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Better recusal rules, more stringent rules, for justices on the supreme court. but instead, they recuse themselves and are only required to do that in a narrow subset of cases, in contrast to other parts of the court. general roberts has been a advocate himself for the -- that was the topic of his annual report to the nation at the end of last year. i believe this is going to call for increased scrutiny and increased pressure to improve those recusal rules to restore the legitimacy of the court. if you look at this one, i think it's very fair to question his impartiality when it might be the c...

Supreme court justice to vote, to block the january six committee from getting trump's papers. the fact that he did that, there is no consequences for that? >> currently, there are no consequences for. that there have been calls for better recusal rules, more stringent rules, for justices on the supreme court. but instead, they recuse themselves and are only required to do that in a narrow subset of cases, in contrast to other parts of the court. general roberts has been a advocate himself for the -- that was the topic of his annual report to the nation at the end of last year. i believe this ...

Investigated by mueller and his team. >> yeah, so setting aside the fact he's actually just flat out wrong on the facts, recusal rules and conflict rules are about the perception of fairness, about appearance here. i think anyone listening to that would have a reasonable question. >> gloria, this was the conclusion on january 15, 2017 just before obama left office for the russian community, we assess vladimir putin aimed at the usa presidential election, russia's goals were to undermine public faith in the u.s. process, denigrate secretary clinton and we further assess putin and the russian go...

Investigations. i think his comments really do bring an appearance of bias in overseeing the investigation. both this is comments and the fact that the president, who is one of the subjects of this investigation, has picked him to oversee it i think makes it very hard under any fair department of justice recusal rules for him to oversee it. i don't think he's going to recuse himself. i think the president put him in this job because he is the person at doj who questioned it publicly so i think looking at a way forward, that's who people who care about the mueller probe ought to be training the...

Circumstances. >> is that different from recusal rules at different levels? >> the difference is you can appeal a recusal in those situations. chief justice roberts hasn't exactly done well in terms of minding this line. the fact that he recently chastised the president for the state of the union and didn't mention once that justice alito had broken a long tradition of neutral by nodding no, and seems to be saying that's not true to the president, it was an outrageous act in terms of the traditions of the court. roberts doesn't even mention it. >> now, justice stevens saying he may well retire...