hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. a new chapter in the house gop s plan to govern for fox news and fox news only began today. the committee set up for one purpose only, that is to fuel the right s favorite conspiracy theory, but somehow, the deep state, is out to protect democrats and persecute conservatives and the disgraced ex-president and his allies. the so-called select subcommittee on the weaponization of the federal government held its very first hearing today. republicans invited a panel that included senator chuck grassley, who once said this, that the fbi was, quote, corrupted to its core. senator ron johnson, who has never met a conspiracy he didn t really like a lot. and former congresswoman and current fox news regular tulsi gabbard. here s just some of what they had to say. it s clear to me that the justice department and the fbi are suffering from a political infection that, if it s not defeated, will cause the american people no longer to trust thes
code of ethics. the highest court in the land cannot been exempt from the standards that we hold every other federal judge to. sounds reasonable enough. hi again, everybody. it s 5:00 in new york. the nine justices who are appointed to lifetime assignments on the bench of the u.s. supreme court, the people who make decisions that impact the lives of every last one of us are held to the same ethical standards as every other federal judge. reaching that point has been a goal of senator chris murphy s. he introduced legislation in every congress going back a decade that would require the court to adopt a code of ethics. today, he put forward his legislation again, nbc news reports this, quote, the bill would task the judicial conference of the u.s. with issuing within a year of enactment a code of conduct applying to supreme court jules tises. it also contains a new provision that would authorize and ethics