retirement announcement could come as early as tomorrow from here at the white house. guys. thank you. he s get to cnn justice correspondent. tell us the back story what we know about the decision here. this is a retirement that progressive groups have been pushing for the past year. we saw justice breyer brush aside the calls last june. with just months into the mid term and republicans thwart a biden pick. justice stephen breyer announcing plans to retire from the supreme court after resisting a persistent drum beat of calls to step down. he said he relished being the senior most justice of the liberal wing and would only consider two things when deciding to leave.
he starts talking about it then shoves in at the end of the answer, i think it s time to nominate a black woman to the supreme court. he knew he had to remember to which was key in obviously we saw what happened after the south carolina primary. that is such a fascinating story. i don t know if president biden has also listened to the first part of that advice either from clyburn of changing his answers. two-hour press conference last week. but this brings me to the politics of this and that is senator mitch mcconnell was on the record, i believe it was in may, saying he is 100% committed to stopping the biden administration. is there anything that senator mcconnell could do to obstruct this choice? no. and i m so glad you asked that because i wanted to make this point because we re putting all of these names on the screen and i just want to make clear that you know, we ve been having so many discussions about the
confirmation process. breyer told several people who nudged him to retire that the confirmation process shouldn t be political. if the public sees judges as politicians in robes, its confidence in the courts and rule of law itself can only diminish. some democrats were worried breyer would remain on the bench and with the midterms looming, senate republicans have already raised the stakes around his retirement with five gop lawmakers telling cnn in december they would likely oppose any nominee out of this white house if they take the majority in november. it usually takes two to three months for a president to see a nominee confirmed, but the most recent nominee was confirmed in just a month and a half after senate republicans pushed to get her approved before the 2020 election. thank you for that. let s bring back laura coates
that we will uphold the principle of nato s open door. nato s door is open. remains open. and that is our commitment. now, secretary blinken said that president biden has been intimately involved in the process that led up to this proposal that the united states gave russia saying that the president even gave some of his own edits, demonstrating just how involved president biden is in pursuing this path of diplomacy. this comes of course though as russia continues to build up its military presence along ukraine s borders and secretary blinken was very clear in saying the united states is working to evoke incredibly high costs on russia should they go forth with any such invasion. really interesting reporting. thank you. so today, russia brought in a number of fighter jets to belarus, which borders ukraine.
raw kruger. kruger, a former justice lawyer has argued several cases before the u.s. supreme court. the white house brushing off speculation that the president might nominate kamala harris. the president has every intention of running for reelection and running with vice president harris on the ticket as his partner. reporter: the pickle not change the balance of the conservative court, but with president biden with inflation soaring, his agenda stalling and poll numbers sinking it is a chance for a much-needed commit cal win. joining us now, former republican counsel to the house government reform and oversight investigative committee, now ooh contributing editor for the grillo sophia nelson. she is out with a new piece entitled joe biden must put a black woman on the supreme court. sophia, that appears to be his promise and some of the options were just put on the table by