coming up. is the most important day in the christian calendar, and thousands are gathering to celebrate easter mass begins at the vatican. meanwhile religious events across the middle east marred by ongoing violence, we re live in jerusalem and beirut, and why to tennessee lawmakers expelled from the statehouse could soon be back at one. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with poland, he said. up first for us. it s easter sunday, the holiest day of the christian calendar. celebrating with the bible says was the resurrection of jesus. tens of thousands of the faithful have converged on st peter s square for easter mass. currently underway there. hope francis is presiding over the service. he will then deliver his traditional urbi or or be or at to the city of the world blessing. the 86 year old pontiff has been recovering from bronchitis after being hospitalized last week now later in the show, we will head to the vatican for a live update with our delia gallagher. me
federal judges split, throwing the future of a key abortion medication into question by the administration should ignore this ruling. how will the fda respond? health and human services secretary javier bezerra and democratic congresswoman alexandria koziol cortez next and political retribution. tennessee republicans expelled two democrats over their gun reform protests during session they think of the issues over we ll see you on monday, another flashpoint in the guns debate, baldy congressman tony gonzalez will join me. plus ultra mega, a defiant former president vows to fight charges against him as other ongoing probes accelerate . how are republican voters responding? do not go to the gutter avoided, it turns off the voters. i m dana bash in washington, where the state of our union is wondering what doesn t become politicized these days, we just closed out and especially bitter and divisive week in american politics. on tuesday, former president donald trump was indicted
york today on the program. donald trump gets arrested. finland becomes a member of nato speaker of the house meets the president of taiwan. and unrest rocks the middle east again. all that and more with a great family. then i ll talk to the council on foreign relations. shannon o neill about her contrarian views about that much demise of globalization. former ibm ceo ginni rometty. on how to leave. but first here s my take. i m the father of two young women, so there s a part of me that would be absolutely delighted to see tiktok band. it is a scarily addictive app with 150 million us usually list including two out of three teenagers, but the more carefully i think about it, the more i worry and when i look at the legislation being proposed that would enable the government to ban tiktok. i see a frightening orwellian law. that should send chills down every american spine. the argument for banning tiktok is straightforward. it s owned by a chinese company and could be forced t
happen with this court. i do. but i m not on the courts, and certainly i m not on that court where that texas judge decided to, uh, turn upside down the whole process that fda you has used for years for many drugs. cnn s elaine to train is in washington. for us, elena. i mean this was a controversial decision to be sure. so what our members of congress, saying this is all about? well for the reaction has been pretty disparate immediately after the court s decision was announced, democrats began railing against the ruling. they held press conferences. they span the airwaves, and some even went so far as to tell president biden that he thinks that they think that he should ignore the ruling altogether. now republicans, meanwhile, have been far less outspoken, but we did hear from a few today who were pressed on the issue during the sunday shows that includes congressman tony gonzalez. he is a republican from texas, and he had some pretty harsh words for the biden. ministrations
fredricka whitfield and we begin with escalating tensions in the middle east. israel says it has carried out air strikes in syrian territory. israel s defense forces releasing video it says shows strikes on a syrian military compound radar systems and artillery posts. the strikes were launched after israel says rockets were fired from syria toward the golan heights and in the west bank today, a funeral was held for two british israeli sisters who were killed in an attack on friday. days of violence erupted following an israeli police raid on the al aqsa mosque compound in jerusalem last week. cnn s fred pleitgen is in jerusalem. scott mclean is in beirut, lebanon, fred, let me begin with you. what is the latest hi there, fredricka. well certainly it is still quite concerning here on the ground. i would say it s still very tense and very volatile situation as well. and of course, one of the main reasons for that is what you were just mentioning is those rocket attacks that