warnings from an expert straight ahead this hour. but i want to start now with cnn s supreme court analyst steve ladek and global affairs analyst susan glass here to talk about what is going on with breyer s official retirement has not happened but that s the word that it s going to happen soon. good evening to both of you. susan, president biden gets a supreme court pick, a chance to turn a new page in his presidency, a way to shore up the base and fulfill a big campaign promise. but still, it probably won t be an easy road, will it? in these divided times that we re living in right now. you know, nothing is easy, don, anymore in our politics. i mean, for president biden it s really full circle. as the chairman of the judiciary committee he was around three decades ago helping to preside over the confirmation hearings of justice breyer. now he ll get to pick his replacement. i m struck by the initial tone from conservatives which has not been fire-breathing, you know, this
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Are mutually exclusive. i think on the one hand you re absolutely right, they re speaking to their audiences, they re joining up a kind of resistance and a kind of anger at look at this guy talking this kind of stuff, and blackness is much more complicated and look, by the way, he s lighter than us or darker than us and therefore he s not really black. come on. so yeah, they re playing to the ignorance of their audience. but they re also, you know, exposing a kind of lethal ignorance about the very nature of race itself. and in that sense, yeah, they know better. look, i met joe rogan and spoke to him after a concert by dave chappelle. you re opening for dave chappelle, one of the blackest men in america. not because of his brown skin tone. not because of the shade of his skin. but by virtue of the ideals he promotes, the ideals with which he wrestles, and the ways in which he gets it right or some would say wrong and his life experiences. and life experiences. and the way in whi
His campaign promise to nominate a black woman? the short list circulating in washington signals history s about to be made. and you ve got to hear this. podcaster joe rogan thinks he has the definition of what makes a black person. unless you re talking to someone who is like 100% african from the darkest place where they re not wearing any clothes all day and they ve developed all that melanin to protect themselves from the sun, even the term black is weird. okay. professor michael eric dyson s name coming up as part of this uninformed rant. he joins me just ahead on that. and the country might be sick of covid but the cdc is predicting more than 62,000 deaths over the next month. warnings from an expert straight ahead this hour. but i want to start now with cnn s supreme court analyst steve vladeck and global affairs analyst susan glass here to talk about what is going on with breyer s official retirement has not happened but that s the word that it s going to happen soon.
They believe she s a political liability to biden and they want him to choose someone else. so i agree with bakari, she s not going on, but make no mistake, this whole theory was floated today by people who think biden would be better off if he had a different running mate. all right. thank you all. i appreciate it. he s got the most popular podcast in the world. but when the conversation turned to race the other day, well, what was said on joe rogan s podcast about prominent black professor michael eric dyson was jaw-dropping. neither of us are white. well, i m italian mostly. and he was brown, not black. well, isn t that weird? yeah. it s really weird. the black and white thing is so strange because the shades are so tan and brown. there s such a spectrum of shades of people. thanks to the cartridge-free epson ecotank printer. a ridiculous amount of ink! you re mocking me. not again! the epson ecotank. just fill & chill. wondering what actually goes into your mult