painter, who was the former chief white house ethics lawyer for george w. bush. he was referring to the cascade of gifts from harlan crow over the years. now, thomas has not addressed the questions about the payments. harlan crow did not dispute the facts of the reporting in a statement, instead fo notion thg been passion about the importance of quality education, and giving back to those less fortunate. and there is your point for the washington post that further complicates matters for justice thomas. quote, no mention of ginni, of course, that s what conservative judicial activists leonard leota gop pollster kellyanne conway after directing her to bill a nonprofit group he advises, and use that money to secretly pay ginni thomas, who is of course the wife of clarence thomas. that is according to documents reviewed by the post. nbc news has not independently verify those documents. but according to the post, conway s firm sent that
legislature. and to be able to control young, black representative, i is to wield money. as a stick against a majorit black county for making sure that they have someone who is representing th voice of the will of the people you know, we know that we have a retaliatory administration we are seeing it in legislatio against our major cities it s constant. it s kind of remarkable, it almost like a mob, literally they came into my office, hr came into my office wednesday, i guess it was, the day before our expulsion hearings it was the woman - the head of hr and our ethic lawyer, our ethics lawyer. and the head of hr said, well, we just want to come and have talk with you, i wanted you to know, if you are expelled, you will lose your healt insurance.
about that only about 20 seconds left, justice department appeal is gonna go to the fifth circuit, it s one of the most conservative in the country. what are the prospects there so, i suspect a new lawyer, i suspect they ll lose in th fifth circuit. and then it will go to the supreme court. dang, anthony, i don t trus the supreme court on this one. don t forget, there is competing ruling out o washington, the supreme cour is going to have to resolv this ultimately. that is where it will go well, i don t think get tha gives people lots of hope in america, we will be watching for team - thank you very much for coming in today, with a good easter jacket, anthony, you are staying with me. we have more illegal things to discuss. when we come back, i hav something to say about these dangerous developments involving women s rights t make decisions about their own bodies, and then, later we r gonna get into march - about the 34 felony counts against donald trump in ne york and why da
evidence is posted on social media, or used for political purposes one of the things that the requested, we don t know i it s gonna make it into th final protective order, donald trump only be allowed to revie materials in his lawyer office how unusual of a request i this type of protective order? how do you even enforce it it s unusual for a case lik this usually, we request that, in cases, violent cases o organized crime cases, we have a fear of witness safety to do it in a case like this you re basically saying to the court and to the defense attorneys, we don t trust th former president of the united states i m actually surprised when heard, during the arraignments the prosecutor in defense were agreeing to it i can t imagine any defens attorney agreeing to that. you are entitled to challeng it, and have a hearing, which expect the defense attorneys will do. and if they lose that hearing, under new york law, they could then go to the appellate division
and then the ethics lawyer say to me, well, you know, you remember so and so, he was potentially up for expulsion and he decided to resign, an that way, if you resign, you don t lose your health insurance. did you feel intimidated in that moment? i didn t feel intimidated, knew what they were doing. i am going to have more o my conversation with the tennessee three, the only time they ve been interviewed together since the expulsion votes after the break. i want to talk about the support they re getting from the president and vice president, concerns for thei safety, and what happens whe the state house is back in session on monday. and later, as last night rulings on the abortion pill sink in, we re gonna break dow what they mean for women, what they mean for america, and why they re not the last word on women s access to this healt care first, all are besties here, m colleague richard lui with today s top stories today. the ten is a three. some stories we re following for you