morning, lindsey reiser picks up the coverage right now it s 10:00 a.m. in new york, i m lindsey reiser right now the tensions that have been simmering in tennessee for the last week or even longer are boiling over this morning. protests are gaining steam inside and outside the state house despite the rain against republican efforts to do something that s only been done three times in that state since the civil war expel some of their fellow members specifically these three democrats are under fire for participating in fiery gun reform protests on the house floor last week. today they ll have a chance to defend themselves, but with a republican super majority can they survive the vote. we re live where that high stakes session is getting underway. major escalations in the mounting legal battles faceing former president trump former vice president mike pence saying he will not fight an order to testify in the federal probe. sources say the new york judge in the hush mone
grilled by us lawmakers and legal peril for donald trump. soon a federal grand jury will hear testimony from the former president s own lawyer. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with kim bruun hoover. and we begin with tip for tap air strikes in syria after a deadly attack on u. s personnel deployed to fight isis. the pentagon says it launched a retaliatory strike targeting a group affiliated with iran s revolutionary guard in the eastern part of the country that followed a drone attack on u. s forces in syria, killing a u. s contractor and wounding six other americans. let s bring in cnn s international diplomatic editor nic robertson live in london, nick what more are we learning? well this retaliatory strike on groups affiliated with the iranian revolutionary guard corps who are believed to be responsible for that drone strike that killed one contractor wounded five u. s servicemen and another u. s service contract to their this retaliatory strike is being called