fraud. stone may regret letting the cameras roll in that room. there is new video from that session and we have it for you exclusively later tonight. we begin with news on a story that i can tell you some on the right are hoping the nation forgets. the kind of story they re hoping that you news viewers and citizens will forget because we live in a time of growing inequality and corruption. take supreme court justice thomas blatant taking and grifting gifts from insiders, or billionaires, shaping our politics and clashing with anyone who dares disagree with the power they think they bought over our democracy, or this ongoing rolling trumpian takeover of a political party which has resulted in rallying the gop around rank, transactional calculus, self-interest as a kind of new norm to be minimized or even defended. and i ll tell you this as introduction to some really important stuff we re about to show you. the modern republican party has long embraced capitalism, sure. bu
the howls we re hearing from some lawmakers, it sounds like we might be. on the right, there s chip roy, congressman from texas. i m going to have some blunt conversations with my colleagues and the leadership team. i don t like the direction they are headed. freedom caucus member bob goode of virginia saying i m concerned about rumors that a deal will raise the limit more than we want. senator mike lee from utah, i will use every procedural tool at my disposal to impede a debt ceiling deal that doesn t contain substantial spending and budgetary reforms. on the left, there s the progressive caucus chair who says i think the backlash were to be significant if we are bullied into a bad deal. cori bush of missouri, it won t be helpful to biden re-election if he slashes funding on things like education. and jim clyburn who says the president should negotiate, negotiate, negotiate and then use the 14th amendment to pay the bills unilaterally if time runs out. it may sound like w
hello and welcome. let s return to the last minute unexpected interview that elon musk the boss of twitter and ceo of tesla has been doing with the bbc s james clayton. this came about after the bbc objected to a new tag describing it as government funded media on its main twitter account. james began by asking him why he decided to do this interview. there is a lot going on, so i thought this might be a good opportunity to answer some questions and. you know, i guess maybe get some feedback, too. what should we be doing different? i know the bbc for example is not thrilled about being labelled state funded media. it has viciously objected to that term, do you want to respond to it? i wanted to be as truthful and accurate as possible. i think we are adjusting the label to be publicly funded, which i think is perhaps not too objectionable. we are trying to be accurate. too objectionable. we are trying to be accurate- too objectionable. we are trying to be accurate. publ
requirements currently remain at the premises. there is also cause to believe that evidence of obstruction will be found at the premise. the affidavit revealing startling details about improperly handled documents that were marked with the highest levels of security clearance. a former cia guy. it sends chills up and down my spine when i hear there is information in somebody s basement. not secured as it should. hcs standing for human intelligence control system which is a classification designed to protect people around the world for the u.s. government. in 14 of the 15 boxes retrieved in january by the national archives, 184 documents had unique classification markings. 67 marked as confidential. in a marked as secret. and 25 marked top secret. the top secret stuff, and compartmental, can get people killed. it is completely alarming. nobody down there except, well, not even trump any longer, even has a clearance at all. according to doj, the document is heavily reda
you ve spoken out and been a leader all the way back to 2017 as i quoted in our report. your thoughts on, does this still matter to the american public? and what stands out to you in the new report? this is unconstitutional under the clause. it s a payout. the founders knew this could be a problem. that s why they put the emoluments clause in there. there s no point having a revolution against the british if some foreign power, the british, the french, the russians or anyone else, could simply put american officials on the pay roll. so no united states official can accept foreign government payments, profits or benefits without the consent of congress. that has been the law since the founding of this country and we have never had a president do this. doing business with foreign governments while in the presidency, unconstitutional, illegal, i warned about this in 2016 when he was a candidate for president and after he won the