Right. Hey, welcome to a special edition of gutfeld, everyone. And by special, i mean im here, and gregs not. Im Tom Shillue, in for Greg Gutfeld. Lets do some Joke S. Yeah, thats good. Three of the 911 terrorists awaiting trial in gitmo struck a plea deal avoid the Death Penalty. But biden hopes he can free them Jusn Hopet in to vote in ts years electio en prize. The biden administration completed a Prisoner Swap of americans being held in russia. The best part . The russians were forcedittany to take Brittney Griner back. O Bk Thath, good deal. Rapper D of public enemy is 64 today. Chuck has kind of mellowed with age, so he wants to change the Groups Name to public s e th Actress Tiffany Haddish sold used underwear to cheapsh falsely claimed were halle berrys for 300peer on craigslist. I want a refund, said one ma 30n, according to the New York times. Hamas Leader Ismail Haniya was killed by a bomb that had beenme smuggled into his guesthouse his e got there. Sounds like somebody is
it is i think it may be behind us. yeah, i mean, that s the thing i worry about, don, is that they seem to have cracked the code. you know, like safe crackers. they ve opened up the vault and found the mother lode. how they can overturn an election by going through the state election results. and you can control that if you have secretaries of state in these various battlegrounds who are going to say okay, hold on, it shows joe biden won re-election, but we re just going to throw that out and donald trump is the winner. i mean, we are really i think facing that real-life scenario. and then what do we do at that point, don? i think that is a crazy question to consider. but it s becoming more real by the day. it was a wake-up call watching that. i can say reality check but i don t want to take that away from mr. john avlon. kyung needs her own thing. she s been doing great reporting. as all of our reporters on this. as you shall other kyung s great. thank you very muc
and she has a long and very stellar academic trail, having graduated from harvard and harvard law school. then clerked on the supreme court. then was in private practice for a few years and then as i said became a maybe i didn t say, became a public defender. which is very important because biden has stressed that he wants to have a diversity, not just of demographics but of experience. and she represented indigent defendants accused of crimes, several of the members of the court are former prosecutors, but i don t think there has been anybody that has represented people that were accused of crimes since thurgood marshall and that s a long time ago. he was the first african american justice on the supreme court. so the other leading contender is leondra kruger. and she is a justice on the california supreme court. like ketanji brown jackson, she has stellar legal credentials. interestingly, she was hired by the republican solicitor general of the united states to be an assi
welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. it is thursday, january 27th. i m john berman with brianna keilar. just a few hours from now, the fight officially begins to fill the next vacancy on the nation s highest court. president biden and stephen breyer expected to officially announce breyer s retirement at the white house. obviously this has major historical and political implications. so here s a look at the supreme court vacancy by the numbers. 108 of the 115 u.s. justices have been white men. the other seven, two black men and five women. it s been 28 years since bill clinton and breyer showed off their running legs in short-shorts. just another reason to love the 90s. 28 years since then senator biden presided over briar s nomination. six years since former president obama announced now attorney general merrick garland to fill antonin scalia s seat. that didn t work out. 1,239 days since one of the most heated confirmation hearings i
drama. we re going to have more on that in a moment. the president s standing by his campaign pledge to nominate the first black woman to the court. the question remains, however, who will that person be? and will the process be completed before the midterm elections. we are also following some breaking news on the economy. thankfully some good news. in the last year the u.s. economy grew at the fastest rate since 1984. this according to a new report out this morning, we re going to have much more on that coming up. but first cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider and white house correspondent jeremy diamond are standing by with more on the news about justice brierbreyer stepping down. how do we expect this to play out timing-wise? we re still waiting to hear from justice breyer directly or potentially a statement from the supreme court. we re expecting maybe that will come later this morning, early afternoon. but a source has told kaitlan collins that justic