Battle for georgia is intensifying as Vice President Kamala Harris is about to hold a rally lando. This, as were learning new details about first search for a Running Mate a process, the timing and the top contenders also tonight, the political ad wars are the knob with the Harris And Trump campaigns, spending millions on new spots against one another, dropped, seizing on the issue of immigration and trying to Pin Problems at the southern border on Harris Plus Israel strikes inside of lebanon saying it targeted a Hezbollah Commander in response to a deadly attack. And the golan golan heights, were going to have a live report from beirut as the u. S. Is trying to tamp down fears of an allout war in the middle East Welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, Wolf Blitzer is off today. Im Pamela Brown and youre in the Situation Room first this hour, the spotlight is on georgia, where Vice President Kamala Harris is ramping up her campaign tonight, knowing the state c
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
well, i mean, look, there s example after example that comes every single night if you look at what s happening with the supreme court, what s happening with affirmative action, what s happening with a woman s right to choose. what s happening with election laws around the country. that is a direct, right, example of elections have consequences. absolutely. there s an election coming up in 2022. but you look at what s happened since the last election. look at the big lie. look at the people who are lying about the new video that i m going to talk about in a second of what happened at the capitol. still denying it, still saying it s nothing. wanting to move past it. and you cannot move past that without acknowledging and having at least some consequence or consequences for the party, for the republican party now and the former president of the united states. someone has to answer for what happened on january 6th. a direct assault on our democracy. no question, don. the
even though she didn t want to get into the details until breyer announcing this decision that it s a hypothetical, she did appear to confirm the big looming question, whether or not president biden intends to stand by his campaign pledge to nominate the first black woman to serve as a justice on the supreme court when that vacancy becomes official. just to give you a sense of how much the president s day has been up ended by this news, he was meeting with a number of ceoearlier today. we were in the room. all of the reporters in the room trying to get a quick reaction from the president to this news. take a listen. as the opportunity to decide what he or she will do and announce it on their own. there s been no announcement from justice breyer. let him make whatever statement he will be make. i ll be happy to talk about it later. thank you so much. you really can t underscore enough what a momentous decision this is for a sitting u.s. president to make. now president bid
could cross the alps into switzerland. you can hide in an attic like anne frank did. there is a lot wrong with that. we ll talk about it. and calls to change the nfl s overtime rules after a coin toss leads kansas city s victory over buffalo. what a great game, right? we ll discuss that with the legendary sportscaster bob costas. really great football weekend. we ll discuss that coming up. after turning to the democratic congressman of colorado led a congressional visit to ukraine in december and is fully briefed on the situation. so happy to have you on. good evening to you. you just came back from ukraine. a lot of americans may be wondering exactly how this could affect us here in the u.s. how would you explain that? what is the situation? thanks, don. i sit on both the armed services and intelligence committee and house of representatives and i did lead a bipartisan delegation to ukraine. i met with senior defense officials, ukrainian defense officials. the swag is very