it s 4:00 in the east. big day of news today. on capitol hill today a brutal collision between reality and delusion, a republican effort to whitewash the ex-president s ties for russia culminating in a veteran prosecutor under oath seemingly unwilling to acknowledge basic facts in service of republican conspiracy theories. just a few weeks after releasing a 300-page report after an investigation that went on for four years, cost the taxpayers $6.5 million, a report the washington post described this way as, quote, landing with a thud resulting in no new charges and none of the widespread abuses trump and his allies have alleged for years now. special counsel john durham testified today before the house judiciary committee. now, despite all those facts durham described his findings sobering and it was left to it democrats on the committee to point out the truth of his own investigation, an investigation that trump and his hand picked attorney general bill barr setup to inves
gop donors. we have covered extensively the reporting of conflicts of interest when it comes to justice clarence thomas and his relationship with harlen groh, and this time justice alito. according to new explosive reporting, alito took a luxury fishing trip with paul singer, a hedge fund billionaire. singer flew alito to alaska on a private jet. if he chartered the plane himself, it could have been as much as $1700,000 one way. u and then there was a case,
also joining us executive director of demand justice brian fallon, and msnbc contributor tim miller is here. jesse, they seems to be raw about the revelations and the revelations seems to be so indisputable that all they know to do is to go sort of blast their silly defenses in the pages of the wall street journal. take me inside this reporting, which is not disputed at all by a very defensive justice alito. my reporters have been reporting on this. you referenced the clarence thomas stories. i hope your readers have read every word, and today we
wine in alaska. complaining you don t like a newspaper article saying something not nice about you. this is a tale of time. the idea that these people are under assault and don t have a defense is the height of absurdity. jesse, i want to add my phrase to what propublica reporting has done. you guys have cracked the code. and brian, we can t have the conversations with you. tim sticks arrange for the hour with us. when we come back, these new revelations about justice alito are once again ratcheting up the pressure on the supreme court, to at least act serious about ethics reform. we ll talk about what congress could do, after a quick break. later in the program, a federal judge? arkansas strikes down the state of arkansas s ban on transition
grown stepped up attacks on the legitimacy, including character assassination of individual justices with little observation objection from we re being hammered daily, and i think quite unfairly in a lot of instances, and practically nobody is defending us. the idea has been that judges are not supposed to respond to criticisms, but the organized bar will come to their defense. so, alito the alito standard is no one is defending him. part of the reason the legitimacy of the court is in question is because the court operates as if they re above the law. they appear to be an assassination leak of the dobbs decision, and they don t include anyone with expertise to figure out who did it, which is weird, right? but alito, before a story drops,