medical officer in louisville today hit. yesterday it was a bank. a few weeks ago, it was a private christian school before that, a supermarket another school a college. a bar. a church a warehouse. a walmart. a parade a lunar new year celebration the list is so long i couldn t go through it in this hour alone. there are so many shootings in the country that it sno longer uncommon to hear someone say that this shooting is their second brush with death. or that they ve been through something just like this before. we heard it from students at michigan state and we heard it from the mayor of louisville himself a target of gun violence last year. we have to take action now. we need short-term action. to end this gun violence epidemic now so fewer people die on our streets. and in our banks and in our schools and in our churches. and for that, we need help we need help from our friends in frankfurt and help from our friends in washington, d.c this isn t about partisan politics
again, this is part of a ruling, a recent ruling by a judge that the close aides to donald trump had to testify in front of this grand jury all right. we are also asking the question about ethical guidelines, for a supreme court justice. what are they? it s also what democrats on the senate judiciary committee want chief justice john roberts to answer they sent a letter to roberts on monday, urging an investigation into justice clarence thomas who failed to disclose everybody travagant trips funded by a republican mega donor, the committee is promising to hold a hearing on the, quote, needs to establish confidence in the court s ethical standards. joining me is correspondent garrick haake so what do democrats want reporter: well, they want answers and really what they want is for the supreme court
investigating by chapman university. he s reported over the reports that they want to see, 10,000 or more attorneyed by attorney/client privilege. let s bring in garrick haake. nicholas wu who is a congressional reporter at politico. nicholas, let s start with you, what do you know about john eastman and why the possible emails. explain why the committee would want to see them? the committee s taking a interest in john eastman because he s at the center of so many of these different conspiracies and plots to try to overturn the 2020 election. with the emails, thousands and thousands of emails related to his tenure when he was at chapman university. and the committee has tried to gain access to these, basically to garner whatever information they can, about what extent eastman was involved in these
paul manafort and his deeper tie to russia with this nbc news exclusive report and the strong financial relationship with a certain russian oligarch and the financial figure is eye popping. we begin this hour in washington where steve bannon, the man who succeeded manafort on the campaign team, launched into a passionate and vicious attack on what he considers republican establishment members and he did the at one of this year s most prominent gathers, the values voter summit. we re going to get the sound from that in just a second. but garrick haake was there for us wl while we work on getting the sound, explain what was the take in the room on what steve bannon was saying and in typical fashion, is this the steve bannon that we ve all come to know and for certain people in washington to fear? well i think it s
longer than two hours. chuck grassley, the judiciary chairman, talking to our colleague, garrick haake. staff meeting withton junior. think of it like a deposition in a court case as opposed to what democrats are hoping is a p prelude to a main event that could lead to testimony. that s something that the democrats on this committee are counting on. staff members are interviewing him. there are a couple of democratic senators that went into the room, dick durbin, rick blumenthal. kasie, don junior meeting happening and then president trump over at the white house sending out a tweet on daca. for all of those daca that are concerned about your status during the six-month period, have you nothing to worry about. no action! of all people, nancy pelosi had a hand in this tweet.