. vice president kamala harris is in nashville, tennessee, throwing her support behind to tennessee democrats ousted from the statehouse for protesting gun violence, will have details on her meeting and the vice president s message. also tonight. israel reeling from an apparent terror attack, killing at least one person and wounding six, tele viv, there are new fears right now that the conflict could escalate and spread. cnn is on the ground in the middle east as violence in the region heats up, and justice clarence thomas firing back, claiming his luxurious vacations with a conservative mega donor. personal hospitality. but even some republican judges aren t buying his explanation. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m alex marquardt, and you re in the situation room. we begin our coverage tonight in tennessee, where vice president kamala harris is meeting with two democratic lawmakers who were expelled from
Eventually turn over, no one loses. Id ask the committee make decisions based on the facts and support homeowners support those protected and put money in the coffers which will help everyone. Thank you, supervisors wiener and farrell for your proposal of balanced legislation. Thanks for letting me speak too. Chair wiener thank you very much and thank you for being honest. Next speaker. High there. Im a San Francisco resident for 13 years. Im a t. I. C. Owner and previous renter for many years. All of my coowners in my six unit t. I. C. Were once renters also. We are not opposed to rent control. I just wanted to make that clear. The lottery system is so outdated and overburdened and with the current backlog it may be over 10 years before being eligible for conversions. Were not trying to make a quick buck because our units have lost a significant amount of value since we purchased. Were previous renters who are looking to purchase a home to have stable housing in San Francisco. We cont
Buildings for Student Housing and the thousands of units that have been converted to shortterm rentals which continue to occur despite current legislation to curb it. And i keep hearing tenants will get lifetime leases. Today is the first time i heard that those lifetime leases would be rent controlled. But supervisor farrell did not explain why they would have extra protection, more protection than they have today. What protection does it given them against an other than movein eviction and what about those who have been evicted when they were converted to t. I. C. In the first place. Ive protested many times in front of those places where people were evicted just to form a t. I. C. There. No one is against families living in San Francisco has been intimated but not at expense of elderly disabled and longterm tenants and not at the expense of rent control. People should organize and fight the banks and we should build more housing in San Francisco which is truly affordable, not 8 Mill
ruled in jobs back in june, it suggested the majority said, you know, leave it to the states. an elected legislators. but this is exhibit a for the fact that it s still very much into the hands of judges, and this single judge has made this ruling tonight that is going to have reverberations nationwide. alex gloria, can you put this into context for us? this is? wouldn t you think that the most significant legal ruling on abortion since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade and i think it s striking because the fda, as elizabeth was pointing out is a federal agency. whose job it is to determine whether drugs are safe, and this drug has been deemed safe for more than a decade. and so, what you re looking at is, uh, pulling this drug could upend an important form of reproductive
in and this is why my decisions are not made. by judges, medical and drug decisions are made by doctors and scientists, like teams of them at the fda. so when we look long term, there s something else i want to point out, which is that if this goes through, i imagine this decision has made pharmaceutical companies very nervous because they really going to develop the drugs that we need. if one judge can justify that it needs to come off the market. there needs to be confidence in the fda process. so the drug companies can make the drugs that we need and develop the drugs that we need. if they if they think they re just one judge can take that drug off the market, they may not be willing to invest that kind of money to go back to gloria borger. gloria. we only have a minute left, but it strikes me that we ve seen these incredible protest in tennessee , which had to do with guns, but people are responding in very active, very angry ways. these