congress in 2016. alito s billionaire friend, peter singer, paul singer, spent half 1 million dollars in super pac money against her and both are joining me now. let me start with you justin, what is this trip? yeah. we don t know everything about how it came together, but the basic outlines of its are justice alito flew on this private jet from the east coast to king salmon alaska, a little remote town on the alaska peninsula, to a fishing lodge. at the time it cost more than $1,000 a night. he is not paying for the large? not paying for the large, not paying for the flight. and by the way, the facts, the basic facts of this trip or not in dispute. in his op-ed, he acknowledged everything that we were going to report. so, totally free. what is the nature of the trip? nobody is invited me on a trip? who what s the deal with a trip? unclear. what we were able to figure out is at that
launch had its own planes and pilots who flew the gas 70 miles west to a river known for having the best seven runs in the world. on another day, they flew to a waterfall and a national park, where bears catch seven from the water with their teeth. most of us have to just watch that on the livestream. sources told propublica quote, at night, the lodges chefs served multi course meals of king crab legs or kobe filet, and at the last evening a member of the group bragged the one they were drinking cost $1,000 a bottle. justice alito never disclosed anything and never recused himself from any of singers it s if you are a good friend, what were you doing ruling on his case? and if you weren t good friends, what are you doing accepting this, referring to the flight on the private jet. now, samuel alito desperately try to get ahead of this very story last night before the actual propublica already took him out. illegal publishing an op-ed in the wall street journal, alleging that quote, pr
strongest condemnation yet in response to the new report. let me say the obvious. there s something rotten going on in the supreme court of the united states of america. the offense offered by justice alito s laughable. i took that seat on a jet plane and didn t feel like i had to report it because it was going to be empty anyway. give me a break. there is no reason why the highest court in our nation have the lowest ethics. one of the few rules the justices do have to follow is the yearly publication of their financial disclosure forms. although, of course, as we have been learning, they often leave things out. we are still waiting on those disclosures from both justice alito and justice thomas, who interestingly enough, have received 90-day exceptions. justin elliott is one of the reporters who broke the story from propublica. it is a professor who wrote a book on the evolution of corruption in america. she also ran for
shortly after the story published, even his early reporting decided to hear it, clearly named singer and his company as key figures in the suit. paul singer is not some obscure character, he is one of the wealthiest people in this country and a prominent donor of conservative public. he even got a shout out at donald trump s first conference as president. paul singer just left, paul was very much involved with the anti trump or as i say, never trump and paul just left and he s given us his total support. and it s all about unification. we re unifying the party and hopefully we re going to be able to unify the country. so, i want to thank pulsing her for being here and for coming up to the office. he was very strong opponent, and now he s a very strong ally. and i appreciate that. now, this all comes in the wake of propublica s previous revelations about clarence thomas and harlan crow. and based on what we know so far, what s been reported, it seems that their justice billionaire r
in less than two weeks. this is what it looks like when the ingenuity of delco meets the grit of philly and we work together to get it done. and all in starts right now. ll i n starts right now good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. we begin tonight with a photo. it is a photo of one of the most powerful men in the country, and one of the richest. that is supreme court justice samuel alito in the center, with hedge fund billionaire and republican megadonor pulsing or, she was right. on an alaskan fishing trip they took together in july of 2008. the two men are beaming as they probably show off their freshly caught king salmon. the largest salmon i ve ever seen someone catch. the photo is the attention grabbing centerpiece of a new propublica investigation into the previously undisclosed relationship between justice alito and paul singer, who later had business before the court, cases for which justice alito did not recuse himself. propublica of course recently