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Get a senate vote as his immediate predecessors. let's show you who these three individuals are that the president announced the nominations for today. two women and an african-american man. they are all three harvard law school graduates. here's another fact i want to put up on the screen that this white house, i think, believes dictates part of the problem they've dealt with lately. this is the confirmation rate for the president's predecessors in terms of first-term appointments. president clinton had about 83% approval appointments. george bush, more than 88%. he's also appointed far fewer...

Office, and there is a big blame game on between republicans and democrats. molly henneberg is going to sort all this out for us, she is live in washington. let's take a look at the numbers, molly. how many vacancies are there? >> reporter: we are talking here about federal judicial vacancies, vacancies at the district court level and the circuit court level. according to the left leaning alliance for justice which is pushing for more of president obama's nominees to get confirmed by the senate there are 77 positions open and 31 judges have been nominated by the president so far that we know o...

Only 31 nominees. aron says there may be more in the mix but the senators have to submit blue slips to move them forward. that process isn't open to the public. so there is no real way of knowing. when asked about the open seats today, white house press secretary jay carney responded -- >> one thing we know for sure, the pace of combination has never been slower. >> not according to the alliance for justice, which released new numbers today comparing confirmation rate in the same time period of presidency of bill clinton an bush. clin top and bush had 7% of their nominees confirmed. obama has ...