lawmakers, all democrats targeted by the gop supermajority for their loud but peaceful protest on the house floor. there in nashville. they were demanding gun reform after the nashville school shooting that left six people dead, three adults and 39 year old children. two expelled lawmakers. jones and justin pearson are black. laurie johnson, who is white, kept her seat by a single vote. jones and pearson have called for protesters to return to the capital tomorrow, when the house is back in session, so let s go to nashville right now, and cnn s isabelle rose salas. isabel i guess. first of all, if you can tell us do we expect those protests and materialized ? might they be as big as we were seeing? at the end of last week as they were huge, and the nashville city council doesn t appear they have the votes to get jones back in the statehouse. jim the passions don t seem to be tampering down . we are expecting a day of action is what has been organized on social media with folk
you re back live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin the hour with the manhunt that continues for this man. 38-year-old francisco oropeza has been the focus of a desperate manhunt since friday night. that s when neighbors asked him to stop firing his rifle in the front yard because they were trying to get a baby to go to sleep. police say oropeza then entered their home and began shooting. an 8-year-old boy was among the five neighbors slaughtered, almost execution-style. that according to the sheriff in that area. cnn s ed lavendera is in cleveland, texas, for us. ed, i know you re on the scene of a vigil that just took place a short time ago for the little 8-year-old who was killed in all of this. and it s just, just underlines once again what we re dealing with in this country. just another awful tragedy stemming from mass gun violence. well, jim, even more troubling and disturbing, after just a short moment ago, we were able to speak with wilso
hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. two years and two months after what the fbi describes as an act of domestic terrorism, and acts of violence, vice president mike pence and his family ran for their lives. fox news laura ingraham warned mark meadows that the events on january 6, quote, will ruin our legacy, a revision of history as those republicans described it under way. it s not enough to significant more what kevin mccarthy and tucker carlson are doing out of fear of amplifying their idiocy and radicalism. the truth is they don t care what we do. but we seek the clear and cold facts how republicans viewed january 6. i remember the day as a low point. i think it s inexcusable. completely 100% inexcusable. i don t care the motivation. it was a very disturbing day yesterday. i had a lot of anger as my colleagues that the capitol got overrun. these are anarchists and terrorists. steve, right, steve? we all know this is what happened after the truth bubbled out
welcome back to the cnn newsroom. much of the world expected ukraine to fall quickly to russia s invasion given the onslaught of man and machines and heavy weaponry. now ukraine enters a second year of battling its way to freedom in that war. this time, this time lapse, i should say, just shows how successful ukraine s military has been this past year. the russian troops mostly contained. the fighting in the east is intensifying and ukraine s military is kahn for more western aid including fighter jets. president biden for now appears to be dunk down the request from ukraine s president for f-16s. take a listen. we re sending him what our seasoned military thinks he needs now. he needs tanks, artillery, there are things he needs now that we re sending him to put him in a position to make gains this spring and this summer going into the fall. he doesn t need f-16s now. the u.s. has announce ad $2 billion aid package. according to the united nations, ukraine has already pa
we re talking through all the memos. i don t want to break all expectations i want you to follow it, to be on the floor, i want the anticipation i want you to see, i want you to see as the clock goes up i want you to write stories like teetering, whether i can win or not and the whole world hangs in the balance. or that s what you want kevin is still playing a dangerous game, joking about a debt default while refusing to specify what it is he wants to cut. his chaos caucus, meanwhile, grows more emboldened to make a spectacle out of, well, everything plus, the brand-new super pac that wants to help america move past the gutter politics of marjorie greenes and lauren boebert s and matt gaetzs. and ron desantis has put all his chips on fighting woke, going mia from its state as it endures an actual crisis, but surprise, he s getting the pudding squeezed out of him by donald trump when it comes to florida endorsements but we begin tonight with the kevin mccarthy caucus.