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 hous republicans on thursda expelled two democrati lawmakers for breaking house rules and mounting a gun protest on the chamber floor surrounding my democrati colleagues, expelled state representative justin pearso had this message of hope for the future we have good news tha sunday always comes.
threatening the united states. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. bill: i m bill hemmer, good morning to you at home. today s hearing comes amid growing threats as mexican cartels hold control along the southern border. friday s kidnapping of four americans in mexico the latest example of growing threats and deadly danger. two of the four americans were found dead, two survived and are now back in the u.s. being treated in a brownsville, texas hospital. the white house yesterday calling cartel violence a top priority. americans are being slaughtered, would president biden take the same approach if it was al qaeda or isis operating just across the border from an american city. the president takes this very seriously issue the fbi and other agents have been on top of this from day one. that is what he will continue to do. would president biden consider using the u.s. military to disrupt cartel operations? i will not get into the military a
a major crackdown on migrants crossing the channel in small boats. the uk government is planning to ban them for life from returning to the uk. we have a special report from the seychelles the country with the biggest heroin problem in the world. after a century, perfectly preserved at the bottom of the antarctic ocean lloyds of london locate the insurance policy for shackleton s ship the endurance. and it s already won four baftas and been nominated for nine oscars. the team behind the irish comedy the banshees of inishiren have been speaking to the bbc. to feel it and then said go out onto the world and received by all sorts of, you know, the corners of the globe, pretty surprising and cool. a very warm welcome to the programme. are you a twitter user? if programme. are you a twitter user? , ., . , programme. are you a twitter user? , ., ., , , current and former staff at twitter have told the bbc s panorama programme that the company is no longer able to protect
over 3,500 in syria from that 7.8 magnitude tremor. the united nations, who have been supporting rescue teams in both turkey and syria have warned that the final number of fatalities could double. my colleague lyse doucet is on the ground in gaziantep. well, what you see behind us here in gaziantep, about an hour and a half drive from the epicentre of where that earthquake struck about nearly one week ago, is being played out in towns and cities across a whole swathe of southern turkey and indeed across the border in northern syria. and that is the diggers, they don t have diggers across the border, but diggers here and excavators are getting rid of these mounds of rubble. it is a sign that the rescue effort those painstaking, almost heroic efforts to try to pull people alive from the rubble, and still nearly a week on, they re still finding people. but the effort, the focus is now shifting to recovery, to relief and also to a reckoning. as you mentioned, those more than 10
side of the screen, a motorcade escort of the indicted twice impeached ex-president donald trump. he is on route from his airport which landed at laguardia to manhattan to his apartment in trump tower. he will reportedly stay the night there ahead of his history making arrangement in the alleged hush money scheme. tomorrow there are a lot of open questions, a lot of vital considerations being made. even at this late hour first, security. as you might well imagine, the nypd is well aware of the possibility, the potential for violence tomorrow somewhere. as trump has previously called on his supporters to protest in a statement to nbc news, the nypd reveals this, quote, officers have been placed on alert and the department remains ready to respond as needed they add this, quote, there are no current credible threats to new york city. ahead of the big day tomorrow, we re on the lookout for any specifics related to the actual charges that trump now faces sources telling nbc news