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the vacancy is a cherished legacy moment for any president. the timing of this one makes it all the more consequential for this president. president biden promises history, a black woman, he says, will be his nominee. and just that is giant. plus the confirmation process adds interest to the midterm election year. a chance for the president and his fellow democrats to reset a political landscape that, up until now, is tilted decidedly in the republicans favor. that opportunity officially begins in just a few moments when the president and justice breyer appear together at the white house. chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins is there. a giant moment for the president. a huge moment. but we re expecting this to be a small ceremony actually, john, here at the white house where president biden will formally announce that justice breyer is retiring from the supreme court. of course, therefore, giving him that coveted vacancy where he can then select someone to ....
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 ....
daughter has got a recital, son has a football game. but if you are the speaker of the house, you get to use children as an excuse to stay in congress well past your expiration date because yesterday nancy pelosi made this announcement. when people ask me what are the three most important issues facing the congress, i always say the same thing. our children, our children, our children. that is my why. why i am in congress for the children. this is my story and this is my song. as you hear me say when you are in the arena, you have to be able to take a punch or throw a punch for the children. that is why i am running for re-election to congress. jesse: that s right. nancy pelosi at age 8 is rubbing for re-election. she says she is doing it for the children. but whose children, exactly? her own children. paul pelosi jr. is 52 years old and let s just say he and hunter biden would get along really well. he has been tied up in a ton of shady business at the federal ag ....
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 ....
southern border. she s not stopping. she s on her way to honduras. listen. a wildly busy news morning, you are watching fox & friends first on this thursday, i am todd piro. i m carley shimkus and fox news with footage showing dhs contractor with secret migrant operations and admitting the white house is betraying the american people. ashley strohmier has more on all of it. body camera video up fox news with dhs contractor trying to keep illegal migrants on the low down as they are released in the u.s. watch. secretly in all of this [bleep]. if this gets out, the government speed to the august video reveals the flight full of migrants flew in forte blitz texas peer they have frustration and no information about the flights arriving after curfew at the airport from a breach of security protocol. a former executive had to say of the midnight flights. our government is completely out of control right now. they have lied to us peer they are putting on planes ....