justin elliott, your response?significant is what she is saying and how many congress member's agree with her? i want to mention that brett kavanaugh, the other supreme court justice recently said the court may "soon" address a code of ethics on the high court, and chief justice john roberts in may called ethics scandals at the court a "issue of concern" and said the justices were "continuing to look at things." your response to all this? >>>> first of all, to explain come as justin k -- justice kagan mentioned, all federal judges below the supreme court level have extensive rules and code of ethics, advisory opinions. we voted retired federal judge, a george w. bush appointee, and news story that said if he had gone to a koch donor summit, there would have been a disciplinary proceeding. the reason is lower court judges are not supposed to be involved in either political events or fundraising. this koch donor summit is arguably both of those things. as justice kagan said, those rules don't apply to the supreme cou

joing me now is justin elliott, investigative reporter for propublica, one of the authors of the news thomas reporting today. he's been reporting on the justice's scandals for months. and michelle goldberg at the near times is still with us. justin, how bad is this story compared to all the other clarence thomas ones that reported on this year? what do you want viewers to take away from this one? >> yeah, well, i think it adds a new wrinkle, and as you mentioned, we've been talking about how, reporting about how justice thomas's life has been in recent decades, subsidized by a number of wealthy, political donors, including harlan crow, the vacations and tuition, other gifts. but this is really different, because it's not purely a vacation. it's a justice thomas making undisclosed trip to a political event and fundraising event that is for the koch network. what we reported is that the justice took a private jet trip out to palm springs california a few years ago, january 2018, where he spoke at a small dinner for high dollar donors to the koch network. it's significant for a few reas

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with me, reporter justin elliott. so glad you're at the able.al correspondent and senior editor for "slate" and author of "lady justice" is also here. and gabe roth is here, executive director of the nonpartisan judicial watch dog, fix the court. take us through some really detailed reporting, the hallmark of all of pro-publica's reporting seems to be documents, documents. when you go through your fact checking, no one denies it. >> the basic facts here are that justice thomas, as you mentioned, attended and participated in multiple of these koch donor summits. basically, every winter, the koch political network, which is a set of nonprofit groups and hundreds of millions of dollars they spend on elections. and they get together in california for strategizing, planning sessions. and what we found is that justice thomas has gone to multiple of those events. most recently, back in january 2018, the justice was flown out there on a private jet, attended a dinner for major donors to the koch network, people who have given over a million dollars. and

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