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You were going up against somebody in court and you found out that the person on the other side had been flying around the judge on a private jet, the basic question is can that judge be fair? that s the situation. reporter: but of course alito said that he and his clerks never caught the fact that paul singer was related to these cases that came before the supreme court. you and you have been reporters for a long time, i think the technical term for what alito did here is a switch switch-a-roo. propublica reached out to him for comments, he went to the wall street journal and put out this statement. pretty interesting. reporter: right, john, and you don t usually see supreme court justices do these kind of switch-a-roos, right? basically they went to the public information officer, they were told no comment, and then alito turns to the wall street journal and what s really kind ....
Just be sitting there for three or four days before the oxygen runs out, very scary thought. scary indeed. i did note, sara, he said that every dive they took they lost communication. so people who are involved with this, they had some awareness of issues that had been taking place. absolutely did. it s still terrifying. all right. just ahead, while biden is defending his son s plea deal republicans are on the attack saying he got off easy and once again, going after hunter biden. and now the trump-appointed u.s. attorney that oversaw the case. and a record-breaking heat wave takes over texas, soaring temperatures are extremely dangerous. to illustrate that, some turned their cars into ovens to bake cookies. and another supreme court justice is accused of taking a luxury trip with a republican mega donor and failing to report it. how samuel alito tried to get ahead of the propublica ....
Kate, we should note the fbi has said in a statement that they have made changes in the wake of a justice department inspector general report on these same issues. so, again, we will see how much of this devolves into a sort of partisan food fight or how much they stay on top of today, kate. stand by to stand by. great to see you. thank you so much. new this morning supreme court justice samuel alito responding to ethics allegations hours before they even went publish lick. overnight propublica published a piece investigating in 2008 he went on a luxury fishing trip to alaska with businessman paul singer. propublica describes singer as a hedge fund billionaire who has repeatedly asked the supreme court to rule in his favor in high stakes business disputes. the story said he flew alito to alaska on a private jet and that the justice did not report the fishing trip or the private jet flight on his annual financial disclosure. propublica says alito did not recuse himself from cases in ....
Disclosed that on his campaign finance reports, and that ethics people say that s a problem. because it exceeds gift limits and that he should have moved to recuse it, at least put it on these financial disclosure forms. he said that the rules at the time didn t force him to do that. so he chose not to. and then the second big issue, john, here is that, in fact, there were cases related to an entity related to singer that came before the supreme court and, in fact, in 2014 the court heard a case and ruled in his favor. and critically here, samuel alito did not recuse from those cases. we talked this morning to the reporter at propublica and he sort of puts together the take away here. take a listen. the experts we spoke to said that that s an expensive gift and, you know, if you were if ....