president is saying something. and the place was insane that day, as one person said. so, you can just imagine the kind of testimony they are getting and what they are trying to do is piece it together. so, they subpoenaed judd deere because he had perhaps didn t want to come in voluntarily. but he could provide an awful h lot of information about what the president himself, as jeffrey s saying, was saying and thinking. and this president thinks out loud a lot. and that s what he was doing with the staff that day. yeah. gloria borger, jeff toobin, thank you. coming up next, we get the very latest on the dangerous storm about to hit as many as 75 million people through the carolinas up through maine. also breaking news in ukraine. president biden talking about sending american troops to eastern europe as the joint chiefs chairman paints a stark picture of the death and destruction russian forces could
you are sending up highly liberal judges. that s how they are going to set up this debate. it is not going to be over race. i think everybody is going to be very, very pleased that an african-american woman is going to be on the supreme court. i am. lot of republicans i know are. i am not going to agree probably with most any decision this person will ever make because i think joe biden s highly unlikely to choose a very liberal person. but that doesn t mean you can t be happy about it but it also doesn t mean we can t have a real conversation here about their views, about biden s views, and about what that means for the voters in some of these senate states this fall. bakari sells, scott jennings, thanks very much. up next, which republican might face president biden in two years. cnn harry enten has in you data about what the presidential election could look like and how some of the potential candidates would fare against the president.
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senate democrats falling in line today on the notion of quickly confirming a successor to supreme court justice stephen breyer. a number of senate republicans are continuing to criticize president biden for limiting his choice to a black woman. missouri senator josh hawley, who serves on the judiciary committee, typifies this objection. here is what i am going to do. i am going to do my duty, which is i swore to up demhold the constitution and i am going to ask whomever joe biden sends to the committee, i am going to see if they actually believe in the constitution and are willing to follow it. that ought to be the litmus test, not race, not religion, not gender, not anything else but are are you willing to follow the constitution of the united states? president biden as you know made a campaign promise to name the first black woman to the high court and appears to be keeping it. so does that amount to a litmus test? are republicans open to criticism for hypocrisy on the
friction between washington and kyiv. the biden administration describing a russian invasion as, quote, imminent. while the president of ukraine, kind of trying to portray the situation as dangerous but not as dire. i mean, how much of this do you think is actually a disagreement? and how much is just sort of different emphasis? ukraine, obviously, has been living with the threat. they have had, you know, russian forces in crimea for quite some time now. they have lost thousands of of troops over the last several years. um, and they also don t want the economy ruined as they are waiting for whatever russia s gonna do. yeah, anderson, to a certain extent, it might be a bit of how many angels dance on the head of a pin. some semantics involved but i think another factor is sort of internal to ukrainian politics. um, you know, ukraine is still a new democracy and there is a lot of political maneuvering that is going on behind the scenes. you may recall, a number of days ago, the forme