i say my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, are taking is to expel us for speaking about the issues of weapons of war on our streets. as protests raged outside the tennessee house chamber, republicans carry out their despicable act of expelling that democratic legislator, who wanted nothing more than to protect children from being murdered at school something republicans refuse to do now, expelled state representative justin jones who you just saw joins me moments from now and we begin tonight with an unprecedented and frankly shameful day in american politics the tennessee house took up resolutions to expel three democratic lawmakers, not for breaking any laws, mind you. they moved to expel these members for standing in the well of the chamber despite being ruled out of order by the speaker, and attempting to speak loudly against gun violence. and against children being shot dead in schools. something that literally just happened weeks ago in nashville. these three
medical officer in louisville today hit. yesterday it was a bank. a few weeks ago, it was a private christian school before that, a supermarket another school a college. a bar. a church a warehouse. a walmart. a parade a lunar new year celebration the list is so long i couldn t go through it in this hour alone. there are so many shootings in the country that it sno longer uncommon to hear someone say that this shooting is their second brush with death. or that they ve been through something just like this before. we heard it from students at michigan state and we heard it from the mayor of louisville himself a target of gun violence last year. we have to take action now. we need short-term action. to end this gun violence epidemic now so fewer people die on our streets. and in our banks and in our schools and in our churches. and for that, we need help we need help from our friends in frankfurt and help from our friends in washington, d.c this isn t about partisan politics
the scope of hurricane ian s devastation is becoming clearer for days after the category four storm slammed into the coast of southwest florida, with record-breaking strength. 85 people are dead, 81 in florida, and four in north carolina. the death toll rises each time rescue crews reached new areas. and searches are going on around the clock. but some people are still stranded and waiting for help, like these residents of sanibel island. there has been no communication, nobody official has come on to the island to tell us what is going on. we don t have places to go, we have no cars to get their. lack of food, medicine, clean water, and electricity. these are all on the list of tops concerns. more than 1 million people are still without power across four states. now, president biden says he and the first lady will travel tomorrow to puerto rico, which is still reeling from hurricane fiona, and tour damage in florida on wednesday. our hearts, to state the obvious, it
year they are history making, unprecedented, consequential from criminal investigations into the former president of the united states to midterm elections that preserved our democracy, from the makeup o the supreme court and th decisions that threatened ou rights to the very rapid ris of hate speech on public discourse, we have plenty to dig into you are watching simone and yo know i have a lot to say when i reflect on the wil ride that was 2022, i keep coming back to these words historic and unprecedented democrats bumped historica trends by expanding thei senate majority and preventing a red wave in the house of representatives. and voters, they changed the representation in more way than one electing the first gen z membe of congress with maxwell frost in florida the first woman elected to congress from vermont, wit becca blunt, the first out lesbian governor s, lamar heal in massachusetts, and tina kotek in oregon. the first black governor o maryland with wes moore. th
everything he wanted it to plus, we will take stack of the year that was in the unite states supreme court from th overturning of roe to th numerous ethical concern swelling around certai justices my question, what can we expec from the high court in 2023? and, later, ukrainian presiden volodymyr zelenskyy tell congress that his country is alive and kicking while urging lawmakers to approve more aid. my question is, what shoul u.s. support for ukraine looke like when a republican house takes over all of that and more is coming up, the katie phang show starts, right now. it is no secret that legal trouble has followed donal trump for much of his adult an pet professional life. but, 2022 has been entirel something else for the forme president. his namesake company, the trum organization, was found guilty by a new york jury and a 1 year tax came to pay top executives off the books now order to avoid taxes the company faces roughly 1. million in fines with othe possible financi