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>> the reputation of the court is at stake. >> and a new report reveals thomas wife received secret payments from an activist with business before the court. >> i do think that theres more that the supreme court should do to address those perception problems. >> with public confidence in the court at a record low, what can be done to restore americans trust in the judicial branch? plus default danger. as the deadline nears for the government to pay its bills president biden faces off...

a daring evacuation. the u.s. military carries out an operation to pull government personnel out of sudans capital. but thousands of americans are still trapped in the country as it descends deeper into chaos, and the white house says its not safe to get them out right now. the gops fight over abortion erupts over the weekend. political peril for the republican party as the national battle over reproductive rights heats up. and kimberly potter set free after serving only 16 months ...

dangerous rhetoric. were talking, of course, about the elevation of some of the fringiest of the fringe members of the republican caucus, the seats on important congressional committees. when we say it is happening on today of all days, thats because today would have been the late congressman elijah cummings 72nd birthday. he passed away in 2019, the son of sharecroppers, he would go on to become a force of nature in congress, and ultimately the chairman of the powerful house oversight...

Built on lies . The former president on trial for Fraud Lashing out repeatedly at the judge and new yorks Attorney General with his Flagship Properties and his Family Business at stake. Could he lose it all . Go ahead and try, House Speaker mccarthy says a defiant message who want him out. Californias governor, gavin newsom has made his pick. Whos replacing the late senator Dianne Feinstein and what candidates running for that same seat have to say about her. And back on the bench, the Supreme C...

its noon eastern. im ana cabrera in for andrea mitchell. breaking news from the hunter biden trial. the jury in the hunter biden felony gun trial has reached a guilty verdict on all three counts after nearly three hours of deliberations. this is the first trial of a child of a sitting president in u.s. history. president bidens son now facing potential jail time. he has no prior criminal history. he did not commit a crime with a gun, which prosecutors say he purchased illegally when he...

Hawing, they move them out. i saw this in ukraine prior to the russian invasion, they got those folks out quickly here. is -- i dont know if the policy has changed, but has the threshold changed for making a decision like this for the u.s. government since benghazi? >> its not since benghazi, could be since afghanistan. if you look at the problems, the perception problems that happened on the evacuation in afghanistan, youre sending in s.e.a.l.s, youre sending in less than one hour in the ground...

They seem very uncomfortable, sort of like cats on a hot roof, with their sinking public approval. so im going to guess they would like to be held in higher regard. one of the problems -- and i remember mitch mcconnell in the studio when trump was a candidate saying, yeah, im going to support him and he had to crinkle that piece of paper. it was the federal societys list of judicial nominees that trump had committed to appointing if he won. it looks very rigged on the right, that theres a list, ...

Especially when he talked about wanting to kill people. he needed intervention. he needed a lot. it is kind of like biden blaming put in for oil prices. >> kayleigh: good analogy. >> harris: he took this job as a cop for 22 years, eric adams. started in january of 2022. things were sliding over already in the subway. he wants to talk the politics of guns, what about the woman, the 57-year-old woman who got hit in the back of the head with a hammer. 13 times all on video. why werent the three cam...

>> however, everyone was mad about what comey did in 2016 except for maybe the trump campaign in hindsight at the end, but we should apply that standard now? >> thats a hard argument to make. one of the things barr, i think, probably wants to do is to fix some of those perception problems over at the justice department, that this is a place where people just go out and have press conferences and say all kinds of things about people who are not being charged with any kind of crime. and, you know,...

Coming up, as many police departments across the country say they offer from perception problems in their communities, one city is trying a new program to change that. fir a nonprofit in memphis, tennessee is helping inner city kids reach their potential with sport most of them have never even rug by, its impact world. >> i think it help kids. >> this is memphis inner city rugby. nearly 200 kids around the city. we have boys and girl. in the communities were bringing rugby to, so many of the k...