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 will be the fight to end all fights. and it really reflects actually their success of the last few years in reorienting the court and now having what appears to be a 6-3 conservative majority.
from conservatives which has not been fire-breathing, you know, this will be the fight to end all fights. and it really reflects actually their success of the last few years in reorienting the court and now having what appears to be a 6-3 conservative majority. steve, why are you shaking your head in agreement? i mean, i think susan hit the nail on the head, don. this is not as nearly high stakes a confirmation process as, you know, amy coney barrett replacing ruth ginsburg, as brett kavanaugh replacing anthony kennedy, merrick garland replacing anthony v antonin scalia. that s why i think this process is not going to be quite as divisive and contentious as the last few we ve seen. you know, from the republicans perspective, what s the point? you know, if president biden is able to successfully confirm, say, the first black woman in the supreme court s history,
0 his campaign promise to nominate a black woman? the short list circulating in washington signals history s about to be made. and you ve got to hear this. podcaster joe rogan thinks he has the definition of what makes a black person. unless you re talking to someone who is like 100% african from the darkest place where they re not wearing any clothes all day and they ve developed all that melanin to protect themselves from the sun, even the term black is weird. okay. professor michael eric dyson s name coming up as part of this uninformed rant. he joins me just ahead on that. and the country might be sick of covid but the cdc is predicting more than 62,000 deaths over the next month. warnings from an expert straight ahead this hour. but i want to start now with cnn s supreme court analyst steve vladeck 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. goo