code. don t wait code now and get the permanent solution protected by the bosley guarantee. herman in eastern ukraine. this is cnn. you live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour with new details in the case against 21 year old jack to share a the air national guardsman is accused of leaking top secret pentagon information is now charged under the espionage act. he worked in i t and had to have top secret clearances for access to the materials at the center of this controversy, prosecutors say. first began posting some of the classified intelligence online. back in december. since the arrest, president biden has directed national security agency officials to take more steps to secure this very sensitive information, and we start now with cnn s white house correspondent jeremy diamond joins us now over at the white house, jeremy one more we re learning tonight. well, jim, this investigation is continuing and the pentagon is working to assess now
these disclosure forms. one of the kind of larger issues here is that it doesn t appear that there s much in much, if any enforcement of that, uh, at the supreme court or actually in the larger federal judiciary. it s all a bit of a blank black box. what actually happens when these forms get submitted by a justice . is anyone even reading them? um you know, in other parts of the federal government, there s a whole infrastructure of ethics . lawyers that, uh, process these give people advice enforce the rules. the supreme court sort of our current understanding appears to be operating in a, you know, atmosphere of basically impunity with regard to this, but the senate judiciary committee. um has said they re going to have a hearing. so you know we re following it closely. all right, justin elliott. great great reporting over there. tip of the cap to all of you guys at propublica. thanks so much for your time. we appreciate it. thank you all right. for weeks, hundreds of thousands of pro
companies bought a string of properties belonging to thomas and his relatives quoting propublica article here. the transaction marks the first known instance of money flowing from the republican mega donor to the supreme court justice. and justin elliott joins us now he s one of the propublica reporters on this groundbreaking story, justin great reporting as always on this. thanks for doing this and being with us this evening. this comes after organization blew the lid on tens of thousands of dollars and gifts and travel that thomas allegedly accepted from harlan crow. we talked about that last week with one of your colleagues. exactly what was bought and sold, though, with this real estate transaction and what jumped out to you and your reporting, as you and your colleagues were putting this together as being especially concerning about it. yeah, well after our first story, which, as you mentioned was about this businessman harlan crow, providing justice thomas with a
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a criminal investigation into activities at countrywide, fizzled out earlier this year. deutschebank is still under investigation. well, how about the people who turned american mortgages, american homes into casino chips? overall the banks and individuals involved in these deals haven t been convicted on criminal charges. the civil suits against them have produced fines that aren t very big compared to the profits they made in the leadup to the financial crisis. okay. how about the ceos at the big investment banks? a probe of lehman brothers, stalled this spring. merrill lynch was sold to bank of america. quoting propublica here, as for the effects who helped crash merrill lynch, they walked away with millions. some still hold senior positions at prominent financial firms. republicans want the next presidential election to be decided on the basis of whether or not the economy is bad. because the catastrophe of wall street exploding in 2008 was so bad that you re pretty much gu