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Senators held a hearing, justices acknowledge their discussing ethics rules but nothing really. do these new revelations change anything in washington? what's happening with this? >> i think it's hard to say this early on, but i think the idea that it wasn't just, right, like a friendship of one billionaire who took him on some fishing trips, and it's kind of an extensive relationships with a bunch of wealthy people and benefactors who funded these trips, i think that may have different weight. right. one of the things that republicans kept saying when the original reporting, in addition to th...

Well, we have passed ethics laws that the court does honor, it does so voluntarily, the court does. we can set the number of justices and have passed laws that increased the size of the court. so what's his, a alito's target, that they can't do more? >> yes, and he concedes they can constitutionally increase the size of the court, and they can also cut the court's funding, so they have some indirect power. his central argument is the constitution creates the supreme court. congress doesn't do it. congress creates the lower courts. we didn't go into what -- paul: the lower federal courts. >> ri...

Justice Elena Kagan publicly declared her support for an ethics code for the U.S. Supreme Court but said there was no consensus among the justices on how to proceed, suggesting the high court is grappling with public concerns over its ethics practices. The Supreme Court is navigating a fraught moment in its history. It has come under growing scrutiny for its lack of an official code of conduct, and public trust in the body is at a 50-year low following a series of polarized rulings, including the overturning of Roe v. Wade and federal abortion protections last year.

>> reporter: stephanie gosk, nbc news. >> we have a lot to cover in our second hour of "chris jansing reports." let's get right to it. at this hour the battle over the supreme court. a top senate democrat blasting justice samuel alito as, quote, stunningly wrong for saying congress doesn't have the power to issue ethics rules. so where does this fight go from here? the tragic story out of haiti. an american mother and her child kidnapped during an aid mission as gang violence overtakes the country. plus drones bring the ukrainian war into vladimir putin's back yard. massive explosions hi...

Roberts has been seeking unanimity among the nine justices for firm ethics standards