Clarence Thomas allegedly gave ‘unusual access’ to Supreme Court to exclusive club The New York Times reports
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🗓️ 11 July 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight on the readout. Look, you know Donald Trump. Is it plausible? Trump was showing classified documents to people in private meetings? |
| 0:13.0 | The short answer is yes. I watched him show documents to people at Marlago on the dining room patio. So he has no respect for classified information never did. |
| 0:27.0 | Former staff like Stephanie Grisham say he did it. Trump himself is heard on tape bragging about it. |
| 0:33.0 | Now a former CIA director is speaking out about the danger Trump posed to national security with his misuse of classified documents. |
| 0:41.0 | Also tonight we're learning about more rich billionaires that justice clearance Thomas has been pallying around with. |
| 0:48.0 | What he received from them and what he reportedly gave in return. And George Santos who still hasn't been removed from Congress is comparing himself to Rosa Parks. |
| 0:58.0 | Yet another example of Republicans misusing civil rights icons as the Republican in charge of Oklahoma schools says the Tulsa race massacre wasn't about race at all. |
| 1:09.0 | I wish I were making that up. |
| 1:13.0 | But we begin tonight with a twice indicted ex president who poses a national security risk unlike any this country has ever faced. |
| 1:23.0 | And don't just take it from me. Here's a warning from Michael Hayden, the former director of both the Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency who served under president Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. |
| 1:39.0 | The president is supposed to keep our secrets secure not show our secrets off. He had many top secret documents at Mar-a-Lago for more than a year. |
| 1:52.0 | We don't know who saw them, but we have to assume those documents were compromised. Trump must face consequences for his actions. |
| 2:05.0 | The former CIA director suffers from aphasia as a result of a stroke, making it difficult for him to speak. |
| 2:11.0 | But due to the gravity of Trump's alleged crimes and the danger Trump poses to our national security, Hayden chose to speak out anyway. |
| 2:19.0 | He isn't the only forced art general speaking out against Trump these days. The New York Times report that John Kelly who served as Trump's White House Chief of Staff said in a sworn statement that when he was in the White House, |
| 2:31.0 | Trump discussed having the IRS and other federal agencies investigate his perceived enemies. |
| 2:37.0 | The people he targeted were Peter Strach who you've seen on MSNBC and on this show. And Lisa Page, two FBI officials who were involved in investigating the Trump campaign's ties to Russia. |
| 2:49.0 | Strach was the lead agent in the FBI's investigation. Page was a former lawyer in the Bureau. They were both removed from then special counsel Robert Mueller's probe after text messages critical of Trump became public. |
| 3:03.0 | The two officials who Trump viciously attacked while in office filed lawsuits against the Justice Department. |
| 3:09.0 | Page's lawsuit alleges privacy violations while Strach argues that he was wrongfully terminated. |
| 3:15.0 | John Kelly's assertions were disclosed in a statement that was filed in connection with those lawsuits. |
| 3:21.0 | In a statement he said, Trump questioned whether investigations by the Internal Revenue Service or other federal agencies should be undertaken into Mr. Strach and or Ms. Page. |
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