investigators until thursday to respond it s expected that these questions will go to the full. or can you just explain, why was this justice thomas s decision to? make great question. he s responsible for handling emergency appeals from the 11th circuit. where this case generated. of course as we know, he s been under a lot of scrutiny after it was revealed that s wife, ginni thomas, conservative activist was pressuring trump white house officials to try to overturn the 2020 election. there s calls for him to recuse himself from any s cases related to election interference. clearly, he did not do that here. again, it s more of an administrative move this case has questions about whether the
check the defiance. you also mention you have the wife of a supreme court justice, ginni thomas, who s a well-known conservative activist. we ve heard her say she believes the election is stolen, yet justice clarence thomas hasn t recused himself from january 6th cases. the mechanisms in place to force him to do so. how concerned is that in itself? it s very concerning. when you think about it, it s the supreme court of the land, and they themselves refuse to adopt the code of judicial ethics. it seems very odd they won t do that, letting them police themselves. again, there s no check on them. there s no effective review of them. they get to decide when they have a conflict or don t have a conflict, and that just doesn t make any sense. and it certainly has undermined our trust in the court. and i don t mean melodramatic, you re saying the
cycle overhaul, crushing him on the money front. you spoke to former nra spokesperson that i m struck by this quote, in one of your pieces, by this well-known conservative activist. she doesn t care if herschel walker paid to abort endangered baby eagles, i want control of the senate. it looks like where some national republicans are on the story. yes, republicans are calling this a debate alone strategy. herschel walker s strategy is to deny these allegations and hope there are enough republicans who if they do believe them, feel just like that, that the ens sort of justify the means, that republican control of the senate is worth holding their nose, even if herschel walker has a number of personal problems that they don t personally agree with. we ll see. but look, i ve always been out with canvassers, republican canvassers knocking on republican doors in the suburbs of north atlanta, where they have encountered republican voters who say look, i ll vote
retrieved 15 boxes earlier this year from the former president s home. jim and poppy? we should note the doj proposed its own redactions here to this, which the judge determined acceptable. we ll see what those redactions involve. evan perez, thank you so much. stay with us. we re also learning at the advice of a prominent conservative activist, tom fitton, trump became convinced he should have full control over records, including the classified ones that he took to mar-a-lago. sources also tell our cnn colleagues that the former president and his allies have become increasingly concerned about any potential legal fallout from all of this. so for that let s go to our chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins. what more are you hearing about that inner circle around trump that seems to be increasingly concerned? two things, one, what this new reporting from our colleagues shows is maybe an explanation potentially and partially for what was happening in that period of when tr
cnn has the texts, between ginni thomas and mark meadows. they re wildly inappropriate, aside from been wildly disconnected from reality. that s part of the puzzle here, this is by all accounts and intelligent and committed woman. committed conservative activist. in the context of the election, she played a frontline role i think as a cheerleader, or leveraging your contacts in ways that were disconnected from reality. voicing conspiracy theories, and also emailing legislators who are trying to overturn the election. that s where i think a question of colonel culpability. why is s been allowed to happen? shouldn t ginni thomas realize, and clarence thomas, he is a sitting supreme court justice. even if you sit down with his wife, and they have a conversation stop it? i mean come on. the guardrails have been eroded. it s ridiculous this