a airport screener is arrested for stealing passenger s belonging. i m wolf bliltser and you are in the situation room. her graphic complaints of sexual harassment almost derailed a supreme court decision 20 years ago and now she has received e-mail request that she believes is strange. brian todd has this. well, just as justice thomas wife made an appeal to mrs. hill and the rest of us asking, why this? why now? reporter: it can only be described as bizarre and somewhat random. nearly two decades after accusations of sexual harassment almost sank his supreme court nomination, justice clarence thomas wife calls his accuser. in a voice mail to anita hill, his wife says that she would
for two years and falln on hard times, and they have been able to stay here, because the case is now a lengthy legal battle. and cox fights on. while allied financial says it has not found any errors in the review of documents, cox says he is troubled by what he calls an abuse of the legal system. there is another thing driving him, his past. he once worked for a maine bank where he had to call in loans and execute foreclosures. it was not pleasant work to do. so, this has been a chance for the last couple of years to do what i think is really good work, and maybe to make up for some of the difficulties i caused for a few other people back in the 80s and 90s. reporter: in 2010 he never expected to have a fight over such a modest home would have such big implications. now, bank of america, the nation s largest bank announced earlier this week it is resuming foreclosures in 23 states after it did the review, and allied financial says it is taking foreclosures on a case-by-case
reporter: cnn checked with the supreme court earlier this year after mrs. thomas founded liberty central, and they said that the court had notified them of the involvement, and said that the discussions would not be made public, but it was said this spring that mrs. thomas was told her work was not conflict of interests, and wolf, most people believe that judge thomas will be careful to recuse himself from cases where her group advocates for certain issues, but we don t have to know, because he does not have to disclose that. thank you, brian todd. let s continue the analysis of what is going on. gloria borger is coming into political room, our senior political analyst, and jeffrey toobin is the author of the book benign, inside the secret world of the supreme court. and you know justice thomas, and do you suppose this is happy that it has been once again brought up, this 19-year-old
like her to consider an apology with some full explanation of why you did what you did with my husband. hill would not speak with us or the affiliate and she gave the note to authorities at brandeis university where she was teaching, and she said, i think that the call is inappropriate and i have no intention of apologizing and i stand by that testimony. mrs. thomas stood by the act for an apology. it is high-tech lynching for upety blacks. reporter: and mrs. hill said she could not do an interview was, and we want to ask more about thehe anita hill phone ca, and also a corporation that she has and they list this as a
and now a massive oil spill that many people have never even heard of. i didn t. even though it has been lurking underneath a new york city neighborhood for more than 100 years. some people living on top of it is saying that the cleanup is taking far too long and they have paid a serious price. senior correspondent allan chernoff is in new york and working the story for us. what going on? well, wolf, it is a giant underground oil plume extending into a residential neighborhood in green point, brooklyn. at some points, it is three feet underground, and at others, it is as much as 50 feet below. it is not easy to extract, but the cleanup is going on for three decades and the residents complain that their health is at risk. reporter: on this block of diamond street in brooklyn s green point neighborhood, cancer