his lawyers mistakenly sent years, years of his texts to the oppose counsel. oops. we begin tonight with samuel alito. the supreme court justice who played partisan god or at least thought he could when he authored the majority opinion that overruled roe. now we imagine today was a hard day for justice alito, but, no, we don t feel especially badly for him. remember, he s the one who cited in his opinion a 17th century jurist who supported marital rape and witch burning so it shouldn t surprise us at all that alito in the first public appearance gloetd over making women suffer and mocked his foreign critics during a speech he delivered in rome. i had the honor this term of writing i think the only supreme court decision in the history of that institution that has been lambasted by a whole string of foreign leaders. one of these was former prime minister boris johnson, but he paid the price. what really wounded me was when the duke of sussex addressed the united nations and
6th insurrection are missing, conveniently, from a third government agency. this time it s the department of defense. texts and e-mails from top pentagon officials who would have been in charge of mobilizing the national guard, including former defense secretary christopher miller and army secretary ryan mccarthy, but also other more controversial figures like last-minute pentagon appointee and trump loyalist kash patel. former pentagon chief of staff. according to a federal court filing, the pentagon and the army said that when an employee leeves the pentagon and turns in their phone, the phone is wiped and text messages from around the attack were, quote, not preserved and, therefore, could not be searched. the government watchdog group american oversight sued for the records and is asking attorney general merrick garland to open an investigation into the pentagon s failure. senate judiciary committee chair dick durbin has also called on garland to investigate wiped texts from the cb
advocate for it. okay. i look forward to it. include me with the coal miners and we ll be off to the races. thank you very much. we want to bring you up to date on this this is under way for chuck hagel and whether he s the next defense secretary. if the vote exceeds 60 votes that means a possible vote would come as soon as tomorrow and only require a 51 vote majority. if it does not get the 60 votes, this thing it liking dicey. a vote for hagel is delayed for at least another week. they re in recession next week and this whole thing could fall apart. this is the first time this has happened with a pentagon appointee in this process. senator john mccain is coming up after the vote on the implications. hours away from another deadline for the healthcare law.