alito didn't disclose. around the time singer flew justice alito to alaska, he was trying to convince the supreme court, singer is, of a $2 billion dispute he had with the country of argentina. alito said he didn't do anything wrong by not disclosing the trip because he considered it to be personal hospitality, and because he says he barely new mr. singer. quote, my recollection is i've spoken to mr. singer on no more than a handful of occasions. all of this during a fishing trip 15 years ago consisted of brief and casual comments at events attended by large groups, end quote. let's continue. on no occasion have we discussed the activities of his business and have never talked about a case at issue before the court, end quote. joining us now is josh kaplan. thank you for being with us. i want to get down to the bottom of this because alito is claiming he's got very peripheral tangental relationship with singer, but there was stuff happening with singer in 2006 and the argentinean government and this was sti

this billionaire and justice alito.s trip by leonard -- he's the longtime leader of the federalist society, who helped handpick trump's list of supreme court nominees. and, singer was a major donor to him. he invited him on this trip, and he asked if leo and alito could fly on his private jet. and so, there's a lot we still don't know about the genesis of this trip. but, paul roads so far point to leo. he's the only connection between these various prominent guests on the trip. there is a trip with the justice that leo had just played a key role in confirming to the supreme court. a judge that leo had clerked for, and then two major donors to leo's network of political groups. >> so leo has responded to your article. he said quote, i would never presume to tell the justices what you do and know objective and well informed observer of the judiciary on a sly could believe that they decide cases in order to cole favor with friends or in return for a free plane seat or a fishing trip. leonard leo is incredulous that someone

alito did not disclose this. it's been secret until now and experts told us he appears to have violated a federal law passed after watergate the wires justices to disclose most gifts. more noteworthy here, after the trip, the same millionaire had case after case in the supreme court and alito never recused himself. it's quite remarkable. experts told us that they were not aware of any other example of this ever happening, of a supreme court justice sitting on a case after having received an expensive gift paper by one of the parties. host: your investigative work also includes the stories that broke recently about justice clarence thomas. justice clarence thomas has not responded. the washington post this morning says justice alito came out swinging at the publication. he refuted your story in a wall street journal piece that was posted online tuesday. he takes issue with you calling it a luxury trip. he said the seat on the plane would have been empty anyway and this was already -- this trip was already going to

alito joins the majority. it is two and a half a billion dollars that singer gets out of this case. >> that's right. this case litigation went on for more than a decade. it actually repeatedly went up to the supreme court, both singers hedge fund and the nation of argentina were repeatedly asking the supreme court to hear cases related to this allegation, starting about 18 months after this fishing trip. i think there is around ten in total, and justice buck alito did not recuse himself, which it turns out, one of the things you learn about the supreme court, unlike lower courts, the person that decides whether the justice refuses themself as the justice himself. unlike the lower courts, it is not appealable. there is a law the lines out when you are going to recuse yourself, is a lot of interpretation. the supreme court justice roberts has actually sort of raised questions about whether congress even has the power to impose those rules. >> we are talking about this move from great power, it comes great respon

we know that from alito. alito, who was george w. -- stepped up attacks on the legitimacy, including character assassination of individual justices with little observation -- objection from -- we're being hammered daily, and i think quite unfairly in a lot of instances, and practically nobody is defending us. the idea has been that judges are not supposed to respond to criticisms, but the organized bar will come to their defense. so, alito -- the alito standard is no one is defending him. part of the reason the legitimacy of the court is in question is because the court operates as if they're above the law. they appear to be an assassination leak of the dobbs decision, and they don't include anyone with expertise to figure out who did it, which is weird, right? but alito, before a story drops, alito writes a preemptive op ed in the "wall street journal." who is advising him on trials should be fired and outed by alito and the "wall street journal." it's the dumbest press strategy i have ever seen in my life. i worked in republican po

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>> justice clarence and alito could care less about this.ef justice john robert was tearing his hair out when he saw that. that is an atrocious move from a pr perspective for the court itself as an constitution that's supposed to be above the fray. thomas and alito think no matter what we do, liberals will criticize us and delegitimatize us, we should do whatever we want. the other conservatives don't agree. john roberts cares deeply about the image of the court. we have learned that amy cney barrett and brett kavanaugh, i think that's creating a real divide between the thomas alito wing of the court and the other justices and i think it's note worthy that ron desantis recently said he's not the biggest fan of trump's justices, he prefers alito and thomas, and would appoint justices like that. >> that's interesting, thank you very much, mark joseph stern, appreciate your time. >>> what republicans on capitol hill are saying about future investigations into the biden family, and the warnings that they're being given about it. >>> plus, social

justice alito? justice alito: no. chief justice roberts: justice sotomayor?ustice sotomar: find it interesting that you're touting dr. imai's studies when, below, studies on the basis that the studies wereplete and alabama's guidelines.unt all of mr. lacour: yes, your honor. and's a very easy answer to give. ook into account the preexisting district lines a traditional boundaries, so to speak. he did not. and so his m cldn't reveal justice sotomayor: well, that -- mr. lacour: -- whether race definegs. justice sotomayor: -- that begs -- mr. lacour justice sotomayor: -- the question. mr. : -- but plaintiffs, none of their map drawers cared at all areexisting district lines. so they took into t -- he took into account the same things they were taking in aount, and when he did, without also putting race into account, that's the one thing he didn't take into account, then come nowhere close to creating a which shows that race was thet, criteria and that could not be compromised. i mean,'s textbook we could have never drawn those maps constitutionally. and,, just t

that alito did not make these disclosures.nd this is part of the defense justice thomas gave as well. were those rules in place that would require alito to disclose all of this, when it happened in 2008, for that have since been updated? >> he gets into the weeds but the law issued here, was passed after watergate. kind of the area of good government reform. the law has not changed. all the ethics lawyers we spoke to say getting a gift of a private jet flight should have been disclosed. justice alito maintains the filing instructns did not require him to disclose it. but, i will note as we say in the peace, we found examples of multiple other federal judges, disclosing guests of private jet flights at the time. >> really important reporting, everyone should read it. justin elliott, thank you very much. >>> a development in the search for the missing submersible, underwater banging has been detected. what it means for the passengers on board and will rescuers be able to reach them, before they run out of air. . i love what i'm

>> i think you have to look not just to thomas alito.we'll get to the bottom of those, but behind all that is a group of creepy right-wing billionaires who are meddling in the supreme court. they are battling with the lavish gifts of secret, private jet holidays. they're meddling by funding the federalist society, while the federal society putting together a list off of which the justices were chosen. they likely funded the judicial crisis network with anonymous money, when it was running the ads for all the justices, and they are behind a whole array of front row friends at the court who filed briefs in courts native -- without disclosing those behind them, hidden by dark money, so the role of the right-wing billionaires extends throughout the judicial selection process, the digital nomination process, the actual courtroom, and now we find out these polling, undisclosed repeated gifts. >> senator whitehouse, the hub of all that activity is a man by the name of leonard leo. he is the one who organized the trip with justice alito and puls

alito has always been an uncompromising conservative.om 2006 to 20, 20 when there are four liberals on the, court alito never once sided with them for a 5 to 4 decision. just four years into his tenure, he made his trollish proclivities clear after then president obama criticized the citizens united ruling during a state of the union address. >> a bush appointee to the court, justice samuel alito, did not agree and could be seen saying so, appearing to mouth the words not true, highly unusual moment in what was a vocal chamber all around last night. >> alito faced criticism for that incident. in response, he never attended the state of the union address again. after he wrote the dobbs decision overturning roe v. wade and getting rid of the constitutional right to bodily autonomy in abortion, justice alito took a victory lap, including this bizarre speech in rome, where he attacked foreign leaders for criticizing him, half jokingly suggesting that former uk prime minister boris johnson resigned because he spoke out against the ruling. we

what is alito saying about that?, at the time the gift disclosure did not cover private jets for social trips. and that has been an issue in the clarence thomas case because the administrative office of u.s. courts came out and clarified and said, well, now it does. but that's the big question here. ethics people are really raising that flag. of course, poppy, it is so unheard of to have a justice of the supreme court pen a "wall street journal" article defending himself even before propublica published it. propublica went the supreme court said, we are working on this story, we'd like comment and they got no comment. before they knew it, alito had gone forward. he had written this unusual op-ed defending himself with his own byline. >> thanks so much. >> thank you. >>> federal judge has overturned a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth in arkansas. in an 8 #-page ruling, the judge said that that law violated the plaintiff's right to due process and equal protection under the constitution. here is part

justice alito: mr. strawbrid let me give you a hypothetical ong the lines of some of what you've been questioned already. suppose that a student is an immigrant from africa and moves to a rural area in western nortcalina where the population is overwhelmingly it and the student in an say doesn't say, i was subjected to any kind of overt discrimination, but i d ve to deal with huge cultural differences, i had to find a way of relating to my classmates who came from very different backgrounds. mr. strawbridge: i think that that would generally be permissible e the -- the preference in that case is not being based uponheace but upon the cultural experiences or the ability to adapt or the fact of encountering a new language in a new -- in a new environmt. justice kagan: the race is part ofultu and the culture is part of the race, isn't it? i mean, that's slicing the baloney awfully thin. -- we could say the same in the jury selection cases we could say the same in the child custody cases. there's still a --

alito has never recused himself.ed, justice alito responded in a "wall street journal" op-ed saying he followed what he understood to be standard practice, and that he was under no obligation to recuse himself in any cases connected to singer. nbc supreme court reporter, lawrence hurley is following this report for us. and criminal defense attorney and msnbc legal analyst, danny cevallos. so lawrence, what else did we learn from the propublica reporting, and how is justice alito responding? >> there's two key claims made in the story, one is that justice alito should have disclosed this trip on a private jet that he took to alaska fishing trip back in 2008. and in the second thing, he should have recused from these cases involving singer's company that were before the supreme court in the years after this trip. justice alito in this unusual op-ed in the "wall street journal" rejects both of those claims. he says that in terms of the disclosure, under the rules that existed at the time, he wasn't required to disclose

dissents were clarence thomas, gorsuch, and alito.wo of those don't surprise me at all, but the other thing that strikes me is it feels like the year 2000 election and bush v. gore are like a monster that you can't kill in one of these horror movies. it keeps coming back. john eastman arguing that 20 years apart that this insane theory is what should rule our elections. four of the members of this supreme court had some role in bush v. gore. john roberts worked on bush's legal team, kavanaugh worked on his legal team. amy coney barrett worked on bush's legal team in florida, and clarence thomas was part of the 5-4 opinion. bush v. gore was said to be nonprecedential. but boy, does it feel like it. >> when you look at what a justice did in their past life and think they're going to approach it in a certain way and this stuff is going to live on forever. no, the nail was put in the coffin of all of this nonsense today. and it was put -- the nail was put in by chief justice roberts and joined by two trump appointees, amy coney barrett an

alito has never recused himself. in an unusual move, alito penned an op-ed in "the wall street journal" before the pro publicia report was published defending his decision not to disclose the trip and accusing them of misleading its readers. behind us is justin, one of the reporters. alito said he's spoken to singer in a handful of occasions. what did you learn about their interactions in your reporting? >> we learned that justice alito flew to that alaska fishing trip from the east coast on a private jet. provided by paul singer. we talked to a number of jet charter companies who said chart are that plane can cost over $100,000. this is an expensive gift, these flights to and from alaska. and the ethics experts we talked to said if you're a judge or a justice, you really shouldn't be sitting on a case or cases with a litigant who has been flying you around on a private jet. something justice alito said in his op-ed, he believed he could be impartial and one interesting thing about the supreme court, each justice get

if alito had charted that plane himself, it could have cost easily more than $100,000, and alito didisclose any of this. it has been secret until now, and experts told us that he appears to have violated a government ethics law passed after waterge that requires justices to disclose those gifts to the public. >> that man, that billionaire, paul singer, his hedge fund later had a case before the supreme court, a case that the court, as you reported, previously declined to take up. why do experts you talk to say that in this case, alito should have recused himself from that case? >> alito did not recuse himself in any of the ateast 10 cases paul singer had after the trip. they said that they had never -- experts say they had never heard of another example of a supreme court justice sitting on a case after receiving an expensive gift from one of the parties. there is an law that governs when justices must recuse themselves in the case, and it sets a very high standard but a subjective standard, that if there is the appearance of impropriety, the justice must recuse, but when it comes to

. >> supreme court justice samuel alito is facing scrutiny over a new report claiming he accepted a lavishn from a conservative billionaire with frequent business before the court. >> jericka: record temperatures in texas as much of the state remains under heat warnings. >> it's been summer for too long we have already had too much of it and not to break insight. >> jericka: new details, investigators say dna evidence connect the man accused of murdering four students at the university of idaho to the crime scene. >> chicken meat grown in a lab has been cleared to sell in the u.s. supporters hope it catches on saying it could help fight climate change. >> jericka: on this first day of summer, how to protect your skin from the sun's dangerous rays. what you need to know. >>> use sunscreen to protect yourself and get checked. >> cbs news, come on down. >> back state of the price right with the story of the end of an era for the legendary show. >> on the last one to host the price is right, i feel pretty good about that. >> jericka: good evening to our viewers in the west, thank you for joini

and justice alito did not recuse himself from many of them.opublica's report justice alito denied what he dubbed charges made against him. in reference to the ride on that private plane alito said that "singer allowed me to occupy what would have otherwise been an unoccupied seat" and that he stayed in a modest one-room unit. aleetdo wrote that he followed "what i understood to be standard practice" by excluding the flight from his financial report. alito is the latest justice to respond to claims of undisclosed gifts and luxury travel. earlier this spring democrats in congress called on justice clarence thomas to step down after propublica reported he'd accepted days of luxury travel from a donor. it's important to note the judicial conference just recently required justices to disclose travel accommodations to social events. >> that was scott macfarlane at the supreme court. and this is the "cbs overnight news." ♪ dove 0% with coconut and jasmine is aluminum free and gives you 48 hour odor protection. with a scent that goes strong all day lo

justice alito: what if you mr. ross: i don't think section 2 of the voting rights act requires maxmy stkaeufplgts here you couldn't meet -- maxizaon. here you couldn't meet gingles 1. we're not suggesting th. one other -- what plaintiffs are sort of guarantee of a second majority-minority district. said, we'd be satisfied with something like the ngleton plan which alabama's voters at least a fair chance, not en guaranteed chanceo elect their candidates of choice in the second district. that's merely what plaintiffs are looking for. justice sotomayor: council, if -- counsel, if we were to say, as opposing counseow claiming that you have to show a pocket of a second -- possibility of a secon district on a race-ne, do we vacate aemd? do you have enough below to win even under that sndard? mr. ross: honor, you know, i'm not sure what mr. la core means la cower means by a -- lacour means race-neutral standard. if there were a rd that became a new standard, then we would like it to be remanded. i that any standard that r

justice alito. justice soto justice sotomayor: i take your answer to me there was no judicinforceable standards to interpret the freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and equaection clauses of the constitution. because they on their face would appear to be as geable. or broad. yet we routinely let federal and state courts review those acts. that is not our position at all. our position is you need to look at th of claims, take equal protection. that sweeping language. i's the type of claim where you are looking to assess whether race is the predominant motive or violation of one perso o vote, there are judicially discoverable and manageable standards e sotomayor: some were created by the courts. what' different than what the court d here in north carolina where it looked to the meaninge englis of rights of 1689, which apparently was the basis for the state's constitution and aid that meaning was to curb royal efforts to manipul looked to other states that hadn read in the free eleclause and other

and critically here, samuel alito did not recuse from those cases. a listen. >> the experts we spoke to said that that's an expensive gift and, you know, if you were -- if you were going up against somebody in court and you found out that the person on the other side had been flying around the judge on a private jet, the basic question is can that judge be fair? that's the situation. >> reporter: but of course alito said that he and his clerks never caught the fact that paul singer was related to these cases that came before the supreme court. >> you and you have been reporters for a long time, i think the technical term for what alito did here is a switch switch-a-roo. propublica reached out to him for comments, he went to the "wall street journal" and put out this statement. pretty interesting. >> reporter: right, john, and you don't usually see supreme court justices do these kind of switch-a-roos, right? basically they went to the public information officer, they were told no comment, and then alito turns to the "wall street journal" and what's r

a spokesperson for singers that he never discussed his business interest with justice alito.tice that he was not aware singer had an interest in any party. alito failed to disclose a private jet travel on an annual financial disclosure form, he argued the flight was not consequential because the seat would have otherwise been vacant. >> my view is he broke the law. >> the chief justice will address these issues. speak of the revelation follows similar allegations involving justice clarence thomas who reportedly accepted lavish gifts from a g.o.p. megadonor harlan crow and justice sonia sotomayor who did recused herself the case involving the publisher of her memoir. >> justices don't consider the laws applicable to them, they are above the law and that is a problem whether it's the president of the supreme court that thinks that. >> right now it's up to the justices to decide which cases to recuse themselves from. senate democrats are pushing for stricter ethics rules but republicans argue congress may not have the jurisdiction. >> jericka: nikole killion reporting from capit

alito did not disclose this.s been secret until now and experts told us he appears to have violated a federal law passed after watergate the wires justices to disclose most gifts. more noteworthy here, after the trip, the same millionaire had case after case in the supreme court and alito never recused himself. it's quite remarkable. experts told us that they were not aware of any other example of this ever happening, of a supreme court justice sitting on a case after having received an expensive gift paper by one of the parties. host: your investigative work also includes the stories that broke recently about justice clarence thomas. justice clarence thomas has not responded. the washington post this morning says justice alito came out swinging at the publication. he refuted your story in a wall street journal piece that was posted online tuesday. he takes issue with you calling it a luxury trip. he said the seat on the plane would have been empty anyway and this was already -- this trip was already going to hap

"alito speaks for himself in public opinion -- samuel alito is speaking again.n november 2020 he is complaining to a virtual audience at the federalist society that it is considered bigotry to say marriage is between a man and a woman up july 2022 he is in rome at a gala dinner wearing a tuxedo and criticizing foreign leaders for criticizing the supreme court's decision to reverse roe v. wade. in april 2023 he is giving the wall street journal opinion section a rare interview, saying he and his fellow justices were being attacked and left defenseless, and then those who are attacking us say look how unpopular they are, look how their approval rating has sunk. what you expect when day in and day out they say they are illegitimate, they are doing this, they are doing that." the post writes here he is with the byline of his own preemptively defending himself against an investigation into a fishing trip he took in alaska in 2008 paid for by a billionaire hedge fund manager who would later have business with the court. in a photo samuel alito poses with a salmon in t

alito ended up writing the 5to-4 majority opinion in sackett v. environmental protection agency, which gutted protections for u.s. wetlands under the clean water act. at the time, martha ann bomgardner alito had an agreement with the firm citizen energy iii to earn revenue generated from any oil and gas produced on her land in oklahoma, which she inherited from her late father. this follows a bombshell report in propublica that found justice alito took an undisclosed luxury fishing vacation with republican megadonor paul singer in 2008 and then later ruled in singer's favor in several cases. singer is a major donor to the manhattan institute, a republican think-tank that supports blocking student-debt relief. members of the debt collective had demanded alito recuse himself from today's supreme court's ruling on president biden's plan to give 40 million student borrowers up to $20,000 each in debt relief. we'll have more on debt relief and the supreme court later in the broadcast. mexico's help ministry says at least 112 people have died in the pas

chief justice roberts: justice alito. justice alito: suppose someone writes a story, posts it on th internet or publishes it and it's a story about -- it's a mystery story about e ouse killing another spouse. readers will read it. think th iinteresting or not interesting. but suosthat all of the details match up with the tuion of the author's spouse. when that spouse reads it th spouse takes it as a threat. how do you analyze that? mr. elwood: i think in the sort of law enforcementonxt i think you can stop -- the application of the test with the objective tests out the same. it is what would the ordinary person think these words mean gin l the circumstances. i think that you would makth same law enforcement decision there whether you are apyi a subjective test or objective test f you talk to theuynd you are convinced he didn't mean it. he didn't mean to install fear. he thought these are great facts for sty, it makes law enforcement decision easier. if you have doubts, if you tnk maybe he's doing this to instill ar, then

alito did not disclose any of this.en secret until now, and experts have told us it appears to have violated a law passed after watergate that requires justices to disclose to the public. amna: that billionaire later had a case before the supreme court. why did the experts you talk to say that in this case, alito should have recused himself from that case? >> he did not recuse himself in any of the at least 10 cespe that singe they had never heard of another example of a supreme court justice sitting on a case after receiving an expensive gift from one of the parties. there is a law that governs when justices must recused himself from a case. it is a high standard, but a subjective standard, that if there is the appearance of impropriety, then the justice must recused. but when it comes to the supreme court, the only person that interprets that standard, the sole arbiter appointed justice should recuse him or herself is him or herself. amna: in brief he says he doesn't believe his relationship with paul singer warranted

leonard leo did it and invited alito to come with. cases about his hedge fund came before the court at least ten times and alito never recused himself including 2014 including a battle between singer's hedge fund and argentina. alito voted with the 7-1 majority in singer's favor which had a $2.4 billion payout. this only adds to a pattern of questionable dealings by the court's questionable dealings. there's clarence thomas who propublica exposed. justice neil gorsuch sold property to the head of a law firm who had business before the court and didn't disclose the buyer's identity. when propublica reached out to alito, he declined. instead he sent it to "the wall street journal" which in a journalistically confounding move ran it as a rebuttal op ed the day before the propublica report was published. in it he claimed he wasn't aware paul singer was involved despite the cases heavily covered and saying they spoke on no more than a handful of cases and never talked about any issue before the court, comments which i suppose were meant to

alito did not recuse himself from that, case we should note, and propublica's, as they said alito a listrts had spokesperson responded, said alito would not be commenting. just hours later, before propublica could release that report, the wall street journal published an op-ed that was written by alito, saying, quote propublica mislead's its readers, and disclosing to fill that trip. joining me now, cnn reporter ariana ndefo. ariana, obviously this is the same outlook that has reported on justice clarence thomas, that is why he was going after them essentially talking about them misleading, and the history of their reporting on this. what do you make of the fact that he did not respond, and instead wrote an op-ed to get ahead of this report? >> well that is just it. it is unprecedented. he knew this report was coming, and he wanted to get out ahead of, it almost to put a spin on it. i mean, to go to the authors went to the public information officer, they got a no, comment and then he turns around, and he writes himself his own byline, this piece in the wall street journal. it just seeme

abide by the rules all justice alito needed to do was disclose. didn't have to. he could've taken everything that was going to do it. he just needed to disclose it. >> he can't. there's a whole fight going on about whether this plane was a facility for purposes of the statute. he saying that the plane was a facility which is clearly wrong. the fact is, when they say that justice ginsburg travels, and justice breyer traveled, we know that because they disclosed the travel. they disclosed to. you can kind of go around the world and eat chicken at bad places. don't tell us that is none of our business. one of the issues with the court the -- they're there to report about the jurisprudence, the cases, the background of why these cases come to be. most times when i'm interviewing you, it's about the cases. it has now become a bit about the court, and that is a different role for a lot of reporters. the thing that people need to understand is that there are ethics, and there are the rules that they have to follow. the rules are very few. we don't have e

paul singer influence alito to a.m. alaska on a private jet. you can see alito in the center.why hide it if you're not ashamed? justice alito, who expects so many to live by the rules he writes not disclosing this. propublica said singer's hedge fund came to the court least ten times and alito did not recuse. this is not the first time he had ethical issues. he came under fire as a judge for failing to recuse in a different case where he had a potential conflict. he defended himself at the confirmation hearings insisting on his own high ethics standards. >> the policy i followed during all my years on the bench, which is to bend over backwards to make sure that i didn't do anything that came close to violating the code of conduct or give anybody the impression that i was doing anything that was imprommer. >> those are words, not unlike the words so many justices use to say they would not overturn roe, which they have. you can see scalia making nice martinis here, the ice apparently from the glacier. that's not harvard law library. while it's a cool little moment, the question

it doesn't look like alito is doing that.ory today. >> let me state the obvious. there is something rotten going on in the united states of america. when we return from our recess, we will have a mark-up of the ethics bill in the senate judiciary building. i hope before that time, chief roberts will show some leadership. >>> i mean, it's true that he or any one of the 500 other supreme court justices, or chief justices, could impose a rule of at left a disclosure. no one is saying don't do it. they're just saying disclose it. >> which is why you see senators be much more aggressive about the need for at least the legislative branch to exercise some oversight. they feel as senator durbin said, they are not doing enough to police themselves. >> the court says you can't do that. separation of powers. >> but that's certainly not stopping the senators here. what is really interesting here. if legislation does advance, and i don't special to to clear the at some much less pass the house. it might prompt another instance. the biden

they acknowledge paying for justice alito's trip to rome. he may end up disclosing that one.closure report but this is what he said when my colleague reached out to the supreme court to find out why he took this trip and, you know, if there was any kind of conflict taking the trip on the religious liberty initiative's dime. and what he said is my understanding is that the notre dame law school's religious liberty initiative has a number of components. only one of which is the clinic, and the clinic is the group that submitted the brief. and he said like legal clinics of many law schools, it files amicus briefs to the supreme court and i was not invited to speak in rome by the clinic. he's drawing a line between the overall umbrella group and the clinic itself, but, poppy, the reason we're even talking about it today is because there has been incident after incident where it's been disclosed that first clarence thomas and now samuel alito taking trips and undermining public confidence in the court because of the lack of full disclosure. >> not to mention he spoke about the dob

alito wrote an article rebutting as mike pointed out, the pro-public business that was bring alleged.page of the wall street journal and we fox aired the interview today with appellate judge wrote a book defending clarence thomas. that's with the support of these justices are coming from. the rest of the media it's not happening. in an atmosphere which the justice department deservedly and the fbi deservedly and other institutions, education for example deservedly have lost the confidence of the public. it hasn't been hard at all for the american left supported by most of the american media to drive down the reputation of the supreme court. it's highly regrettable. >> brent, as always. thank you. next, the future of adventure tourism after the titan submersible disaster. first, beyond our borders tonight. so via recent leases 3 officers to close a vote that were attained by the border between the balkan foes earlier this month. the move follows demands by the us and european union that they be set ree. this is a no mike look at london. one of the big stories there tonight. prince will

yeah, i alito said exactly right. everybody on subways carrying a gun. why shouldn't law abiding citizens to carry a gun? and the lawyer for new york state was sort of dumbfounded this because, in fact, the subways are safe even now. it's certainly from gun violence in york city compared to the rest of the is is very safe from gun violence. it was as if justice alito was sort of working off of old 1970s movie on a betamax you know shoot him up in the in the city streets. now he, he often kind of comes at these, as i say in the book, sort of like a fox news pundit, rather than relying on the facts front of him. but this is a pretty significant and you see this again over and over again where on lot of things where you have legislators doing things where the court wades, it often doesn't really get right or it's relying on what the parties are telling them are the facts. and it turns out that, you know, when one or another of the parties in the case are, you know, making their case by shading shading the facts a little bit. what's interesting is that was t

yeah, i alito said exactly right. everybody on subways carrying a gun. why shouldn't law abiding citizens to carry a gun? and the lawyer for new york state was sort of dumbfounded this because, in fact, the subways are safe even now. it's certainly from gun violence in york city compared to the rest of the is is very safe from gun violence. it was as if justice alito was sort of working off of old 1970s movie on a betamax you know shoot him up in the in the city streets. now he, he often kind of comes at these, as i say in the book, sort of like a fox news pundit, rather than relying on the facts front of him. but this is a pretty significant and you see this again over and over again where on lot of things where you have legislators doing things where the court wades, it often doesn't really get right or it's relying on what the parties are telling them are the facts. and it turns out that, you know, when one or another of the parties in the case are, you know, making their case by shading shading the facts a little bit. what's interesting is that was t

according to the report, pulsing flew alito to alaska on his private jet, and alito did not discloserip. it also said alito did not recuse himself in those cases that involve singer. the justice refuted propublica's reporting in the wall street journal, even before it came out. justice thomas, of course, as also come under scrutiny for not fully disclosing his relationship with texas billionaire harlan crow. now, the senate judiciary committee is planning to move ahead with essex -- ethics reform to dress just this. >> let me say the obvious, there's something rotten going on in the supreme court of the united states of america. when we return from the july recess, will have a mark of the supreme court ethics bill in the senate judiciary committee. >> with that, let's get smarter the help of our lead off panel. jeff bennett is here, co-anchor of pbs news hour and pbs is chief washington correspondent. luke broadwater joins us, pulitzer prize-winning congressional reporter for the new york times, and our dear friend barbara mcquade, a veteran federal prosecutor and former u.s. attorne

two things i will raise right away first, this is how samuel alito responded.ied to preemptively get out ahead of this story, so he wrote an op-ed in the "wall street journal" last night in which he said, my recollection is that i have spoken with mr. singer, i know on more than a handful of occasions, all of which the exception of smalltalk during a fishing trip 15 years ago, that fishing trip years ago consisted of brief and commented events attended by large groups. on no occasion have we discussed the activities of his business and we have never talked about any case or issue before the supreme court. he did something unprecedented here, justice alito went to the "wall street journal", where he has got some pals, and pinned this op-ed to try to actually-- this doesn't happen. it's >> it never happens! to potentially tab down criticism, it called attention to all of this and reinforced the idea of, i'm going to brush off public criticism, press criticism, members of congress criticism, and i'm going to the "wall street journal" to counter this. what he did w