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Get official word from justice breyer himself. so, lets bring in abcs senior white house correspondent mary bruce tonight. mary, i want to go back to what we heard from then candidate joe biden, what he said about who he would nominate to the supreme court. lets listen. >> im looking forward to making sure theres a black woman on the supreme court to make sure we in fact get every representation. >> that was just before he won south carolina. mary, theres already a short list of potential nomine...

Will be shaping the jurisprudence that people will rely on in years to come. hes going to be mindful about that amongst the various talented black women hes looking at, including melissa murray. >> you tweeted if biden picks brown jackson, well have another seat to fill on the powerful d.c. circuit while dems try to control the senate, hard not to read attacks on her through that lens. tell me more. >> i want to step back and tell you about attacks you previewed. if you remember the nomination o...

Are going to be shaping the jurisprudence that people will rely on in years to come. and so, he is going to be very mindful about that amongst the various, very talented black women that he is looking at, including melissa murray. >> i -- i want to say you tweeted, quote, if biden picks judge ketanji brown jackson, he will have another seat to fill on the powerful d.c. circuit while dems still control the senate. hard not to read attacks specifically through her on that lens. tell me more. >> i ...

Will support joe jacksons nomination. only three republican senators voted in favor of jackson in 2021, when the senate confirmed her to the powerful dc-based appellate board. collins, lindsey graham, murkowski, and graham, not yet saying where they stand with jacksons nomination. senator mitt romney has also not yet said whether she will support jackson after accessing openness to vote in favor of her nomination. all the coverage of this, as the boat nears. up next, empty promises from the krem...

I mean, she was a cabinet secretary herself, and together they were indeed a powerful d.c. couple. >> they were a powerful couple. you no doubt wanted to be invited to spend time with them, and they were both in their own way dedicated to public service. i think a real takeaway when we stud eat life somebody like bob dole, we live in such a harsh political climate, a toxic political climate today. bob dole is a reminder that you can have sharp elbows. you can be really tough in american politics...

Special counsel robert mueller reportedly giving president trumps legal team a list of questions as investigators eye an interview with the commander in chief. lawyering up, fired fbi deputy director andrew mccabe hiring a powerful d.c. attorney, and theres fierce new reaction today from lawmakers. >> 48 hours to go before retirement, i would have certainly done it differently. >> we have to be very skeptical about the reasons for the mccabe firing. >> a new bombshell as the stormy daniels drama...

Nunberg enmeshed himself among so many powerful d.c. media figures is because unlike many people in the trump orbit in the white house, he understands trump on kind of a gut level. one of the claims that sam made during his media blitz on monday was that he was the one who came up with the idea of having trump build a wall on the southern border, and also with the idea of a muslim ban. i have reason to believe thats true. that sam is the embodiment of president trumps id. if you want to understa...

Cnns boris sanchez has been looking into that. what are you learning, boris? >> reporter: the name of the new attorney added to the white houses legal team is ty cobb. he is a powerful washington, d.c. defense attorney who has handled some pretty high profile clients in the past, including defending two officials with connections to the clinton white house. he has also defended major corporations and ex-cia officer and someone with a lot of experience defending white collar crime. he is actually...

T 22 years ago. >> it really is extraordinary. were going to be watching that to see what happens when the polls do close there in about three hours. phil black, thank you for that report. for our international viewers "amanpour" is next. for our viewers in north america, "newsroom" with poppy harlow starts right now. hi everyone. im poppy harlow in today for my friend brooke baldwin. we begin this hour with breaking news in that d.c. mansion murder case. the suspect is due in court soon for t...

Issued the following warning. the draft rules sent to the white house for review could expand the epas regulatory power to give the agency unprecedented new authority. a view echoed by other republicans at a recent hearing with epa administrator gina mccarthy. >> making matters worse, the courts defer to the epa especially when questions involve the analysis of science. >> the powerful d.c. circuit court is set to hear several important case that is will directly impact the epa and its ability t...