that when he talks about what she would like to do to people he perceives as his enemies, he's often not lying. new reporting to that effect tonight, in cup with several other reports suggesting that he meant what he said over the weekend, when he said this. >> we pledged to you that we will root out the communist, marxist, fascist, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, that's a lie and steal and cheat on election. >> vermin, the former president on veterans day nola's went on to say, quote, the threat from outside forces is far less sinister dangerous and grooving the threat from within. our threat is from within. after that, he pays foreign dictators calling russia, china, -- and tough. the washington post story right on the -- hitler, misogyny. cnn presidential -- telling the postal language is the language that dictators used to instill fear. that's what dictators do. other historians and scholars of fascism echoed that assessment, to which the former presidents campaign spokesperson responded inwards that also kind of sounded a lot like things dictators might say. quoting now, those who tried to make that ridiculous assertion are clearly snowflakes grasping for anything because they are suffering from trump derangement syndrome, and they are sad and miserable existence will be crushed when president trump returned to the white house. crushed, vermin, enemies within. it's probably the starkest clearest version of other sentiments he's expressed in the last year. >> in 2016, i declared, i am your voice, today i add, i am your warrior, i am your justice, and for those that have been wronged and betrayed, i am your retribution. >> he is a warrior. he's never serving, but he's a warrior. former president back in march, it's tempting to write off what he just said as some kind of a stiff, like locke or a, build a wall, or citing lines from the snake poem. his motivation for retribution is now connected to a dehumanized target, people he calls vermin. it's coupled the means for making it happen. he's a leading republican candidate for president. there is new reporting on that under the headline, trump allies prescreen way for unprecedented power grab. quoting from it now, if trump were to win thousands of trump loyalist would be ready for legal, judicial defense, regulatory and domestic policy jobs. his inner circle plans to purge anyone views as hostile to the plans, he calls agenda 47. separately, the washington post and people spoke with him reports of former presidents allies have been mapping out specific plans for punishing critics and the points, with him, quote, naming individuals he wants to investigate or prosecute. something he talks about out loud and doesn't even bother denying. >> they call it weaponization. the people are not going to stand for it. they have done something that allows the next party. if i happen to be president and i see somebody who is doing well and beating me very badly, i'll, say go down and ignite them. >> that sounds reasonable. attorney general john mitchell who later went to prison for his role -- watch what we do what we say. that was his way of reassuring the public that some of the candidate nixon's harsher campaign rhetoric would not become policy. the question tonight, how comforting with those same words be now? joining us now is ceo and cofounder. jim, walk us through, what the former president's allies are actually planning. >> if you go back to the last time when he won, there was a lot of the same language, a lot of this tough guy routine. but, when he got into office, he was surrounded by people who would put restraints on him. he did not really understand how many levels of the bureaucracy could gum up his instincts and his worst instincts. they learned from that. what we found is when you talk to people at the heritage foundation, when you talk to people around donald trump are used to work for donald trump, who understand machinery of government, they now put together a very well oiled machine, one year in advance of potentially winning the election, that's allowing them to vet and screen people for their loyalty to trump and their belief in stretching the rule of law in ways that donald trump would like them to stretch if you were in office. the reason i think the story is important is it's one thing when he uses this language and doesn't put it into action. but, when you listen to him and he tells you what he's going to, do punish political enemies, round of illegal immigrants, potentially get rid of 1 million or so people who live in the united states, try to maybe go after flag officers and generals who he does not considered to pass the loyalty litmus test. if you know how government works and you can figure out how to purge ten, 20, 30,000 people from all those positions that make activities like that possible, that turned those policies or those ideas into action, you could have a much different administration, and really see restraints lifted that we've had in the previous 46 presidents. anybody who is a trump supporter listening to this are like, we love this, that's what we want, we want the administrative state purged and we want a new order and some of the tough guy, strongman routine because if you like crime is high and immigration is serving. i think if you're not donald trump supporter, you are concerned because this would be uncharted territory. we're talking about doing things that he's saying. we're not saying it's anonymous sources, he's saying. this is the things he's saying he's going to do, and they're going to have the machinery to do it. i think that shows the stakes of the election. i would not fall for this people surrounded by clowns. there are some clouds around, no doubt about it, but there's going to be some really serious people involved in the process who understand government who are going to have a government ready to roll. >> the trump campaign has put out a statement saying, quote, policy recommendations from external allies and recommendations. who are the groups who are pushing this overhaul and how close are they to the former president? >> heritage foundation doing a lot of the work, a lot of the sit out questionnaires, the 4000 different potential applicants asking them their favorite political figure, their favorite political book, what is their ideology. but, then you look at the people who are advising both heritage foundation and some of these other outside groups that are involved. they're all trump people. johnny mcentee who is head of presidential personnel who's really one of the architects of trying to figure out the purge and the first term of the trump presidency as an adviser to these efforts. stephen miller talks with these people all the time. so, sure, the heritage foundation what they would say is this is available to anyone, but everybody knows that donald trump is likely to win the nomination. they know they cannot make the mistake they made before, which is just rolling town and not have team ready to rock and roll. they're going to have at this time. i think we pushed almost instantly into uncharted territory. i think the second term, if you were to win, would be much more like the final days of the trump presidency than the first two years. really trying to push the boundaries, really trying to see if you can stretch the rule of law to do things, whether it's punishing political enemies are getting rid of people you don't feel share your political beliefs, punishing media entities. >> how would that work at the department of justice? you have career, law enforcement people, how it suddenly that worked in the doj? >> any of the agencies, nothing to, it but there is one of the ideas they have at the end of the presidency was this idea of recategorize-ing people in the government as -- which would allow them to get around union laws, gets around things and make it harder to fire people who are kind of permanent in civil service center in government. that's what much of government is. you hear about secretary, as you know the vice president, a lot of the work and whether it's the doj and department of homeland security is done below, that people who will often serve both parties. if you could suddenly just and mask and get rid of them, which they would try to do, maybe the court should step in and say you can't do it, maybe they say you can. there's a big debate about whether or not he can do what he wanted to do under schedule. evelyn people think he could. even if he didn't, as long as you have the people waiting, you can re-assign anybody you want to. you can put people in the gigs that you know have the power that supports your agenda. that will be radically different this time from last time. anybody who doesn't like donald trump, are someone who likes him and once more of it, the truth is he was not good at governing particularly in early years because he did not have people who shared his philosophy around him, and he did not understand the pull the different levers of government. trump has no interest in this. his brain does not work that way, he's not sitting here thinking about who i'm going to put where, and how a second term is going to win. he's very cinematic and loves rhetorical part of the job. but, it's beneath him, there's going to be a much bigger, well oiled sort of prescreened, pretrain, group of people ready to come in. >> fascinating, thanks so much. still to come tonight, the eldest son of former president took the witness stand today as a defense begins in its case. the civil fraud trial in new york. he called his father a visionary in the world of real estate. a judge has already said his that persistently committed fraud. we'll have more details on that ahead. what it's like in the ground in gaza with cnn's nick robertson. >> to disarm defense today in the civil fraud trial against himself and brother and father and called out a visionary and artist with real estate. trial is now in its seventh week with allegations at the trump inflated asset prices to secure better financing and insurance terms. the judge already is ruled the former president and co defendant including trump junior had consisted and repeated fraud. kara scannell joins us with more of the testimony. what stood out to you in the testimony today? >> donald trump jr. was on the stand for about three hours today, much of his testimony was like a promotional video for the trump organization. he described how he said his father was a visionary. he saw things that people could not see, and he was an artist. so they, went more than a dozen of the properties and showing glossy photos of them on the screen in the courtroom. donald trump jr. would describe how he said his dad would take air building and turn it into a spectacular residence, how he would take a swamp land in florida and turn it into a spectacular golf course. you took the old post office building in washington d. c., which trump jr. described as a war zone and transform that into one of the finest hotels in the world. a lot of bravado, a lot of pitching is, and the use of spectacular by my count at least 15 times. he did say he took umbrage was with the value of mar-a-lago which is a tax assessment that at least $18 million. this is something donald trump 's father has been voicing a lot of criticism about anytime he's walking in and around the courtroom. don junior was saying that the atrium in mar-a-lago alone would cost $80 million today to build. so, trying to make the point that these values that trump touch was something that would have justified some of the evaluations they put on this. they did not get into specifics company by company of the evaluations. this was really more of an exercise of allowing him to describe the trump brand. she discovered the family business, and to put the gloss on transformations they made. the judge had given them some leeway and the attorney general told the -- you had six weeks to put your case. he's giving them time to put on. there's anderson. >> who else is defense expected to call? >> the next few days, we're expected to hear from some expert witnesses who will testify about real estate. they also said they will recall some of those trump organizations, executives in the finance department. also today, saying eric trump will be back on the stand, and it's very likely the former president will also make a return to the witness stand. . anderson >> carris canal, thank you so much. former federal prosecutor just carruthers here. she's now a professor at school of law. do you think his testimony helped? >> i think it was largely irrelevant. i think the judge lets him talk, because he's giving the defense the opportunity to make their case, and he's clearly very sensitive to being viewed by arguably bias and favor of the government. nothing don jr. said today goes to the heart of the case, in terms of the specifics about whether the statements of financial condition were fraudulent or not. the judges already ruled that -- objectively, those evaluations in the statements were fraudulent. so, there was nothing specific about donald trump jr., it was long -- sweeping statements nothing very specific. arguably, it may have hurt him, because as i understand, he may have repeated some specifics that were actually wrong, like the number of floors in one of the properties. so, it may actually have been counterproductive. >> both donald trump jr. and eric trump have distanced themselves from these financial statements to the extent, or they try to at least. eric trump is going to take the stand as well. do you expect the same sort of thing from his testimony? >> it's hard to know what to expect, and maybe the same type of grandiose they, met with the value of the company, the value of the assets from their perspective. if there is any legal relevance to these kinds of statements of superlatives and their belief or the implicit believe in the value of. it goes to the question of intent, because a judge has to make a finding about whether or not these individuals acted with intent to defraud others. so, perhaps, by putting on this presentation, they're demonstrating their good faith belief in the assets. that could be a reason for them to rely on this testimony and the presentation of this sort of glossy presentation. >> didn't, when the former president testified earlier, he alluded to bankers testifying in his defense. are there going to be bankers, or have they caught bankers? >> not yet, defense just started his presentation today. i am really looking to see if they do call those bankers, what the former president essentially promises that those people would take the stand, the witnesses from the banks and say we did not rely on the statements. >> financial statements not really matter in our evaluations. >> exactly. it would go to the materiality question which is what the judge has the wrong for the remaining causes of action. so, i am really keenly interested to see whether or not the defense will be able to put forward witnesses who will make the statement on behalf of the banks. >> it's pressing. jessica, thank you so. much >> thank. you >> knew reporting from gaza. fresh evidence that hamas is using hospitals for coverage. that is ahead. you want to be able to provide your child with the tools or resources they need. with reliable internet at home, through the internet essentials program, the world opened up. fellas, fellas. that's how my son was able to find the hidden genius project. we wanted to give y'all the necessary skills to compete with the future. kevin's now part of this next generation of young people who feel they can thrive. ♪ ♪ >> we have new reporting tonight on the fighting in gaza, the challenges any easy assumptions about. it this included cnn nick robertson saw today embedded with the idea of deep inside the territory. witnessing destruction is bad as nick, reported more than three decades of experience covering conflict as he's ever seen. as well as evidence of hamas is using hospitals to shelter command bunkers, weapons, and possibly hostages. earlier today, president biden said hospitals, quote, must be protected, but then later administration spokesperson knowledge what hamas is doing complicates that effort. >> it makes it much harder for any military force to go after those targets, because the hospital itself ought to be as the president says, predicted. he's really talking about this incredibly difficult conundrum that israeli military forces are facing right now. >> that reaction was prompted by watson and nick robinson sought to be with the idea forces in gaza. he joins us shortly. joining us now is washington post national security reporter who shares the new exclusive on what hamas had in mind beyond the october 7th massacre, namely, second phase with deeper attacks into israel. he's also the author of black flags, the rise of i. s. i. s., and i'm just glad he can join us tonight. joe b., this is a fascinating article you written, because of the humanitarian crisis in gaza and images of suffering taking place, especially around hospitals and in hospitals. the international pressure on -- mounting from your reporting. this is exactly what hamas wanted and planned for. >> yeah, i think that picture is becoming pretty clear for us now. hamas wanted to see some hostages, they see value in obtaining hostages for swapping with prisoners that israelis are holding. as we're seeing it now, hamas really wanted to shake up the region, wanted to put the palestinian resistance movement back on the agenda to get people talking about this and thinking about this. as our reporting shows, they really expected the israelis to heads back hard, maybe not quite as hard as they did, but hard enough to bring world opinion down on israel, which is sort of a second phase of this happening now. nobody talks about october 7th anymore, the focus is on what israel's doing in response. that works very well from hamas's point of view, it changes the subject, and they're happy with. that >> let's just pause on that for a moment. they planned this massacre. they communicated the slaughter of men, women, and children, 1200 or so. in israel, they do not build any bomb shelters for their own people, knowing that israel would respond. they did not attempt to do anything to protect their own citizens, palestinians in gaza. they wanted this response by israel. they have publicly said on arabic channels about embracing and wanting motors. they did nothing to protect their people. >> they're very proud and they say this publicly. we're all about martyrs. we want to create martyrs. it creates our cause. you're actually right, hummus new this counterstrike was coming. so, obviously they stockpiled food and water and fuel for themselves. nobody else in gaza got this warning. nobody else was told, you got to pick up medicine because you're going to be under a siege for a while, or you have to make sure you get plenty of food for your generator. people of gaza, 2 million folks who live there and have to live under these conditions were not warned at all. they're the ones paying the price for that right now. it fits very well with hamas's plan. >> hamas controls the images which come out of gaza. and he cameraman who work in gaza knows where you point, where you're allowed to point the camera and where you're not allowed to point the camera. obviously, civilian death toll is horrific and that is the major story there. but, the other story is, hamas does not exist in any video from gaza. if you are looking at the images we're looking at right now, you do not see any tunnels, you do not see any rockets being fired, and he locations of rockets, because if you're a cameraman in gaza, you cannot videotape the. you cannot point the camera tomas. >> absolutely. it's been striking to me as well. hamas has disappear from the scene. we see very little of them, we see very little of the fighting they're doing. >> it's like they don't exist. >> yeah. hostages as. well i executing hostages or putting them out in some way, that would be bad for hamas because it would swing public opinion against them. so, you do not see the hostages. they disappeared as well during this debate. >> part of your washington post piece includes reporting about what's more the hamas gunman had planned for. the terror attack wasn't just supposed to be, there's evidence now according to intelligence officials you've spoken to that it was not just going to be in the kibbutz along the border, they want to try to get as deep as possible. >> we're still trying to piece together exactly what hamas had in mind. but, there are few intriguing bits of evidence. one is the fact of some of these groups, some units that went to the south and to the east had enough material, enough food, enough weapons and gear, for several days. they were not planning to run out and get hostages and come right back out. some of the maps that have been described to indicate that some of these units were planning to go, or were potentially able to go as far as the west bank. they were halfway there already. they went 15, 20 miles into israel, another 20 miles they would've been at the west bank porter. you can imagine what that means symbolically to link up with the other palestinian faction and perhaps draw them into the fight or make that part of this effort they're putting together. it didn't happen, but they were clearly at least thinking about that. >> the other thing on this psychic blow to israeli population about their own security, about the capabilities of the idea, have the capabilities of intelligence services in israel, can you talk about what you have learned in preparations for october 7th, how hamas was able to avoid the surveillance and the tapping of communication networks? >> one of the most fascinating things that we found was that this is a really deception operation as much as anything else. the preparation for this goes back, probably a couple years. since 2021, hamas has not really engage with the israelis. they've been talking about building and about making things better for people inside gaza. but, not taking in rocket fire, which some of their allies did and islamic jihad, some would occasionally fire missiles and fight with really from the border. not tomas. they'll be retreating from this position that they've had for the last couple of decades. that was important for the israelis, we talk to israeli officials who said, hamas seem to know what we wanted to hear. they wanted to hear that hamas was not interested in warning anymore. they were interested in development. israel was going to help them with the. so, they were quite surprised and just looking back at it now, really see they were fooled by this. hamas played them very well, and all the time the sort of overtures of peacefulness and walking away from more, they were planning the whole time. they were studying what they were going to do. they were drawing up the maps and getting drone footage in some cases to some kibbutz they ended up attacking. all the time preparing for a really big attttack, while convincing is really they had nothing that going. on >> fascinating. joby warrick, thank you so much, appreciated. >> pleasure. >> nic robertson spent the day with the idf forces in gaza, where he saw not just extensive destruction before more than that. you should note she was under idf escorts at all times. cnn did not submit script or for the two idf. retained editorial control of the final report. he's back in israel joins us from sderot. as we sit at the top of the program. he said this was the most extensive damage you've ever seen in more than 30 years covering conflict. talk about what you saw. nick, can you hear me? call 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was the most extensive damage you have witnessed in more than 30 years. can you talk about what you saw? >> we drove in along the coast road. we drove several miles in the back of an open vehicles, so, we saw everything. we weren't in close in a windowless armored personnel carrier. destroyed houses, destroyed apartments, destroyed villas, hotels destroyed huge apartment buildings, -- bullet holes, shell holes. i do not see any building that was not that much. i do not see any civilians at all. we took armored personnel carriers to get deep into the city. we were about five miles into gaza, really in a heavily built neighborhood by the children's hospital. there were tank battles, the idea of tanks were firing at tomas down the streets. it was absolute, a war zone does not do it justice in a way. it was absolute chaos. everything, cars, growing up besides smashing into the sides of houses, the roads pulverized every building and looked at, and it's still a firefight going on in this urban environments. again, no people. >> what about the hospital? >> the idea that civilians could be moving back in. the hospital, there was, there still seems to be something of a fire fight going on very close to the hospital at the front of the hospital. i asked the commander why is there such a big hole in the back of the hospital? he said, look, we got here five days ago. the doctors were still there. there were patient still there. he said the idf, we can check because there weren't doctors there. the idea of helped the doctors evacuate with the patients. they got away safely. but, the only way for the idf to get into a hospital was to punch a hole by a tank shell in the back of the hospital. that is how we climbed in and got into the basement, which is wanting to show us. he was a great pains to show us not just a hospital there, but tunnels that they had found, and he said a house belonged to a hamas commander. we come into this as journalist, and we go in and ask questions. i asked the question that some people are going to say, is this for real? he's, like no, this is what we found. so, we can see these solar panels on the roof of the house that he says belong to hamas leaders. we can see the cables, and we can see them run to a junction box, so we can see them run from the junction box into a well made tunnel shot that goes down below us. the top spokesperson for the idf said, look, we got a robot down there, gun that some of the tunnels that are beneath us here. one of them runs towards the hospital. and so, their point being and have proven that, but the point being that as hamas commanders, there's a tunnel shaft, there is electricity and communications cables running into it. right next to the hospital, and into the hospital where he showed us weapons and ammunition that he said hamas had there. again, you are asking, we're asking the tough questions. i think we're getting straightforward answers. again, this is such a contentious about the damage to hospitals about the civilian casualties. when you go into this environment, you really want to press and make sure that you are getting the fullest amount of information you can. what we could not do is reference it against civilians or live there, or any medical staff, because there was nobody there. >> what about hostages? >> so, in the basement of the hotel, face one of the hospital, what the idf was saying there was this storage facility belonging to hamas, but then they took us into another room and showed us a motorbike that had a bullet hole in it. they said this was one of the, they believe there was one of the motorbikes that had been used by hamas on the october 7th attack. when i asked how you're going to know, he gave the impression that this was something they'd seen through observations, through aerial observations. we went into another room though there was a chair and the rope around the legs of the chair, and the woman dress appeared on the chair. a feeding bottle on the shelf above the chair. i said, okay, is what you are showing us here prove that there was a hostage here? he said, look, we cannot make that connection, we can to make that assumption. but, what we're going to do he said for about four hours, is run dna tests on that dress, on the ropes, on the hair bundlers found on the floor. let me show another area which he said was a guard room. there was literally a schedule -- how he explained it written arabic on the wall, sort of october 7th, running through every single day until november 3rd, every day crossed out. he said that was evidence that that room was used as a guard room by hamas for controlling possibly the hostages. he did not say definitively, i pressed him on this, that there was hostages there. he said it was was a line of information that we're going to follow with dna test, exported to the area. i got to say, there around there on the street digging holes looking for tunnels. there were gun battles going on around them. they are so, despots the wrong word, but so clued in others so much pressure on them that they really want to try and prove what they already believe and think they have substantiated. there are these tunnels connecting hamas to hospitals. they are doing it under gunfire. if you're really fighting a war, you are not trying to prove their articles connecting to hospitals and things like that. you're fighting a war. they know that international pressure is mounting. that is why they took a stir to see all. this >> hospital focus, i want to get up close to one of them. doctor -- with the international red cross who's been treating hostages. he recorded this message for us. >> just coming out of the operating table. we operated two year old who had 28% parental over his body. we operated on another lady who has 40% -- doing this operation palestinian got a call to say that his wife brother and father have been hit. he just found out that they were being killed in an airstrike this morning. this afternoon, we operated on a young child, 13 year old with traumatic head injuries, results of explosive blast to the defect in the back of his skull. exposed brain, quite careful too -- to cover the facts. needless to say, some patients have recovered a little bit, -- reassuring that we still have many patients. another very busy day, all or of pete excursions have been visiting the theater, helping palestinian colleagues manage some of the cases currently. particularly, cases are complicated blast injuries are extensive tissue loss and bone injury. unfortunately, today we had to amputate the hand approximate to the wrist of a six-year-old child who had very deep burn injuries. we are trying to save his arm. we've managed hopefully to save his limb up until the hands. unfortunately, hand was basically charred and the cause of ongoing infection which was making very unwell. he's doing a critical condition. still, many burns we're dealing with and pressing changes, local palestinian therapist are doing a good job getting these patients up and out of bed. so, still relentless, still bombardments every night, one very close half past one this morning that whistled over the building. patients arriving still inundated with internally displaced people. so, not really getting any better. >> doctors perspective working in a hospital around the clock. coming up next, more breaking news. new reporting on the fbi investigation as the campaign fundraising for new york city mayor eric adams, focus on campaign money alleged favors and possible foreign influence. >> more breaking news tonight, we're learning about the fbi investigation to campaign fundraising for the mayor of america's biggest city. last week, reported fbi seized the cell phone and i thought of new york mayor, eric adams. he's not been accused of wrongdoing. tonight, we have new details on the investigation from cnn chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst john miller who joins us now. what have you learned? >> we're told by sources who have been briefed on the investigation that the fbi investigation into these campaign contributions that came from straw donors is backed up by the fact that they are weak. we are told. i have the records of the checks in the same amounts of the campaign contributions that were then paid back to the employees of a brooklyn-based construction company that there's a lot of business in the city. so, essentially, a company can only get $5, 000, but when you have a large group of employees giving $2,000 each and then they're getting it back from the company, they found a way to not only skirt the campaign limits in contributions, but also get the matching funds from those amounts for the city. >> why would the company do that? >> that's, anderson, kind of goes to the heart of what this case is really about. these were a construction company that connected to a larger construction company in turkey, owned by a turkish man who supported eric adams. what the fbi is trying to get to here is is there a foreign influence, meaning is this just a turkish businessman that there's a lot of business with the city that needs cooperation and things like that? or, is this, and let's think of the other case with senator menendez in new jersey, where businessmen were working as cut outs to get things for the egyptian government. so, is turkey trying to lure in the mayor of the city of new york willingly or unwittingly to get anything as simple as business development in new york city for businesses that would benefit turkey? or, more complex, which is investing in a politician who's got ambitions that may -- the white house. >> why would there be simultaneous searches with nearly 100 fbi agents and then wait a week to take the mayor's phone? >> there's two potential answers. one, they found evidence in the searches that got them to probable cause to get a search warrant for the mers phones. to, and investigative technique, which is they have wires up, why are tops, on suspects. they wanted to do something to stir up the pot. get conversations going. this would be even more interesting and that they got a search warrant from the mares devices to mere the hard drives copy of the information. is it's possible that they had a wire top as well on one or more the mares devices? that's, we don't know. but, tomorrow, he goes before the press to answer questions about this. >> how tough would be to get a wiretap on a mare? >> it's a significant. asked to do, it you have to make a sworn up davis as an fbi agent laying out probable cause to convince a federal judge has to be approved by the attorney general of united states, to convince a judge that your evidence is strong enough to believe there is evidence of illegal activity on the mayor phone and devices. no, we know they got that search warrant. so, we have not seen that document yet. >> john miller, thank, you appreciate. supreme court released a court of conduct today. the question, does it have any teeth? that'll be enough to save the court's reputation after a series of high-profile news stories not disclosing gifts and luxury trips. coming up p next. >> new stories that alleged justices at the supreme court, including thomas clarence, ethics regulations of accepting luxury trips and more. the court announced a code of conduct, critics say the code lasts teeth and does not say how it will be for snore by who. for instance, democratic sheldon whitehouse who sits on the judiciary committee us is there a place where you can file a complaint against justice? ridiculous companies from the legitimate once. none of that is an are in a code that runs eight pages and is derived from one to a lower court judges bound. the court also list no specific restrictions on gifts or no specific restrictions on gifts or travel. real estate deals say justices, should quote, make a reasonae justice to stay informed about the financial interest of themselves and their household. justices should not knowingly be, quote, speaker, a guest of honor or featured on the program of a fundraising event. it also said the provision henry crucial, quote, should be construed narrowly. the code comes months after propublica began reporting on the justices finances, including in this reports were that republican megadonor, harlan crow, had paid for expensive trips and more for justice clarence thomas. thomas had the rules did not require such the closures, republica also disclosed that justice samuel alito did not disclose luxury fishing trip back in 2008. he said criticisms were not, quote, valid. joined now by senior supreme court analyst. joan, do any of these guidelines go far enough to satisfy the understandable criticism that has been leveled? >> they do not, anderson, we finally got at least a written code. it is the first step in what members of the public, senate democrats, watch groups, hopes media commentators had been pushing for. so, it is a first step. the chief justice john roberts had really been struggling behind the scenes, i even get the majority to do something. in the end, he was able to get unanimity. i think it's because of the kind of atmosphere you just referred to there in terms of the new stories. constant drumbeat of, can't they have some sort of written rules the way lower court judges have? ? the key thing is exactly as you said, there are no enforcement mechanisms in what they presented. also, no way for anybody in the public, the hills, or elsewhere to try to lodge a complaint and have it actually aired in some way. it is again the justices saying, trust us, but i do want to say that at least keep taking this step. they adopted much of what was in the lower courts codes, but they added certain things that actually kind of i think were intended to blunt some of the criticism that they have. you mentioned they say that if there is any actions might undermine the judiciary. the added the word, knowingly, saying that sometimes justices do not know whether their conduct might undermine the judiciary or promote integrity. they just do not know. with sharp disagreements as the documents says, they just needed to make sure they puts in, they'd only find, it would have to be knowingly disregarded, judicial integrity and impartiality. so, they gave themselves a couple of out in this document, including, anderson, in another one they said, you know how the court receives lots of ex -- filed off and by business groups and individuals who have connections to the justices, and they said in cases of these, quote, front of the court briefs, there filed to backup certain parties in the case. even if the justices have relationships with any of those individuals, they do not need to recuse. so, no enforcement, and new provisions written in, that i think were intended to blunt criticism that they've already been receiving and certain incidences. >> our lower court judges, they have higher standards? >> right now they do. -- the other thing for lower court, judges there are channels that if you or anyone else has a complaint against a judge, they are channels in place that those complaints can be resolved with the supreme court, there are no such mechanisms. >> fascinating, thank you so much, we appreciate it. coming, up that's it for, us