former british prime minister boris johnson has a reform of the police to the government cabinet office over new allegations he broke lockdown rules during the pandemic. it is reported the referral is to two regional police forces based on a recently discovered information. it should be stressed at this stage it police are investigating and no breach of the rules as been confirmed. let s go straight to our uk political correspondentjonathan uk political correspondent jonathan blake and uk political correspondentjonathan blake and kenny bring us up to date? this story broke in the last out reported reported by the times newspaper but as you say paper have been referred to the police, to separate police forces, one here in london and also the thames valley police, regarding information in it boris johnson s police, regarding information in it borisjohnson s ministerial diary that was encountered by officials in the process of preparing his evidence for the forthcoming covid 19 inquiry, t
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talk of potential impeachment, although that s a very high bar. while clarence thomas grifting is so obvious, it goes beyond what judges have been caught doing, there s a wider problem that supreme court has terrible oversight, which means you re hoping people don t do this, there s not a lot of oversight there s also calls for a stronger ethics code like policies that bind other federal judges before this particular story broke, a group launched something called the supreme court integrity project to clean up the court danny greenberg is one of its leaders, so we also wanted to get his views on these developments tonight back with me is long time defense lawyer and advocate for supreme court ethics reform, danny greenberg. thanks for coming back. thanks, ari thanks for having me. your response to the scandal getting everyone worse you had millions in secret payments, an mein kampf
but clearly what s going on here is there are people with top secret clearances who are not behaving responsibly that is an endemic and systemic problem that the military and intelligence community is grappling with. when they say they ve been tracking him for some time does that mean since all of this became public? does that mean before this happened from the time that he first had access to some of this do we know what that means, that he d been tracking it for some time our sense is that they mean since this story broke, since the u.s. government became aware that these classified documents had been leaked, and you re pointing to an important thing that bears emphasizing, which is that according to the account in the washington post who identified many members of this chat group, this person was posting classified documents as far back as a year ago, and it appears the u.s. government had no idea that that was happening. and for a while they were confined to a discreet grumou