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its 4:00 in the east. big day of news today. on capitol hill today a brutal collision between reality and delusion, a republican effort to whitewash the ex-presidents ties for russia culminating in a veteran prosecutor under oath seemingly unwilling to acknowledge basic facts in service of republican conspiracy theories. just a few weeks after releasing a 300-page report after an investigation that went on for four years, cost the taxpayers $6.5 million, a report "the washington post" ...

Gop donors. we have covered extensively the reporting of conflicts of interest when it comes to justice clarence thomas and his relationship with harlen groh, and this time justice alito. according to new explosive reporting, alito took a luxury fishing trip with paul singer, a hedge fund billionaire. singer flew alito to alaska on a private jet. if he chartered the plane himself, it could have been as much as $1700,000 one way. u and then there was a case,

Also joining us executive director of demand justice brian fallon, and msnbc contributor tim miller is here. jesse, they seems to be raw about the revelations and the revelations seems to be so indisputable that all they know to do is to go sort of blast their silly defenses in the pages of the "wall street journal." take me inside this reporting, which is not disputed at all by a very defensive justice alito. >> my reporters have been reporting on this. you referenced the clarence thomas storie...

>> wed like it to be known that we are available. we got a lot of tips about these vacations and travels and gifts in the first round of reporting on clarence thomas, and were fielding tips today. were going to run them through. just to be clear, we will run down a credible tip on any judge or any justice who -- whether they were appointed by democrats or republicans. we they that these ethics issues really transcend partisanship, transcend party, and are about keeping the courts clean and above...

Charlies reporting and garrets he does not come out and refute the facts that predicated the opening of uninvestigation. its simply this rather technical dispute about whether it should have been a preliminary instead of the full. but the wreckage, the blast radius, four years of donald trump and sean hannity and everyone on the right building up the durham report is coming. the durham -- i remember being in washington with trump-era justice department officials on the eve of the mueller report ...

But something higher, and many do hold themselves to that standard. going to the "wall street journal" editorial page, when youre talking about trying to avoid the appearance of partisanship? the journal editorial page is not known in journalism circles. i used to work on the "wall street journal" on the news side, which is a really respectable news organ on the news side. we did hard reporting, accountability reporting that was, you know, free of bias. the journal editorial page, you cant say t...

At night, the lodges chef serve multicourse meals. on the last evening, a member of alitos group bragged that the wine they were drinking cost $1,000 a bottle. he described the lodge as comfortable bus rustic. the justice says he does not remember if he was served wine, but if he was, it wouldnt have been $1,000. i -- i imagine as a journalist, you feel pretty good about his response to the specifics of the reporting. >> well, i am really proud of these reporters. they have done extraordinary wo...

Argentina. >> what is amazing about the reporting is that none of the facts are in dispute, there are documents and investigations that bolster everything, and alito is worried so much that he went to the "wall street journal." no effort to defend himself in a mainstream -- he went to a safe harbor. i wonder if you get a sense from the crushing body of reporting -- youre right. ethics advisers, and nonpartisan institutions, no one is saying that everything they did was peachy keen from an ethics...

More than 99% had to be were peaceful. reports that antifa sympathizers may have been sprirng led in the crowd. >> if youre like 21 and say to me should i be vaccinated? no. if youre a healthy people and young and eating well and like i dont think you need to worry about this. >> virus itself, this is true, does tend to take away the life force in some people i noticed. them niz people. it is true. >> these are challenges that really exist at the crux of facts, freedom and the free press bringin...

>> so the fall of saigon which we heard a lot about two weeks ago, youre saying theyre beside the point? >> to say whats happening in kabul now, tragic as it is, is similar to that. there were almost 20 times the amount of americans killed in vietnam, there were similar casualties in southeast asia. the boat people, 100,000 drowned. >> you said off the air this is not about the last two weeks. most americans have been ignoring afghanistan for years. >> its true. i think that as u.s. troops withd...