things to know for this. tuesday april the 11th louisville this morning morning the lives of five people murdered in a mass shooting at a bank. police say the gunman used to be an employee there. the tennessee three closer to being made whole. state representative justin jones, officially reinstated after being expelled last because colleague justin pearson basis of vote tomorrow to get his job back. federal appeals court weighing a decision on a widely used abortion pill, the doj has asked the court to stop a texas judge s ruling that would suspend the use of crestone also president biden departing for northern ireland this morning. he is going to be there tomorrow, 25 years since the good friday, of course, ended years of violence. and say hello to mayor taylor swift. the city of tampa is now given the singer the honorary title and a key to the city of ahead of her concert there this week. cnn this morning starts right now. another day, another mass shooting in america righ
Irish, but i m not stupid. i married dominic cooper s daughter. and he used to have an expression, he said. if you re lucky enough to be irish, you re lucky enough. every st patrick s day, every irishman goes out to find another irishman to make a speech to well, that s why i m here. it s a lot of green in that audience. did you see that so much green? i m wearing green today. i don t know if any u s president has ever quoted irish poets as much inspiring. biden does, but you can basically bet on it every time he speaks at the white house, they call him president obama didn massive. okay that was really good, actually, all right, as we are saying president biden s irish heritage is no secret in just a couple hours. he is going to leave the white house to visit his ancestral home. the
Great friendship since the first day that we met his family were steeped in irish traditions. he you know, he talks about it all the time. as he tells great stories of growing up and basically growing up in an irish household, even though obviously there are very much american. from accepting the presidential medal of freedom. you know, i can t let a comment go by without quoting an irish poet. to accepting the democratic party s nomination for president , the irish poet seamus heaney once wrote, biden always seems to have a line of irish poetry to hand but then once in a lifetime. the longed for tidal wave of justice can rise up and hope and history rhyme. he s just so proud of the irish roots really problems. irish roots. um yes, we have had the other presidents. this president is more important than the rest of them. now before president biden travels south to the republic of
, who survived her expulsion vote. we re going to get her reaction to justin jones being reinstated. can t wait to see that. also this morning, we re tracking in development out of the white house as president, biden said to depart shortly for northern ireland, he s going to mark the 25th anniversary of the good friday agreement. that s the peace deal that was brokered in part by the united states and helped bring an end. end to decades of sectarian violence, but ahead of the president s high profile visit. masked men were saying thrown mullet seen throwing molotov cocktails at police during a pro irish march on monday. cnn s nic robertson is live in belfast for us, nick . obviously anytime the president goes anywhere, there are heightened security concerns . you can see it on the ground days before he even gets there. he s set to leave this morning. what are you seeing on the ground? and what is it like in belfast right now? yeah i think there s a mood of expectation. the president s
Which included a visit here, so this is the original farmyard. the president of the president s great grandfather, patrick kennedy, left from he actually left through that gate, the same geese famine when he went off to boston. many irish americans, kennedy s great grandfather immigrated to united states during the irish potato famine think he decided to come back to europe and show that he was proud of his peasant roots. kennedy began a tradition of presidential visits to ireland. reagan visited in 1984 so many irish men and women from every walk of life played a role in creating the dream of america. interiors of this pub in reagan s ancestral village of bali. pooran were eventually shipped to california to the reagan presidential library. now perhaps the most irish of irish american president is about to visit the country and his cousins. the blue. it s here in ballymena county. mayo are getting ready to tell us how you re related to the president.