chris thomas: i got a text.ow agent at the scene who had spoken to seths best friend, the guy with the puppy. chris thomas: and this person had told him a story about a girl named rachel. dennis murphy (voiceover): but agent thomas held his fire at this point, in part because his information was still limited. seth, however, likely could see the agent reading a text. the husband-- father- to-be, who had answered an emphatic "no" to the question about an affair-- then made an admission, perhaps a preemptive strike. seth techel (interrogation video): there was a female from work that i was texting. dennis murphy (voiceover): he said her name was rachel mcfarland. but seth immediately downplayed her importance. he said even lisa knew about her. seth techel (interrogation video): but i wasnt seeing her. it wasnt anything. it was just, hey, how was your day? type of thing. chris thomas (interrogation video): would it be considered sexting? seth techel (interrogation video): no. no. none of that. chris thomas (interro

mcginn. >> thomas h.cginnis. >> michael gregory mcginty. >> ann mcgovern. >> scott martin mcgovern. >> william j. mcgovern. >> stacey s. mcgowan. >> francis noel mcguinn. >> patrick j. mcguire. >> thomas m. mchale. >> keith mcheffey. >> ann m. mchugh. >> denis j. mchugh iii. >> dennis p. mchugh. >> michael edward mchugh jr. >> robert g. mcilvaine. >> donald james mcintyre. >> stephanie mckenna. >> barry j. mckeon. >> evelyn c. mckinnedy. >> darryl leron mckinney. >> george patrick mclaughlin jr. >> and to my cousin, your presence was all that was needed to bring people together. you see, janine worked at the insurance company in the south tower on the 102nd floor, but she aspired to be an event planner. someone who could sponsor events for latin and hip-hop. i am reminded today as i look at all of you courageous people that us new yorkers are a force to be reckoned with despite our differences, we are able to find a common ground in our pain and in our strength. maybe i am a little biased. may our loved o

justice clarence thomas. specifically they cited thomas' note -- i guess is what we'll call it -- in his immunity opinion, which called into question the appointment of the special counsel. here's trump's lawyer, john lauro. what i'mn saying is the court should consider this issue and justiceue thomas directed us to raise this issue and suggested that we do it immediately in light of his view in that concurrency. judge chutkan, thomas directed you to do that? here's trump's lawyer. well, i shouldn't say that he absolutely thsaid, you know, do it, but when you read that opinion it is absolutely clear that's something we have to do now to preserve this issue. joining me now former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district offo new york, and ankush, thank you both for being here tonight. clarence thomas being cited directly in all of that, it's very clear that trump's lawyers enjoyed his direction or at least paid attention to it. i want to talk a little bit about what unfolded in the courtroom today, to

well, his vice president was thomas jefferson, seven years younger. born in virginia, matriculated william and mary. seen as the primary author of the declaration of independence, he was the secretary of state to george washington, the vice president, john adams. how was that? john adams and thomas jefferson served together and. they weren't necessarily a ticket. well the way that the constitution set presidential elections, initial was that the electors would cast two votes and one had to be for someone outside of their state. and the idea was that you didn't want someone to only pick candidates from your own home state at a time when your home location was your primary loyalty. so the electors went to electoral college. they cast their votes. and what basically happened is they thought that the top two most expert or knowledgeable or maybe perhaps desired candidates would win. and this was, of course before they had any idea that political parties would emerge. well, they had emerged by 1796 when the first real competitor of election took place and

i got an email today from ginny thomas, justice thomas's wife. i want to read that. she said great to meet through the meetings today. i cannot adequately express enough appreciation for you guys pulling into reacting to the but never on the supreme court. this is in all caps, you guys have filled the sales of many judges. can i just tell you, and this is all caps, thank you so so much. it's neat that those of you on the call are part of protecting the future of our court and they appreciate it. >> he said our court. they appreciate it meaning the justices. not just ginny thomas who is the spokesperson for her husband. these interest groups need justice thomas to say where he is and lavishing him with gifts so he'll remain on the court. it's not that different from the russians paying right wing influencers huge sums of money to do what they are doing. clarence thomas is just the tim pool of the supreme court. urt. very well, you do a great job, and we're going to be connecting the clarence thomas dots in a different direction in a few months, butin that'

what was thomas doing with it?e video was taken, steven's body had to be in the trunk of that car. an hour later, thomas returned to the dumpster, this time in his white van. it got better. thomas dorsett pulls back into that parking lot area. thomas is seen wearing protective gloves and discarding a number of items into the dumpster, to include a garbage can filled with items. it looks like a tarp, a rope, a 4x4. everything you might need for a murder. yes, exactly. andrea canning: that put thomas, as well as kathleen, in the thick of the crime. so when he woke up from that coma, thomas dorsett was transferred to the monmouth county jail. what do you think happened that morning in that driveway? mark lemieux: i think that on monday morning a plan was made for kathleen to have steven to go down the driveway to go get some tools from a basement. and as he came down, thomas was standing behind a bush next to the driveway. and as he came down, he was struck right in the face. stephen was bleeding all over that drivewa

well, his vice president was thomas jefferson, seven years younger. born in virginia, matriculated william and mary. seen as the primary author of the declaration of independence, he was the secretary of state to george washington, the vice president, john adams. how was that? john adams and thomas jefferson served together and. they weren't necessarily a ticket. well the way that the constitution set presidential elections, initial was that the electors would cast two votes and one had to be for someone outside of their state. and the idea was that you didn't want someone to only pick candidates from your own home state at a time when your home location was your primary loyalty. so the electors went to electoral college. they cast their votes. and what basically happened is they thought that the top two most expert or knowledgeable or maybe perhaps desired candidates would win. and this was, of course before they had any idea that political parties would emerge. well, they had emerged by 1796 when the first real competitor of election took place and

ginni thomas, justice thomas's wife. i want to read that to you. you guys have filled the sales of many judges. can i just tell you think, and this is all caps, thank you so so much. >> to really understand how inappropriate that email is from the wife of a sitting supreme court justice you have to first understand what it is that they do. >> we are the nation's largest law firm exclusively supporting religious liberty. we have recently won four supreme court cases. we win over 90% of our cases which is unheard of that the legal world. at the supreme court the record is nine wins and zero losses. >> that is correct. the organization ginni thomas was thinking so profusely the law firm that specializes in trying to change the law by bringing cases before the supreme court. that court where her husband clarence thomas is a sitting justice. even if you don't know them by name you may know some of the cases the group has brought before the high court. they sued to strike down the state of maine ban on using public funding to

here we have justice thomas and ginni thomas with harlan crow in indonesia. another cute picture of them in indonesia. look, here is ginni thomas at a trump rally. and as we all know, not only is she a mega supporter of donald trump and funded by the same organizations in the justice project that has business before the court that her husband sits on, she helped to plan the january 6 insurrection. and here we have justice alito on a fishing guided ship with paul singer, another mega donor. here they are, they caught some good fish year in 2008. and of course, as we all have seen in the last couple of weeks, these flags flying outside of justice alito's beach house right after january 6, in his own personal house aligned with, of course, the stop the steal january 6 movement. and here is the entire cast of characters brought to you and funded by dark money in their candidates right here with donald trump and ginni thomas and their appointees. it is fair to say that we not only have a traditional crisis but an actual crisis in the very institutions that underpi

thomas directed you to do that? well, i shouldn't say he absolutely said do it, but when you read that opinion, it is absolutely clear that that is something we have to do now to preserve this issue. joining me now is the former assistant you as attorney for the southern district of new york and the former federal prosecutor and now a senior writer for politico and thank you both for being here. clarence thomas indirectly and all of that and it's clear that trump's lawyers paid attention to this. i want to talk a little bit about what unfolded in this courtroom today. the judge seemed incredibly resistant to the argument trump lawyers were making that handling this business before the election would be bad news. she said "this court is not concert -- concerned with the electoral schedule. we are talking about the presidency of the united states." >> i am not talking about that i am talking about a four count criminal indictment she said. what do you think about that? >> she is resetting and making clear to the parti

because the -- about justice clarence thomas? we sent out spineless that resulted in -- we spent out subpoenas and some of the people gave us details what he provided in the past, and he failed to discloser over and over again. he compounded that by repeatedly failing to recuse himself in cases involving the same individuals and groups lavishing these gifts upon him. i get it. they're sending these gifts to clarence thomas who is sitting as a judge in cases that mean a lot to them monetarily. more than 12 years ago, 12 years ago, i called on chief justice roberts to address a binding code of conduct for all supreme court justices. 12 years ago. since then, repeated ethical misconduct by supreme court justices have proven that an unenforceable code of conduct is absolutely worthless and an enforceable one is essential to restoring public confidence. however, chief justice roberts refuses to use his power to do so. of what is he waiting for? i call on each and every supreme court justice, if you clarence thomas declare it. if you h

i got an email today from ginni thomas, justice thomas's wife. i want to read that to you.i cannot adequately express enough appreciation for you guys pulling into reacting to the biden effort on the supreme court. this is in all caps. you guys have field the cells -- filled the sales of many judges. this is in all caps thank you so , so much. it is neat that those of you on the call are part of protecting the future of our court and they really appreciate it. >> notice they said our court. they really appreciate it. meaning not just ginni because she's the spokesperson for her husband. the billionaires and interest groups need him to stay where he is and are lavishing gifts to make sure he will remain on the court. it's not that different from the russians paying online right-wing personalities huge sums of money to keep doing what they were doing. at the end of the day clarence thomas is just the tim pool of the supreme court. >>> alex wagner tonight starts now. good evening. >> that's a very good script you just read my friend. a very good connecting of the dots. we will

having laid in the actual position where thomas crooks took a shot above and upon the a.g.r. building, as well as having sat with rep crane and arranged the position from the countersniper teams where the alleged shot was taken place, this is something that should have been preventable and should have been known to the countersniper teams. i want to also point out the fact that as rep crane discussed, i think that until the actual problem and the solution can be found for the secret service with the three key areas that i've talked about, that a private security detail who does not have any political agenda or affiliation to protect the president is what my recommendation would be to ensure that the inner core is basically protected at all time. utilizing his available secret service assets and resources to be pushed out further to allow that perimeter failure to be completed. i want to thank the task force forgiving me the opportunity to actually testify before you. and i want to point out that when we're looking at the map that's behind you, mr. chairman, that it is not jus

robert newburgh was mortified by thomas bat's claims. in subsequent testimony, he admitted that he had indeed slept with his servant in sligo. but this was innocent, newburg insisted. he had grown up with the servant and the two men had frequently slept together in the same bed because robert newburgh was often ill. but such an explanation did very little to combat fears. in the 18th century, -- erotic desire was often believed to be the result of a nervous condition. such that newbury's admission of illness only confirmed his penchant for buggery. in june 1773, robert newburgh departed for america. his chronic illness impeded his travel such that the such that he did not reach philadelphia until september. thomas bahr preceded him by a month, meaning that by the time newberg joined his regiment, everyone had heard the rumors of his sexual activities. in the fall of 1773, robert newberg began his duties as chaplain to the 18th regiment. he delivered sunday sermons, celebrated the eucharist and read funeral services for soldiers who had d

one of them was thomas birley, seen here at the time.filmed throwing a bin at officers... ..and then stoked the fire in a burning wheelie bin rammed against one of the hotel exits. he today received the longest prison sentence yet for anyone involved in rioting. the judge directed withering criticism at birley as he was sentenced this afternoon. your conduct, and the conduct of that mob, has cast a dark and ugly stain across the reputation of rotherham and south yorkshire. those in the hotel were terrified by what occurred outside, and when the building was entered, coupled to the fire, which was deliberately started they thought they were about to die. you and many like you were intent on spreading a hateful message of violence and racism. an asylum seeker inside took these pictures and talked to the bbc about how terrifying it was. we heard all the time, all the people saying, "come outside. we'll kill you if you come outside". we feel scared. we can't do anything. we are just...waiting. further details of what it was like for staff in

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hoenig back with us stephanie pomboy great to see you both thomas thank you so much for joining thisonversation. >> thank you, good to be with you. maria: your expectations in terms of the fed this meeting? >> i think the fed if it is prudent it wants to be probably 25 basis points. although i agree that there is a good probability could do 50 depending on how discussion inside that meeting goes, there is i would say more than one or two people on there would like 50 bypass, we will see how hard they press i think there will be a couple people want that 25 basis points, and then jay powell will try and manager through that i think come up with 25 i wouldn't be surprised if it was 50 base, a big discussion item right now. maria: i mean pretty extraordinary that several if a democrat senators sent a letter to the fed urging them cut by 75 basis points, thomas. that -- in and of itself tells you how worried about the economic backdrop how would you assess the macrostory today thomas? >> well i think that, you know, the federal reserve has overtime, backed down intention regulation first

donors. >> i got an email today from ginni thomas, justice thomas' wife.y express enough appreciation for you guys pulling into reacting to the biden effort on the supreme court. and then this is in all caps. you guys have filled the sails of many judges. can i just tell you, thank -- and this is all caps thank you so, so, so much. >> as a verbal account of a participant, reading the email, which was recorded. propublica, on so many of these stories obtained the recording. ginni thomas is basically working with the group that is trying to politically help her husband avoid transparency or ethics rules because of his own grifting, which benefits her and their household. also made the outlandish attack on justice keegan as, quote, treasonist. take a listen. >> that is incredible. somewhat treasonist, what kagan did, the chief justice rules the court. they're trying to keep the other branchs' hands off of them. and then you have kagan from the inside really being somewhat disloyal and somewhat treasonist in what she's doing. >> that is a point of view, but no

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peter: when did you first meet leah thomas?ey: so, the first time i encountered leah thomas was at the national championship. let me just say. i have had to -- i got to personally witness and really feel the effect that this infringement, or what i would call an injustice had on myself and my teammates and my competitors. look, i don't claim to speak for every single girl on that pool deck, of course not, but i do claim to speak for the overwhelming majority of us because i -- i can wholeheartedly attest to the tears that i saw. not just from the moms at the stands watching as their daughters are being obliterated in the sport that they once loved, but the tears from the girls who placed ninth and 17th and missed out on being an all-american by one place. i can wholeheartedly attest to the extreme discomfort in the locker room. when you turn around and there is a 6'4", 22-year-old man fully intact and fully exposing himself, inches away were you were simultaneously undressing. i can wholeheartedly attest to the whispers, becaus

as thomas birley sentenced to nine years injailfor arson riots as thomas birley sentenced to nine years of the uk's endangered puffins brings good news — their numbers are up, despite the threat of bird flu. coming up on bbc news, plenty for the home crowd at flushing meadows to get excited about as american jessica pegula makes it through to the final of the us open. she will take on irina sabalenka in tomorrow's final. the children's commissioner for england has called for mandatory background checks for private tutors after bbc news found that more than 90 of them have been convicted of sex offences against children over the last 20 years. currently, there's no legal duty for private tutors to have a criminal records check. 30% of secondary school pupils in the uk are thought to have used them. angus crawford has more. i guess i kind of assumed there was some sort of protection in place. imagine finding out the man who tutored your daughter for years had also abused her. do you remember when your daughter told you what had been happening? very clearly, yes. it was one of those bottom

thomas, thank you for calling out marianne's family. and those of you who don't know why we keep referring to marianne allie, there is one way that you can find out you can read alex's book, joe. so please, please do that. so this is the beginning of the celebration. the real celebration is when you read it. so if you had read the first part about the first edition of alex's book, you would know that he joined us over 18 years ago for the first time in 2006, 2005, 2006 as a college, probably a starry eyed or idealistic young guy who had read our founder robert eggers book and was drawn to the innovative, sometimes irreverent ways that we went about our business fighting hunger differently and trying to break the generational, the destructive generation cycle of our cycles of incarceration, addiction, violence, abuse, homelessness hunger, and ultimately poverty. and alex came to us and spent a semester here working off of his office or what. we also many people refer to as a box in a chair with, you know, three of the it had at least thr

27—year—old thomas birley, a painter and decorator, helped fuel a fire outside a hotel housing hundredsasylum seekers in rotherham. also tonight: tonight: britain's most successful ever paralympian — dame sarah storey wins her 19th gold in paris. a huge rise in the cost of a first—class stamp to £1.65 for a letter from next month. top gear's chris harris criticises the bbc as he speaks for the first time about the crash that left his fellow presenter freddie flintoff badly injured. and good news from the farne islands. northumberland's puffin population is on the up despite being hit by bird flu. and coming up on bbc news, in the next couple of hours, jack draper will take on the world number one, jannik sinner, for a place in the us open final. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. it's the longest prison sentence that has been handed down so far after the wave of riots that swept parts of england and northern ireland last month. 27—year—old thomas birley from rotherham has been sent to jail for nine years after helping to set fire to a hotel housing asylum seekers in the to

right of security correspond to thomas bear with the latest in berlin to 9. thomas. thank you. germany's foreign minister on the bare balky is on another tour of the middle east to push for a ceasefire in the war. in garza, their boss met 1st with the saudi foreign minister and re ard before traveling on to jordan. talks to secure a truce or at an impasse and have been complicated by the recovery of 6 dead hostages from gauze up. the bulk is now in israel and is due later to visit the occupied west bank. let's go now to our chief political correspondent, even hodges. she is travelling with the german foreign minister, nina, the talks and re i'd and them on have. they've been successful. a well defined successful, i mean on the bad bogs suddenly didn't come out and announced a sudden seized fire. but that is, of course, also not something that anybody expected. so another thing about the german foreign minister is someone who is firmly convinced that in order to, to build trust and to raise problems and potentially even solve problems you need to meet face to face, wh

thomas reporting there and _ netanyahu. thomas reporting there and these _ netanyahu.there and these are _ netanyahu. thomas reporting there and these are live - there and these are live pictures from israel and from jerusalem and you can see some pushing and shoving and temperatures are quite flared because a lot of anger about the deaths of those six hostages over the weekend and the news come from the israeli prime minister that they had been shot in the back of the head by hamas captors and benjamin netanyahu is asking for forgiveness from the hostage families in the israeli people for not bringing back the six hostages alive and says we were so clones monies are people protesting that benjamin netanyahu and his government have failed to reach a hostage release deal and they want a deal, in agreement for a cease—fire in gaza with hamas that will allow the remaining hostages to be released and they sent us hostages should have been released long ago and they blame benjamin netanyahu in saying that he is trying to stay in power and that is why he does not want a peac

and nothing that clarence thomas or aileen cannon has written seems to impress her.trump's criminal defense lawyer told the judge justice thomas wrote a very persuasive concurrence that the special council does not have the authority and another judge wrote a decision dismissing the special council's case on appointments clause, basis and appropriations and it is a critical issue that has to be decided by the court in light of justice thomas' issue and what the judge decided in the southern district of florida. it seemed the judge could not quite believe what she was hearing. she repeated to trump's lawyer what he was asking for which made it sound all the more preposterous. the judge, you want to file this because there's dicta in a concurrence? there is binding precedent on this. you have dicta in a concurrence written by justice thomas and you have an opinion filed by another district judge in another circuit which frankly this court doesn't find particularly persuasive. so that is your basis for seeking to file that motion? we couldn't file the motion because of

can thomas was writing his -- clarence thomas was writing his one-man dissents for years that are nowhe law of the land. there is a broad audience than people just literally on the court with you, because folks are watching and listening. >> why aren't the ladies pushing back on the method? the most surprising justice is barrett, who occasionally had a moment of common sense. she did, sort of, today. part of it is what you are writing about in your book, which is that i've been told over and over again by libbers, we don't care about that, we care about the substance. this is true of the acs, which i revere, and all that stuff. we are not fighting the game that the federalist society has fought. you have a choice between the rules on the substance, always pick the rules and you will always win. there has to be a united effort to fight back on the rules and get activist judges -- they diversify the background, but they have not gotten the warriors in the courts that are fighting against racial segregation -- they don't have those people in the courts. that is something that takes a lot

let's on fact this with john list on the luxury export thomas vehicle thomas, welcome to d w. what do you make 1st of the delay in taking a decision on this? well, the impression is that the delay is most clear, if not to code simply on the us side, and quite obviously the presidential by and has problems or has a fear that russia indeed might escalade beyond what it has done so far. on the other hand, it's a bit strange or what i really kind of make sense of at this point in time when the u. k. is asking for us approval. on the other hand, with friends, friends is called cruise missile. of technically almost the same as a bridge or storm shadow. so you would expect that friends with all to be part of the discussion, but it doesn't. so now president zalinski has urged western allies to ignore ourselves. red lines on long red strikes. is that good advice? or if you see how the ukraine already use disease weapons that have them already, they move them and they attacked the top of the crime. yeah, for instance, russia always said crime. yeah. is part of russia. so technically spo

abc's pierre thomas has late reporting. pierre, what have you learned? >> reporter: david, andy beshear, the governor of kentucky, is reporting a state district judge was shot and killed in his chambers this afternoon at the county courthouse about 50 miles southeast of lexington. the district judge is being identified tonight as kevin mullins. he was appointed to the bench in 2009 by steve beshear, the father of the current governor. we're getting in video in right now from outside the courthouse. this is a developing story and we're trying to find out more details on the circumstances. kentucky's court of justice is also confirming the tragedy, and saying that the investigation is under way, with the support of the kentucky state police, which is taking the lead. they're calling the shooting an isolated incident, and there's no threat to the surrounding public. but we're hearing that area schools were briefly shut down. the courthouse will be closed tomorrow. and governor beshear is saying tonight that there's way too much violence in this world, david

thejudge spoke for over half an hour sentencing thomas birley this afternoon. he said...feelings of people inside the hotel at the time. he said... and after that, he went on to say that birley was encouraged by malicious and ignorant posts on social media, that he followed racist accounts and he was sentencing him on the basis of it being a racist incident. he was jailed for nine years. that's the longest sentence handed down for any of the civil unrest that we've heard about in the previous couple of months. he was sentenced to nine years, but that was extended for five years as well. he will be on licence for five years once he comes out. so effectively it is a ia—year sentence. suspended labour councillor rickyjones has pleaded not guilty. video had emerged online of mrjones appearing to tell a crowd in walthamstow in north london that far right demonstrators should have their throats cut. let's go straight back to manchester because the co—leader of the green party is just about to take to the podium at the green party conference. thank you so much. what a wonderful

well, on your screen is thomas woods. he's the author of this book diary of a psychosis how public disgraced itself during mania thomas woods why do you call the covid crisis a psychosis? i think we all remember desperately clamoring for information in march 20, 20, and i was no different, but what i one of the things i found early on was when from time to time, a little flickering of good news would come through. it was almost as if people didn't want. i would spread that on social media and it was like i was a criminal of. some sort. no, no, no. it's the thing ever. it was very strange was jay bought charity at stanford was trying to say i've done a seroprevalence study i think the numbers are saying about the percentage of deaths this and that is is off and normally in an under normal conditions we would say well he's got a and someone else does and he's got data and he's m.d. and he's an md and, you know, and and ph.d. so we should listen to each other but instead it was we somehow a priori that he must be wrong and t

in the opinion by clarence thomas really did come out of nowhere. an issue that had not been raised by either party and had not been briefed. and of course we saw judge aileen cannon latch onto it in her decision in florida, so it seems inappropriate for me for a supreme court justice to be telegraphing to the world how he might rule on some issue that is not before the court but judge chutkan to her credit was not taking the update. >> that is not all we heard from judge thomas this week. there is new propublica reporting that suggests his wife ginni privately praised religious right groups. you guys have filled the sales of many judges. can i just tell you, thank you so, so, so much. what you make of this? is ginni thomas single-handedly making the case why ethics reform is so desperately needed at the high court today? >> yes. and, you know, ginni thomas as a spouse of a justise is certainly entitled for her own views and the right to free expression but this goes right to the very heart of the work that justice clarence thomas does and the thing