amna: amanda frost joining us today. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me.s facing a food crisis. today food the systems remain fragile. the u.n. world food program is at the center of confronting those challenges. the new executive director is a familiar face to many americans. >> cindy mccain. u.s. ambassador to the un's and agriculture organization became the 14th executive director last month. her first trip to the fields in the role is to somalia, facing their worst drought in 40 years that killed 43,000 people last year. she joins us from the somali capital. welcome to the newshour. what are the conditions somali is facing? >> an uphill battle. drought and the ability -- inability to feed themselves and also conflict. the combinations are almost a perfect storm for what could be famine. we kept famine away from somalia last year and we will try to do our best to do the same thing this year. we have to remind people not to forget about somalia and that things are really tough in somalia and why we need their donations and support. reporter: more than 7.

. >> to help us explore these issues of accountability and confidence, i'm joined by amanda frost.the hearing before congress. >> thank you for having me. >> we have learned about the gifts to justice thomas, justice gorsuch's property sales through journalists. from what you have seen, should that have been information they disclosed? >> yes. there were clearly failures to follow ethics laws in those cases. >> what did you make of how the hearing unfolded? >> some of the conversation was productive. there was a general recognition one of the problems is lack of transparency and the court is not taking ethics obligations seriously enough. whether congre takes action is not clear, but they are shining the light on the issue. >> is there a context for this conduct? are there previous examples of ethical concerns we can think about to compare this moment to? >> there are a few. in the 1960's, the $20,000 payment from a former client. reading to his resignation. and he returned the money, but i think he realized he could not stand that kind of scrutiny because he had been paid while be

professor amanda frost is a professor at the university of virginia school of law. she writes and teaches in the field of constitutional law, judicial ethics, and immigration. she writes a column for scotusblog. she served on the u.s. court of appeals for the d.c. circuit judge and worked as a litigator for public citizen. now i will turn to senator graham. sen. graham: thank you, mr. chairman. we have former attorney general michael mukasey. judge mukasey served as attorney general of the united states from november 2007 to january 2009 and advised on critical issues of domestic and international law. following his time as attorney general, judge mukasey returned to private practice in new york, focusing primarily on internal investigation and independent border abuse and corporate grievance. from '88 to 2006, judge mukasey served in the southern district of new york and as chief judge in 2000. from '72 to '76 he was district attorney for the southern district of new york. he received his law degree from yale in 1967 and his b.a. from columbia college in 1963. mr.

professor amanda frost is a professor at the university of virginia school of law. she writes and teaches in the field of constitutional law, judicial ethics, and immigration. she writes a column for scotusblog. she served on the u.s. court of appeals for the d.c. circuit judge and worked as a litigator for public citizen. now i will turn to senator graham. sen. graham: thank you, mr. chairman. we have former attorney general michael mukasey. judge mukasey served as attorney general of the united states from november 2007 to january 2009 and advised on critical issues of domestic and international law. following his time as attorney general, judge mukasey returned to private practice in new york, focusing primarily on internal investigation and independent border abuse and corporate grievance. from '88 to 2006, judge mukasey served in the southern district of new york and as chief judge in 2000. from '72 to '76 he was district attorney for the southern district of new york. he received his law degree from yale in 1967 and his b.a. from columbia college in 1963. mr.

he's a member of the house oversight committee, congressman frost, you're the youngest member of congress, closest to amandahas done this. what is your reaction to the totality of this including amanda gorman's response. >> it's completely discussed -ing. i really feel for amanda gorman, it's just about three months ago, black history month, we're actually read one of her poems to a room full of young black elementary school kids, and afterwards, when they came up to take a picture with me, many said are they touch their heart, they never really heard poetry like that. so, it's the banning of art, it's the beginning of literature, and really, what it gets down to, it's exactly what ron desantis has been looking to do anyway. it's really behind the legislation, he's looking to get rid of black history. and black excellence in schools. that's why he has no problem with this piece of art being taken away from elementary school kids. so, my message to the kids and my message to people in the state, continue to fight for a world we're not banning books or banning poetry. and if amanda gorman wants to come to flo

joining me now is democratic congressman maxwell frost of florida, the youngest lawmaker on the hill. in age, you are close to amandapoke at the inaugural. this is your home state. you are read one of her poems, i understand, to a class of black elementary schoolchildren during black history month. what is your reaction to the move, to the message to the students? >> of course, disappointed but not surprised. these attacks on education, these attacks on literature, these attacks on black literature and black history have been ongoing over the past several months by ron desantis and the desantis regime in the state of florida. he is working to abuse his power to rip history away from kids. you said the book wasn't banned, but it is. it was banned from elementary schools. the fact of the matter is, this new, unethical law with book banning can allow one person -- you don't even have to be a parent in the state of florida to get a book banned. you can be a random person in the community, submit the form and they take it off the shelves. that's not american. that doesn't sound like freedom or liberty to me. >> you repre