others. a new trend is emerging, people becoming infected with the virus for a second time or more. around the world ceremonies and remembrances today honoring the 6 million jews killed in the holocaust. we begin with our top story this morning, justice stephen breyer will step down from the u.s. supreme court nbc news learned yesterday. breyer is the court ears oldest justice at 83. he s set to a peer alongside president biden at the white house today to formally announce his retirement from the court which will take place at the end of the term. joining me is nbc news justice correspondent pete williams who was the first to break the news, as he always does. pete, good morning. walk us through what s next in the process and who is on the short list. well, the immediate next is that justice breyer will go to the white house this afternoon, we think, and formally hand the
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he had a long view. he thought well, he spoke clearly and he wrote beautifully. tomiko, how do you see his legacy? of course justice breyer was a professor of administrative law at harvard law school for many years. his professorial training was evident in both his personal bearing and judicial style. he s an institutionalist who is a strong believer in an apolitical court, an impassed advocate of the rule of law and a jurist who could always clearly see both sides of an issue, the merits of both sides. this was particularly evident in partial birth abortion opinion he wrote among others, where the rulings of roe versus wade and casey were vindicated. i will also say that justice breyer was a strong believer, is a strong believer in
the mother describing the moment that her son told her her daughter drown. the u.s. coast guard suspects this is another case of human smuggling of people desperate to flee to the united states. still ahead, more on the retirement of supreme court justice stephen breyer and a look at some of the names on the list for his replacement. plus the physical and emotional scars of a devastating humanitarian crisis in afghan where people are selling their kidneys, selling their children just to survive. you re watching jose diaz-balart reports. g jose diaz-balart reports. well, he may have friends, but he rides alone.
pete williams, thank you so much for being with me this morning. you bet. now to the latest on the escalating tensions between russia and the ukraine. the kremlin says vladimir putin is reviewing written responses from the u.s. and nato to russian demands. there are few reasons for optimism this morning. this comes one day after the u.s. ambassador to russia personally delivered what secretary of state tony blinken called a serious diplomatic path forward, not revealing specific details about the u.s. response. it fell far short of addressing putin s demands that ukraine never be allowed to join nato and nato undo its post cold war expansion into europe. blinken says the ball is now in russia s court. we ve weighed out a diplomatic path, we ve lined up steep consequences should russia choose further aggression. we step forward with more support for ukraine s security and economy. we and our allies and partners are united across the board. as russia reviews the