here. but i think that my best guess is that it is going to some of the motivation for what appears to be, potentially, efforts to obstruct. efforts including misleading or even lying to his own attorneys. the fact that they are involving trump organization officials in the search for this again, we don t know, what is that suggesting that trump directed officers of his organization to potentially tamper with the surveillance footage that would have shown the boxes being moved around? there is so many questions. mary mccord, we have to leave it there. but thank you for stalking sticking around for double duty tonight. i sincerely appreciate it. no problem. coming up, we are going to bring you not one but two bombshell stories today about payments benefiting justice clarence thomas and his conservative activist wife. it is all happening, all the time, everywhere, all at once. and that s up next. d that s up next feeling better?
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would be friends with clarence thomas if clarence thomas were not a supreme court justice. and he said, it s an interesting, good question. i don t know how to answer that. maybe not. maybe yes. i don t know. i mean, there you have the man potentially admitting that he s only doing this for clarence thomas because he s a supreme court to justice. this seems problematic as well. it is problematic in the extreme. and let s also note that harlan crow was asked, how did you become friends with clarence thomas after he s already on the bench? and crow literally says, oh, i was flying around on my plane. and we became simpatico. so, it s so clear that this was about him using his immense resources to buy proximity and and he cops to that. and so it s just to keep hearing him say, no, we are dear, dear, dear, dear friends. we are dear friends. we are not lifelong friends. this is someone who has carried
the relationship is predicated on one person wanting someone something and another person being a justice on the u.s. supreme court. yeah, i ve got to ask, you tali, because you clerked the idea that the supreme court justice is riding around, living the life of insane luxury that is unfathomable to even a lot a very rich people, on a trip to the caribbean this is the person for whom clarence thomas was a legal guardian, mark martin, he recalls, riding jet skis off the side of the billionaires yacht, roughly 20 years ago. martin, thomas, and the crows went on a cruise to russia in the baltics. they towards st. petersburg in a rented helicopter and visited a palace. we are talking about a level of i m not going to say corruption, though, that is the word that i just said but a level of gift giving that exceeds the wildest dreams of many. you know what it was like on the court back in the day.
january 6th, where he is beating police officers with a stick. and this is the guy who appears to be leading the song, ryan nichols, who is also awaiting trial. here you can see him on january 6th as identified by the justice department, assaulting police officers with a chemical spray. mr. nichols is also famous for this. i m telling you what, i m here in the pits. i m hearing that pence just caved. is that true? i m hearing reports that pence caved. i m telling you. if pence caved, we re going to drag him through the streets. politicians are going to get drug through the streets. the department of justice has charged more than 1000 people relay the crimes even now, more than two years later, people are still being arrested and just this week the fbi arrested a man they allege set off this explosive device in a capitol tunnel that day. as you can see, the explosive was thrown into a tunnel packed with police officers, who were defending the capitol.