politicsnation tonight s lead, a dangerou precedent. robert right now, the eyes o the nation are on tennessee, o the eve of a vote that may reinstate one of the two democrats expelled from thei seats in the state house las week and tomorrow, a county counselor in nashville wil vote on the next step for on of those vacancies a majority of its members on record saying they will vote t reinstate former state representative justin jones, along with justin pearson, was voted out by republica legislators for protesting gun violence on the state hous floor earlier this month the first time in tennesse history that house members hav been expelled for chamber rule violations we will hear from jones in jus a moment here. just as we heard last nigh from tennessee state representative - johnson, a white democrat wh narrowly escaped her own expulsion. and she pulled no punches in our assessment of why her tw male colleagues did not. of course, along with th racial overtones of thes exposu
the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts right now manhattan grand jury voted t indict john j trump on thursda for his role in paying hus money to a porn star today is the first day of the rest of don trump s life this is a monumental, historic importance. before tonight, president in this country were - now you are seeing citize trump being treated the same way that anyone else would regardless of the active o former president he s got to be photographed fingerprinted, he s got to appear before a. judge i believe that donald right now is petrified this is one of his biggest fears. tonight he is calling the indictment, quote, political persecution. the first thing the lawye tells you when you are indicte for somebody or charged with something s shutout. he does not have a good defense, his defense will be a reliance on politics, it wil only get uglier from thi moment on. get ready, stop on your legal seatbelt, we are going forward as a country that is goi
midnight on the east coast i am stephanie ruhle and we ar continuing our breaking news coverage of the indictment o former president donald trump. the grand jury in manhatta indicted him earlier today making trump the first forme president to ever face crimina charges in our nation history. those jurors have been hearing evidence of hush money payments, made to adult film star stormy daniels during the 201 presidential campaign. trump s current lawyers issued a statement saying he did no commit any crime and they plan to vigorously fight this political prosecution. one trump attorney tells nbc trump is expected to b arraigned on tuesday in ne york let s bring in our panel o experts to break it all down simone sanders townsend, msnbc host and former chie spokesperson for kamala harris harry lippman, former u.s. attorney and deputy assistan journey jonathan allen, senior analyst reporter for nbc news. and tim o brien, bloomberg opinion senior columnist and the man who wrote
i am richard louis in fo yasmin vossoughian coming to you live from 30 rock and i am garrett haake an west palm beach, florida not far from mar-a-lago from where donald trump rock th political world today saying h was going to be arrested o tuesday. as i ve been noting throughout the day, though his own lega team says they haven t gotte any word that that i definitely going to happen the manhattan da has commented on trump s post, which h admits a striven by medi reports he has seen and heard. trump s pronouncement toda should not come as a surpris given just how much she ha been wrapping up the rhetori this past week our enemies are desperate t stop us because they know that we are the only ones who can stop them and they know it ver strongly the radical left democrats are using their prosecutors to try and steal another election all right garrett, you will join us throughout this hour a we continue to talk about trum and his tweet or as his messag was put out on socia
really happy to have yo here at 10:13 am today, 10:1 a.m., exactly, kids in nashville tennessee all walked out of their classes look at that 10:13 is when the first 9-1- calls started coming into th police department when we coul go today one week last week when th shooting unfolded at the covenant school. an elementary school in that city police today said that in th roughly 14 minutes that it too for that school shooting t relapse, the shooter fired 126 rifle rounds and 26 rounds fro a handgun. hundred and 52 rounds al together in 14 minutes to honor the three little kids and the three school staff who were murdered in their school, monday last week, and to deman legal change to stop gun violence, literally thousand of tennessee students walked out of their classes today and in some schools, they left their classrooms and the rallied outside their school that opened in a whole bunch o different schools in tennessee at some schools today, they sa a walk in instead of a wal