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>> this just in the conservative house freedom caucus has come out against speaker mike johnson's spending plan that two-tiered continuing resolution that comes after he met with the group of roughly 30 to 40 hard-liners. the groups wants spending cuts in addition to the two-step approach and said in a statement, quote, while we remain committed to working with speaker johnson, we need bold change. >> did they get there? >> they need democrats meeting in 30 seconds. dusty johnson says they'll get there. >> all right. >> thanksgiving matters. >> fingered crossed but then you won't get your clock anymore. >> we will in january and in february. >> true, thank you so much for starting your day with us. we'll see you right back here tomorrow. cnn news central is now. ♪
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cnn goes inside the children's hospital in northern gaza. one of the hospitals israel says hamas is using to shield its quote, unquote war machine. what our correspondent sees when he goes in. only three days left until a possible u.s. government shutdown, and the new house speaker is facing the same gop problem that caused the former speaker his job. can speaker mike johnson get the deal done? the fbi investigating the new york city mayor for possible foreign influence. we will hear from the mayor for the first time this morning since new details of the probe have emerged. i'm john berman with kate bolduan, fredricka whitfield is in for sara sidner. cnn news central starts now. this morning, only one hospital remains operational and still receiving patients in northern gaza. according to a new report from
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the united nations, gaza's two largest hospitals are effectively shut down, they say, after saying that they have run out of fuel to power generators, which also, of course, powers important medical supplies like breathing machines. israel has been calling for these hospitals to evacuate as the idf pushes further in to gaza. the world health organization says evacuating critically ill patients now would be a quote death sentence, though. here's president biden's take yesterday. >> it was my hope and expectation that there will be less intrusive action relative to the hospital. the hospital must be protected. >> after that the white house did come out to clarify the president's remarks. spokesperson john kirby saying that the president was referring to the, quote, extra burden that faces the idf to preserve civilian life. complicating this is the reality
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that israel along with u.s. intelligence officials maintain hamas uses hospitals like al shifa hospital to shelter their military operations, even positioning a command center, they say, under the al shifa medical complex. new here the israeli military says that they've found a stash of weapons and signs of hostages being held below northern gaza's only children's hospital, the hospital director there denies this. but, again, u.s. intelligence supports israel's assessment that hamas uses hospitals to hide their operations. cnn's nic robertson embedded with the idf to see some of this on the ground inside gaza in a way journalists have not been able to access during this war. he is now in stadderot. what did you learn about the precarious situation about the hospitals in gaza? >> reporter: i think for a
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second i'll step out of the way and let john show you a picture there towards gaza, the area that we were in, we're seeing a number of heavy strikes in that area. we were at the al rantisi children's hospital in the north of gaza. we were at that -- one second. i think we're having a problem with our audio here at the moment. we'll just get this fixed, just organizing the audio here having technical issues. i think you'll better be able to hear me now. this is into gaza, into the area where we were taken by the idf to the al rantisi children's hospital. it's near jabaliya camp five miles deep into gaza. to get there you witness, we saw a lot of destruction, many, many, many houses, apartment
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buildings, hotels, demolished, crushed, bombed, burned out. we didn't see any civilians at all while we were there. the hospital itself was very close to the front line of a firefight between the idf and whom they thought were hamas. it could have been another islamic group there in gaza. but inside the hospital, the idf showed us what they said was a cache of weapons that hamas was storing inside the basement inside of the hospital there. they showed us a motorbike that they said that they believed hamas had used in the october 7th attack. it had a bulleten hole in it and very significantly, they showed us evidence of what they said may indicate, may indicate that hostages were being held in the basement of that hospital. there was a makeshift toilet area. there was a room with a calendar that the idf said had been
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marked up and believed it was being used as a guard room. there was a knife in that guard room. but there was also an area they showed us that there was a chair with some women's clothes with it, with a rope around where the legs of the chair was. there was a baby's bottle nearby and i asked is this evidence, hard evidence that you believe the hostages were held here, and they said, look, we can't say that definitively but we're going to do dna analysis on the rope, clothing, the child's bottle, on a woman's hair tie that was found there as well. so the idf seemed very sure that this was a place hamas had used to store weapons and i talked as well to the idf head spokesman admiral hagari about why he brought us there to the hosp
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hospital. . >> by bringing us here, what does this is a about other hospitals in gaza? >> it's known by facts, to be a terrorist hub. >> reporter: the hospital authority said they have no knowledge of hamas or groups inside the hospitals. is that possible? >> i think it's not possible for a hospital to have this kind of infrastructure. we knew the terrorists were here. we knew. >> reporter: how did you know? >> we knew. by intelligence, also we got some fire from this area. >> from this area? >> this area. we were right to fire. what we found, an armory. >> but so much damage all around here. >> there is damage all around here because hamas made it impossible for us to fight them. they built all this infrastructure in tunnels and hospitals, around areas populated.
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>> reporter: now, one of the reasons the idf wanted to take us in there they recognize they run huge international pressure and believe hamas has connections to so many other hospitals inside of gaza and know they're taking a lot of heat internationally for this and this is why they wanted to show us what they believed were all these emerging evidence of hamas connections to these hospitals. >> nic, thank you so much for reporting. we'll have much pore on what nic saw on the ground when he was able to embed and get in there. fred. >> thanks so much, kate. again, president biden has called for those hospitals to be protected as israeli troops try to root out hamas. cnn's arlette saenz is outside the white house. tell us more about the white house's latest response to what is happening in gaza? >> well, fred, the white house is grappling with concerns about the dire conditions in many of the hospitals in gaza and president biden has issued a word of caution to israel as
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they are conducting their operations around these hospitals. yesterday the president telling reporters that he wants to see a less intrusive operation and believes that hospitals need to be protected. that is something that was backed up by the white house national security adviser, jake sullivan, who told reporters that the president does not want to see fighting in these hospitals, but it does come at a time as officials have warned that hamas uses these types of hospitals as cover, uses civilian infrastructure as gr grounds to run their operations at times. john kirby yesterday explained a bit more of the president's thinking saying that israel has a high burden as they're trying to not just root out hamas but also ensure the safety of civilians. take a listen. >> when you burry y them in a
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hospital, it makes it harder for any military force to go after them because the hospital itself ought to be, as the president said, ought to be protected and talking about this difficult conundrum that forces are facing right now. >> reporter: that speaks to the balancing act that the white house is trying to engage in at this moment. they're not just trying to support israel's campaign to root out hamas, but also trying to raise those concerns about civilians, and it comes at a time when there has been frustration and dissent within the biden administration about the path forward in gaza. there have been letters calling for a cease-fire, for instance, from the usaid and reports of dissent cables within the state department and antony blinken acknowledged some of the differences and concerns that people have but comes at a time when you have heard the administration more forcefully speak out about the need to protect civilian lives, though at the time they have not called for a cease-fire, simply saying that there needs to be humanitarian pauses to make sure
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civilians are safe. >> all right, arlette saenz, thank you so much. john. thanks so much, fred. with us now is retired u.s. army brigadier general steve anderson. general, thank you so much. we have pictures. this is what nic robertson saw in the basement of the rantisi children's hospital, weapons. how does the presence of these weapons inside a children's hospital change the status of that hospital as a potential legitimate target? >> well, thank you, john. well, first of all, congratulations to nic for his amazing reporting. his video evidence now and photo evidence that absolutely gives credibility to the israelis that they, hamas is using civilians as human shields and putting headquarters and weapons caches underneath hospitals. this is also evidence of a war crime, and someday this video evidence might very well be used in that to try to try hamas
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leadership. you can't respond by bombing the hospital, so it shows the importance of putting boots on the ground. that's really the only way you can root this out. the tunnels, the weapons caches, everything around the vicinity of hospitals, you've got to put boots on the ground. that's why i commend the israelis for the slow methodical shaping campaign they're conducting. they're coming down the coastline now from the north towards that hospital, and they seem to be able to take it and root those people out once and for all. that's you will you can do is use infantry troops to root them physically out of their hiding spots. >> just so people know from a geographic standpoint, the rantisi hospital is right there and the al shifa hospital a little south of that, that hospital is where u.s. intelligence says that hamas has
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a command center underneath. there are people who will say, okay, hamas has weapons there. we see the weapons in the basement of the rantisi children's hospital. israel still needs to be careful. israel still shouldn't do what they're doing around those hospitals. what do you say to that? >> well, there is some credence to that. i mean, they've got to go slow. i mean, that's why i encourage israel to continue to do this methodical campaign they're conducting to shape the battlefield. take their time, continue to surround and continue to apply pressure on this stranglehold they have over hamas and conduct precision strikes, precision strikes that minimize civilian casualties and maximize the potential. this i've got time. there's no reason to go rushing in there and -- there's no reason to do indiscriminate bombing. every time they do that, they kill excessive amounts of
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civilians and plays right into the hamas and iranian narrative, and it essentially keeps israel bogged down in a war, very, very difficult urban war when they should be standing back, taking their time using precision strikes to shape the battlefield. >> let me be clear, the issue around the hospitals isn't so much direct bombing or contact, it's a lack of fuel, food, and medical supplies. we have pictures of a tunnel. this is from past conflicts from 2018. we don't know what the tums look like now but one can presume they look something like this and haven't quite seen pictures like this yet. the idf took nic to the basement of the rantisi hospital and showed some tunnel evidences but it's not as if there's tours of it. how dangerous is it to go into tunnels even when you think they're clear? >> it's very, very dangerous, obviously. they've been working on this for 15 years so there's supposedly hundreds of miles of these tunnels in there and, again, the
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only way you can do that is put boots on the ground or i would say there's probably technology they can use. the problem with the tunnels is that it probably have hostages in the tunnels and so everything that you do, if you wanted to flood the tunnels, for instance, or wanted to use some kind of -- some other -- shut off their air supply you could be putting the hostages in danger so the only way to do that is, unfortunately, use special forces, people that are trained in how to root out tunnels and they've got to go in there, you know, section by section, foot by foot, into the tunnels to root them out using boots on the ground. really that's the only way to do it effectively and not put the hostages at risk. >> you mentioned the hostages. israel says 239 hostages being held in gaza. this would be their 39th day in captivity. general, thank you so much for being with us. appreciate it. kate. we have new data in this morning and some potential good signs for the economy.
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october's consumer price index, the key inflation gauge that the federal reserve leans on so heavily, cnn's rahel soloman has more. >> reporter: it's being received on wall street as a good sign and this is a report that sent the markets up 300 points as soon as it crossed. if you take a look on an annual basis talking about at the headline level, 3.2% increase but on a month o-over-month base -- >> good news. >> energy prices have fallen quite significantly month over month. if you've gone to the gas station you know prices are averaging about $3.35 a gallon. that is lower than the month prior. it is certainly lower than a year prior and gas prices falling roughly about 5% on a
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month-over-month basis but there are areas where you continue to see prices increase. >> food and shelter has been stubborn. >> it has been. that's exactly the word economists have been using and should say food prices are volatile. they could be impacted by a drought. they could be impacted by weather but shelter prices, which is a huge component of inflation, that has also been stubborn, but it shows if you can believe it an actual moderation. >> that is still a glimmer of good news. not exactly if you're looking for rent but the big question in terms of all of this, well, what does it mean for the fed? >> i talked to the chief economist of moody's 10, 15 minutes ago and asked what he thought. he said, i find it very encouraging. it suggests inflation is trending in the right direction and should make the federal reserve comfortable with their current policy and it's that part right there that the markets love, keep rates unchanged. we'll see in a few weeks. >> good to see you. >> likewise.
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>> i like the underlining. >> virtual highlight function. >> thank you. >> instead of the human highlight reel, the human highlighter. the boss is not going to leave. former trump attorney jenna ellis telling prosecutors she was informed the president did not plan to leave the white house, quote, under any circumstances. the new house speaker needs help from democrats to avoid a shutdown. will he get it? new york city mayor eric adams now at the center of an fbi investigation set to answer questions from reporters this morning.
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overturn the 2020 election and also keep donald trump in power. video clips obtained by abc news and "the washington post" reveal some of what attorneys like sidney powell and jenna ellis told prosecutors after they agreed to cooperate with the case against trump and others. coming out of fulton county, georgia, ellis talks about a conversation she had late 2020 with danske vino. scavino tells ellis, the boss is not going to leave under any circumstance. listen to this. >> he said to me ain a kind of excited tone. we don't care and we're not going to leave. i said, what do you mean? he said, well, the boss, meaning president trump and everyone understood the boss, that's what we all called him, he said the boggs is not going to leave under any circumstances. we are just going to stay in power, and i said to him, well, it doesn't quite work that way, you realize and he said, we
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don't care. >> that video recorded on october 23rd. the next day ellis pleaded guilty to one count of aiding and abetting false statements. neither scavino nor his attorney have commented on this. as for powell who pushed some of the motion fringe conspiracy legal theories after the election she described encounters with trump after he was told by white house attorneys that he had actually lost the election. listen to this. >> what was president trump's reaction when he fwaszed this cadre of advisers said, you lost? >> it was like, well, they would say that, then they'd walk out and he'd go, see, this is what i deal with all the time. >> in exchange for her cooperation, powell pleaded guilty to six lesser misdemeanors of conspiracy to intentionally interfere with the performance of election duties but what does this now mean going forward? joining me now is cnn legal
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analyst norm eisen. good to see you. let's take this in pieces, if we can. jenna ellis saying to dan scavino that scavino told her the boss didn't plan on leaving the white house under any circumstances. is this admissible in your mind, do you think? what will the fight over this be? >> i do think it's admissible under the georgia rules of evidence. if the prosecutors show to the court that scavino was a co-conspirator, there's a lot of evidence in the public record suggesting that he was extremely active, so i think prosecutors will meet that threshold, and when they do, kate, boy, this is a bombshell, because it summarizes exactly what was wrong. not just as a matter of law, but in a way that anyone can understand, that the jury will be able to understand. we're not going to leave the white house no matter what. the message is, the votes of the people are irrelevant. no wonder we have the first
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nonpeaceful transition of power in american history. that is a devastating blow for the former president. it's one thing for prosecutors to argue it to the jury, but to have a witness who was directly involved to say it, very, very strong evidence. >> trump's team very clearly, it sounds like they would say, object saying it's hearsay because just taking a look at the statement coming from trump's lead attorney in georgia they put out this statement to abc news about specifically what jenna ellis is saying and here's part of what they've said. the only salient fact to this nonsense line of inquiry is, they say, president trump left the white house on january 20th, 2021 and returned to mar-a-lago in palm beach, florida. his point being is that all of this is meaningless, he says, because donald trump did leave the white house. how strong is that argument in court? >> it's weak. first of all, on the hearsay
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question, prosecutors will be able to overcome that. this evidence very likely will come in, and, secondly, you can't erase the horror of january 6th, the damage, the destruction, even the death that came out of that day, and the alleged role of the former president by pointing to what happened after january 20th. so, i think that, you know, kate, what are they going to say? they have to say something, but respectfully disagree. >> we always love respectful. "the washington post" also has this, i want to ask you more about sidney powell. "the washington post" said relied on her advice and powell replied with this, because we were the only ones willing to support his effort to sustain the white house. i mean, everybody else was telling him to pack up and go. what does this provide?
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>> well, the overall powell proffer is not as strong as the ellis proffer because powell doesn't as conclusively repudiate the events of the run-up to january 6th, but her -- but, still, there are points of value in her -- this is one, why? donald trump has already signaled he wants to defend himself by saying, i relied on the lawyers. that is a technical legal defense, but only if you're taking the advice of the lawyers in good faith. if you're picking and choosing your lawyers based upon the outcome you want, you don't get to use that defense, and so this shows that she's a firsthand direct witness to the conversation with trump. it kind of goes back to the scavino point.
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we're not going to leave no matter what, and i'm going to pick the lawyers who will give me the advice to let plme stay in context a damaging moment in the disclosures of the video proffers. >> it is interesting, because you also make the point, we got to go, hers might be seen as weaker testimony to provide because at one point "the washington post" said at one point in the powell interview, she said that trump really did believe that he had won which could be part of the trump defense. regardless, it's all going to be interesting as this goes forward and a wild window into what the prosecutors have and what they were able to secure in order to offer -- in offering these plea deals. good to see you, norm. thank you. fredricka. mike johnson is preparing for his first major fight on the floor. will he get the votes? we're live from capitol hill? today, new york mayor eric
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all right, new this morning one day closer to a government shutdown, it comes as soon as friday unless the new speaker, mike johnson, can get his plan through the house today and he will need democratic help to do it, especially now that the house freedom caucus made up of conservatives say they are a no. lauren fox is on capitol hill this morning counting the votes, where do things stand, lauren?
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>> reporter: yeah, i am standing outside of the democratic caucus meeting this morning, and behind me, democrats are making a critical decision right now, whether or not they are going to get behind this plan from speaker johnson to keep the government funded. now, on the one hand, this plan was not precisely what democrats had hoped for, because it is a two-tiered, two-step proposal, essentially part of the government would run out of money on january 19th, the other part would run out of money on february 2nd but doesn't include spending cuts that had been a red line for house democrats. i just spoke with leader jeffries who represents the democrats as the leader of their party here in the house, and he argued that he was going to have a family conversation with his caucus. they were going to make a decision together as a caucus and he also said that, yes, it was important that this did not include spending cuts, but he didn't quite say that democrats were prepared to back it. as you noted, there are a number
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of hard-liners in the republican conference who have already said they are voting against this proposal. that means that johnson is going to need a large number of democrats to get it passed out of the house when it comes to the floor later today. there is not an appetite to shut down the government. thanksgiving is right around the corner, but there is sort of this feeling among democrats that this isn't exactly what they had hoped for. john. >> lauren, is it possible more democrats vote for this plan from the republican house speaker mike johnson than republicans do? >> reporter: well, that's one of the things that johnson might have to be a little bit nervous or careful about, because the reality is that democrats may support this en masse, and you could have a position where johnson loses more republicans, and i think that that is a calculation that doesn't likely put johnson's job in jeopardy but obviously it is sort of a point on the board, right, as one of the very first speakers
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that he is coming into this, a new job, a newly minted speaker, yet, finds himself in the exact same position that kevin mccarthy found himself in, in fact, doing a very similar thing that got kevin mccarthy ousted from the job. >> i'm old enough to remember when kevin mccarthy was speaker and lost his job over not too dissimilar to this. lauren, thanks. joining us is spectrum news political anchor errol louis. great to see you. mike johnson heard he doesn't have the republican votes yet. he is full steam ahead, and what if he has more democratic support than republican support? why is he feeling so emboldened or looking at the calendar saying we got to get this done? >> he's got a couple things going on. one, he's still in a bit of a honeymoon period and if you go back to the vote that made him speaker
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speaker there were a lot of people who recognized the damage being done, that it would hurt some of them in their re-election bids and cause pain and anguish. the last shutdown was 800,000 federal employees that had to be furloughed or go without any certain pay date and that hurts people all across the spectrum and so i think there was an agreement to kind of just move it forward, kind of look the other way, some of the problems with mccarthy were personal so tried to settle on this compromise and now the question is whether they're going to sort of go back and put us right back where we were again without any leadership in the caucus. >> what do you mean this kind of agreement because there were some republicans who started to say we're not going to allow this to happen to go to the house floor but then they decided we'll let this happen after all. does this speak to, i guess, them being -- those hard-liners willing to acquiesce or speak to those who are advising the new speaker? >> i think it's really more the
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hard-liners. the ball is in their court, and it has been. they were drawing, if you remember, caustic remarks and being referred to as charlatans and as a group that was going to blow up the whole republican majority and prevent them from governing and, again, sort of draw the kind of negative condemnation on the party as a whole that would hurt all of their re-election chances. that, i think, is going to be the primary driver of whatever happens next. if the moderates, those who are in districts that joe biden won make their voices heard more loudly and say, look, we'll lose the entire majority if the 15 of us who are in pro-biden districts all get wiped out next year because of what you guys are doing, what was the point of the entire exercise? >> speaker johnson is a novice but what are we going to learn from this, particularly if there is, you know, an agreement to this two-tiered proposal? we already hear from leadership that they'll support this.
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what will this is a about his leadership, this step -- this point forward? >> if he can manage to get through this there is a possibility that even with a slim majority, a bunch of hard-liners and a chessboard that, frankly, mccarthy couldn't sort of really play his way through, it's possible he may have the personal, political skills to see us through. now, i wouldn't necessarily bet on that, because where, you know, we've got the shutdown and it's time to start the clock and we'll see if he can get through it, but, you know, and, look, fredricka, we have to get to the larger issues that led us here. the people who are saying, we have to reduce spending at all costs seem unaware or unwilling to debate why do we have such a large deficit? we spent a lot of money on things like supporting our allies in ukraine. we have this new question about what's going to happen with israel? we had to get out of the pandemic. we wanted to sort of start a transition to renewable energy. >> it's been an expensive few
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year. >> it has been very expensive and do have to debate and make priorities, but you can't do it like this. >> right. >> i mean, that's the sort of the larger question. if speaker johnson can get us into those substantive conversations, he'll be successful. >> all right, errol louis, thanks. new reporting on the fbi investigation of new york city mayor eric adams. people around him and his campaign and adams mare be speaking to reporters soon. the supreme court has a new code of conduct following the swirl of controversies regarding the ethical obligations of the justices themselves. why people still say this new code doesn't go far enough.
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so, this morning, new york city mayor eric adams is facing more questions after it was revealed he is part of a sweeping fbi investigation, and today he may answer some of those questions surrounding his campaign cash, and possible foreign influence when he meets with reporters today. cnn's gloria pastina has more on this. when asked questions about this in recent days, the mayor has continued to push to this weekly meeting with reporters saying that's when he's going to take questions. is he going to answer? is he actually going to answer questions while he is under fbi investigation? what are you hearing could happen? >> reporter: well, kate, we're certainly going to try and get the mayor to answer some questions, but i think he is definitely in a difficult spot since we last heard from the mayor. he has gotten a lawyer, and we have learned that he is under the investigation or at least
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part of what the fbi is looking i into, some of his fund-raisers, donors, his campaign. so far what i've heard from sources inside city hall and those who are close to the mayor is that today we will expect to hear something similar to what we've been hearing in the last several day, i have done nothing wrong, i have nothing to hide, we will cooperate with the investigation, but this is continuing to develop and getting closer and closer to the mayor. we know that the mayor's electronics were seized by the fbi last week. they presented him with a warrant in order to confiscate those electronic devices, and we know that the fbi is looking into the campaign and whether the campaign funneled donations from foreign nationals into their coffers, so the mayor has a lot to answer here, and the question really is, what did he know? when did he know it, and what did he do about it?
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and we are expecting to hear questions about what could possibly be on those electronic devices. the key part of all of this is that now you have the mayor facing off with reporters and probably lawyers who would probably want him to keep the information to a minimum, because if this is going to go directly to him, all of this could be used as part of that investigation, so he has to be very careful about what he says in the next several days and hopefully we will learn more details today, but certainly a lot of questions for the mayor and waiting to see just how much more this investigation continues to unfold, kate. >> absolutely, definitely going to face important and tough questions in the next couple of hours when he meets with reporters and gloria is there for us. thank you so much, gloria. holding the highest court to the highest standard, what it means for the u.s. supreme court adopting a new code of conduct. and cnn's nic robertson
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this morning, bowing to pressure over ethics concerns especially from the democrats in congress, and the u.s. supreme court says it has a new ethics code. the court saying it is going to help to maintain and observe high standards of conduct. there is a string of reports saying that system of the justices have been skirting some of the ethics relations about trips with justices alito and thomas, and justice sotomayor's trips for book sales, and it is how is this new code of ethic is going to be enforced. so what are some of the key things that we are seeing in the new code of conduct? >> right. you are absolutely right. the supreme court is under pressure, because the democrats
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in congress, they were threatening to force legislation on the court and threatening to send subpoenas to key players linked to the lavish trips. this is what the supreme court said. we will take most of those rules that apply to lower court judges, and they now apply to us. so in the new code of conduct, and there is broad language that the justices have to avoid the appearance of impropriety and make an effort to at least know the financial interests of the member of the households, and like their spouses for instance, and they should not speak at fundraisers, but in the code, the justices said that in some ways the supreme court is different in the lower courts in the areas of recusal, because if we have to step away, there is nobody to take our place, and so that is different and so our recusal rules are going to be more narrow.
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but this is important, no enforcement mechanism here. so if justice elena kagan were to violate this, what would happen? who holes her accountable? that the issue that many of the critic seized on yesterday and still today about the fact that there is no enforcement mechanism. take a listen to dick durbin chair of the judiciary committee, and democrat, this is what he had to say about it. >> all of these are important step, but they are falling short of what we could and should expect when a supreme court issues a code of conduct. the court's new code of conduct does not contain any meaningful enforcement mechanism to hold the justices accountable to the code. it also leaves open a wide decision of recusal for sitting on cases. >> so, there he is saying, basically, maybe this is not
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enough, but it is worth noting that all nine justices did sign off on this, and so that means that maybe that is why there was not an enforcement mechanism, they wanted to get something out unanimous, but the big questions going forward here, is this enough? for the supreme court, they said, look, you wanted a code of conduct, and here is one for the first time in history, and now, let us go back to doing our job, and this is the message. >> all right. it is the honor system on a whole new level. arrian, thank you. we are just getting word of an audio code of israel offering incubators to one hospital in gaza as cnn is going to different hospital and seeing a weapons cache of possible evidence of hostages and more. >> you can hear the small arms fire, and the idf is getting
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