>> >> thank you home for joining us this hour. i am jump into gun, because this has been a heck of a day in news. the united states supreme court for the first time ever has issued an ethics code for serving court justices, first time. first time in our history. and, honestly, we have had some terrible justices in our history. it's not like everyone before this was good, so we did not need rules. we had a justice resigned ahead of being probably impeached for alleged bribery. we had a supreme court justice reveal to have been in the kkk just a few weeks after he got referred to the court. we had a justice who was so antisemitic, he reportedly would not speak to one of his colleagues. you would not speak to justice brandeis for years, because justice brandeis was joyce. that guy was such a thorough jerk, when he died, not a single one of the other supreme court justices even bother to go to his funeral. we have had some bad ones, i tell you. but we have never before had a hole with of the court has produced corruption scramble after corruption scandal, and not like esoteric illegally version of corruption that are hard to stand, things like, buy me an rv, by my mom a house, those kinds of financial corruption allegations. again, one after another after another, so, now, for the first time, we got a united states supreme court code of ethics. as of today. and, yes, it is kind of a hot mess. it is both obviously necessary, or something like this is obviously necessary, because that the unending litany of corruption scandals involving the current crop of conservative justices on the court, and also, it's kind of an impossible thing to do, just technically, because the supreme court is, there's a hint in the name, supreme. they are not really supposed to answer to anyone else, so, how do you hold them to account for complying with this ethics code? it is a mess. it is overdue, obviously needed, it is also a mess. my friend dolly left week will be here live tonight to talk about it, as soon as we found out that the supreme court had made the surprise move, we called dahlia right away, were able to get her for the knights show, looking for to that conversation. also, looking ahead to tomorrow's news, we are expecting a giant protests tomorrow in washington d. c., something like 50,000 people are expected on the national mall tomorrow, which is a big number for a national mall protests, and this comes tomorrow at the tail end of what has been an intense few days of protests around the world, over the mounting death toll and the just unbearable suffering in gaza and israel. this was friday a new york, the latest in what is now almost daily series of pro palestinian protests, this one briefly shut down grand central station. this was also friday, the same day in qatar, and and jordan, and in lebanon, and a huge friday protests in yemen. on saturday, this was -- the cut this, a huge 300,000 person march, the biggest rally we have seen in the war. in london, included this on the steps of the national gallery, the number of shoes, the name tag with a name associated with each pair of shoes, each representing a child that has been killed in gaza this far in this war. the same days that london event in saturday, these are protests in argentina and in barcelona and brussels and dublin, ireland. this is also saturday, berlin, edinburgh and paris. paris, some of the protesters despite photos of some of the journalists who have been killed while covering this war. there have been a lot already. these were all on saturday. ahead of this large march, on sunday, also in paris, this one is a march and rally against antisemitism. now, tomorrow in d. c., this big expected party city national mall is the call for the release of the israeli hostages that hamas has been holding, since the terrorist attacks on october 7th, more than a month now. this rally tomorrow on the national mall will be calling for the release of the hostages, also called for solidarity with israel, family members of some of the people who are being held hostage will be speaking at the event, and that is tomorrow afternoon. you can see, all of these protests, just further up the pressure, here on the u.s. government and around the world. up in the pressure to find some revolution, two and the terror, to alleviate the dire situation for civilians in gaza, it's hard to imagine that it could get worse, but it is getting worse and worse there every day. the soaring death toll shows no sign of abating. president biden today said at the oval office that causes hospitals must be protected. he said he, quote, hopes and expects that israel will use what he called, less intrusive action related to hospitals in gaza. we shall see. we will see that big event in washington d. c. tomorrow, and then more protests sure to come here and around the world. there is a lot going on in that front. today, we also learned of the death of former president trump 's oldest sibling. his older sister, marianne trump berry. she was a respected federal judge in new jersey for most of her career. she was on, what is called, senior status on the bench, when her younger brother was elected president in 2016. senior status is a sort of semi retirement that federal judges can say and basically forever, but marianne trump did a very unusual thing when her brother was president. she gave up seniors and resigned from the judiciary altogether, that was in 2019. it happened right after the new york times exposed her role in what the paper described as a decades-long pattern of the trump family engaging in what was alleged to be massive, systemic tax fraud. judge barry was alleged to not just be a financial beneficiary of the family tax fraud but, quote, she was in a position to influence the actions taken by her family. that is a serious, moral and potential legal opposition against anybody, in any line of work. but if you're a federal judge, that is a serious ethics allegation for a sitting federal judge. those kinds of allegations, a proven, but certainly by the judicial code of conduct that applies to all federal judges other than the supreme court. so in the wake of the new york times reporting on judge berry 's involvement in this massive alleged tax fraud with her brother, president trump and other members of the trump family, the court that she sat on actually started investigating this as an ethics matter. and ten days at the d court confirmed that they had started investigating her for this alleged ethics breach, she resigned from the bench. she gave up her lifetime tenure as a judge, that is the one sure way that she could call off that investigation because the judicial conduct rules don't apply to retired judges, so she retired, suddenly, and without explanation, ten days after the investigation was announced, and that killed the investigation. it is honestly one of the most serious substantive scandals ever associated with a presidential family member, and we have had some doozies. but, giving up lifetime tenure on the federal bench to afford the investigation into the serious decade-long tax fraud allegations laid out against you, with documentation and enough times, specifically, it seemed, designed, in retirement, designed to stop the investigation and let her get away with it? that, like i said, we have had some doozies when it has come to presidential family member ethics problem, but this race right up there. that's it, with this particular former president, this was like the 489th most serious scandal associated with him, so, it instantly became obscure trivia, basically, as soon as it happened. but it happened. and marianne trump berry passed away last night in her home in new york city. she was 86 years old. and i tell that story in part because, i think that there is important point here that relates, in some ways, to today's news, and it's the point about an institution, in this case, and institutional like the court, policing itself. there was no criminal case that was brought, based on trump organization alleged fraud, describe by the new york times investors back in 2019, and no, i don't know why that is. i don't know why that was the basis of the prosecution of trump and his family members business, but whether or not they were ever going to be criminal charges brought against judge barry or president trump or anyone else involved in the alleged fraud, still, you had this institution, had the judiciary, had the court itself where judge barry worked, starting an investigation into the matter. and that investigation, depending on how it went, could have resulted in her being censored as a judge, reprimanded or impeached or removed from the bench. and the reason that was hanging over her and forced her into an unexpected retirement as a judge, is because that institution decided to police itself. the judiciary has the sided in an interest doesn't institution to police itself, and maintaining its own standards, losing its own numbers to make sure that they sent up to the values that are professed by the institution. that dynamic, institutions policing themselves, upholding their values as institutions policing and their own members, holding their own representatives accountable for violation of the rules and the a fast of those organizations, regardless of the legal issues, regardless of the criminal law, that institutional self policing is an important thing. in our country and with any other. we saw this dynamic at work this weekend and another important institution, in another news story that very much flew under the radar. this weekend, pope francis, the head of the catholic church took the very unusual stuff of removing the american catholic bishop from his job. this is a very, very rare thing, and the context here matters. you might remember that just before the january 6th attack on congress, like three weeks before the, in december 20, there was another day of crazy, right wing pro trump violence in the streets of washington d. c.. remember, this december 12th, 2020, the number of people stabbed, there were brought in the streets of washington, wanting fistfights and battles. this was a day when a black lives matter banner was stolen and burned from a d. c. church. the largest event in d. c. that the pro trump forces had organized on this day that evolved into violence and running battles, the largest event approaching forces had organized that there was something called the jericho march. this was a mike flynn thing, where stewart rhodes, a pro trump, right-wing pro trump paramilitary group, the oath keepers, went to jail on sedition charges. this is where stewart rhodes at this event called for trump to evoke the insurrection american act. he used -- this jericho march was the thing that was tied in washington to coincide with the overturn the election rallies that happened at multiple state capitals all over at the same time. remember, this is december 12th, 2020. that night is where we saw the running battles in the streets of d. c., and larson, people being stabbed. and the violence there and radicalism, this was a pro trump radical warm up act for january six. that event, the jericka watch, the headline event of that day, included an address, speech from a sitting catholic bishop, from bishop joseph strickland, from texas. serving bishop serving an event, calling for the overthrow of the u.s. government, calling for the overthrow of the u.s. election results, including by the use of the army, the u.s. military against u.s. citizens on u.s. soil. this bishop, from texas has been one of the most outspoken members of this strain in the american catholic church right now, where there are ultra right super political, pro trump priests and catholic leaders. that is not that weird. a lot of organizations have a lot of ideological diversity. it's not that crazy to expect that you'll see that in the church, nor are they seeing in any other institution, but the catholic church is an institution. and among ulta right catholic priest right now, things have been kind of bananas. we've got, for example, one altering priest in the state of wisconsin calling for pope francis to be assassinated, calling for the pope to be murdered. and we've got this bishop in texas, campaigning at a stop the steal, overthrow the government by force event. and so, this weekend, again, a little bit under the radar, given everything else going on, but the catholic church, the pope, this weekend, removed this u.s. catholic bishop in texas. that happened this weekend. and you see this in history to, in the 1930s, it was the catholic priest. he had a massive radio audience. but it meant people listening to him weekly, at the time, the u.s. population was 103 million people. he became a hugely important figure on the american culture right by 1936, he was telling his listeners that when the ballot became useless in the united states, he would urge them to use bullets instead. he openly endorsed what he called the root of fascism. by 1938, he was defending not see mass violence against jewish people in germany. by 1939, he was depicting jews as a life sucking octopus that was dangling the united states. by 1941, he was touring on not seat military victories in europe, saying, the end result would be that would create, quote, a united states of europe, which he set would appeal to americans, despite all of the propaganda, aimed at the sparging. therefore, americans should root for hitler to win. by the time, a cell of the armed paramilitary group that he had formed among his radio listeners, have been put on trial in new york for sedition, for stockpiling bombs and planning the assassination of multiple members of congress and the ballot overthrow of the u.s. government. by 1942, the u.s. military had banned his publications from being shipped to u.s. military bases, then his publication was just banned from u.s. mail. after individual radio stations first started to walk at carrying his increasingly pro hitler, increasing the antisemitic rants, finally, the catholic church itself pulled the plug on him and told father that his radio days were over. busted back down to the status of a regular parish or. again, in terms of the sort of policing at work here, he was never criminally charged with anything. we know now that the justice department get developed a good case against him, as he paid for an agent for his powers. he also seemed to have developed a good case against him for tax evasion, but they did not charge him. and the important part here is that even without action by the justice department and the criminal law, these other institutions stepped up. the u.s. military, the u.s. postal office, crucially and belatedly, the catholic church deciding that somebody praising pogrom, praising an institution for a fascist, victorian dictatorship in the night states, that is not okay with them, given that he represented the church, that he was part of the church. they finally decided after years of being too afraid to do it, they finally decided that, you can atkinson's official to stop helping this lie, to self police, to not let him use them as an institution, to accomplish what he was trying to accomplish, which they finally decided was too much against their values to stand for. it took years, but they got their. now, tonight, here is the headline, in the new york times, , quote, accused of echoing fascist, trump campaign warns its critics will be, quote, crushed. accused of echoing fascist. you either are echoing fascist, or you aren't. despite the sort of pulling the punch element of that headline, the sub headline of that story tonight in the dark times does get there a little bit more directly with their sub had. it says, quote, the former president likened political opponents to vermin, similar to the dehumanizing rhetoric yielded by dictators like hitler and mussolini. the washington post headline just got there more directly, headline. trump calls political enemies of urban, equating dictators like willie and hitler. the quote from trump was this, he said, quote, or rule out the communists, marxists, fascist and radical left dogs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, lie, steal and gianna elections, and will do anything possible, whether legally or illegally, to destroy america, and the american dream. the threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous and grave dandy threat from within. the threat from london. the former president made these comments in a veterans day speech. they did not appear to be -- they appear to have been written as part of the speech, and something he read off this teleprompter, by all appearances. even if by some chance, they weren't in the teleprompter for that speech, he certainly made clear that human temperature, and he had them just like that, when he put them in writing, in a social media posts, it's the exact same language, used the same word, vermin, after being delivered, the speech in new hampshire. this is not subtle. everybody knows what this means. if you know one thing about mass murdering dictators and history, it's that they referred to the people that they want the mass murder as vermin, past, rats, insects, termites, anything to make their followers see those people as something to be eliminated, not someone, you might know. professor ruth ben here, who is the author of strongmen today, said all of this is part of an effort to reeducate merkens to see violence is justified, patriotic and even morally righteous. but to get people to lose their aversion to violence, sat the authoritarians also the humanized their enemies. that is what trump is doing. trying to get people to lose their perversion, their natural provision. and this comes at a time, one washington post, of course, recently reported that trump's advisers are working on a plan to evoke the east insurrection act on his first day of, office which would give him, the power that the pro trump paramilitary's were calling for a january six, given the power from day one to use the u.s. military, the u.s. army, against american civilians on u.s. streets, it comes at a time where the new york times newly-reporting as of this weekend that trump's advisers are planning to build camps in the united states, camps capable of holding millions of people, once he is back in office. they plan to put millions of people in camps, in the united states. and they plan to do it using military, rather than by passing some new legislation, that might make it seem illegal. they planted just do it unilaterally. again, using the military, building camps to hold millions of people is a military force against iran people, saying air political opponents are vermin, must be rooted out and crushed through say the country. none of this is subtle. and, apparently, none of this is an accident. these things are not being rooted out accidentally, right? they're in the speech, in the social media posts. the supposed plans for the administration are being technically leak. as of tonight, the trump campaign put out a statement officially disavowing all reported plans, but the supposed leaks are also accompanied in many instances by on the record interviews with some of trump's most senior advisers, people putting their name to it and explicitly confirming these plants. and, again, to be clear, this talk about exterminating the vermin in this country was not an at lip. it's a repeated lie now. he want to be known for the, she wants everybody to know that this is the language he is using, and the fact that is happening at, once were reporting on the camps that they're putting people in, the military force against civilians, the vermont speech and all the statements about it, the fact that this all happened at once, presumably means is the announcement that they are rolling out on purpose because