woman, someone with different someone who will bring more diversity to the court, that s another opportunity today s news presents. without a doubt. the president has been crystal clear he believes his first pick would be a black woman. stand by. we are continuing our breaking news coverage. justice stephen breyer, cnn has been told, is retiring from the court. we are told that by our wolf blitzer. let s get up to capitol hill and manu raju. wow, just in the sense we know this is a dicey mid-term election year to begin with. now you have a supreme court confirmation fight. steve notes republicans are aware this will not change the balance of the court. so maybe it s not quite the energy and the fury, but mitch mcconnell relishes these moments. democrats will recoil at my saying it that way. but lay out the landscape for us. reporter: this will be a huge fight out of the ideological balance of the court and the president has a very good chance of getting his nomination
but she is left dealing with the thought of a female staffer in her 20s resigning in protest over the handling of her sexual harassment complaint. the staff are reportedly alleged unwelcome advances by an older male employee in gillibrand s office and complained he retaliated against her for doing so. she says that fisa has not lived up to her own standards. this, while gillibrand spent much of last summer pushing her colleagues to update the broken system of handling sexual harassment in congress. she was also quite vocal last fall during the supreme court confirmation fight. the message it s sending to survivors is that we don t believe you. they are voice does not appear that we don t value you. it basically tells american women, we don t value women. there is definitely buzz in the hallways about this issue. in gillibrand s office, the male staffer was not fired until politico reporters started asking about this incident. harris? harris: mike emanuel, thank you very much fo
that a lot of the anger in the air will start to dissipate. i think you are going to see a huge turn out and i do believe this is going to be a strong year for course correction and a restoration of that spirit of moderation that is more typical of our american journey. we will leave it there for now. good to see you both. appreciate it. thank you, fredricka. we are continuing our series, taking the polls of suburban women. a key voting block that could tip the scales. 16 days from now. cnn spoke to five women in minnesota representing different political views and parties about the me too movement, president trump s treatment of women, and the dramatic supreme court confirmation fight. it did seem that brett kavanaugh s confirmation process fired up both bases. both republicans and democrats. how do you feel about how that went down? it was embarrassing. i was so disheartened. and then things got better when
welcome back. we continue our series taking the pulse of suburban women, a key voting block that could tip the scales come election day, just 17 days from now. in our latest installment we spoke to five minnesota women representing a different political different political views and parties about the me too movement, president trump s treatment of women, and the dramatic supreme court confirmation fight. it did seem that brett kavanaugh s supreme court confirmation process fired up both bases, both republicans and democrats. how did you all feel about how that went down? it was embarrassing. i was so disheartened. and then then things got better when they said they were going to investigate. and then they found out, we learned they only talked to nine people. and then and i m in marketing. the message that came out that, oh, i m sure she was assaulted. but it wasn t him. i was disheartened that at the
he is focusing on being the best supreme court justice he can be. many democratics pressing concern brett cavanagh will push the high court too far to the right. republicans say the new justice will not be guided by ideology. chief legal correspondent shannon bream looks at what changes brett cavanagh could bring to the supreme court. the supreme court must never never be viewed as a partisan institution. jillian: that was a simpler time before the allegations of sexual misconduct arose. triggering the most bitter supreme court confirmation fight in senate history. but now that he is justice cavanagh the 53-year-old can move ahead with a chance to charge his own path. the 114th justice got to work after being sworn in over the weekend. he started moving into his new