conservative viewpoints an telling lies to the american public tonight, former fox anchor, gretchen carlson, on what need to happen for change at he former network plus, another shady real estat deal at the supreme court, a the chief justice dismisse calls for oversight. then, riveting testimony fro the woman accusing donald trum of rape. but we learn from each - date on the witness stand. and congresswoman katie porter on the maga vote to slas funding for medicaid, veterans childcare, and more. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. tonight, the supreme court o the united states is under a cloud of scandal it all started earlier thi month with republican feel tha conservative justice, clarence thomas, was acceptin undisclosed gifts from right wing billionaire thomas accepted gifts includin luxury vacations worth literally hundreds of thousand of dollars, and this really, truly special painting from man named harlan crow, who has well, inter
disparaging comments about management and colleagues, and allegations that created a toxic work environment according to new reporting tonight from new york times, - on the eve of the dominion defamation trial, fo discovered new texts sent by tucker one of which was, quote, particularly offensive, adding to the concern at the top of the company. now, we ve heard some of the stories of allegations directl from tucker s former producer, abby grossberg, who worked for him, who appeared on thi network yesterday to talk abou the sexism lawsuit that sh filed against fox for a hostil workplace. of course, there is a long history of toxicity that grossberg describes at the network. back in 2016, you migh remember host gretchen carlson sued longtime fox ceo, roger ambles, for sexual harassment. that kicked off a cascade of similar accusations that ultimately led to ailes resignation. now, gretchen carlson is speaking out about tucker firing, writing in an opinio piece to the daily beast it s,
ceo of one of the biggest la firms with a pretty robust practice, supreme cour practice, but for the court. so, you know, i reached ou when i saw that this happened, this timing, was just one bi coincidence or what exactl happened here? i did speak with mr. duffy, he told me that he did become aware of who the owner was throughout the course of this, but it s still unclear exactly when that happened like i said, there was this bi new york times story in march. this, then, went through in may, so it was two months befor that gorsuch actually wa identified as the owner of thi property here is the problem, chris there s no problem here, technically. there is no violation, no laws were broken, and according t ethics experts, that is th problem, that this doesn t violate anything that you ca have a transaction like this take place with this timing an with someone with such interes before the court and have it b
at least truce, then the really have to clean house completely because what has typically happened at fox is when you ge rid of a bill o reilly, you pu a tucker carlson in there, and they get even higher ratings right? why would they want that didn t want to do that, they want to make money. right so, they never wanted to do that they have a busines decision to make because i think there has been a complet shift in the old fox and the fox of the last 5 to 7 years i m skeptical on that well, in this one way, abou specific - right, there is les control. roger is not controlling anything, yes, yes one could argue - the horses are buckin against the right. one could argue it s rudderless ship, that s how it got to this position one could also argue this ma not have happened under the ol regime that, i think, is a interesting one. ails, for all of his - false had a keener sense of ho
so, they never wanted to do that they have a busines decision to make because i think there has been a complet shift in the old fox and the fox of the last 5 to 7 years i m skeptical on that well, in this one way, abou specific - right, there is les control. roger is not controlling anything, yes, yes one could argue - the horses are buckin against the right. one could argue it s rudderless ship, that s how it got to this position one could also argue this ma not have happened under the ol regime that, i think, is a interesting one. ails, for all of his - false had a keener sense of ho to keep things out of th