branches. should supreme court justices be held to the same standard as any and all other public servants? the senate judiciary committee held a hearing on the ethical standards or lack thereof for supreme court justices a topic that has come up in light of new reporting on repeated failures by justices to disclose details of lavish vacations, travel, gifts, even real estate transactions, testifying on behalf of democrats, a former federal judge and group of legal experts, guests invited by republicans included a former attorney general. more notable than who testified was who did not. chief justice john roberts declined an invitation from the committee, something dick durbin brought up at the start of today s hearing. in his letter last week the chief justice sent a statement of ethics principles and practices. it was a document that was attacheded to his letter. it is an extraordinary document. not in a good way. it makes clear while the justices are fine with consulting
to be held accountable? glen, you want to jump in on this? yeah. you know, bass l dumped a little water out of my justice glass, but i actually hang on to it. i agree with his observations. but here is my follow-up to that. proving a conspiracy, a seditiou conspiracy, or any other conspiracy, involves proving beyond a reasonable doubt people entered into an agreement to commit crime. you can be involved in an insurrection, you can be involved in ap attack on the capitol, you can destroy property and assault police officers and be guilty of all of that, without necessarily having been involved in a formal conspiracy. so conspiracy charges can be difficult to prove because you don t always have direct evidence of people entering into a criminal agreement. people don t sit down and kind of scratch it out and get it notarized.
try dent missiles. they had no warheads on them but the u.s. does test as well. as part of this treaty obligation the united states and russia are obligated to inform one another. as soon as i know whether or not that happened in this case i ll let you know. okay courtney thank you for that. with us now evelyn far cuss, the former deputy assistant defense of russia. and here on set, our panel. noelle nick por as well as bass l sniper. over to you evelyn, it sound like we were trying to find out if there was a heads up, what do do you make of what you re hearing about this missile test? i don t think it s supremely alarming. we heard the chief of company