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Klain shared Breyer retirement news with 'limited' group on Capitol Hill before leak: Durbin
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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin said Monday that he learned of Justice Stephen Breyer's retirement ahead of time from White House chief of staff Ron Klain.
Ron Klain speaks during a House Homeland Security Subcommittee hearing in Washington, March 10, 2020. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer speaks about his coming retirement in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Jan. 27, 2022. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
But the news did not remain confidential long, Durbin said, and it was public within an hour. That surprised Breyer, sources told Fox News, who was planning to announce his retirement imminently but did not intend for the news to go public as early as it did.
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