decades, class thomas accepted luxury trips virtually every year without disclosing them harlan crow bought a house fro thomas while he was on the court, and justice thoma didn t disclose it up until yesterday, toma excuse here had been that he did not have to disclose any o this, because harlan crow, quote, did not have business before the court it turns out that s also not the case gross office confirmed t bloomberg that a company tha crow had an interest in, the trammell crow residentia company, that he had tried t get the court to accept th case in 2005 the court declined that case but at least publicly, justice thomas didn t recuse himself from that position thomas also did not respond to any of bloomberg s questions about any of this. tonight, we got the news fro the senate judiciary chair dick durbin, and chief justice roberts declining the committe s request the chief justice testifies against the courts ethics issues.
cnn s owren liebermann is joinig us from the pentagon. reporter: the isis leader who planned or was the mastermind of the attack that killed 13 u.s. service members in the final days of the withdrawal from afghanistan has been killed by the taliban. that according to the white house. now, the white house didn t name the isis-k leader but john kirby, the coordinator for strategic communications for the national security council calls him the mastermind of the attack and says he is one of several isis-k leaders that have been killed since the beginning of the year. now, what s interesting here, in addition to not naming this isis-k leader, the white house also not saying when or how he was killed by the taliban, whether it was a specific strike against this isis-k terrorist or just in general fighting, as isis-k fights the taliban for control of some parts of afghanistan. so those at least as of right now remain an open question. but now nearly two years after that attack that killed 1
cnn s arian devoge reports a company did have business in the mid-2000s and justice thomas didn t recuse himself from the case. there really was a direct conflict of interest, and it just makes the whole thing a whole lot worse. reporter: records show that in january 2005, a dispute over a copyrighted architectural drawing appeared before the supreme court. one of the disputing parties, a company called metric holdings limited partnership. while harlan crow s name does not appear on a caption of the case, a disclosure statement says the corporate parent of metric holdings is trammil crow residential company. a statement from crow s office says the crow family, at the time, had a noncontrolling interest in the trammil crow residential company. the statement says, at the time of the case, trammil crow residential operated completely independently of crow holdings, end, quote, and, they did not have knowledge of or involvement in this case.
and harlan crow has never discussed this or any other case with a justice. also, the supreme court declined to hear the case at the time. still, one watchdog group is concerned. when you have an entity that is connected to this person who s given all sorts of favors to justice thomas, by the time we re getting into wholly owned subsidiaries and exactly who has a controlling interest and who doesn t, we re way past the kinds of issues that create real appearances, real problems that the american people would be concerned about. reporter: recent reports by the investigative news outlet propublica revealed that justice thomas and his wife ginny accepted luxury travel and gifts from harlan crow for decades. and that in 2014, thomas sold three of his family s georgia properties to crow. thomas didn t disclose the real estate deal and most of the travel in filings. thomas responded that he was advised that he didn t have to report the travel. but a source believes he will amend his filin
desantis is having is that h doesn t have relationships wit people, even here in his own state. the florida delegation, i know we re gonna get this a littl later, but the florida delegation is falling in lin behind donald trump. this is up this is a republica governor who s popular in th state who just got reelected b a very wide margin, and yet of the congressional delegation for this state is no supporting him to that very point, just th other day i was speaking t former democratic congressma john patrick maloney about ron desantis, who people anecdotally say is hugel popular in florida and he said not so fast. watch this he has built an administration based totally o wedge issues and hatred, and trump is eating his lunch. he s racing to the bottom an he s losing it and i think this whole thing i the biggest fairytale i ve eve seen i think the guys has neve taken a punch. and trump is shown you can tak him apart pretty easily. it basically said the democratic party didn t spe