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 joe bide
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 couple of
how would we do a dramatic reading for that long? we ll only do 20 minutes or so. nasa says it s monitoring a rogue spacex rocket booster that could crash into the moon in early march and leave behind a crater. the rocket has been floating around since its launch back in 2015. look, all i want to say is pick up your space junk. space debris, bad. that s it. the lead with jake tapper starts now. a new way for joe biden to make history. the lead starts right now. president biden says he s made one decision when it comes to naming that replacement for retiring supreme court justice stephen breyer. then, a warning from the pentagon, russia adding even more forces near its border with ukraine as president biden tries to ease tensions by phone. and, book removal outrage. a novel about the holocaust is yanked from some tennessee
So, listen, there s something floating around in space for almost, look, almost seven years at this point. it is what space experts say is a rogue spacex rocket booster. and they re saying now it s on target to slam into the dark side of the moon. yeah. of course, the dark side. according to nasa this could happen by early march. let s discuss with an expert, janet ivy. the president of explore mars inc. is here to break it all down. known for her models and snazzy backgrounds. janet, thanks for being with us. nasa says they re monitoring the situation, how soon will we have a clear picture, the data needed to get a clear picture of the actual track, where it s headed and the timing? well, we really so a debt of
Experts now believe that a rogue spacex rocket booster that launched in 2015 could slam into the dark side of the moon in just a few weeks. ngry for m moe and then you re just like, “wow, i m learning ababout my family.” yeah, yep. which one, what d you find? lorrrraine banks, look, county of macomb, michigan? look at grandma. hey grandma! unbelievable. everybody deserves to know who they are and where they came from. ohhh.cool. this whole journey has been such a huge gift for our family.