lavish trips with billionaire friends. they weren t hiding this. this was holiday greeting card material and yet none of this finds its way into the disclosure forms. is that evidence to say it s consciousness of guilt maybe not in the legal sense but perhaps in the moral or ethical sense? i think it s evidence they were brazen or thought that they you know, the most generous interpretation is they thought they weren t doing anything wrong, or they really didn t care or thought they wouldn t get caught. and it is quite remarkable and a part of our massive trove of evidence from ginni thomas own cards, the pictures saying they were hosted in this multitude of events. and there s some delicious details in there such as he s got a kind of buddy lawyer who s an attack dog, mark poletta and
think we should allow them to get away with this. i just don t think we should allow them to get away with it. it is wrong what the kushners did, what ivanka and jared did. it s wrong what all of them did, and we need to talk about it more. claire mccaskill, i m glad we had this conversation. i need your perspective here. thank you as always for your time this evening. my pleasure. still more to come tonight. the drip, drip, drip of revelations about the luxury gifts that justice clarence thomas has received from his billionaire friends. that drip, drip, drip is turning into a flood. that s coming up next. turning into a flood that s coming up next.
what the solicitor general argued on behalf of the trustee for this bankruptcy that the condition of this $6 billion sackler plan, releasing them from all future liability is not allowed under the bankruptcy code, that this would be violate statutory provisions and go beyond what the code allows. it would also give, they argued, wealthy companies an ability to buy their way out of future lawsuits. now, purdue fpharma countered that this delay is only going to hurt the victims of the opioid crisis, hurt them in terms of getting the payments but we will see what court itself does. as you noted, the arguments will be in december. they re on a fairly quick briefing schedule. and as i said, a decision likely by the end of june next year. with this new reporting on justice clarence thomas accepting dozens of trips paid for by some billionaire friends, democrats are calling for some
family who had to evacuate. this is video of flames surrounding their home, the second time their life has been up rooted by wildfires. and new details about claren clarence thomas life ofthe supreme court bench. there are reports of his lavish life funded by a wired circle of billionaire friends. let s bring in tom foreman to break down the new reporting. tom, dozens of these advances, these gifts to the supreme court justice. it is really quite a list. and at a time when public support and faith in the supreme court has been plummeting, this is only going to intensify the scrutiny. most complete accounting yet of the my life of clarence thomas shows much, much more than
since 1991. we all make friends over 30 years. few of us make billionaire friends. what do they want from one another if they had no business before the court? it is an interesting question and one we were trying to get at. what we learned time and again was that they all had really similar ideologies, they are conservative funders, donated a lot to gopdates and causes over thers. but he said, thomas said once that these are just my good friends. wayne doesn t want anything for fr me. i can t give him anything in return. that has been the through line with all these benefactors. and you guys and your team have done phenomenal reporting. this is a series hes of reports that you guys have done on the supreme court. this comes at a time when the