appreciate you joining us on the breaking news. ultimate catch 22. jacqui heinrich, jacqui, give us an idea what you are hearing from the white house right now. here at the white house, press, the press secretary, jen psaki said we are not going to have much to say about this. the president has always said if he had a chance to nominate someone to the supreme court he would. it would be the first supreme court pick of his presidency, potentially the only one, and we have been talking about all hour, he pledged on the campaign trail that he would nominate a black woman. now, jonathan turley pointed out interestingly enough last hour that that would tee up sort of an interesting decision for biden on whether he wanted to follow through with the pledge he made in the spirit of representation for a court that would not accept that kind of exclusion for something like college admissions, excluding everyone who is not black and female. but the president has made pretty clear his objectiv
court. justice has come out and said it s a bad idea. there s no way demand justice or the left wing groups forced him off the bench. i would note it is surprising that the white house, the biden white house let this announcement leak and they let it get out there before justice breyer had the chance to make the announcement. i think it was bad form, very bad form. sandra: do you know that to be the case, mike? well, he has not put out a statement yet, you have to wonder where the leak came from. it would not have come from the supreme court. trace: and president biden earlier said justice breyer has not made the statement. let s let him make the statement before we make the statement. a lot of people are making statements, including dick durbin says he will move biden s nominee expeditiously through committee. these things normally take months, a lot of pressure on this, mike, these kinds of
unrelated to this doesn t every white house like to get ahead of it, in the sudden passing, and like ruth bader ginsburg. i m not going to talk about that from here, no. any scenario the president would select his vice president kamala harris for the supreme court? again, i m not going to speak to any considerations, preparations, lists, and as we have stated earlier and you heard the president say there s a long history of supreme court justices determining when they may retire, if they retire and announcing that, and that remains to be here today. you are more wiser than to take those questions. i ll ask you about a different topic, vladimir putin. the president saying yes he would very much consider personally sanctioning him in the case of a russian invasion. can you give us a sense, russia has dismissed or poo-poohed that idea. does russia have a role in determining our sanctions? no, what impact would
stevens, she was the number she was one of the top supreme court attorneys for president obama, on the california supreme court many years. judge jackson was recently confirmed through the senate, and judge kruger turned down president obama s offer to be the solicitor general, at least that was the report. so, it s interesting, you know, maybe she doesn t want to move to d.c., who knows. judge jackson seems like the leading contender, just went through the process. sandra: a question on timing. unusual we have not gotten a statement yet. do you have any idea what we might get a statement from breyer s office? i do not. and you know, that s going to be up to him, and i can assure you that justice breyer is an independent man and there was no one who pressured justice breyer to leave the supreme court. sandra: got it. appreciate you joining us. thank you very much. trace: one thing that s interesting, sandra, you can bet
white house at this moment. i think the idea that justice breyer is forced out by the left, pressure from left leaning groups and some members of congress calling on him to step aside to give president biden an opportunity to pick a new nominee, especially with the midterm elections coming up, and in favor of the republicans, it could have been held up even longer. the idea a supreme court justice would be pressured by billboards and some tweets i think is kind of ridiculous. he served on the court now for about three decades and the oldest serving justice. i think he obviously would retire in his own time. i don t believe that supreme court justice would give in to pressure from tweets or billboards. sandra: garrett, final question to you. always curiosity about the relationships on the court, and having sat down with justice gorsuch myself i remember asking him about those relationships and he joked about the light