there is a baseline, it seems, for what is required to be extraordinary when it comes to women of color in this country. and we ve seen it at play in so many different fields. i m just saying if you look at the list, qualifications, i mean, all of these women are extremely qualified to be nominated absolutely. to sit on the highest court in the land. kaitlan, let s talk about the politics absolutely. of this. how fast are president biden and the democrats prepared to move on this nomination? especially the midterms are looming. and there s a 50-50 senate. yeah. i mean, there was this sigh of relief among democrats today because everyone kind of thought this was going to happen. no one knew that it was definitely going to happen. but they were worried that they would find themselves potentially in another situation where republicans overtook the majorities come the midterms in november and that they could potentially lose their chance at confirming someone to the sup
preoccupied that he three times suffered serious injuries when akram s bicycle. in 1983, mr. breyer was a final to fill a supreme court vacancy. he was about to come to washington for an interview with then president bill clinton, when he was knocked off his bike by a car. with broken ribs and a punctured lung, he took the train to the meeting. he was in considerable pain and the word was the meeting did not go particularly well. clinton chose ruth bader ginsburg instead. it was stephen breyer who got the nomination. also said, quote, in many respects, breyer s monuments are not so much of the decisions that he authored as the decisions that he influenced behind the scenes, he pushed and prodded his fellow justices for consensus on the obamacare joining us now is, nina toting burke, national treasure.
this is don lemon tonight. so let s talk about something that s i think good for this administration. it can turn the tide maybe in some public polling because this is a very, he very, very crucial moment for joe biden. okay? listen to this. it s a chance for him to rally democrats. remember, you saw the polling, he s losing support among democrats and independents and his core supporters, black voters, but it s a chance for him to rally support among democrats and black voters, right? the ones who helped put him into the white house. it can make history here. i m talking about justin stephen breyer reportedly retiring. a big, big deal for the president. a chance to get a justice confirmed to the highest court in the land and a chance to make good on a promise he made again and again and again and again on the campaign trail. watch. i m looking forward to making sure there s a black woman on the supreme court, to make sure
but the chief white house correspondent for nbc news, peter alexander, has just reported, has just confirmed, that even those on the schedule, president biden and justice stephen breyer are due to appear tomorrow together at the white house. this will be presumably the formal announcement of justin breyer s retirement. again, breyer and the president appearing together, so, not just meeting together, but doing some kind of event at the white house tomorrow. we just learned that from nbc news. joining us now, is our friend at slate.com. her article today about stephen breyer s were tire meant is titled, the deep irony of stephen breyer s bare knuckled exit from the supreme court. i think about stephen breyer in a lot of different way. i never, ever think about his knuckles, bear or otherwise. dalia, it s great to see you. thank you for being here. it s good to be here on a day, rachel, when everyone is a
playing this role when elaina kagan was nominated, and when sonia sotomayor was. getting the true facts out about their story. but we have here a very different situation. it is a 50/50 senate. but dick durbin controls the gavel. and i will say, under his leadership and senator schumer s leadership on the floor, it has been noted that we have confirmed more judges last year than any president has put forth since ronald reagan, since you started your show that way. so we have a lot of experience getting this done. we have a white house that has vetted a number of nominees, well aware that this could be coming down the pike. we have so much respect for justice breyer and his record. but we knew there was a chance he could step down. so i feel like we are in as good a situation as we can be. so after the nomination is made, you look at the numbers. sotomayor was 66 days, elaina kagan was days. gorsuch was 65 days, kavanaugh was 88 days