warnings from an expert straight ahead this hour. but i want to start now with cnn s supreme court analyst steve ladek 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. 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
is just par for the course. but when reagan ran for president in 1980, that record came back around and bit him a little bit. all through the 1960s and 70s, believe it or not, the republican party platform, nationally, had explicitly and implicitly supported the equal rights amendment, the era, the constitutional amendment that would guarantee equal legal rights for all citizens regardless of sex. the equal rights amendment had been kicking around for decades by that point, even for generations by that point. and the republican party, nationally, had said for years on its platform that it was explicitly in favor of it. until they picked ronald reagan as their presidential nominee in 1980. reagan was really right wing. and he was a culture war kind of conservative. and sticking it to the feminists was exactly the kind of thing that he built his campaign around. and so in 1980, the republican party dropped its decades-long support for the era, which bothered some women in the r
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. there has to be accountability. if there is no accountability for trump and his crew and what they did to this country on january 6th, we are in a heap of trouble. there s just no other way around it. i mean, to me that s why we have to keep holding their feet to the fire, don, no matter how much they complain over at fox and the five and all whatever their shows are called. they ve got greg and tucker. they complain about us calling them out. but guess what? we re going to keep doing it. it s not going to stop. yeah. i have no idea what
yes, it was just 24 hours ago the world was rocked by an insidious foul-mouth display of incoherent rage. it was the slander-in-chief lashing out at our very own peter doocy simply gathering information for our book report. political liability ahead of the. [indiscernible] what a stupid son of a bitch. in case you missed it, let s do it again in slow-mo. [slurred speech] the original s.o.p. felt old biden strikes again. of course, the target of his rath was the one reporter who asked questions joe can t answer on auto pilot. fox news peter doocy or as we like to see our very own. like we raised him in a plastic bubble. we took a clipping from steve doocy and then let miracle gro do the rest. doocy known for his hair and lengthy rap sheet was noticeably shaken up. someone came up to me in the briefing room a few minutes later and said, did you hear what the president said? and i said, no, what? he called you a cupid s.o.b.? i said, did he say s.o.b.? and the
creating these fake documents, these forgeries, in which he asserted the electors from their states even though they really weren t. they were not the real electors. they sent those forged documents, signed, them they sent them into congress to be counted into the electoral college. that s not on the show, we talked about new reporting from politico which reports that investigators at the national archives have themselves opened a federal investigation into one set of these forged fake republican electors from arizona in the case of that reported investigation. we ve also reported on attorneys general and at least two states referring this matter formerly to federal prosecutors to that u.s. attorneys and their states as a matter of potential federal criminal prosecution. well now tonight, the story most forward, thanks to a very rare interview that s score with deputy general lisa moore knock oh. cnn has the u.s. justice department commenting on the record for the first time