instigators of the january 6th attack. for members of the proud boys, including their former leader found guilty of seditious conspiracy. what today s verdict could mean for the investigations into donald trump. then, new ethics questions about supreme court justice, clarence thomas. and a billionaire donor. and, with just one week until title 42 expires, a look at the humanitarian crisis at the southern border as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. i m symone sanders-townsend in four stephanie ruhle. tonight, there s brand-new reporting that special counsel jack smith is ramping up efforts to find out former president trump hid classified documents. the new york times writes, prosecutors have, quote, obtained the confidential cooperation of a person who has worked for trump at mar-a-lago. the report continues, quote, the existence of an insider witness, whose identity has not been disclosed could be a significant step in the investigation. this news comes jus
welcome to hannity . we are broadcasting live from our nation s capitol in the swamp and the sewer, washington, d.c. welcome and thank you for being here. today is the end of a busy day for lawmakers with a flurry of votes including one to possibly censure anti-semitic congresswoman tlaib. a measure that was killed by democrats. coming up we will talk to mike johnson the newly elected speaker and steve scalise and many other gop lawmakers. make no mistake, with just 369 days until the 2024 election, house republicans, and i am saying to all of you in this room and all of you watching at home, you will succeed together or fail together. there won t be some winners and some losers. the only people that will really lose if you lose are the american people. there is too slim a majority for divisive in fighting. my message tonight to lawmakers, and we will discuss this throughout the hour, is put aside personal grudges, individual agendas. it is time the american people need lead
thomas according to documents reviewed by the post, conservative judicial activists leonard leo arranged for thomas s wife, ginni to be paid tens of thousands of dollars for consulting work more than a decade ago. leo specified that her name be left off the paperwork. in a statement to the post, leo defended the thomas s and said that he s always tried to protect their privacy, which is why he kept her name off the paperwork. nbc news has not independently confirmed this reporting. and this comes amid a new report from propublica. alleging wealthy republican donor, harlan crow paid the tuition for thomas s grand nephew who he was raising as a son at two private boarding schools. nbc news has not independently verified this report, we have reached out to the supreme court and justice thomas for comment. in a statement, harlan crow and his wife did not deny the story. saying they have long been passionate about giving back to youth. joining me now, to discuss, is
if you look at this deal between leonard leo in the federalist society, where he tells kellyanne conway to pay ginni thomas but not to report that is a direct, possibly, violation of the law, and certainly another example of corruption. and, look, i don t think anything is going to happen because there is no way the republicans are going to push clarence thomas out while joe biden gets to nominate the next supreme court justice. and, you know there s no way to get 66, or whatever it would be, 67 votes in the senate to impeach clarence thomas without republicans. so, it is obviously corruption, the republicans have shown that they don t care about, that they didn t convict donald trump after he tridents rexton. so i don t see them convicting clarence thomas over this. as for feinstein, she needs to be back. the one thing that she had been doing well was getting judges to match a really fast pace of nominating and confirming judges under the trump administration. and, that is not happe
ian millhiser, senior correspondent at vox, where he focuses on the supreme court. he also wrote the book, the agenda, how the republican supreme court is reshaping america. okay, ian, the post reports that leo instructed republican pollster kellyanne conway to bill a nonprofit he advices advises and then give that money to ginni thomas. and, that same nonprofit filed a brief in to the supreme court in a huge voting rights case. what is your take away here? what are your thoughts? yeah, can i have any other take away other than the most obvious one? i mean, how corrupt does this guy have to be at this point? you have got leonard leo, who is sort of the sven golly svangali paying for his mother s home, paying for his devoto son and