> laura: robert, does it really matter of the nominees that the names are being bandied about, most americans don't know anything about them, but is this is been an awful few weeks for the president, maybe he wants a change in the story line. may be cooperating with some of those dark money forces trying to kick him off the court already, maybe try and make sure he went through with it and did retire, or to bring it on their own terms. i think that might have been forces in the white house. i think most justices want to do that on their own terms, make their own announcements, tell their colleagues first, so he was a surprise as we were today.
he may have given the white house heads up, but somehow that was leaked. normally we get these announcement at or near the end of the term and then, you know, later today we saw shannon bream reporting it seems like from qualified sources that this is not actually the day that justice breyer intended to retire.
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