CNN anchor John Berman was stunned by a bombshell suggestion from analyst Bakari Sellers — that President Joe Biden should rush through the nomination and confirmation of Vice President Kamala Harris to the Supreme Court.

Politico Playbook led Friday morning with a piece on the chatter among Democrats to encourage Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to retire and push through a replacement in order to avoid the risk of giving Trump a replacement pick for a liberal justice.

On Friday’s edition of CNN News Central, Berman and Republican CNN analyst Shermichael Singleton were stunned — and Singleton was amused — by the provocative idea from Sellers to elevate Harris before Trump and the Republicans can stop it:

JOHN BERMAN: And get it all on the floor. No room for error or delay. What do you think about that Bakari?

BAKARI SELLERS: No, I think that’s actually a very good plan. I think it’s something that should happen.

You know, Justice Sotomayor has been a more than able justice. I know that she may be having some personal issues that she contends with while serving on the bench. But, you know, I don’t want Justice Sotomayor to be another Ruth Bader Ginsburg in terms of staying too long.

What does this mean for the for the dynamic of the court? The court is six three now. If we’re able to replace it with a Biden justice, there will still be six three. The possibility of Justice Sotomayor having to resign or retire in the next four years is extremely high.

You couple that with Alito and Clarence Thomas. Then that means that you go from a 6-3 court to a 7-2 court in terms of conservative versus liberal. And so I hope that Joe Biden makes the next ten weeks as consequential as he can.

I don’t care about drawing outside the lines or what Republicans may think about it. This is within your purview. You can actually do it and you should do it.

And you know, one more thing, John, is you have a hell of a vice president right there who has a legal pedigree to sit on a Supreme Court. And let Republicans go crazy, ape, I’m even mentioning that option.

JOHN BERMAN: You’re floating– are you floating this –, you know, 7:39 a.m. on the East Coast? Did Bakari Sellers just float Vice President Kamala Harris as a potential Supreme Court nominee?

BAKARI SELLERS: Not only am I floating it, but I want to stir up everything. I want people’s heads to explode this morning. So we go into the weekend just knowing that the chaos has not ended just yet.

JOHN BERMAN: So, Sher.ichael. Did it work, what brokerages did there?

SHERMICHAEL SINGLETON: I mean, look, it’s it’s an idea that I haven’t heard anyone mention thus far. But best of luck getting around Mitch McConnell, who is arguably one of these most surgical individuals to ever lead or be in the minority position of the United States Senate.

I think if Democrats were to attempt to nominate the vice president or anybody else, I think Mitch is going to do everything he can within the confines of the Senate rules to prohibit it, to give the incoming president the opportunity to make every single nomination and ultimately confirm those nominations that he can.

JOHN BERMAN: It can be done quickly. Look, we saw it happen with Amy Coney Barrett. We you know, it would take a lot of maneuvering by Chuck Schumer at this point and John Manchin on board and Sinema.

SHERMICHAEL SINGLETON: And I respect Chuck Schumer, but Chuck Schumer is no Mitch McConnell. I just don’t see it happening. Could Mitch do something like this? Abso-freakin-lutey! Chuck? Yeah, I wouldn’t, I wouldn’t hold my breath on it.

JOHN BERMAN: Right. Now, you guys, you’re stirring it up! Stirring it up on a Friday morning!