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busy news night. joy reid picks up next. tonight on the reidout give me a name. white supremacists. who would you like me to condemn. proud boys, stand back and stand by. as we await a verdict in the proud boys trial, how january 6th continues to be a drag on the republican party. as their likely nominee, donald trump, continues to quite literally embrace insurrectionists. also tonight, the sorry state of the right-wing supreme court majority. and the questions their actions raise about the credibility of the court. and actor and comedian john leguizamo will be here right hire on set with me to discuss his new series, leguizamo does america. very, very excited about that. but we begin tonight still awaiting a verdict in the trial of five members of the far right extremist group the proud boys. for their role in the violent attack on the u.s. capitol on january 6th. all five including the group s former leader enrique tarrio are charged with seditio ....
Congressional authority over the power of the purse to bring these justices to heel. it is congress that controls supreme court funding. now, we have seen because of some of the drip drip drip of scandals that you mentioned, joy, we have seen that these nine people are probably able to live without their government salaries, right? between their land deals and book deals and their laundering money through their spouses, they probably don t need their government salaries, but i bet they like having a courthouse. i bet they like having clerks. i bet they like having access. i know they like having taxpayer funded security details. if congress starts taking those away, if congress puts the stick to these people and starts taking away some of their perks and some of their privileges, then i bet you the supreme court would see the virtue in submitting to independent ethics oversight. it is that or the highway. this ridiculousness of supreme court should police itself has ....
Important united states strategic interests and there could be terrorist attacks. we had a president s name up on a building. that s an invitation to an attack. there are loots of problems here that need to be addressed. and thus far, the president-elect is not addressing them, and then members of congress are just busy feathering their own nests rather than focussing on congressiol oversight of executive branch. unless things change quickly. mo than bad perception. bad policy and potentially a strategic national security risk for the united states because of this. okay. richard, what should congress do? what do you recommend? well first congress ought to make sure that their playing by the rules and instead of retreating from independent ethics oversight of the members of congress. second, the house oversight committee which was very interested, of course, in spending hours and hours going through hillary clinton s e-mails ought to continue it supervision of ethics and executive b ....