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. you know, nothing is easy, don, anymore in our politics. i mean, for president biden it s really full circle. as the chairman of the judiciary committee he was around three decades ago helping to preside over the confirmation hearings of justice breyer. now he ll get to pick his replacement. i m struck by the initial tone 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.
around not only this open seat on the court but the major rulings that we re expecting in things like abortion and affirmative action to rally the democratic base and to convince them that this ought to be a voting issue. for years the conventional wisdom has been that it was for republicans a motivational factor to get out there and to make sure that conservative supreme court justices were appointed. are we seeing sort of the pivot point at which it s now a rallying cry for democratic voters in this midterm election and beyond? thank you both. i appreciate your time. i want to bring in now cnn political analyst natasha alford and political commentator scott jennings and bakari sellers. hello. there you guys are. good to see you. bakari, by the way, is the author of a new book, who are your people? natasha, i m going to start with you. black women deserve a lot of credit for delivering biden the white house as well as the georgia senate runoff races. those victories are that s
are mutually exclusive. i think on the one hand you re absolutely right, they re speaking to their audiences, they re joining up a kind of resistance and a kind of anger at look at this guy talking this kind of stuff, and blackness is much more complicated and look, by the way, he s lighter than us or darker than us and therefore he s not really black. come on. so yeah, they re playing to the ignorance of their audience. but they re also, you know, exposing a kind of lethal ignorance about the very nature of race itself. and in that sense, yeah, they know better. look, i met joe rogan and spoke to him after a concert by dave chappelle. you re opening for dave chappelle, one of the blackest men in america. not because of his brown skin tone. not because of the shade of his skin. but by virtue of the ideals he promotes, the ideals with which he wrestles, and the ways in which he gets it right or some would say wrong and his life experiences. and life experiences. and the way in whi
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. you know, nothing is easy, don, anymore in our politics. i mean, for president biden it s really full circle. as the chairman of the judiciary committee he was around three decades ago helping to preside over the confirmation hearings of justice breyer. now he ll get to pick his replacement. i m struck by the initial tone
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