some are raising concerns about the role she ll play in this debate at hofstra. both candidates and campaigns are complaining about her performance and she hasn t even begun her performance yet. your heart has to go out to her on some level. we will talk about it fair & balanced right here. my colleague bret baier and i will be coanchoring our coverage tomorrow night. special coverage begins at 8:55pm eastern time. we ll show you the entire debate and stick around for complete analysis afterward. we ll have our cast of regulars including hume and krauthammer and everybody else you ve come to expect on fny on these big nights. hope you ll be with us. on the economy, on jobs on foreign policy this election is certainly shaping up to be one of the most critical in recent memory, maybe even more evident by the fact that whoever wins the presidency on november 6th could wind up appointing, well nominating several supreme court justices over the next four years. vice president biden pointed
shannon bream live in washington with a look at that piece of t the stakes going into the election. reporter: with issues from gay marriage to affirmative action on the court s radar these days, every appointment or nomination has the power to shape the supreme court and the country for decades to come. there are now four justices in their 70s, route bader ginsberg and steven breyer were appointed by president clinton. scalia and kennedy are both 76 appointed by reagan. when asked presidential politics do not impact their decisions about when they will retire but it s highly likely the next president is going to have the opportunity to make multiple nominations. weeks ago governor romney said this about the supreme court, quote i hope to appoint justices for the supreme court that will follow the law and the constitution and it would be my preference that they reverse row