welcome to a special thanksgiving edition of th show to what i am coming the mehdi hassan book club via oprah. bucks and all have been mainstay of the show giving me a chance to dive deep into a subject. book segments helping me understand the male strip of this relentless news cycle so we will revisit some of our famous conversations wit authors this year. how the media needs to cover elections when one party i campaigning against democrac how marjorie taylor greene has gone from the fringe to th center of the republican party and how outgoing speaker nancy pelosi consequentially one o the most consequential speaker of our lifetimes may have bought the opportunit to convict president donal trump. we start the day about books particularly the endless strea of tell-all books about donald trump. what was to all of them was no the what or the when if that i with so many crucial whereas relations wait for a boo publishing date? i want to show you an old news we cover from almost
the 2024 presidential race, an it may or may not surprise you we will go through it all. and conflict of interest democrats are calling ou supreme court justice clarence thomas for falling short o ethics rules that applie everybody else if this were another judge, if this were a member of congress, you stayed, yourself that s obvious, that s the sor of thing that needs to b disclosed, that is a clear indication of a conflict o interest it s a question that should be raised auto quote online. so you can get back to your monster to-do list. really? get a quote at progressivecommercial.com. trelegy for copd. birds flyin high, you know how i feel. breeze driftin on by. .you know how i feel. you don t have to take. [coughing] .copd sitting down. it s a new dawn,. .it s a new day, it s time to make a stand. and i m feelin good.
emhoff he teaches at a law school i washington d.c.. that is the model that, is the perfect model. zero possibility of conflict o interest zero the wife of the chief justic could do the same thing. law schools in and aroun washington d.c. would love t have her but they won t pay as much as the court law firms. those that put money into chie justices wipes income. washington is so willing and s hardwired to accept that kin of appearance that no one in washington has ever been eve slightly concerned wer questioned what the chie justice s wife does for living this is very important it is very likely, it s my personal bitterly, certainly that no member the senat judiciary committee would rais
conflict of interest with whit house policy so doug emhoff is now professo emhoff he teaches at a law school i washington d. c. that is the model that, is the perfect model. zero possibility of conflict o interest zero the wife of the chief justic could do the same thing. law schools in and aroun washington d. c. would love to have her but they won t pay as much as the court law firms. those that put money into chie justices wipes income. washington is so willing and s hardwired to accept that kin of appearance that no one in washington has ever been eve slightly concerned wer questioned what the chie justice s wife does for living this is very important it is very likely, it s my personal bitterly, certainly that no member the senat judiciary committee would rais
perception of a conflict o interest you know i have good friends, have dear friends of justice thomas likes to say but they shouldn t give me things lik buying my house an refurbishing it at no cost they don t get me trips, fin it stretch to new zealand or indonesia for me you have to ask yourself, what is it about this relationshi that causes harlan crow to spend so lavishly on his frien clarence thomas? it s because they want to se him come out certain ways an certain cases? and so even that access, i think it s problematic and ought to be disclosed so tha the public at least have confidence that they know wh the justice are spending tim with that s, right the problem here if we have time is that the situation highlights the lack of checks and balance with the supreme court and the judicial branch in particular. you and i both work in the executive branch there are inspectors general and expected or branch and you also of congressiona