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called leader schumer and whip clyburn this morning and the vice president is engaged in the process but she called former president obama and former president clinton and also been calling a rang of members of congress as the announcement process. personally you have been listening to general psaki laying out details on the supreme court selection process but in a big headline this afternoon announcing new sanctions in partnership with the allies against russian president vladimir putin sanctioning him personal with foreign minister sergei lavrov. joining us is andrea mitchell
white house press secretary jen psaki holding her briefing. and then pentagon press secretary john kirby. i ll be joined by one of the top lawmakers later in the show. and oh, by the way, the possibility of new cdc guidance with the briefing on that starting on that front as we speak. we re watching all of it. we ve got teams on every angle on all these stories. let me start with justice correspondent pete williams, kristen welker, ali vitali, amy howell, legal analyst tali weinstein and ceo of the national coalition of black civic participation, melody campbell. good to see you all. thank you. pete, we ve got to start with you here. we have the pick. it is now official as we saw live on msnbc just within the last hour. talk us through the process and where it goes from here. well, she ll now begin that process of meeting with
contours of federal law. so she has that experience and, of course, before that, she was eight years as a federal trial court judge, too. and that s additional experience that she ll bring to the court. plus she has some experience the court hasn t seen for 40 years. she s a former federal public defender. and not since thurgood marshall was on the court has there been someone who has legitimate experience defending criminal justice defendants. and she also served on the u.s. sentencing commission which is another thing she has in common with stephen breyer and she s a former breyer clerk. there s lots of things in her background that would add to the experience of the court. pete, thank you. you ve got more reporting to do. aly, let s look ahead to what s going to happen which is the confirmation process. you may have just seen that flow chart up. that is how things are going to go. it is a lengthy process but it s expected to be accelerated. as we re coming on the air in the last c