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Motion a historic confirmation process for what would be the first black woman to sit on the highest court. today the white house released a clip of the moment biden notified the judge that she was his nominee. >> hello? >> judge jackson? >> yes. >> this is joe biden. how are you? >> i am wonderful. how are you, mr. president? >> youre going to be more wonderful. i would like you to go to the supreme court? how about that? >> sir, i would be so honored. >> im honored to in a moment you. >> i am ...

The federal bench by lyndon johnson in 1966. the democratic dixie cat chair of the senate judiciary committee and notorious racist delayed her confirmation process for seven months and as "the new york times" reported at the time, eastland tried to smear her as a communist. sound familiar? at any moment president biden is expected to announce his nominee to be the first black woman to serve on the supreme court. hes interviewed three candidates and plans to announce his choice by the end of the ...

Contours of federal law. so she has that experience and, of course, before that, she was eight years as a federal trial court judge, too. and thats additional experience that shell bring to the court. plus she has some experience the court hasnt seen for 40 years. shes a former federal public defender. and not since thurgood marshall was on the court has there been someone who has legitimate experience defending criminal justice defendants. and she also served on the u.s. sentencing commission w...

Republicans who voted for her in the last confirmation round, collins, murkowski and graham will vote for her again. that is a good place to start. and the next phase of this confirmation process im told is going to begin in earnest this afternoon. after she is announced at the white house around 1:45 or 2:00, that could change, depending on events happening in the world, of course, but after that, the confirmation process is going to begin. shes going to be sitting down with senators, democrats...

To come out in full force, just as hard as republican state for someone like kavanaugh. they wanted to make sure that theyre protecting her, but fighting for her, to make sure that she has suffered from all of the attacks that we know are gonna come from all directions. and chris, i just gotta say, i was not banking on the courts being the winning issue for democrats going into this midterms. but this is absolutely something thats on a mobilized and energized democratic voters, and something tha...

>> extraordinary. ordinary citizens, ukrainians, doing all that they can to stop this invasion of russia whether its taking up arms with no training, nowh wherewithal to u a gun, but willingness to use it to protect a country or in that case right there, using their own personal body to stop a moving tank. were continuing to take in these extraordinary images and stories of ukrainians trying to protect their country, their families, their culture. well have much more straight ahead from ukrain...

Policy which is seriously enabling a monster. >> shannon: i want to ask about the supreme court. the president has presented his nominee, judge jackson. she will soon begin the process of meeting with senators on the hill and eventually through the confirmation process, vetting by the committee. naacp celebrating her nomination but say we note certain members of the senate have showed significant hostility towards president bidens woman nominees of color both to executive and judicial positions....

Votes. >> any republicans in you have your eye on as a yes? >> yeah. all of them. i mean, look, as i said, we are not going to take any of these votes for granted. were going to meet with the senators and try to persuade them. we have seen it happen before. were hoping that once we understand and they will come around and they will support this historic nomination. >> it is certainly a barrier breaking nomination. >> were tracking the supreme court confirmation process as well as how we expect t...

And it has never been more important to say out loud parents matter. this is not the same country it was a year ago. the president tried to paint a different picture tonight, but his actions over the last 12 months dont match the rhetoric. its not what he promised when he took office. >> meanwhile, new supreme court nominee ketanji brown jackson has taken an opening step towards her confirmation process in the senate after submitting her responses to a senate judiciary questionnaire. this comes ...

I remember thinking not knowing at the time she put this goal in her high school yearbook. i remember thinking, shes going to be a judge. >> you were right. he said this morning before president biden announced his nominee, seemed to suggest that judge childs had been the target of some left wing hit job. what do you think lies ahead for this confirmation process now? >> i think that he staked out his ground through this confirmation process. were both from south carolina but our politics couldn...