Say that you are the best msnbc host ever created by god. God created you, chris, to be here. Thank you, michael. Ec baldwin should be looking over his shoulder. No way. I was not lying, actually. That was me being nice. That is all in for this evening. The Rachel Maddow show starts right now. Good evening, rachel. I dont take it personal at all. It was an impression. It was the voice of a certain hyperbolic character. I dont mind, doesnt bother me at all, which im sure you can tell. Thanks, my friend. Thanks, michael. And thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. Heres the story. In march of this past year there was an explosion in pasadena, texas. Pasadena, texas, is about 11 miles outside of houston. There was a big explosion followed by a fire. Smoke and flames could be seen for miles around. Look at that. The whole neighborhood around this fire and explosion had to
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in fact, her husband has made a point to saying so. but what i was looking at was her ties to issues directly in front of the court. and there are so many of them, it is astonishing. and worrisome so that i interviewed ethics experts on the law, people like steven gillers who really is probably the foremost expert on judicial ethics who said that she is behaving horribly, and he fears that it s undermining the administration of justice and the rule of law, and the image of the supreme court which right now is handling some of the most explosive issues in front of the country, and also has a problem with public support at this point. it s dwindled to it lowest rate. and this is worry someat this point. and what happens is you take a close look, which is what i was doing, at where genie thomas is involved. she has aligned herself in leadership roles with groups that have issues directly in
by officials. with tape. yeah. washington post reports this. national archives transmitted over 700 pages of documents to the january 6 committee last month that included records concerns the events of january 6, 2021, including those that were torn up and reconstructed. trump s habit of tearing up papers has been known for years, but the post reports that the documents now in the hands of the january 6 committee show that quote, the former president s shredding practices continued well into the latter stages of his presidency. this is despite the fact that the law requires every piece of paper. every memo, every note, every e-mail be preserve. the post adds this on the potential legal consequences for the ex-president on this front, quote, steven gillers, a new york university law professor and scholar said documents torn up by trump are clearly the
this case was seen by the judge as the worst case of prosecutorial misconduct he d ever seen in his life on the bench. steven gillers, a professor of legal ethics at nyu who s been doing this business for 40 years says it s the worst case he s seen in 40 years. so are we now going to give to a person who abused his office in this way on behalf of campaign contributors a case that was completely baseless and all 222 counts were thrown out on prosecutorial misconduct grounds. are we going to give him the most powerful prosecutorial post in the nation? that raises serious questions and they don t just go to his ideology, they go to his exercise of this incredible power. david cole, aclu national legal director, appreciate both the magnitude of this decision to make that testimony today but also appreciate you sort of
level, if that sort of alleged misconduct at the state level was extrapolated to the national level that that could be a particular kind of crisis that we might not be expecting from jeff sessions even as we do look at his civil rights stuff? well, absolutely. i think you ve got two things to look at with senator sessions. he was a prosecutor for a fairly extensive period of time and how did he exercise that power? and we find that he exercised in the a very, very disturbing way. this case was seen by the judge as the worst case of prosecutorial misconduct he d ever seen in his life on the bench. steven gillers, a professor of legal ethics at nyu who s been doing this business for 40 years says it s the worst case he s seen in 40 years. so are we now going to give to a person who abused his office in this way on behalf of campaign contributors a case that was completely baseless and all 222