hi, everyone, we made it to friday. it s 4:00 in new york. the very first person to earn the dubious of being first of the republican party is at this very moment playing a game of chicken with the rule of law with practically every prominent member of the gop either silenced or acting at his henchman, the ex-president is talking like a mob boss, amping up his threats of retaliation against his perceived political opponents and enemies in the wake of his conviction on 34 felony counts for concealing a scheme to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. over the course of a single day, trump openly mused about revenge, not once, not twice, but three times. even when he was practically begged to back off the threats by friendly interviewers. watch. i think you have so much to do, you don t have time to get even. you only have time to get right. well, revenge does take time, i will say that. it does. and sometimes revenge can be justified, but sometimes it can t
decision tore judge marshon because of the fact that the not the fact that he was president. it s more the timing of the fact that he s running for president, because you can easily see his determining that he has a job to do and the job requires jail time. it s simply not a condine sentence when you compare it to what others got in a situation like this. just to answer your question. if a defendant is saying, not just i will do it again, but i m going to seek revenge on those people who held me to account, that is the antithesis of remorse. it is the it is a way of saying, i am a recidivist and i m proud of it. and, further, he s really promoting that. i mean, his we ve talked about how he is running as an outlaw. i mean, he is running against the criminal justice system. frankly, a civil justice system. all of that is a reason for him
redwoods in california, can you pay for it. if you want to go to indonesia, you can pay for it. you shouldn t be relying on a connection to a megabillionaire. and the rv was a $300,000-plus gift wait for it from harlan crow. i think the reporting is important, it s a great complement to the work that propublica has done. what it makes clear is all of the justices are receives gifts, but no one in the expansiveness that justice thomas has. if you think about the period in which this study took place, justice thomas during that period drew a salary from the supreme court, and the total of the salary for all of those years was about $4 million, roughly equivalent to the amount of gifts that he took in as
if the judge gives him an opportunity to address the court before sentencing. if i was his lawyer, i would be scared to death. that s such an interesting point. no one is going anywhere. von hilliard will join our conversation. he s traveling with the ex-president. he was in arizona with him last night. he joins us next. still to come for all of us, we usually see mark meadows running from cameras, but this time he turned his camera on, joining a zoom into an arizona courtroom today. donald trump s last white house chief of staff was at an arraignment for his role in the criminal fak elector scheme in that state. the very latest is ahead. plus, the supreme court s legitimacy problem. brand-new disclosures from clarence thomas confirming some earlier blockbuster news reporting on the extraordinary number of gifts the justice has received from a very, very wealthy, friendly friend. later in the broadcast, president joe biden reaffirming his commitment to rooting out extremism both he
refusing to disclose. the trouble with the disclosure today, the amendment that said he went to bali, all he mentioned is the one night in a hotel that harlan paid for. he didn t mention the yacht that got him to said island in indonesia. he didn t mention the plane that got him to indonesia. both of those are reportable gifts the fact he left those out is, in effect an ethical violation. what kind of people go to bohemian grove? uh, old dudes? wealthy normal, is it expensive? members? it s very wealthy, exclusive club. i have seen pictures of it. you know, ken burns is hanging out with the koch brothers. it is generally sort of the upper echelon of society in