On this vote, the A's are 53, the nays are 47, and this nomination is confirmed.

History at the high court judge Katanji Brown Jackson is confirmed as the first black woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Who is this barrier breaker? A Harvard graduate

who spent two years as a public defender. She met her husband Patrick in college that

two have been married for 25 years. She's a mother of two daughters who looked on with pride

during her confirmation hearings. The vote was presided over by Vice President Kamala Harris,

the first black woman to hold that position.

Let us all, I think, rejoice in who we are as a nation, that we achieve, long overdue,

but we achieved this important milestone. I think it makes a very important statement about who we aspire to be, who we are, who

we believe ourselves to be.

It's a statement about that on our highest court in the land, we want to make sure that

there's going to be full representation and the finest and brightest and the best.

And that's what happened today.

I'm very proud.

Also making headlines this morning, COVID surges through Washington, D.C., from the House Speaker to the U.S. Senate to top members of the President's Cabinet

and the ongoing crisis in Ukraine where Vladimir Putin continues

to kill with impunity.

With us, we have the host of way too early in White House peer chief at Politico, Jonathan

Lemire, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, Richard Haas, former aide to the

George W. Bush, White House and State Department's Elise Jordan, is with Willie, Joe, and me on this Friday morning.

I made it through the week.

I loved watching.

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