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campaign promise that may change the face of it. we ll be joined by james clyburn who also paved the way by making sure then candidate biden made this commitment. we talked about the supreme court, i m looking forward to making sure there s a black woman on the supreme court to make sure in fact that every i committed that if i m elected president, have an opportunity to appoint someone to the courts will be, i ll appoint the first black woman to the courts. it s required they have representation now. it s long overdue. we are putting together a list of a group of african american women who are qualified and have the experience to be in the court. i am not going to release that until we go further down the line and vetting them as well. well, there are plenty of highly qualified candidates, some of whom are already vetted. we ll speak with valerie jarrett. we ll talk about the process of getting any nominee confirmed, which is, as you know, has produced memorabl ....
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 ....
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 ....
the door earlier today. well, he didn t makeak the announcement. someone leaked his retirement plan. thenls a short timeeis later, the white house proudly confirmed joe biden s strategy to fill breyer sbi spot. now biden said he will make his pick based purely purely on race and gender and promised only an african-american woman will be selected. jonathan turley, a democrat, tquestions the constitutionaliy of this criteria. he wrote this precisely what the supreme court already declared to be unconstitutional discriminatet. we ll have more of his article a coming up and we ll break biden s potentially break it all down as unlawful potential, unconstitutional strategy. but first, another a groundbreaking morning at the whitebrea house. get this joe biden actually hadd a public event that did not involve ice cream. unfortunately for joebu didn t o particularly well. take a look. you know, i m always talking corvettes at don t make ford orb anybody else upset, but i migh ....
disinformation campaign against vaccines. so, maybe it doesn t work and they are simply not telling you that. and how the signature policy achievement for democrats is yielding unbelievably good results. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. after 27 years on the supreme court, today we learned that justice stephen breyer was 83 years old, is retiring. justice breyer is one of the three remaining liberal justices in the sits jury court. it is a huge announcement. this morning, when nbc news broke the story, it was that rare push alert on my phone that actually gave me kind of a sense of relief. because usually when something pops up, these days, it s like, oh god, what now? the broader announcement is still not official, in fact, the white house is expected to make a formal announcement about his retirement tomorrow. we expect the president and prior to appear together. for his part, today, biden declined to appear today until ....