. 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
right now on ana cabrera reports, tens of thousands preparing to march in washington. the massive rally at the national mall to condemn a global rise in anti-semitism. we re live in the nation s capital where security is high ahead of this event. the world health organization says gaza s al shifa hospital is now nearly a cemetery. more on the efforts to evacuate patients, including babies, as fighting intensifies. also ahead, an inside look at president trump s efforts to stay in the white house. the damning video showing testimony of former trump allies and lawyers who pleaded guilty in the fulton county election case. and new comments from the new house speaker this morning as he faces increasing pressure to avert a government shutdown in just days. does his plan have any hope of succeeding? thanks so much for joining us. it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we begin with the breaking news in washington where tens of thousands are beginnin
. 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 the
welcome back. tonight in 2020 vision, we may see abortion laws on the ballot in more ways than one next year. missouri s republican governor, mike parson, signed a bill that bans most abortions after eight weeks. something the missouri legislature recently passed. that is set to go into effect in august, but it may soon be met with an electoral challenge. a conservative mega donor, david humphries, is planning on funding a ballot initiative in 2020 that could undo the law. he was a donor to the governor and urged the governor to veto this bill and obviously he didn t. in missouri ballot initiatives to change state law are not hard to get on the ballot if they have real money behind them. and the voters don t always go the same way as the legislature. we saw this in previous ones in right to work and some things like that. folks, if abortion is literally on the ballot in missouri next november, you never know what it could do. it certainly doesn t help necessarily the incumbent republic
i am impressed by the kids as they fight for changes to gun laws, senators were holding a hearing on the shooting in parkland and how to improve school safety. one of the biggest questions is why when there were warning signs sent to the fbi and nothing was done. the director of the fbi trying to answer that. we made mistakes here. no question about that. that said, even had we done everything right, i m not sure if we could have stopped this act. but it sure would have been nice to try. now he did say that it would make sense to extend the three-day waiting period if the fbi s unable to do a full background check on a gun buyer. right now it is up to the gun dealer if they want to complete the sale, if the fbi can t complete the check in those three days as we ve discussed before. now amid the national push for new gun-control measures, a well-known conservative mega-donor is looking beyond reforming legislation around gun ownership. foster freeze said he supports the debate o