4.9 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Today Bill Kristol is in for Sarah and he and JVL talk about CNN’s Trump town hall, the latest Ginni Thomas reporting, and the bizarre reaction of Conservatism Inc. to the ongoing Clarence Thomas story.
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0:00.0 | Hey there it's JVL on the secret show with Bill Crystal today. |
0:04.0 | We talked about CNN giving Donald Trump a town hall |
0:07.5 | and also about Clarence Thomas's latest ethical problems. |
0:12.0 | Here's the show. |
0:13.0 | Here's the show. |
0:14.0 | The news this morning. |
0:19.0 | We are in a place where we have drip, drip, |
0:21.0 | drip, Clarence Thomas, news every 48 hours or so the |
0:24.4 | Washington Post has a story today about Leonard Leo of the Federal Society |
0:29.4 | arranging for Ginny Thomas to be paid $25,000 out of a nonprofit that had business before the court. |
0:39.9 | And as he is making the request of Kelly and Conway at the time because he was having anyway |
0:48.1 | Ginny seems to have been consulting for Kelly and Conway. |
0:50.9 | Kelly and Conway build the nonprofit $25,000 for the $25,000 to go to |
0:56.1 | Ginny Thomas. |
0:58.0 | And the Leo line here is, no mention of of Jenny of course. |
1:04.2 | He wanted to make sure that none of the paperwork mentioned that this is where the money was going to. |
1:10.0 | And the purpose of this $25,000 payment is a, again, here's the direct quote, |
1:17.9 | supplement for constitution polling and opinion consulting, which I don't want to prejudge, but I know a little bit about polling, |
1:27.2 | I know a little bit about Kelly Ann and her company, and I know a little bit about |
1:29.9 | Ginny Thomas and her areas of expertise. |
1:32.4 | This is basically a no-show job. |
1:34.3 | This is the equivalent of, this is $25,000 just walking around money |
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