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and it includes history. listen. i have made no decision except one. the person i will nominate will be someone with extraordinary qualifications, character, experience and integrity. and that person will be the first black woman ever nominated to the united states supreme court. it s long overdue in my opinion. i made that commitment during the campaign for president, and i will keep that commitment. get to our chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins at the white house. the president said he didn t want to share much about what comes next but he shared an historic deal. it s also notable he put a timeline on here saying he will, his intention is to let everyone know who his nominee is by the end of february. so what that is going to kick off internally at the white house is a very extensive process of vetting. and the president has already he said he s been looking at the backgrounds of potential replacements. he s going to study this carefully. he ll l ....
classrooms. many are questioning why. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with our politics lead and that major announcement by president biden about who will succeed supreme court justice stephen breyer when breyer retires at the end of this term. the person i will nominate will be someone with extraordinary qualifications, character, experience and integrity. that person will be the first black woman ever nominated to the united states supreme court. now, biden says he has not yet made a decision on just who that person will be, but he is going to invite senators from both parties to hear their opinions, their points of view. biden says he expects to choose a nominee before the end of february. as cnn s m.j. lee reports, some have been lobbying the president on just who that nominee should be since back in february, 2021. this is sort of a bittersweet day for me. justice breyer and i go back a long way. reporter: a momentous day for the jo ....
progressive democrats. which really enough is run by an extremely white guy called brian fallon, which is strange if you think about it. brian fallon is so president about getting leadership roles, why is he not resigned from his job and given it to one? in any case, you ve got to hand it to brian fallon. he either is remarkably pressured or someone in power was listening to him. just this morning it was announced that stephen breyer is retiring. it was announced. because breyer himself did not announce his retirement. it s not even clear he knew the announcement was going to happen. someone leaked that news with or without justice breyer s consent. he didn t wait for him to do it himself. because democrats understand they are likely to lose to congress this november. they want to control him while they still can. what are they going to do with that? we don t need to guess. joe biden is very clear about his plan. he was very precise about the supreme court. here is bide ....
being shown the door earlier today. he didn t make the announcement, somebody else leaked his retirement plan. a short time later the white house probably confirm joe biden strategy to fill the spot. biden said he will make his pick based purely on race and gender. promised only an african american woman will be selected. at jonathan turley, a democrat, questions the constitutionality of this criteria. he brought this, precisely what the supreme court already declared to be unconstitutional, discrimination. we will have more of his article coming up and we will break biden s potentially break it all down. the unlawful and unconstitutional strategy. but first, another groundbreaking moment at the white house. joe biden action at a public event. that did not involve ice cream but unfortunately for joe, it didn t go particularly well. take a look. i m always talking about corvettes. i will point out, when i went to dearborn driving nuts, you know, i was up there. i don ....
written responses to russia s demands in their ukraine. the secretary of state saying the ball is now in russia s court as tensions heightened between moscow and kiev. one california the first of its kind gun laws requiring canova s to purchase liability insurance and pay an annual tax. what it could mean for gun owners across the country. begin tonight with the story. global supreme court justice stephen breyer and what i am told is his eminent retirement. white house correspondent kevin corke has all the details tonight, including how the administration is responding to questions about seeking his successor. very interesting responses to that question. good evening. not long after it was reported that supreme court justice stephen breyer what in fact leave the bench at term s end, at least reportedly, white house press secretary jen psaki insisted that president biden would stand by his promise to nominate a black woman into the high court. critics of course and tha ....