i hope will i know that president biden will nominate and i hope that the republicans can see their way to support such a justice. all right, senator ma mazie hirono, thank you for your time. thank you, aloha. okay, let s bring in cnn senior political analyst n nia malika henderson, former republican congressman charlie dent and former federal prosecutor harry litman who helped prepare justice breyer for his confirmation hearings in 1994. great to see all of you. charlie, i want to start with you because we just heard from the democratic side, from senator hirono but i know that you think that it wasn t a great idea for president biden to lead with the notion that he wants a black woman for this position. why not? obviously, president reagan did this in 1980, where he talked about how he was going to find a woman to put on the supreme court. how is this different? well, i think it s totally appropriate, and i sympathize.
in washington? that is not characterization we are making. there have been cases, even vaccinated that are incredibly effective are not foolproof. we are seeing breakthrough cases, doctrine itself doctor nicole saphier on hannity said we are seeing breakthrough cases but the vaccines are working because he knows breakthrough cases people have cold-like symptoms. they are not hospitalized, they are not dying as a result of these breakthrough cases and when it comes to vaccine hesitancy of the messaging that every part of this discussion throughout the country i think people, this is a frustration level and we surpassed it. todd: to hear her nonstate is a super spreader, i m not going to say the amy coheny barrett hearing was perfect, it wasn t a great idea but if you re going to attack republicans in that situation you have to be even stephen and i have to attack these democrats who did not have to come to dc.
at what he did as a bailiff. and he was ruthless about that. and he earned me, the firm a lot of money, it was a partnership. and so the more he brings in, the more i bring in, the more profits we get to share at the end of the year. and it worked well. so him dying caused me a massive amount of grief, financially and business wise, because the partnership ceased to exist. but it wasn t a great idea, was it, to put sid fillery, your friend from the police, into daniel s job after his death? it s not stepping into dead man s shoes. that wasn t the phrase i used, that s a phrase you used. i m telling you, that s what s in the report and that s what people have said in their statements. daniel died in march. it was 18 months, in fact, nearly two years later before i invited sid to come and join us. i d been arrested by hampshire, this was in 89. so i was banished on bail up to south yorkshire and had no one to run the office.
conversation with they talked about wikileaks and the president talked about what was coming next. it all begins to come together. what what is it that nancy pelosi says? all roads lead to putin. it looks like that may well be the end point for all this. chuck, are we to believe it s a coincidence that roger stone lied to congress to protect donald trump from something that was unflattering about russia? gordon sondland had to amend his testimony because what he would have testified to would have been donald trump doing something to ukraine, withholding military aid that was good for putin. is it a coincidence that everything everyone lies about is good for putin? i hope i m speaking for frank and joyce here. those of us who come out of federal law enforcement don t really believe in coincidences. you know, i remember it seems like three decades ago when michael cohen said he would take a bullet for the president. and then ultimately decided that wasn t a great idea. roger stone
the board in realtime. i did. what s amazing to me is biden is giving this answer when in realtime it was clear that the vice president s office felt deeply uncomfortable about what was transpiring. they punted reporters over. they said, hunter s a private citizen, talk to his office. he office said, he s traveling. when is he coming back? we don t know. in realtime you could see there was a lot of discomfort over this decision. the fact that the former vice president is coming up with this answer at this late date makes you wonder a little bit. there s an opportunity to say d.c. can be better, this wasn t a great idea. hunter biden said in that interview it wasn t a great idea, actually. and biden is missing this opportunity to, one, try to stake a claim on making d.c. better, something that i realize donald trump said he was going to clean up the swamp, but also then being able to attack the president for what his kids are