that s tonight on newsnight good evening. i m abby phillip in new york tonight. donald trump loves to be worshiped that much has been clear since he came down those golden escalators. but this week was especially notable because it gave us a mountain of new evidence that he remains idolized by evangelical voters even after 34 felony counts for crimes associated with hush money payments to an adult film actress. the support is ironclad, 80% of evangelical say they support him today let s start with what happened last night in arizona. donald trump held a town hall in a phoenix mega church. now the opening homily called for the crowd to pray over the presumptive nominee, but it was the smite die enemy s message that really rang out loud and clear. listen we do pray for our leaders. but father, if our leaders will not turn to you, if he will not turn to your word, if he will not return to justice, we pray that you would bring those leaders down. all of those people, all those in
Represented several senior executive branch officials with investigations from the office of government ethics military officers are only allowed to accept gifts up to $20. nypd cops, they get written up if they take a free cup of coffee yeah there are there are rules in place for federal judges that limit the gift that they can get. it $50. but it specifically exempts the supreme court in the states. it can be even worse. i once had a state supreme court justice that i was in front of the during the case had a third party come to me and asked for a campaign contribution for that, judge. any type of thing where they re taking these large gifts. it s an appearance of impropriety is something that does in my opinion it degrades the image of impartiality and i think that i agree with ellie, this is something that the congress should act and try and put in some reasonable regulations on elie we talked about the bianna
Gonna make any specific comparisons between these justices, but i agree if there s a case from bianna, say up at the supreme court? yes. that s that is something that will be an appearance of a conflict it d be easier if congress simply putting a limit so that there are no gifts at all that you don t have to deal with that to begin with. hold the justices to the same standard that we hold every military officer that they can t take any type of gifts like this, every other executive branch employee, every congressional staffer why every judge from the lower courts, district and circuit courts. i don t see why the supreme court should be any different yeah. i mean, it s really flexing that 2.4 million is an eye-popping number. i mean, it s really extraordinary, but especially when compared to the other justices just the chief justice john roberts. i mean, he it has a role here why won t he take
Fealty, the allegiance that they, that they have. but you see it in these clips and you could play 100 other clips that the demonstrate this. it s bad, very bad, and it s only gonna get worse trump likes that just fine. i mean, it actually works very well for what he tries to du, which really fundamentally is about asking people to believe him more than anything else, including the facts in front of their eyes at peter waiter. thank you very much for joining us tonight on all of that. thanks a lot. thanks for me on the supremes famously saying, loved, don t come easy, it s just a game of give-and-take and that is now the question that is facing supreme court justices. just how much can they take before it starts influencing what they re giving. tonight? the financial disclosure forms that are just out from the justices reveal a trove of luxury gifts and six-figure book deal payments. and bianna, a ticket
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