state representatives. they were removed jobs last week after state legislative republicans said that they broke the rules by bringing a boy story. this gun reform protest to the floor of the statehouse in just minutes. nashville s metropolitan council is going to hold a special vote on whether to appoint one of those ousted lawmakers. former state representative justin jones to fill his own seats on an interim basis until a special election can be held. cnn s isabel rozelle s joins us now from outside city hall in nashville. nashville, you re standing among supporters of former state representative jones. what s the mood like outside the building? that we don t lose the reason why we re here, jake. there is an energized focus toward addressing first of all, what many consider and injustice. this is a matter of democracy for so many people that are out here. what happened is justin pearson and justin jones expelled from the statehouse for
convicted of killing a black lives matter. protester just hours after the verdict had been handed down, and before a pardon had even been requested. why? plus this hour nashville city council will vote whether to reinstate one of the democratic state lawmakers expelled after their unruly gun violence protests on the statehouse floor , but it s unclear they have the votes to do so. leading this hour. however four people are dead and at least nine injured after a gunman shot up a bank in louisville, kentucky. this morning. we re learning the names of the victims whose lives were tragically cut short. thomas elliot, james tut, joshua barrack and juliana farmer in the interim louisville police chief jacqueline guinn v role also shared more information about the injured earlier. asian today. officer nicholas wilt. 26 years of age. just graduated
right. isabel rizal is in nashville for us. thanks so much. one of the council members who will be in this special meeting joins us now council member brett weather s council member withers. thanks so much for joining us the meetings just minutes away. it s only going to take two council members to oppose suspending the rules, uh , which would stop justin jones from being appointed to fill his own seat today. do you have the votes to have him become the interim state representative. i believe that we do. um, and we ve had hundreds, if not thousands of emails, not only from district 52 constituents, but constituents throughout nashville and davidson county and the state of tennessee, asking that we do just that. so i believe that not only do we have the votes to confirm justin this afternoon at 4 30, i would i strongly encourage any of my colleagues to avoid objecting to the suspension of the rules. there are just so many people who are hurting right now and
is telling and the tennessee state legislation we need to get representatives back in tennessee state legislature is made up of 75 republicans and 22 democrats. in the aftermath of the expulsions. many were have been quick to blame gerrymandering for the super majority republicans holding congress and that s the action taking, taking expelling it. the lawmakers, the former u. s attorney general eric holder, tweeted quote without gerrymandering, there would be no expulsions. now to be clear. tennessee is a largely republican state, but it doesn t seem to be a 75% republican state. do you think gerrymandering is to blame? i think jeremy enduring definitely has played a role in a lot of our state districting. we also recently lost our nashville congressional seat that we ve had for 150 or some years due to that very same gerrymandering policy. but there s no question that in drawing the state senate
made with republicans who are pushing for more funding for the border, more staffing for border patrol agents, more funding to be able to prevent more fentanyl from crossing over the border. another issue with room for agreement is the regulation of big tech and the crypto industry. that s something that s come under more of a spotlight over the last month with the downfall of ftx and the widespread fraud that that exposed. democrats pushing for more regulation of industry as a whole while republicans say they re more focused on investigating democrats relationship with big tech. the question over the next two years is how exactly these lawmakers come to some sort of agreement. democratic congressman brendan boyle from my home state of pennsylvania, son soob top democratic on the house budget