at the intersection of the second amendment, and the first protesters are rallying at the tennessee state capitol as three democratic lawmakers could lose their jobs today for doing this a week ago. democratic state representatives . justin jones, justin pearson and gloria johnson, using a bullhorn during a gun control rally at the capitol to call for action in the wake of last month s deadly shooting that left 39 year old children and three adults dead. the three democratic lawmakers are accused of breaking house rules at any moment. we expect their colleagues to vote on whether or not they should be expelled. cnn national reporter ryan young is live for us in nashville ryan lots of noise still ongoing, a lot of protesters that were with the lawmakers one week ago are back there today to support these three legislatures. yeah we really seen this swell fred. in terms of protesters, we have thousands earlier outside. now you can see this small crowd that s still behind me. som
morning, lindsey reiser picks up the coverage right now it s 10:00 a.m. in new york, i m lindsey reiser right now the tensions that have been simmering in tennessee for the last week or even longer are boiling over this morning. protests are gaining steam inside and outside the state house despite the rain against republican efforts to do something that s only been done three times in that state since the civil war expel some of their fellow members specifically these three democrats are under fire for participating in fiery gun reform protests on the house floor last week. today they ll have a chance to defend themselves, but with a republican super majority can they survive the vote. we re live where that high stakes session is getting underway. major escalations in the mounting legal battles faceing former president trump former vice president mike pence saying he will not fight an order to testify in the federal probe. sources say the new york judge in the hush mone
this morning protesters also stormed the paris office of black rock that s the world s biggest money manager, and video showed protesters entering city hall with red flares and smoke bombs. yesterday rat catchers hurled rodent cadavers at city hall the interior ministry says today more than 11,000 police officers have been deployed across the country. 4,200 in paris french president macron survived a no confidence vote over the plan two weeks ago let s go to nbc s foreign correspondent claudio lavanga, and french journalist for lci. she was a spokesperson for president macron s campaign in 2017 claudio, first off, what s happening? what are you seeing? reporter: hey, lindsey, while the protests have been going on for weeks in france, and especially after in the past 11 days, after the prime minister used special constitutional powers to push through that reform that you just mentioned
that half million people as they did today, out on the streets of france, and what we ve seen over the course of the last few weeks is really a lot more aggressive action on the part of some of the protesters as they try and make their anger known every inch closer. we get to this reform becoming law. you see these protests get a little bit more tense, a little bit more violent, even if the numbers of people on the street were down compared to last time, a lot of determination and determination out there at a lot fredricka of anger targeted the police and targeted at the person of the french president himself. there was something that was very apparent here on the size today, great deal of anger about the pension reform, but really a lot of that anger also fueled by inflation, the cost of living people out there really determined to carry on making that displeasure known federica all right, melissa bell. we ll check back with you there in paris. all right. joining me right now is kathe
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