conservative viewpoints an telling lies to the american public tonight, former fox anchor, gretchen carlson, on what need to happen for change at he former network plus, another shady real estat deal at the supreme court, a the chief justice dismisse calls for oversight. then, riveting testimony fro the woman accusing donald trum of rape. but we learn from each - date on the witness stand. and congresswoman katie porter on the maga vote to slas funding for medicaid, veterans childcare, and more. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. tonight, the supreme court o the united states is under a cloud of scandal it all started earlier thi month with republican feel tha conservative justice, clarence thomas, was acceptin undisclosed gifts from right wing billionaire thomas accepted gifts includin luxury vacations worth literally hundreds of thousand of dollars, and this really, truly special painting from man named harlan crow, who has well, inter
to be independent. a court needs to be independen so that it can be impartial. the real value here is impartial justice. and independents is a mechanis of shoring impartiality. now, they are using thei independence as a device t protect obvious partiality, to exempt themselves from ethics, rules, and statutes. so, there s kind of contortionist quality to tha argument let me ask you about th state of your committee. this was a voluntary invitation, but right now, one of th democratic senators on you committee, diane feinstein o california, has taken ill. she is unable to be in washington for committee votes it means the democrats don t have an outright majority on the judiciary committee. there are many people who thin this is a bad situation, there have been calls on you colleaguenator feinstein to the eent that is that affectinpeopleare makina tee s work w i this slowin down sdges, e ther is a purisan vote, beyou havee device to rge the vote from thte, from committee upsenate it t