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Warnings from an expert straight ahead this hour. but i want to start now with cnn's supreme court analyst steve ladek and global affairs analyst susan glass here to talk about what is going on with breyer's official retirement has not happened but that's the word that it's going to happen soon. good evening to both of you. susan, president biden gets a supreme court pick, a chance to turn a new page in his presidency, a way to shore up the base and fulfill a big campaign promise. but still, it probably won't be an easy road, will it? in these divided times that we're living in right now. >> y...

From conservatives which has not been fire-breathing, you know, this will be the fight to end all fights. and it really reflects actually their success of the last few years in reorienting the court and now having what appears to be a 6-3 conservative majority. >> steve, why are you shaking your head in agreement? >> i mean, i think susan hit the nail on the head, don. this is not as nearly high stakes a confirmation process as, you know, amy coney barrett replacing ruth ginsburg, as brett kavanaugh replacing anthony kennedy, merrick garland replacing anthony v antonin scalia. that's why i thi...

A name folks may not know is justice leondra krueger, who sits on the california supreme court. the difference there, don, is she hasn't recently gone through the gauntlet of senate confirmation. possible that she's a bit more of a fight for president biden. i think that's going to be a big chunk of at least the political calculus in the white house in the coming days and weeks. >> one more for you, steve. what kind of cases will the new justice be considering? we know affirmative action in universities, that's coming up. >> yeah, i mean, don, i think it's remarkable that we have this coming r...

They still have a 6-3 majority on the supreme court. they still have what they think is a very strong agenda to use against president biden in the midterms. and so i think this is going to look very different, don, from the last couple of supreme court confirmation fights that we've been through. >> hey, steve, you've been going through this list, president biden's potential short list of picks. who stands out to you? >> yeah, don, i think any conversation's going to start with the same two names. there's judge ketanji brown jackson who's currently on the d.c. circuit. very important appeals c...