growing outrage in tennessee one of the ousted lawmaker s justin jones joins me live wit his former boss congresswoma barbara lee. vice president harris speaks out. they understood the importance, these three of standing to say that peopl will not be silenced donald trump s pinch. jack smith is about to get his most important witness in th january six insurrection yet former vice president mike pence. i m jonathan, this is th saturday show. a house divided against itself cannot stand the focus of abraham lincoln s 1850 speech was slavery and th most in the minority of mostly southern white wealthy lan owning men who wanted to maintain it. in this democracy. the same men would start and lose a war to keep that evil institution. but more than two centurie later, the fury of that battle still smolders the tennessee three face expulsion votes this week, following a protest in the state house chamber demandin stricter gun safety measures after a mass shooting at a national ele
good morning to you on saturda april the 8th, i m velshi. it is been a short week in american politics. former president donald trum appeared for arraignment i manhattan, criminal cour political tensions are on th front. his extremist ideology wil carry on whether or not he succeeds in getting back to th white house. on tuesday, we saw trump i unfamiliar territory inside courtroom waiting for the judg to give him the criminal charges division filed against him. former president already twice impeached and still currentl facing eleni of other criminal and civil complaints, he pleaded not guilty to the 34 felony accounts of falsifyin business records in relation t the hush money payments made t stormy daniels with whom h allegedly had an affair. trump continues to lie those allegations. he s also reported to making dozens of social media pos criticizing the manhatta district attorney, alvin brang the judge assigned to his case and even their family member who have nothing to do
mifepristone, first, federal judge in texas invalidates the drugs fda approval, hours later, a judge s ruling in anothe case, saying the opposite. that abortion rights advocat leans in on what the dueling rulings mean, for women access to potentiall lifesaving care. plus, the case against donal trump. we ll dig into the facts behin those 34 felony counts acros falsifying business records, i new york and where the histori prosecution goes from here i am symone sanders-townsend and i have something to say. 136,378 people in tennessee ar now without representation i their own state house, all thanks to the action of th republican majority. yeah, this week republican lawmakers in tennessee, treate the second memo with mor reverence than the very bedroc of the republic they claim t love i m talking about democrac itself as parents students and legion of other everyday tennessean s demonstrated against gun violence, passionately but peacefully, at the state capital last week
it for weeks, it suspended fda approval of mifepristone, th drug that, as you know, ha been safely used for more than 20 years, has become the mos common method for terminatin pregnancies in this country. within an hour, another federa judge in washington state, contradicted that ruling ordering the fda to keep the drug available at 17 states in d.c. president biden last night condemning the texas route calling it, quote, the next bi step before the national ban o abortion by republican elected officials have vowed to make a lot america. vice president kamala harris committed to fighting back there is no question, president and i are gonna stan with the women of america, and do everything we can to ensure that women have the ability to make decisions about their health care, their reproductiv health care, in a manner tha is what they need, and the decide that, not their government the drug will continue to b available for now, since the texas judge gave the fda seven days
it is report card time the maga-controlled house just marked its first 100 days in power. democratic congressman gre casar is here to help us great their work plus, double trouble special counsel jack smith s investigations into trump ar both ramping up, and his forme top aides are finall testifying before granaries. then, a worst of the wee first. ted cruz makes his debut appearance facing off agains lindsey graham who s gonna take the top spot? i am ayman mohyeldin let s get started. bear with me here for a moment, professor ayma mohyeldin has some grading t do this week, kevin mccarthy an the maga-controlled hous marked 100 days in power, 10 days of score settling for right virtue signaling, an circus like hearings at a pace that would put the wrangling brothers to shame. it has been such a hectic 10 days that it is easy to forget that all the individua episodes of bedlam the gop unleashed in the holes o congress just a few short months ago, house republicans requi