morning nashville tennessee is the epicenter of an explosive intersection gun violence, racial tension, and seemingly insurmountable political division two black former tennessee lawmakers are now expelled from the state house for taking part in a gun reform protest last week deemed disorderly by the republican super majority. shouts of shame ringing out from protesters crowding in the halls of the capital during those closely watched votes. both men speaking out on the house floor emotional and defiant. we are still here and we will never quit we called for you all to ban assault weapons, and you respond with an assault on democracy a third colleague facing expulsion who is white surviving by a single vote i ll be joined in moments by that third member, state representative gloria johnson who weighed in yesterday about why she thinks she was spared and her black colleagues were not. why do you feel like there was a difference in the outcome between you and your colle
the aclu have filed a lawsuit seeking an emergency junction to stop the attorney general from applying this opinion, and you know, and we re continuing to pursue all of the options available to us on the other parts of it. but you know, as you named in the beginning of this segment, it just seems completely out of sync with where the majority of americans are. we see governor whitmer who ran so compellingly on preserving abortion rights, a repeat of a 1931 law we saw janet protasiewicz win by a landslide on the notion that she would be able to protect abortion rights and democracy, and yet, the opposition, the gop continue to double down on creating restrictions around abortion rights. it doesn t make sense. we re running out of time, but let s look ahead to texas. we re still awaiting a verdict on that case regarding access to
david, we re learning it was supreme court justice sonya sotomayor who denied the request for an emergency junction against new york city s vaccine mandate for school employees. she has the power to make that call because she oversees the second circuit, including new york. so s sotomayor did not release a statement. that mandate remains in place. we want to get back to the potential covid pill from merck. let s bring in dr. jha, dean of brown school of the public health. the fact that merck would stop this trial after finding the pill, they say, cut hospitalizations and deaths in half. if this science holds up on this, this could be significant. good evening, david. thanks for having me back. absolutely. this is enormously important. we ve all been waiting for an oral pill that could reduce the severity of this illness. this might be it. we ll see what the full data
bill. activists are paining an effort to stop the most cont ver that will part of the immigration law there from taking effect. they filed an emergency junction. it encourages racial profiling. it upheld the provision in june while striking down other parts of the law. mohammed ali is making his site outside of the ring. he received the liberty medal for his work on humanitarian causes. he established a research certainty for parkinson s disease. ally did not speak but stood with his family anyway to the crowd. that is your 5@5:00.