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Lawyer. i want to bring in democratic consultant and columnist jason stanford and republican strategist and columnist, noel. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> looks like this is going to set up a fight. you heard the president talking about this being a constitutional duty. jason, senator chuck grassley said it's hard to imagine a rationale for nominating three justices at once. is there a good one? >> of course. every president has put judges on the d.c. circuit court. there are three vacancies and it's way out of partisan balance. there are nine republicans appointees and five...

Of us. >> meanwhile the white house is taking an aggressive strategy to appoint new federal judges. the "new york times" reports president obama will nominate three judges to fill vacancies on the d.c. circuit federal court of appeals. they overturned the president's agenda through the first term. right now the court is eeply split with four the democratic appointe appointees. the names of the president's nominees have not been released yet, but we could get some insight at some point this week. let's go overseas where as many as ten suspects have been arrested in connection with that gruesome...

They actually showed they weren't fixated on black appointees. one after the other, they seem more comfortable to attack black appointe appointees. that's a big concern for people across the country. >> what about the president though? he clearly is backing susan rice. but is this a fight worth having? i mean -- >> this is a man who has won office, who is not going to be on the ballot again. he said i'm going to back the people who i think can do the best job. if you have an issue with my general because he was talking to this socialite in florida, forget about it. that's not what the war is a...

that republicans wanted holder to turn over and they are fuming over this. >> bringing about one of the worst disperchments on the history of the department of justice is indeed an injustice to the congress, the american people and this important investigative arm of the house of representatives. this is a very sad day for the united states of america when the president would engage himself at the last minute and try to exert executive privilege. >> that was florida congressman john mica speaking. he's joining me live. welcome. you have the president using executive privilege for the...