condemn. the proud boys stand back and stand by. the proud boys celebrated that shout-out from then president trump during a debate in 2020. months later, members of that group would be heavily involved in the violence on january 6th. and now they are facing serious prison time for their actions. much more on yesterday s guilty verdicts in just a moment. meanwhile, in new york jurors in donald trump s civil rape trial heard more of his video deposition yesterday while taking through some of that testimony, and also ahead, more ethics issues for supreme court justice clarence thomas. this doesn t sound it s not good. it keeps on coming, and i m not sure what the consequence is here but it looks really bad. there is new reporting that clarence thomas wife was paid nearly $80,000 by a nonprofit that had a case before the high court. and her payments to her would come with instructions from leonard leo not to tell anybody she s getting the money. seems pr
And it starts with copper, the mineral copper. Theres copper in brass. Theres copper in bronze. The Statue Of Liberty is sheathed in a layer of copper. Thats about the thickness of two pennies. Pennies themselves used to be copper, but now theyre just coppercovered zinc, which sort of seems sad. It makes financial sense, because copper over time became too valuable to use in something as cheap as a penny, because most of what we use copper for now is conducting electricity. We use copper for wiring. There is a massive global appetite for copper. And the Worlds Largest producer of copper is an american company. Its a company that used to be based in new orleans but now the Mining Company freeport is based in phoenix, arizona. And the freeport Mining Company of phoenix, arizona, they do still mine copper in arizona and
they mine copper in new mexico and in colorado. But they are a gigantic firm. And theyre a global operation. In south america, they mine copper in chile, peru. In indonesi
talking about this morning is a voting acts case. joe, you mentioned bob nate. also lost the house in 2006 in part because of the abramoff scandal. people paid off. americans have shown this is not behavior they support when people have the opportunity to vote and to say, you know, this is not what i want from an elected official, or obviously someone in the judiciary outside of someone on the supreme court, they re outside facing political ramifications, but, you know, this is part of why people are losing faith in institutions, have lost faith in institutions. incredibly, incredibly damaging. i ll tell you, we republicans took control of the house for the first time in 40 years because of the check writing scandal. remember that? dan rostenkowski arrested for a lot less than this. snowflakes on the supreme court and the snowflakes on the trump
breaking news we just got about the independent ethics office in congress. where did that come from and why is this an important change? so the office of congressional ethics was establisheback in 2008, essentlly in the wake of the abramoff scandal, the mark foley scandal, there was a public outcry and they realized they had to set up an independent watchdog to field complaints about campaign improprieties, personal behavior, other things. it s existed for the last eight years, barely has a set of teeth, and has presented information over the last few years that has led to the removal or resignation of some lawmakers. there s a belief that they could have done a lot more. what republicans have done, let s be specific about this, had a closed door meeting, after the sun went down, yes, those things actually do happen, and cided amongst themselves that when the new house convenes tomorrow afternoon, they re going to present a rules package that has to be voted on by