protest for gun control. their republican colleagues called it breaking the rules of decorum. the lead starts right now. debate and voting underway right now, as tennessee state house republicans try to expel three statehouse democrats, they protested on the statehouse floor in the wake of the nashville school shooting, but should they really be kicked out of office plus airspace over northern israel shut down after rockets were intercepted, fired from lebanon. this is just one day after israeli police raided a mosque in jerusalem all of the moves, sparking fears of a greater conflict and luxury trips. travel on yachts, all on the dime of a republican mega donor, a new bombshell report alleging that supreme court justice clarence thomas accepted at all and disclosed almost none of it. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper, and we start in our national lead any moment now the republican controlled tennessee state house will be voting on whether to expel three state house democr
the road. hang on. hey soft! mr mr. clark please stop clock. mr. wendell, please. that is that is not appropriate. the suspension of the rules. request mr clerk. can we just go back? over what what that was. one second one second. alright, we re gonna. be watching the proceedings here just to bring people up to speed state representative gloria johnson. ah again born just like a former state representative jones, not born in tennessee, moved to tennessee to go to college. he went to university of tennessee at knoxville became an activist more traditional path for her knox county democratic party chairwoman and then elected to the tennessee house, which includes knoxville. tennessee um and she and two of her colleagues in the wake of that horrific covenant school shooting christian school were three little babies, 39 year olds and three students, three faculty and staff were murdered. by a disturbed individual. um she took to the floor and disruptive manner that was made me th
supreme court. millions of women will go to bed tonight without access to the healthcare that they had this morning. right to life has been vindicated. the voiceless will finally have a voice. half the states could ban virtually all abortions, after a ruling that leaves the nation more divided than ever. this decision is an outrage, forced motherhood is illegitimate. i m absolutely ecstatic there are going to be babies lives saved from this. how will it transform america and will it be a rallying cry for the democrats in the fall? roe is on the ballot. plus, trump s power play. you re asking me to do something against my oath and i will not break my oath. new details on how his pressure campaign to stay in power at all costs nearly worked. and push the country to the brink. the system held, but barely and the question remains will it hold again? welcome to inside politics sunday. i m abby phillip. women of child bearing age in america have now lost a
the president visits a family farm in illinois today. a new government makes clear that inflation is here to stay. it suggests the worst might be behind us. the consumer price index rose 8.3% compared with last year. that s a big number. 8.3%. it s down from a 40-year high from last month. look at it month to month. inflation 0.3% in april. that s down from the 1.2% gain in march. a closely watched data point within the report was up not down. beware of anyone who tells you they are certain things are trending for the better. even if inflation is retreating from the highest tide, prices are still up at the fastest rate in nearly 40 years. we start with a look inside these numbers and with cnn s christine romans. reporter: issue number one for the american family. the cost of living. so many categories it has been going up for almost a year now. those headline numbers in normal times would be very, very scary. they appear to be moderating, leveling off, peaking as one econom
Columbia university has just set a new rule. It is now telling students who do not leave the Protest Tents on campus by 2 00 p. M. Eastern today they will be suspended. Now you know ive had students on this program tell me that its not just students inside those tents who are antiisrael and hateful. Some of them prohamas savage killers. Some of them are insurgents who come onto the campus and now inside the tents. So what about those . They cant be suspended. What will you do with them . Today the school failed to reach an agreement with protestors who have taken over part of the campus for more than ten days now. Boy, columbia is really patient with the protestors and the haters. Amazing. The university has not said whether it will call in the police. Growing calls for greater crackdowns on campuses. Agitators in some places are digging in despite efforts by schools and police to clear them out. Columbia now becomes, oh, kind of the example for everybody else. If there are no conseque