Support for judge michelle childs, a south carolina district judge. do you think that president biden picking her would spare him and the country a more bruising nomination fight? you know, alisyn, it is going to be a very robust nomination process with a searching inquiry by senators and probably a searching inquiry by the judiciary committee, and no matter who president biden nominates, you should not expect this to be a walk in the park. it s going to be very robust. however, having senator scott and senator graham say very positive things about judge childs, that s a positive. and i think there are other candidates that president biden is considering who might also be able to get republican support. that s very, very heartening. senator, while i have you, i want to let you know there is a big snowstorm heading east and i just want to make sure you have your supply of dr pepper in your
Bowl news. ruth marquez, deputy editorial page editor at the washington post, and kimberly atkins store, cohost hashtag of sisters in law podcast which is celebrating its first anniversary. thank you all very much for coming back to the sunday show. okay, love for each of you to respond to senator collins. ruth, i ll go to you first on this. what do you make of what senator collins said? is she basically signalling right now, well, i don t care who president biden nominates, i m not going to vote, i m not going to vote yes for this person? first of all, jonathan, i really have a bone to pick with you because you stole my point about president reagan making this pledge when he was candidate reagan. so amplify it. get out of my lane there, buddy. we re fundamentally i would
Entered the capital city of kyiv, and so has the bombing sounds of missile and rocket attacks. emergency crews raced to put out fires following attacks on residential buildings while debris from a downed plane littered the streets. ukrainian forces are putting up stronger resistance than expected. that s according to a senior defense official. and russian troops are not advancing as fast as anticipated. the biden administration, european union, and britain have all moved today to freeze the assets of top russian leadership, including. vladimir putin and his foreign minister, sergey lavrov. we re going to take you to kyiv int a moment. but we want to begin with a historic moment for this country. today, president biden nominated 51-year-old ketanji brown jackson to the supreme court, and if confirmed, she would be the first black woman on the nation s highest court. cbs jan crawford joins us now on this historic day. good evening, jan. reporter: good evening, norah. you know, judge j
i will wait to make a decision until i have observed her hearing, read her decisions. reporter: senator lindsey graham, another republican just last year tweeted, it means the radical left has won president biden over yet again. adding, he expects a respectful but interesting hearing. still, for countless black women and beyond, the moment cannot be measured that will have an impact within the law, but it also will have an impact around how we understand black women s leadership in this country reporter: blayne alexander, nbc news. when we return, sifting through the flood of misinformation online about the invasion of ukraine.
Be enough? there is also this new tonight: the biden administration is asking congress to authorize $6.4 billion in aid, that s in addition to the hundreds of millions of dollars the u.s. has already sent overseas. cbs weijia jiang is at the white house. reporter: tonight, new sanctions on the russian leader himself and his foreign minister. but the u.s. has sanctioned dictators in the past, like syria s bashar al-assad, and it rarely changes their behavior. putin has also buried his wealth, making it difficult to freeze his assets. do you think it will actually have an impact on putin in practice, given the uncertainty about the extent and location of his wealth? what we are hoping the world takes away from this is the unity through which the united states, president biden is working with our european partners and allies. reporter: president biden spoke by phone to ukrainian president zelensky, vowing to offer more support.