United states of scandal with jake tapper new episode tonight at nine on cnn welcome to the whole story. Im Anderson Cooper, a year ago, a gunman armed with two assaultstyle weapons and a handgun, shot and killed three children and three adults. The Covenant School in nashville. It was one of the Deadliest School shootings in tennessees history. Theres led to a Renewed Push For Gun Control with thousands of people protesting in the state capital i dont three democratic lawmakers joined that protests and two of them were then expelled from the state house representatives. And unusual move that highlighted the power of the republican its in the state Legislature Tennessee is considered one of the most conservative states in the country, with some of the most restrictive laws and abortion and Voting Rights. But it wasnt always run by republicans for decades, democrats rule the legislature and the Governors Office than the party shared power until about a decade ago so how did this state e
The gop dominated house voting to expel two Young Democratic lawmakers they taken part in a Gun Protest Jones Representative Justin Pearson, both black were expelled from their seats representative johnson, who was white, was nearly spared it struck me. Surreal. Im like thats my home state legislature. I used to work in that building and now its being broadcast All Around The World i talked to my family who lives in tennessee, but i wasnt really on top of what was going on after the expulsion of that started paying a lot more attention i actually saw it as tennessee, again, being part of this national tug of war over the direction of the country and really over democracy itself. Expelling State Legislators is something that happens very rarely throughout American History presented also the gentleman shows no remorse. Its clear that he wants to be expelled. He and two other representatives effectively conducted a mutiny. A mutiny, which to this body into this state has been unknown in i
strategy there a mime carley shimkus. the average gallon of gas in the united states picking up $0.30 and that is not good for you are the democratic party desperately trying to win elections is november appearance of the president will release 10 million more barrels from our strategic petroleum reserve just one day after his press secretary said he would not. todd: may be kevin corke gives to the bottom of this and he is live in washington with more, kevin. so much to get to, now, the white house is accusing opec of saddling up to russia. in the precious, they are hurting the global economy by rg oil production as currently mentioned. they are ignoring the presidents police by cutting 2 million barrels of oil production a day. the president says he plans to release more oil for the strategic reserves here in the states upwards of 10 million barrels in november. however, that is just a drop in the bucket, say critics because the u.s. uses 20 million barrels of petroleum
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