we owe them action. we have to do more to stop the gun violence of ripping communities apart and ripping apart the soul of the nation, protect our children so they learn how to read and write instead of duck and cover in a classroom. president joe biden expressing solidarity with the victims of the nashville school shooting as we learn new details about how police were able to stop the shooter within minutes of entering the building. plus a federal judge said former vice president mike pence must testify into the probe into donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. and the latest from israel as benjamin netanyahu and president biden trade word amid ongoing protests across that country. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, march 29th. i m jonathan lemire thanks for starting your day with us. we begin with the latest from nashville. we re learning more about the victims, the shooter, and the police response to the tragedy. we ll begin
at the intersection of the second amendment, and the first protesters are rallying at the tennessee state capitol as three democratic lawmakers could lose their jobs today for doing this a week ago. democratic state representatives . justin jones, justin pearson and gloria johnson, using a bullhorn during a gun control rally at the capitol to call for action in the wake of last month s deadly shooting that left 39 year old children and three adults dead. the three democratic lawmakers are accused of breaking house rules at any moment. we expect their colleagues to vote on whether or not they should be expelled. cnn national reporter ryan young is live for us in nashville ryan lots of noise still ongoing, a lot of protesters that were with the lawmakers one week ago are back there today to support these three legislatures. yeah we really seen this swell fred. in terms of protesters, we have thousands earlier outside. now you can see this small crowd that s still behind me. som
republicans expel a democrat from the house legislature for protesting gun violence on the house floor right now to more democratic lawmakers are also staring down. expulsion votes, also breaking escalating violence in the middle east. israel striking gaza tonight after facing a barrage of rocket attacks, the israeli ambassador to the united states is standing by to join me this hour. 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. this is cnn breaking news. we begin our coverage tonight in nashville, tennessee, where a democratic lower democratic lawmaker, a democratic lawmaker was just expelled from the state legislature after protesting gun violence on the house floor. cnn s ryan young has been on the scene all day. for us, ryan. there are two more democrats who are also in jeopardy of being ousted tonight. what is the latest in nashville? alex. people are exasperate
custodian were killed, too. can you imagine? of course you can. because at this point in this country you ve either lived through in that shooting or you ve imagined it. we cannot keep having the same conversations over and over again. tonight. we try to find a different way to talk about it. plus listen to this 2017 duet from dolly parton and miley cyrus. living in rainbow land, fluid and things are brand. i where we re free to be exactly. did you hear those inflammatory words there about rainbows? tonight? we re going to talk about why that song was deemed too controversial by one wisconsin elementary school. and gwyneth paltrow is accuser took the stand in that ski collision trial today at his story was very different from hers. we re going to play for you what happened in court, but let s begin with the latest school shooting in nashville today. i want to bring in my panel, los angeles times columnist lz granderson starve cnn john berman, former senate candidate joe pinyo
those police officers. no mother should go through what i m going through right now. five fired memphis police officers have been charged with murder. i m struggling to find a stronger word, but i would just tell you i was appalled. will congress try again to push for more police reform? i ll talk to republican congressman jim jordan of ohio, the chairman of the judiciary committee. plus, subpoena power. the fbi has been weaponized against president trump and clearly has covered up for sitting president joe biden. but democrats warn that it s all about settling political scores. let s call it what it really is, the republican committee to obstruct justice. and giving tanks. the u.s. and germany agree to send battle tanks to ukraine, a move many once feared would risk escalating the war with putin. it will enhance ukraine s capacity to achieve its strategic objectives. is time running out? our support for ukraine is starting to fade. i ll talk with the fo