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Yelling, what were you guys doing? why did you do this? theyre in a damned if you do, damned if you dont moment right now. kelly odonnell joins us from the white house. mark caputo joins us on politics and the midterms including this republican strategy. kelly, you know, you can see the dilemma every day in the white house, words, actions, photo-ops. it is mixed. >> there are it is. its quite visceral. you laid out carefully the imperative ha most americans would accept on its face of protecting...

Clinton, the second clinton appointee after ruth bader gins ginsburg and hes been a moderate to liberal member of the court and is now the courts senior liberal. >> so joe biden and the white house are being tight-lipped about this, waiting for the official confirmation from the justice himself, but president biden was asked about it earlier today. here is what he said. >> no announcement from justice breyer. let him make whatever statement hes going to make and ill be happy to talk about it lat...

Different. they have to remain calm and theyre keenly aware of the danger. >> i mean, do you throw a rock at a lion whos looking at you, licking his chops, about to eat you, possibly, you throw a rock or just kind of hope for the best? evelyn fairks, evelyn mcdonald, and kelley odonnell, thank you very much. the search for the next supreme court nominee to replace stephen breyer underway and the list of people reported to be under consideration is more than a dozen names long. this morning, se...

This is the incoming president for the white house correspondent association reporting on the matter very vanilla fashion. heres kelly o donnell. >> he made the point that he does not like when questions are asked about a subject other than the planned event which in this case was about middle class families and the economy. >> white house press secretary jen psaki holding a briefing. >> -- one of those avenues could be placement in an alternative to detention program in the interior of the unit...

Joining me are pete williams, kelly odonnell, and garrett haake, and ken dylanian is outthe supreme court. and i have jon meacham. pete, let me start with you. why today? i say that, is there something about consequentially today about justice breyer? other planned retirements? its usually another month or two later in the spring, if you will. so why now? >> well, why now is because we reported it today. i dont think it was anyones intention to announce it today. my understanding is that the pla...

Campaigning. the anti-vax crowd might be a danger. falling back on the virus will get a vote, and this will dictate what happens going forward. >> yep. and as we know, it does feel as if theres a pattern, and if this seasonal pattern continues, what happens when the summer surge hurts and what happens to our political debate about covid if, indeed, a summer surge comes like the last two? kelly odonnell, mark caputo, thanks for getting us started on this mix of covid and the midterms. joining me ...

Have that confirmed tomorrow. i think he is planning to stay on through the end of this term, and obviously any case that he sat on until now, he can still decide on. if he sits through the end of term, which is the end of june and july, i think what hes trying to do here is give the biden administration more than a really compressed two months this summer to name a nominee, to have a rollout and put that person onto the bench. i think he wants to give the president a little bit more of an on ra...

Ukraine. they hope they wont have to. >> they were wearing uniforms, but they were civilians and ey told me theyre willing to die for ukraine. lester? >> matt bradley, thank you. >> we want to turn now to a deepening rift between former president trump and mike pence after the former vice president spoke out yesterday against his former boss. kelly odonnell joins us now from the white house. kelly, president trump is now firing back. >> lester, former president trump leaves no criticism unanswer...

Russia, all as a means to try to deter russia. at the same time, the white house is clear-eyed saying they anticipate that russia could in fact act militarily against ukraine at any moment which is why they have encouraged american citizens to leave ukraine now, why they have ordered families of embassy staff to leave and allowed a voluntary evacuation of non-essential personnel, so they are doing all of the steps that happened to be as most prepared as they can if russia acts, think they are sa...

Not committed to nato as much as they could be. so were not in a very good position in the short run, but in the long run putin is making it on the edge of a terrible mistake. if he goes into ukraine and gets involved in a high intensity fight, its going to rebound to russias serious disability. >> let me ask you, kelly odonnell flagged this from joe bidens news conference, president bidens news conference last week when he was asked about ukraine. he said the cost of going into ukraine in terms...