work. this comes on the heels of revelations the gop mega donor and thomas friend harlan crow has been paying for luxury trips, real estate transactions. as we learned yesterday, he paid the tuition for thomas grand nephew. joan, how big a deal do you think this washington post report about payments to ginny thomas is, particularly in the wake of the reports of her husband s financial history with harlan crow? did you have any idea both of them were receiving money like this from activists and donors? good evening, anderson. my first reaction was this is yet one more piece that shows how intertwined wealthy money interests are with these supreme court justices, and it s a time when members of congress, wash dog broups in the media, have been questioning why the justices don t have a formal code of@ins.
a new investigative report is reviving the ethical questions swirling around u.s. supreme court justice clarence thomas. brian todd has details for us. conservative mega donor harlan crow is once again center. propublica has information that crow footed tuition bills for a close relative of clarence thomas. just thomas and the court now under growing pressure to answer for all of this. supreme court justice clarence thomas and his wife didn t just get lavish trips, yacht rides, or a real estate deal from harlan crow. the billionaire gop mega donor also paid boarding school tuition for thomas s grandnephew, for whocm thomas ws the legal guardian. that s according to propublica, which says thomas did not report the tuition payments on his annual disclosures. democrats and republicans in the senate see this development
the potential 2024 republican race for president, trump s former secretary of state mike pompeo, says he s not running because the time is quote. not right. all right. virginia governor glenn junkin is pausing potential plan so that he can focus on flipping his state s legislature. that is, according to the new york times and donald trump s potential biggest challenge in florida. governor ron desantis has reportedly lost support. of a gop mega donor that billionaire thomas petr fee. told the financial times quote because of his stance on abortion and book banning myself and a bunch of friends are holding our powder dry. so joining us now state hernan cnn political analyst and national politics reporter for the new york times. hello sir. i must say good evening because i m used to talking to you. i such a long time. good morning. good morning. so how is this going? do you think this is going to affect ron desantis? now they re having this major mega donor. someone who i think it was gav
didn t disclose all these gifts that he had received vacations, house purchases, whatever it might have been. from harlan crow, gop mega donor, romney says quote if the reports are accurate, it stinks. do you agree that i was actually surprised? look, i can t nobody can buy me a cup of coffee in the state of new hampshire. i have to pay for everything. so we re super careful about our disclosures and our gifts and everything. i think everyone, like many things lately are shocked that there isn t a better system in place in terms of the transparency and all that. i don t know if they need laws are violated. doesn t seem like that, at least. but yeah, it s kind of odd that you don t have to disclose this. or, you know again, not an elected official, but a public officials think this merits a full investigation. have some wants to investigate it. sure, but i m not sure. is there any? i m not sure if anyone is out, alleging that any laws have been broken. all right. well, thank you very mu
rights and also on some other issues, also on guns. that we re seeing the results of a very concerted effort. you know just exactly what nick said to put justices on the court to overturn roe versus wade, and that is having consequences that are really going to have political ramifications in the next quickly. we have to talk about the news about clarence thomas. so as you remember last week, we found out that he had been accepting for two decades. these luxury trips from a republican mega donor. he was going on a super yacht. he was going on a private plane. some of these trips could cost half a million. $10 if he had paid for them now, today again, according to propublica, we find out that he s sold three properties in savannah, georgia, too. harlan crow, same mega donor for 100 and $33,000, you know, accepted cash for it. and now harlan crow s pays the property tax on it, which is what clarence thomas had been paying. so what ? what? why is he doing this? what s what is he thinking,