and found the mother lode. how they can overturn an election by going through the state election results and you can control that if you have secretaries of state in these various battlegrounds who are going to say, okay, hold on. it shows joe biden one re-election, well, we are just going to throw that out and donald trump is the winner. i mean, we are we are really, you know, i think, facing that real-life scenario. and then, what do we do at that point, don? i mean, i think that is that is a crazy question to consider but i you know, it s it s becoming more real by the day. yeah. it was a wake-up call watching that. or i could say reality check but i don t want to take that away from mr. john avlon. she s been doing great reporting as all of our reporters on this. thank you very much. i appreciate it, jim. i will see you tomorrow night. this is don lemon tonight. and um, well, so let s talk about something that is i think this is good for not i think
good morning to viewers here in the united states and around the world. it is thursday, january 7th. i m brianna keilar with john berman. we are beginning with a rare opportunity for a struggling president to reenergize his party and to make history in the process. supreme court justice stephen breyer set to announce his retirement at the white house today, giving president biden a chance to deliver on a campaign promise to nominate the first african american female justice to the bench. let s get a sense of the timing, short list, and republican plans to slow down the process. jeremy diamond is there. jeremy, if i also in on the details. reporter: well, we learned yesterday justice breyer is set to retire after 30 years. he was tight-lipped on this. without a formal announcement, the president would not weigh in. but today they are set to make this official. and this opening gives biden a chance to nominate a justice to the supreme court and potentially make history
and it includes history. listen. i have made no decision except one. the person i will nominate will be someone with extraordinary qualifications, character, experience and integrity. and that person will be the first black woman ever nominated to the united states supreme court. it s long overdue in my opinion. i made that commitment during the campaign for president, and i will keep that commitment. get to our chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins at the white house. the president said he didn t want to share much about what comes next but he shared an historic deal. it s also notable he put a timeline on here saying he will, his intention is to let everyone know who his nominee is by the end of february. so what that is going to kick off internally at the white house is a very extensive process of vetting. and the president has already he said he s been looking at the backgrounds of potential replacements. he s going to study this carefully. he ll look at
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
and i m not even talking about cnn producers. but first of the pandemic news affecting our nation s political elite. in washington, d.c., our state capital, kat, strip clubs have allegedly been warned about their dancers not wearing masks. in a hard-hitting investigative report, the daily caller finds that multiple strip clubs have violated the mayor s order on masks. this includes apparently the strippers who are supposed cover their noses and mouths even if there butts aren t. this is a personal point. i would not mind the rule on the date time when the clubs aren t building the first during. day shift. greg: but how can you enjoy a good lap dancer if you can t understand the strippers story about how she is just doing the temporarily to put herself through med school. and what kind of masks do you wear when stripping? i d asked stuart varney. and no, they do not make a 995 in latex. god knows i have looked all over pete s office. but the strippers, i bet they are not