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Democrats have the votes to, without republican votes, confirm a justice. but after mcconnell held that seat open after scalia's death for a year, democrats are looking with a side eye over to mitch mcconnell to determine if he has some maneuver to keep it open again. what are we to make of the statement saying the president must not outsource this important decision to the radical left? what do you hear from mcconnell? >> i think that is a kind of normal state of play from republicans. they're going to try to make sure they will be framing the argument for their own base but for every single ...

Maneuver away that merrick garland choice from president obama. and so they won't be counting their chickens before they catch. the thing here is the supreme court, with the news that will come out will be about the decisions they make, the abortion rights decisions, the gun rights decisions. even at the end of this term there will be big things the supreme court still has to decide. by the time we get to midterms that will decide who biden chooses to be the replacement. >> remember when a supreme court nominee used to get unanimous support or close to unanimous support from democrats and repu...

Administration. what did you learn then that you think could be applied now in this situation? >> hi, alisyn. thanks for having me. i think we learned a lot. what we learned was we know what the russians were asking for and they seem to be similar to what they're asking the biden administration for now. very quietly just in january the united states began to send its naval personnel to its missile defense site in poland. they've continued to complain about u.s. missile defense sites in romania and, of course, as we saw in press reports today sergey lavrov has aggressively called out that he do...

For this and, furthermore, ought to treat the president's nominee with the same level of respect brett kavanaugh was treated with and amy coney barrett was treated with. >> basically saying it's payback time. is that what we're going to see? >> i think whether it's in that tone or not, yes. amy coney barrett was the first nominee since 1869 that was approved on an accelerated time frame without a single vote from the opposition party . in truth that is how they are showing themselves. we have seen john roberts engineer with occasional exceptions like the affordable care act, a series of 5-4, n...

Line today for naming breyer's replacement. so what do we know about how that's going to work? >> reporter: president biden said he didn't want to take questions from reporters because he wanted this day to be about justice breyer's legacy given, of course, how many years he spent on the court, the time they spent together, given biden was the judiciary chairman when biden had the confirmation hearing. he did make news on the big question, who biden is going to pick to replace him, to fill that highly coveted seat on the supreme court. he said he plans to name his nominee within the next sever...