fair to say. our chief can washington correspondent jake tapper has the 2002 ten u.s. political stories of the year 2016. ♪ this year everything we thought we knew about politics was turned on its head, political attacks, e-mail hacks and several cracks in the glass ceiling made for an unparalleled race between the first female major party nominee and a billionaire outsider. president-elect trump will take office soon, but first let's look back at top ten political stories of 2016. number ten, conservative supreme court justice antonin scalia died suddenly in february. >> everything is on the line. >> in an unprecedented move, republicans vowed to block any high court appointments until after the presidential election. >> simply to turn your back before the president even names a nominee is not an option the