party was leading the way an showing how to deal with folks and i think it s also the case that the way that that map i drawn in that state, the folks that took the vote today, ar pretty insulated on their way. it s just part of the. story absolutely, i gotta say it s tenure anniversary. week and when you started th show ten years ago, did yo think this is what you d b covering, this kind of disillusion of origin mccraw ticked principles a decade later. it s been a disturbin aspect of the last seven years or so with the coverage era. we re glad to have you with us thank you thank you to all of you for joining us here at home. this is what it sounded wa outside the chamber of the tennessee house of representatives. [crowd chanting] [crowd chanting] [crowd chanting] you banned books, you banne drag, kids are still in body bags that was the scene at th tennessee capitol earlie today. republicans in the state legislature voted to expel two democratic representatives f
, free, free, free, free the tennessee free you are fascists! you banned books, you banne rag, kids are still in bod bags [crowd chanting] you banned books, you banned, rag kids are still in body bags that was the scene at th tennessee capitol earlie today. republicans in the state legislator voted to expel tw democratic representatives fro the tennessee house. they voted to kick to democrat out of office. it was an unprecedented and it was a drastic move and it al started last week. that is when hundreds of schoo students came to the tennessee capital to call for new gu safety measures after a shoote opened fire at an elementary school in nashville. killing three 9 year old students and three adults. during that protests, a handfu of democratic law minister before the house chamber they had megaphones and they weren t shy about standing i solidarity with the protesters outside which was apparently a violation of the rules of th chamber. republicans pounced. they didn
gifts from this guy. because this isn t the first time mr. crows generosit towards thomas has been scandal. mr. crow also gave at leas half 1 million dollars to help justice thomas s wife, ginni thomas, start a conservative lobbying group a group that then turned aroun and pay ginni thomas a salary. of $120,000. and later evolved into ginni thomas s current group, whic reportedly works with groups directly involved in controversial cases before the supreme court. harlan crowl gave more tha $100,000 to the yale law clarence thomas portrait five, which is i don t know, a lot o money for a fund that doesn need to exist. but today, republicans made al that look like change. tough strange. it wasn t just that on undisclosed 500,000 vacation that pro public uncovered, the report that far more than tw decades, two decades clarence thomas receptiv luxury trips virtually every year from mr. crow withou
undisclosed 500,000 vacation that pro public uncovered, the report that far more than tw decades, two decades clarence thomas receptiv luxury trips virtually every year from mr. crow withou disclosing them joining us now is jane mayer, chief washingto correspondent for the ne yorker and the author of choru of dark money, the hidde history of the billionaire behind the rise of the radical right jane, great to see you there s no better person t talk to about this thank you for being here tonight. let me first start with th reporting from propublica today, is this an open secret among people who report on the court and are other justices doing things like this , while the problem with thi story is that because it shows that something was not disclosed, it s very hard to know what else is not bein disclosed. i think what it does is it highlights that there are huge loopholes in the ethics rule for the supreme court justices there are notoriously have the weakest ethics code in all the cou