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She's only 49 years old. she had a reputation at harvard law school which was an extremely ideologically divided place of being a consensus builder. she was very popular where the conservatives, with the federal society at harvard law school. she has experience in the executive branch. he worked in bill clinton's white house. she got along. she had positive dealings with senator john mccain, dealing with smoking legislation. she's someone who has experience in the broader world, not just in the courtroom. in fact, she would not be a judge, first justice in quite some time who has not been a ju...

Cnn bureau chief and director of school and media of public affairs at george washington university. and cnn political editor mark preston is with us again. boy, let me start with you, frank. what are you thoughts on this day? who is -- who was justice stevens as a supreme court justice and what was his role in the court? jeffrey toobin called him kind of a consensus builder. >> first of all, let me answer your first question. it's a huge day here in washington. huge day for the white house. good news/bad news day. a long-time democrat in the house is stepping down. one more seat we're going t...

Are looking for a fight. because they believe that this would unite the base. they believe that sonia so sotomayor was not what he was marketed as, ie, more liberal, they cast some tough votes on health care and they want to put those democrats on the spot again. >> let's ask jeffrey about it, justice stevens, on the liberal side of the court, had a reputation as a leader, as an elder statesman there, something as a consensus builder. in fact, he often influenced justice kennedy who was sort of the swing vote on the court. so, should the president be looking for somebody like that? and let's j...

Occupational diversity, someone who has not been a judge before. >> sure. let's talk about that a little bit. we just heard dan say there's a list of at least ten or so that he's going to pull off here. he's been through the process once before. who do you think is at the running, at the top of the list? >> i think you start with the three of the four finalists that didn't get it last time. elena kagan, the consensus builder from the dean of harvard law school. never been a judge before. diane wood, she is a judge on the set of circuit court of appeals from chicago, the same place that stevens...

Able to make political judgments and judgments on how somebody is doing. i was just looking at a poll. i hate polls. about the pope. the pope's approval rating in germany went from 71% down to 31%. why? because of journalism. because "the new york times," the press in germany and others have dug into what he did before coming to the poeps pope in terms of dealing with the abuse of priests of young boys in the catholic church. wet that information because reporters went out and spent a long time digging. >> the president builds himself as a consensus builder, his core, rational. that's what i b...