>>> TODAY SUPREME COURT JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS ADMITTED TO ACCEPTING LUXURY VACATIONS FROM REPUBLICAN MEGA DONOR CROWE. IN HIS FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE FORMS, THOMAS NOTED THAT HE HAD INADVERTENTLY FAILED TO DISCLOSE SEVERAL TRIPS. WITH PRIVATE JET FLIGHTS AND OTHER GIFTS. BUT IS PRECISELY THE MOMENT THAT THE COURT IS ADVANCING AN EXTREMELY CONSERVATIVE AGENDA. IN TWO YEARS ALONE, THIS COURT HAS OVERTURNED ROE V. WADE AND HAS DELIVERED MORE BLOWS TO RIGHTS. MEANWHILE THEY'RE ADVANCING IN SCHOOLS WHERE EDUCATION AROUND LGBTQ EDUCATION HAS BEEN CENSORED AND BOOK BANS SEEM TO LIMIT WHAT CONSERVATIVES PERCEIVE AS A LIBERAL WORLD VIEW. ONE BOOK IN PARTICULAR HAS BEEN THE SUBJECT OF A TON OF CONSERVATIVE ANGER. IT IS CALLED THE 1619 PROJECT BY NICOLE HANNAH JONES. ACTOR AND CREATOR OF THE 1619 PROJECT WHICH IS OUT NOW THIS WEEK IN PAPER BACK. ALSO JOINING US IS DALIA. IT'S SO GREAT TO HAVE YOU HERE TO PUT ALL OF THIS INTO CONTEXT. FIRST I HAVE TO ASK NICOLE, AS YOU LOOK AT THE PROJECT OF THE COURT AND HOW IT MIRRORS WHAT CONSERVATIVES ARE DOING ON A POLITICAL LEVEL. DOES ANY OF IT SURPRISE YOU? >> I THINK THAT WE CAN BOTH BE, YOU KNOW, APPALLED. NOT NECESSARILY SURPRISED BECAUSE OF EVERYTHING THAT WE HAVE LEARNED ABOUT THIS COURT OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS BUT WE CAN STILL BE SHOCKED BY THINGS THAT ARE NOT NECESSARILY SURPRISING. WE KNOW THAT TRUST IN THE SUPREME COURT IS AT A HISTORIC LOW. I THINK WHAT'S PROBABLY MOST SURPRISING IS EVEN PEOPLE WHO THOUGHT WE HAD A GOOD UNDERSTANDING OF HOW GOVERNMENT WORKED, YOU KNOW CIVICS. I'M SURPRISED THAT THERE SEEMS TO BE NO ENFORCEMENT MECHANISM AGAINST WHAT WE'RE SEEING HAPPENING ON THE COURT. >> YEAH, DALIAH IT'S THE FLOUTING OF ANY KIND OF OVERSIGHT AND ALMOST THIS SORT OF CELEBRATION OF THE IMMUNITY IS I THINK, IS SOMETHING THAT MAKES CERTAIN PEOPLE INCLUDING A LOT OF PEOPLE I KNOW INCANDESCENT WITH RAGE. THE FACT THAT THOMAS IS COMING CLEAN AND FORGOT HE HAD RECEIVED MAYBE HALF A MILLION DOLLARS IN GIFTS FROM HARLIN CROWE SEEMS SO IMPLAUSIBLE AS IF TO BE IN SOME WAYS ALMOST USELESS AS AN EXCUSE. >> RIGHT, I MEAN IF ONE WERE CUT OUT BY PROPUBLICA AND MAYBE WE SHOULD PAUSE TO SAY PROPUBLICA MAY BE THE ONLY FUNCTIONING BRAND OF GOVERNMENT AT THIS MOMENT. WORK HAS BEEN OUTSTANDING AND WE SHOULD LIFT IT UP. BUT IF YOU WERE CUT OUT BY PROPUBLICA TAKING HUGE, THESE LAVISH GIFTS. A LOAN THAT WE HAVE NO IDEA THE TERMS OF TO BUY A LUXURY RV THAT CRUISES AROUND THE COUNTRY. YOU KNOW, YOUR MOM'S HOUSE IS PAID FOR BY HARLIN CROWE. YOUR GRAND NEPHEWS TUITION IS COVERED. ALL OF THIS IS METICULOUSLY LAID OUT OVER THE PAST YEAR BY THE REALLY INDUSTRIOUS REPORTING. AND HERE IS TWO THINGS IN 2019 THAT I SHOULD HAVE DISCLOSED. NOT ALL OF THE BOHEMIAN TRIPS. NOT ALL OF THE LUXURY YACHT TRIPS HE'S TAKEN. I'M JUST GOING TO THROW YOU THIS BONE AND CONTINUES TO USE THIS LANGUAGE. INADVERTENTLY FORGETTING. IT WAS A MISUNDERSTANDING OF FILING INSTRUCTIONS, RIGHT. PEOPLE GO TO THE DEATH CHAMBER FOR INADVERTENTLY FAILING TO DO THEIR DOCUMENTS CORRECTLY. AND HE'S JUST LIKE, OOPSY, HERE'S A COUPLE I WILL THROW YOU THIS BONE. IT'S THE ABSOLUTE MATERIALIZATION OF WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE TO HAVE COMPLETE IMMUNITY. >> YEAH, WELL, AND IT ALSO LOOKS LIKE CORRUPTION WHEN YOU LOOK AT WHAT CLARENCE THOMAS HAS BEEN SAYING ON THE, REALLY IN TERMS OF ADVANCING THE CONSERVATIVE ROLL BACK OF BASIC LIBERTIES AND FREEDOMS THAT WE'VE EFFECTIVELY TAKEN FOR GRANTED. THIS IS A MAN WHO HAS HELPED DISMANTLE WOMEN'S BODY AUTONOMY, VOTING RIGHTS. DOES THE APPETITE FOR. >>> THOMAS REPLACES THURGOOD MARSHALL WHICH IS THE BIGGEST INSULT TO THURGOOD MARSHALL. HE IS A BLACK MAN WHEN HE VOTES AGAINST TRYING TO STOP THE VOTE GERRYMANDERING IN SOUTH CAROLINA. WHEN HE VOTES AS THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION OF GOING TOO FAR. WHAT IT DOES IS IT DOESN'T ALLOW US TO SAY THAT THESE ARE RACIAL RULINGS, RIGHT. BECAUSE HE'S A BLACK MAN. SO WHEN YOU COMBINE THAT WITH UNDERSTANDING WHAT LOOKS TO BE CORRUPT ACTIVITY. LOOKS TO BE LIKE AMERICAN HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO HAVE FAITH IN THIS COURT. THAT JUDGES ARE RULING ON WHAT THESE MILLIONAIRES WANT THEM TO VOTE ON. >> I ALSO JUST THINK YOU KNOW, THEY, THEY ARE KIND OF LIKE THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF ATLANTA IN THE SENSE THAT THEY THINK THEY CAN ROLL ANYBODY. I'M STRUCK BY, THE FACT THAT SAM ALITO EXCUSES AWAY HIS INSURRECTIONIST FLAGS BY POINTING AT HIS WIFE. THIS IS A JUDGE FROM A COURT OF LAW. THEY KNOW HOW TO MAKE A SOUND ARGUMENT IN THEIR OWN DEFENSE AND THEY'RE NOT EVEN TRYING. IN THE WAY THAT THOMAS IS FAILING TO ARGUE THE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN GIFTS THAT HE FORGOT TO DOCUMENT. >> WE HAVE SIGNALED TIME AND TIME AGAIN THIS SEEMS KIND OF BAD BUT OH WELL. THEY'RE THE MONARCHS AND WE'RE THE SERVES AND WE TOLERATE IT. ONCE THE COURT OVERTURNS ROE ON THE MOST BOGUS PREMISE RIGHT. AND DOES SO YOU KNOW SUFFERING YEARS OF PRECEDENCE WITHOUT EXPLAINING. ONCE IT DOES AWAY WITH CENTURIES OF THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE SECOND AMENDMENT TO PUT GUNS IN THE HANDS OF EVERYBODY. ONCE THE COURT SAYS, OH YOU KNOW WHAT, WE'RE GOING TO DO AWAY WITH THE EPAs ABILITY TO FUNCTION USING AN INVENTED DOCTRINE THAT HAS NO ROOTS IN THE CONSTITUTION OR STATUTORY INTERPRETATION. THEY'VE BEEN DOING THIS AND DOING THIS AND DOING THIS IN TANDEM WITH THESE FLAGRANT ETHICS VIOLATIONS. THESE FLAGRANT SORT OF STATEMENTS, PUBLIC STATEMENTS RIGHT. WHEN YOU'RE HOISTING A FLAG THAT'S NOT A T-SHIRT. THAT'S NOT A MUG. THIS IS A FLAGRANT STATEMENT OF DISRESPECT. BOTH FOR US BUT ALSO FOR THE OFFICE ITSELF. AND OUR ANSWER IS TO BE LIKE OH WELL THERE'S NOTHING WE CAN DO ABOUT IT. SO I SORT OF WANT TO FLIP THE PREMISE AND SAY, HOW MUCH MORE OF THIS KIND OF CONDUCT DO WE
