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Listen, this is going to be really, really frantic for the next couple months. youd have to imagine that the white house and my sources tell me this, the white house will want to move quickly. senate democrats will want to move quickly and take no chances, so youd have to guess this is going to happen in sometime this winter or in the spring. theyre going to want to fill the seat and one more thing, katy. theres precedent for filling the seat while the justice is still on the supreme court. i th...

He said that basically the -- whoever is chosen will be a beneficiary of affirmative action and will be fulfilling a quota. now, these women who sent this letter to president biden they are influential as we said, they are civil rights leaders, political -- political -- people in the political spectrum from all types of work, media personalities and they were really active in pushing the president, then candidate, to pick a black woman vice president in 2020. theyve been involved in voting right...

Economy and inflation and the border and crime in cities and things like that. pretty remarkable comment there given the last two presidential elections have been fought in large part over supreme court vacancies being driving issues in those campaigns. jake, not everyone in the republican conference agrees. josh hawley, who sits on the judiciary committee, told me yesterday that they need to show the senate -- why the senate is important. show that to voters and fight this nomination. other con...

Shimon prokupecz, we know youre there all day long. it is an emotional day. thank you so much for being there. >> just listening to those police officers just how we learned a lot about these officers and i have to say, it is very clear how special they were. >> cnns coverage continues right now. good morning, everyone. im bianna golodryga. >> im jim sciutto. today, a supreme announcement. supreme court justice stephen breyer is expected to formally declare his intent to retire from the high c...

Disqualify them among voters. that whole pact is totally broken on the right. the more awful, the more electable in the trump republican party. harry litman, charlie sykes, thank you so much for spending time with us on this. when we come back, president joe biden vows to name a black woman to the united states supreme court by the end of next month. democrats on the senate judiciary committee want the confirmation process to move just as quickly and well hear from one of them. senator richard...

Trey: tonight an opening on supreme court, confirmation process has changed over the years. scalia was confirmed 98-0. >> and steven breyer 87-9 even john roberts confirmed 78-22 but that is when it began to change because of who was in the group voting no, joe biden voted no, barack obama voted no. so did hillary clinton. and john kerry, last 4 democratic nominees for president voted no, roberts was rated well qualified by american bar association, not a single dissenting vote but not enough fo...

All the confirmation process beforehand so if this -- lets say if joe biden nominates someone by end of february, that potentially means, according to chuck schumers timetable, potentially a confirmation vote by the end of march, early april. they want to go on that same clip as they did, as the republicans did to get amy coney barrett confirmed back in 2020. at that time, democrats were howling in protest. said it was rushed and also criticized it for happening so close to the election. that ca...

Carolina. david, whomever biden picks, she will be making history. david? >> all eyes on his decision. mary bruce, thank you. one more question on this tonight, rachel scott live on the hill, and rachel, senate majority leader chuck schumer has said he wants to move swiftly on this, obviously this very slim majority in the senate. >> reporter: thats right. the senate is split 50/50 and democrats do not want to waste any time. they only need 51 votes in the senate to confirm a supreme court nom...

The vacancy is a cherished legacy moment for any president. the timing of this one makes it all the more consequential for this president. president biden promises history, a black woman, he says, will be his nominee. and just that is giant. plus the confirmation process adds interest to the midterm election year. a chance for the president and his fellow democrats to reset a political landscape that, up until now, is tilted decidedly in the republicans favor. that opportunity officially begins ...

The court will look at protections for abortion rights. >> this is going to be a massive issue at the ballot boxes, theres just no question about it. there is going to be rage. >> but with inflation on dragged-out democrats, the question is when can the supreme court appointment break through? >> where is the war room on the cost of living? >> with us now dick durbin of illinois. senator durbin, welcome back to "meet the press." >> thanks, chuck. >> youll be overseeing this confirmation process ...