western reporters actually inside the country. look at the unrest going on in iran right now, the unrest in russia right now. yeah. people say they ve never seen protests at this scale. it s getting serious. a lot of mothers getting out there. they don t want their sons being dragged off to war. we begin with a new development on the war in ukraine. volodymyr zelenskiy is accusing russia of nuclear blackmail and says he does not think president vladimir putin is bluffing, this as the u.s. announced an additional $457 million in civilian assistance to ukraine. nbc news foreign correspondent erin mclaughlin has more. reporter: days after russian president vladimir putin issued a thinly veiled nuclear threat, u.s. officials sending a message of their own. if russia crosses this line, there will be catastrophic consequences for russia. the united states will respond decisively. reporter: that warning coming the same weekend that outrage, fear, and brutality swept
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a remarkable achievement, getting 83 of his judges through the senate, a senate, by the way, that is evenly split 50/50. he has needed unanimous democratic support for most of these judges. remember all that talk in the trump administration about how he s confirming a record number of judges and reshaping it with conservatives? it was true, but so far joe biden is outpacing him. you saw the numbers at this juncture in their presidencies. the types of judges are particularly notable here. biden is reshaping the courts with historically diverse slate of judges, not just in terms of personal background. yes, there are high shares of black, latino, and asian american judges, and about three-quarters this summer were women, highly unusual, but also in terms of experience. biden is nominating more public defenders, more civil rights lawyers, more labor lawyers on the union side breaking with what both parties tended to operate on, find former
federal judiciary. making the federal judiciary more representative of our country, not only in terms of demographic makeup but also in the kinds of professional experiences that these new judges are bringing to the bench. we are now seeing more public defenders than we ve ever seen before. more labor lawyers. of course, that s vitally important given how diverse the docket of the federal courts are. it is important to have those perspectives represented, as well. so the first time we re going to be seeing not a white male majority on the supreme court, right? how does that it is kind of what you re speaking to here, how does that really change the dynamic of the court? well, i think it is important as a symbolic matter to show that we are living in a multi-racial democracy, and all our institutions should reflect that reality, including the court. but as a practical matter on the court, judge jackson or now justice jackson s introduction to the nine-member court is not necessari
your prediction has come true. we re going to listen in to press secretary jen psaki speaking from the podium at the white house. this includes the most diverse class of judges in history at a rate not seen since president reagan. as you may have seen friday night and saturday morning, the senate confirmed dozens of historical and critical nominees. this includes nine federal court judges bringing the total to 40, more than any other president since president reagan. but it s not the sheer number of people nominated and confirmed. as the president said in his commencement address last week, he s proud to have appointed more black women to the circuit courts than any administration in american history. we ve confirmed the first lgbtq woman ever to serve as a federal circuit court judge, and these 40 judges include people who have previously served as public defenders, labor lawyers and civil rights lawyers as well as prosecutors and government attorneys. the senate also voted to con