. >> i will nominate judge clarence thomas to serve as associate justice of the united states supremeall heck broke loose regrets judge thomas began to use work situations to discuss back. >> and examples going on here has to be destroyed. it really doesn't matter. what mattered was what they wanted. >> he was such a servant supreme court? >> i would rather die than withdrawal. ♪ >> i want to be able to set lived up to my oath and did my best. >> soap michael pack what were we just watching there? of the was the trailer film clarence thomas in his own words. same title as the book. it's a two hour film. it was released in january of 2020 and a bunch of theaters 110 theaters. and then covid and cut it short is then broadcast nationally on cbs in may. did very wellin pbs and then it was released digitally and it is still available digitally on amazon viewers go to website manifold production.com with the full list of how to watch it. film was based on a very long interview as clarence thomas pretty think you canan see he looked right at the camera and tells his story in his own words fr

>> that was the trailer, clarence thomas in his own words, same title as the book. january 2020 at 110 theaters in the covid cut it short and it was broadcast nationally on pbs in may. then released digitally and still available digitally on amazon so viewers can go to the website with a full list on how to watch it and the film was based on a long interview with clarence thomas. i think you can see he looks at the camera and tells his story in his own words so i interviewed him for over 24 hours over a four-month period and jimmy five or six hours. clarence thomas in his own words, 25 hour interview and a two hour film so my co-author, a long-term friend of the thomases to the material put in a book. it's 95% new material that follows the same pattern as the film and tells his life story from the beginning onto today so i think it's an important moment for people to understand just as thomas, where is come from and who he is. >> what was it like convince to sit down for 24 hours? >> it was not easy and it's the longest interview ever v rentedy anyop supreme court j

. >> i nominate judge clarence thomas to serve as associate justice of the united states supreme court. >> that is when all heck broke loose. >> judge thomas began to use work situations to discuss sex. >> we know exactly what is going on. this is the black guy, he has to be destroyed. it really didn't matter. what mattered was what they wanted. >> you would still like to serve on the supreme court? >> i would rather die than withdraw from the process. >> i want to say i lived up to my oath and did my best. >> michael pack, what were we just watching? >> guest: the trailer to our film called "created equal: clarence thomas in his own words," same title as the book, it is a 2 hour film, released in january 2020 in 110 theaters. covid cut into it, it was broadcast nationally on cbs in may. and then was released digitally and is still available build digitally on amazon. viewers can go to our website, a full list of how to watch it and that film was based on a very long interview with clarence thomas. you can see he looked right at the camera and tells his story in his own words from the

. >> and i'll nominate clarence thomas to serve as a justice in the supreme court. >> that's when alloke loose. >> judge thomas began to use work situations to discuss sex. >> and this is the lone black guy, he had to be destroyed. what mattered was what they wanted. >> you would serve on the supreme court? >> i'd rather die than withdraw from the process. >> i wanted to be able to say i lived up to my oath and did my best. >> so michael, what were we just watching there? >> well, that was the trailer to our film "created equal, clarence thomas in his own words", the same title as the book. a two-hour book released in 2020 and it was in theaters and when covid cut the theatrical release short it was broadcast on pbs in may and then it was released digitally and still available digitally, on amazon and go to the website with a full list how to watch it. and that film was based on a very long history with clarence thomas. i think you could see that he looked right at the camera and tells his story in his own words from his beginnings to today. so i interviewed him for over 24 hours, ove

i will nominate judge clarence thomas to serve as associate justice of the united states supreme court. that's when oh heck broke loose judge thomas began to use work situations to discuss sex. we know exactly what's going on here. this is the wrong black guy. he has to be destroyed you really didn't matter what mattered was what they wanted so you'd still like to serve on the supreme court. i'd rather die than withdraw from the process. that wouldn't be able to say my lived up to my oath and did my best. so michael pack, what were we just watching there? well, that was the trailer to our film called created equal clarence thomas and his own words. the same title is the book. it's a two-hour film. it was released in january of 2020 was in a bunch of theaters 110 theaters and then covid cut. it's the actual release short. it was then broadcast nationally on pbs in may did very well on pbs and then it was released digitally and it's still available digitally. it's on amazon and viewers can go to our website manifold productions.com with a full list of how to watch it. and that film was b

how isn't clarence thomas isn't recusing? ight, texas the white house chief of staff not some random person. i think not only should justice thomas recuse but i would argue he should resign. lawyers do what lawyers do. justice thomas is not the bad guy in these e-mails and nothing in these e-mails suggests the justice did anything under him. i will say eastman was a clerk of justice thomas', so it is possible, possible he thought he understood justice thomas' thinking even if there was no collusion or playing footsie. the other thing i would add is this. i want to tie what we were talking about before the break with this. president biden spoke about democracy today. this is a case where lawyers were doing lawyer stuff but they were also trying to throw sand in the years of our constitutional republic, of our democratic process. throwing wild legal theories against the wall to see if they can stop the results of a free and fair -- >> the e-mails showed they knew they were wrong. >> how do you know they see they're bogus? >> one

how is it that clarence thomas isn't recusing? >> texting the white house chief of staff, not some random person. i think this situation, not only should justice thomas recuse, i would actually argue that he maybe should resign. to your point, lawyers do it lawyers to. justice thomas is not the bad guy in these emails. and nothing in these emails suggest he did anything under -- i will say that eastman was a clerk of justice thomas's. so, it is possible that he thought he understood justice thomas is thinking, even if there is no collusion or playing footsie. the only thing i want to add is this, i want to tie together what we are talking about before the break with this. president biden spoke about democracy today. this is a case where lawyers were doing lawyer stuff. but they were also trying to throw sand in the gears of our constitutional republic, of our democratic process, throwing wild legal theories against the wall to see if they could stop the results of a free and fair election. >> worse than wild legal theories. the ema

in emails that came out today, trump's lawyers were banking that supreme justice clarence thomas was to help them challenge the election. we know his wife wanted to overturn it. if the legal issues that trump is facing now make their way up to the supreme court, is thomas going to be hooking them up? >> well, you know, he has not so far. the emails that came out today show that they had a strategy that they could get an emergency appeal to clarence thomas by going through georgia, where the appeal would go to him based on which justices are assigned to which zones. and they view clarence thomas as the most unlikely person to help them on the supreme court. and that has come up repeatedly in sort of january 6th testimony. john eastman said something very similar to vice president mike pence's chief lawyer, where he said he believes clarence thomas might side with them if they got up to the supreme court. they actually did not gain any traction with the supreme court. there was the one case that dealt with national archives documents, where clarence thomas was the only justice that side

what justice clarence thomas said today. >> mr.imes, and i don't have a clue what it means. it seems to mean, everything for everyone. >> clarence thomas has gone from not saying anything during cases, to say an absolute nonsense, the idea that clarence thomas, he's a smart, guy he's been on the bench for decades. he doesn't know what diversity means? >> again, this is someone who at one point was a commissioner the united states legal unemployment opportunity commission. this is someone who completely understands what it is, diversity not to mention that we're talking about someone who is not a dumb person. he clearly knows and understands what diversity is. and furthermore, within the context of this case, it is a conversation -- about racial considerations as related to admissions. and the idea that he doesn't know in this context, what diversity is referring to, or what it means, specifically related to this case, is just laughable it's almost offensive, when you consider that these are attorneys that i've read this case, and e

clarence thomas. that doesn't make sense in a democracy.mebody who's traed ethics for more than three decades and advised president obama and other public officials on this, he should not have heard that case and he should not be hearing anything relating to january 6th to date. >> norm eisen as always, i appreciate your insights. thanks for joining us. >> thanks, ana. >>> members of the pelosi family soon will see police body cam footage and hear the 911 call from the night paul pelosi was brutally attacked with a hammer. new details about last week's attack on the house speaker's husband are also emerging here. the suspect telling san francisco police he was on a suicide mission. cnn's veronica miracle is following the developments. what are nancy pelosi's family members expected to see and hear and any word on when it could be released to the public? >> reporter: well, ana, we continued to receive more disturbing details. the san francisco police chief yesterday saying that the 911 call was about three minutes long, the pelosi family is

the friends of clarence thomas -- now. clarence thomas would not recuse himself from that case, even though the law requires him to recuse himself from a case in which his space as an active interest. the members of the conspiracy who were friends with clarence thomas -- the conspiracy to overthrow the presidential election, had their eye on the most publicly compromised member of the supreme court in the courts history. i spent last best hope. because they could not use rifles. leading off our discussion tonight is -- kirschner, a former prosecutor and nbc legal analyst, who's been following the oath keepers trial from inside the courtroom. also with us -- moss, national security attorney. i want to begin with immunity. this situation now where cash patel has immunity, has to go back to the grand jury, he does not have fifth amendment protection anymore, of course. he doesn't have immunity from perjury and his cast money, then he can be -- what else does it mean to this investigation that someone who was personally involv

now, look, we know that clarence thomas' wife was election conspiracy theorist. hat. but do we have any sense from this, whether they were just guessing that thomas would do this because of that? or whether there was something more? >> well, we know that clarence thomas' jurisprudence, his legal views are outliers, that he wanted to try to help president trump. he said it in litigation at the time at the supreme court, tried to hear the case. and he said it afterwards. what we don't know is whether these lawyers had more information. look, it was well known that ginni thomas was a right-wing activist. did they have more information? did they know that ginni thomas was part of this plan? she communicated with mark meadows. so did eastman. had meadows said something? that's what we don't know. but now that these emails are out, that part of the investigation is going to continue with some intensity, erin. >> of course we should note eastman at one point had clerked for thomas. i appreciate your time. >>> and, next, power moves. the head of the russian private army a

now why justice clarence thomas? ponsible for any mrj action out of georgia and the surrounding state. it would go to him, but eyebrows raised by this discussion because his wife ginni thomas is at the stop the steal rally and she was sending text messages to white house chief of staff mark meadows pushing these false claims of voter fraud. there have been calls for the justice to recuse himself from any matters related to january 6th. former trump attorney john eastman has been fighting to keep these emails from the committee. a federal judge ruled these are likely evidence of crimes by eastman and by trump which is why we're able to see them today. >> i know you're also, paula, learning that trump's lawyers feared he himself could be prosecuted. >> that's exactly right. in these emails you see they were concerned because he was going to sign a verification saying the claims of voter fraud were true, even though in this point in late december when they were talking and they were not. a local attorney or prosecutors c

happy to draw sailboats on a piece of paper during the clarence thomas trials. i have had the authors of both standard works on the thomas hearings tell me if the ted kennedy who had been around three years earlier had stopped the nomination to the supreme court had been there that summer than tariff -- clarence thomas would not be on the supreme court but because he was compromised because of personal behavior, his political behavior , he was not in a position to lead the charge. susan: as a writer, what are the challenges of encompassing things into one volume? john: to take the people who are caricatures. most young people if they know ted kennedy, it is as the mayor from simpson's. for richard nixon's, -- nixon, people who go to rabobank use nixon masks. -- who go into a bank to rob it use nixon masks. you either love teddy or hate him. i try to say, no matter what he is, the interesting story is what he became from what he was. so let's see why he made the choices he did. what is the back story of this move? biography tells the story of a human, not a politi

e-mailed received on how trump's attorneys saw clarence thomas as their life line to stop joe biden'sto frame things so that thomas could be the one to issue some sort of stay or other circuit justice opinion saying georgia is in doubt. that was trump's attorney. he wrote that in a december email to trump's legal team. he contended thomas would be, quote, our only chance to get a favorable judicial opinion which might hold up the georgia count in congress. quote, i think i agree with this, attorney john eastman replied, suggesting a favorable move by thomas or other justices would, quote, kick the georgia legislature into gear to help overturn the election results. "the washington post" is reporting on these new emails. they report this, quote, eastman clerked for justice thomas and has remained in touch with his wife ginni. one showed her inviing eastman to speak to conservative activists to provide an update about election litigation. wow. let's bring in jackie alamani and harry lipman. i want to deal with what this means for the united states supreme court. this is writing connecti

and then the second part to the question i will ask now is, the fact that clarence thomas refuses tonuary six? >> ayman, it's interesting because it actually ties together a few threats, some things that we have known went on. like for example, why would lindsey graham, the senator from south carolina intervene in the georgia elections and tell republican secretary of state brad raffensperger that -- and this is raffensperger's take on his conversations with senator graham, graham was urging him to toss-up lawfully passed ballots. well, no, i think we have more insight into why lindsey graham, who had no vince this competing in a georgia state election, was involving himself in georgia politics. and how about jeffrey clark, the high doj official who drafted a letter to georgia state officials, saying, the department of justice has grave concerns about election integrity in georgia? all of these threads are now pulled together by this latest revelation that the reason this cabal was focusing on the georgia election was because they believed they had clarence thomas on their side. he c

wade, justice clarence thomas signaled his desire to keep going. >> clarence thomas wrote so many other be up for grabs. >> he called on the court to reconsider the right to contraception, gay marriage, even same-sex intimacy. liberals may not like it, but there is a certain logic to the thomas argument. like roe, those rights were all based on what previous courts saw as a constitutional right to privacy. strike down that foundation, and the other rights fall with it. in a separate concurrence, justice kavanaugh said the court was not opening the door to eliminating other rights. >> he bent over backwards to say this is only about abortion. >> kavanaugh was trying to reassure the american people but thomas' logic is clear, and we know that this court does not mind overturning long established laws and supreme court precedence. >> good example here would be the new york state gun law more than a century old. >> it doesn't end there. >> america's long standing system of governance is under fire. for nearly 100 years, congress has passed sweeping laws empowering federal agencies like the

. >> what about the emails mentioning justice clarence thomas?f their plan was that they wanted to be able to get a case in front of supreme court justice clarence thomas. that they were hoping that he would be able to intervene. he may be able to issue some kind of tentative order that suggested that votes in georgia were not valid because of election fraud. at one point they say that their only hope is to get something like this in front of clarence thomas, to get him to issue an order like this. and then their belief was that if something like this was pending before the supreme court, you couldn't certify the election on january 6th. >> is there anything in the emails about why they are so confident in justice thomas? >> you know, it is very clear that this is where they put their confidence. it is not entirely clear why they felt like this was the person to put all of their eggs in that basket. >> sarah murray, appreciate it, thank you. next, it is former supreme allied commander looked -- on the latest signals of russia -- what western inte

clarence thomas?mails handed over to the house committee investigating january 6th and they're between trump lawyers and they're making clear in the emails that they see supreme court justice clarence thomas as their only chance at preventing congress from certifying the 2020 election. you know, essentially what they were hoping was that thomas would issue an order that held the biden electoral votes from georgia were not valid because of election fraud. this did not happen. one of the trump attorneys acknowledges there was a less than 1% chance of this strategy before the supreme court being successful before the january 6th certification, john. >> and the emails also detail, walk us through how, concerns from some of trump lawyers that he was making false claims in court documents. >> that's right. we've heard about it before. the judge said in this case, you know, forcing john eastman to hand them over he was worried a crime could have been committed. what you see in them are trump's attorneys worr

to clarence thomas it's on familiar, he said he's heard similar arguments in favor of segregation.me this because of how it is born, that's the argument. it was wrong then and that's wrong now. the differences we no longer acknowledge the victims of it. millions of them exist by definition. there people like caitlin younger, white girl from texas, no family connections or advantage is all she had was hard work and intelligence. she scored a near-perfect 1550 on the s.a.t. apparently she thought the system was fair enough to reward her. but she wasn't rewarded when we know why. she was turned on from every selective college she applied to because of the king skin color. how do you feel about that? how do liberals feel about that? does anyone really want to live in a country like that? well if you do, kristen clarke does. she runs the civil rights division at doj. she didn't get the job because she cares about civil rights. no. she was hired because she opposes civil rights and she has her entire public life in 2020. her political appointment should be killed, she declared. in respon

on december 31st of 2020, and another of trump's lawyers wrote that the supreme court justice clarence thomasy to overturning the results of the 2020 election. saying we want to frame things so that thomas could be the one to issue some sort of stay or other circuit justice opinion saying georgia is in legitimate doubt. realistically, our only chance to get a favorable judicial opinion by january 6th, which might hold up the georgia count in congress, is from thomas. do you agree, professor eastman? >> to which eastman replied, i think i agree with this. joining me is "politico" senior legal affairs righter josh gersy josh, why is this legally questionable? who said it might be evidence of a crime. >> it's not really that those emails themselves are evidence of a crime but inside the emails they talk about having then president trump sign a sworn affidavit, supporting some of the claims of fraud that were being made in some of the lawsuits that they were filing, and these emails, according to the judge, who reviewed them, a few weeks ago, they indicate that trump, or trump's lawyers knew that

trying craft a legal case that would ultimately marc it to the supreme court, specifically justice clarence thomas who they hoped would enter a stay or even an opinion. the goal was to get any case to the supreme court in the hope justice thomas or any justice, they said, would potentially stop the counting of electoral votes. why were they so set on justice thomas? he's responsible for georgia and the surrounding reasons. this raises some questions because of course his wife ginny thomas has come up multiple times. not only did she attend the january 6th stop the steal rally but investigators have uncovered text messages that she was sending then white house chief of staff mark meadows pushing the false claims of election fraud. former trump attorney john eastman has been fighting in court to try to keep the emails from the committee. a federal judge ruled they should be turned over because they are potentially evidence of a crime. in the emails the judge argues there is information for the federal officials to proceed. they are concerned that they or their client could potentially be prosecuted

clarence thomas said let's have a listen to this for two or three days.stened to the arguments and they told lindsey graham, he had to go and talk to the georgia grand jury. again, the ignorance of trump to think, since i appointed them, they're going to vote my way has been proven wrong time and time again on these issues involving mar-a-lago, these issues involving the election, these issues involving other trump criminal proceedings. >> i was glad that biden reached out in his speech last night to brad raffensperger, a georgia republican who has been threatened physically, the group of people who were standing up for american democracy include a lot of republicans who have not gone the way that trump expected that they would. i thought a big part of biden's speech was to say this issue, the big lie has been tested and every court, every recount, every possible test of whether this big lie has any factual basis has been made, and there is no basis, and then that line, in our bones, we know that democracy is broken. i think that's the way he put it. i th

and they said look, clarence thomas is not on the same page as alito.started raising these alarms. and that's how we got to today, right. so, you talk a little bit about the religious liberty. we do see some exceptions here for religious liberty. and that is what is important at the supreme court right now, because they care about that issue, they cared about it last term in two big cases. and we have another case that will be argued next week all about somebody who designs websites to celebrate marriages but does not want to design such a website for same sex couples. they think that they should be accepted. and that's before the supreme court. and this conservative supreme court is probably going to rule in favor of that person. >> i mean, it is the layering of all of this. everything needs to lead to the next thing. hillary, what's your reaction? you are listening to the interview with. jim did you have a reaction to a satisfaction? >> jim is an old friend of mine and i respect what he says. but the forum we are in right now is a political forum. the

i hate to add that clarence thomas and john bolton were classmates of yours. but, another classmate and friend of yours was quoted, a lot of us were hippies, love children, political dissenters and draft dodgers. so why did you choose yale law school? justice alito: the clarence thomas of those days was different in appearance. i wish i had gotten to know him better, but what i remember about him was clarence standing in the courtyard wearing dungarees and no shirt, and at that time he did a lot of lifting. he is a powerful figure just going like this with the football, so he was a formidable presence in a different way. why did i go to yale? size was important to me. it was a lot smaller than harvard, i thought i would be less of a number. reports from people i knew went to the two places, people at yale were happier than friends i knew at harvard that seemed to vary from feeling down to the border of clinical depression. [applause] and it more respectable reason for going was i was really hoping to take some constitutional law classes from a professor whose

>> in a series of email exchanges, you see that supreme court justice clarence thomas was key to theirction in this email exchange, they're saying we want to frame things so that justice thomas is the one to issue some kind of temporary order that calls into question the election results in the state of georgia, essentially saying that if we get this kind of tentative order from justice thomas, we can make the case that there should be no certification of the election results on january 6th. it's interesting, though, because when you dig further into the emails, you can see one of the lawyers on this chain, he acknowledges that there's a less than 1% chance that this kind of plot is going to be successful before the supreme court before january 6th. so even as they're trying to cast this plot sort of put justice thomas at the center of it, they're also acknowledging in the email chain that their odds of success are very low. but it gives you an indication of the lengths they were trying to go to stop joe biden from cementing his victory that day. >> we also know some of trump's lawyers

thomas's phone number in kelli ward's contacts? i mean, harry, why can't anyone address a perception crisis at the supreme court involving clarence andn, but the only person who can do it effectively is justice thomas. they happen to have this rule that says each justice determines for himself or herself. and so you know, it's beating a dead horse as far as thomas is concerned. it may not be like that in the future, but for now it's up to an individual justice. and i think the calls for him to do it only make him dig his heels in deeper. >> i want to come back to you, harry, on the "washington post" reporting about trump's motives in the classified documents. but i've got to come to you, charlie, on the supreme court factor. the first exit polls that i saw on election night were about 60% of everyone who voted voting against the supreme court. the shift in the supreme court as a political issue is the most seismic and underreported result i think from tuesday night. and that is that the supreme court in republican politics for 30 years was this major motivator. and republicans held their nose and voted for republicans to have a say o

for >> dana: a couple things, clarence thomas had what does the word diversity mean?term. his point was it can mean whatever you want it to mean. that is to be taken into consideration. carrie severino, a lawyer who said the university tried to suggest that the racial aspect of their emission standards had little impact on admissions but they needed in order to have diversity. i think they just walked themselves into the situation where john roberts, chief justice said i'm not buying it. the other thing, you know what is a national security imperative, the fact that we have k-12 education that is so bad and learning loss from covid with horrible test scores, the key to making sure more people have access to good colleges and good test scores and the extracurricular activities they do is to improve k-12 education. if you're listening to this argument and your answer is we really need to keep race-based admissions going because -- but you don't have a good answer, you don't have to improve k-12 education? you're on the wrong track. >> katie: interesting to watch the lef

emergency appeal of the election results in georgia that would go before a supreme court justice -- clarence thomas, another -- another lawyer, -- pursuing justice thomas might be, quote, our only chance to get a favorable judicial opinion by january 6th, which might hold up the georgia recount in congress. of course, this was not a random choice. lawyers believed with good reason that justice thomas may be sympathetic to their cause. eastman is a former -- he was in contact with the justice's wife. ginni thomas, during this period. -- associate white house council of president obama is now the finding an executive director of present -- nonpartisan organization dedicated to preventing the decline of our democracy. he joins me now. and, i want to start on this revelation about this plot to tee this up for justice thomas. there's a system whereby these emergency appeals for a given circuit of the federal court, goes up to an individual justice who can issue, essentially, a temporary stay. we've seen this happen a few times with various matters. in this case, georgia, it would be justice thomas. ther

take advantage now. >>> election lawyers for then president donald trump says clarence thomas was a keyomponent in trump's plans to try to delay the certification of the 2020 election. e-mails turned over to -- paula, what exactly did trump want justice thomas to do here? >> bianna, they wanted justice thomas to block the counting of electoral votes. in his e-mails, you see attorneys discussion how to frame the legal argument and they were hoping for a stay or even an opinion saying that the state of georgia was legitimately in doubt. an important piece of context here is that justice thomas is responsible for emergency matters coming out of the state of georgia and the surrounding region, which is why he would have been the one to receive this matter. that appears to be part of their strategy here, but it's notable, this mention of justice thomas in these e-mails, because, of course, his wife attended the stopple steal rally on january 6th, and this investigation has uncovered text messages she sent to white house chief of staff mark meadows, pushing these election fraud claims. the re

. >> what about the emails mentions justice clarence thomas?as they wanted a case in front of supreme court justice clarience thomas and they were hoping he could intervene, maybe issue a tentative order that suggested that vote ns in georgia were no valid. at one point they say their only hope is to get something like this in front of clarence thomas to get him to issue an order. their belief was if something like this was pending before the supreme court you couldn't certify the election on january 6th. >> anything about why they're so confident in justice thomas? >> it's clear this is where they put their confidence. it's not entirely clear why they felt this was the person to put all their eggs in that basket. >>> next nato former supreme allied commander about the use of possible nuclear weapons in ukraine. her stack of hats grew. she even served turkey legs with what's on tap, all while wearing a viking hat. then she found a place. her many hats would be embraced, and she couldn't hide the excitement from her face. so, polly traded in her

justice clarence thomas in his concurring opinion on roe was not bashful when he said that he suggestedthe court could reconsider its ruling on a number of precedents, including same-sex marriage. all of these factors made the procedural vote today one small step, a major move towards enshrining same-sex marriage, and it's the small steps collectively that help move the needle forward. joining us now is the senator, elizabeth warren, a democrat from massachusetts. senator, it's great to see you again. thank you for being with us tonight. >> thank you, it's good to be with you. >> let's talk about this. 62 to 37, it's a procedural vote. it doesn't always go the same way in the final vote. this now looks like it's actually on its way to becoming the law. tell us your thoughts on this. this is not exactly codifying same-sex marriage, it's basically saying that the federal government has to respect a marriage that was performed in the state it was performed in. >> that's right, and it's clarence thomas who alerted us to the importance of doing this. now we have built a safety net in case th

and then with a concurring opinion of justice clarence thomas with the dobbs decision and in his opinion to explicitly said the rationale used to overturn roe v wade should be there and with the rights of contraception and same-sex marriage. essentially providing an open invitation to litigators across the country and the supreme court should not be in a position with families with the stroke of a pen and congress is acting with the endorsement for the american people. but the majority of democrats and republicans and this legislation unitesni americans with the respect for marriage act weea can ease the fear that millions of same-sex and interracial couples have to their freedoms and their rights to be stripped away by passing the bill we are guaranteeing same-sex and racial couples that marriage is legal name will continue to enjoy the rights and responsibilities and all other marriages are afforded. and all of these loving couples to be given the certainty in the dignity and respect they needed to serve. and to pass this legislation will remove the rate of on —-ik the weight of the wo

it seems to mean everything for everyone. >> so, clarence thomas has gone from not saying anything duringever you think about him, he's a smart guy. he's been on the bench for decades. he doesn't know what diversity means. are we supposed to buy that? >> again, this is someone who at one point was a commissioner at the united states legal on employment opportunity commission. someone who completely understand what is diversity, not to mention, as we said, we're not talking about someone who is a dumb person. he clearly knows and understands what diversity is. and furthermore, within the context of this case, it is a conversation about racial considerations as it relates to admissions. so, he doesn't know, if he doesn't know in this context what diversity means, specifically as it relates to this case, it's just laughable. it's almost offensive, if you consider the fact that these are attorneys to have wreaked this case, the tip explained the manner in which this is being discussed and the reason that this is being discussed, for him to now act as though he has no idea what they're talking

>> i think this is a conversation about clarence thomas, after alito did the dobbs decision, it concurrence that we should also revisit griswold, birth control, lawrence, and obergefell'd. so, same-sex marriage, privacy and sex. he didn't do, loving, i think that's what we talk about, obviously. i think we joked about it. delia writes about the supreme court for a slate. and she's brilliant, and i always have on when you talk about the supreme court. >> okay, let's listen. >> you know, i mean, i noticed that clarence thomas said the silent part out loud. this decision opens up griswold -- it also loving versus virginia, right. >> well, this was a tiny bit of a twitter freak out, because everyone thought he was using it to get out of his own interracial marriage. and i don't think that's quite correct. >> well, she's in trouble. >> the other case -- she is in trouble. it would solve the problem. >> so and say, yeah, it's not legal, not legal. >> ginni thomas, yeah, i think he explicitly name the three cases he said that are on the table are obergefell, which is marriage equality, lawrence v.

. >>> plus, the plan to rope supreme court clarence thomas into the 2020 election.hy a trump lawyer called thomas the only chance to delay the process. >>> and north korea is firing off its longest short-range missiles in one day as cnn also learned the rogue nation is secretly supplying russia with weapons. ♪ >>> hello and welcome to "the lead." i'm brianna keilar in for jake tapper. the countdown is on in our politics lead. just six days left until the votes are counted in the congressional balance of power decided. a brand-new cnn poll suggests republican candidates have the momentum. 51% of likely voters say they'll vote for the republican candidate for congress. that's higher than just a couple months ago. 47% say they'll vote for the democrat, though the spread here is just outside the margin of error. our cnn polling also showed republican voters are far more motivated than democrats. 38% of registered republicans say they're extremely enthusiastic to go vote in this midterm election. and just 24% of democrats say the same. just half what it was in the last m

justice alito has now done something that clarence thomas has never done, justice alito is publicly denying the allegation against him, in a written statement to the new york times. samuel alito said, the allegation that the rights were told the outcome of the decision in the hobby lobby case, or the authorship of the opinion of the court, by me or my wife, is completely false. in his written statement, justice alito admits that the wrights bought their way into his home. my wife and i became acquainted with the wrights some years ago because of their strong support for the supreme court historical society, and since then, we have had a casual and purely social relationship. strong support for the supreme court historical society, in other words money. strong support is money. massive amounts of money pumped into the supreme court historical society by donald wright and his wife, gayle. that money is the only reason samuel alito knows those people. that money is the only reason those people got into samuel alito's home. while he is writing or finished writing the hobby lobby opinion but she

claudia: el juez conservador clarence thomas con historial de oponerse al programa indicÓ que ha oÍdofica ser estadounidense y creer en el pluralismo estadounidense es que en realidad nuestra instituciones reflejen lo que somos". >> me han dicho que entre porque soy latina, que sÓlo me aceptaron por eso, y eso no tiene nada que ver, no es cierto, yo tuve logrados, yo tuve mucho mÉrito. claudia: en un estado que prohÍben la acciÓn afirmativa, la corte suprema podrÍa tomar una decisiÓn en junio o julio, en washington, claudia uceda. maity: una marcha pacÍfica de migrantes termina en violencia por una supuesta agresiÓn a los agentes fronterizos. jorge: el congreso va a recibir un informe, de 300 caso —— un informe, de 300 caso —— casos de ovnis sin resolver. si está inscrito en medicare, recuerde que el período para elegir su cobertura termina el 7 de diciembre. así que llame a unitedhealthcare y aproveche una amplia variedad de planes... incluido un plan aarp medicare advantage de unitedhealthcare. puede combinar su cobertura hospitalaria y médica con la cobertura de medicamentos con re

national origin, millions of americans are facing dark consequences of what it would mean if clarence thomas has his way. congress cannot allow the court to put l.g b. t. q families at risk. i want to thank my colleagues, particularly tammy baldwin, susan collins, rob portman kirsten cinema and tell us for their leadership on this bill. i will look forward to supporting them and helping them get it across the line. the second issue i want to raise is the issue of judges which is my special responsibility on the judiciary committee. thanks to the efforts of this committee, extraordinary efforts, patience and long suffering. the senate is about to confirm our 85th lifetime judicial appointment, including one to the supreme court, 25 to the circuit courts and 59 to the district courts. this will tie or exceed the record of recent presidents since we've passed the era under bill clinton where we passed district court judges by voice vote. so far, the judiciary committee has held hearings for and voted on 109 president biden's judicial nominees. in addition, 18 more nominees have had hearings tha

leavitt: i think clarence thomas. he has broken glass ceilings and been a remarkable justice. think we should honor his legacy while he is alive. mr. pappas: definitely not clarence thomas. how about do it sooner if we're sticking with justices. an evenhanded guy who investing his time in civics education. which is important. moderator: let's go back to the tough questions. >> usa to ukraine is cut off and vladimir putin prevails. what message is america sending to the rest of the world? ms. leavitt: that is hypothetical. we need to ensure that does not happen. we need to take a step back and recognize why the war in ukraine happened. it is because we have the weakest commander-in-chief in history. who has not invested in our military, but politicized. who are for innovation on our seven order where our adversaries taking note of that. that is why we have seen vladimir putin invade. that is why we see china encroaching. that is why we see north korea testing missiles at a higher frequency. we need to ensure that we are governing from a place of peace through strength. securing

, justice clarence thomas of the supreme court, directly in the election. concerned that if republicans take over the house, that the investigations into january 6th will promptly end? >> you know, joy, when you are bold enough to say to the attorney general to clear your calendar, i'm 100% convinced that if the republicans take over, the investigations will end. and that's why we cannot allow that to happen. our democracy is at risk. >> congresswoman and united states senate candidate val demings, thank you very much. enjoy broward county. "the reidout" road show live from orlando, florida, will be right back. the promise of america is freedom, equality, but right now, those pillars of our democracy are fragile and our rights are under attack. reproductive rights, voting rights, the right to make your own choices and to have your voice heard. we must act now to restore and protect these freedoms for us and for the future, and we can't do it without you. we are the american civil liberties union. will you join us? call or go online to my aclu.org to become