particularl bowden because you've seen the public opinion on the suprem court, it's low, chief justice roberts says he wants to be defender of the court' credibility, is credibilit possible with justice thomasthe controversies that he' involved in, and if there is n inquiry into it? >> i think that's the problem, alicia if they were seen as some sort of independent inquiry, or eve maybe a non independent inquiry, then people would at least perhaps have some faith that somebody is looking into the matter but, historically, what we'v seen here is that the way this works is congress usually does not have the desire or the willpower to actuall investigate these things themselves and prefers to as the chief justice or the justice involved to explai further, or investigates often those sorts of request don't go anywhere. their only seems to be a response when the justice who' being accused chooses to respond. sometimes, the respond, ther are questions about justic alito of allegedly having been involved in the leak of an outcome of a case a decade o so ago, and he issued statement and then whe congress wrote the chief justice kind of paraphrase tha statement back in a letter t congress so that's