Donna, appreciate you joining us, good morning to you. i read a quote from you in the washington post, where you said the height of hypocrisy to wear the robes and live the lifestyle of a billionaire, that is the reaction, and tell us more, you know, regarding the thoughts on this report. well, the scale of this whole thing, and the revelations in propublica is just breath taking. i worked in the executive branch for 30 years, and i cannot imagine any executive branch official or any executive branch ethics adviser thinking that this was okay. and the same law, in terms of financial disclosure, and it applies to members of the executive branch applies to members of the judiciary. so i think the hair splitting that has gone on with justice thomas, justifying these gifts from so-called friends, is just hypocritical. some of these itemized gifts
The lifestyle of supreme court justice clarence thomas bankrolled by gifts and hospitality from his wealthy friends is once again under scrutiny. according to a new report by pro publica, he accepted more vacations and gifts from billionaire benefactors from previously reported, including numerous flights on private planes, v.i.p. passes to sporting events and stays at luxury resorts. now, justice thomas is already under the scanner for gifts he received from harlen crowe, a republican billionaire mega donor and the new revelations are shining a spotlight on supreme court justices and the ethics rules they re supposed to follow. the former general counsel of the u.s. office of government,
Then they create legal mechanisms to kick off voter-led initiatives. that was at the heart of this in ohio, and you cannot untether from the substance of this question coming out of dobbs of ohio voters trying to seek to enshrine abortion rights into the constitution now that ohio has this heartbeat legislation or law in place. it does speak as donna has suggested, to the crippling, if you will, of republicans position politically on this. coming out of dobbs, republicans are out of step with the majority of voters. so ali, what s the white house saying about last night s decision? reporter: well, they are taking it to voters next november as david said because democrats are aware of the fact that this is an issue that wins for them at the ballot box, and the white house is seizing on that. in a statement overnight, president biden saying that this result speaks volumes that ohioans showed up in an off year
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Even when he s hearing from black members of his own party saying, governor desantis, you re out of step. i think ron desantis and other politicians, particularly white politicians, when it comes to race, need to talk less and listened more. rhonda sentence is failing that test. well i have you, both i want to talk about the supreme court, samuel alito told the wall street journal that congress does not have any authority to regulate the high court. as a former member of congress,, donna do you believe that is correct? well, i don t agree. i think that congress has the authority to set the terms, for example, of lower court judges,d govern the court. i think set up ethical standards. and you know, this is where alito is completely out of touch. he is on the wrong side of history. when it comes to the ethical questions that have been raised about the supreme court, i look forward to the day that the legislation moves from the
Hansbro. fired from a georgia lowe s store after trying to stop some thieves from stealing more than $2,000 in merchandise. well, donna got rehired and this statement now from the company. and by the way, this hit our inboxes after 5:00 p.m. yesterday. we thought she might have been so we were trying to chase the story, took a while to put this out. after senior management became aware of the incident and spoke to to donna, we are reinstating her job and pleased she accepted the offer to return to lowe s. first and foremost, nothing more important than the safety of our customers and associates. products can be replaced. people cannot. we continue to work closely with law enforcement to investigate and prosecute those responsible for this theft and violent attack. yeah, she took several punches to the face, and while the scars were fresh they fired her. and now she s hired back. i am grateful, very grateful
I am fed up with the city, he should not be this way at all this is not how our city should be. charlie: of all the stories that we covered that drive me crazy, nothing is more enraging than the story, where you have in this case a woman named donna hansbrough the lowes employee in the thing that slays me about this is listening to her talk about how much she loved her job and how much purpose it gave her and how much she enjoyed working with people. it really does come down are you going to side with workers or criminals and obviously in this case of lowes and a lot of other places, we are siding with criminals. and we get donna a job, she s the exact employee that somebody companies and small businesses want someone who is loyal and loves their job. donna probably showed up when there s somebody people out there that don t show up for work. they come in late and were to be
As a result. donna had worked for lowe s for 13 years. here is what donna had to say. the guy punched me, i grab my glasses and still held on to the carts, he punched me again and again. i don t know, i m mixed. i love my job. i loved. i enjoyed working with the people i work with. i enjoyed helping the customers and everything about it. you have your perfect job, that was mine. carley: man. it is emotional to hear her talking, harris, i want to give her a big hug. you hear her going through the wave of emotion and she was the victim, she got punched in the face. she gets fired. harris: she got fired more than once. they have to hire her back. put yourself in the shoes of the