BRING IT TO YOU IMMEDIATELY. >>> TO WASHINGTON, WHERE A DISPUTE BETWEEN NEIGHBORS IS THE LATEST SCANDAL TO ROCK THE NATION'S HIGHEST COURT. LATE 2020, DESPITE THE FACT THAT DONALD TRUMP JUST LOST THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, THE SOON- TO-BE EX-PRESIDENT AND HIS SUPPORTERS WERE IN THE MIDST OF TRYING TO OVERTURN JOE BIDEN'S VICTORY. OF COURSE, YOU MAY REMEMBER POLITICAL TENSIONS WERE RUNNING HIGH, INCLUDING A NORMALLY QUIET SUBURBAN CUL-DE-SAC IN FAIRFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA. AFTER ATTENDING A PROTEST, A WOMAN'S ADULT DAUGHTER RETURNED HOME TO THAT SUBURB AND PROPPED UP SEVERAL POLITICAL SIGNS AGAINST BUSHES IN THE FRONT YARD. IT'S NOT KNOWN EXACTLY WHAT WAS WRITTEN ON THE SIGNS BUT ACCORDING TO A NEIGHBOR, ONE HAD TRUMP'S NAME ON IT WITH AN EXPLETIVE AND THE OTHER CARRIED A MESSAGE ALONG THE LINES OF " YOU ARE COMPLICIT." WHAT IS KNOWN IS THAT THE SIGNS CAUSED A HEATED EXCHANGE TO THE WOMAN'S DAUGHTER AND ANOTHER NEIGHBOR. IN AN ACT OF RETALIATION, THAT NEIGHBOR RESPONDED TO THE YOUNG WOMAN'S STATEMENT BY MAKING ONE OF HER OWN. DISPLAYING AN UPSIDE DOWN AMERICAN FLAG ON HER PROPERTY. THE INVERTED FLAG BECAME A SYMBOL OF THE "STOP THE STEAL" MOVEMENT USED BY TRANSPORTERS WHO DENIED THE LEGITIMACY OF JOE BIDEN'S VICTORY. THERE IS JUST ONE PROBLEM WITH THIS STATEMENT FROM THAT RESIDENT IN VIRGINIA. SHE WAS THE WIFE OF SUPREME COURT JUSTICE, SAMUEL ALITO. THE PHOTO OF THAT FLAG OUTSIDE THEIR HOME WAS TAKEN JANUARY 17th, 2021, WEEKS AFTER THE INSURRECTION AT THE U.S. CAPITOL AND DAYS BEFORE JOE BIDEN WAS INAUGURATED AS PRESIDENT. IT WAS THE SAME TIME THAT THE SUPREME COURT WAS WEIGHING WHETHER TO TAKE UP A CASE BROUGHT BY TRUMP ALLIES CHALLENGING PENNSYLVANIA'S MAIL- IN VOTING SYSTEM, WHICH WOULD HAVE HAD DIRECT IMPLICATIONS ON THE OUTCOME OF THE 2020 ELECTION. AT THE TIME, SAMUEL ALITO WAS IN FAVOR OF REVIEWING THE CASE WITH THE MAJORITY DECIDED AGAINST IT AND THE REPORT RAISES CONCERNS OVER HIS IMPARTIALITY OF THE COURT IS CONSIDERING TWO IMPORTANT GENERATES SIX CASES INCLUDING WHETHER OR NOT THE FORMER PRESIDENT HAS ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY FOR HIS EFFORTS TO OVERTURN THE 2020 ELECTION. JUDICIAL EXPERTS SAID THAT THE FLAG WAS A CLEAR VIOLATION OF ETHICS RULES WHICH SEEKS TO AVOID EVEN THE APPEARANCE OF BIAS AND COULD SOW DOUBT ABOUT THE JUSTICES POSSIBLE BIAS IN CASES RELATED TO THE ELECTION. FOR HIS PART, THIS IS HOW SAMUEL ALITO RESPONDED. HE SAID "I HAD NO INVOLVEMENT WHATSOEVER IN THE FLYING OF THE FLAG. IT WAS BRIEFLY PLACED BY MY WIFE IN RESPONSE TO A NEIGHBOR'S USE OF OBJECTIONABLE AND PERSONALLY INSULTING LANGUAGE ON YARD SIGNS." OF COURSE, YOU PROBABLY NOTICED MISSING FROM THAT IS ANY SORT OF DENIAL THAT THE FLAG WAS FLOWN IN SOLIDARITY WITH INSURRECTIONIST OR ANY ATTEMPTS BY A SITTING U.S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE TO DISAVOW THE INSURRECTIONIST LIE THAT THE 2020 ELECTION WAS STOLEN. THIS STORY IS ABOUT MUCH MORE THAN AN INVERTED FLAG BECAUSE WE ARE STILL LIVING IN THE SHADOW OF THE 2020 ELECTION AND THE VIOLENT INSURRECTION THAT FOLLOWED. THIS REPORT IS COMING TO LIGHT NOW AND WE ARE STILL WAITING TO SEE IF DONALD TRUMP WILL EVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR WHAT HE DID. THE THREAT THE EX-PRESIDENT AND HIS ACOLYTES POST OUR DEMOCRACY IS HARDLY IN THE PAST. FROM THE SUPREME COURT TO THE SENATE, TRUMP AND HIS ALLIES ARE PLAINLY LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR ANOTHER JANUARY 6th RIGHT IN FRONT OF OUR EYES. THIS MORNING, MARCO RUBIO REFUSED TO COMMIT TO ACCEPT THE RESULTS OF THE NEXT ELECTION. >> WILL YOU ACCEPT THE ELECTION RESULTS OF 2024 NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS? >> NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS? NO. IF IT'S UNFAIR -- >> NO MATTER WHO IT IS. >> THIS EFFORT GOES FAR BEYOND SOWING SEEDS OF DOUBT IN OUR ELECTION SYSTEM. TRUMP'S ALLIES ARE WORKING TO RESHAPE OUR DEMOCRACY, TAKING INSPIRATION FROM AUTOCRAT. HERE IS SENATOR JD VANCE, EARLIER TODAY. >> VIKTOR ORBAN IN PARTICULAR, HE REWROTE THE CONSTITUTION. HE WAS TRYING TO CONTROL THE MEDIA. THESE ARE NOT NECESSARILY CONCERNING IN PRINCIPLE SO WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO MIMIC HIM? >> I'M NOT ENDORSING EVERYTHING HE'S DONE. I DON'T KNOW EVERYTHING. WHAT I DO THINK IS ON THE UNIVERSITY PRINCIPLE IS THE IDEA THAT TAXPAYERS SHOULD HAVE SOME INFLUENCE. IT'S A TOTALLY REASONABLE THING AND I THINK HE'S MADE SMART DECISIONS THAT WE COULD LEARN FROM. >> IS NOT JUST SENATORS AUDITIONING TO BE POTENTIALLY TRUMP VICE PRESIDENTIAL PICKS, TRUMP HIMSELF LAST NIGHT TOOK ANOTHER PAGE OUT OF THE AUTHORITARIAN HANDBOOK, FLOATING THE POSSIBILITY OF A THREE TERM PRESIDENCY, SOMETHING BARRED UNDER U.S. CONSTITUTION. >> FDR, ALMOST 16 YEARS. I DON'T KNOW, ARE WE THREE TERM OR TWO TERM? >> IT WAS THREE YEARS AGO THAT RIOTERS STRUNG THE CAPITAL AND ATTEMPT TO ASSAULT HER DEMOCRACY ON JANUARY 6th AND WITH LESS THAN SIX MONTHS TO THE ELECTION, FASCISM IS AT THE GATES. DONALD TRUMP AND HIS ACOLYTES ARE READY TO FINISH THE JOB. A SHORT TIME AGO, I HAD A CHANCE TO SPEAK WITH JAMIE RASKIN OF MARYLAND ABOUT THE CRISIS AT OUR NATION'S HIGHEST COURT. CONGRESSMAN, THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. LET'S START WITH THIS REPORTING FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES. I'M CURIOUS TO GET YOUR RESPONSE TO JUSTICE ALITO'S COMMENTS THAT HE HAD NO INVOLVEMENT AND THAT IT WAS HIS WIFE'S CHOICE TO HANG THAT INVERTED FLAG. IS THAT A GOOD ENOUGH EXCUSE FOR A SITTING SUPREME COURT JUSTICE? >> LOOK, IF WE HAD A BINDING ETHICS CODE ON THE SUPREME COURT, SOMEONE WOULD BE ABLE TO COMPLAIN ABOUT IT AND THEN THEY WOULD BE AND INVEST NEGATION RATHER THAN JUST DUELING PRESS RELEASES AND STATEMENTS. I WOULD THINK THAT FOR A SITTING JUSTICE IN THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, SOMEBODY IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD PUTTING UP AN ANTI- TRUMP SIGN DOES NOT REALLY JUSTIFY THE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE INVERTING THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES AND SENDING A SYMBOL OF DISTRESS. THE REAL ISSUE IS THAT WE DON'T HAVE A SYSTEM FOR DEALING WITH THAT KIND OF PROBLEM, BUT IT MAKES SENSE TO ME. DONALD TRUMP TURNED THE BIBLE UPSIDE DOWN, JUSTICE ALITO TURNED THE FLAG UPSIDE DOWN. MAGA IS TRYING TO TURN THE CONSTITUTION AND THE RULE OF LAW UPSIDE DOWN. IT'S A STRUGGLE FOR THE BASIC INTEGRITY OF OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM. >> YOU BRING UP AN IMPORTANT POINT ABOUT THE ETHICS RULES WHICH IS A BIG PROBLEM AS WE HAVE SEEN WITH THIS SUPREME COURT AND BECAUSE IT'S NOT SUBJECT TO BINDING ETHICS RULE. YOU'VE INTRODUCED LEGISLATION TO FIX THE PROBLEM. THE JUDICIAL ETHICS ENFORCEMENT ACT, REALISTICALLY SPEAKING, IS THERE A PATH FORWARD FOR THAT BILL WITH THIS MODERN-DAY REPUBLICAN PARTY? >> NOT IN THIS CONTEXT. THEY ARE NOT INTERESTED AND THEY DON'T THINK THERE'S ANY PROBLEM, WHICH IS OVERTHROWN THE WOMAN'S RIGHT TO CHOOSE, TRYING TO UNDERCUT THE EFFECTIVENESS OF OUR ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCIES, LIKE THE EPA, AND HAS BEEN IN A FULL- BLOWN ASSAULT ON THE VOTING RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE. THEY LIKE WHAT THEY'VE BEEN DOING. THEY WILL NOT HEAR IT, BUT RIGHT NOW WE HAVE A SITUATION WHERE THE HIGHEST COURT IN THE LAND HAS THE LOWEST ETHICAL STANDARDS. IT'S THE ONLY COURT IN THE LAND IN THE JUDICIARY OR STATE SYSTEM WHICH DOES NOT HAVE A BINDINGS ETHICS CODE ANYWAY TO COMPLAIN IF A JUSTICE COMPLETELY VIOLATES THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF JUDGING. >> IN THE ABSENCE OF ANY KIND OF MEANINGFUL REFORM OR ACCOUNTABILITY, THE QUESTION IS , WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN. YOU GOT THE CHAIRMAN OF THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE CALLING ON JUSTICE ALITO TO RECUSE HIMSELF AND YOU HAVE RESPECTED CONSTITUTIONAL LAW PROFESSORS AT HARVARD SAYING THAT'S NOT ENOUGH. HE SAYS TALK IS CHEAP, THE CHAIRMAN NEEDS TO DO MORE AND CALL ON ALITO TO RECUSE HIMSELF. JEREMY NEEDS TO STEP UP AND USE THE SUBPOENA POWER TO DEMAND HIS APPEARANCE BEFORE THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE. DO YOU AGREE? >> WELL, ALL OF THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COMPENSATE FOR THE INADEQUACY OF THE CURRENT SYSTEM BECAUSE THERE IS NO BINDING ETHICS CODE OR KNOW WHERE YOU CAN GO TO COMPLAIN. CERTAINLY, DEMANDS FOR RECUSAL MAKE SENSE ACROSS THE BOARD BY CITIZENS, BY MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE. IF THE SENATE CAN RENDER SUBPOENAS TO HAVE THE JUSTICE COME AND TESTIFY ABOUT HIS ALLEGED NEUTRALITY, THAT WOULD BE GREAT, BUT, YOU KNOW, I DON'T HOLD OUT A LOT OF HOPE FOR ANY OF THOSE THINGS HAPPENING. THE PROBLEM WITH THE SUBPOENA POWER ON THE SENATE SIDE IS TO ENFORCE SUCH A SUBPOENA, YOU NEED 60 VOTES AND THE DEMOCRATS HAVE ONLY 51. I DON'T KNOW WHETHER OR NOT THEY WILL WANT TO GO DOWN THAT ROAD, BUT THE PUBLIC NEEDS TO AT LEAST TO BE UNDERSTANDING WHAT IS TAKING PLACE. THERE IS AN ABSOLUTE COLLAPSE OF THE LEGITIMACY OF THE SUPREME COURT. YOU HAVE BILLIONAIRE SUGAR DADDIES WHO ARE PAYING FOR JUSTICE IS PRIVATE SCHOOL TUITION'S AND THEIR CARS AND MORTGAGES, CRAZY STUFF GOING ON. THEN, YOU HAVE A COMPLETE INVERSION OF BASIC CONSTITUTIONAL CONCEPTS, AND AN ABANDONMENT OF THE SUPREME COURT RULE WHEN IT COMES TO SOMETHING LIKE SECTION 3 OF THE 14th AMENDMENT, WHOSE MEETING -- MEANING COULD NOT BE MORE PLAIN IF YOU SWORN OATH TO UPHOLD THE ELECTION AND THEN YOU VIOLATED IT, BUT THE SUPREME COURT HAS DONE ALL IT CAN TO OBLITERATE THE MEANING OF THAT. >> LET ME PIVOT AND GET YOUR THOUGHTS ON SOMETHING THAT WAS ALSO SAID TODAY THAT WAS EXTREMELY TROUBLING AND I WANT YOUR REACTION TO IT AS A MEMBER OF CONGRESS, COMMENTS FROM SENATOR MARCO RUBIO EARLIER TODAY. THE SENATE IS REFUSING TO SAY WHETHER HE WOULD ACCEPT THE RESULTS OF THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AND IN DEAD BLAMED DEMOCRATS FOR SOWING DOUBT ABOUT THE ELECTION. WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF WHAT SENATOR RUBIO DID TODAY? >> HE'S DEMONSTRATING HIS COMPLETE SUBMISSION AND SUBSERVIENCE INTO DONALD TRUMP. THAT IS NOW THE LITMUS TEST WITHIN THE GOP. WILL YOU ACCEPT DONALD TRUMP'S APPROACH TO ELECTIONS, WHICH IS, HE DOES NOT ACCEPT THE OUTCOME OF ANY ELECTIONS THAT DON'T GO HIS WAY. IN SOME SENSE, IT'S REDUNDANT TO BE ASKING ABOUT WHETHER THEY WILL ACCEPT THE RESULTS OF THE ELECTION. THEY STILL HAVEN'T ACCEPTED THE RESULTS OF THE LAST ELECTION AND ARE STILLS RUNNING DOUBT AND SKEPTICISM ABOUT WHETHER JOE BIDEN ONE, DESPITE THE FACT THAT WE HAVE 60 FEDERAL AND STATE COURT RULINGS AND JUDGMENTS PROJECTING EVERY CLAIM OF ELECTORAL FRAUD AND CORRUPTION THAT REPUBLICANS AND DONALD TRUMP RAISED. NOW, THERE'S NO PROOF OR EVIDENCE FOR WHAT THEY ARE SAYING AND AT THIS POINT, IT'S UP YOUR CONSPIRACY THEORY, BUT IT IS THE GLUE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, WHICH IS WHAT MAKES THEM FAR MORE LIKE A RELIGIOUS CULT TODAY THAN A MODERN POLITICAL PARTY BASED ON FACTS AND EVIDENCE AND CRITICAL THINKING. >> CONGRESSMAN, I DID WANT TO ASK ABOUT A NEW INVESTIGATION INTO TRUMP'S REQUEST FOR THE $1 BILLION IN CAMPAIGN CASH, OR FOUR MAJOR COMPANIES IN EXCHANGE FOR FAVORABLE POLICIES TO OIL COMPANIES FOLLOWING THE EVENT HELD IN MAR-A-LAGO LAST MONTH. AS THE MINORITY PARTY, I KNOW YOUR INVESTIGATIVE POWERS ARE LIMITED, BUT WHAT ACTION ARE YOU TAKING TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THAT MEETING AND THIS POSSIBLE EXCHANGE? >> WE HAVE WRITTEN TO THE OIL AND GAS EXECUTIVES TO ASK ABOUT WHAT THEY KNOW ABOUT THEIR PARTICIPATION, OR THEIR COMPANY'S PARTICIPATION IN THIS READING WERE DONALD TRUMP SAID, ESSENTIALLY, YOU GUYS GIVE ME $1 BILLION AND I WILL ISSUE A SERIES OF REGULATIONS REVERSING BIDEN ADMINISTRATION PROGRESS ON CLIMATE CHANGE. HE MADE VERY SPECIFIC STATEMENTS ABOUT LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS AND OIL DRILLING AND THIS IS, AT THIS POINT, IT'S NOT REALLY A CONFLICT OF INTEREST, IT'S A CONVERGENCE OF INTEREST. YOU SEE DONALD TRUMP AND HIS TEAM AND THE PROJECT 2025 PEOPLE COMING FORWARD TO SAY, WE ARE GOING TO REVERSE ALL THE PROGRESS THAT'S BEEN MADE ON CLIMATE CHANGE BY GIVING THE BIG OIL AND GAS COMPANIES EVERYTHING THEY WANT AND DONALD TRUMP SAYING, AND I WANT, IN RETURN, $1 BILLION. THE WHOLE COUNTRY CAN SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING. AGAIN, WITH THE CURRENT DEMOBILIZED STATE OF THE FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION. I DON'T HAVE A LOT OF HIGH HOPE , BUT AT LEAST
