i m abby phillip in washington and you are live in the cnn newsroom, unprecedented political retribution. that is what is on the agenda in the tennessee state house right now , protesters have been at the capitol in support of the so called tennessee three democratic state lawmakers who are on the cusp of being expelled from that chamber. and any minute now the gop dominated chamber will vote on whether to remove them from office because get this. they protested on the house floor calling for stricter gun laws after the nashville shooting that left six people dead. three of whom were children. now, if the vote passes, it would be the first time in that body s entire history more than 200 years that a violation of house rules resulted in members being ousted . and so just to recap these three lawmakers, they may be stripped of their elected positions for speaking out of turn. after 39 year olds were gunned down in their grade school. cnn s ryan young is on the scene for us, ry
political reasons. key player in the trump hush money probe just met with the manhattan grand jury investigating the former president. appearance at court monday, shrouded in secrecy corroborate a lot of what michael cohen said, and it also could be a very strong response to castelo. people are pleading with the prosecutor. don t do it. don t do it because i didn t do anything wrong. in france demonstrators continuing to protest the government s move to raise the retirement age. many of them entered an airport in southwest france just a short while ago setting off smoke bombs. authorities say around 13,000 police officers will be deployed across the country of european countries, people are feeling the pinch economically. paltrow s accuser took the stand in that skate collision trial hit in my back so hard, never been hit that hard describing a very different version of events thanks to her, i said, you skied directly into my stepping back and he said, oh, sorry. sorry. i m s
i m jim acosta in washington will be in this hour of americans caught up in the escalating crisis in sudan. just minutes ago, the u. s state department announced it will carry out a military assisted evacuation of government personnel if the crisis worsens . in the past week, more than 400 people have died since two rival generals first lead their forces into a battle for control of the country. that death toll includes at least one american. both sudan s army and its paramilitary rival. the rsf say they will help evacuate for nationals. the u. s is making preparations to get diplomatic personnel right out right now. but the white house says private citizens should not expect and evacuation. we have correspondents in the military expert here to help us tackle all of the angles of the story. let s begin with cnn s larry meadow, a live in nairobi, kenya. larry. i know things are very fluid at the moment. but what s the latest on these evacuations? jim right now there s evacuati
nashville, the latest city where the unthinkable if it can even be called that anymore has happened. residents are grief stricken this hour following yesterday s mass shooting at an elementary school and new video released overnight shows the shooter arriving at covenant school monday morning, shooting that glass door and then walking the halls before killing three children and three adults. it took 14 minutes from the 1st 911 call for police to arrive at the school and killed the shooter who has now been identified as audrey hale. police say hail was armed with a handgun and two assault style weapons and exact motive has not been identified yet. but police say hails time is a student at that same school may have played a role. in the wake of the shooting president biden biden, renewing his call for an assault weapons ban, and a top white house official told cnn this morning. now is the time for congress to act. we can t do this alone. the president can t do this alone. that
new police body camera footage shows us a room by room hunt for a school shooter. and now brand new cnn reporting on how donald trump is keeping tabs on the republicans who want to drag the manhattan d a before congress and the former president says law enforcement investigations equal election interference. i don t know whether it helps or hurts. i can tell you in my opinion. it s a new way of cheating on elections. it s called election interference. they can t beat you that way. they re going to do this kind of stuff. plus cnn digs into the archives that uncovers senator joe biden, siding with republicans on social security and medicare. but first our breaking news nashville police releasing body worn camera video from inside the covenant school shooting. now this tape shows officers as they are racing to stop this rampage. we do have to warn you that much of this footage is incredibly difficult to watch. but this video comes from the body cameras of two of the officers and