democrats who led gun safety protests we will take you there and across the country as we loo at what is going on in a state houses from coast to coast the big question, the lawmaker know what their constituents really want? money power politics and the supreme court the investigation into justice clarence thomas secretly accepting luxury trips from major republican donor the 11th hour is getting underway on this thursda night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. tonight, we begin in the state of tennessee we are in a stunning act o political retaliation. republican lawmakers expelle two of their democrati colleagues, justin jones and justin pearson they joined in a peacefu protest on gun violence with students jones and are both black a third democratic lawmaker wh is white was up for a vote but was not expelled here saw the tennessee newspaper wrote it up. quote, ten days after a shoote on loaded 152 rounds inside nashville school and killed si people, tennessee
address, days after russia s invasion of ukraine. tonight, his speech is going to be heavily focused on reminding americans what his administration has accomplished over the past two years. it comes as ukraine is now preparing for a major russian offensive. we ll have more on the mobilization of troops in putin s army. meanwhile, we are learning more about the chinese surveillance balloon that was shot down, and other incidents that went undetected by u.s. force. also ahead, the latest from turkey and syria where the death toll is rising following a massive earthquake, and rescuers continue to hold out hope of finding survivors. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, february 7th. the death toll from the earthquake in turkey and syria passed 5,000 and continues to climb. a 7.8 magnitude quake hit the region early yesterday along with multiple aftershocks, including a 7.5 magnitude one that struck just hours later. tens of thousands have been injured.
harry litman on what this means for the criminal case against trump. senator sheldon whitehouse on what it means for the rule of law. then, how do you stop gun violence from killing kids in schools? it s a horrible, horrible situation. and we re not going to fix it, criminals are going to be criminals. tonight, the maddening reality of a political party that has given up the awful truth of the cult of the ar-15. and an author describing what he calls america s slow civil war. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. donald trump cannot stop losing the courts. today yet another federal judge ruling against the ex-president, and now the man trump s angry mob wanted to hang is ordered to share what he knows under oath. this afternoon a judge with the u.s. district court for d.c. ruled that mike pence must cooperate with the subpoena from special counsel jack smith as part of smith s investigation into donald trump s attempt to overturn the 20
katy tur. can dominion win? new court documents are providing even more evidence that fox news hosts and executives knew the election was fair, knew the allegations of fraud were bogus, and that those pushing them were, quote, lying, and yet, pushed those lies anyway. it s remarkable how weak ratings make good journalists do bad things. former fox news managing editor and vice president bill salmon said the network pushed the false claims. maybe sean and laura went too far, rupert murdoch said of handy and ingraham, the day after joe biden s inauguration. it s been suggested that fox s prime time hosts should say something like the election is over and joe biden won said fox president suzanne scott to rupert murdoch. he replied that a version of this would go a long way to stop the trump myth that the election was stolen. all of these quotes show that what fox knew and said privately was a 180 from what the network was telling its audience, but does it clear the bar for defam
we re live with and we re following breaking news this morning. that could have a major impact on the nation s opioid epidemic. the life-saving treatment the fda is approving for over the counter use. new details in one of the investigations surrounding donald trump. what mike pence is saying after a judge orders him to testify before a grand jury. and we are live in ukraine where the head of the nuclear watchdog has crossed fierce battle lines in hopes of preventing a nuclear disaster. we begin this very busy hour with new details out of nashville where police are still searching for a motive in the devastating shooting at the covenant school that killed three adults and three children who were just 9 years old. police say the 28-year-old shooter was under a doctors care for undies closed emotional disorder. the shooter s family told investigators the shooterer should not have owned any weapons. they thought their child had one firearm, but had sold it. the family told p