now. we are grateful for your career dedication to fairness and justice for all. sandra: ok. let s bring in mike davis, a former law clerk for justice neil gorsuch. mike, thank you for jumping on the breaking news with us. these are people that you have intimate relationships with and you have spent a lot of time with those on the court. give us your thoughts in this moment as i go back to jennifer griffin s reporting about it seems that the justice wants to get it out there, although we are still waiting on a formal statement, that he was not forced out, and that this is a decision that he made on his own. what can you add to this? justice breyer is a good man. he was very good to my former boss, justice gorsuch and law clerks including me when we joined the courts. he has shown independence as a justice, he has been very outspoken about the democrats pushing to pack the supreme