remarkable scene tonight in the tennessee house of representatives were waiting for a vote. i should say actually vote has just taken place on whether to expel the last of the three democratic legislators. ah we re still waiting on the results of that vote for a gun violence protests that they held the last week on the floor of the house in the wake of the mass shooting the covenant school just a few miles away. representative justin pearson of memphis, who has just been speaking he now his fate hangs in the balance will be up to report to republicans who control the two thirds majority needed to expel him to decide his fate expelled earlier today, representative justin jones of nashville will talk with him in just a moment a measure to expel representative gloria johnson, knoxville failed by a single vote. to the nation. keep watching. we re losing our democracy. we need to make sure that we stomp out this march to fascism. absolute power corrupts. absolutely and we cannot f
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we owe them action. we have to do more to stop the gun violence of ripping communities apart and ripping apart the soul of the nation, protect our children so they learn how to read and write instead of duck and cover in a classroom. president joe biden expressing solidarity with the victims of the nashville school shooting as we learn new details about how police were able to stop the shooter within minutes of entering the building. plus a federal judge said former vice president mike pence must testify into the probe into donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. and the latest from israel as benjamin netanyahu and president biden trade word amid ongoing protests across that country. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, march 29th. i m jonathan lemire thanks for starting your day with us. we begin with the latest from nashville. we re learning more about the victims, the shooter, and the police response to the tragedy. we ll begin
of them halle scruggs. you can see a picture there from 2019. just a little girl, the daughter of the bleed pastor at covenant presbyterian church. church affiliated with the school. the other two children have been identified. evelyn dick aus, william kenny. among the adult victims 61 year old cynthia peak. the other two were school employees. 60 year old catherine kunz, head of school mike hill. he worked as ext odeon. all of them lost their lives yesterday . since the shooting memorial outside the school has been growing. something we ve seen so many times this morning. it s been adorned with balloons, stuffed animals. across as well decorated with flowers. the school has released a statement saying, in part, our community is heartbroken. we are grieving , tremendous loss and are in shock coming out of that. terror that shattered our school and our church. a woman who survived the highland park, mass shooting in illinois. just last year. she was visiting nashville yesterda
crisis deepens, and the world braces for what comes next. national security adviser jake sullivan is here, with the view from the white house. and he has coming up first. plus, meet your new house speaker. michael johnson goes from backbencher to the top spot in the blink of an eye. and the closer you look, the more concerning things get. and later, gag orders, and guilty pleas put more pressure on donald trump, as his adult children prepared to testify, this week in new york. andrew weissmann and neil are here to discuss what feels like an inflection point, for the four times indicted former president. it s been three weeks since hamas terrorists unleashed their devastating and deadly attack on israel. three weeks, since over 200 people were kidnapped. many of them women, and children. three weeks of a humanitarian crisis, spiraling out of control for the people of gaza. and now, the israeli defense force has confirmed that they have expanded their ground opera