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He called childs a gifted jurist and couldnt think of a better person for the job. suzanne malveaux has more on the selection process from washington. >> reporter: democrats would love to see bipartisan support of whomever president biden picks as his supreme court nominee, but quite frankly, they say they dont need it. they are confident they have the support, the 48 democrats, the two independents that caucus with them to make up a simple majority to push this through for the president. we hea...

Americans say his first year in office has been more of a failure than a success. now, jim, as you know, president biden came into office saying he had two main priorities, dealing with covid and the economy. and right now, he is not getting good marks on that from voters according to the cnn poll, it says his handling of the economy dipped 8 points, now to 37%. thats since early december. his handling of covid also dipped nine points to 45% since early december. two numbers that the white house...

Whites, no males need apply brings us back to the days when the supreme court was an exclusively white male institution. after all, its only had 13 catholics, 8 jews, 3 women, and almost all recent. it was an exclusive organization for many years, and race and gender should never play a role in the selection process. maria: wow. yeah. alan, i want to get your ache on the idea that its a 50-50 senate and vice president kamala harris will likely be or may be the diseasing vote on who -- deciding v...

Weekend at camp david reviewing materials on potential supreme court nominees and that the interview process could begin as early as next week. well have our eyes glued to the white house stake-out cameras and well bring you any new information as it happened. president biden expanded on his selection process and short list in an exclusive interview with my nbc colleague lester holt. >> the short list are nominees who are incredibly well qualified and documented. >> whats the number youre at? fo...

Why now? why would putin choose this moment if he is going to invade? >> well, were speculating here. but, look, hes tried various means. hes tried to bleed the ukrainians to this fighting in donbas. didnt work. hes tried to destabilize the government through the election process. didnt work. hes tried to break ukraine financially. didnt work. hes getting frustrated. and he has seen the united states first under president trump where president trump put a lot of pressure on nato. he caused our n...

Talk. they talk to the committee and thats where they begin the conversations about what exactly an interview like this would look like. the big thing for rudy giuliani is he believes there are a number of areas that he may be familiar with that he believes fall under executive or attorney-client privilege. keep in mind he did serve as the presidents personal lawyer. however in the subpoena request, the committee specifically asks that they want to talk about his efforts to try to upend the elec...

Incentive why we should do this because we didnt get the other things done. we exhausted all the other options. its clear its not going to get done. take it or leave it. if they want a victory ahead of the midterms or the state of the union march 1st, this may be their only option. >> theyll have to compete with some of those that argue that, yes, this would add protections for the one way, the voting rights ground framed it, this is almost the finish line of the election process. and what someb...

As i pointed out, back in 2010, part of our big effort was getting that vote galvanized through access to the ballot, mail-in ballots, for example. >> well, like you, michael, im old enough to remember when republicans thought voting by mail was a tactical and, you know, logistical advantage for the republican party. and, so, they have now done a complete 180 on this to the point where it is undermining even their own turn-out. there is mass confusion and it questions the legitimacy of the elect...

The committees reporting will help improve our election process? how important are the upcoming public hearings ahead of the mid-terms? >> you know, i agree with raskin. what this does, and hes absolutely correct. it will open up and show the flaws we have in our political system. and what this will do, it will bring to the table some much needed questions that we have been wondering as the american people. what was your premise with january 6th? who else were involved? who came to the white hou...

Accused president trump of outsourcing his judicial selection process to the federalist society. i say damn right. the cofounder of the federalist society said that the administration is relying on the federalist society to come up with qualified nominees. then don began, who ran the operation for trump in the white house, set ive been a member of the federal society since law school, stella. so frankly it seems like that role has been sourced. so theres pretty clear and broad agreement that tha...