, 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.
to weaponize the just system for his ow political gain the former president supporter in congress are taking note. in march, house speaker kevi mccarthy announced that he was ordering a probe into the ma and ea s prosecution of trum accusing brag of an outrageous abuse of power, demanding bags testimony in the house investigation. bragg refused, he called a unlawful, incursion into new york sovereignty but today, house republicans took their crusade to the next level. when the house judiciary committee fired off its very first and their so-calle investigation into da brag judiciary jim jordan dissipate manhattan da s office named, mark pomerantz who resigned from the office after disagreements with bragg last year. bragg, in response to th subpoenas called so-called investigations an campaign o harassment and intimidation. joining us now is andrew weissmann, former ascrib general and msnbc legal analyst, and someone who is literally the voice of the whole serie of saget s for us.
it is 97 cult classic, th art of the deal, donald trum concluded that controversy sells. take anything, make it a controversy, and profit off of that on the one hand, trump use controversy for financial gain he monetizes at. he s raised over $12 million fundraising off of news of his indictment on his arrest and trump is using controversy to gain political traction making it into a weapon he can wield. in this case against the ver prosecutors who ar investigating. trump has called manhattan da, alvin bragg, a degenerat psychopath and call the prosecutors i bragg s office, scum he posted a photo that shows trump wielding a baseball ba at the da. who has repeatedly called racist he s gone after the judge family, and he s warned that the charges against him ca bring death and destruction. this is all very serious stuff enough so that tuesday arraignment, one of the firs