Absence. The court does usually give an explanation for a justices absence. And weve also seen justices take part in arguments remotely when they are sick and the context here is not just the lack of transparency, but that it also comes just one week before the Supreme Court hears Oral Arguments on whether or not donald trump is protected from criminal prosecutions because a president ial immunity because he was president when the acts were committed. A case critics of thomas argue he should recuse himself from because of his wifes jeannies efforts to help trumps team overturn the 2020 election thomas is 75 years the most senior Associate Justice on the Supreme Court. He missed several arguments in 2022 with an infection and tonight the Supreme Court is not responding to our requests for Additional Information about thomass leave of absence today leaving many important questions unanswered. Thanks for joining us, the lead starts now welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper in this our criti
Director Stormy Daniels to keep it away from voters right before the 2016 election. Lets discuss now with p2, people who know key players in this case, Stacy Sneider is a manhattan Criminal Defense Attorney and a former contestant on trumps tv show, the apprentice. She has also worked with Manhattan District Attorney alvin Braggs Office and appeared before judge juan former engineer r trump is a cotructionrojects and author of the ok, tor of lies, what my years of working with donald trump reveals abouhim barbara, lets start with youwhat do you think donald tmps mindset is right now as he sits in court foris very first criminal trial, is a former president yeah, an someone asking me a yea barba, cau not hear me all right. Hear you . T go to see anything. Ok. Lets go to acy. Scy, you haveorked with bh trump and jue mercn. Tmp has ready centlyled dge ooked. Ow do you expe this ll all play out so i think judge ma seanto and thanu for having m jake, i thk judgmae sean it has cpletntrol of
this hearing never would have occurred, not occurred if the republicans were in control. that s right. even if you had been elected into the minority, you wouldn t have had any minutes with wilbur ross. that s right. day of reckoning. chairman cummings said members of the oversight reform committee will be effective and in pursuit of the truth. we certainly did attempt to do that today as a committee in the collective. i do believe we were stonewalled at every turn. in fact, this was incredibly frustrating for 6.5 hours when we could produce documents and video that showed that secretary ross was in contradiction with previous statements. that s a very serious thing. michael cohen perjured himself and he s going to jail. we don t take the contradictions and obstructions and the stonewalling lightly by any stretch of the imagination. i cornered him, but during that round of questioning, he said my time was up.
Not occurred if the republicans were in control. that s right. even if you had been elected into the minority, you wouldn t have had any minutes with wilbur ross. that s right. day of reckoning. chairman cummings said members of the oversight reform committee will be effective and in pursuit of the truth. we can attempt to do that as the committee and the collective. we were stonewalled at every turn. in fact this was incredibly frustrating for 6.5 hours when we can produce documents and video that showed that secretary ross was in contradiction with previous statements. that s a very serious thing. michael cohen perjured himself and he s going to jail. we don t take the contradictions and obstructions and the stonewalling lightly by any stretch of the imagination. i cornered him, but during that round of questioning, he said my
Statements and that s a very serious thing. michael cohen perjured himself and he s going to jail. we don t take this lightly and i cornered him and during the round of questioning, he said my time was up and i had to remind him it was not up to him. that was up to the chair. so. i want to go to something that happened on the house floor today that looks extraordinary from us out on the outside. 420-0 was the vote on the house floor saying that of course robert mueller s report should be released to congress and the public. were you surprised that there was zero votes against that? no. you know, i consider myself to be an internal optimist.