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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 ....
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 one re-election, well, we are just going to throw that out and donald trump is the winner. i mean, we are we are really, you know, i think, facing that real-life scenario. and then, what do we do at that point, don? i mean, i think that is that is a crazy question to consider but i you know, it s it s becoming more real by the day. yeah. it was a wake-up call watching that. or i could say reality check but i don t want to take that away from mr. john avlon. she s been doing great reporting as all of our reporters on this. thank you very much. i appreciate it, jim. i will see you tomorrow night. this is don lemon tonight. and um, well, so let s talk about something that is i think this is good for not i th ....
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 ....
who that will be. also, how long it will take to get her confirmed. the legal and political aspects of that. supreme court reporter ariane de vo vogue. there s an interesting two track thing. he stays until the end of the term but start the process now. right. well, for years, the process was usually between two to three months. there was the pick and then the vet and the nominee would go and visit with all the senators but all that changed, remember, with justice amy coney barrett. the republicans really pushed it, compressed it from announcement to confirmation. it was about 30 days. so you could see here the democrats moving very quickly. they could have hearings, they could even have a vote and then the president wouldn t sign off on the commission until after the term, right? when breyer has finished on the term. on the other hand, timing is interesting because this hearing is about a lot more than the nominee. first of all, it s going to be, as you said, the fir ....
speak with ukrainian president zelensky last hour as tensions along the border persist. a source has told cnn zelensky is expected to tell president biden he s concerned about the rhetoric from the u.s. and other allies about the situation in his country. the united states reportedly made no concessions to russia in its written responses to the kremlin s security demands, and the russian foreign minister said there is, quote, no positive reaction, end quote, because it fails to address his government s main concern. sam kiley is in kyiv for us. do we know any more about this call from the ukrainians? reporter: well, no, we don t know any detail yet. we haven t had a readout from that call. there are indications of what the substance of it it would be, as victor was saying about some of the rhetoric. now we unpick how president zelensky has been reacting to some of the statements made by the united states and others, particularly the united kingdom over the last coup ....