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will respect breyer s timeline for any official announcement. we re coming on the air with breaking news. nbc news learned stephen g. breyer will step down as a justice on the supreme court. there s been no announcement from justice breyer. let him make whatever statement he s going to make and i will be happy to talk about it later. the president saying he won t talk specifics yet, a matter of respect and decorum, but news this big waits for no one. the u.s. senate gearing up for a major confirmation clash going into the mid-terms. a senator with a vote on the matter joins our special coverage later on tonight s show and white house staff already outlining some of the likely plans. breyer expected to announce his retirement as early as tomorrow officially. reports are he would leave at the end of this term, giving the white house plenty of time to select and push a nominee. now, is that breyer s way of also shaping the timing of his own replacement process? i act ....
report. a cover-up that is at least as damning as any i have heard of in the last few years. u.s. and its allies prepare for war both actual and economic. we don t believe that mr. putin has made a final decision. we still think there is time and space for diplomacy. couple of jaunts for ice cream, joe hasn t spent much time out. let s see, um, he, um, he would say he doesn t have enough free time on his schedule. it will be baby just let it be if it s meant to be it will be ainsley: well, it is meant to be that we are back in the studio. it is january 26th that we are back together. it s been it was a few weeks we were out. and. steve: working remotely. ainsley: it is really nice to be back. i saw that carley and todd are back, too. steve: just in time because, according to the weather forecasters, this weekend, here in new york city, 1 or 2 feet of snow could fall. and there could be 50 and 60 or 70 mile-per-hour winds. so it looks like it s ....
the top name in speculation right now judge katanji brown jackson, joe biden recently appointed to the d.c. circuit court of appeals to replace merrick garland. jackson is a former clerk of justice breyer, confirmed in a 53-44 majority by the senate. joining me is nbc news justice correspondent pete williams, chief legal correspondent and host of the beat ari melber, kelly o donnell and slate legal correspondent dahlia lithwick. pete, you broke this news. justice breyer himself has not announced it or made it official but can you tell us anything about the decision-making process behind his decision to retire? well, our understanding is he came to this decision within the last several weeks. he s obviously in good health. he is 83. he s the court s oldest member but that apparently did not his age or health did not play a part in this. we re told he s well aware of the current political climate. in the past supreme sort justices did not time their decisions in t ....
there are thousands of people in lockdown in apartment buildings where there have been hundreds of covid cases detected. all the schools in the city are closed right now. and the restaurants are closed after 6:00 p.m. soccer fields are shut down, outdoor soccer fields, just some of the examples of what the government is doing to try to keep covid out even though it s clearly in this crowded city. brianna? ivan, thank you so much for that unusual, alarming report. ivan watson. and new day continues right now. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world, it is tuesday, january 25th. i m john berman with brianna keilar. and we do have breaking news this morning. pfizer just announced the start of a clinical trial for a new vaccine engineered to specifically target the omicron variant. the company has already started manufacturing doses and plans to have the new vaccine ready in march. joining us now is cnn chief medical correspondent dr ....
american military forces? plus, georgia judges clear the way for a special grand jury to help investigate if donald trump illegally pressured officials to overturn the election loss in that state. and president biden caught on a hot mike, this time, using the language to in sult a fox news reporter. the question, what did they discuss in the follow-up phone call? it s way too early for this. good morning. welcome to way too early the show knows all too well the dangers of a hot mic. i m jonathan le mire. we ll start with the news. the pentagon has put thousands of u.s. troops on high alert as fears increase that russia may invade ukraine again. chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitch am has the details for us. reporter: with fears rising that russia could invade ukraine, president biden considering a major show of force near russia putting up to 8500 u.s. troops on heightened alert mostly as part of a nato response force. military action from russia ....