4:00 in new york with the skies above us are hazy from those canadian wildfires. we are all under air quality warnings. we re going to get to that story later in the broadcast. but we begin with what is shaping up to be a white knuckle day for the disgraced twice impeached now indicted legally liable for sex abuse ex-president thank foss fast-moving developments in special counsel jack smith s investigations, plural, into donald trump. today, a federal jury in miami is back in action hearing witness testimony as part of the special counsel s investigation into whether the ex-president mishandled classified documents. or obstructed government efforts to retrieve those documents after leaving office. and it was not just any witness, it was one of trump s closest aides. a former trump spokesman who have as super pac. saying that prosecutors weres partially interested in taylor budowich, after sending boxes of material from his private home to the national archives, trump left a
the lead starts right now. tensions continue to escalate in the middle east, new details and images just coming in as cnn learns of a new terrorist attack and tell aviv as israel strikes after a barrage of rockets hit along its borders, plus supreme court justice clarence thomas tries to explain after a bombshell report revealed his many family trips on a god in a private jet, all paid for by a billionaire republican mega donor. and thomas never disclosed almost any of it, plus vice president kamala harris dispatched to tennessee one day after state house republicans expelled two democrats. two black men who were protesting on the floor, but they did not expel the other democrat on the floor with them white woman. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we have some breaking tragic news from israel. you re looking at live pictures from tele viv after one person was killed and six wounded from a quote terror attack in a popular thoroughfare. in the city. israel says all of the v
trip ahead for you just one lawmaker who joined protesters demanding meaningful gun legislation at the state capital kept her seat yesterday. representative gloria johnson, a white woman, slammed the expulsion of her colleagues justin jones and justin pearson, two of the state s youngest black lawmakers, saying she was the only one to be spared was quote, pretty clear. outrage over the pair s removal is being felt across the country, coupled with the concern of the dangerous precedent this is sending. and a short time ago, tennessee s black caucus whose chairman called the decision an assault on democracy that quote, smacks of overt racism spoke out. it looked like a jim crow era trial, where we saw two black men fighting for their careers, fighting for their reputations. the world is watching tennessee, and yet again, they re watching it for the wrong reasons. quite frankly, i m kpexhausted. what are we going to do now is it going to be business as usual, it happened t
from justice alito. just after we ve uncovered all of these really highly questionable actions by clarence thomas and by alito himself. of course, he try to preempt that by going to the wall street journal. however, it s clear that congress does have a role. here they already have dealt with expanding the court in the past. requiring ethics disclosures that the supreme court says they voluntarily go along with. so, this is not something that is foreign. this kind of accountability. it also exists for lower courts. it s disappointing that justice alito would take this position in the face of so much evidence that the system is broken. that folks are engaging and unethical conduct. if, anything they should be holding themselves to a higher standard than everybody else. because of their unique role in
over the last 48 hours. that is because instead of demonstrating to the public that they are taking ethics issues and lapses seriously, two justices failed to file their ethics disclosures by today s 1:00 p.m. deadline. they are supreme court justice clarence thomas, who has asked for more time to file his annual financial disclosures, following criticism that he failed to report luxury travel and real estate transactions, with texas billionaire. and samuel alito. it come on the heels of statements by harlan crow s attorney to the judiciary committee after the committee requested crow s testimony, arguing that congress does not have the power to supervise the ethics of the court. he writes this. to reiterate, congress does not have the power to impose ethics standards on the supreme court. it therefore cannot mount an investigation for the that you recall of helping craft such