washington. we begin this hour with the tempers flaring in nashville. where emotions are raw politics, much like the rest of the us bitterly divided republicans in the state house there voted to expel lawmakers were breaking decorum during a raucous but peaceful protest demanding gun reform that protest ignited by the nashville school shooting that left three adults and three young students dead. how the expulsion vote ended, has only added to the anger representatives justin pearson and justin jones. who are black, were expelled their fellow protester and colleague gloria johnson, who was white kept her seat by one vote. cnn correspondent isabelle rose salas joins us now with the latest isabelle what happens now? i guess there is some hope that these two lawmakers who were expelled might get their seats back. and that is certainly a very real possibility. here, jim. right now the spotlight is on filling those two vacant statehouse seats, and what we re seeing is local lawmak
jeanne moos, cnn, new york. hello again, everybody. thank you so much for joining me. happy new year. i m fredricka whitfield. news just in to cnn, an update on buffalo bills player damar hamlin. he continues to make a remarkable recovery after suffering a cardiac arrest on the field during monday s game. hamlin is now breathing on his own after having a breathing tube removed late thursday. the 24-year-old also surprised his teammates in buffalo yesterday, facetiming with them on a phone from his bed in the hospital in cincinnati. cnn has more live from the hospital in cincinnati and new information on his medical update. reporter: yes. from the physicianses here at the hospital where tamar is receiving treatment damar is receiving treatment. he is still in critical condition but continues to make progress. and here s perhaps the line in this tweet the bills just published that sticks out. as he continues to breathe on his own, his neurological function is excellent. a
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mccarthy. the current republican leader has sent the new proposal to his colleagues to try to overcome significant resistance to his ascension. senior congressional correspondent chad pergram is live on capitol hill tonight. hello, chad. the math. there are at least five g.o.p. members who oppose mccarthy for speaker and, perhaps, more. kevin doesn t have the votes. what we ll do, we ll block kevin. there will be 10 to 15 members vote against him on the first ballot tomorrow that will vote for andy biggs. mccarthy can only lose four votes and still prevail. mccarthy is desperately making concessions. do you think the rules package you released last night has moved any votes to yes. yes. and what will you do if you don t have 218 on the first ballot? mccarthy finally agreed to one demand. he would lower the bar to hold a new confidence vote for speaker if members don t think he s doing a good job. but that didn t satisfy mccarthy detractors. there is nothing
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