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For a long time, and im sure he means exactly what he says. but 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 first opponent of capital punishment. breyer also writing the opinion rejecting the challenge to the affordable care act last june. more recently breyer coming under intense pressure to retire. the 83-year-old justice saying t...

Find the right tech solutions. so you can stop at nothing for your customers. . all right. so this morning new developments in the white houses search for justice stephen breyers replacement on the supreme court. they spoke on tuesday about the presidents looming selection. joining me is brian fallon, executive director of demand justice and former communications director for chuck schumer and former national director for hillary clintons campaign. lets talk about the nitty-gritty of this meet...

Infrastructure funding, officials in pennsylvania saying it will take at least a year to get a functional bridge up and running there. >> it is an absolute miracle that nobody died. can you imagine the feeling of being on a bus and having a bridge collapse underneath you. terrifying, absolutely. josh, thank you for all that from the white house. well see you again. meantime, for all of you, what will the confirmation process look like for president bidens judicial nominee, especially if that i...

Think, probably not going to be the hardest political battle that the biden administration fights this year. i think that is part of why this timing was especially important, as joan said, by putting the announcement out now, by conditioning his retirement on the accomplishment of his successor. justice breyer has given president biden and the white house just about as strong a hand as they could have had for this particular confirmation process at this particular point in time. >> steve vladeck...

The official notice from his office. and then she tweets again with more clarity. im told that justice has firmly decided on his own to retire and he notes that will be soon. somebody jumped the gun on that. that characterized him as surprised by the offense and not upset. >> right now justice breyer would not even been nominated if they were to do it again. circuit justice breyer has got a hold docket that he has got something to do yet but the confirmation process will probably go through whil...

Selection. they mentioned wickers comments during that confirmation process of amy coney barrett where he said that my granddaughters i hope that amys confirmation will be an inspiration to them, right? so they are using republicans own words when it comes to the picks and confirmation processes that they have already put. yeah, i think its going to backfire because, again, it goes -- flies into the face of the republican, you know, requests, trying to expand the base of who they want to call re...

Again? good question. well debate it from here to the end of time, right? tom brady, thanks for the memories. >> dana: president biden will talk to durbin and grassley about his nominee to replace retiring justice breyer. as the chair and ranking republican both will have a say in the confirmation process. the president said he would appoint a black woman to the supreme court. a new poll shows 76% of americans think he should consider all candidates. so that -- you look at that poll convincing. ...

Here. it seems simplistic to say its 50/50 for the vice president with a tie-breaking vote, and i say that because he is politically unpopular and it joe manchin and kyrsten sinema have shown that they have their own voice. when you look at the president, things can go wrong in confirmation hearings. president trump had a 51-49 majority and yet it was not a big deal, can you walk us through some of those things that can go wrong in a supreme court confirmation process even when you have the majo...

Scheduled for march 1st. the dynamics around that did now change. build back better, trying to fix the remnants of that, trying to find a way to refashion that, that could certainly still be a big problem if the senate is consumed with the work of beginning what is always time-consuming and, in recent years, certainly divisive, the work of a confirmation process. it begins with enormous amounts of lobbingying can, and then eventually the voting begins. certainly we have to look at the political ...

Nominated to the court. >> and im curious, chad, just quickly before we go on to more of shannon bream. curious as to this whole notion that you know, the tie breaking vote in the senate would be kamala harris. the whole idea that kamala harris potentially could be a supreme court nominee. just chatter, pretty much, have you heard that at all where you are, chad? >> we have heard the chatter. only the vice president may break a tie in the senate. never been a filibuster against a supreme court n...