russia s president to respond to written responses to putin s demand. we make clear there are core principles we are committed to uphold and defend, including ukraine sovereignty, and territorial integrity, and the rights to choose security arrangements and alliances. the document is with them, and the ball is in their court. we ll see what we do, as i said repeatedly, whether they choose the path of diplomacy and dialogue, whether they decide to renew aggression against ukraine, we re prepared either way. secretary of state antony blinken there, sticking with territorial integrity, and drawing a red line on nato. putin can get what he wants on nato in less direct ways with other concessions. his spokesperson has indicated there are concessions on the table, they include the state department was specific yesterday, today they didn t put the exact list out. they mentioned the place of s missi missiles exercises. now, on one hand it s important to consider that putin starte
america. this is so important. and in 2024 we are going to take back the white house. now, despite all of the lies donald trump tells, this could actually come true. remember 2015 and that escalator ride into all of our lives. a lot of people didn t take him seriously before that. there was a lot of disbelief he would actually follow through on his bluster of running the first time. so, this time around we might want to believe him. we have no reason not to believe he s running again, which means the nation would be facing the nightmare scenario of a wanna be dictator in which people died attempting to regain the highest office of the land. imagine trump thugs wearing trump hats and t-shirts after running loose inside the halls of congress. imagine those thugs carrying that man back into power, cheering him on at the next inaugural parade just three years from now. please don t tell me that can happen again because you know it could. but none of that is a disqualifier for m
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
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 think
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 first afr