indeed, it was three years ago that news of justice breyer's retirement broke and i was commenting all day in my area of expertise my last book as mentioned, supreme disorder, was about the politics of judicial nominations in the supreme court. i was commenting in the media and that night coming back to my hotel room, not a best practice, by the way. here's your and he lawyers. here's your seely component do not doom scroll twitter late at night when you're on the road getting more and more upset as in my case i was about president biden deciding to restrict his candidate pool for breyer's successor by race and sex. you know, i argued that the chief judge of the d.c. circuit, sri srinivasan, who happens to be an indian-american immigrant, was the best choice, meaning by basic operation of logic, everyone else was less qualified. and so if biden kept his promise, he would pick what given twitter's character limit? i in our fully characterized as a lesser black woman now, i deleted that tweet, but still think that biden should have considered all possible candidates as. 76% of the americ

relentless was a wonderful title but i renamed it superhero so i ask so i ask you i did for freddy breyer during that primary how do you build coalition it's in new york especially if people like me are freddy it's a special case of what i it's the best african-american latino coalition that we have built, the african american had an african american can be late in the race and freddy, 70% of the african vote and in new we vote very tribal and that the in happen in that election and any partly the in happen because freddy had a real coalition of black and latinos in the bronx so the rest of course can take a candidate who had worked well within african-american community and go to other borrows particularly brooklyn where there is such a large african-american community in fact it was that teaching what allow me to run tish james campaign later on as an african-american candidate for for a.g. but there is no doubt that without that coalition we can not elect a latino and it's i wish was different but white elected trump let's be real 15% of african-american voted for trump. 30% of latinos

sometimes, retired justice stephen breyer comes along. to like a. >> plus one. >> a spare that's always exciting. >> members of the military, joint chiefs of staff. >> will be there as well, though. president trump just inexplicably fired the. >> joint chiefs. >> chairman, so that will be difficult. the cabinet will then be. >> announced. >> and then finally the president will make his entrance, and we will see. republicans crowd in on. >> him on both. >> sides of. >> the aisle. and eventually he will wade through it all and up to the podium. >> one new addition this year, the president's top campaign donor. is going to be president, apparently, presumably not just in his capacity as the man who financed donald trump's return to the presidency. with by far the largest campaign donations in american history. presumably he's also there, not just in that capacity, but also in his capacity as the chainsaw wielding austerity czar. >> who has been mysteriously empowered. >> by trump to carry out legally dubious firings of thousands of governmen