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
From trump on social media his lawyers can t control him, and the more less admitted tha in court today this is a judge of many years, a sort of, very well-known judge kaplan says i i bring your she was talking t trump lawyers today, i d b having a conversation with a client there are some relevant united states statutes here, an somebody on your side of to be thinking about that. that sounds pretty serious it seems like he is thinkin about something beyond contempt, maybe obstruction, i m not a lawyer, i don t to say, that he s going there that quickly, it feels significant that was fantastic, thank you so much for sharing that i appreciate it still become, house republicans promised to push the economy over a cliff unles they can cut services an millions of americans rely on. congressn makatie porter joins me on what comes next afte this but do i have to give up sweets? if you work out a diet plan, nothing is off limits. you dropped it!
Branch, we have it for congress not for the supreme court. this is becoming a red hot issue now with revelations about justice thomas, all th way going back to what happene with his wife and the text messages around the januar insurrection, chris. but now as well with these disclosure rules because thi type of an arrangement may hav really been flagged by a ethics enforcer in those other branches of u.s. government. we don t have it in the suprem court and for people who car about the integrity of the court, they say this is an example of why you would wan to have that code, because the you wouldn t have thes questions of disclosure and of what exactly happened with thi transaction, and why it went down around this particula timing, and with these two particular parties, with the head of a law firm here with s many cases that wound up going before the court yeah, in the case of harlan crow, you know, the offense didn t think it was a party
There are many people who thin this is a bad situation, there have been calls on you colleague, senator feinstein to resign. to the extent that she i unable to carry out her duties do you understand why people are making that call is that affecting th committee s work well, i think it s slowin down some judges, where ther is a pure partisan vote, because you have to use device to discharge the judges vote from the senate, from the committee up to the senate it takes extra time. and then on other investigativ questions, whether or not we have enough votes for subpoena is a different question. that, to, and up in the senate if it s challenge, so it would be, i think, better and things would run more smoothly, and will run more smoothly, one da and returns. but in the meantime, we ar pushing forward. we are continuing to do th investigation into the court s
Completely opaque. yeah, so that s interesting to me. he didn t own this outright, i was a partnership, and there were some entity created to be the owner of that, that entity then sold it, then dispersed the profits to the people that were part of the partnership and in dispersing them, it ceased to exist, basically and so, in a very, ver technical level, he leaves the buyer blank because he just go the money from the partnership dispersing the money and everything is officially by th book, from the standards o what the disclosure requires and yet, we know nothing about the fact that one of the heads of the biggest law firm bought property from one of the supreme court justices you broke it down reall well, and here s what s goin to surprise most america people is that there is nothin wrong with this because th supreme court is the onl branch of the u.s. governmen and actually stands in contras to many of the higher courts i other western countries, i that there is no enforceable