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Clinton, the second clinton appointee after ruth bader gins ginsburg and he's been a moderate to liberal member of the court and is now the court's senior liberal. >> so joe biden and the white house are being tight-lipped about this, waiting for the official confirmation from the justice himself, but president biden was asked about it earlier today. here is what he said. >> no announcement from justice breyer. let him make whatever statement he's going to make and i'll be happy to talk about it later. >> kelly o'donnell, tight-lipped but from our own mike memoli's reporting, the white house d...

Process. so what comes next? obviously even in a world with fast-paced developments, the president wanted to give the sitting associate justice of the court the chance to be the first and also the president was in an event with a number of ceos and that was not the time or the moment that he wanted to announce anything. so we would expect there will be an event at the white house when the white house is ready to do that, along with the justice, a chance to celebrate the work and the legacy of justice breyer, and then at that point, the real search heats up and sort of they open the floodgates ...

Strong opinion about donald trump and his presidential claims. so she is a really interesting nominee. it's going to be hard for folks who voted for her last time to flip this time. >> let's talk about what this is going to mean for the supreme court, and what it currently means. the decision right now to retire by justice breyer, dahlia, pete was saying usually you don't take presidential politics into consideration, but that times have changed. what is your reporting or what can your reporting tell us? >> i mean, in some sense, this must be breaking justice breyer's heart more than anyone. h...

The top name in speculation right now judge katanji brown jackson, joe biden recently appointed to the d.c. circuit court of appeals to replace merrick garland. jackson is a former clerk of justice breyer, confirmed in a 53-44 majority by the senate. joining me is nbc news justice correspondent pete williams, chief legal correspondent and host of "the beat" ari melber, kelly o'donnell and "slate" legal correspondent dahlia lithwick. pete, you broke this news. justice breyer himself has not announced it or made it official but can you tell us anything about the decision-making process behind hi...

Listen, this is going to be really, really frantic for the next couple months. you'd have to imagine that the white house and my sources tell me this, the white house will want to move quickly. senate democrats will want to move quickly and take no chances, so you'd have to guess this is going to happen in sometime this winter or in the spring. they're going to want to fill the seat and one more thing, katy. there's precedent for filling the seat while the justice is still on the supreme court. i think george bush did this, so breyer doesn't have to step down for the president to nominate some...