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Brightest legal minds. judge ketanji brown jackson. >> you are looking right now at live pictures of the white house where in just a few minutes the president is set to make this historic nomination. judge jackson will be the first black woman ever nominated to the united states supreme court. we will hear from her following the president's remarks. mike memoli joins me from the white house and pete williams is always with us. >> he went to palmetto high school, we're very excited in miami dade public high school and take your harvard and do that. judge jackson was the front-runner it seemed l...

Joining me is "the washington post" reporters. james, i'll ask you. why? right. i think two questions into play here. >> james, you first. james! then you, dave. james, you go. >> i was going to say one thing clear from both candidates or potential candidates is that they keep uttering the same word. if joe biden did not seem to be as weak of a front-runner it's clear from both of them they would not northbound the race. both turned down running for the race in the spring. now they say whatever data they don't think he is strong they see an opening for themselves. >> dave, what do you think? i...

Sort of loosely organized tea party federation in the state they look at her and same someone. they like her fighting spirit. we live in difficult times. people might like what they hear in terms of fighting spirit but in the end the measure that most voters are likely to reach forks who will right the economy. >> dan balz, there isn't a front-runner in the same way that there's been front runners in the past but there is a front-runner it's mitt romney. one way i think both you and i noticed was last night at the gridiron, everybody took shots at mitt romney whether it was mitch daniels, pres...

People that embrace her. she picked up support in iowa. we're looking at iowa first because it's the starting gun. supposed to be first. she comes from a neighboring state and among the growing but sort of loosely organized tea party federation in the state they look at her and same someone. they like her fighting spirit. we live in difficult times. people might like what they hear in terms of fighting spirit but in the end the measure that most voters are likely to reach forks who will right the economy. >> dan balz, there isn't a front-runner in the same way that there's been front runners i...

In the past, but if there is a front-runner it's mitt romney. one way i think both you and i noticed was last night at the gridiron, everybody took shots at mitt romney whether it was mitch daniels whether it was about president obama, about the fact that, you know, mitt romney was debating mitt romney, or the president had the governor of massachusetts and the former presidential candidate share the same host body. mitt romney does have this p perceptual problem that he has to square at some point if he's going to stay the front-runner. >> i sat down with two different groups of republican ac...