will respect breyer s timeline for any official announcement. we re coming on the air with breaking news. nbc news learned stephen g. breyer will step down as a justice on the supreme court. there s been no announcement from justice breyer. let him make whatever statement he s going to make and i will be happy to talk about it later. the president saying he won t talk specifics yet, a matter of respect and decorum, but news this big waits for no one. the u.s. senate gearing up for a major confirmation clash going into the mid-terms. a senator with a vote on the matter joins our special coverage later on tonight s show and white house staff already outlining some of the likely plans. breyer expected to announce his retirement as early as tomorrow officially. reports are he would leave at the end of this term, giving the white house plenty of time to select and push a nominee. now, is that breyer s way of also shaping the timing of his own replacement process? i actually
the un warns the country is hanging by a thread. a millions of people are living in frozen hel. also reports that the u. s . supreme court justice stephen breyer plans to retire paving the way for president joe biden to nominate his 1st replacement to the top court. and honduras gets ready to swear in his 1st female president. but that s been overshadowed by a leadership battle in congress. ah, welcome to the program, the united states and nato say they re offering russia a diplomatic path out of the ukraine crisis in a written response to moscow security demands. the pair said that prepared to discuss arms control but rejected russia s call to ban care from nato muslin. jord reports not for washington dc. on wednesday night, the u. s. ambassador to russia, john sullivan hand delivered the american response to russia s demands for increased security guarantees. amid it s stand off with the west over ukraine, the letter several pages long repeats. the biden administration s po
charleston. p.m., a temple university professor talks about the cost of higher education in her book paying the price. she is interviewed by the former president of city university of new york. less than half, sometimes even 30% of the total cost of attending college. the real hangups that students have are they need to pay their rent, pay their utilities, by food, and they can t do those things the same way when they are in college, because they need to spend time in the classroom. it is those types of things that we saw trip them up. it really was not the tuition and fees. announcer: go to book tv.org for the complete schedule. announcer: on tuesday, the supreme court heard the oral argument in the case of an you rodriguez the colorado. of pena-rodriguez versus colorado. this is an hour. we ll hear argument next in 15-606, pena-rodriguez v. colorado. mr. fisher. mr. fisher: mr. chief justice, and may it please the court roughly half the trials in this country from
captioning sponsored by comedy central (eagle caw) (cheers and applause) stephen: welcome to the report. (audience chanting stephen ) (cheers and applause) stephen: well come to the report ! good to have you with us! thank you so much for being here! nation, today is the first monday in october, the start of the supreme court s new session, and i am pumped to the gavels. it s like the start of football season, only, unlike the n.f.l., the players go to court. (laughter) and right here on day one, the court s already decided on a huge non-decision. the supreme court has said it will not hear any of the seven same-sex marriage cases that were filed over the summer. now the lower court rulings stand. in most of these jurisdictions now, same-sex marriage will be de facto legal. now we are in a situation where 30 states have same-sex marriage. approximately 60% of the american people live in a state with same-sex marriage. the momentum when you have that many peo
about confederate president jefferson davis or as i call him the lincoln of slavery. investigators found i.s.i.s. used ammunition from 21 different countries including china. oh, no! some of those pull et cetera might contain lead! this is the colbert report ! (cheers and applause) captioning sponsored by comedy central (eagle caw) (cheers and applause) stephen: welcome to the report. (audience chanting stephen ) (cheers and applause) stephen: well come to the report ! good to have you with us! thank you so much for being here! nation, today is the first monday in october, the start of the supreme court s new session, and i am pumped to the gavels. it s like the start of football season, only, unlike the n.f.l., the players go to court. (laughter) and right here on day one, the court s already decided on a huge non-decision. the supreme court has said it will not hear any of the seven same-sex marriage cases that were filed over the summer. now the lower court ru