joe biden won arizona. the ballots provided to us to count in the coliseum very accurately correlate with the official campus numbers. as new gop-driven restrictive voting laws crop up in statehouses across the country. i m going to sign it right here. it s going to take effect. florida, your vote counts. number five, president biden and his team try to show democrats can deliver with big legislative victories first on covid relief and then infrastructure. but the question remains, and is build back better social spending plan passed through the senate? at number four, double trouble for the gop in georgia. as republicans lose two senate runoff races in january. jon ossoff, the democratic candidate in georgia, he is defeating david perdue. gop insiders blame trump grumbling that his election lies backfired. he is hereby acquitted of the charge.
democrats can deliver with big legislative victories first on covid relief then infrastructure. but the question remains, in his build back better social spending plan, can it pass through the senate? at number four, double trouble for the gop in georgia as republicans lose two senate runoff races in january. the democratic candidate in georgia, he is defeating david purdue, the republican candidate. gop insiders blamed trump grumbling that his election lies backfired. he is hereby acquitted of the charge. trump becomes the first american president to be impeached for a second time, this time for inciting the insurrection at the capitol. once again republicans stand in the way of a conviction. democrats falling short of the 67 votes needed to convict trump. this is the second time donald trump has been acquitted of an impeachment trial in the u.s. senate. at number two, an event that
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
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 what s going to elevate a black woman to the highest court in the land. what does it mean to have that kind of representation? i think it means everything. i think that there are so many black women who have been fighting for this for a long time. it s important for people to understand that this is not something that started with the biden administration. it went back to the obama administration and beyond. black women have showed up in record numbers at the polls. they ve registered millions of voters. they ve run for office. and so no one is really doing us a favor here. this is a reflection of what democracy is supposed to be. democracy is about representation. but i do think that this moment means something special for so
0 his campaign promise to nominate a black woman? the short list circulating in washington signals history s about to be made. and you ve got to hear this. podcaster joe rogan thinks he has the definition of what makes a black person. unless you re talking to someone who is like 100% african from the darkest place where they re not wearing any clothes all day and they ve developed all that melanin to protect themselves from the sun, even the term black is weird. okay. professor michael eric dyson s name coming up as part of this uninformed rant. he joins me just ahead on that. and the country might be sick of covid but the cdc is predicting more than 62,000 deaths over the next month. warnings from an expert straight ahead this hour. but i want to start now with cnn s supreme court analyst steve vladeck 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. goo