party was leading the way an showing how to deal with folks and i think it s also the case that the way that that map i drawn in that state, the folks that took the vote today, ar pretty insulated on their way. it s just part of the. story absolutely, i gotta say it s tenure anniversary. week and when you started th show ten years ago, did yo think this is what you d b covering, this kind of disillusion of origin mccraw ticked principles a decade later. it s been a disturbin aspect of the last seven years or so with the coverage era. we re glad to have you with us thank you thank you to all of you for joining us here at home. this is what it sounded wa outside the chamber of the tennessee house of representatives. [crowd chanting] [crowd chanting] [crowd chanting] you banned books, you banne drag, kids are still in body bags that was the scene at th tennessee capitol earlie today. republicans in the state legislature voted to expel two democratic representatives f
, free, free, free, free the tennessee free you are fascists! you banned books, you banne rag, kids are still in bod bags [crowd chanting] you banned books, you banned, rag kids are still in body bags that was the scene at th tennessee capitol earlie today. republicans in the state legislator voted to expel tw democratic representatives fro the tennessee house. they voted to kick to democrat out of office. it was an unprecedented and it was a drastic move and it al started last week. that is when hundreds of schoo students came to the tennessee capital to call for new gu safety measures after a shoote opened fire at an elementary school in nashville. killing three 9 year old students and three adults. during that protests, a handfu of democratic law minister before the house chamber they had megaphones and they weren t shy about standing i solidarity with the protesters outside which was apparently a violation of the rules of th chamber. republicans pounced. they didn
americas diplomatic personne from the u.s. embassy in the capital city of khartoum there are still thousands of private american citizens stuc amid the fighting. we re following the stor closely. going to bring in the latest throughout the next two hours. mike pence is finally come out strongly against donald trum on one key issue, not the on you think. we ll get the latest from iowa where they both spoke to conservative evangelicals last night. for today s meeting of the velshi banned book club, we re paying tribute to the public library. once a community fixture, safe haven to explore differen worlds and learn new ideas, it has become the battleground fo the ideological fight over books. nowhere are libraries unde greater threat than in texas that s where we re heading t talk to shirley robinson executive director of the texa library association about th fight for the freedom to redeveloped she starts now it is sunday april 23rd, i m ali velshi we begin with the republican
hour the state department is callin earlier reports of a new prisoner exchange agreemen between iran and the unite states a cruel ally. the report today on irania state tv attributes the foreig minister with making tha statement about the prisoner swap deal. again, the u.s. is rejecting that statement let s hurry to embassies megan fitzgerald who standing by i london let s get to what this is al about. what do you know, megan? alex, you are absolutel right. what we know is that the iranian foreign minister mad these remarks on iranian state tv saying that iran in the u.s. have made this deal to exchang prisoners that the iranian sid is all set and ready to go they re waiting on the u.s side to sort things out. the ministry saying that he hopeful that this would happen soon of course, there was no detail provided there was no evidence suggeste of what this is all about. as you said, the united states government, the stat department saying that this is a cruel ally we are he
representative - has put forward a number of 57 pesos called the wyoming rule. the maidens for with the ide that when we kept the house in 1929, 435, ever since then states have had to lose seat to give them to other states that were growing. as we stayed for another 85. california lost seats of tha another seed could go to a smaller state. as an example. if we took back all those etha given away over the century, that would bring us to tha number of 585. it would catch up really for deferred maintenance where we should ve been adding seats as we were growing rathe than the housekeeping states t get it to the wyoming rule would take th population of the smallest state, wyoming, and making tha the basis for the ratio betwee a representative and a constituents that would put the ratio a about 580,000 people and would give us 572 members of the house. that still more than te