justice clarence thomas:"plus, i love my wife."mas told cnn's jamie gangel that his wife is his rock.clarence thomas, associate justice of the supreme court:"some people can put your life on a worse course. some people can put your life on a better course. uh, you take my wife, she put it on a better course."but he also seemed to distance himself from her outspoken conservative commentary in the daily caller interview.justice clarence thomas/daily caller interview/january 2018:"as a judge, you don't get to be on one team or the other. you have to think independently in order to live up to the oath you take."ginni thomas:"and the best part of being a justice?"justice clarence thomas/daily caller interview/january 2018:"it's first of all, it'd be impossible without you. i have to be honest." (justine) some supreme court watchers say virginia thomas is fully entitled to her own opinions. but with the high court being under close scrutiny, it's also important to stay away from any appearances of impropriety. (jr storm) the cold tempera

tremont clarence page, take that it is a a show that like today. civil rights record. >> guest: it was mixed. interesting, one always felt that his heart was in the right place and even back at you like you involved in naacp and was always one who was on the progressive side of civil rights. but he also, there were political considerations whenever he ran for office, he would stick his elbows out sometimes. that's what i would put the willie horton affair. it was something that, while his own campaign didn't run the ads, for the five or six people who don't know who willie horton was, he was, well, he was a convert to walk away from massachusetts furlough program, a a program that michael dukakis supported as governor, and so he was linked to it. first by democrats in the primary states of the caucus aspirations and later by people associated, supported the bush campaign, involved in the campaign but the put at the tv with willie hortons picture, frightful looking fellow who became this iconic bad guy that you should be afraid of and, therefore, yo

guest: i think clarence said it very well.f you're talking about a civil rights legacy, it is good from yelp to he actually voted for civil rights legislation when he was a member of congress in texas. on the legislative side, he did well. he pointed to african-american. controversial because of his judicial philosophy. the willie horton ad, he went through the history of it, people interpreted the ad largely on whether you are liberal or conservative or republican or democrat. the people who defend george h.w. bush in that ad make the following argument. the program was real. willie horton did go out on furlough program and he did -- he had been a murderer and did rape people afterward. was made the ad effective not the race of willie horton, it was the crime that was done. if you have been a white person and still would have been a legitimate issue to go after. i understand counterargument. -- was a campaign director. he had admitted that the republican party in the late 1960's, southern strategy, they used racial codewords

like i say, clarence thomas was next. i had thought, perhaps, naively, that the bork nomination was as bad as it could get. senate democrats had taken a universally admired and respected jurist and managed to paint him as a threat to freedom and prosperity. they twisted his record and his words until they were completely unrecognizable. then came my friend, justice thomas. it turns out that they grossly -- that grossly misrepresenting a nominee's record is only part of the playbook. there's also character assassination. justice thomas, as i think most people know, is a dear friend of mine. we're honored to have him here tonight. i'd like to make just a few points about his confirmation experience. not many people remember this, but there were actually two sets of hearings on justice thomas' nomination. the first was the standard set of hearings on his record and qualifications. the sort of hearings all supreme court nominees have to endure and go through. the second set was the hearings with professor hill. by the time hi

♪ >> announcer: in the spring of 1983, clarence "smitty" smith, the president of the outlaws motorcycleorida, was about to stand trial for a quadruple homicide in ft. lauderdale. >> mr. smith, how are you doing this morning? >> announcer: smitty's alleged accomplice, a biker known as yankee, had eluded authorities. public defender took on smitty's case. >> some of the outlaws were a bit rough around the edges. smitty as far as personality was concerned was not like that at all. i felt he had a compelling story to tell. >> my dad was ex-military. grandparents, all of that stuff was military at one time or another. i dropped out of high school. my dad says, you're either going to go in the service or you're going to go to school, but you're not going to live in this household unless you go to school, and so i said, "sign the papers for me." i was a cocky youngster, and i went in the army when i was 17. and from there i went to vietnam, end of 1966. i was patriotic. i believed in the red, white and blue. i was fighting for america. i came back in december of 1967. >> announcer: smitty, lik

. >> the senate is scheduled to vote tomorrow on the supreme court nomination of clarence thomas.re concerned about the accusation of sexual harassment dating back ten years. >> anita hill enters the room now. >> democrats were going to challenge clarence thomas on the basis of his conservative views. his race was not going to be an issue. but i think the anita hill allegations brought race back into the picture. >> the senate judiciary committee is meeting to hear evidence on sexual harassment charges that have been made against judge clarence thomas. >> he spoke about acts that he had seen in pornographic films involving such matters as women having sex with animals. >> this seemingly personal matter is being aired out in front of this jury of all-white men. and it created quite a spectacle. >> this is a circus, and from my standpoint as a black american, as far as i'm concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks. >> clarence thomas decided to fight back by invoking one of the most painful elements of black history, which was designed to point out the burden of being

case itself that was about the right to sue over that over but yeah i'm disappointed and i think clarence thomas said it right on the head and i'm hoping going forward this was an aberration and they'll they'll find a spine both here you and someone else though you know will spin roberts around a little bit not violently not tonight i'm via i mean you know just say hey wake up and he'll come to his senses away from both sides where all wanting more spines on capitol hill we all agree we were never really conservative i'll just give next time to be nice to see it but yeah i mean it was it was passing see this and like i mentioned earlier the you know him on bundy kind of like suddenly you know shocking his is more conservative it's an interesting time that's what i got to say and that's why it's always fun talking to you steve because it's always an interesting conversation something to very much for coming out of the bank you guys appreciate it very much. as we go to break card watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook and twitter and see

if they lose a benefit from medicaid or whatever now having said that i believe clarence thomas i said he hit it on the head and here's what he said planned parenthood because planned parenthood was mentioned in there even though it had nothing to do with this case with abortion it scared the heck i believe add of roberts and it scared the heck for whatever reason had a kavanagh and they wanted nothing to do with that it's a lightning rod a political lightning rod and i think that that's what turned them off and it's very troublesome and worrisome for someone like me who is hoping that you know these guys at least have the guts to hear a case let alone you know decide on it the right way i mean it's just going to keep going through the system you realize that and you know it wasn't about abortion but it does have to do with the fact that there is then this idea that because planned parenthood does due to pregnancy terminations that they sudden get any funding and that's not grants when they provide women's health care when they're providing birth control when they're providing family p

i see opinions by justice clarence thomas. thin look at the author, the editor of the casebook. some of the most of liberal intelligentsia in the they will community showing respect for clarence thomas. he appointed mr. john roberts to the circuit coast appeals and he appointed mr. samuel alito to the court of appeals, each of which ascended to the supreme court by his son. i don't know that he could have expected justice thomas would serve as well and as long as he has. justice thomas has more, justice clarence thomas, has more of his own clerks now as federal judges and senior administrators in the non-political appointee, civil service than any judge in modern history. liz: senator hoeven is still here. can you react to what judge napolitano was saying about the h.w. bush's impact on the supreme court? >> the fact is that the media just ignores what the impact that he has. so you don't read in the public press much about him. but he's had the kind of impact i think if george h.w. bush would have chuckled and appreciated, somebody who is laid back as thomas is, and as george h

bush. >> clarence? >> well, i can't argue with any of that. but ellenor picked up on an important point about george h.w. bush. he wanted to get the job done, and would do what's necessary. in the political realm, he wasn't as agile as some of the other politicians around him. he would somewhat awkwardly go to things hike the willie horton campaign back in '88. the clarence thomas appointment and other moves that went farther to the right than he normally would have gone, but he did because he could see where the party was going to enough of a degree that he knew in order to succeed, he had to accommodate them. but he fell into that trap of promising no new taxes, but the prudent side told him we need new taxes in order to respond to the needs of negotiating a tax bill on capitol hill, and balancing the budget. he very courageously shifted direction on that, the tax increase came, but the right wing forgiven, newt gingrich and other conservatives rising up exacted their revenge. they did not support him with any particular vigor in '92. pat bu

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but clarence darrow beard in a very different direction. he decided to really put traditional religion on trial. he summoned to the stand for cross-examination brian himself. this was very unorthodox. one of the attorneys for the prosecution to be summoned. darrow aimed to make a fool of this great statesman. he really wanted to showcase the conflict between science and religion. so he asked brian questions like, how could joshua possibly have compelled the sun to stand still? or can you tell us the exact date of the flood? brian did his best to remain firm in defending his views. in many cases he didn't really have a clear and sharp answer to rebut darrow but i will say that brian refused to defend creationism. he would not defend the view that each day of creation described in genesis literally means 24 hours. he says it could mean a longer period of time. in general he defended the conservative traditional reading of scripture. he kind of came off as an old man who was a bit out of his death. the judge ended up throwing out the testimony

at and clarence with us tonight. johnny is in charleston south carolina first. go ahead. >> caller: i would like to let america know that george h. bush wasn't perfect. he ran on the premise of people's fear [inaudible] thank you. >> host: the headline today from the front page of usa today bush civil rights record next. >> guest: it was mixed. one always felt so that his heart was in the right place and one that was always on the progressive side of the civil rights, but he also there were political considerations whenever he ran for office he would stick his elbows and sometimes. ithi was something his own campaign didn't run the ads. he was a convict who walked away from massachusetts furlough program and it was the program michael dukakis appointed as governor and said he was linked to it first by democrats in the primary stage of the aspirations and leader people who supported the bush campaign they put ads on tv with this picture a frightful looking fellow who became this iconic bad guy that he wanted to byou ought to be ad therefore should be afraidid of

i think at least on the surface his approach was very different from clarence darrow's. essentially he says if a person is a true liberal then they should have no problem with other christians believing, say, that god created the universe in six days. even if they themselves don't happen to believe that. he says the problem with these fundamentalists is not their theology, they can believe what they like. the problem is their beliefs about church. the fact that they think liberals like fosdic don't belong in any truly christian church. now, this sermon was a sensation. his brother ran the rockefeller foundation for 30 years and the foundation funded the nationwide distribution of this sermon as a pamphlet. so it had much wider reach by direct mail than just the people who happened to hear it preached. but i've been reading his autobiography and it's really interesting. he refers to this sermon and he calls it a failure. even though it was really widely read, to him it failed in what his main hope was, which was to stop the fighting and restore harmony. maybe that's a big

he stood by clarence thomas and he fought for that man. >> he always believed in clarence thomas as did many american people. he wanted to nominate clarence thomas earlier and decided he would first put david sater on the court. and becoming a conservative icon in his own right. he is an intellectual heavyweight on that court. he is one of the most forceful voices of conservatism on a supreme court. in fact, of all the nominees that president trump has put on the federal appeals court since he's been in office, more of those have been clarence thomas clerks when they were coming out of law school than any other justice. so you can't overstate justice thomas' influence in the legal community and on the courts, and that is as a result of george h.w. bush. >> and once again, highlighting, though it may have been a shorter presidency than george h.w. bush had hoped for, obviously it had lasting impact, norah and john, as i send it to you, lessons that he passed on to his son as well. but what was also fascinating was when his son did become president, he put the brakes on and sat in the sha

now clarence, i have good news for you if perhaps the viewers. which is the cnbc portion of the beat" is now over. as we get into other issues tonight. the chaos royaling trump world is happening of course against the back droop of these investigations and one on going mystery that's involved this crypt i said case that is now potentially heading to the supreme court. report ly linked to the bop mueller. chief justice john roberts ruling a company has until monday to explain why it is resisting the subpoena. and rudy giuliani using the holiday week. he didn't have to but he chose to. getting back out there and saying well, you know, when he once said trump might agree to give more written answers to mueller. well, that's over. >> you expect that he's gonna have to answer more questions in writing? >> well i think i nounszed about 10 days ago over my dead body. and i'm not dead yet. so. >> that answers that. as a form -- >> -- not answering anymore questions from these people. their outrageous activity s, you know, we did enough. >> had not been f

. >> including his controversial nominee to the supreme court, clarence thomas. >> i barely knew himated me, so i am clueless as to why he did. >> you get the call to come to kennebunkport. and what did you think? >> it's all surreal. when i got up there, i ran and saw mrs. bush. she had this big hat on. i greeted her, and she said congratulations. and that's when i knew. and she said oh, i guess i let the cat out of the bag. so i see him on the deck. then we go to the sitting area in their bedroom. and we talked, couldn't have been any more than five, ten minutes. and he said if you become a member of the supreme court, can you call them as you see them? and i said, well, of course i can do that. and, excuse me, he said, can you and your family get through a tough confirmation? that was a good opportunity to say no. >> how old are you, judge? 42, 43? >> well, i've aged over the last ten weeks. >> tough turned out to be an understatement. >> do you swear too tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god? >> when thomas' colleague, anita hill accused him of

clarence thomas is upset about this and in the dissenting opinion he made it known. >> i'm hearing thatcase didn't have to do with abortion so much of it had to do with funding for planned parenthood for non-abortion-related services. it was the right decision to make. if he were really going to the supreme court with determination to buckle down on abortion, there would have been an opportunity to do that. rob: that is a fair assessment. it does go down that line. you would think someone, here is the washington post headline from july 10th. with the appointment of brett cavanagh, roe versus lied -- roe versus wade is likely dead. they will not want to take this on. >> this is an opportunity to chip it away bit by bit. there will be a conversation to do that but he made a very fair decision. rob: an interesting day and you will not see a lot of coverage of this because it goes against many articles spent about how roe v wade is dead because of this justice's nomination, thanks very much. 53 minutes after the hour. he clung to the back of a bus risking the ride of his life. why this teen

justice clarence thomas issued somewhat of a stinging disent, saying the only reason the supreme courte case is because it involved the phrase or the words of the organization planned parenthood here. so jim, in part, the supreme court giving a win to planned parenthood, but also we're beginning to see how this court is taking shape. who's siding with whom, and right now today, we're seeing that the chief justice, john roberts, and the new justice brett kavanaugh, actually siding with the liberals here, deciding not to take the case. >> extremely interesting detail. jessica, thanks very much. a story we'll continue to follow. >>> still to come this hour, president trump is now linked to federal crimes for the first time since taking office. this in the sentencing memo of his former lawyer and fixer michael cohen. we'll speak to former white house communications director anthony scaramucci about this and many other developments. stay with us. [leaf blower] you should be mad at leaf blowers. [beep] you should be mad your neighbor always wants to hang out. and you should be mad your smart

. >> including his controversial nominee to the supreme court, clarence thomas. >> i barely knew himi'm clueless as to why he did. >> you get the call to come to kennebunkport. and what did you think? >> it's all surreal. when i got up there, i saw mrs. bush. she had a big hat on. i greeted her and she said, congratulations. and that's when i knew. and she said, oh, i guess i let the cat out of the bag. so i see him on the deck. then we go to the sitting area in their bedroom. and we talked, couldn't have been any more than five, ten minutes. and he said, if you become a member of the supreme court, can you call them as you see them? and i said, well, of course i can do that. and -- excuse me. he said, can you and your family get through a tough confirmation? that was a good opportunity to say no. >> how old are you, judge? 42, 3? >> well, i've aged over the last weeks. >> tough turned out to be an underestimate. >> do you swear to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god? >> i do. >> when thomas' former colleague anita hill accused him of sexual harassment. >>

clarence darrow essentially wanted to be able to appeal a loss in the scopes trial. one of the things about making a appeals is you have to lose the case and so he essentially went before the jury and said i don't particularly care what you think, to butter up the jury. i don't particularly care whatyou think , but for all purposes, we'd like you to find the defendant guilty and i expect them to try to find him guilty anyway. other than the fact that the jury agreed, it took them nine minutes to reach a guilty verdict for darrow and that was a success and failure. so darrow was able to appeal the decision up to the state supreme court . which made a very clever maneuver. the state supreme court agreed with darrow that scopes was not guilty so darrow no longer had a losing case to appeal but the state supreme court also got an admission or an agreement from the state that it would no longer enforce the butler law. so this was what one newspaper called the most fascinating legal wet blanket that had ever been thrown on an appeal so the civil liberties union won the cas

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clarence thomas and neil gorsich. john roberts and brett kavanaugh appeared to have voted with the rest of the court not to take this case. clarence thomas says why didn't we take this case. it's a big deal about whether medicaid patients get to sue over who their health care providers are. that really should be a state decision. he says i think the reason we didn't take it is because planned parenthood is involved here and that's no reason not to take this case just because it's politically fraught. it leaves the victory for planned parenthood in tact. >> very interesting. pete williams outside the court. thank you. >>> up next, james comey is stepping back into the spotlight quite literally on stage in new york. telling our nick coole wallace president obstructed justice. maria ramirez? hi. maria ramirez! mom! maria! maria ramirez... mcdonald's is committing 150 million dollars in tuition assistance, education, and career advising programs... prof: maria ramirez mom and dad: maria ramirez!!! to help more employees a

senate with carl and clarence. holding him responsible for the murder of john mark he was a very strong step indeed by the u.s. congress in fact we were expecting something to come out from saudi arabia because this is where he was the most challenging the more serious crisis the relationship between the saudis and the americans saudi arabia and the united states in fact and even its more even more worse than discipline but eleven attacks on on. that twenty hours. fifteen years ago so actually this is something that it's really serious and is really big in the relationship between the two countries i saw with these the may have not actually anticipated this at the very beginning of the thought that this will just go away as time passes because the saudis you was buying as much time as possible so that this case might just go away or diet or the media actually sees focusing on this issue about saudi arabia has in fact become part of this conflict domestic conflict in the united states between the u.s. administration

, but as cnn's jessica schneider reports, her more recent rhetoric is #maga all the way. >> i, clarenceporter: a supreme court spouse for decades, virginia thomas, better known as ginni, is well known for speaking out among conservative circles. >> the second reagan revolution is growing. >> reporter: but it's her recent rapid succession of facebook posts blasting democrats and promoting highly partisan views that are prompting pushback. earlier this month, thomas put up this meme, asking, where is the wall? portraying california as a war zone where undocumented immigrants attack and carjack americans. she reposted this claim of democratic voter fraud after the midterms with no proof at all. she has even derided republicans for not going after the left, who she's labeled as liberal fascists, one week after a nazi sympathizer killed a woman in charlottesville. one user responded to a recent post, you're literally married to a sitting supreme court justice and you put out this partisan propaganda. you tarnish the people's faith in the court and you ought to be ashamed of yourself. >> ginn

pointing people like justice clarence thomas. they trashed him for clarence thomas. >> remember the thomas hearings something. >> laura: oh, yeah. but that is the world as it is. so we're not trying to gloss over the real differences that exist. but craig, reagan and bush, you've written about it, reason did rendezvous with destiny, tell us about that. >> it was very contentious, they didn't get along. during the 80 primaries, it was heated, argumentative, they were from two cultural different uni versus, one was more moderate, the other more conservative. it was a marriage of convenience at the detroit convention. reagan so opposed picking george bush who most people thought was the obvious choice, bush was second in the primaries, is that they saw the co. president to gerald ford and tried to get the senator from nevada on the ticket. so they very much resisted the idea of picking george bush. >> laura: they ended up having eight years in the white house and it was a great partnership. it ended up being a really good pick in th

not possible to filibuster the executive calendar, it was not done would you agree that was the clarence thomas nomination for the supreme court quick. >> i would agree on that. i would. we could get into a lively dispute among us who shot whose back who is the fault over the democrats in 2003 who began for the first time to require 60 votes for circuit judges are the republicans who stopped a couple of obama's judges the fact of the matter is. i believe that i know for a fact that most of us believe we should keep the legislative filibuster. how? because senator collins and senator coons who will speak following, offered into the record in 2017 from 29 republicans and 32 democrats is that we are mindful of the legislative process we steadfastly are committed to ensure the constitution continues to serve the deliberative body therefore we are asking you to join us to oppose any effort to curtail any existing rights or prerogatives for full robust debate as we consider legislation before this body in the future. madamef president that is 61 senators. on record about the legislative filibu

they trashed him for clarence thomas for whom i worked and love. that is the world as it is. we're not trying to gloss over the real differences that exist but craig, reagan and bush. you have written about it. "rendezvous with destiny" which is one of the great biographies of reagan. tell us about that. >> it was very contentious. they didn't get along. the 1980's primaries, boyden was there. it was heated. it was argumentative. they were in two cultural universes. one was more moderate, one was more conservative, it was a marriage of convenience at the detroit convention, reagan opposed picking bush most considered the obvious choice because he had come in second in the primaries, they sought the co-presidency with gerald ford and sought paul laxalt of nevada on the ticket. they resisted the idea of picking george bush. >> laura: they ended up with eight years in the white house and a good pick in the end. >> that's politics. >> laura: that's politics. it's a trade-off, right, boyden? >> absolutely, it was a great choice and reagan really appreciated bush who never wanted t

when anita hill testified against clarence thomas she was cross-examined by specter.he f.b.i. a different version than what she told the senate committee. he was able to expose that. why? because george h.w. bush had the patience and the big mindedness of let's let the f.b.i. do their job. i don't think this is true about the guy i nominated but i need to f.b.i. to tell me whether it's true or not. >> sandra: we're waiting to see the arrival of the hearse carrying bush 41's casket in houston and military band and 21 gun salute. as we await that and talk about our 41st president and his term and obviously you have a very special way of looking back at him. a very unique perspective, this country is coming together in this moment to bid farewell and watch him make his final departure to washington, d.c. as this country looks back and remembers our 41st president and his lasting impact on this country. >> you know, for some strange reason in the past year or so i've developed an email relationship with jeb bush, his youngest son. and we were emailing each other yesterday

moment of tradition even when possible to filibuster the executive calendar that would have to be the clarence thomas nomination for the supreme court quick. >> i would agree on that. i would agree on that. we could get into a lively dispute about who shot or who scratched who's back in 2003 that began for the first time to require 60 votes for the circuit judges that the fact of the matter is most of us believe we should keep the legislative filibuster . . . . mindful of the senate place for legislating process. we've committed to enter this institution continues to serve as a world greatest body. therefore, we are asking you to join us in opposing any effort to present the existing rightsf and prerogatives of senators who engage in extended debate as we consider legislation before the spotty in the future. that's 61 senators. our records about the legislative filibusters, the one reason -- one reason the legislative filibusters were to stay. you are not supposed to change it. let me offer a better reason. not to change it. a reason why we should change it if we consider it the right way. we

and what clarence thomas wrote, joined by justices alito and gorsuch was, look, you're avoiding thisbout plpt plpanned parenthood,e abdicating your judicial duty because it's a politically fraught, ideologically fraught case. >> hmm. what do you think this will mean for abortion rights moving forward? >> well, that's a great question. because as much as medicaid funding matters for poor women who are using these kinds of services that planned parenthood provides, the larger question is, what will happen down the road to roe v. wade? and we know the four liberals don't want to take that up. and i think today is a signal from chief justice john roberts and from brett kavanaugh that there's a good flashing sign that says, not now. that they do not want to tangle with even tangential reproductive rights question here. they don't want to go near abortion, i would suspect, brooke. >> joans s bs b biskupich, tha. >>> coming up, why comey says he doesn't want to see the president impeached. say hello to the braava jet mopping robot from irobot. its precision jet spray and vibrating cleaning

and with anita hill, more people believed clarence thomas.can make the argument that the kind of movement and fierceness and anger that arose from brett kavanaugh's nomination hearings led to that democratic wave that we saw in november where you had a record number of women who were elected. >> beyond the kavanaugh hearings can't you also make the argument that there has been a real cataclysm in terms of the me too movement and the huge names, certainly in tv news and beyond that it brought down. i mean, people that were once seen as truly indispensable lost their jobs because of credible allegations. >> yeah, i mean, i think that there was so much reporting in 2017 and i remember thinking, wow, is there going to be more? is this just a couple weeks or a flash in the pan? 2018 we saw that there were still so many stories left to tell and they were stories of hotel housekeepers and they were stories of farm migrant laborers and they were also stories of people working in the most powerful places in this country. so what does it mean? whose vo

clarence,r of this, new jersey.aller: i am a black american and i support the building of the wall and the shutdown. immigration affects the black community. if you do history on el chapo and the drug trafficking for mexico and how it affected chicago, the multitude of murders that are occurring, that is one reason. the also have again called ms 13. they murdered three black college students, shot them in the back of the head, raped them and then killed them. in california you have a lot of illegal immigrants that firebomb black people to get them out of their neighborhoods. understand how this is affecting us. and ior immigration, don't care who comes into the country as long as they can benefit the country economically. we have these incidents i just stated. i am totally and completely in support of president trump. host: how does the wall stop those things? caller: i'm assuming it will prevent illegal immigrants from coming to the country, those who are coming in to do the things i just stated. members that murde

. >>> and supreme court justice clarence thomas' wife sharing on facebook much more than their holiday pics. the controversial highly political post she is promoting and how it could impact the high court. >>> welcome to "the lead," i'm dana bash in for jake tapper. and we begin this friday afternoon with the politics lead. a new year, a new congress fast approaching, president trump issues another shutdown threat. this time, the warning is that he may seal off the entire southern border with mexico and insisting the federal government will not reopen until he gets his billions in wall funding. day seven of the partial shutdown and neither side is giving ground. white house press secretary, sarah sanders, telling cnn the president has been in the office for the past several hours and making calls all morning. but it seems much more of his attention has been on his twitter feed. cnn's jessica dean joins me now from the white house. jessica, we learned today the president will stay in washington through new year's instead of going to his mar-a-lago club in florida. but that does not sign

and then, a more informal picture, again in the gardens of clarence house, that leaves you wondering his birthday, the prince and duchess of cornwall toured west africa. visiting nigeria, ghana and the gambia. as ever, with royal overseas tours, it was about strengthening ties with the uk. in his 70th year, prince charles has continued to speak out on the issues he cares most deeply about. but in an interview with the bbc to mark his birthday, he clarified that as king, he wouldn‘t campaign in the same way. i‘m not that stupid. i do realise that it is a separate exercise being sovereign. as charles takes on more high—profile duties, his father continued his step back from public life. here, just a fleeting view of the duke of edinburgh leaving hospital in april after a hip replacement at the age of 96. the duke recovered well enough to see two of his grandchildren married this year, after harry and meghan came eugenie and jack. in october princess eugenie married her long—term partner jack brooksbank. the daughter of prince andrew and sarah duchess of york also chose st george‘s chap

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clarence thomas has been arguing to do so for 30 years. neil gorsuch is not far behind, they are sitting in the backseat, brett kavanaugh or whoever winds up taking that seat, not sure but they are close. depending on whether ginsburg last two more years or six more years, if they get enough votes, roberts is no longer the middle. if i understand what you mean by that terminology, i entirely pessimistic. >> you see any traction to the idea of throwing out robie wade? because number one abortion only involves women, men don't need them. why not just have women decide it? and number 2, separation of church and state? conservatives and others believe in the sanctity of human life, but if you don't believe in abortion don't have one. maybe we could throw out roe v wade and redo it. >> guest: i don't think it will be thrown out and i don't think it should be thrown out. i think precedent is important and if i were a justice, i would be i think circumspect in over ruling many decisions. i don't argue in the book that robot to be overturned. >> i

his cover storie stories include profiles of the justices william brennan and clarence thomas, not to mention george who did get a cover story. george lucas, mayor giuliani and he interviewed a majority of the supreme court justices with this book i don't know if it was 5-4 or 6-3. he's the author of three previewed books about the culture of silicon valley, the accidental president about the 37 days following the 2000 election which was also the basis for the recount. his last book was called mine'ss bigger a biography of the largest private failing dot in the world but one the award for the best title, the best business book of the year. david also practiced law on wall street and was a white house intern. that is a lot of information to unpack. i always hesitate to use the clichÉ our next guest needs no introduction, but he really does fit into that category but it's too much of an honor to have him here not to dwell because all of us in new york were in the country are in his debt for his brilliant legal work and teaching his advocacy. he is a professor of civil liberties and lega

that would have to agree it was the clarence thomas to the supreme court. >> i would agree on that. we could get into a lively dispute among us about who shot john and who scratched whose back and whose fault it is, whether the democrats in 2003 who began to require 60 votes for circuit judges or the republicans who stopped a few of president obama judges. the fact of the matter is, i believe, i know most of us believe that we should keep the legislative filibuster. how do i know that? because senator collins who is presiding at the moment senator coons will speak following my remarks offered into the record a letter from 29 republicans and 32 democrats which said we are mindful of what the senate plays in the legislative process. were committed to ensuring this institution continues to serve as the world's greatest body therefore we are asking you to join us in opposing efforts to curtail the existing rights of senators to engage in extended debate as we consider legislation in the future. that is 61 senators. on record about the legislative filibuster. one reason the filibuster is

this is not an aberration this is the life blood this is the typical case this is the typical clarence aaron who's out numerous cases i mean these are all excessively long cases these are you know you see colombian drug lords here you see mexico. the mexican drug lords here. when more make us manufacture consent instead of public wealth. when the running plus the project themselves. with the fine and merry go round left then we don't want. to bring more middle of the room sick. in real need. for you will be in. your last years does he. she does it with the people most of connoisseur or not all what i mean. you know the yellow superman from him he can see as you know if you live by if. you're in it up when they leave you. i'm with you more then with a vague one within the muslim of the north and even when he was up in the bomb i will inform of they will start to feel. i was so glad to to start to work my way out of the prison alm so going the clinton house was a halfway house you were halfway all but it was still open. so i got the clinton house already already has some experience or mo

clarence aaron whose numerous cases these are all long cases these are. colombian drug lords here you see mexico. the mexican drug lords here. changed there are. racial of the level of the physiology that is at the level of the brain the brain as a form of plasticity can rewire itself and not just the rest of. the body. because you're in the form of the view. almost you must be the. most from people for people for the sperm or two to move closer to. your people feed the economy because they buy scratch tickets scratch off lottery tickets they you know when i was living in the ghetto in new york you know the red apple grocery store uptown had the highest prices in town right and a liquor stores are open any buy you know more expensive in the ghetto and that's how you build an economy it's always felt at the back of the poor america was built on the slave market america was built on prison labor to give them it looked at the good times of america the ne'er do wells it's all very swishy and swell that's over we got to go back to basics. i had a great educati

juan: of course, you gave us -- he gave us clarence thomas as a supreme court justice. >> please, don'ttart -- one: i want to ask greg grandin -- >> very strongly. juan: i want to ask -- >> and let's don't even speak about his attitude toward eggs. he told gays that they should change their behavior as if they were to blame for the fact that aids was decimating them. don't forget that he was the vice president of reagan. my gosh, that would be enough to condemn him to the hall of infamy. juan: i want to ask greg grandin , the issue of the sector of the republican party of the american elite that bush represented were was essential to, vis-a-vis the trump administration and those who are in power in the republican party today? iel pointedy, as ar out, there's a lot of nostalgia and your earning and the praise of george h.w. bush has to do with the politics today and bush seen as the opposite of trump will step there is a continuation. , the rock that george h.w. bush represented. cia, coming to power in 1988, was a big deal a cia director -- this was like a fulfillment of the national se