washington. we begin this hour with the tempers flaring in nashville. where emotions are raw politics, much like the rest of the us bitterly divided republicans in the state house there voted to expel lawmakers were breaking decorum during a raucous but peaceful protest demanding gun reform that protest ignited by the nashville school shooting that left three adults and three young students dead. how the expulsion vote ended, has only added to the anger representatives justin pearson and justin jones. who are black, were expelled their fellow protester and colleague gloria johnson, who was white kept her seat by one vote. cnn correspondent isabelle rose salas joins us now with the latest isabelle what happens now? i guess there is some hope that these two lawmakers who were expelled might get their seats back. and that is certainly a very real possibility. here, jim. right now the spotlight is on filling those two vacant statehouse seats, and what we re seeing is local lawmakers in a j
disney s hands. so this that s where we are this week, and we heard not just from desantis but also from disney s bob iger, who had a conference call this week with shareholders and had some pretty choice words for the governor s actions. and so our point on this is that any action that thwarts those efforts simply to retaliate for a position the company took sounds not just anti business, but it sounds anti florida. now jim. not only has the santas made these threats that you played earlier, but he has also called for an investigation by the state s inspector general. so we have that to look forward to as well. and see if i have to imagine. there are a lot of republicans not only in florida but nationally who are wondering why is ron desantis getting in a protracted battle with mickey mouse, but let s take a listen to how desantis reacts to the notion that he was outmaneuvered by disney. let s listen. the media. um you know, trying to
get spun up about disney trying to do these agreements, you know very quietly right before we took control, and they re acting like somehow that they that they pulled one over on the state. they can keep trying to do things, but ultimately we re going to win on every single issue involving disney. i can tell you that. yes steve. how much does the fact that desantis is considering running for president raised the stakes in this feud? because i mean, i would think that you know, there are republicans who are looking at this and saying okay, initially, this was a way for desantis to flex his muscles, but it s sort of backfiring on him a little bit in the view of republicans. that s right, jim, and it can t be understated how central disney is to de santis is political narrative. it occupies an entire chapter of the book. he just put out. i think the first mention of disney is on page two. he talks about this battle he s had with disney at nearly every political stop he makes. but that als
afraid to speak out, but that is outrageous. so i will argue that schumer s press call was on a saturday, so i don t think many republicans were actually paying attention to what he had to say. but i will argue that he made a very valid point, which is that this is very tricky territory for republicans to navigate abortion in the wake of the jobs decision last year had abortion isn t wednesday, a winning message for them, and we saw that very clearly during the 2022 midterm elections, and did was there any mention of taking any legislative action on this on the democratic side? side in the senate. if this ruling where to go to a into effect somehow what are you hearing going to try? i mean, senator, senator schumer said that senate democrats remain committed to passing the women s health protection act, which is a bill that would preserve access to abortion nationwide, but that bill failed last year and is likely to fail again. just given the balancing congress. democrats have a very s
worth noting that that texas ruling does have a seven day pause to allow the federal government to appeal it. ultimately many experts believe that these two cases will ultimately make their way to the supreme court. certainly seems the case alright, are let science thank you very much. the top senate democrat is calling out republicans over the ruling senate majority leader chuck schumer today on the phone with reporters urged republicans to speak out against what he described as the right wing maga judge from texas. this is an awful extreme and unprecedented decision. let s be clear. this is about the republicans goal of a nationwide abortion ban. we all know that the maga extreme wing of the republican party has always been for a nationwide ban. but now all the rest of them follow and do nothing. some pretty tough talk there from chuck schumer. cnn s elena train joins us now, elena, um what are republicans saying in response