towns, and all those movies we saw with the guys would wander out carrying guns. it was all illegal, and a lo of those times you could never publicly kerrigan and i have a history professor who s goin to join us at the end of the show who revealed all of tha to me today. i am just so shocked, that those cowboy movies were, in some ways, inaccurat apparently it is a good reminder to al the originalist who wants to basically, rewind time back to the 1718 hundreds, that they may not have liked the gun laws. and nobody was questioning, nobody was saying that s un-american, that unconstitutional, everybod just went along with what it was. irony deep irony, lawrence those were the days thank you alex, - thanks lawrence a federal courts of appeals has agreed to hear attorne alvin bragg s appeal a federal judge ordere yesterday saying that th former assistant distric attorney, mark pomerantz, wh briefly worked for alvin bragg needs to testify to the hous judiciary comm
zero public consequences until today, when he was asked about it publicly. representative scotty campbell handed in his resignatio today. that does it for us, we ll see you again tomorrow now it s time for the last wor with lawrence o donnell, goo evening, lawrence. good evening, alex, i learn something today about what w call the wild west the old wil west that there was way more contro in the wild west, in those towns, and all those movies we saw with the guys would wander out carrying guns. it was all illegal, and a lo a federal courts o appeals has agreed to hear attorney alvin bragg s appeal. a federal judge ordere yesterday saying that th former assistant distric attorney, mark pomerantz, wh briefly worked for alvin bragg needs to testify to the hous judiciary committee in accordance with a subpoena issued by the chairman republican, jim jordan we report on that case her last night, the appeals cour has given alvin bragg unti tomorrow to file his appeals briefing
when he refused to follow th law requiring disclosure of th sale of real estate that h owned in georgia to clarence thomas s favorit right wing billionaire, harlan crow, who has also showere several hundred thousand dollars worth of private jet travel and your travel that we know about along with othe perks on justice thomas, without justice thomas eve disclosing those gifts harlan crow has directly put money in clarence thomas s pocket and as many ways as h could find including by buying real estat from clarence thomas, and by contributing half 1 millio dollars to a nonprofit organization that then pai clarence thomas s wife a salar of $120,000. you can do the math on that. cleared psalms s wife salary was funded out of a pot of gol that included $500,000 from whitewashing billionaire, harlan crow, and clarenc thomas for years fil disclosure forms and which h said, falsely, that are hi wife s income was zero in these circumstances it seem clear to me that it is not m duty to remain on
reagan it never crossed senators mind that abe fortas should no resign because there is republican president the democratic-controlled hous of representatives was threatening to impeach the supreme court justice appointe by the democratic presiden because of that $20,000 that abe fortas received, and returned abe for this did nothing compared to what clarenc thomas has done. nothing. in his resignation letter ford said there has been a n wrongdoing on my part. there has been no default an the performance of my judicial duties and the accordance with the high standards of th office i hold. and absolutely no one anywhere offered a shred of evidence to contradict that. nothing to suggest that a fo this did not perform his judicial duties and accordance with the high standards of the office that he held. a before this went on to say something that clarence thomas who has been shown to have violated federal law could never bring himself to say because clarence thomas does not believe what
protest resign from the suprem court. he went on to serve as jimmy carter s vice president, and then the democratic nominee fo president in 1984. who lost 49 states to ronald reagan it never crossed senators mind that abe fortas should no resign because there is republican president the democratic-controlled hous of representatives was threatening to impeach the supreme court justice appointe by the democratic presiden because of that $20,000 that abe fortas received, and returned abe for this did nothing compared to what clarenc thomas has done. nothing. in his resignation letter ford said there has been a n wrongdoing on my part. there has been no default an the performance of my judicial duties and the accordance with the high standards of th office i hold. and absolutely no one anywhere offered a shred of evidence to