right now. under the leadership of ron desantis and joe ladapo, floridas insisting that as a state government, they are gonna do nothing to mitigate the spread of covid whatsoever. and worse than that, they will continue to spread out and misinformation about both vaccines and masks. but they insist that they must be able to continue to give people monoclonal antibodies that literally do not work against the omicron va...

I mean, all of these women are -- are extremely qualified to, you know, to be nominated to sit on the highest court in the land. >> kaitlan, lets talk about the politics of this. >> absolutely. >> how fast are president biden and the democrats prepared to move on this nomination, especially the midterms are -- are looming and there is a 50-50 senate. >> yeah, i mean there was a sigh of relief among democrats today because everyone kind of thought this was going to happen. no one knew that it was...

Nominees. kyrsten sinema has also voted for bidens nominees in the past. lindsey graham voted for two of barack obamas supreme court nominees in 2010. he put out a statement about news of breyers retirement. if all democrats hang together which i expect they will they have the power to replace justice breyer in 2022 without one republican vote in support. elections have consequences and that is most evident when it comes to filling vacancies on the supreme court. still a lot has to happen. they ...

Put on hold in terms of any confirmation process as she potentially may be a supreme court pick. but to that end, if she were the supreme court nominee, you have said that she would garner republican support in the senate. can you, sir, elaborate on that? i mean, which senators do you think would support her? would it be tim scott? would it be lindsey graham from her state there? would it be others? >> i think it would be others. i do believe the two senators from south carolina know her or of h...

Its a weird fight to pick right now. under the leadership of ron desantis and joe ladapo, floridas insisting that as a state government, they are gonna do nothing to mitigate the spread of covid whatsoever. and worse than that, theyre gonna continue to spread out and misinformation about both vaccines and masks. but they insist that they must be able to continue to give people monoclonal antibodies that literally do not work against the omicron variant which is covid now. we are two years into t...