fact, consult the code o conduct and assessing thei ethical obligations, in this way, the code plays the same role for the justices as i does for other judges. that is not true other federal judges are bound by the code of conduct, suprem court justices are not bound b the code of conduct. so to say that they consulte the code of conduct is in ever important sense, meaningless the chief justice went on to say something that we know was absolutely false every justice seeks to follo high ethical standards that is not true we know beyond a reasonabl doubt that clarence thomas absolutely does not seek t follow high ethical standards. clarence thomas s personal cod of conduct appears to be t follow the law was possibl ethical standards that he ca get away with. then, chief justice robert wrote a line that he would not dare try to get away wit today. the court has had no reason to
thank you. donald trump, guess what, he i back to his old tactics. this time, i don t think anybody should be surprised by anything that he says or how his allies come to his defense my panel will join me on that first, my colleague jessica layton is here wit today s other top news stories jessica? hi, simone. thank you. stories we are watching this our breaking news overseas ubs has agreed to buy riva bank credit suisse, this was national bank is putting up substantial loan here to support the deal, which aims t fend off global market turmoil calling it a solution to secur financial stability. in ukraine, today russia president vladimir putin made surprise visit to the russia -controlled city of mariupol this comes after the international criminal court issued a war crimes warrant fo putin. it was his first trip to occup ukraine since the war began. and in france, president emmanuel macron facing notions of no confidence in parliament tomorrow this comes after pushing through an inc
complete victory today. is that shocking? the president has an opinion that doesn t match what the testimony was, as well as he has an opinion that doesn t match the report. i heard comments about whether bob mueller was quick enough or sharp enough or forceful enough. the report was not undermined a wit today. in my mind it would mean the president could be indicted. that all stood up. you had dozens of republican members of the house ask question after question after question with a lot of gusto to try to get bob mueller to back off of them, and he didn t. in fact, many of the questions went to things that were collateral and peripheral. but many people engaged with the conclusions in the report, the facts in the report and all other things in the report that talked about the ways in which donald trump probably broke the law.
yeah, as soon as we get the facts straight, and we re going to be speak being with ting wit today. we re speaking with theresa may today. as soon as we get the facts straight, if we agree with them, we will condemn russia or hover whoever it may be. it may be a 400-pound guy sitting in his bed. so this russian guy, being attacked with a nerve agent developed by the russian military in frabroad daylight i the street in britain, this is a bizarre and scary thing. there are international repercussions to it already. and those will continue. the first strong statement condemning it from the u.s. was from secretary of state rex tillerson who was then fired a few hours afterwards. sen since then we have seen is strong statements from nikki haley and the press secretary.
that s absolutely true. and as the washington post reported there hasn t been enforcement of how this information is disseminated and shared. that s something general kelly is trying to get ahold of right now. so there s nothing to really stop the president from giving or telling jared kushner what he wants him to have or know. and keep in mind we ve said before the president can put an end to all of this by granting jared kushner full security clearance. he has the ability to do so, but so far right now he s letting general kelly take the lead on this and an indication he might be willing to let him go despite the close family ties i think it s possible. to our knowledge the trump agenda did not advance a wit today. any other bold faced names who might have security clearances pulled we might read about in the next 24 hours? jared kushner is the most