they're all trying to get close to clarence thomas and influence clarence thomas through ginny. that's what's going on. that's why they're paying her. that's why mark meadows was taking her calls. if you look at those 29 emails that go back and forth, it's pretty obvious if her name was ginni jones, she would not have gotten past the operator at the white house. they're all trying to influence clarence thomas through her. and that is what's really going on, and that's why this is so evil. >> we don't have much time, but do you have any comment on this special master, aileen cannon, this judge who has essentially delayed, allowed a delay in trump having to file an affidavit saying he believed whether or not anything was planted in his house. she's given him another bly. >> i think the government agreed to pardon that because they had a hard time, the vendor that was going to put all these documents online, and the reason these vendors would want to engage with business with donald trump, they didn't want to sign a contract with him. i'm sure it's because they knew they wouldn't b

wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas. she's agreed to an interview with the january 6th committee following multiple revelations at her actions to subvert the results of the 2020 election, including sends messages to trump chief of staff mark meadows where she pushed a range of conspiracy theories and apparently pressing lawmakers in not only arizona but in wisconsin to overturn trump's loss. former january 6th committee staffer riggleman questioned what justice thomas knew about his wife's activities. >> we certainly knew the legislative was involved. were there ties directly to the supreme court on this? and i think that's very important to know. is it possible clarence thomas had in idea of the activities of ginni thomas? possible. had no idea what was going on during the election and biden and trump and her connections to the administration? possible. sit probable? i can't even get my arms to being probable. you don't have any specific proof of clarence pushing this, great, that's fine. we got to find out. >> it's not

supreme court justice clarence thomas. we knew that she had pressed to overturn election results in arizona but now we are learning she did the same thing in wisconsin, too. this is new information that was shared with cnn from a public records request and it shows that she effectively asked lawmakers in that state to reverse then president donald trump's election loss to biden. she says in this form email, quote, that's why i'm writing today to urge you to do our constitutional duty. please stand strong in the face of political and media pressure. please reflect on the awesome authority granted to you by our constitution and then please take action to ensure that a clean slate of electors is chosen for our state. of course, the january 6th committee really wants to speak with her and are considering a subpoena as well. >> they still haven't spoken to her after all this have involvement here. sunlen, thank you for that report. >>> all right. want to bring in cnn political commentator s.e. cupp and a former special assistan

. >>> in washington, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas testifying before the january 6th committee in person. ginni thomas questioned about her efforts to help former president trump overturn the 2020 election. >>> and there is news tonight about queen elizabeth. her cause of death now made public. >>> and good evening from florida tonight, where we have witnessed the extraordinary scale of destruction here from hurricane ian. the scope of the damage from this deadly hurricane has become painfully clear tonight. we have just learned this evening that ian is now a hurricane again, growing stronger, winding up for another devastating blow as it moves north and right up the east coast. here in southwest florida tonight, ian struck as a category 4 hurricane just shy of a category 5 24 hours ago. the storm surge was record-breaking and deadly. the flooding not just on the coast, but of course, inland, too. tonight, there are urgent rescues under way. and the death toll is climbing. president biden has warned that there could be a, quote, substantial loss of life, right her

and wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas. she supported trump's coup and repeatedly pushed to overturn the election. even personally pressing lawmakers in arizona and wisconsin to overturn biden's victory in those states. the committee saying she told them she still believes the 2020 election was stolen. yet, clarence thomas has refused to recuse himself from supreme court cases related to trump and the election. nbc news has obtained her opening statement to the committee which read, quote, regarding the 2020 election, i did not speak with justice clarence thomas at all about the details of my volunteer campaign activities. i am certain i never spoke with him about any of the legal challenges to the 2020 election, as i was not involved with those challenges in any way. and i know he was completely unaware of my texts with mark meadows until this committee leaked them to the press. those multiple texts to then chief of staff mark meadows were conspiracy theories, folks, including one drowning directly from qanon. congressman

there in mind the words of clarence thomas. he said the right to privacy and all that stuff, what about the right to marry who you want to marry? what about the right to contraception? these people are ready to strike down your right to contraception. imagine the cops who will be knocking on peoples doors to find out whether they have birth control pills. this is an assault on everyone's freedom. make no mistake about it. he did not mention interracial marriage. funny. but don't doubt for a moment that -- until 1968, 16 states said it was illegal for a black person and a white person -- for a white person to marry anybody unless they were white. they let us brown people marry whoever we wanted but they did not want to mess with the purity of the area and race. the bottom line is we are in a moment where we have to use up our power and we want to use it in connection with you. i will just say this, martin luther king never held any elective office. you don't have to be in office to wield power. but you do need to be working in c

, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas and her roles to overturn the election. joining us now is white house correspondent ali mctally, and they have emails from ginni thomas to other persons. >> and yes, it is why they asked her to come in voluntarily to come in to speak to them, and so we have been asked over the course of the months when she is going to be coming in, and chairman thomas said she had a legitimate excuse for not coming in, and now they have reached an excuse to come in to talk to them in the coming week, and the emails that they have pertain to efforts to overturn the election results and conversations with john eastman of the trump administration and the architecture of the course of the course of the investigation that they want to talk to her, and finally the opportunity as it comes that they are about to be back in the public spotlight and just about in under a week to do the public hearing, and it is information that we have not heard or seen, and that the threats that are leading to the violence that day are still current and real in this

she is the wife, of course, of supreme court justice clarence thomas. and yet again, she is back in the news, this time for allegedly trying to overturn the 2020 election in another state. the washington post learned thomas emails republican lawmakers in wisconsin, pressing them to overturn then president elect biden's 2020 victory. according to the post, the emails she reportedly sent on nearly identical to the ones that she sent to arizona officials, when she urged them to deny the will of the voters and throw the election to donald trump. and if that were not enough, there is also the matter of her allegedly texting then white house chief of staff mark meadows, we urging him to keep fighting to overturn the results. thomas later expressed anger at mike pence's refusal to intervene to keep trump in office, reportedly texting meadows we are living through what feels like the end of america. lots to unpack there -- let's bring back our saturday night panel. john, i will start with you, with the sound of ginni thomas from 2016, where she had a different

clarence thomas's wife. ginni thomas. and while chairman bennie thompson wouldn't tell me when that interview would take place. he said that there is no rush to have this take place before wednesdays hearing. but he said that he knows that this testimony will be significant because of the firsthand knowledge of so many topics that we have already seen in percent in past hearings. and lastly, that the committee is now having access to this thread that a arizona judge granted access to an arizona chairwoman of the republican party. access to her phone records to the committee. she was one of over 80 of these so-called fake electors that the committee subpoenaed earlier. so it's going to be interesting to see how this new information could possibly make it into this next hearing, or possibly into this final interim report that the committee is expected to release over the next few months. >> our allie raffa. thank you so much for being with us live on capitol hill this morning. so that many investigations into donald trump a

that is news that ginni thomas, the wife of course of clarence thomas. we'll actually be meeting with the january six committee. they have agreed to a interview. i know you said before, including on this program that clarence thomas should recuse himself from any supreme court cases having to do a january six because of ginni thomas's involvement. are you happy to see that she will be talking to the committee? >> of course i am. but i really have to reiterate the rest of it. we not only is it the case that clarence thomas should be recusing himself, this is just more evidence of why it is that we need ethics rules that are the law and that apply to the united states supreme court. conflicts of interest, having a family member that might be engaged in a matter before the court. we need rules in place so that it is not up to the justice himself, himself or herself to decide whether or not to say i will step back. but we've got a set of rules that apply to everyone. that is true in the lower courts in the federal system. but the supreme court is the one pla

. >> jeanne thomas is the wife of clarence thomas. the supreme court justice. and yes, news just broke this afternoon that she has agreed to an interview with the january 6th committee. what do you think will come of that? you know, it's it's a little outrageous to think that the spouse. >> supreme court justice question was hearing some of these cases was actively involved with the east with the stop, the steal campaign trying to use her position as the spouse of a supreme court justice try to convince legislators in number in 8 in numerous states, not just arizona, wisconsin, as well and possibly others find out to try and get them to overturn the election to engage and unconstitutional behavior to do it. but i think, though, from a bigger perspective, does this mean that clarence thomas has to recuse himself from any case involving, you know, donald trump going forward. and i think this is going to be a very important issue judge roberts is going to have justice. chief justice john roberts is going to do it because it is almost impossible to think situation

court justice clarence thomas, has agreed to an interview with the committee. her personal efforts to help overturn the election a key focus for the panel. meanwhile, the special master in the mar-a-lago case today said trump's lawyers have until the end of the month to raise any disputes about the items seized, including whether they believe the fbi lied about what was taken. the former president has claimed the government planted documents that weren't actually there. jericka. >> scott macfarlane for us at the justice department tonight. thank you. >>> overseas now, russia's call-up of 300,000 reserve troops to fight in ukraine has sparked outrage across the country. tonight ukraine's president volodymyr zelenskyy called on russians to protest, saying fight back, run away, or surrender. cbs's debora patta is in kyiv where ukraine's army is reclaiming territory fast. >> reporter: no time to dodge this bullet. in scenes shown on russian television, only tearful farewells as civilians called up to fight in vladimir putin's war said their goodbyes to loved ones.

try vicks vapostick. >>> ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas, stood by her 2020 election fraud claims today when she was interviewed by the congressional committee investigating the january 6th attack on the capitol. the committee wanted to ask the conservative activist about her communications with former white house chief of staff mark meadows and the lawyer who drafted plans for keeping then president trump in office after he lost the election. thomas said she wanted to clear up any misconceptions. >>> well, the u.s. economy got a bad report card today showing a second straight quarter of economic contraction. mortgage rates surged for the sixth week in a row, moving closer to 7% on a 30-year fixed. that's actually the highest level in 15 years. all three major stock indices were down today. u.s. stocks have lost more than 20% of their value this year. >>> all right. coming up next, the >>> secretary of state antony blinken says the u.s. will never recognize russia's planned annexation of ukrainian territory nor those sham referendums in ukraine. putin is

. >>> the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas, conservative activist virginia thomas agreed to interview with the house panel investigating the january 6th insurrection relating to her efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. >>> and the mega millions winners from two months finally claim the ticket to win the third largest jackpot in u.s. history. two joint winners agree to split the $1.3 billion prize. for more news, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or your connected tv. i'm dan lieberman, cbs news, new york. ♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> i'm jericka duncan in for norah. we begin tonight with the biggest escalation in the war in ukraine since the invasion itself. russia's vladimir putin is threatening nuclear war, and warning the west he is not bluffing. it comes after humiliating defeats on the battlefield in ukraine. and in a move not seen in russia since world war ii, putin is calling up hundreds of thousands of reservists. the announcement was met by intense anti-war protesters across russia, with more than 1300 arrests. unpop

ginny thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas, meeting with the january 6th committee. what she told them about the 2020 election. the fda approved a drug for a l s despite questions about i ng du know 2020 tonight on abc? we're back with the developing story from texas. two brothers are being held without bond after two migrants were shot and one was killed near el paso, mike and mark sheppard allegedly fired at four migrants at the side of a road late tuesday. a man was killed. a woman was wounded. mike shepherd was awarded at a detention center. he was fired after the shooting . the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas, has appeared before the january 6th committee behind closed doors. ginny thomas has been under scrutiny for her efforts to help overturn the 2020 election, including urging state lawmakers to reject the results. the committee says thomas told them she still believes the election was stolen. but thomas denies having any involvement with the capital riot. this week's january 6th hearing was postponed because of the hurricane, but as a b cs, jo

tonight the wife of sct justice clarence thomas ginny agreed to speak with the committee about her possible efforts to help overturn the 2020 election. cbs's scott macfarlane will start us off tonight from the justice department. scott, good evening. >> reporter: jericka, cbs news learned the justice department has resumed its investigation of the records seized from mar-a-lago as the number of investigations in the former president's legal peril continue to grow. the latest in a series of setbacks for former president trump, the three-judge appeals court panel in a unanimous ruling repudiated federal judge eileen canon's decision to freeze the investigation. the eleventh circuit said canon's court abused its discretion and the public has a strong interest in ensuring the security does not have grave damage. >> an almost embarrassing rebuke and overrule of the lower court's decision. the court made it clear that it sees no reason for the former president to have any poaccessory interest in the classified documents he had in his personal possession in the basement of his golf club. > reporte

you have amy coney barrett now joining clarence thomas in having a spouse that's in the business. amy coney barrett, a year after she joined the supreme court, her husband jesse barrett's boutique indiana firm opened its first ever washington office. we don't know what he's doing lobbying. you have clarence thomas whose wife obviously was an it is an insurrectionist and still believes in the insurrection. how do we even trust a court when the spouses are getting involved in politics? >> yeah, i mean you saw ginni thomas sitting for that for our interview this week. like you said was behind closed doors, that we may get to see some of the testimony in an upcoming hearing. but according to reports, like you said, she maintained the 22 election was stolen, but she'll such as she did not discuss her activities to overturn the election with her husband, justice clarence thomas. at this point it's not about ginni thomas being on the honor code. it's the appearance of a conflict that is really at issue, and this does matter, because we just had a gallup poll out yesterday the reported th

ask your doctor about jardiance. >> o'donnell: ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas, stood by her 2020 election fraud claims today when she was interviewed by the committee investigating the january 6th attack on the capitol. the committee wanted to ask the conservative activist about her communications with former white house chief of staff mark meadows and the lawyer who drafted plans for keeping then president trump in office after he lost the election. thomas said she wanted to clear up any misconceptions. well, the u.s. economy got a bad report card today showing a second straight quarter of economic contraction. mortgage rates surged for the 6th week in a row, moving closer to 7 percent on a 30 year fixed that is actually the highest level in 15 years. all three major stock indices were down today. u.s. stocks have lost more than 20% of their value this year. all right, coming up next, the biden administration accuses vladimir putin of another attempt at a land grab in ukraine. ukraine. before breztri, i was stuck in the past. i still had bad days, flare

clarence thomas is more powerful than trump, than anybody. when ginni thomas walks in there, she wants to be made happy. i don't even care at this point if it's criminal. we have a diseased system or somebody with that kind of access can push that type of nonsense and promised to overturn an election. >> you did something really, really risky, and you put a lot of information out there that's really important to everything going on in the country and let the chips fall where they may, and i'm glad you are out there telling us what you know and what you in the data. thank you very much. the untold story of the investigation into the untold story of january 6 is released today. there is brand-new reporting on thomas's testimony today. our friend andrew wiseman will be here to pull through all of that. we will also be back with more on the storm rescue and recovery efforts going all throughout florida. so don't go anywhere. discover caplyta. caplyta is a once-daily pill, proven to deliver significant relief from bipolar depression. unlike some m

the most notable supporters of donald trump's attempted coup was the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas, ginni thomas she quite infamously said trump chief of staff mark meadows some text messages including forwarding along the conspiracy theory that have been floating around on the biden and his family and other prominent democrats being held at guantÁnamo bay for their supposed crimes against the country. thomas was also a very active proponent of trump's lie about the stolen election she tried to pressure ours or lawmakers are tried to overturn trump's defeat in that country, as part of the fake electors scheme and i think this is the most important detail she was in contact with john eastman that is the trump lawyer who wrote one of the cool man was, one of the masterminds behind the trump who attend, and inviting him to speak at a meeting she was organizing about efforts to overturn the election in fact she knew john eastman because he had clerk for justice thomas now as a result of his wife's activism on the behalf of the ex president, there have been calls for clarence th

clarence thomas, to testify before the january 6th committee. they come as cnn learned this week that thomas not only pushed state lawmakers in arizona but also wisconsin to overturn joe biden's 2020 election win. according to emails shared with cnn at least two state lawmakers from wisconsin received what appeared to be pregenerated emails from the conservative activist that mirror form letters she also sent to 29 arizona legislators encouraging them to meddle in the state slate of presidential electors. thomas also attended the rally that preceded the attack on the u.s. capitol and the january 6 committee has used hearings to highlight texts thomas exchanged with trump white house chief of staff mark meadows in 2020 urging him to continue the fight to overturn biden's win. in one text she said, quote, the majority knows biden and the left is attempting the greatest heist of our history, which is obviously untrue. with me is a professor of law at the ucla school of law and is the director of the safeguarding democracy project. richard, do you t

the revelations have prompted calls for justice clarence thomas to step down -- or face impeachment. but so far, he has refused to recuse himself from cases related to the 2020 election and the january 6 insurrection -- even though his wife took part in the january 6th so-called “stop the steal” rally in washington, d.c. in ukraine, inspectors with you an international atomic energy agency arrived at the russian occupied zapper region nuclear power plant after intense shelling delayed their his by several hours. the aea chief said after touring the site, the physical integrity of the site had been repeatedly violated by fighting between russia and ukraine. russia's defense ministry accused ukraine terrorism by firing artillery at the complex. in kyiv, president zelenskyy hailed the visit but said russian soldiers have locked inspectors from entering the power plants crisis center. he called for the establishment of demilitarized zones near the nuclear site. >> for more than three decades, our specialist have managed these facities. the iaea ner had concerns regarding the activiti

. >>> genie thomas, wife of clarence thomas, has agreed to sit down for an interview with the january 6th house committee. >> let's bring in caitlyn to talk about the new developments here. trump losing the special master review issue, which is quite a defeat for him. and the judge ruling that the doj can continue the mar-a-lago probe here. what more are we learning? >> everything donald trump was trying to do here about the heart of this investigation, these 100 or so documents marked as classified, he's not going to get to do. the appeals court is rejecting everything the trump team tried to do here and much of the ruling from judge eileen cannon, a trump appointee. and on this appeal panel were two trump appointed judges. his team was saying that trump should be able to keep everything, even what was deemed classified. and his team saying the fact that trump was under investigation was hurtful to him. they should put the brakes on it. the appeals court came back, no, that doesn't make sense. that's not a good enough reason, the possibility that you could be under investigation for

in other news, virginia thomas, the wife of supreme court, justice clarence thomas, meeting with the january six committee, with the washington post is nearly five hours. our first guest tonight, congressman adam schiff, in this community. virginia's thomas lawyers, answering every one of the committee's questions today. we will see if congressman schiff can confirm that with us. and, we have congressman schiff 's appears to be what vladimir putin's plan to have a formal annexation ceremony, tomorrow, in moscow, in which demand dictator will pretend, that some eastern in ukraine is in western russia. virginia thomas is providing portions of the written opening statement to the committee to a wacky, right wing website, calling itself the federalist. formally not associated with the federalist society, controlling republican appointments to federal judgeships. virginia thomas, asking the committee to believe this. about her communication with her husband. so, that's a 2020 election. it did not speak with them at all, who has the details of the communities, and did not speak with, them

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elsewhere, ginni thomas, the wife of clarence thomas, testified before the january six committee a lot of people have said, given ginni thomas's involvement in the events leading up to january 6th, her election denialism, and campaign with states, and other actors, inside of trump world. her relationships is justice thomas for them, and the opening statement today. i guarantee, my husband hasn't spoken with me, pending cases in court, and is an ironclad rule in the home it isn't interested in politics, and you can't see my face here. it was going to the topic, swoon calling, emailing, and texting. does that satisfy your questions? >> no, and it's bad for the supreme court. it's bad for the american people. maybe they never discussed this in private, but it's just obvious to any american, that to have the weight of a supreme court justice, saying, the 2020 election was stolen, which -- >> she continues to say. she said it today. it casts doubt on the court itself. there is much stricter rules, they have to recuse himself, if it's a case that seems too involved in the work of one of thei

and ginni thomas, wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas has agreed to sit down with the january 6th house committee. for months they've been trying to get an interview to look at the role she may have played in trying to overturn the election. athena jones joins us with a look at the litany of legal issues. >> reporter: the former president's legal woes are mounting after an appeals court sided with the justice department allowing it to continue its review of classified documents here in mar-a-lago. and they found that trump lied more than 200 times about the value of his assets for more than a decade, calling the number staggering. >> a federal appeals court is lifting a hold on the classified records found in former president trump's mar-a-lago home and resort. a victory for the justice department, which can resume using the 100 or so documents in its criminal probe. the three judge panel of the 11th court circuit of appeals said in their ruling, it is evident they have a strong interest of ensuring the results of the classified documents has a job, so they must determine who

so i think that it was an ethics violation for clarence thomas to previously rule on issues relating to these investigations, including in the trump v. thompson case, revelation of documents that bear upon this investigation. he should step away. but we know he probably won't and, unfortunately, the decision is up to him. that makes no sense at all. >> sara murray, evan perez, jeff eisen, thank you all. >>> hiring in the u.s. is beginning to slow but today's job reports signals the overall market remains strong. 315,000 jobs were added in august, slightly beating economists' expectations, but that was far below july's blockbuster report. the unemployment rate ticked up to 3.7%. president biden celebrated the numbers this morning and highlighted the positive signs for the u.s. economy. >> the bottom line is jobs are up, wages are up, people are back to work, and we're seeing some signs that inflation may be -- may be, i'm not over-promising, may be beginning to ease. >> cnn business correspondent rahel solomon is here, as well as business journalist mark stewart. great to see both of

ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas has agreed to speak to the panel in the coming weeks. and a win for the justice department and federal investigators as an appeals court allows the doj to resume its criminal probe of classified documents seized from former president trump's mar-a-lago estate. welcome back to "morning joe," it is thursday, september 22nd, jonathan lemire is still with us, and msnbc contributor our good friend mike barnicle joins us table as well. let's get to the brewing legal battle in new york. letitia james filed a lawsuit against donald trump and his children for widespread fraud involving false financial statements related to the company. nbc news correspondent peter alexander has details. >> reporter: a legal move that could shut down the empire that bears the former president's name, the trump organization. >> claiming you have money you do not have does not amount to the art of the deal. it's the art of the steal. >> reporter: new york attorney general letitia james announcing the civil lawsuit after a three-year investigation, alle

. >> reporter: meanwhile we're learning the wife of the supreme court justice clarence thomas has agreed to be interviewed by the january 6th committee in the coming weeks the committee wants to ask about her communications with a trump lawyer who was pushing a plan to overturn the 2020 election results. lester >> all right, peter, thank you >>> conspiracy theorist alex jones took the stand today at his connecticut defamation trial over his false claims the sandy hook massacre was a hoax a jury set to decide how much he must pay the victims' families we get more from rehema ellis. >> i've already apologized to the parents over and over again. i don't apologize to you >> reporter: alex jones in a heated exchange with the attorney for the families suing him in a defamation trial after he challenged jones to admit the pain he caused >> you have families in this courtroom here that lost children, sisters, wives >> i legitimately -- >> reporter: but jones conceded in a texas courtroom last month the sandy hook shooting was 100% real the jury awarded the parents of one victim almost $50 millio

and, if you listen to clarence thomas he wants it expanded. he wants to eliminate all the rights and privileges under the right to privacy. he wants to eliminate the right to contraceptive. the right to privacy in the bed and. the rights lgbt to quality and marriage. he is taking this country back over 50 years. he is taking this country back to a time when women did not have full equality. he wants to deny right to privacy to half of the u.s. population. this should be blocked in every way possible. it should be called out for what it is, an attack on women. an attack on her bodily autonomy. an attack on our sovereignty as human beings. it is unconscionable. it is wrong and we have to defeat it. click senator schumer i am happy to take any questions. he is adamantly a huge force behind us all as we do this on our side. >> i supported the principal in this country for 50 years. and that is the row decision which was rejected by the supreme court and now put our country into chaos. >> would democrats be able too. [inaudible] >> what are you tal

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i'm not saying that clarence thomas, you know, leaned over to his side of the bed and picked up his files and hit check, check, check. but it at least justifies an explanation that didn't happen. and the one i mentioned already. january 19th, 2022, the supreme court rejected trump's executive privilege claim of a white house documents. eight justices rejected the executive privilege claim from an expresident. you don't have to be an expert in anything anymore to know that only a current president has that privilege. thomas all by himself dissented. and obviously in turning over the documents, what the committee got their hands on in part was thousands of text messages from mark meadows that happened to include messages from clarence thomas' wife. february 22nd, the supreme court rejected a case by the pennsylvania republican party challenging all of the by mail rules. thomas and alito dissented. they refused to hear the texas lawsuits and alito and thomas were the only two that felt the court should have taken up the case. what kind of stakes in terms of the reputation and integrity and p

. >>> and conservative activist ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas, has agreed to a voluntary interview with the house committee investigating the january 6th riot. the committee wants to talk to her about communications with trump advisers and her role in trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. ginni thomas' attorney says that she wants to, quote, clear up any misconception business her work relating to the election. >>> president biden denounced russia and russian president vladimir putin for what he called the brutal, needless war on ukraine during his address to the u.n. general assembly. during yesterday's speech, mr. biden called on all nations to stand firm in backing the ukrainian resistance. he also said putin's threat to use nuclear weapons was reckless and irresponsible. bradley blackburn is at the u.n. where the general assembly continues its annual meeting today. good morning. >> reporter: anne-marie, good morning. the world was listening here yesterday as president biden took his chance to respond to vladimir putin.

. >>> the wife of the supreme court justice clarence thomas -- excuse me -- accused of working to overturn the election today, the january 6th committee asks if she still believed the election was stolen. she answered, and we'll have that and coverage of hurricane ian continues live from orlando as we approach the bottom of the hour and the top of the news on cnbc do nearly one million businesses choose stamps.com to mail and ship? no more trips to the post office no more paying full price for postage and great rates from usps and ups mail letters ship packages anytime anywhere for less a lot less get our special tv offer a 4-week trial plus postage and a digital scale go to stamps.com/tv and never go to the post office again >>> vladimir putin set to hold a signing ceremony tomorrow to formally annex parts of ukraine. that today from the kremlin spokesperson the move comes just days after russian officials held what the u.s. called sham referendumsdayr russian officials hastily held what the u.s. called sham now u.s. officials have warned the kremlin would rig the results just as they did

. >> and related news, we learned that ginni thomas, the way south of supreme court clarence thomas, they have agreed to testify to the january six committee about her involvement -- how big of a deal is it that she is going to testify? >> i think she is an important part of communication. she was in touch with mark meadows. she was that communications and rallies. what is the big problem here, charles, given what we might learn from her testimony, this really places justice clarence thomas in a position where he should not be -- he already has done that in a situation where some records from the national archives are being turned over to the january six committee. i think that we are going to see more about the level of conflict once we start hearing the testimony. >> thank you very much. we are with trump's legal troubles. the former presidents rhetoric has gotten more dangerous. the country would face, quote, problem's if he got indicted. he has also appeared to make overtures towards qanon, the conspiracy theory personality called. they carried out violence on the capitol in resp

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thomas. she spent the decades since research and teaching, and writing, about the gender case violence entrenched in out democratic systems and in our daily lives. joining us now is professor anita hill, out today with a new paperback version of her book, believing, our 30 year journey to end gender violence. thank you for being here today. >> it's a pleasure to be able to talk with. you congratulations on your new show. >> thank you so, much and iq for being on this new show! i just want to start with the sort of moment we are in an american politics. where you have in particular, for today, an example of a group of men oath keepers, whose very existence as a group is based on homophobia, racism, misogyny. you have groups like the proud boys. also implicated in january six. who called themselves proudly, pardon the pun, western chauvinists. how and why is this happening? so publicly. articulated with pride. with zeal. is it coming as a backlash to, you know games we've made in second wave fe

court justice clarence thomas, agreed to meet with the committee to discuss her role in promoting the overturned of the 2020 elec. mrs. thomas talked with mark meadows about rejecting the results and emailed lawmakers in arizona and wisconsin, urging them to overturn the results weeks after joe biden was elected president. while thomas was scheduling her meeting with the committee, the house passed a bill that would prevent people like ginni thomas from launching another coup. the bill introduced by california democrat zoe lofgren and wyoming republican liz cheney would reform the electoral count act by clarifying ambiguous language which trump and his allies exploited. the bill makes crystal clear that despite what trump might say, the vice president does not have the power to reject the will of the people. the senate is working on its own version. now, tellingly, 203 republicans, the majority of their house caucus, rejected the legislation. in so doing, they refused to put a stop to any future january 6th. a violent state on american democracy. officer eugene goodman, an army vetera

we know now that the members of the committee will get to speak with supreme court justice clarence thomas's wife, ginni thomas? >> that's right. so this is actually coming from our jamie gangel. she's learned from a source that ginni thomas has in fact come to this agreement with the committee. she'll be interviewed at some point in the next few weeks. and this is a victory for the committee because they've had a lot of questions for the wife of justice clarence thomas. in particular, we've reported on this extensively as well, you know, text messages that ginni thomas had sent to trump's chief of staff, mark meadows, before january 6th encouraging an overturning of the election. also the fact that e-mails surfaced where ginni thomas seems to be encouraging state lawmakers in wisconsin and arizona to overturn biden's win in their states. so she'll talk with the committee. her lawyer previously said that there is nothing to uncover here. this is the statement that he put out last night. "as she has said from the outset, mrs. thomas is eager to answer the committee's questions to clear up any

ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas also tried to overturn biden's 2021 in wisconsin. she has yet to face any accountability for her actions. i had a little message for her and for the 16 committee this week on my peacock show. >> consider everything we already knew about the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas. in march, we learn from the washington post ginni thomas exchange multiple text messages in communications with trump then chief of staff, mark meadows. in messages obtained by the post, thomas promoted conspiracy theories and advise how donald trump could hold on to power. in one, she wrote quote, do not concede. it takes time for the army who was gathering for his back. weeks later, we learned from the post that was not just mark meadows that she reached out to. but 29 arizona lawmakers. in emails, the paper obtained, she urged the state legislature to set aside the slate of electors chosen by the voters and instead, she was there elm trump electors. writing please take action to ensure that a clean slate of electors is chosen from our st