took 25 days to announce sotomayor to replace souter. president bush announced aleito four days, the fastest announcement of a supreme court nominee in recent history was when ronald reagan named justice william rehnquist to replace chief justice warren burger, the same day burger announced his retirement. president bill clinton took 87 days to announce ruth bader ginsburg in 1993, but remember, the time it takes the president to announced nominee is not the time between when that nominee is announced and when that nominee is put into office. that is a remarkably complex process. joining us now from new york cnn's senior legal analyst, jeffrey toobin, cnn senior political analyst, gloria borger, they're both joining us right now. let's talk about the politics for a second, gloria, is there anything -- there's everything about this, i guess. when the president napes his