ethics scandals. is this politics? it s tuesday, i m bill hemmer. good morning. dana: it s tuesday and politics. any day is politics. i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. what s going on? the supreme court is facing renewed criticism over reports of justices failing to disclose what democrats say are questionable financial transactions. that includes justice clarence thomas accepting vacations from a wealthy donor and justice neil gore the democrats see the court needs more oversight. but should not have to answer to congress. dana: chief justice roberts submitted a letter saying that the court has reaffirmed a voluntary commitment to keep things above board. bill: democrats say it s not enough. republicans maintain sit a power grab designed to rein in a conservative majority on the court today. dana: if you ve been following this. the organization the news organization that first put out these reports about clarence tomorrow as. if you want to get th
laptop story. meanwhile there could be more trouble for the first son after he appeared in a courtroom yesterday on child support. a top house republican saying that case may help the investigation into hunter biden s foreign business deals. jacque heinrich leads our coverage today with more on that. jacque, hello. good morning, bill. on the blinken issue, last month the former deputy c.i.a. director testified that blinken was the impetus behind the letter that dismissed the hunter biden laptop story as disinformation. in his interview he says mike morrell s testimony somehow proves that was not the case. blinken does not explain how he can make that claim saying he doesn t want to get into politics. house oversight republicans are very interested in testimony relating to a number of their probes right now including that one and also including one in
independence county, arkansas where he sought to lower child support payments to lunden roberts. the mother of a 4-year-old girl he fathered. hunter s legal team says biden had a material change in his income and lunden roberts testified before a grand jury in delaware last year as part of a federal probe into the biden family finances. listen to this. this has the potential to be very helpful. first of all, what in fact is his income from his artwork? and who the buyers are? that s the most important part. secondly, we want to know if hunter biden has any off shore accounts. we learn more every day about the complex scheme that the biden family had to try to disguise the source of the revenue. lunden roberts team argued hunter biden can afford expensive lawyers and shielded view into some of his art transactions, who the buyer is, he doesn t know but they are
you think of the job performance of the high court. 55% disapprove. keep in mind, too, it s no accident, right? these are not coincidences that judge alito came out over the weekend talking about the leaker. he can t prove it but has a pretty good idea who it was, is today. watch that coming up at 10:00. this now from washington as well. roll it. written concerning hunter biden s laptop. they said it was russian disinformation. can you explain what your role was in that and if you incentivized it? with regard to that letter, i didn t wasn t my idea, didn t ask for it, didn t solicit it and i think the testimony that the former deputy director of the c.i.a. mike morrell put forward confirms that. bill: he denied any roll in discrediting the hunter biden
arguing someone does and how much was paid for them. and hunter did get a slap on the wrist yet from the judge over his team abusing their ability to redact financial records. bill: unless there is a settlement it will go on for some time. thank you for that from the north lawn. jacque heinrich. dana: a scary scene north of houston. schools briefly locking down after police thought they spotted the suspect accused of killing five of his neighbors on friday. as the manhunt for the gunman continues there is an $80,000 reward for an arrest. casey stiegel in texas, hi. good morning. the scene right back here behind us. we re in a relatively rural community. this is about 60 miles or so to the north of houston and it was about where 10 or 15 people gathered on friday night for a church retreat. eyewitnesses say they heard the