busy news night. joy reid picks up next. tonight on the reidout give me a name. white supremacists. who would you like me to condemn. proud boys, stand back and stand by. as we await a verdict in the proud boys trial, how january 6th continues to be a drag on the republican party. as their likely nominee, donald trump, continues to quite literally embrace insurrectionists. also tonight, the sorry state of the right-wing supreme court majority. and the questions their actions raise about the credibility of the court. and actor and comedian john leguizamo will be here right hire on set with me to discuss his new series, leguizamo does america. very, very excited about that. but we begin tonight still awaiting a verdict in the trial of five members of the far right extremist group the proud boys. for their role in the violent attack on the u.s. capitol on january 6th. all five including the group s former leader enrique tarrio are charged with seditious con
of justices on the court, and all the other things that i think would change the way this court operates. i m sorry. finish your sents. there are different ways we can proceed. i have been wanting to get to court reform for quite a few years now. and i think all of the drip, drip, drip you re talking about means that i think there will be growing support for the kinds of changes that will reform the way this court operates. and that s where i m going. thank you, senator mazie hirono. always appreciate you being here. joining me now, let s bring in ellie mistal, justice correspondent for the nation. i could do seven more minutes of potential ethical scandals. the conduct by clarence thomas could be criminal. the conduct by kavanaugh back during that time could be could have been criminal. the fbi did a pretend investigation of him. he s sitting on the court judging whether we can have the right over our own bodies and he might have misused the bodies of women. to me, they seem c
already been proven to be false and unable for these justices to do. well, the other branch of government that could step in is of course the executive branch, namely the justice department. the conduct by clarence thomas is potentially criminal. i have heard not a peep and not a whit of a chance that he might be investigated for that misconduct. it is starting to feel like these nine people, and it s really six of them who have been doing just the strangest things or at least four or five of them, are above the law. if the justice department won t do and it congress won t, it means they are above the law, right? i do not know what chris wray has to not do to get fired. i don t know what other level of incompetence we need to see from fbi director christopher wray for him to lose his job. he s the one who botched and i would argue covered up the brett kavanaugh investigation. he is the one who had the opportunity to hear all of the
you know, sometimes these events are so close, it s hard to appreciate. it s kind of breathtaking, the vice president of the united states went to the grand jury to testify against the president he served in a criminal investigation. and by the way, smith did it, he didn t even wait for trump to try to go to the supreme court. just as soon as it happened, he was yanked the next morning into the grand jury. that s one. two, it was a whole day of testimony. we know some of the things that are vivid and do a lot for smith in terms of the conversations we heard about, especially the vicious one of january 6th itself, but they were talking. they were having weekly lunches from the time of the election, and there could be a lot more there. finally, it s very important that he did it just to lock pence in. it almost doesn t matter if pence was kind of bobbing and weaving, because it says he wants that testimony in the canon. that to me says, look, there are little pieces to tie up, but