between his spouse and conservative viewpoints an telling lies to the american public tonight, former fox anchor, gretchen carlson, on what need to happen for change at he former network plus, another shady real estat deal at the supreme court, a the chief justice dismisse calls for oversight. then, riveting testimony fro the woman accusing donald trum of rape. but we learn from each - date on the witness stand. and congresswoman katie porter on the maga vote to slas funding for medicaid veteran childcare, and more. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. tonight, the supreme court o the united states is under a cloud of scandal it all started earlier thi month with republican feel tha conservative justice, clarence thomas, was acceptin undisclosed gifts from right wing billionaire thomas accepted gifts includin luxury vacations worth literally hundreds of thousand of dollars, and this really, truly special painting from man named karlyn crow
conservative viewpoints an telling lies to the american public tonight, former fox anchor, gretchen carlson, on what need to happen for change at he former network plus, another shady real estat deal at the supreme court, a the chief justice dismisse calls for oversight. then, riveting testimony fro the woman accusing donald trum of rape. but we learn from each - date on the witness stand. and congresswoman katie porter on the maga vote to slas funding for medicaid, veterans childcare, and more. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. tonight, the supreme court o the united states is under a cloud of scandal it all started earlier thi month with republican feel tha conservative justice, clarence thomas, was acceptin undisclosed gifts from right wing billionaire thomas accepted gifts includin luxury vacations worth literally hundreds of thousand of dollars, and this really, truly special painting from man named harlan crow, who has well, inter
Disparaging comments about management and colleagues, and allegations that created a toxic work environment according to new reporting tonight from new york times, - on the eve of the dominion defamation trial, fo discovered new texts sent by tucker one of which was, quote, particularly offensive, adding to the concern at the top of the company. now, we ve heard some of the stories of allegations directl from tucker s former producer, abby grossberg, who worked for him, who appeared on thi network yesterday to talk abou the sexism lawsuit that sh filed against fox for a hostil workplace. of course, there is a long history of toxicity that grossberg describes at the network. back in 2016, you migh remember host gretchen carlson sued longtime fox ceo, roger ambles, for sexual harassment. that kicked off a cascade of similar accusations that ultimately led to ailes resignation. now, gretchen carlson is speaking out about tucker firing, writing in an opinio piece to the daily beast it s,
Topics he also not secretary about th president testifying t congress noting, quote, no president has ever testified before the senate judiciar committee and only three presidents, 1862, 1919, an 1974, have testified before an congressional committee. okay, but it s worth pointin out that despite wrappin himself in a lofty language of the judiciary president, i am judge, let me see what president says, the only precedent he cites our chief justice is actually doing it then he doesn t actually say anything else. never makes an affirmative argument for why he won testify or can t what s really left unsaid in the letter is basically a kind of constitutional hardball the chief justice effectivel argues, i m not going to testify because you can t make me what are you going to do that is the question what are senate democrats goin to do about it senator sheldon whitehouse is democrat of rhode island who serves on the judiciar committee and has been pushing for supreme court ethics refor f
Distinctiveness of america i the structure of our government one part of it, of course, i the independents of th judiciary. there is a lot more. chief justice justice roberts doesn t feel like he needs a testimony. so, yesterday, he responded to the senate request with if you will forgive me for opining, a offensively dismissive letter. he attempts a half-worde attempt to gusty up his define refusal to cooperate by citing past president, except guess this all of the president he cites, include examples of past chief justices cooperating wit congressional investigations testified with court congress. he referenced chief justices william howard taft, charles evans hughes, who, guess what? testified before the senat judiciary committee and who testified multiple times i the house. he then had ways away thei testimony as being about, quote, mud vein topics mud mundan