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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 ....
it is i think it may be behind us. yeah, i mean, that s the thing i worry about, don, is that they seem to have cracked the code. you know, like safe crackers. they ve opened up the vault 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 won re-election, but we re just going to throw that out and donald trump is the winner. i mean, we are really i think facing that real-life scenario. and then what do we do at that point, don? i think that is a crazy question to consider. but it s becoming more real by the day. it was a wake-up call watching that. i can say reality check but i don t want to take that away from mr. john avlon. kyung needs her own thing. she s been doing great reporting. as all of our reporters on this. as you shall other kyung s great. thank you ve ....
good morning to viewers here in the united states and around the world. it is thursday, january 7th. i m brianna keilar with john berman. we are beginning with a rare opportunity for a struggling president to reenergize his party and to make history in the process. supreme court justice stephen breyer set to announce his retirement at the white house today, giving president biden a chance to deliver on a campaign promise to nominate the first african american female justice to the bench. let s get a sense of the timing, short list, and republican plans to slow down the process. jeremy diamond is there. jeremy, if i also in on the details. reporter: well, we learned yesterday justice breyer is set to retire after 30 years. he was tight-lipped on this. without a formal announcement, the president would not weigh in. but today they are set to make this official. and this opening gives biden a chance to nominate a justice to the supreme court and potentially make hi ....
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 fir ....
speak with ukrainian president zelensky last hour as tensions along the border persist. a source has told cnn zelensky is expected to tell president biden he s concerned about the rhetoric from the u.s. and other allies about the situation in his country. the united states reportedly made no concessions to russia in its written responses to the kremlin s security demands, and the russian foreign minister said there is, quote, no positive reaction, end quote, because it fails to address his government s main concern. sam kiley is in kyiv for us. do we know any more about this call from the ukrainians? reporter: well, no, we don t know any detail yet. we haven t had a readout from that call. there are indications of what the substance of it it would be, as victor was saying about some of the rhetoric. now we unpick how president zelensky has been reacting to some of the statements made by the united states and others, particularly the united kingdom over the last coup ....