Former attorney general refuses to throw Clarence Thomas under the bus

When pushed to condemn Thomas' trips from a wealthy GOP donor, Mukasey said he is 'not sure' that he 'would have' refused the vacations.

"What I'm asking you is, as a judge, is it fair to say you most likely would have declined an offer of foreign travel worth hundreds of thousands of dollars because, quite reasonably, you would've had the concern that public disclosure of such travel could have undermined public confidence in the impartiality of your judgment?" Ossoff asked.

Mukasey: If I were a district judge and somebody wanted to fly me on his private plane on a vacation with his family, I were friendly with that person, would I have refused and endangered the friendship? I'm not sure that I would've

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