a black woman to spring court to fill the seat of retiring justice stephen breyer. one of the white men leading that charge is a senator from mississippi, roger wicker, who has themselves some pretty strong feelings about affirmative action. >> the irony is that the supreme court is at the very same time hearing cases about this sort of affirmative -- discrimination. while adding someone who is the beneficiary of this sort of quota. the majority of the court maybe saying it's unconstitutional, we'll see how that irony works out. >> oh, the irony. so much irony abounding here. but the real irony is that roger records so critical of affirmative action consider the history of his own state. the world in which he was molded. and the way he himself became a united states senator. do you remember when roger